cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frozen cow-juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The exercises were closed at a late hour, by partaking of Ice Creams, made on the ground, and when we left, the children, both large and small, were “pitching into,” the frozen Cow-juice, with an unmistakable sign of satisfaction
ref: 1858 July 8, “Local & Territorial. Fourth of July Celebrations.”, in Henry M. Burt, editor, Bellevue Gazette. […], volume 2, number 33, Bellevue, Nebraska Territory, page [2], column 5:
text: Next Saturday Mr. F. Mika will open an elegant ice cream room in the addition recently built to his store on north Eighth street, where in addition to frozen cow-juice, a fine assortment of fruit, confectionery, etc., may always be procured.
ref: 1875 June 24, “City and County”, in Ed. Borcherdt, editor, The Manitowoc Tribune, volume 22, number 10, Manitowoc, Wis., page [3], column 4:
text: 'Madam,' said the Prince, who was of a lively wit: 'I perceive that you are dry; come with me to the shop of the merchant we both wot of, and we will eat frozen cow-juice, flavored with strawberry or vernilleh.'
ref: 1880, “The 1002nd Night”, in Puck, volume 7, number 175, page 338:
text: Stully (to Spradley, who is dispensing ice cream to Faculty and Seniors): […] Ah, Doctah, Mr. Kleinhenn just informed me that you wished a plate of cweam. Vanilla, I believe? and Stully handed the cream to the pleased doctor and retired, full of glory and frozen cow-juice.
ref: 1882 October 23, “Stull Gets the Bulge on Spradley”, in Daily Evening Sentinel, third edition, volume I, number 267, Carlisle, Pa., page [4], column 3:
text: Disappointment here, however, and my craving since last July for frozen cow-juice is still unappeased, because the alleged ice cream proved to be only a sort of fruit sherbet.
ref: 1919 April 21, W. G. Mc., “[The Port of Kicks: Brest Really Fair Camp Now, but Bitter Taste Lingers; Princeton Soldier Tells of the City, the Camp Life and the Food—Home the Big Desire] No Yank Ice Cream”, in F. R. Ewing, editor, Princeton Clarion-News, volume LXXIV, number 59, Princeton, Ind.: The Clarion Publishing Co., page [2], column 6:
glosses: Alternative form of frozen cow juice.
cow juices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow juice
held with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold with
holding with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold with
holds with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold with
techno-fundamentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more techno-fundamentalist
form: most techno-fundamentalist
Etymology: From techno- + fundamentalist.
Senses: examples: text: Such heady predictions of technological revolution have become so com¬ mon, so accepted in our techno-fundamentalist culture, that even when John Updike criticized Kelly's vision in an essay published a month later in The New York Times Book Review , he did not so much doubt Kelly's vision of a universal digital library as lament it.
ref: 2011, Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Copyright Jungle”, in Alison Alexander, Jarice Hanson, editors, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Mass Media and Society, 11th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 107:
text: Vaidhyanathan suggests that “techno-fundamentalist” faith in technology has led to much suffering, noting that, for Dante, pride was the gravest of the seven deadly sins.
ref: 2013, Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, Kylie Jarrett, “Savvy Searchers, Faithful Acolytes, “Don’t be Evil”” (chapter 7), in Google and the Culture of Search, Routledge, page 187:
text: As such the techno-fundamentalist mindset reflects an implicit belief that technology offers a means to substantially improve current forms of everyday life and social relations — including education.
ref: 2013, Neil Selwyn, Distrusting Educational Technology: Critical Questions for Changing Times, Taylor & Francis, page 49:
glosses: Of or pertaining to techno-fundamentalism.
Related terms: techno-fundamentalism
shit goblin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit goblins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shitgoblin.
shit goblins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit goblin
Sarrois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sarrois
Etymology: Borrowed from French sarrois.
