cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gateway community
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gateway communities
Senses: glosses: A city or town adjacent to a tourist attraction.
common daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common daisies
Senses: synonyms: daisy
English daisy
lawn daisy
glosses: A flowering plant, Bellis perennis, especially as distinguished from similar plants in the family Asteraceae.
Related terms: english: various plants of several genera
translation: various plants of several genera
word: African daisy
word: bull daisy
word: midsummer daisy
taxonomic: Leucanthemum vulgare
word: oxeye daisy
word: Michaelmas daisy
word: Montauk daisy
taxonomic: Nipponanthemum nipponicum
word: Nippon daisy
greenhushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of greenwashing + hushing. Coined by American brand strategist Jerry Stifelman in a blog for the consulting agency TreeHugger published the 2nd of March 2008.
Senses: examples: text: So-called greenhushing, where corporations downplay their climate efforts, has spread in the US and Europe as ESG strategies fall out of fashion. Some companies are talking less about environmental and social goals in an effort to avoid accusations of greenwashing, while also dodging political attacks against climate and ESG goals, studies have found.
“The problem with greenhushing or transition-hushing is that it doesn’t help the financial system mobilize capital,” Oi-Yee Choo, the exchange’s chief executive officer, told the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in Singapore on Tuesday.
ref: 2025 July 29, Ishika Mookerjee, David Stringer, “Greenhushing Can Keep Costs Higher, Climate Impact X CEO Says”, in Bloomberg, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2025:
glosses: A tendency of a company’s marketing to be quiet about its sustainability efforts so as to avoid attention from the political extremes, whether greener-than-thou anti-greenwashing crusaders or browner-than-thou anti-wokeness crusaders.
wikipedia: TreeHugger
Related terms: greenlash
greenwash
pursse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pursses
Senses: examples: text: He beareth Argent, a purſſe gules, double taſſeled d'Azure. This may be taken for a good token in armes, as of lyberalitie, whẽ the ſame is not ſhutte.
ref: 1597, John Bossewell, Works of Armorie: devided into 3 Bookes, intituled the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor and of lotes and creastes, page 92:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of purse.
unabsorbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unabsorbabl(e) + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: absorbability
glosses: The state or condition of being unabsorbable.
unactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unactiv(e) + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: activity
glosses: The state or condition of being unactive; inactivity.
unaffectability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unaffectabl(e) + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: affectability
glosses: The state or condition of being unaffectable.
unamity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unanimity.
unanimosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unanimousity
Etymology: From unanimo(u)s + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unanimity.
synonyms: word: unanimity
unanimousity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unanimosity.
uncapacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + capacity.
Senses: examples: text: […] tho' theſe ſeem'd to be very unfit Inſtruments for compaſſing of that great Deſign for which they were then employ'd, becauſe of their Inability and Uncapacity in performing the Work ſo very great and important; […]
ref: 1720, John Shaw, “Of Religion”, in The Fundamental Doctrines of the Church of England, […], volume I, London: […] George Strahan, […] William Mears, […], page 36:
glosses: A lack of capacity or ability; incapacity.
storm center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm centers
Senses: examples: ref: 1908, Teresa Billington-Greig, “The Storm Centre of the Woman Suffrage Movement”, in The International, page 109:
text: The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.
ref: 1910 October 20, Henry Louis Mencken, “On Lawlessness”, in The Evening Sun:
text: After the close of the War of 1914-18 the storm-centre of international affairs, which for the past half-century had hovered over the Near and Middle East and for the previous four centuries over Central Europe, had apparently shifted to the Pacific area.
ref: 1926, Survey of International Affairs, page 392:
text: It doesn't look like HE spends his days on a poker newsgroup attempting to convince half a dozen people that he really is a lawyer, really has clients, really practices law, and doesn't pretend that the condo he bought 30 years ago for $200,000 is the storm center of a powerhouse legal practice.
ref: 2022 May 4, risky biz, “Another Vancouver hate crime?”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):
glosses: A central place of great activity and importance.
twoddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twaddle.
synrhabdosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synrhabdosomes
Senses: glosses: A cluster of rhabdosomes in a graptolite colony.
