cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bigotocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bigot + -ocracy. A term used to describe the presidency of Donald Trump following his initial comments regarding the actions of white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally.
Senses: examples: text: [> > The bigots of the Jim Crow days thought they had good reasons, too.]
As if you are so sure that we have ever lived in a bigotocracy.
ref: 1994 November 18, Travis Kidd, “Re: Reverse Discrimination”, in bit.listserv.politics (Usenet):
text: I might have my Issues with Americans, but I certainly very much prefer them to your benighted bigotocracy.
ref: 2007 June 26, Mścisław Wojna-Bojewski, “Re: Linguist/Consultant Needed”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
text: Together they constitute the repulsive resurgence of a virulent bigotocracy. ¶ This bigotocracy overlooks fundamental facts about slavery in this country: that blacks were stolen from their African homeland to toil for no wages in American dirt.
ref: 2017 August 12, Michael Eric Dyson, “Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Rule by bigots.
firgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪə(ɹ)ɡuːn/
other: /ˈfɝɡən/
Etymology: From Hebrew פירגון
Senses: examples: text: Israelis, moreover, will not withdraw from any territory liable to become staging grounds for terrorist groups empowered by international agencies and convinced of their ability to murder Israelis with impunity. Israel will pursue policies with or without firgun.
ref: 2009 October 9, נחום, “Deep Denial - Why the Holocaust Still Matters”, in it.politica.internazionale (Usenet):
text: But firgun was certainly the name of the game when the Ambassadors Club, headed by president Yitzhak Eldan, a former Foreign Ministry chief of protocol; and vice president Yoram Naor, who is also the chairman of SICA, the Association of Central American States, organized the presentation of citations to outgoing Ambassador of El Salvador Suzana Gun de Hasenson and Vered Swid, who directs the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women in the Prime Minister’s Office.
ref: 2015 May 19, Greer Fay Cashman, “Grapevine: Professors didn’t do their homework”, in The Jerusalem Post:
text: But Barak was unfailingly generous in his firgun to me and genuinely interested in my interpretations of America.
ref: 2016, Michael B. Oren, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide, page 111:
text: This is the epitome of what Israelis call firgun, giving others a leg up and letting them bask in the glory of success.
ref: 2017 May 30, Noa Amouyal, “In Israel's Western Galilee: 'Firgun' at its best”, in The Jerusalem Post:
text: Our pro-social emotions of kindness, empathy, loyalty and firgun tied us together into couples and families, bands and tribes.
ref: 2017 May 28, Dr Keith Gaynor, “Firgun: 'The emotion you probably never knew you have'”, in The Journal: IE:
antonyms: schadenfreude
glosses: Genuine delight or pride in another person's achievement or in something good that has happened or may happen to another person.
fuzztoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuzztoned
form: most fuzztoned
Etymology: From fuzztone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The song delivered its message in a potent kind of esperanto: a lyric about unbearable self-loathing, and a winning mixture of quiet verses and a fuzztoned chorus.
ref: 2003, John Harris, The Last Party, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 99:
glosses: Using or characterised by fuzztone.
clued-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clued-in
form: most clued-in
Senses: examples: text: To the more clued-in elements of the UK music industry, however, the prospect of exciting domestic developments […] seemed enough.
ref: 2003, John Harris, The Last Party, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 99:
glosses: Informed.
outcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcycles
form: outcycling
form: outcycled
form: outcycled
Etymology: From out- + cycle (verb).
Senses: examples: text: They bore down on me from all sides, some of them twice my size—huge, frenzied creatures thirsty for blood. In a state of panic I would reach unbelievable speeds in frantic, lung-bursting attempts to outcycle the ferocious beasts.
ref: 2009, James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales India: True Stories, page 220:
glosses: To exceed or outpace in cycling; cycle faster than (another)
outcycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcycle
outcycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcycle
outcycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcycle
wankpuffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wankpuffin
crawl-a-bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crawl-a-bottoms
Etymology: From its feeding habit.
Senses: glosses: northern hogsucker (Hypentelium nigricans, syn. Catostomus nigricans)
Owen Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Owen + sound: a sound (inlet) named after Admiral Owen.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
An inlet off Georgian Bay, in Ontario, Canada
glosses: A placename:
A city in Grey County, Ontario, Canada, located on the shores of the eponymous inlet.
Derived terms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: OS
O/D
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of overdrive.
O/D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of outdoor.