Senses: glosses: A resident of the Saar Protectorate.
copied down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copy down
copies down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copy down
copying down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copy down
self-checks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-check out
self-checking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-check out
self-checked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-check out
lies above
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lie above
brought along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring along
brings along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring along
bringing along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring along
offered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offer up
offers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offer up
offering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offer up
opened out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open out
opens out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of open out
opening out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of open out
owned up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of own up
owning up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of own up
Manipuric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipurics
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Meitei culture or Manipur.
Manipurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipurians
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the Meitei culture or Manipur.
Manipurese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipureses
Senses: glosses: Of, from or related to Manipur, particularly the Meitei people and their culture, whether in their homeland or overseas.
glosses: Manipuri language, which is the mother tongue of the Meitei people.
Manipurean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipureans
Senses: glosses: Of, from or related to Manipur, particularly the Meitei people and their culture, whether in their homeland or overseas.
glosses: Manipuri language, which is the mother tongue of the Meitei people.
Kangleicha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kangleichas
Senses: glosses: Of, from or related to the indigenous people of Kangleipak, particularly the Meitei people, whether in their homeland or overseas.
Kangleipung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kangleipungs
Etymology: From Meitei language words, Kanglei (dry or dried up land) and Pung (meaning mound).
Senses: glosses: A place consisting of four villages, namely Khurai, Wangkhei, Yaiskul and Khwai, in Kangleipak.
glosses: A historical area of freshly emerged dry land in Kangleipak.
Pungmayol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kangleipak.
Pungmayon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kangleipak.
Leikoipung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kangleipak.
Poirei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poireis
Senses: glosses: Of or related to Poireiton.
glosses: Of or related to Meitei people, their language, history and culture.
glosses: Of or related to Kangleipak or Manipur.
crush zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crush zones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crumple zone.
synonyms: word: crumple zone
hydroslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroslides
Senses: glosses: Water slide
Lynton and Lynmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in North Devon district, Devon, England, which includes the named places.
of a feather
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of of a piece.
synonyms: word: of a piece
of a blood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of of a piece.
synonyms: word: of a piece
donness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donnesses
form: doness
Etymology: From don + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Tom—to use one of his own expressions—shook his feathers and pulled himself together when Philip came in, and, smoking away in earnest, seemed to take the greatest possible interest in the rector's recollections of the dean's dinner and the after "evening," at which Ethel came out so very brilliantly, that she extinguished all the Deanesses and Donesses, or whatever the helpmates of the solemn old pumps who frequent cathedral towns are called. We are quoting Tom's words.
ref: 1866, Mark Lemon, Falkner Lyle, Or the Story of Two Wives, volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, page 266:
text: 'She [Mary Lobel] is a very nice and remarkable woman of the donness class,' Dilly told [Alastair] Denniston.
ref: 1941 September 17, Mavis Batey, quoting Dilly Knox, Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas, London: Biteback Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: A female don.
donnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donness
doness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of donness.
donesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doness
adjusted flow time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjusted flow times
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a well-test, a calculation of the cumulative well production since the last extended shut-in period, divided by the flowrate immediately before the moment a well is shut in for a buildup test.
adjusted flow times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjusted flow time
equinoctial time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equinoctial times
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A year from the moment when the mean sun is positioned at the mean vernal equinoctial point.
equinoctial times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equinoctial time
soyer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of soy: more soy
soyest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of soy: most soy
vernal equinoctial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to a vernal equinox.
work time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worktime.
work times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of work time
vintage time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vintage times
Senses: glosses: The time for gathering grapes and manufacturing wine.
vintage times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vintage time
MUFFINs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of MUFFIN
MUFFINing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of MUFFIN
MUFFINed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of MUFFIN
re-revoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-revokes
form: re-revoking
form: re-revoked
form: re-revoked
Senses: glosses: To revoke again.
ivory-tower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ivory-tower
form: most ivory-tower
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ivory tower.
aregional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aregional
form: most aregional
Etymology: From a- + regional.
Senses: examples: text: At least, without reverting to an aregional formalism, we might begin to enlarge the discussion of the rhetorical properties of western writing.
ref: 2003, Nathaniel Lewis, Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship, Lincoln, N.E.; London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: Not regional; without making reference to a particular region.
