cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
evening-dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From evening dress + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: When Marat took out a pistol at the tribune, and exclaimed, “One word more, and I shoot myself,” or when David rose from the extreme bench of the Mountain and shouted out, “I demand, I insist upon it, that you assassinate me,” they were scarcely more ripe for Charenton than M. Odillon Barrot, when, Cataline-like, he rushed from the Palais Bourbon, “Abiit, excepit, evasit, erupit”—when, Sylla-like, “He dared depart / In savage grandeur home,” to return, the next day, with the same decent demeanour and benign appearance, at the head of the same array of evening-dressed and white-cravatted individuals, professing bit by bit, and day after day, principles which in their accelerated advance approach them more and more to sans culottes.
ref: 1848 February 15, The Morning Chronicle, number 24,435, London, page 5:
text: As for dancing in my first set of tails, even a slow foxtrot induced the exhaustion of a sauna, which is maybe why the great eponymous number in Top Hat, with [Fred] Astaire and a score of identical evening-dressed gentlemen, never fails to amaze me with its effect of formal energy unleashed without apparent effort.
ref: 2001 June 1–7, Alexander Walker, “Golden Oldie”, in Hot Tickets (Evening Standard), page 13:
text: Of one thing we can be sure: with a maestro conducting an evening-dressed cast featuring knights and dames of the musical establishment in a grand concert hall, this was not The Threepenny Opera as its creators Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill either envisaged or wanted it.
ref: 2013 March 4, Rupert Christiansen, “Polish and pedantry are no match for slash and panache”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 49,070, →ISSN, page 23:
glosses: In evening dress.
morning-dressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morning dress + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: If at considerable inconvenience, he puts on evening dress for some banquet or special function, he will find himself, at the last moment, bundled off in his war paint to report a hastily-convened labour deputation to a Cabinet Minister, the banquet having to be attended by a morning-dressed colleague who immediately assumes the frame of mind and temper of the concert scribe referred to.
ref: 1895 December 7, W. H., “Reporters and Reporting”, in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Supplement, number 6,855, page 1:
text: […]its collection of exotics and normals, cranks and curious, well dressed and ill-dressed and morning-dressed.
ref: 1922 September 30, James A. Roy, “Impressions Gained From A Trip Abroad”, in The Kingston Daily Standard, Kingston, Ont., section “Soho”, page 17:
text: They gaze down at the matchlessly morning-dressed Lord Brentford, at Lord Birkenhead, grey-coated and inscrutable.
ref: 1929 July 25, “How the Lords Staged the Egypt Drama: Labour Peers Under Fire. The Drama as it was Unfolded to a “Stranger.””, in Evening Standard, number 32,746, London, section “Conversational Lord Parmoor”, page 3:
text: He was concluding one of the touchiest royal occasions in recent memory, an anonymous morning-dressed figure taking the black-gloved hand with a formal shake.
ref: 1981 July 24, Nicholas Hills, “A discreet man’s head is safe”, in The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C., page A4:
glosses: In morning dress.
morning-suited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morning suit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A morning-suited man of middle age and amiable aspect had come out of the church, and on this middle-aged man’s arm walked a girl in bridal white.
ref: 1924 May 24 – July 12, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Sixpennyworth of Rice”, in Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the Springtime, 10th edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1931, →OCLC, § 2, page 288:
text: It is an illuminating social comment on our times that he-men should bitterly deplore this feminine symptom, to such an extent that one famous club has opened a separate dining-room for the morning-suited diner.
ref: 1930 November 6, “Echoes from Town: The Liberal Split—World’s Beauty Parlour—The Immaculate Male—Critical Trade Disputes Bill”, in Nottingham Evening Post, number 16,335, section “Dressing for Dinner”, page 6:
text: Following the Derby, we get a morning-suited broadcaster holding his hat as he rushes up to the successful jockey still astride his horse.
ref: 2012 July 10, Edward Thomas, “Tennis is too expensive for youngsters today”, in The Independent, number 8034, page 18:
glosses: Wearing a morning suit.
Predditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛdɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Predditors
Etymology: Blend of predator (“sexual predator”) + Redditor.
Senses: glosses: An online groomer on Reddit; a child predator who frequents Reddit.
Predditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Predditor
Prince Albert-coated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Prince Albert coat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Dovener is slight, brown-mustached and Prince Albert-coated, and goes at a matter like a terrier at a rat.
ref: 1884 August 5, “A “Foreigner’s” Views: Colonel Mussey’s Impressions: Of His Travels Through West Virginia—The Democratic State Ticket—The “Register’s” Worriment—Pen Pictures of Prominent West Virginians—Republican Prospects”, in The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, volume XXXII, number 297, Wheeling, West Va., section “Pen Pictures of West Virginians”:
text: The modern masculine costume is the horror alike of sculptors and spectators. Its utter unfitness for use in art is painfully conspicuous in Prince Albert-coated Cox as he stands in Astor place, with his right arm raised in the heroic effort to hail a fourth avenue horse car.