O. S.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OS.
qualifier: calendar systems
glosses: Abbreviation of old style.
retval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retvals
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of return value.
retvals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retval
end in tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ends in tears
form: ending in tears
form: ended in tears
form: ended in tears
Senses: glosses: To end badly.
underpoliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpoliced
form: most underpoliced
Etymology: From under- + policed.
Senses: examples: text: The focus on punishment rather than deterrence left America significantly underpoliced, and we have remained underpoliced ever since
ref: 2022 February 3, Jon Guze, “How America Ended Up Underpoliced and Overincarcerated”, in John Locke Foundation:
glosses: Inadequately policed.
peel-and-seal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being a kind of envelope with a backing that peels off to reveal an adhesive surface allowing the envelope to be sealed.
momentful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more momentful
form: most momentful
Etymology: From moment + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Our unit mite of care and trivialness, And frozen staidness and frigidity; On what shall quickly prove a confluence Of bosom ferment; yea, rack'd seas of thought, A universe of momentful concern.
ref: 1829, John Dunlop, Oliver Cromwell. A poem, page 77:
text: I'd made up my mind to treat it right, to make it clear and strong and simple. I wanted to hit the notes as telling as a clock striking. And when I started, that full momentful thing I'd been feeling since yesterday at the foot of Ember Mountain took hold of me.
ref: 2013, Fred Chappell, More Shapes Than One: A Book of Stories:
text: She's missing hair at her sides, as if a saddle has long rubbed her permanently raw. Her eyes are very blue, eyes void of protest or argument, full of calm, momentful existence, maybe without memory, the eyes of an animal accustomed to the rowel on her bit and a man's hard hand on her headstall.
ref: 2016, C. E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings, page 199:
text: How many moments do you have in your day that are actually momentful, meaning you are present, you are aware, and you are engaged only in what is happening right then?
ref: 2017, Lindy Lewis, Inspiring Grace as an Alpha-Holic:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of a moment
examples: text: Take that momentful night when WMAL-TV made its baptism into the ether.
ref: 1948, Editor and Publisher - Volume 81, page 44:
text: After a comparatively momentful trip, I arrived in Odiongan about one o'clock in the afternoon.
ref: 1998, Gabriel F. Fabella, The Man from Romblon, Autobiography, page 50:
text: "It was arranged," said Emilius, after a pause, during which he recalled with clearness the momentful history of the few short hours which had sealed his brother's fate, "that Patricia should leave her father's cottage at midnight, when her father was asleep.
ref: 2017, Benjamin Farjeon, A Secret Inheritance:
glosses: Synonym of momentous.
synonyms: word: momentous
momentful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: momentfuls
form: momentsful
Etymology: From moment + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: ...and it seemed to the girl that the whole wide church with its dimness, and consoling poverty (that half assured her its God was indeed the God of the poor) was filled with the faint susurration of moving lips, a momentful of sorrow cupped from the day-long stream of sorrow that flowed endlessly into this humble church of the outcast, the abandoned, the oppressed, and flowed seaward away into the boundless memory of God
ref: 1932, Frank O'Connor, The Saint and Mary Kate, page 54:
text: Yes, I am spoon and spool, milk and needle harvesting quiet by the momentful.
ref: 2001, Abacus, page 140:
glosses: As much as can be experienced in a moment.
all-natural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: allnatural
form: all natural
Etymology: From all + natural.
Senses: examples: text: • All-natural peanut butter
ref: 2008, Brett Mckay, The Art of Manliness: Sandwiches for Men Cookbook, 500+ Manly Sandwich Recipes, →ISBN, page 21:
text: so is this supposed to be the actual, sincerely natural chemical ingredients of a bonafide wild banana, or is this a^([sic]) expose image on the ingredients that are added to supposedly "all-natural" bananas?
ref: 2013 December 21, 413lab, doctordaedalus, “An all-natural banana”, in reddit.com:
text: During the past few years, some 200 class-action suits have been filed against food manufacturers, charging them with misuse of the adjective in marketing such edible oxymorons as “natural” Cheetos Puffs, “all-natural” Sun Chips, “all-natural” Naked Juice, “100 percent all-natural” Tyson chicken nuggets and so forth.
ref: 2015 April 28, Michael Pollan, “Why ‘Natural’ Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Should bring out his own all-natural hat line. So classy!
ref: 2020 March 25, Fhalala, koala_token, “Reinhardt only wears 100% all-natural hats”, in reddit.com:
qualifier: drink
glosses: Consisting wholly of natural ingredients; being absolutely natural without any artificial components.
raw_tags: of food
tamahagane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 玉鋼 (tamahagane, たまはがね).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese steel made with ironsand and used to make swords, knives, etc.