stochastic parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stochastic parrots
Etymology: Coined by American linguist Emily M. Bender in 2021 as a reminder of the limitations of language models, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: […] an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.
ref: 2021 March 3, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 610–623:
text: i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u
ref: 2022 December 4, @sama (Sam Altman), x.com:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A language model that uses artificial intelligence to generate seemingly coherent or contextually relevant text but does not truly understand the meaning of the language it is processing
Related terms: verisimilitude
stochastic parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stochastic parrot
monoquaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having one quaternary ammonium group.
pseudoquaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling a quaternary ammonium ion.
pseudo-quaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudoquaternary.
biquaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bisquaternary.
plane joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plane joint
chest bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chest band
chestnut-backed chickadees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestnut-backed chickadee
chetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chete
chicory coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicory coffee
Chihuahuans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chihuahuan
child diddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child diddler
child minders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child minder
chillagites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chillagite
chillrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chillroom
chiltes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilte
chiltepines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiltepine
chimanines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimanine
chimesmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimesmaster
China bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of China bug
chimney-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney-glass
chimney sweepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney sweeper
chinchayotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinchayote
nonmucoadhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mucoadhesive.
Senses: glosses: Not mucoadhesive.
non-mucoadhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonmucoadhesive.
non-institution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-institutions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noninstitution.
non-institutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noninstitutional.
non-institutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noninstitutionally.
non-institutionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noninstitutionalized.
non-institutionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noninstitutionalized.
agrowaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrowastes
Senses: glosses: agricultural waste.
agro-waste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agro-wastes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agrowaste.
elixirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elixirists
Etymology: From elixir + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.
ref: 1905, Edward Harper Parker, “Confucianism”, in China and Religion, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 67–68:
text: In Tang dynasty alchemist elixir really flourished. Unfortunately the art did not stand real testing. Three of the Emperors who took the elixir died of poison. Taoist elixirists were blamed and executed, and the art suffered a fatal blow. Evidently a new approach to the development of an elixir was in order.
ref: 1975, Gary Shelton Williams, “A Study of the Oral Nature of the Han Yueh-fu”, in 古代中国, Society for the Study of Early China, page 26, column 2:
text: If Western thinking arrived at a dualism of “God the father” and “Mother Earth,” Chinese elixirists strove to transcend the yin materiality of earth and rise to the yang spirituality of heaven.
ref: 1992, Douglas Wile, “Conclusion”, in Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women’s Solo Meditation Texts, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 71, column 1:
glosses: Someone who makes or advocates using elixirs for the curing of ills.
elixirists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elixirist
mine roller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mine rollers
form: mineroller
Senses: hypernyms: mine-clearing system
glosses: A device mounted in front of an armoured vehicle to clear its track of explosive threats otherwise activated when passing by means of placing pressure on them.
Related terms: mine plow
mine flail
mine rollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mine roller
mine plow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mine plows
form: mineplow
form: mine plough
form: mineplough
Senses: hypernyms: mine-clearing system
glosses: A device mounted in front of an armoured vehicle to clear its track of explosive threats otherwise activated when passing by means of digging them up and removing them.
Related terms: mine roller
mine flail
mine plows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mine plow
mine flail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mine flails
Senses: hypernyms: mine-clearing system
glosses: A device mounted in front of an armoured vehicle to clear its track of explosive threats otherwise activated when passing by means of striking them with a chain.
Related terms: mine roller
mine plow
mine flails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mine flail
mineplow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineplows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mine plow.
mineplows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineplow
mine plough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mine ploughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mine plow.
mine ploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mine plough
mineplough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineploughs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mine plow.
mineploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineplough
mineroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minerollers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mine roller.
minerollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineroller
teaches grandma how to suck eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teach grandma how to suck eggs
teaching grandma how to suck eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teach grandma how to suck eggs
taught grandma how to suck eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teach grandma how to suck eggs
chinchilla wattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinchilla wattle
chinchillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinchillon
chinchonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinchona
chinconas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chincona
chindees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chindee
chineles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinele
chinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinker
Chinovelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinovela
chinpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinpiece
chionophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chionophobe
chipres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chipre
chirimias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirimia
chirocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirocracy
chiropterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiropterite
chirothesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirothesia
chiselmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiselmouth
chit funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chit fund
chithis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chithi
chitthis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitthi
chittis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitti
chitinoligosaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitinoligosaccharide
chitmunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chitmunk
trademark dilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trademark dilutions
form: dilution
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: The use of an image, sign, expression, etc. sufficiently close to one that is trademarked that it causes confusion ("blurs") about or brings disrepute ("tarnishes") to the trademarked item.