ref: 1891 September 17, “Current Observations”, in The Anaconda Standard, volume III, number 13, Anaconda, Mont., page 2:
text: Silk-hatted and Prince Albert-coated, ‘Dr.’ Starkee walks majestically ahead, swinging a gold headed cane.
ref: 1950s–1962, William O. Wallace, “Princess in medicine show (The Stroller)”, in The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Ind., published 8 May 1987, section “Boys do work”, page 2:
text: He [Oscar Hammerstein II] has said he never knew his paternal grandfather [Oscar Hammerstein I] well. The top-hatted, Prince Albert-coated, stripped-trousered figure with the goatee and the big cigar was too busy to spend much time with his grandson.
ref: 1982 May 15, Susan Molloy, “Oklahoma!—musical that spells success: A simple theme that made millions”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 45,046, page 14:
glosses: Wearing a Prince Albert coat.
dinner-jacketed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dinner jacket + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The English among the other sex, black-tied, dinner-jacketed, are men of the bench and bar, court officials, soldiers, wanderers from Pall Mall and Piccadilly who have come to Homburg to while away the month their favorite club is closed.
ref: 1901 September 16, “Gossip From Abroad; King Edward And Englanders At Homburg; In The Height Of The Season; King Alfred Millenary Exhibition—Ancient Irish Gold Ornaments—News From The Emerald Isle”, in The Sun, volume CXXIX, number 105, Baltimore, Md., page 9:
text: He led the way through the main entrance and marched right up to the immaculate, smug, dinner-jacketed man who was leaning in front of the desk.
ref: 1909 March 7, “Little Stories of Fact and Fancy: Slightly and Slightingly Mistaken”, in The New York Times, volume LVIII, number 18,670, New York, N.Y., part five, page 9:
text: But to return to the clipped tones of the Fifties dinner-jacketed BBC would be absurd today.
ref: 2020 January 2, Colin Robson, “The BBC should look to the future”, in Evening Standard, page 11:
glosses: Wearing a dinner jacket.
orthodoxise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orthodoxises
form: orthodoxising
form: orthodoxised
form: orthodoxised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orthodoxize.
orthodoxises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orthodoxise
orthodoxising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orthodoxise
orthodoxised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orthodoxise
spongebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongebags
Senses: examples: text: I had an aunt who used to stand on her spongebag in a cupboard under the stairs during bad storms and very much admired her combination of scientific knowledge with strong common sense.[…]So in future I hope to have the moral courage to act as instinctively as a fish and as wisely as an aunt, merely substituting gumboots, as being a shade more manly than spongebags.
ref: 1964, Punch, page 166:
text: He hung his jacket in the wardrobe, extracted the timetables, wedged them under his arm, slung a bathrobe over his shoulder, collected his spongebag and, mumbling something about taking a bath in the morning, shuffled into the bathroom and locked the door.
ref: 1999, John le Carré [pen name; David John Moore Cornwell], Single & Single, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: “A fine example our father set,” Celestria scoffed, spraying on perfume before putting it in her spongebag.[…]She placed her spongebag on top of the clothes that lay in a messy heap in the suitcase.
ref: 2007, Santa Montefiore, Sea of Lost Love, Touchstone, published 2008, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of sponge bag.
Related terms: spongebag pants
spongebags
spongebag trousers
spongebag pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponge-bag pants
Senses: examples: text: The town’s best dressed doorman is outside the Silver Dollar in East Fifty-fourth street, wearing gray top hat and racing coat and spongebag pants.
ref: 1934 July 1, Lucius Beebe, “This New York”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 299, St. Louis, Mo., page 3B:
text: […]the formidable old Charles Soames—who scared even me, when I met him later on, with his wall eye, monocle and spongebag pants.
ref: 1966, Marguerite Steen, Looking Glass: An Autobiography, Longmans, page 8:
text: John the Baptist would have been horrified at the beautifully cut dark, double-breasted jacket and the natty gray sponge bag pants.
ref: 1967, Lewis W. Gillenson, Billy Graham and Seven Who Were Saved, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: ‘Bishops, flood-lit Highlanders dancing reels under the palm-trees, Matrons, Maids, Saris, Sarongs, Black faces, White uniforms, and the hero of the party, Prince Mohammed Aly, in spongebag pants, red Tarboosh and carnation, and an emerald in his tie the size of a golf ball,’ observed Coats.
ref: 2006, Victoria Schofield, Wavell: Soldier and Statesman, Pen & Sword Military, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: The ceremony was a formal affair and the men were expected to wear morning suits. So I dutifully pulled out my black tailcoat from Hackett, my black-and-white dogtooth-check “spongebag” pants, a Cornish cream hopsack waistcoat, a nice cornflower blue shirt with a stiff white collar, my silver tie from Ralph Lauren and a pair of highly polished, black Oxford shoes by New & Lingwood of Jermyn Street.
ref: 2008 April 9, Simon Mills, “Traditional elegance under fire”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,540, page 29:
glosses: Synonym of spongebags.