Coordinate terms: alt: 三枚; さんまい
word: sanmai
tataras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatara
delignifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delignification
monoclinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monoclinic.
synonyms: word: monoclinic
numerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being numerable.
numerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being numerable.
cocktail flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocktail + flu.
Senses: examples: text: There were, of course, the hangovers. Mornings we’d wake up late, stumble to Veselka or Café Orlin in the East Village for something greasy and restorative, then trundle home to collapse on the sofa, felled by the cocktail flu, giving us permission to watch basketball doubleheaders and doze all day in each other’s arms, getting up only to be ill.
ref: 2012, “A Glass Half Empty”, from “Modern Love” in The New York Times by Elissa Schappell, 2012-08-17
glosses: A hangover or other negative symptoms experienced the day after ingesting alcohol.
drunkensome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drunkensome
form: most drunkensome
Etymology: From drunken + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by drunkenness
craftsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more craftsome
form: most craftsome
Etymology: From craft + -some.
Senses: examples: text: To his own troops each leader
Gave order: dumbly went the rest, unto their chiefs obeisant
In silence: nor would any know, whether a throng so mighty
Held in its bosom voice at all : and all the ranks well-marshall'd
Were clad in craftsome panoply, which on their bodies glitter'd.
ref: 1871, Homer, The Iliad of Homer: Faithfully Translated Into Unrhymed English Metre:
text: Everything but a square meal has happened to us—we have been highly craftsome and most detective-like, we have been all but arrested on a charge of murder, we have been bitterly threatened.
ref: 1928, Bertram Atkey, The Midnight Mystery, page 96:
text: Mr. Bunn, lazy-looking, but watchful as an intent and craftsome wolf, saw the sudden setting of the muscles of the two men listening.
ref: 1931, Bertram Atkey, The mystery of the glass bullet, page 151:
glosses: Characterised or marked by craftiness; crafty
mocksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mocksome
form: most mocksome
Etymology: From mock + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I think I will go around to Snow White's house where she cohabits with the seven men in a mocksome travesty of approved behavior, and see what is stirring there.
ref: 1967, The New Yorker, volume 42, part 7, page 125:
glosses: Characterized or marked by mocking.
terrorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terrorsome
form: most terrorsome
Etymology: From terror + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by terror; frightful; frightening
Mician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Micians
Etymology: From Micius + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mohist.
synonyms: word: Mohist
vinyl halide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinyl halides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated alkyl halide of the form CH₂=CHX (where X represents a halogen atom)
Related terms: vinyl bromide
vinyl chloride
vinyl fluoride
vinyl iodide
vinyl bromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated alkene CH₂=CHBr
Related terms: vinyl halide
vinyl iodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The iodinated alkene CH₂=CHI
Related terms: vinyl halide
Loochooan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluːˈtʃuːən/
Forms: form: Ryukyuan
Etymology: From Loochoo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ryukyuan.
Loochooan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluːˈtʃuːən/
Forms: form: Loochooans
form: Ryukyuan
Etymology: From Loochoo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ryukyuan.
Loochooan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluːˈtʃuːən/
Forms: form: Ryukyuan
Etymology: From Loochoo + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ryukyuan.
Loochoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.tʃuː/
Etymology: Probably from Okinawan 琉球 (Rūchū) or Mandarin 琉球 (Liúqiú).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ryukyu.
unimorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unimorphs
Etymology: From uni- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: A cantilever that consists of one active layer and one inactive layer.
Synonyms: monomorph
Related terms: bimorph
multimorph
Laplace-de Rham operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laplace-de Rham operators
Senses: qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: A generalization of the Laplace operator; the anticommutator of the exterior derivative and the codifferential.
Synonyms: form Laplacian
Hodge Laplacian
toombi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toombis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tumbi.
toombis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toombi
tumbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumbis
form: toombi
Etymology: From Punjabi ਤੂੰਬੀ (tūmbī).
Senses: glosses: A traditional North Indian musical instrument from Punjab with a single string.
binnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binning
bomb cyclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bomb cyclone
muscologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscologists
Etymology: From muscology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies muscology.
muscologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscologist
Turcophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turco- + -philism.
Senses: glosses: fondness or political support for Turkey
Turkophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turcophile.
Turkophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turko- + -philism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turcophilism.
Turkophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkophile
Turkophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Turkophilic
form: most Turkophilic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Turcophilic.
Turcophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Turcophilic
form: most Turcophilic
Senses: glosses: Fond of the Turks.
cophosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin cōphōsis, from Ancient Greek κώφωσις (kṓphōsis).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Total deafness.
stripleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strip + leaf.
Senses: glosses: tobacco that has been stripped of the stalks before packing
NFBSK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not for British schoolkids: general euphemism to replace an expletive, similar to hell.
indesignate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + designate.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Without any indication of quantity.
Derived terms: preindesignate
woman of the town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women of the town
Senses: glosses: A female prostitute.
women of the town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woman of the town
baldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balden
baldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From balden + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balden
baldening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From balden + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The sudden baldening of her head wasn't even an acorn in the forest of her abusive background, which featured her being abandoned by her light-skinned family because she was born dark-skinned.
ref: 2010, Elaine Tassy, Pumpkin Bread:
glosses: The act or process of rendering or becoming bald
Vietnamise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Vietnamises
form: Vietnamising
form: Vietnamised
form: Vietnamised
Etymology: From Vietnam + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Vietnamize.
fattouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic فَتُّوش (fattūš)
Senses: glosses: A traditional Lebanese, Syrian, or Levantine fresh salad with crispy bread (typically, dried, toasted, grilled, or fried pita), usually with mint, parsley, and olive oil.
Synonyms: Lebanese salad
King of Prussia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After King Frederick the Great.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A census-designated place in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
The King of Prussia Mall.
drive letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive letters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An alphabetical identifier assigned to a drive or volume on MS-DOS or Windows.
color temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color temperatures
form: colour temperature
Senses: examples: text: The typical color temperature of a standard incandescent lamp is about 2400 K.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A property of a light source: the temperature of an ideal black body radiator that radiates light of a color comparable to that of the light source.
Derived terms: correlated color temperature
correlated colour temperature
Wadas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wadases
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Wadas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Wadas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wada
cage stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cage stages
Senses: examples: text: But after God has initially brought believers into an understanding of the preciousness of sovereign election, they frequently enter what a friend of mine called the “cage” stage—the time when the newly-convinced “Calvinist” ought to be locked into a cage and not let out until he stabilizes, or the medication kicks in. […] But unfortunately, there are some who never grow out of the cage stage, and this type of personality often thinks he is called to the ministry.
ref: 2001, Douglas Wilson, “A Deeper Right”, in Mother Kirk: Essays on Church Life, →ISBN, page 88:
text: The year between college and seminary was my prime Cage Stage. Everyone would have been better off—myself included—had I been locked away for at least a few months during that time. […] During this time I was so excited about the five points of Calvinism that I actually wrote a letter to a friend containing this line: “I'm concerned about you. If you will not submit to God's clear declaration about how he saves sinners, how can you ever expect to get one other thing in your life right?”
ref: 2012, Greg Dutcher, Killing Calvinism:
text: I went through my own cage stage in my early twenties. I was introduced to the beautiful truths of God's sovereignty in my salvation, of justification by faith alone, and the priority of sanctification—of growing to be more like Christ in my words and deeds.
ref: 2013, Joshua Harris, Humble Orthodoxy:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A period of religious zeal following a religious conversion, often perceived as arrogant.
flawful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flawful
form: most flawful
Etymology: From flaw + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of flaws; flawed
flawsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔː.səm/
ipa: /ˈflɔ.səm/
ipa: /ˈflɑ.səm/
Forms: form: more flawsome
form: most flawsome
Etymology: From flaw + -some.
Senses: examples: text: A flawsome ruling of the Supreme Court, projected as judicial jurisprudence of dubious noesis, has exaggeratedly created an 'avatar' with power to choose 'justices' as a secret process.
ref: 2010, V. R. Krishna Iyer, Wake Up Call for Indian Republic, page 31:
glosses: Characterised or marked by flaws.
flawsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔː.səm/
ipa: /ˈflɔ.səm/
ipa: /ˈflɑ.səm/
Forms: form: more flawsome
form: most flawsome
Etymology: Blend of flawed + awesome.
Senses: examples: text: I believe that perfect is boring. Our "flaws" are what make us, us, and that's beautiful. That is what being Flawsome is really all about. Flawsome means, "Flaws + Awesome = Flawsome."
ref: 2016, Tyra Banks, Instagram:
text: "When one is flawsome, they have the ability to recognize and acknowledge that we all have flaws and that we can still be good people."