Related terms: blurring
tarnishment
trademark infringement
trademark infringement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trademark infringements
Senses: topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Alternative form of copyright infringement.
stand sentry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands sentry
form: standing sentry
form: stood sentry
form: stood sentry
Senses: synonyms: stand guard
stand sentinel
glosses: To keep watch.
Lamma Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: läʹmäʹ
Etymology: From Lamma + island.
Senses: examples: text: All of those confirmed dead and most of those injured are thought to have been on board a boat owned by the Hong Kong Electric company when it collided with the ferry near Lamma Island.
ref: 2012 October 2, “At least 37 killed in Hong Kong boat crash”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, China:
text: Lamma Island is a residential island two miles off the coast of Hong Kong Island.
ref: 2019 January 8, Tiffany May, “Oil Tanker Catches Fire in Hong Kong, Killing One and Leaving Two Missing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2019, Asia Pacific:
text: And last November, the fans of Mirror’s Jeremy Lau – better known as “Jer” – celebrated his birthday with an exhibition of artwork and an excursion to clean up Shek Pai Wan beach on Lamma Island.
ref: 2022 May 21, Peter Lee, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, tram or billboard: Hong Kong superfans reflect their devotion”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2024, Hong Kong:
glosses: An island of Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: word: Lamma
word: Pok Liu
word: Pok Liu Chau
word: Y Island
Lamma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 南丫 (naam⁴ aa¹).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lamma Island.
synonyms: word: Lamma Island
Synonyms: Lamma Island
Derived terms: East Lamma Channel
Lamma Island
Lamma North
Lamma South
North Lamma
South Lamma
West Lamma Channel
North Lamma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Two new clinics were nearing completion at the end of thee year under review : one at Tai Po, which was financed by thee Jockey Club; and one at Yung Shue Wan, on Lamma Island, thee greater part of the cost of which has been met by the North Lamma Rural Committee, with contributions from the Jockey Club and the General Chinese Charity Fund.
ref: 1958, Far Eastern Economic Review:
text: 19.10.70
Lamma
Cheung Chau
Lantau
Places visited and persons met (i) Meet South Lamma Rural Committee at Sok Kwu Wan. (ii) Tour of Sok Kwu Wan area . (iii) Meet North Lamma Rural Committee at Yung Shu Wan.
ref: 1970, UMELCO, Annual Report:
text: A university graduate from Brisbane, Ms Chao is one of the three female indigenous villagers to have won a seat in the indigenous sector. Her victory in Ko Long Village on North Lamma was uncontested.
ref: 2003 August 24, Marcal Joanilho, “Women make gains in NT elections”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2020:
text: At the most recent meeting with the Island District Council in February 2005, Council members reiterated their support for the proposed helipad and requested that the works commence as early as possible at the currently proposed site. Community support for the project at the studied location was also reiterated at the North Lamma Rural Committee meeting in April 2005, and the Lamma Area Committee consultation in May 2005.
ref: 2005, Civil Engineering, Development Department, EIA Study for Helipad at Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island:
text: Chan Yau, a prominent member of the North Lamma Rural Committee, lives here. The New Village, as can be seen from the population and employment figures, is slightly less well-off than the old village, and their thrift (and possibly their needs, which are evidently greater than the Chow villages) can be seen in the intensive way they cultivate their fields.
ref: 2010, John Strickland, Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: word: Lamma North
sense: officially
word: Lamma Island
South Lamma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 19.10.70
Lamma
Cheung Chau
Lantau
Places visited and persons met (i) Meet South Lamma Rural Committee at Sok Kwu Wan. (ii) Tour of Sok Kwu Wan area . (iii) Meet North Lamma Rural Committee at Yung Shu Wan.