synonyms: word: spongebags
sponge-bag pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court[…]
ref: 1939, Time, page 14:
text: The spectacle of former Gov. Richard W. Leche, in claw-hammer coat and sponge-bag pants, solemnly lapping a Good Humor bar while prosecuting the diplomatic amenities with the President of Nicaragua, has been evoked by a wrangle over who pays for the hokey pokey.
ref: 1942 June 28, “Hotel Holds Bag for Long Gang’s Popsicle Shindig”, in Sunday News, volume 22, number 9, New York, N.Y., page 4:
text: Nevertheless, changing quickly from his old grey flannels to the diplomatic sponge-bag pants on learning of this season’s first assignment, Szold is in there pitching and will conduct a second try-out session at 7:30 p.m. Monday, same place.
ref: 1957 August 19, “Casting Starts As Szold Returns”, in The Victoria Advocate, 112th year, number 104, Victoria, Tex., page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of spongebag pants.
spergs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sperg out
sperging out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sperg out
sperged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sperg out
Depplorables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Depplorable
Deppheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Depphead
Deppford wives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Deppford wife
referologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of referologist
Swiss Cottage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small area of Hampstead, borough of Camden, Greater London, England, named after a local pub (OS grid ref TQ2684).
Related terms: South Hampstead
pencil-skirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pencil skirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: High hats easily fit in with high necks, slim sleeves, pencil-skirted suits, straight box coats, long gloves and higher shoes.
ref: 1937 November 5, Vivice, “Peeps in Fashion's Window”, in Runcorn Weekly News and District Reporter, page three:
text: The new short coats for the season of 1945-46 show up to sparkling advantage in bright jewels colors over a pencil-skirted suit in black or navy.
ref: 1945 August 30, “Fashions for a Colorful Autumn…”, in The Knoxville News-Sentinel, number 18,619, Knoxville, Tenn., page 3:
text: More fun than sun in a mirror… pencil-skirted tunic suit dress a-sparkle with bright ‘gold’ nailheads.
ref: 1946 October 3, “Meyer Brothers”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 240, Paterson, N.J., page 20:
text: Secondly, their volume also plays a part in creating new-season proportions, which essentially boil down to a larger top over a narrow bottom; a way of making a blouse and pencil-skirted outfit feel like it’s coming from 2011 rather than 1992.
ref: 2011 autumn/winter, Sarah Mower, “Front Row”, in Dots (The Sunday Telegraph), page 19:
glosses: Having a pencil skirt.
examples: text: Anyway, G. Peck lifted the quality of 1959 South Yarra, with its population of retired colonels, their blue-rinsed ladies and woolly-coated small dogs, the smart young narrow-lapelled, broad-minded advertising executives, the pencil-skirted, stiletto-heeled secretaries tok-tokking along the pavements.
ref: 1994 December 3, Michael Smith, “Backbites”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,526, section “Saturday Extra”, page 16:
text: Take away those chauffeurs, those gasoline coupons, those platoons of pencil-skirted, lozenge-spectacled assistants.
ref: 1999 January 15, “Toronto hostels filled with families and young people”, in The Edmonton Journal, page F9:
text: Today, though, the sight of a pencil-skirted, high-heeled secretary is fairly uncommon – a hard day spent hot-desking and video-conferencing is best faced in comfortable trousers and a pair of flat pumps, after all – but that very archetype was rather sweetly re-enacted by Maggie Gyllenhaal last year in Secretary.
ref: 2003 November 20, Susie Rushton, “The skirt that is sex on legs”, in The Independent, number 5,333, page 48:
text: Plus, we keep having film noir fantasies about men in fedoras and their dangerous pencil-skirted gals downing sidecars.
ref: 2004 October 20, Amina Akhtar, “London calling: New Brit pub The Globe’s got what ales you”, in Redeye (Chicago Tribune), section “Motel”, page 25:
glosses: Wearing a pencil skirt.
Wuchung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese Moslems, who constitute the largest minority, number about 700,000. They are organized in two autonomous chou and three autonomous hsien. The Wuchung Moslem Autonomous Chou, situated east of the Yellow River in former Ningsia Province, was called the Hotung (“east of the river”) chou until April, 1955, when it was renamed for its capital. The Wuchung chou has a population of 230,000, 62 per cent of whom are Moslems. The Wuchung chou includes the east-bank section of the Ningsia irrigated plain, adjoins the Ordos desert and passes southeastward into the loesslands. The autonomous chou was set up in April, 1954.
ref: 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 246:
text: The river, which is some 3,028 miles long and has a catchment basin of 250,000 sq. miles, rises in the Bayan Kara Shan (15,000 ft) of north-east Tibet and flows as a mountain torrent above Lanchow. Between Lanchow and Wuchung in Ningsia it descends on to the Inner Mongolian plateau and is less torrential although still of considerable strength. At Wuchung it starts on its northward course, known as the Great Bend, across the Ordos Desert.
ref: 1970, T. R. Tregear, An Economic Geography of China, Butterworths, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: In Hui restaurants in towns such as Wuchung and Chungning, restaurant workers wearing the white caps of the Hui nationality serve customers. Most government institutions, factories and schools in different parts of the autonomous region have set up dining rooms for the Huis, where their special foods are served.
ref: 1978 November [1978 October 16], “Religious Life Never Interfered With”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of Wuzhong.
Barnsbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Islington, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3084).
hobble-skirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hobble skirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: MY MISSUS HAS THROWN ME OVER FOR THAT UGLY HOBBLE SKIRTED CREATURE - SUCH IS LIFE, WHEN ONE GETS OLD AND WRINKLED AND THE SAWDUST LEAKS OUT AT THE JOINTS!
ref: 1908, Caricature: Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story:
text: In Paris it is said to create a small sensation in the neighborhood when a fair damsel hobble-skirted alights from her carriage or automobile.
ref: 1910 July 2, “Some Phases of the Hobble Skirt”, in Muncie Evening Press, volume X, number 234, Muncie, Ind., page five:
text: “Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”
ref: 1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future”, in Nonsense Novels, Canadian edition, Montreal, Que.: Publishers’ Press, Limited, page 229:
text: Hobble-skirts became very popular at Hudson’s store in the 1905-1910 period, even though women who wore the stylish garments put themselves at risk to cross Woodward Avenue. On Woodward, pedestrians had to sidestep clanging trolleys, careening bicycles, sputtering motor cars, and snorting horses frightened by the clamor of unregulated traffic … equally frightened by the sight of hobble-skirted women, feather boas flowing from their shoulders and ostrich plumes fluttering from huge hats, mincing across the avenue and dodging the nervous delivery horses.
ref: 1991, Jean Maddern Pitrone, Hudson’s: Hub of America’s Heartland, West Bloomfield, Mich.: Altwerger and Mandel Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45:
text: An extra step was added to street cars at this time to accommodate the hobble-skirted lady.
ref: 2000 May 11, “Fashions through the ages on display”, in Merced Sun-Star, page B1:
glosses: Wearing a hobble skirt.
chapeaued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chapeau + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Can time, with its corroding tooth, obliterate from the midst of that patriotic band of braves who have been annually drawn up in battle array, by asinine commandants and their plumed and chapeaued subalterns, the hallowed associations of the “Big Muster?”
ref: 1853 May 24, “The Last Muster”, in Spirit of Jefferson, volume X, number 21, Charlestown, West Va.:
text: Klee Wyck, Mrs. Redden would fret, shaking her old, well chapeaued head all the way down the great nave of Westminster Abbey or peering over her blind of newspapers at me when we would tea later at Abingdon Court.
ref: 1999, John Barton, “Life Class (I)”, in West of Darkness: Emily Carr: A Self-Portrait, 2nd edition, Porcepic Books, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Our representatives from My Woodland Trek Adventures — the grinning, chapeaued, and bevested greeters from the website — are missing in action.
ref: 2016, Don Calame, chapter 14, in Dan vs. Nature, Candlewick Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a chapeau.
stovepipe-hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stove-pipe-hatted
Etymology: From stovepipe hat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: These were ordinary stage-coach bodies, which permitted through the doors and windows a clear view of the passengers within, who, in the old drawing of the train, are seen sitting in pairs on each of the three inside seats, in solemn, stovepipe-hatted dignity.
ref: 1883 April 21, “Railway Exposition Notes. More Curiosities.”, in The Railway Review, volume XXIII, number 16, Chicago, Ill.:
text: To smoke a cigar in the streets of London is to be singled out as either a millionaire or a Yankee. The pipe is universal in the British dominions. It is in the mouth of the club swell, the navvy on the docks, the stovepipe-hatted Eton schoolboy, and the homeless poor in Trafalgar Square. Why? Because the cost of English cigars is no less startling than their vileness.
ref: 1888 January 14, “London Types”, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume LXV, number 1,687, New York, N.Y., page 370:
text: Just feet away stands a lanky, wooden Abraham Lincoln. An attached platform elevates the stovepipe-hatted former president to his nearly 6-foot-4 actual height.
ref: 2014 March 23, Susan Fadem, “Ex-flight attendant’s 1876 home boasts eclectic furnishings from around world”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 136, number 82, page H3:
glosses: Wearing a stovepipe hat.