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Bernstein, quoting Brian Mahan, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, page 110:
text: The "flawsome" mindset is a powerful shift in perspective that encourages us to embrace our imperfections as part of our beauty and individuality.[…]When we adopt a flawsome mindset, we shift our focus from striving for perfection to accepting and celebrating our imperfections.
ref: 2023, Cassandra Fenyk, Embracing Imperfections: Unleashing Our Perfect Selves, page 166:
text: So many times, when I feel awkward or incompetent[…]my inside-self feels like reactor number two in Three Mile Island, circa 1979.
Over the years I have tried, tried, tried to change this aspect of myself. I want to be able to feel FLAWSOME, even when I fail.
ref: 2023, Joni B. Cole, Party Like It's 2044: Finding the Funny in Life and Death:
text: As a philosophy, kintsugi applies the same concepts to how we live our lives. How we grow through our mistakes and failures. And how we accept, repair, and value the resulting flawsome person we continue becoming – as well as the likewise imperfect people, places, objects, and events in our world.
ref: 2024, Tom Collins and Michele Molitor, I Am Perfectly Flawsome: How Embracing Imperfection Makes Us Better, page 6:
glosses: Flawed yet awesome; capable of embracing one's imperfections.
cool cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool cats
Senses: examples: text: Step up and take a look at the U.S.'s latest secret weapon. A hot missile? No, a cool cat—Earl ("Fatha") Hines, jazz pianist nonpareil.
ref: 1966 August 5, “Jazz: Fatha Knows Best”, in Time, retrieved 07 Jan 2018:
text: In 1964, Dizzy Gillespie ran for the US presidency on an anti-racism, pro-bebop platform. Sholto Byrnes looks back on the very brief political career of one very cool cat.
ref: 2004 October 19, “Let's swing the vote”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 07 Jan 2018:
glosses: A person who performs or appreciates jazz, especially one whose style of speech and movement is relaxed and rhythmic.
examples: text: [W]e had just opened after only 10 cliff‐hanging days in Boston . . . [and] were all doing our first show. The only cool cat among us was the remarkable director, George Abbott, who had been there many times before and looked pleased, proud and relaxed.
ref: 1971 October 31, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, “When N.Y. as a Helluva Town”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Jan 2018:
text: "I've talked to a lot of young people, and they're all very excited that he's such a cool cat—not black or white or anything like that—just such a cool guy."
ref: 2008 August 28, Claudia Rowe, “Joy, awe and disbelief as Obama takes the nomination—and stage”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 07 Jan 2018:
glosses: A person who is at ease and self-assured; one who is calm and composed in interactions with others.
Related terms: beatnik
hepcat
hipster
NYI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Apr 7, NYI (35-47) beat DET, 4-3 OT.
ref: 2018, unknown, 2017-18 New York Islanders Roster and Statistics, Hockey Reference
text: Tor 5, NYI 4
ref: 2018, Steve Dangle, LFR11 - Game 78 - Brooklyn Barbecued - Tor 5, NYI 4, Sportsnet
text: NYI (25-20-5) at VGK (32-12-4)
ref: 2018, unknown, “New York Islanders at Vegas Golden Knights - Box Score”, in Fox Sports:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of New York Islanders.
NYR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Jesper Fast selected as recipient of NYR Player's Player Award for 3rd year in a row.
ref: 2018 April 6, unknown, “Jesper Fast Selected as Recipient of NYR Player's Player Award for 3rd Year in a Row”, in KO Sports, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:
text: NYR offered to move Lundqvist in February.
ref: 2018 April 19, TSN staff, “NYR offered to move Lundqvist in February”, in TSN, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025:
text: Quinn informs BU he's taking NYR job.
ref: 2018 May 19, unknown, “New York Rangers”, in Rotoworld, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2018:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of New York Rangers.
VGK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He let VGK defenseman Shea Theodore have the passing lane that Theodore used to get the puck through a lot of bodies to an open Tomas Nosek.
ref: 2018, Alex Kushner, Eric Stephen, “The Golden Knights beat the Capitals in a dramatic Stanley Cup Game 1”, in SB Nation:
text: Game 1: Winnipeg 4, VGK 2
ref: 2018, TC Martin, “VGK Best in the West, Stanley Cup Finals Next”, in Las Vegas Sports Network:
text: NHL Playoff Appearances: 28 (WAS) vs. 1 (VGK)
ref: 2018, Cam Ellis, “2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 2018 Tale of the Tape: Washington D.C. vs Las Vegas”, in NBC Sports:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Vegas Golden Knights.