ref: 1970, UMELCO (Organization), Annual Report:
text: Also on the way: a 260-room hotel, centers for watersports and outdoor recreation, a new ferry pier and a two-story commercial block. The Conservancy Association’s Peter Lee Siu-man believes this will turn the island into another Discovery Bay. The current population of South Lamma is 500 residents.
ref: 2014 March 18, “New Lamma Developments Inbound?”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2024, Magazines:
text: In South Lamma, the most important Tin Hau Festival was held at the temple in Sok Kwu Wan. This festival was also marked, before the War, by puppet-opera. Here, as at Yung Shue Wan, the land and boat-people were equally prominent in the festivities. In South Lamma, the villagers of Luk Chau, Tung O, and Yung Shue Ha all attended the Sok Kwu Wan Festival, even though they had their own temples.
ref: 2020, Patrick H. Hase, “A Small Island in the Midst of the Sea: The History of Lamma Island”, in Settlement, Life, and Politics: Understanding the Traditional New Territories (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series), Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 405:
glosses: A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: word: Lamma South
sense: officially
word: Lamma Island
wiki crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wiki + crack (cocaine).
Senses: examples: text: Then one night he corrected an error in an article about Jewish holidays. You can do that?! It was his first inhalation of Wiki crack. He became one of Wikipedia's earliest registered users and wrote his first article—on Muckleshoot, a Washington State Indian tribe. Since then, he has made more than 16,000 contributions.
ref: 2006, Daniel H. Pink, “The Book Ends Here”, in The Best of Technology Writing 2006, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 109:
text: "You can't talk about it in terms of left and right," explains Corr. "But the whole way it is set up is about inclusivity, community and equality rather than competition and individualism." For the most part, people at the conference didn't talk about it in these terms at all. When the wiki-crack takes over, all you are interested in is your next hit.
ref: 2006 August 9, Gary Younge, “Geek nation”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2023:
text: Sites like Wikipedia are more in the middle, perhaps. Maybe people are drawn in by one initial topic and discover wikicrack and turn to a wider range of articles. (I know I have devoted a lot of time to topics I don't actually care about simply because I was wikiaddicted.)
ref: 2007 September 30, Brianna Laugher, “[Wiki World] a metric for community”, in Google Groups (Wiki World), archived from the original on 11 Jun 2023:
text: Finishing the 3,000 entries kicked off something in Ramsey's pleasure center. He had his first whiff of "wiki-crack," the irreverent jargon Wikipedians have used to describe their addiction. So he set out on the next task—adding 33,832 city articles to Wikipedia.
ref: 2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 101:
text: There is something fundamental, almost primordial at work. Some Wikipedians refer to it as "wiki-crack." It's the rush of dopamine that seems to hit the brain's pleasure center when you make a smart edit and it appears instantly in a Wikipedia article.
ref: [2014 October 19, Walter Isaacson, “You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A notional drug, likened to crack cocaine, supposed to cause individuals to become addicted to editing Wikipedia.
eventualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eventual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').
ref: 2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:
text: For some, eventualism is a fancy name for "passing the buck." It is being lackadaisical in doing something right now to fix things. For professional writers, editors, and academics, leaving things in a half-baked state was a clear departure from their comfort zone. But given the masses of wiki, Slashdot, Usenet, and open source software veterans, eventualism remained the prevailing attitude, at least in the early days.
ref: 2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 121:
antonyms: immediatism
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A wikiphilosophy which emphasizes the importance of an article's value in the distant future.
Related terms: eventualist
longtermism
wikiphilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wikiphilosophies
Etymology: Compound of wiki + philosophy.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').
ref: 2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A philosophy or system of thought pertaining to the editing of Wikipedia.
wikiphilosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wikiphilosophy
hekesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hekeshim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew הֶקֵּשׁ (hekesh).