Derived terms: aregionality
re-revokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-revoke
re-revoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of re-revoke
re-revoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-revoke
aregionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + regionality or aregional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: An issue of particular importance to the variety explored in this volume—African American Language—has been its seeming aregionality.
ref: 2022, Jessica A. Grieser, “Introduction”, in The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, page 22:
glosses: The quality of being aregional.
Jamaican Patois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jumiekan Patwa
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jamaican Creole.
synonyms: word: Jamaican Creole
Gayoso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gayosos
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Selfish Seventies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Selfish Seventies
Senses: synonyms: Me Decade
glosses: The 1970s characterized by a rise of self-indulgence and narcissism in American society.
camed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: i poopoo peepeed and camed all over
ref: 2019 January 31, @childscrfce, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: here's to the girls: i peed and farted and shitted and camed my pants💗🥰
ref: 2019 August 1, @adamtyIer, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Is there a lore reason why I just camed my pants after seeing this pic???
ref: 2023 October 3, “Was it ever explained why Jane wasn't picking up Jesse's calls???”, in Reddit, r/okbuddychicanery, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: simple past of cum (“to ejaculate”)
like a man possessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more like a man possessed
form: most like a man possessed
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: In an energetic or uncontrolled way.
extrapolational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrapolational
form: most extrapolational
Etymology: From extrapolation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [Phonemes] were at some point even considered to be the basic building blocks of language, somewhat comparable to the atoms of physics. Nowhere else can this extrapolational strategy better be observed than in the American branch of structural linguistics in its development of morphemics and the introduction by Bloomfield of the concept of the morpheme […]
ref: 1992 Summer, E. M. Uhlenbeck, “General Linguistics and the Study of Morphological Processes”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 31, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 1–2:
glosses: Relating to or involving extrapolation.
goodyear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From good + year. First use appears c. 1570 in the writings of Thomas North; obsolete since c. 1892.
Senses: glosses: The devil.
wikipedia: Thomas North
Derived terms: what the goodyear
Related terms: goujere
goody-goodyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: goody-goody + -ism
Senses: synonyms: goodyism
glosses: The fact or habit of one being goody-goody.
goody goody gumdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goody gumdrops.
hang-tough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hang-tough
form: most hang-tough
Senses: examples: text: Settle on those strong and powerful women behind the over-worked coal miners. The picture of angry, hang-tough, working-class women proves that it has been "a long hard struggle for labor and women."
ref: 1977 December 3, Jim Marko, “Rousing Musical Tells Story of Working Women”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 22, page 13:
glosses: Strong-willed or brave in the face of adversity; resilient.
Antipascha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Dominica in albis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Octave Day of Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Octave Days of Easter
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Octave of Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Octaves of Easter
Senses: glosses: The eight-day period of holy days that begins with Easter Sunday (inclusive thereof).
glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Quasimodo Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quasimodo Sundays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Renewal Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Renewal Sundays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Second Sunday of Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday Sunday of Easter
form: Second Sundays of Easter
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Thomas Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomas Sundays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Dootsie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from ?.
Thomas Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thomas Sunday
Second Sundays of Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Second Sunday of Easter
Renewal Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Renewal Sunday
Octaves of Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Octave of Easter
Octave Days of Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Octave Day of Easter
St. Thomas Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St. Thomas Sundays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Feast of the Divine Mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feasts of the Divine Mercy
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
Quasimodogeniti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
synonyms: word: Quasimodo
extra: the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday
free clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free clinics
Senses: examples: text: By 1971, the free clinics began to come under strong criticism from the health Left, both because their inability to give quality day-to-day care and their function within the system as a whole (the direct cooptation of the movement by the NFCC).
ref: 1989, Lily M. Hoffman, The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 105:
synonyms: hippie clinic
glosses: A health care facility offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost.
free clinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free clinic
NFCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Foundation for Credit Counseling.
examples: text: By 1971, the free clinics began to come under strong criticism from the health Left, both because their inability to give quality day-to-day care and their function within the system as a whole (the direct cooptation of the movement by the NFCC).
ref: 1989, Lily M. Hoffman, The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: Initialism of National Free Clinic Council.
glosses: Initialism of National Fire Chiefs Council.
hippie clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippie clinics
Senses: examples: text: They may then go to a hippie clinic crash pad to be "talked down."
ref: 1969, American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 125, number 4, page 154:
glosses: A free clinic in the 1960s and 1970s.
hippie clinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippie clinic
albumless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From album + -less.