NJD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Carey Price joined Jacques Plante for an incredible Canadiens record in tonight's game against NJD.
ref: 2018, BarDown staff, Carey Price joined Jacques Plante for an incredible Canadiens record in tonight's game against NJD, BarDown
text: Yegor Yakovlev signed a 1 year $925,000 contract with New Jersey (NJD).
ref: 2018, unknown, New Jersey Devils 2018 Salary Cap Table, Spotrac
text: 2018, Justin Blades, 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: NJD vs. TBL, CBJ vs. WSH, TOR vs. BOS
NJD vs. TBL
text: HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Eeli Tolvanen (NSH), Rasmus Sandin (TOR), Ty Smith (NJD), Adam Boqvist (CHI), Denis Gurianov (DAL), ...
ref: 2019 October 1, “NHL Trophy Talk: 31 Calder Candidates”, in The Hockey Writers:
text: (see title)
ref: 2019 October 6, “Sabres' Jack Eichel: Goal and assist vs. NJD”, in CBS Sports, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025:
text: Travis Zajac – Passed Scott Niedermayer for fifth place in GP in NJD franchise history with 893 (Feb. 7, 2019 vs. NYI).
ref: 2019 October 11, “DEVILS SATURDAY: New Jersey visits Boston (MSG, 7 pm)”, in Times Herald-Record:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of New Jersey Devils.
kairotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kairotic
form: most kairotic
Etymology: From kairos + -otic.
Senses: examples: text: They seem to have a kairotic sense of timing. Some people dismiss this as luck. But it's much more than that.
ref: 2005, John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple, Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader, →ISBN, page 127:
text: The present captured in a cartoon is a kairotic present—a present that affects the life of a people, the destiny of a nation
ref: 2005, C.S. Song, Theology from the Womb of Asia, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Regardless of the quantity of the duration, because a kairotic event cannot happen at just “any time,” it is also distinct from an abstract articulation of chance. A kairiotic event does not happen randomly; in some qualititative sense, it is a "time of crisis [and] . . . opportunity," which is solicited or even demanded by the situation itself (Smith 10).
ref: 2009, John Muckelbauer, The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Kairotic moments may present themselves to vigilant rhetors, but in turn rhetors can craft a kairotic moment as well.
ref: 2013, Zach Waggoner, My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Related to, or characteristic of a kairos.
Vishwamitra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vishwamitras
form: Vishwamitre
form: Vishwametra
Etymology: From Sanskrit विश्वामित्र (viśvāmitra).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: a clan initiated by Vishwamitra
Vishwamitras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vishwamitra
UTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A defunct French airline, Union de Transports Aériens
LAL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Los Angeles Lakers of Los Angeles, California, USA, in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
antiquise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antiquises
form: antiquising
form: antiquised
form: antiquised
Senses: examples: text: Subsequent results have made it impossible for this person to antiquise predictions which have since become actualities.
ref: 1882 July 1, “The Great Strikes in the United States”, in The British Trade Journal, volume XX, page 410, column 1:
text: His antiquising* remains on the outside and attains to no intellectual blossom; the pretended antique simplicity forms a contrast to the language of modern subjective feeling and passion that Marcello’s striving — under evident influence of the opera — after flexible, flowing song is by no means calculated to mitigate.[…]/ * “Antiquise”, to imitate the antique.
ref: 1886, J. H. Cornell, transl., The History of Music in Twelve Lectures, 2nd edition, G. Schirmer, translation of original by Wilhelm Langhans, page 110:
text: Since the latter is definitely known to have been established around Delhi and Gwalior by end of the fifteenth century, in our opinion, it is impossible to predate khayal to the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries. To those who wish to antiquise khayal gayaki, the following two questions would appear insoluble: What would be the process of training the children of the ustad from the late thirteenth to early fifteenth century?
ref: 1988, Vinayak Purohit, Arts of Transitional India Twentieth Century, volume 2, Popular Prakashan, →ISBN, page 846:
text: In the medal, which has been attributed to Pietro Paolo Galeotti (1520–84), Girolamo had himself represented nude, wearing antiquising drapery. This form of representation may have expressed admiration for ancient Greek and Roman artists and had begun in the mid-fifteenth century with the medal of Giovanni Boldù (flourished 1454–c. 1477).
ref: 2007, Catherine E. King, Representing Renaissance Art, c. 1500–c. 1600, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Alternative spelling of antiquize.
antiquises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquise
unapproval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unapprovals
Etymology: From un- + approval.