Senses: examples: text: One SCJ commentator said how he felt that the custom of kissing the mezzuzah was something that should be banned as being too close to avodah zarah. (and he made a hekesh to the nachash nechoshet)
ref: 1992 September 8, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
text: He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching.
ref: 1995 June 6, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic, Avi Sion, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Talmudic tradition (Shabbat 92a) connects them with a hekesh, teaching that both reached full stature: “Just as the mishkan was ten cubits tall, so too the altar was ten cubits tall.”
ref: 2006, Abraham Isaac Kook, Gold from the Land of Israel, Chanan Morrison, →ISBN, page 150:
topics: law
glosses: Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
countermeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermemes
Etymology: From counter- + meme.
Senses: examples: text: But the GOP and its phalanxes were ready with a countermeme. Enter Unskewedpolls.com. That website, run by Dean Chambers, a Republican blogger and Romney supporter from Virginia, claims to correct polls that Chambers says give too much weight to Democratic votership. Six-point Obama leads turn into 7.8-point Romney leads.
ref: 2012 October 4, John Timpane, “Political polls ignite meme war between Democrats and Republicans”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2023:
text: Replies to the tweets tried to undermine the image by posting other memes countering the original's idea, or by mocking it. In this case, three countermemes were posted, all hijacking and repurposing the original meme, other memes posted by the ADL, or Matt Furie himself.
ref: 2018 June 14, Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, “Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces”, in Space and Culture, volume 24, number 1, SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: The post brought in half a million likes, and launched a wave of countermemes under the same audio tag, a slowed down version of Dissolve's familiar hook.
ref: 2020 July 18, Russell Brandom, “TikTok turned his song into a creepy meme — until fans took it back”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2023:
text: Future reports from any source should be treated with caution. What we can see is not the "fog of war," in the old-fashioned sense; instead it is a kind of swirling tornado, a maelstrom of claims and counterclaims, memes and countermemes, real battles taking place away from television screens and fake ones happening on camera.
ref: 2023 June 8, Anne Applebaum, “The True Purpose of Ukraine's Counteroffensive”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023:
glosses: A meme posted in opposition to or as a mockery of another meme.
mezzuzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzuzahs
form: mezzuzot
form: mezzuzoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mezuzah.
countermemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermeme
drasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drashos
form: drashot
form: derasha
form: derashah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew דְּרָשָׁה.
Senses: examples: text: My shul's Rabbi devoted his Shabbat morning drasha a couple of weeks ago to the idea that the mezuza provides protection.
ref: 1992 September 3, Robert B. Israel, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
text: In any case, the Midrash states that those who have a pleasant voice should honor God with what He has endowed them — with their voice. This derashah and similar derashot appear in Pesikta Rabbati and Midrishei Tanḥuma, and are cited later on in the literature of the Geonim and Rishonim.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Should the cantor pray slowly or shorten the service?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 5:
glosses: A sermon
old wivish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old wivish
form: most old wivish
Senses: examples: text: [marginal note: “1 Tim. iv.”] Let them “cast away ungodly and old wivish fables,” and “be unto them that believe an example in the word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in pureness.”
ref: 1843 [a. 1568], Thomas Becon, “David’s Harp”, in John Ayre (for The Parker Society), editor, The Early Works of Thomas Becon, S. T. P. Chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer, Prebendary of Canterbury, &c. Being the Treatises Published by Him in the Reign of King Henry VIII., Cambridge: […] [T]he University Press, page 286:
text: “To cast away unghostly and old wivish fables, to be unto them that believe an ensample in the word, in conversation, in love, in the spirit, in faith, in pureness; to give attendance unto reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.” 1 Timoth. iv.
ref: 1844 [a. 1570], Myles Coverdale, “The Order of the Church of Christ in Denmark, and in Many Places of Germany, for the Lord’s Supper, Baptism, and Holy Wedlock”, in George Pearson (for The Parker Society), editor, Writings and Translations of Myles Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter. […], Cambridge: […] [T]he University Press, page 487:
text: Other objections to the hydropathic practice that I have heard are so puerile or old wivish—running away reasonless with the fragment of a fact, or the bare imagination of a fact, that I cannot find it in my heart to honour them with a serious confutation.