Senses: glosses: lacking an album
Mimram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Hertfordshire, England, which joins the River Lea at Hertford.
prosporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosporangia
Senses: glosses: A vesicular cell in Chytridieæ, the protoplasm of which passes an outgrowth of itself, the sporangium, and becomes divided into swarm spores.
prosporangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosporangium
reckernize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reckernizes
form: reckernizing
form: reckernized
form: reckernized
Senses: examples: text: Jeez, there's drugstores on every block, and if you can't read, you can at least reckernize them.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 51:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of recognize.
demitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛ.miˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌdɛ.miˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more demitarian
form: most demitarian
Etymology: From demi- + -arian, modeled after vegetarian. Coined by the Nitrogen in Europe programme within the The Barsac Declaration, launched in November 2009.
Senses: examples: text: Nitrogen budget of the agricultural system of the Seine watershed for the current situation (2006) and the organic and local (OrgLoc) and organic, local and demitarian (OrgLocDem) scenarios.
ref: 2014, Kimberly Etingoff, editor, Organic Agricultural Practices: Alternatives to Conventional Agricultural Systems, Apple Academic Press, page 71:
text: Professor Mark Sutton is credited with coining the concept of a demitarian diet, whereby one reduces meat consumption by half in order to stem environmen tal damage associated with meat production.
ref: 2015, Josh Friedland, Eatymology: The Dictionary of Modern Gastronomy, Sourcebooks, page 60:
text: Thus, a group of scientist published the Barsac declaration advocating a “Demitarian diet,” i.e., a reduction by a factor two of the portion of meat and milk in the Western human diet.
ref: 2016, Patricia M. Glibert, Todd M. Kana, editors, Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry: A Dual Perspective, Springer International Publishing, pages 192-193:
text: Such changes in consumption patterns as a consequence of reduced animal protein intake due to adopting a demitarian diet, may amplify or weaken these effects. Building on the work of Westhoek et al. (2014), these authors considered a demitarian scenario, where European meat and dairy intake were halved, linking this also with potential health benefits associated with avoidance of excessive intake.
ref: 2020, Mark A. Sutton, Kate E. Mason, Albert Bleeker, W. Kevin Hicks, Cargele Masso, N. Raghuram, Stefan Reis, Mateete Bekunda, editors, Just Enough Nitrogen: Perspectives on how to get there for regions with too much and too little nitrogen, Springer International Publishing, page 6:
glosses: Of or relating to the type of diet in which meat consumption is reduced to half of what is culturally typical; of or relating to demitarianism.
Related terms: flexitarian
testamenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of testament
testamented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of testament
gahdamn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Remember that time you claimed there were no safety pins here? Look ― whole gahdamn drawer is full of 'em.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 52:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of goddamn.
snap to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snaps to
form: snapping to
form: snapped to
form: snapped to
Etymology: Ellipsis of snap to attention.
Senses: examples: text: There was a young woman in the shop, a rather massively built young woman with muscular calves and a deep chest. She was pointing out the seat of her bicycle to Oscar, who was saying "Uh-huh" and looking more at her than at anything else "It's just a little too far forward […]" Oscar repeated, "Uh-huh" automatically, then snapped to. "Fix it in a jiffy," he said […]
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 52:
glosses: To suddenly give someone one's full attention.
whad
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Hey, kiddo, you're all white. Whad you do, stay up all night and didn't get no sleep? Come on in and siddown.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 54:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what'd.
differential racialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differential racializations
Senses: glosses: The process by which different racial and ethnic groups are uniquely racialized.
white inflation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A theory contending that white inflationary pressure pushes quasi-whites into whiteness, operating to maintain the contrast value of whiteness as property.