Kew Gardens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large world-famous botanical garden in Kew, borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1876).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Queens, New York City, New York, United States.
shirtdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shirtdress + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The slim shirtdressed silhouette—an important, flattering shape!
ref: 1955 December 21, “Franklin Simon”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 253, number 174, Triangle Publications Inc., page 8:
text: Wonderful go-together jewelry for your shirtdressed summer.
ref: 1960 June 28, “Woolf Brothers”, in The Kansas City Times, volume 123, number 154, Kansas City, Mo., page 3:
text: MORE often than not, a man would not even remove his suit and tie for dinner with his family at home — check out episodes of “Leave It to Beaver,” the quintessential ’50s sit-com, and you’ll find good old Ward Cleaver buttoned up, while shirtdressed June Cleaver serves dinner to the boys in chinos.
ref: 1987 January 18, John Mariani, “The Not-So-Fabulous ’50s”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 26:
glosses: Wearing a shirtdress.
dress-shirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dress shirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And, sure enough, against an almost entirely low-necked, hatless, dress-shirted audience, I saw three ladies proudly wearing green hats “pour le sport,” and seemingly with no attempt to be funny.
ref: 1925 September 20, “Premiere of “The Green Hat” As Seen by Forney Wyly”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 99, Atlanta, Ga., page three:
text: And such was the never-failing efficiency of this masterly girl that it whizzed in through the open window, from which, after a brief interval, there appeared, leaning out, the dress-shirted and white-tied upper portion of Mr. Willoughby Braddock.
ref: 1925 October 15, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Sam the Sudden”, in Evening Despatch, number 11,014, Birmingham, published 28 September 1926, page 2:
text: The low-key waitstaff is dress-shirted in French blue.
ref: 2006 September 24, Rick Nichols, “Stepping up at Molcajete”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 178th year, number 116, page M5:
glosses: Wearing a dress shirt.
Seysses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Seysseses
Etymology: Borrowed from French Seysses.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune of Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A surname from French.
West Kensington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Greater London, England (not in Kensington and Chelsea) (OS grid ref TQ2478).
glosses: A neighbourhood of North Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Muret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Muret, itself from Occitan Murèth.
Senses: glosses: A town in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.
Muret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Murets
Etymology: Borrowed from French Muret, itself from Occitan Murèth.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
dress-suited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dress suit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: “M’liss” and a plain dress-suited individual (modern waiter?) proved very good skaters;[…]
ref: 1884 January 29, “Curious Costumes: Worn at the Skating Carnival Last Evening. The Institute Rink Bedecked With Handsome and Fantastic Disguises. A Great Crowd Present, and Thoroughly Pleased.”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume XXV, number 29, Boston, Mass.:
text: Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.
ref: 1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66:
text: On the contrary: its approach was so sober as to recall the days of dress-suited newsreaders.
ref: 2000 July 21, James Walton, “Fibs and whoppers galore”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,131, page 46:
glosses: Wearing a dress suit.
mawmaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawmaw
straw-hatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: strawhatted
Etymology: From straw hat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Informers, Theef-Takers, Dear-Stealers, and Bullies, / Old Straw-hatted Whores, with their Twelve-penny Cullies, / Some Dancing and Skiping, ſome Ranting and Tearing, / Some Drinking and Smoaking, ſome Lying and Swearing;[…]
ref: 1699, [Ned Ward], A Walk to Islington: With a Description of New Tunbridge-Wells, and Sadler’s Musick-House, London, page 15:
text: So he might make bold with Portia as they had done with the Virgin Mary, who in a church, acting their play called the Incarnation, had uſually the Ave Mary mumbled over to a ſtraddling wench (for the bleſſed Virgin) ſtraw-hatted, blue-aproned, big-bellied, with her immaculate conception up to her chin.
ref: 1776, John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, volume the second, London: […] T. Payne and Son, […], page 50:
text: “Corney Keough!” cried a buckish straw-hatted driver, to a hard sandy-bearded, curly-pated, ragged freeholder, with a crooked half-peeled willow cudgel in his fist, “Corney Keough, I say!—divil fire ye! come up to the table, Sir!”
ref: 1826 July 13, “County Galway Election”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 17,732, London:
text: And Sandy Powell’s costumes are fabulous, especially the reds and blues and stripes and polka dots that adorn Mary, from her straw-hatted head to her turned-out feet (What we wouldn’t give for one of those slender-waisted, caped overcoats, or polka-dot bow ties).
ref: 2018 December 13, Jocelyn Noveck, “Poppins is practically perfect: Emily Blunt is confident and saucy as role’s heir”, in The Daily News, volume 96, number 220, page D3:
glosses: Wearing a straw hat.
strawhatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Now he could take in particular groups—the policeman’s argument with a tram driver that grew into a crowd of gesticulating, shouting onlookers, the occasional Anglo Indian returning to England stopped by the Arab carpet merchant or the strawhatted, over-toothed tout, the jostling group of bourgeoises buying from the outside stalls of the Bon Marché.
ref: 1949 March, Angus Wilson, “Significant Experience”, in The Wrong Set and Other Stories, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1961, page 178:
text: Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.
ref: 1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66:
text: He was forever playing the bespectacled, strawhatted, bound-to-succeed American boy, garbed in bargain-basement suit.
ref: 1979, James Robert Parish, William T. Leonard, Gregory W. Mank, Charles Hoyt, “Harold Lloyd”, in The Funsters, New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, →ISBN, page 431:
glosses: Alternative form of straw-hatted.
