cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gogotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gogottes
Etymology: Coined by Claude Guillemin, from French gougoutte.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geological concretion, similar in its shape to marleka and imatrankivi.
see what sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees what sticks
form: seeing what sticks
form: saw what sticks
form: seen what sticks
Senses: glosses: To test multiple tactics at once in order to attain a particular result.
Derived terms: throw things at the wall and see what sticks
sees what sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see what sticks
seeing what sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of see what sticks
saw what sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see what sticks
seen what sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see what sticks
tweak out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tweaks out
form: tweaking out
form: tweaked out
form: tweaked out
Senses: glosses: To lose control or act eccentrically.
examples: text: As soon as you fucking restrict your carb calories, you're tweaking your body out, you're tweaking your thyroid.
glosses: To hurt or damage.
tweaks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tweak out
tweaking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of tweak out
tweaked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tweak out
semipure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + pure.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat or partially pure.
tickle the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tickles the wire
form: tickling the wire
form: tickled the wire
form: tickled the wire
Senses: topics: criminology
government
human-sciences
law
law-enforcement
sciences
glosses: To create a situation that will encourage the target of a criminal probe to speak and divulge information on a wiretapped telephone.
Shenley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large area in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, which includes Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End and Shenley Lodge.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1900).
glosses: A former municipality in Quebec, Canada, now part of Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley.
Derived terms: Shenley Church End
diairetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to diairesis.
tickles the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tickle the wire
tickling the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of tickle the wire
tickled the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tickle the wire
star vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star vessels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of starship.
synonyms: word: starship
star vessels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star vessel
tickles the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tickle the ear
tickling the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of tickle the ear
tickled the ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tickle the ear
Elstree and Borehamwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish with a town council in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, which includes the named places.
Sotheby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌðəbi/
Forms: form: Southby
form: Southerby
form: Suddaby
form: Sutherby
Etymology: "The man who lives south in the village", from Old Norse suðr i bý (“south in the village”).
The surname presumably comes from a now defunct placename in England.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Sotheby's
klunk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: klunks out
form: klunking out
form: klunked out
form: klunked out
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conk out (all senses)
synonyms: word: conk out
extra: all senses
Vietnam flashback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vietnam flashbacks
Etymology: From Vietnam + flashback. Referencing veteran trauma from the Vietnam War
Senses: examples: text: I lived in the kind of place where your neighbors are always having Vietnam flashbacks. And they’d never even been to Vietnam.
ref: 2007, Rodney Carrington, Coming Clean, Center Street, page 15:
text: Walking through the halls, Mom is always, like, having a Vietnam flashback. We’ll pass some random piece of art hanging on the wall and she’ll grab onto a chair and say, Oh, God, that Milton Avery poster. Or, gulping a big breath, That ficus tree had origami cranes hanging on it that awful Christmas. And then she’ll close her eyes while everyone just stands there, and Dad hugs her really tight, tears flooding his eyes, too.
ref: 2012, Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Thorndike Press, page 65:
text: Millions of voices screamed and were suddenly silenced by the record-breakingly embarrassing ending of Episode III. Star Wars fans across the globe cried in their showers, trying to unsee the sacrilege.
Then came Rovio and the Vietnam flashbacks from the movies returned.
The first Angry Bird Star Wars was a clever combination of two brands, with Star Wars characters transferred to the bird galaxy. The game relied heavily on nostalgia and the humor it spawned. The game was like a big inside joke thanks to the original films.
ref: 2015, Juho Kuorikoski, translated by Matti Isotalo, Finnish Video Games: A History and Catalog, McFarland & Company, page 284:
text: The Rick and Morty Season Five episode is so infamous among the show’s vibrant and active online following that the phrase “giant incest baby” is enough to send many stans into Vietnam flashbacks or Battle of Blood Ridge thousand-yard stares.
ref: 2024 February 22, Keegan Kelly, “Will Rick’s CHUD Son Ever Return to ‘Rick and Morty’ After His Disastrous First Appearance?”, in Cracked, archived from the original on 2024-07-212:
text: Could these demons be some kind of metaphor? They could! Anthony has all sorts of them – he’s a lapsed Catholic with a dead wife, estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) and a drinking problem. He’s one Vietnam flashback from a full house of horrors.
ref: 2024 June 20, James Harvey, “The Exorcism review: Russell Crowe gets back in the cassock”, in Film Stories, archived from the original on 2024-07-212:
glosses: A flashback; a vivid mental image of a past trauma.