Related terms: critical race theory
if you can't lick them, join them
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "It don't pay to worry and try to change the world," he pointed out. "I always say take things the way they are. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em."
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 58:
glosses: Alternative form of if you can't beat them, join them.
ponchiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponchik
Pouyannian mimicry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined 1982 by Georges Pasteur, after Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne, who described the behaviour in orchids in a 1916 paper.
Senses: examples: 2017, Wiley Blevins, Ninja Plants, Lerner Publishing Group (Twenty-First Century Books), page 52,
The plant world is full of mimics. In Pouyannian mimicry, a flower mimics a female insect to attract the right male pollinator.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of mimicry exhibited by some plants, whereby certain flower parts resemble a (female) potential mate for a male of a pollinator species, thus inducing pseudocopulation.
low-info
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: more low-info
form: most low-info
Senses: glosses: Clipping of low-information.
differential piece work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A type of system in which efficient and inefficient workers are paid at different rates.
see something, say something
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if you see something, say something.
grievance collectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grievance collector
wound collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wound collectors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of injustice collector.
synonyms: word: injustice collector
wound collectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wound collector
wound collecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of injustice collecting.
synonyms: word: injustice collecting
phosphirenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphirene
wound collection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wound collections
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of injustice collection.
synonyms: word: injustice collection
injustice collections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of injustice collection
wound collections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wound collection
phosphoacetylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoacetylation
phosphoarrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoarray
grievance collections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grievance collection
phosphoclusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphocluster
phosphoaspartates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoaspartate
phosphoglucans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoglucan
phosphoglycerokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoglycerokinase
phosphonodithioates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphonodithioate
phospholipidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phospholipidase
phosphomolybdotungstates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphomolybdotungstate
phosphonatases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphonatase
phosphoramidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoramidation
phosphopantetheinylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphopantetheinylation
phosphopeptidomannans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphopeptidomannan
phosphoramidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoramidate
phosphorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoration
phosphosphingomyelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphosphingomyelin
phosphoriboisomerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoriboisomerase
phosphorocyanidates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorocyanidate
phosphorotrithioates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphorotrithioate
phosphostainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphostaining
photoaccumulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoaccumulation
photobiostimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photobiostimulation
photodissolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photodissolution
photoelectromagnetic effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoelectromagnetic effect
photoenergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoenergy
photoilluminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoillumination
photoincorporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoincorporation
photomineralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photomineralization
photooxidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photooxidase
photopolymerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photopolymerisation
hurricaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurricane
hurricaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hurricane
hundredodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From hundred + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
ref: 1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024:
glosses: Slightly more than one hundred.
fiftyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From fifty + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: Then the late Frederick Stokes, my publisher at that time, said that in the fiftyodd years that he had been in the book business he had always wanted to bring out a novel about Lincoln.
ref: 1946 February 24, Bruce Lancaster, “The Insides of a Novel”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024:
glosses: Slightly more than fifty.
twentyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From twenty + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.
ref: 1986 November 24, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022:
glosses: Slightly more than twenty.
fortyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From forty + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: Fortyodd miles of twisting, climbing, and dropping along the winding back of the ridge made you feel as though you had been riding a cockleshell in a storm.
ref: 1951 August 24, Clark C. Van Fleet, “The Steelhead”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022:
glosses: Slightly more than forty.
seventyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From seventy + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: If we conceive of the poetry that has been written in English in the last twelve months as a kind of Purgatory, a mountainous cone like Dante’s, with a spiral pathway leading to its summit, we shall find among the one hundred and seventyodd volumes on its lower rounds no ponderable significance; but midway in the ascent we come to a score or more of poets with something to say for themselves.
ref: 1905 September 24, Ferris Greenslet, “Significant Poetry”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2025:
glosses: Slightly more than seventy.
eightyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From eighty + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: Inspired by the writings of Sir James Foggart, a Carlylean philosopher, he puts before Parliament a programme much like that presented by Carlyle himself eightyodd years since: emigration of children on a large scale, and cultivation of the land so that the country may produce more of its own food.