Childs Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Alternatively Child's Hill, named after Richard le Child of the 14th century.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area east of Cricklewood, borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2586).
babushkaed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: babushka'ed
form: babushka-ed
Etymology: From babushka + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: This babushkaed Miss is Adah Polak, one of the girls taking the farm course at the Farmingdale State Institute of Applied Agriculture, Farmingdale, L. I., to enable them to take farm jobs.
ref: 1943 February 11, “Eggspert Farmer”, in Mrs. Chattie Coleman Westenius, editor and publisher, The Headlight, volume 57, number 40, Stromsburg, Neb.:
text: Babushkaed Royalty At Tree-Planting Ceremony
ref: 1945 March 16, Sault Daily Star, volume XXXIV, number 1, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., page 9:
text: The shapes here are dense and collective, the babushkaed dancers riding the pulse that motivates the music and anchors Zoltan Kodaly’s score.
ref: 1997 March 14, Debra Cash, “Lesson in classic modern”, in The Boston Globe, volume 251, number 73, page C11:
glosses: Wearing a babushka (headscarf).
integro-differential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of integrodifferential.
single fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single father
hatredful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hatredful
form: most hatredful
Etymology: From hatred + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: When he is full of peace and is free from hatredful thoughts it is easy for him to disseminate joy towards all his near and dear ones individually and collectively, […]
ref: 2003, Journal of the Department of Pali, volumes 12-13, page 45:
glosses: Full of hate or hatred; hateful
corporeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporeographies
Etymology: Coined by anthropologist Vicki Kirby in 1989, from corporeo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: I want to argue that the body is that “pre-post-erous space,” the site of a corporeography that conjoins the dynamic political economy of signification–its written surface and writing instrument.
ref: 1989, Vicki Kirby, “Corporeographies”, in Inscriptions, number 5:
text: As a research strategy, corporeography names a specific dual interest in the bodily and emotional experiences of others and in the knowledge-making capacities of the researching body itself.
ref: 2011, Catherine Robinson, Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived, Syracuse University Press, page 17:
text: In attuning to the errors of air quality index on Sina Weibo, this piece suggests a rethinking of the method of following not simply as a response to a call, but as simultaneously responding and calling. Such a method makes visible the corporeography of the research assemblage that affords a reconceptualisation of anthropocentrism.
ref: 2019, Rebecca Coleman et al., “Feminist New Materialist Practice: The Mattering of Methods”, in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, number 4:
glosses: An approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.
corporeographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporeography
shmita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmitas
form: shemittah
form: shmitah
form: shmittah
Etymology: From Hebrew שְׁמִיטָה.
Senses: examples: text: The Va·ad recommends that kibbutzim observe some of the sh'mittah laws by letting one field lie fallow as the sh'mittah field, and that they give a percentage of their income to the poor, because that was the original purpose of the law.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 739:
glosses: A sabbatical year.
melakhah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛl.ə.xɑ/
Forms: form: melakhot
form: m'lakhah
form: melacha
form: melachah
form: melakha
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מְלָאכָה (mal'achá, “work; labor; activities forbidden on Sabbath”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus, carrying an overcoat over one's shoulder is a melakhah, but wearing one is not.
ref: 1981, Isidor Grunfeld, The Sabbath: A Guide to Its Understanding and Observance, page 59:
text: Most categories of m'lakhah (activities prohibited on Shabbat and Yom Kippur) are also prohibited on the three pilgrimage festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 725:
text: I originally learned that it's a problem to use the head of a match here because of the chemical reaction involved, but I'm having trouble figuring out what the melacha would be.
ref: 2004 October 11, Ja...@fas.harvard.edu, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: Any of the types of work forbidden on Shabbat.
neckerchiefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neckerchieved
Etymology: From neckerchief + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Suffice it to say, that I plunged deeper and deeper into the Heliconian stream; sonnet following sonnet with such celerity, that long before a month was over my head, I was transformed from a sedate, white cravatted clerk, into a sighing, careless, open collared, black neckerchiefed, ballad-monger.
ref: 1836 December, “My Poem!”, in The Lady’s Magazine & Museum of the Belles-Lettres, Music, Fine Arts, Drama, Fashions, &c., volume IX, Dobbs & C.ͦ, page 259:
text: It is impossible not to smile at seeing them on a holiday in the dog-days, cumbered with an extraordinary superfluity of petticoats, and coifed and neckerchiefed up to the throat.
ref: 1840, [William Bilton], “Introductory—Reasons for writing—Interest of a Tour in Norway—[…]”, in Two Summers in Norway, volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 28:
text: Reclining at his feet was the white-neckerchiefed individual addressed by the Queen of the Chase as “Ginger.”
ref: 1844, [John Mills], chapter XXIV, in D’Horsay; or, The Follies of the Day, London: William Strange, […], page 146:
text: The proprietors probably think that their good things can recommend themselves to their fair costumers; that a puff can speak for itself, and that ices are too pleasant to require the insinuating address of a white-neckerchiefed, ringletted youth for their disposal.