Vietnam flashbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vietnam flashback
knock round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks round
form: knocking round
form: knocked round
form: knocked round
Senses: glosses: Synonym of knock about.
synonyms: word: knock about
in school
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They have three kids, one who is not in school yet.
glosses: Enrolled to go to school.
An-t'u
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 安圖 /安图 (Āntú) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-tʻu².
Senses: examples: text: On coming home in 1936, Mr. Liao Ch'ang-yin (at present 29 years old), a senior high school student, member of the First Production xxxxxxx Team of the Hsin-hsing Production Brigade, Wan-pao People's Commune, An-t'u Hsien, Chi-lin province, devoted himself to the study of various wetfield rice breeds.
ref: (Can we date this quote?) [1965 July 15], “A Breed Geared Towards the Cold Climate of the North, the "Ch'ang-feng-hao"”, in Agricultural Development Sustained by Crop Improvement in China, sourced from Chugoku Sangyo Shashin Tsushin (Photos and Features on Chinese Industry), No 48, pp 1-9 [中国産業写真通信], page https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP78-04546A003200010004-4/page/n6/:
english: 中国産業写真通信
translation: 中国産業写真通信
text: It behooves forestry-operation villages to adopt the policy of coordinating what is viable with what is economical to engage in items which require less money and yield large profit in order to achieve self-sufficiency in vegetables, meat and eggs. Whenever it is possible, they should also be self-sufficient in grain. For instance, the Miao-ling forestry-operation village in An-t'u hsien, Kirin, has done this in recent years.
ref: 1966 February 25 [1965 December 20], Jen Yuan-shou (0117 0337 1108) [任元壽], “Forestry Operation Village Is an Ideal Form of Organization in Building Socialist New Forestry Region”, in Translations from Ching-chi Yen-chiu (Economic Research), number 12, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Ching-chi Yen-chiu (Economic Research) [經濟研究], Peiping, No 12, pp 28-31, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 62:
english: 任元壽
translation: 任元壽
text: For one of many cases of RYs, see KMJP 10/27/72, in SCMP 5252, 11/9/72, concerning the deeds of Liu Ch’ang-yin, who returned to his Korean mountain village in An-t’u hsien, Kirin, in the 1950s and spent many years experimenting with the cultivation of rice in the mountains.
ref: 1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Notes”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333:
glosses: Alternative form of Antu (place in China)
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Dachang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹchängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 大廠 /大厂 (Dàchǎng).
Senses: glosses: A Hui autonomous county in Langfang, Hebei, China.
Xianghe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyängʹhǔʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 香河 (Xiānghé).
Senses: examples: text: Xianghe County to which the “new city” belongs, is in Hebei province, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) east of Beijing. Like almost every other local government in China, Xianghe’s has an urbanization target: 60% by 2017, up from around 50% today and ahead of the national target of 60% by 2020.
ref: 2016 [2014 April 19], “Urban and Rural”, in David Shambaugh, editor, The China Reader: Rising Power, 6th edition, Oxford University Press, sourced from The Economist, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 216, column 2:
glosses: A county of Langfang, Hebei, China.
11 plus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 11 pluses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eleven plus.
11 pluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 11 plus
11+
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From 11 + +.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eleven plus.
Guangyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwängʹyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 廣陽 /广阳 (Guǎngyáng).
Senses: glosses: A former commandery around Beijing, China, from the Qin Dynasty on.
glosses: A former principality around Beijing, China, during the Han and Sima Jin Dynasties.
glosses: Synonym of Ji, a former city in Beijing, China, from its role as the seat of the commandery and principality.
synonyms: word: Ji
extra: a former city in Beijing, China, from its role as the seat of the commandery and principality
examples: text: In Qingdao in Shandong province, the Laixi district of more than 700,000 people was put under lockdown after officials found more than 1,600 locally transmitted cases since March 4 through mass testing. In Hebei province, the district of Guangyang, home to 500,000 people, has also been put under lockdown.
ref: 2022 March 14, Lily Kuo, “As China’s covid outbreak expands, whole cities and provinces are sealed off and key industries closed”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022, Asia:
glosses: A district of Langfang, Hebei, China.
Synonyms: sense: former principality
english: during Xin Dynasty
translation: during Xin Dynasty
word: Guangyou
Anci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹtsûʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 安次 (Āncì).
Senses: glosses: A district of Langfang, Hebei, China.