Senses: examples: text: His thoughts are filled with the hatred he has for the Tolin Da, but it is the constant unapproval from his father, the inability Peter has to even make him proud, that is truly at the root of his madness.
ref: 2017, Gordon McWhorter, Discourses In Reality: The Complete Series:
glosses: The failure to approve something.
SSDL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSDLs
Senses: examples: ref: 2009, Hetland et al.: Calibration of reference KAP-meters at SSDL and cross calibration of clinical KAP-meters, title:
text: The IAEA/WHO network of SSDLs was set up in order to establish links between SSDL members and the international measurement system.
ref: 2002, Meghzifene et al.: Calibration factor or calibration coefficient?, abstract:
ref: 1996, Aaltonen et al.: The role of SSDL-Helsinki for dosimetry and quality audit in radiotherapy, title:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of secondary standard dosimetry laboratory.
SSDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ...the Satellite Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL) is the focal point of Stanford University's spacecraft design program.
ref: 1994, Kitts: The satellite quick research testbed (squirt) program:
text: Given the author’s affiliation with Stanford University’s Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL), this comparison can easily be done with SSDL’s primary microsatellite program, the Satellite Quick Research Testbed (SQUIRT) program.
ref: 1999, Kitts: The ParaSat Space Flight Program:
text: Microsatellite Development program plan The program plan1-2 at the Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL) was to have programs with the following attributes...
ref: 2000, Heidt: CubeSat: A new generation of picosatellite for education and industry low-cost space experimentation:
glosses: Initialism of Space Systems Development Laboratory.
Bharadwaj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bharadwajs
Etymology: Variant of Bhardwaj.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Deshpande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deshpandes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Deshpandes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deshpande
Rigvedi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rigvedis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rigvedis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rigvedi
Yajurvedi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yajurvedis
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yajurvedis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yajurvedi
chaussé'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chaussé'd
form: most chaussé'd
form: chaussé-d
Etymology: From chaussé + -'d.
Senses: examples: text: she turned to me and implored that I should ‘move heaven and earth,’ as she termed it—with her blue eyes thrown up to the chandelier, and her remarkably pretty and well-chaussé’d feet still beating time to the dance
ref: 1847, George Croly, Marston: or, the Soldier and Statesman, 2nd edition, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 301:
text: At one of the intermediate ports, I forget which, several Peruvian ladies came on board, their diminutive feet chaussé’d with the prettiest little white satin boots imaginable, almost large enough for an English doll!
ref: 1851, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, Travels in the United States, etc., During 1849 and 1850, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 371:
text: and how smartly dressed are the ladies, and how well chaussé'''-d!
ref: 1858, Sir Richard Levinge, A Day with the Brookside Harriers at Brighton, London: G. Routledge & co., page 40:
text: So great was my rapture when the tempting, exquisitely chaussé'''-d feet and legs gradually glissé-ed towards me, that my silver bells rang forth a peal of applause
ref: 1860, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, The Autobiography of Frank; the Happiest Little Dog That Ever Lived, London: Darton and co., page 252:
glosses: Shoed; wearing shoes.
Synonyms: chaussé
step on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps on
form: stepping on
form: stepped on
form: stepped on
Senses: examples: text: This seems implausible. If ecstasy is going to be stepped on, you'd dilute it with something cheaper than heroin.
ref: 1994 December 18, NICK LEZARD, “Stepped-On X”, in alt.psychoactives (Usenet):
qualifier: recreational drugs
glosses: To adulterate (a drug) for the purpose of increasing its bulk, and therefore the profit when sold; to dilute, cut.
examples: text: He had been stepped on so many times he just didn't even get angry anymore.
ref: 1985 April 20, Terry Baum, Monica Hileman, “Fighting Self-Censorship”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
text: When that happens, you'll be able to move beyond simply trying to avoid being stepped on or stepping on others in your blended family, and you can concentrate on your real goal: […]
ref: 2001, Kevin Leman, Living in a Step-Family Without Getting Stepped on, page 264:
synonyms: tread
glosses: To oppress or mistreat (a person).
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
radio-communications
glosses: To interrupt, overpower, or override (another transmission on the same frequency) with one's own transmission.
examples: text: He stepped on to the vicious man.
glosses: To approach as to confront or fight.
examples: text: They're stepping on our operations.
glosses: To intrude on someone else's turf or portfolio.
examples: text: He stepped on a rock.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, on.
stepped on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of step on
Deshmukh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deshmukhs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Deshmukhs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Deshmukh
anathemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anathemic
form: most anathemic
Etymology: From anathema + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In such places, the indigenous people sometimes need to thank, however anathemic this might be, some of the earliest Europeans to visit them, who recorded at great length oral traditions of all kinds, particularly belief systems, traditional knowledge, kinship systems and genealogies, and myths.
ref: 2009, Patrick D. Nunn, Vanished Islands And Hidden Continents Of The Pacific:
text: The idea that social psychological science should be grounded in agent accounts will be treated by many practitioners as anathemic to the notion of scientific analysis.
ref: 2012, John D. Greenwood, Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science: Realism and the Social Constitution of Action:
glosses: anathematic
antisudoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sudoral.