ref: 1844, Angus B[ethune] Reach, “The Philosophy of Shops”, in Douglas [William] Jerrold, editor, The Illuminated Magazine, volume III, London: […] the Proprietors, […], page 321:
text: Chorion, the media content group which owns the rights to Noddy and other Enid Blyton characters, will announce this morning that the neckerchiefed boy has won a landmark deal in China.
ref: 2004 March 15, The Independent, number 5,431, page 21:
text: Ten minutes into my hovering gig, my neckerchiefed bell ringer turned to me and said, “Mom, that guy just walked into the store with a WART.”
ref: 2007 January 6, Denise Snodell, “Hot Toy Hunt Ends in Serendipity”, in Lee’s Summit/Southland Neighborhood News (The Kansas City Star), page 2:
glosses: Wearing a neckerchief.
gingervitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ginger + gingivitis. Coined in the South Park episode "Ginger Kids" (season 9, episode 11), which aired November 9, 2005.
Senses: examples: text: After all 96.4% of each of you Gingers infected with the Gingervitis disease know full well that you are unattractive creatures, which I believe results in your intense fear of exposing yourselves in public.
ref: 2008 07, Christopher G. Wilkinson, Rubber Room Semantics, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Perhaps a very old ginger person who hadn't quite lost all their gingervitis?'
ref: 2012 August 16, Twenty Major, The Order of the Phoenix Park, Hachette Ireland, →ISBN:
text: ... gingerphobe and you don't like us We'll stand up to the fight if you wanna fight us But if you cut yourself you might catch gingervitis So maybe you should shut your fucking mouth Yeah, only a ginger can call another ginger ginger,[…]
ref: 2012 October 4, Amnesty International, The Very Best of The Secret Policeman's Ball, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
text: Gingervitis, according to Cartman, “causes very light skin, red hair, and freckles” and happens naturally because “ginger kids have no souls.” He compares reds to vampires, calls the ginger gene a curse, and encourages the class to rid[…]
ref: 2017 August 22, Erin La Rosa, The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
glosses: The condition of being ginger (having reddish-brown hair), treated as if it were a disease or affliction.
wikipedia: Ginger Kids
South Park
hatredless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hatredless
form: most hatredless
Etymology: From hatred + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Just as in psychoanalysis, where the purpose is not a conflict-free inner life, the goal of 'good politics' is not to enable the emergence of a fearless, hatredless, and thus utopian society.
ref: 2013, Eszter Salgó, Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics:
glosses: Without hatred.
brockely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of broccoli (“vegetable”).
handkerchiefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: handkerchieved
Etymology: From handkerchief + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […]whatever was lost in elegance, was compensated in another point of view: their necks, of the most luxuriant prominence, ‘[…]’ were modestly handkerchiefed to their throats;[…].
ref: 1803, S[amuel] J[ackson] Pratt, “To the Reader”, in Gleanings in England; Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Character of the Country. With New Views of Peace and War., volume III, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], page xxv:
text: How different from the eloquence of your white handkerchiefed whiners—your ring-displaying, faultering, fawning, frothy weavers of pathetic periods—your soft, simpering saints, from whose mouths the religion of the Bible falls diluted and dulcified, like the meretricious moonlight burdens of an Irish melody!
ref: 1819, [John Gibson Lockhart], “Letter LXI”, in Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk, the third edition, volume the third, […] William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, London, page 77:
text: Two figures approached, handkerchiefed and great-coated for travel with a goodly appendage of trunks and portmanteaus, partly borne by themselves, and partly carried by a porter.
ref: [1855], Old Humphrey [pseudonym; George Mogridge], “Old Humphrey as a Tourist”, in Memoir of Old Humphrey; with Gleanings from His Portfolio, in Prose and Verse, London: The Religious Tract Society, page 82:
text: Five of the famously handkerchiefed Mothers [of the Plaza de Mayo], whose children disappeared during a state crackdown on dissent during the 1976-83 junta, were on hand Thursday night for the last of two shows the band performed before more than 60,000 fans.
ref: 2006 March 3, “At a glance: Your one-stop shop on today’s headlines”, in Daily Reporter, Greenfield, Ind., section “Bono, U2 praise rights group in Argentina”, page 2A:
glosses: Wearing a handkerchief (neckwear).
weekender bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weekender bags
form: weekender
Senses: glosses: A bag with the properties needed for a weekend trip, thus containing a volume typically larger than that of backpack and the patterning of a suitcase but shape closer to a sports bag.