ref: 1849 June 1, T. T. Aberdonensis, “No. I.”, in J[ohn] S[tuart] Blackie, The Water Cure in Scotland: Five Letters from Dunoon, Originally Published in the “Aberdeen Herald,” Now Reprinted, Aberdeen: George Davidson; London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co.; Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, page 10:
text: He (Mr H) represented the minority, the poor, peeled, and scattered few, who had been called narrow-minded and old wivish. (Hear, Hear). In his opinion the boot was on the other leg. They were standing up for that worship which embraced them all, for the worship of their forefathers. The worship may be bare, may be unattractive, and he believed all true religious worship was so to carnal minds, but it was a pure and holy worship. They had been called old wivish. How about the other side? Had not their wives been exceedingly busy in canvassing and bringing up people to vote, when the wives of the minority had followed out the old apostolic injunction to stay at home?
ref: 1873 August 28, “Presbyterian Congregational Meeting”, in The Evening Herald, volume VI, number 1,882, Wanganui, page [2], column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of old-wifish.
old-wivish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old-wivish
form: most old-wivish
Senses: examples: text: As it is, however, if the House of Lords continue to prate the same old-wivish drivel they have been doing for the last twenty years, in this case, against French revolutions, and Prussian Agrarian Laws, we will not warrant the English nobility.
ref: 1840 September, “Robert Owen and Socialism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume VII, number LXXXI, Edinburgh: William Tait, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, page 550, column 2:
text: “Tak’ a drappy mair, sir,” he whispered in a coaxing, old-wivish tone; “it’s a lang road to the kirkyard.”
ref: 1865, George Mac Donald, chapter I, in Alec Forbes of Howglen, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 5:
text: The foolish squabblings of old-wivish theologians over unimportant issues in Holy Writ, the sick frenzies of fanatical Catholics and Calvinists, the spiritual darkness of the Middle Ages and bygone centuries, none of these escape the whip of the author, who scourges them as the usurers driven from the Temple of God.
ref: 1928 November, Regina Miriam Bloch, “[Reviews] Prophezeiungen: Alter Aberglaube oder neue Wahrheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. 3rd edition. Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. […]”, in The Occult Review, volume XLVIII, number 5, London: Rider & Co., page 359:
text: There is also her sadly beautiful but rambling old-wivish account of the last hours of Falstaff (H V, II, iii, 9-28).
ref: 1954, Edwin R. Hunter, “Manner Of Speech As An Aspect Of Shakspere’s Characterization”, in Shakspere and Common Sense, Boston, Mass.: The Christopher Publishing House, page 268:
text: SOMEBODY ELSE said that moles will leave the yard of anybody who plants castor beans. Mary thinks this suggestion is a little old-wivish. She wants more direct action. Any ideas?
ref: 1960 June 21, Roz Young, “Home Run King”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 83, number 306, Dayton, Oh., page 20, column 1:
text: So long as he raved through the mouth of a fabulous Hebrew and reveled in old-wivish misconstructions of the book of nature, these ruling-class academies were prepared to tolerate his assaults upon the ethos of that class.
ref: 1967, James Rieger, “The Rosy Cross and the Wandering Jew”, in The Mutiny Within: The Heresies of Percy Bysshe Shelley, New York, N.Y.: George Braziller, →LCCN, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of old-wifish.
Quanglican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quanglicans
Etymology: Blend of Quaker + Anglican
Senses: glosses: A person who holds to both Quaker and Anglican traditions.
Quanglicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quanglican
bite in the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bites in the ass
form: biting in the ass
form: bit in the ass
form: bitten in the ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bite in the arse.
dhurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhurries
Senses: examples: text: After dinner we moved to other chairs, which the servants had set out on a dhurry (a carpet of sorts), and I didn’t even get my bridge, for the talk of spooks went on until I very nearly fell asleep, I was so tired of it.
ref: 1913, Blackwood’s Magazine, page 613:
text: To add to it, while the other boys ate from the canteen or had brought along little tiffin boxes for their lunch, the Birla boys would have a veritable feast laid out for them on a dhurry (a type of carpet) in a vacant verandah, with the full meal paraphernalia of trays, bowls, glasses and spoons.
ref: 2007, Ingrid Albuquerque-Solomon, One Day at a Time, Bangalore: Berean Bay Media House Private Limited, →ISBN:
text: Here Ajmat Dev is portrayed seated on a dhurry with white and brown stripes while he smokes a hookah. In one hand he holds a rosary, in the other a ripe mango. A second mango lies on the dhurry.