Senses: glosses: Preventing sweating.
compspec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compspecs
Senses: examples: text: The complete command allows you provide a completion specification, or compspec, for individual commands.
ref: 2006, Arnold Robbins, Bash Quick Reference:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: shell
glosses: Abbreviation of completion specification, the file read by a shell that allows to tab-complete arguments for specific commands.
AMBR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of aggregate maximum bit rate.
tongue-bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue-baths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tongue bath.
mnemonicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mnemonicists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mnemonist.
mnemonicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mnemonicist
VRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VR
COOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of COO
spotted fevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted fever
alternative medicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternative medicine
anxiodepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From anxio- + depressive.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Associated with anxiety and depression
care-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: care-takings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caretaking.
care-takings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of care-taking
comes from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come from
coming from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come from
came from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come from
PBJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PBJs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of peanut butter and jelly.
PBJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PBJ
pyrrolidinophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrolidinophenones
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of recreational designer drugs with psychostimulant effects.
pyrrolidinophenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrrolidinophenone
drunk as a boiled owl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Thoroughly drunk; inebriated.
Synonyms: drunk as a cunt
drunk as a fiddler
drunk as a fiddler's bitch
drunk as a lord
drunk as a piper
drunk as a skunk
drunk as a sow
drunk as a wheelbarrow
drunk as an owl
drunk as Chloe
drunk as David's sow
full as a goog
pissed as a fart
pissed as a newt
tight as a tick
drunk
cut one's own throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts one's own throat
form: cutting one's own throat
form: cut one's own throat
form: cut one's own throat
Senses: glosses: To bring about one's own ruin, especially by offering goods or services for far less than they are worth.
Related terms: shoot oneself in the foot
Palao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bangued, Abra, Philippines.
reaction rate constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaction rate constants
Senses: qualifier: reaction kinetics
glosses: a proportionality constant between the rate of a reaction and a reaction-dependent product of concentrations, as appearing in rate equations
rate equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rate equations
Senses: qualifier: reaction kinetics
glosses: an equation expressing how the rate of a reaction depends on the concentrations of the reactants
Lambojon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Siquijor, Siquijor, Philippines.
floor model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor models
Senses: glosses: An example of a product that is kept in a store for customers to see.
Synonyms: sense: example of a product
word: demo
line of apsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of apsides
Senses: topics: astronomy
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of apse line.
synonyms: word: apse line
apse line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apse lines
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An imaginary line defined by an orbit's eccentricity vector. For such orbits the apse line is found: for elliptical orbits – between the orbit's periapsis and apoapsis (also known as the major axis) for parabolic and hyperbolic orbits – between the orbit's periapsis and focus.
Synonyms: apses line
apsidal line
apsis line
line of apsides
daily double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daily doubles
Senses: examples: text: Other than this defect, the payoffs are remarkably similar; as it is, if your choice is between the daily double and the parlay, bet on the former!
ref: 1991, Peter Asch, Richard E. Quandt, Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies, →ISBN, page 169:
qualifier: horse racing or dog racing
glosses: A bet on the first-place winners of two consecutive races.
wassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæsi/
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: wassier
form: wassiest
Etymology: From wass + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I still make man panic, true I’m way too wassy
Before I smoke, I used to step with bassy
ref: 2016 June 28, “Hazards”, Loski (lyrics)performed by Loski:
text: Hella G’s in this car now, moving wassy round corners
Charged up Jimmy Neutron, she still call me Timmy Turner
ref: 2017 October 29, “Camouflage”, in M Huncho (lyrics), Get Out, performed by M Huncho ft. T Mula:
glosses: wanton, driven, hyperactive
ICNIRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.
paylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payline
dectuples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dectuple
dectuples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dectuple
dectupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dectuple
dectupled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dectuple
daily doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daily double
⠨⠌
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the division sign, ÷
teardrop trailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teardrop trailers
Senses: glosses: A compact, lightweight trailer for travel, having a teardrop-shaped profile.
teardrop trailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teardrop trailer