ref: 1926 September 24, Henry Greenleaf Pearson, “The Silver Spoon”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2025:
glosses: Slightly more than eighty.
thirtyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From thirty + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: The dramatis personæ of the thirtyodd volume series included four beekeepers.
ref: 2015 March 12, “Beekeeping in the Discworld and Beyond”, in Blogspot, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2025:
glosses: Slightly more than thirty.
sixtyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From sixty + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, sartorial considerations aside, there’s not much that separates these 21st Century vocalists and the smiling calypsonians who, some sixtyodd years ago were the foundation of the capital’s indigenous black music industry.
ref: 2013 August 21, Lloyd Bradley, “Grime? UK Garage? Dubstep? It’s Just Calypso With A Different Wardrobe”, in NME, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025:
glosses: Slightly more than sixty.
ninetyodd
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From ninety + -odd.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, Overlord used almost two-thirds of all LSTs available to Allied fleet units worldwide, excluding ninetyodd recently completed on the U.S. East Coast.
ref: 2016 November 14, “D-Day Landing Ships”, in History on the Net, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024:
glosses: Slightly more than ninety.
Orbison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Albinson.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Orbisonian
Orbison illusion
Norwood Payneham and St Peters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area in Adelaide, South Australia; in full, the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters.
ring of authenticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The letter lacked a ring of authenticity that would settle her doubts.
text: […]but newspaper readers now-a-days are pretty well able to discriminate between items of news that have the true ring of authenticity about them...
ref: 1878, Hertfordshire Mercury:
text: The inner workings of government, of newspapers, of the law, and even of merchant ships and the dockside — these details have the ring of authenticity.
ref: 1962, Margaret Laurence, “Ring of authenticity”, in Canadian Literature:
text: Certainly there is no part of the Gospel record which has for the reader a clearer ring of authenticity.
ref: 2004, Craig A. Evans, The Historical Jesus, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of ring of truth.
Meiteipur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manipur.
Miteipur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Meeteipur.
Meeteipur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Meiteipur.
Manipuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manipur.
dechromes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dechrome
dechromed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dechrome
dechroming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dechrome
Manipurier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipuriers
Senses: glosses: possessing more quality of being a Manipuri.
Meiteist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meiteists
Senses: glosses: One who engages in Meitei culture.
Puyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the holy PuYa scriptures of Sanamahism.
drop frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop frames
Senses: examples: text: I see they're still making drop-frame bikes," he said, "though, with so many women wearing slacks, I wonder they bother."
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 58:
glosses: A bicycle with no top tube.
Manipureshwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manipureshwars
Etymology: From Sanskrit meaning "Lord of Manipur".
Senses: glosses: A title given to the Hindu Meitei rulers of Manipur.
rawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raw
quietway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.weɪ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.ət.weɪ/
Forms: form: quietways
Etymology: From quiet + way.
Senses: examples: text: Hope came when the street was designated part of a so-called ‘quietway’, a London-wide initiative to create a network of continuous routes on side roads, particularly intended for less experienced riders, or older people, or children.” This in part involves using already-quiet streets, but also seeking to reduce car use on other residential roads. As part of this, residents of my street were consulted on the idea of blocking off the road to all but bikes at one end, thus cutting traffic levels by about 95 per cent. A majority agreed.
ref: 2017, Peter Walker, Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World, Random House, page 125:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A low-traffic cycle route aimed at less confident cyclists or those who want to travel at a more gentle pace.
Related terms: cycleway
room temp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: room temps
Senses: glosses: Clipping of room temperature.
eyebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɒm/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɑm/
Forms: form: eyebombs
form: eyebombing
form: eyebombed
form: eyebombed
Etymology: From eye + bomb.