ref: 2009, Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting: Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot, Skira, →ISBN, page 217:
text: […] oh, even the clay khaddar-turbaned and dhoti-loinclothed fakir snake charmer sitting padmasana on his dhurry mat swaying from shrab and blowing jadu musica ficta, or the kind in the background of daravani films, on his miniature pungi flute in front of his jhow basket and donation bowl while diminutive papier mache nude bayaderes were scaling ambary ropes which the serpentwood flute’s notes caused to rise up from the basket for them to escape being pursued by a nittany hissing cobra . . . Fascinating!
ref: 2009, William Penn, “Garden Speedwells, Rain Lilies”, in Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, page 586:
glosses: Alternative form of dhurrie.
Findhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ0464).
glosses: A river in Highland council area and Moray council area, Scotland, which flows into the Moray Firth at the village of Findhorn; in full, the River Findhorn.
housewivish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more housewivish
form: most housewivish
Senses: examples: text: This is why I dazzle them with my intellect and charm and wit and knowledge, with unprecedented intrusive interest in their petty, boring, housewivish lives - and then I let go abruptly.
ref: 2004, Sam Vaknin, Excerpts and Case Studies from the Archives of the Narcissistic Abuse Study Group, 2nd edition, Prague; Skopje: Narcissus Publications, →ISBN:
text: Desperate Housewives: If you’ve ever envied Eva Longoria and all of her curvacious glory, what’s to stop you and your roommates from enjoying Halloween as these middle-aged vixens? Go ahead and throw together some very desperate and very housewivish ensembles.
ref: 2005 October 25, Laura Klebanow, “Halloween’s Cheap, Easy Fashion Show”, in The Greyhound, volume 79, number 7, Baltimore, Md.: Loyola University Maryland, page 14:
text: “The bigger the celebrity it seems like the cooler the person,” [Mario] Lopez explains. “But then you have the mid-lane reality ‘housewivish’ types that come with the big entourage and have a little bit of an attitude. That’s very funny, I think.”
ref: 2012 March 22, Madeleine Marr, “Local appearance”, in The Miami Herald, 109th year, number 190, page 8A:
glosses: Rare form of housewifish.
Tête Jaune Cache
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Tête Jaune, a fur trapper.
Senses: glosses: A rural community in the Robson Valley, eastern British Columbia, Canada.
wikipedia: Tête Jaune
Noid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Noids
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Noeud
Noeude
Noide
Noyd
Noyde
housewively
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more housewively
form: most housewively
Senses: examples: text: It is ſpoken of a houſewively maid that grows idle after marriage.
ref: 1670, J[ohn] R[ay], A Collection of English Proverbs Digested into a Convenient Method for the Speedy Finding Any One upon Occasion; with Short Annotations. […], Cambridge, Cambs: […] John Hayes, […], for W[illiam] Morden, page 166:
text: The sweet-frosted dream of Ms. Tranor’s generation turned into the bitter bread of struggle. Housewively boredom did much to end the American dream. By grasping, they lost.
ref: 1992 April 2, A.E. Ayotte, “Losing the American dream”, in Tallahassee Democrat, 87th year, number 93, page 11A:
text: The clearest form of discrimination was at higher education level where 2-year community colleges in effect prepared young women for marriage and housewively duties.
ref: 1995, Martin McLean, “Norms of educational access”, in Educational Traditions Compared: Content, Teaching and Learning in Industrialised Countries, London: David Fulton Publishers, →ISBN, part 1 (Educational Traditions), page 68:
text: It appears that by this time it was acceptable for women in England to be selling ale outside the home, and to take the consequences. What had started as a housewively task had become a trade.
ref: 1997, Moira Plant, “Alcohol Throughout the Ages”, in Women and Alcohol: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, London; New York, N.Y.: Free Association Books, →ISBN, page 41:
text: With the end of the war, there was a resurgence of pre-war gender roles: many women who had taken jobs in the public sphere during the war were unceremoniously fired and returned to the domestic sphere, where they were once again expected to perform traditional housewively duties, while men were expected to take up the role of provider and breadwinner.
ref: 2002, Rebecca Carpenter, “Male Failure and Male Fantasy: British Masculine Mythologies of the 1950s, or Jimmy, Jim, and Bond. James Bond.”, in The Minnesota Review, page 188:
text: I avoid swamping the reader in the stereotyped recurrent housewively discourse.
ref: 2005, Rudrani Fakir, The Goddess and the Slave: The Fakir, the Mother and Maldevelopment, Varanasi: Indica Books, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Alternative form of housewifely.