Yongqing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yo͝ongʹchǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 永清 (Yǒngqīng).
Senses: examples: text: Along with real-estate projects targeting Beijingers feeling the pinch of high property prices, Yongqing county wants to attract some of the capital's businesses. Plans are under way to build a garment manufacturing and wholesale hub.
ref: 2014 June 29, Mandy Zuo, “Yongqing in Hebei may realise 'liveable suburb' dream thanks to greater Beijing integration”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2014, China:
glosses: A county of Langfang, Hebei, China.
girltwinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girltwink
Gu'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 固安 (Gù'ān).
Senses: glosses: A county of Langfang, Hebei, China.
Bazhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bäʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 巴州 (Bāzhōu).
Senses: synonyms: word: Bazhong
glosses: A district of Bazhong, Sichuan, China, formerly named Bazhong as a county-level city of Bazhong prefecture-level city, and previously a county of Daxian Prefecture.
glosses: Synonym of Bayingolin.
synonyms: word: Bayingolin
Bazhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bäʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 霸州 (Bàzhōu).
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Langfang, Hebei, China.
Wen'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wǔnʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 文安 (Wén'ān).
Senses: examples: text: For years, Mao Da, an environmental researcher, has studied the plastic industry in Wen’an County, near Beijing. Workers there used to sort through food and medical waste by hand, he said. Nonrecyclable material was buried in pits near farmland.
“It was an environmental and public health catastrophe,” Mr. Mao said.
ref: 2019 May 28, Raymond Zhong, Carolyn Zhang, “Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2019, Technology:
glosses: A county of Langfang, Hebei, China.
Dacheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: däʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 大城.
Senses: glosses: A county of Langfang, Hebei, China.
mouse jiggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maʊs ˈdʒɪɡ.(ə.)lɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: Use of a mouse jiggler; using a device that causes a motion that jiggles a computer mouse in order to simulate activity, particularly to create a false impression of work being done.
kkakdugi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 깍두기 (kkakdugi).
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing like a steaming bowl of seolleongtang on a cold winter day, salted and peppered to your taste, and complemented by nothing more than rice and kkakdugi kimchi.
ref: 2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN:
glosses: diced (daikon) radish kimchi
online reality game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: online reality games
Senses: glosses: An online game, typically based around a reality show, that stars a cast of real people competing in a game show-esque environment.
online reality games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of online reality game
object camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object camps
Senses: glosses: A subgenre of online reality games where players take the role of inanimate object characters or objectsonas.
object camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of object camp
with one's chest
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Finally a friendship we can stan with our chests 🫶🏾 #LoveIsland
ref: 2022 July 19, @httpundisclosed, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024:
text: "Yes, and?" / Say that shit with your chest, and / Be your own fucking best friend
ref: 2024 January 12, “Yes, And?” (1:20 from the start)performed by Ariana Grande:
text: Anything I do, I do it with my chest. That's why I think I don't like sneaky shit so bad 🤣 because what you sneaking for boo. It's never nothing
ref: 2024 April 21, @coleyyyru, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024:
text: Say it with your chest. You're not just "a little" upset. You ARE upset.
ref: 2024 July 14, u/nmymo, “My partner bought a house that I can't live in with him and I'm a little upset.”, in Reddit, r/TwoXChromosomes, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024:
glosses: With total confidence.
knot off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knots off
form: knotting off
form: knotted off
form: knotted off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tie off (all senses)
synonyms: word: tie off
extra: all senses
midwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midwomen
Etymology: Possibly inherited from Middle English midwomman (attested as a hapax legomenon c. 1400). Alternatively, reformed as a blend of midwife + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: midman
text: To banish the thoughts, she made herself think of the boy's mother. They were Tatterdancers. That meant inadequate care, if any. She'd probably been delivered by one of the stave's midwomen.
ref: 1984, Sharon Webb, Ram Song, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: A midwife.
midwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midwoman
midman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midmen
form: mid-man
Etymology: Blend of midwife + man.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: midwoman
text: In the course of time the man-midwife or midman has displaced the midwife to an assistant position.
ref: 1976, Alfred White Franklin, Pastoral Paediatrics, page 79:
text: This practice contributes to the emergence of the Earth's Guides of the Passage, in each of us as midwife, or "midman", of the Passage.
ref: 1999, Sarah Dolphin [Pseudonym; Sarah Diane Pomerleau], As Beyond, So Below: Dolphins and the Passage Into a New Millennium, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.: Samsarah Rainbow Planet, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: If you do become a midwife or midman, you are allowed to get remarried if you wish to do so.