Senses: examples: text: Ever wondered what Downton’s Lord Grantham would look like with googly eyes? Well even if you didn't he has already been 'eyebombed' by the latest blog to jump on the trend.
ref: 2013 January 16, Deni Kirkova, “'Eyebombing' is the latest online picture craze ... see celebrities Sofia Vergara, Kim Kardashian and even Lord Grantham given a googly-eyed makeover”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: They describe places where people look sad as an ideal environment to eyebomb, because it provides the opportunity to brighten peoples busy lives.
ref: 2020 March 31, Nixie P, “The Origins of Eyebombing”, in Medium, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
ref: 2020 May 1, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, “Eyebomb Your Brain”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: To stick googly eyes on (inanimate objects) in public places.
Related terms: eyebombing
eyerape
eyebombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyebombings
Etymology: From eye + bombing or eyebomb + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The craze for 'eyebombing' is following in the virtual footsteps of planking, owling, fridging and milking and gaining a cult online fan base.
ref: 2013 January 16, Deni Kirkova, “'Eyebombing' is the latest online picture craze ... see celebrities Sofia Vergara, Kim Kardashian and even Lord Grantham given a googly-eyed makeover”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Some may compare eyebombing to graffiti, but Mr Dam and Mr Nielsen say that because it is anonymous it is far more selfless than painting your own name on the side of a building.
ref: 2013 December 26, “Hilarious pictures show how 'eyebombing' turns ordinary objects into friendly faces thanks to a pair of googly eyes”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Whereas the practice of eyebombing may not suit everybody’s taste, the anthropomorphic illusions that result are remarkably powerful. Why should a mere pair of googly eyes change a tea kettle into an Emperor penguin or transmute a tree trunk into a bewildered, long-nosed man?
ref: 2020 May 1, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, “Eyebomb Your Brain”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: The Chabad Rabbi of Camden Town, who is familiar with my photographic work, sent me a photo of an ad campaign he’d seen on the London Underground that had been subjected to eyebombing, correctly intuiting that it was the sort of thing that might interest me.
ref: 2022 November 19, Mish Aminoff, “Googly Eyes & Eyebombing — A Photographic Collection of my Favourite Encounters”, in Medium, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: This book invites you to immerse yourself in the whimsical and hilarious world of eyebombing; the art of sticking googly eyes on unsuspecting objects to unleash the joy within.
ref: 2023 June 15, M T McGuire, “Eyebomb, Therefore I am, coming soon …”, in Hamgee, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: The act or practice of sticking googly eyes on inanimate objects in public places.
Related terms: eyebomb
eyebombings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyebombing
off the shits
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: tripping
wired
glosses: Extremely high on drugs.
foxxo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxxos
Etymology: From fox + -o. Compare doggo (“a dog”).
Senses: examples: text: just look at his cute lil Arctic foxy face, he's an innocent lil foxxo!
ref: 2016 July 21, @spaceagefox, Twitter:
text: [See title]
ref: 2018 November 9, u/Fatal_Taco, “foxxo is happy with his vv big loaf”, in r/foxes, Reddit:
text: Hey cutie~ want to take a ride with this foxxo? What better way to show off my new car then doing it with style? Happy #FursuitFriday everyone!
ref: 2021 October 1, @KestralFox, Twitter:
text: Urban foxxos amuse me.
ref: 2023 March 17, u/jklantern, “Yay Foxxo has a snack lol!”, in r/yayfoxxo, Reddit:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: fops
glosses: A fox.
foxxos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxxo
talk truth to power
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks truth to power
form: talking truth to power
form: talked truth to power
form: talked truth to power
Senses: examples: text: The idea that Western media is run by fair-minded people who are independent, driven only by a desire to talk truth to power, is a mirage.
ref: 2023 February 21, Chandran Nair, “Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media”, in The Diplomat:
glosses: Alternative form of speak truth to power.
Asphodel-Norwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada, formed in 1998 from the township of Asphodel and village Norwood.
deputy first minister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deputy first ministers
Senses: glosses: The leader of the second largest group in the Northern Ireland Assembly and joint-leader of the Northern Ireland Executive, with the same powers as the first minister.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see deputy, first minister.
Asphodel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former township in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada, merged into Asphodel-Norwood township in 1998.
Chinese compass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese compasses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of luópán.
synonyms: word: luópán