Vengi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historical city near Rajahmundry in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
enweaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enweave
enweaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enweave
enwove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of enweave
enweaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enweave
enwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of enweave
Cawkwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cawkwells
Etymology: From Old English ċealc (“chalk”) + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Scamblesby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2879).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
horror of horrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horrors of horrors
Senses: examples: text: Volumes would barely suffice to recount the varied horrors of horrors of this disastrous insurrection, where the worst passions of human nature were brought to the aid of the infernal work of destruction.
ref: 1858, Archibald Alison, History of Europe, page 580:
text: "He posed as the horror of horrors — a misunderstood man. Heaven knows the femme incomprise is sad enough and bad enough — but the other thing!"
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 101:
text: To foreign eyes it is a sight, once seen, never to be forgotten — a horror of horrors.
ref: 1900, Harold Irwin Cleveland, Massacres of Christians by Heathen Chinese and Horrors of the Boxers, page 410:
text: In a nutshell, the horror of horrors is that we become less able and available for good relationships, works, wonder, and worship than what we could be.
ref: 2022, Joshua Cockayne, Scott Harrower, Preston Hill, Dawn of Sunday: The Trinity and Trauma-Safe Churches:
glosses: Something that is among the most horrifying things imaginable.
horror of horrors
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Horror of horrors! within a stair or two beneath the spot where I stood the unearthly tread smote the floor.
ref: 1851, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, An Account of Some Strange Disturbances In Aungier Street:
text: And now, horror of horrors, a suggestion is made to do away with the individuality of our Cacti and turn them into cultivated " Zombies " .
ref: 1972, The National Cactus and Succulent Journal, page 82:
text: Let us suppose, horror of horrors, that the Conservatives win and the new minister is the member for Wild Rose, Alberta.
ref: 2004, House of Commons Debates, Official Report (Hansard), page 2040:
glosses: Used to indicate that something is very horrifying.
Scamblesby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2778).
finger-nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger-nails
Senses: examples: text: Should a stranger suppose that they were white, he would soon be told that they were halfcaste. Should one doubt it, as passing strangers sometimes did, the children would be seized if unprotected and have the whites of their eyes and bases of their finger-nails searched for that bluishness which is supposed to be the evidence of black blood.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 208–9:
text: They overpowder and overperfume themselves, and color their finger-nails too harsh a color.
ref: 1945, Thomas D. Horton, What Men Don't Like about Women, page 54:
text: […] turning listlessly about every now and then to look at the cigaretted women with their cool lip-sticked mouths, boredly listening to their boring male escorts, or boredly inhaling and boredly expelling, smoke, I mean, or jingling their gold bracelets with charms attached on their thin sun-tanned wrists, with elbows on table and cig-holders at eye-level – convenient, without moving, for taking the next drag, and convenient, too, for eyeing the finger-nails – with eyes just open under lids draped long […]
ref: 1999, Izaak Mansk, “Ariadne”, in Emil Brut, Calgary, Alta.: Bayeux Arts, Inc., →ISBN, section II, pages 198–199:
glosses: Alternative form of fingernail.
finger-nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger-nail
uncompanionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncompanionabl(e) + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: companionability
glosses: The state or condition of being uncompanionable; aloofness.
uncontradictability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncontradictabl(e) + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: contradictability
glosses: The state or condition of being uncontradictable; incontrovertibility.
uncontrolability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of uncontrollability.
uncorporeality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncorporeal + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: corporeality
glosses: The state or condition of being uncorporeal; incorporeality.
uncreateability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of uncreatability.
uncreatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of uncreatability.