Zotos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
headkerchiefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: head-kerchiefed
Etymology: From headkerchief + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: All those who have visited Paris will have noticed, sitting on a stool at the corner of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l’Opéra, which is just opposite the Café de la Paix, a weather-beaten, headkerchiefed old lady offering key[-]rings for sale, and displaying, as if to whip up the sluggish altruism of passers-by, two wooden legs.
ref: 1892, Current Literature: A Magazine of Record and Review, volume IX, New York, N.Y.: The Current Literature Publishing Co., […], page 585:
text: The little red-headkerchiefed girl who attends upon them has two responsible duties.
ref: 1892 August 25, a Tourist, “The Irish of Bloody Foreland”, in The Morning Post, number 37,504, London, page 2:
text: “Again,” said Bellah, and still “again,” until the notes rang out lustily, and half a dozen head[-]kerchiefed old crones who had strayed in nodded with delight.
ref: 1901, Louise Seymour Houghton, The Silent Highway: A Story of the McAll Mission, New York, N.Y.: The Evangelist Publishing Company, […], page 62:
text: A large headkerchiefed woman came to the door to investigate the commotion.
ref: 1971 February 12, Loree Oursler, “Lead Belly”, in Shreveport Journal, volume 77, section D, page four:
text: Slyudianka, for example, the first town on the Trans-Baikal stretch of the line, is pure storybook Russia, with its distinctive green-and-blue wooden houses, the delicious smell of birch smoke in crisp air and headkerchiefed babas selling souvenirs and bits of food on the platform.
ref: 1989 January 28, Heather Hill, “People’s express has class but no party: Passengers forswear bourgeois comfort to bask in shady glamor”, in The Gazette, page I-3:
glosses: Wearing a headkerchief.
feathered friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathered friends
Senses: examples: text: This little family is said to live together on the most aﬀectionate terms. The feline part of it are so 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑑 of their feathered friends, that they are almost ready 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑢𝑝.
ref: 1805 May 5, The Sydney Gazette, page 3, column 2:
text: The illustrations accompanying this week's "Notes of a Naturalist in Western Australia" show two of the conspicuous "feathered friends" which he describes.
ref: 1890 April 12, The Australasian, Melbourne, page 39, column 4:
glosses: A bird.
feathered friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feathered friend
catch a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a break
form: catching a break
form: caught a break
form: caught a break
Senses: glosses: To experience the minimal amount of good luck or a favorable outcome.
Africanfuturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Africanfuturisms
Etymology: Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, from African + futurism.
Senses: examples: text: Africanfuturism is similar to “Afrofuturism” in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view as it then branches into the Black Diaspora, and it does not privilege or center the West.
ref: 2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog:
text: Thompson’s Africanfuturism is both queer and decolonial at the same time, necessitating an approach to embodiment that does not look like white, Western performative queerness
ref: 2021, Jenna N. Hanchey, “'The self is embodied': Reading queer and trans Africanfuturism in The Wormwood Trilogy”, in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, volume 14, number 4, →DOI, page 321:
text: Later this year, the highly anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, releases. This will likely mark another big surge in wider public excitement and shared fan art depicting elements of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.
ref: 2022, Alyssa Shotwell, “The Key Differences Between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism (With Examples!)”, in The Mary Sue:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and historical connections among Black people, paying particular attention to African culture, history and mythology, and African perspectives, rather than those of the African diaspora in the western world.
Related terms: Afrofuturism
Africanjujuism
Africanfuturisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Africanfuturism
parentland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parentlands
Etymology: From parent + land.
Senses: examples: text: The actual parentland of the Aryans, not the one confused with the paradise, is identified, with reason, with Atropatene (Atropatkan, Azerbaijan) on the south-west coast of the Caspian.
ref: 1912, C[ornelis] P[etrus] Tiele, translated by G[ushtaspshah] K[aikhushro] Nariman, The Religion of the Iranian Peoples, part I, Bombay: “The Parsi” Publishing Co., page 102:
text: Perhaps the culture of New Zealand and Australia is more like that in the parentland than that in any other of the new Europes, because these settlements are isolated from other large masses of Europeans.
ref: 1942, T[homas] Walter Wallbank, Alastair M[acDonald] Taylor, Civilization—Past and Present, Scott, Foresman and Company, page 250:
text: What is more fascinating is the retention in some places of customs long disappeared from their European parentland – like the highlanders of the Ozark Mountains clinging to the date of Old Christmas Day in January which disappeared in England in the eighteenth century;[…].
ref: 1968, William Sansom, A Book of Christmas, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, page 90:
text: For the first two years after the war, only American gift and grant had financed the minimum needs of this European civilization, America’s parentland.
ref: 1978, Theodore Harold White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 276:
text: Barred from citizenship and from comfortable participation in the life of the dominant culture, the issei gathered in communities where they maintained the culture of their parentland and largely spoke Japanese.
ref: 1989, Elizabeth Berry, “Behind Barbed Wire: The Japanese American Literature of Internment”, in Cordelia Candelaria, editor, Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Critical Introductions and Classroom Resources, University of Colorado at Boulder, page 45:
text: Neither the parentland nor the nature of their common boundary is known for these highly contrasting terranes.
ref: 1994, J. B. Saleeby, R. C. Speed, M. C. Blake, “Tectonic evolution of the central U.S. Cordillera: A synthesis of the C1 and C2 Continent-Ocean Transects”, in Phanerozoic Evolution of North American Continent-Ocean Transitions, The Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 331:
glosses: The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.
catches a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catch a break
catching a break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catch a break