ref: 2021, Sam Miller, Memoir: Reasons Why I Left the Amish Community, page 123:
text: until fit hospitals can be built and endowed, a midman be appointed in every city or county town, and demonstrate to them the truth of their doctrines on the poor of the neighbourhood, of which there are plenty everywhere.
ref: 2023, Jean Towler, Joan Bramall, Midwives in History and Society:
glosses: A male midwife.
midman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midmen
form: mid-man
Senses: examples: text: one of these seats is called in the North the 'house father's chair', and is never filled except by the head of the family; that which stands opposite to it is reserved for the principal guest, or for the midman who is of most importance in the household.
ref: 1850 October 19, R. J. King-Parker, “Anschar: a Tale of the North”, in The Athenæum, page 1088:
text: The Lords took the said merchants and craftsmen, on behalf o the Guildry and of the Crafts, bound, obliged, and sworn to abide by the award which should be given on all questions between them by the foresaid arbiters, vizt, Andrew Barrie and John Barrie on behalf of the Guildry, and James Scrymgeor and George Fernie on behalf of the Trades, with Mr William Meldrum, Deane of Dunkeld, as midman and oversman in case of discord—the parties to convene with their arbiters within the parish kirk of Dundee the 1st August next, and to give their final award betwixt that day and the feast of Saint Michael next thereafter, &c., &c.
ref: 1872, Alex Johnston Warden, Burgh Laws of Dundee, page 98:
text: How would a midman dare? O Lady of Kirien, how the great jewel was stolen no mortal knows, not man nor midman nor Fian nor any among the Seven Folk.
ref: 1966, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, “Rocannon's World”, in Three Hainish Novels, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 10:
glosses: A worker with a status lower than that over master or overseer, but greater than that of apprentice or boy.
examples: text: On the first visit of Sir George Simpson to Vancouver's Island in 1824, he accompanied the Governor as a midman in his canoes .
ref: 1871, Joseph James Hargrave, Red River, page 237:
text: The steersman, finding himself within reach of the shore, jumped upon the rock, with one of the midmen; the other midman, not being sufficiently active, remained in the canoe, which was instantly carried out and lost to view among the high waves.
ref: 2023, Trails of the Pathfinders, page George Bird Grinnell:
text: When she started to whirl the steersman and the midman jumped on a rock, but Louis LaPlante, may the Lord save his soul, stayed in the boat and was lost.
ref: 2023, Sandra Hartline, Muck Creek, page 113:
glosses: A paddler who sits in the middle of a long canoe.
examples: text: A leisure-pensioned sailor of the King Who made more knights and sailors by his talks In one short year than half the schools in Spain, As midman in his youth sailed venture-wise Joined with a master seeking coast or isle Unknown, but prospered little
ref: 1903, Horace Mellard Du Bose, The Planting of the Cross, page 49:
text: Sailing his J22 Poco a Poco (USA 377), with midman/tactician Robert Koch and bowman Scott Frederickson, Koch is shown rounding to overtake a fleet of Banshees.
ref: 2015, Roberta Kludt Long, Folsom, page 46:
glosses: A sailor whose area of responsibility is in the middle of a boat.
midmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midman
lag off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lags off
form: lagging off
form: lagged off
form: lagged off
Senses: glosses: To arrest; to take to prison.
glosses: To shirk; to be lazy.
Artsakhi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Artsakhi
form: most Artsakhi
Etymology: From Artsakh + -i.
Senses: examples: text: Today, the blockade and genocide continues. Artsakhi Armenian culture, heritage, and private property are still under siege, leaders and citizens are still being held in arbitrary detention, and there is no right to go back through the Lachin Corridor and return home.
ref: 2023 December 26, Lynn Zovighian, “Azerbaijan Rewarded a Year After the Lachin Corridor Blockade and Genocide”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2024:
synonyms: Artsakhian
glosses: Of or relating to Artsakh (former unrecognized state in the Caucausus).
Artsakhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Artsakhis
Etymology: From Artsakh + -i.
Senses: examples: text: It is crucial to rebuild the lives of the Artsakhis in Armenia and to unconditionally give them Armenian citizenship, and to safeguard the internationally recognized borders of Armenia.
ref: 2024 February 16, ANCA, “Stepanyan and Beglaryan advocate for rights and safe return of Artsakh's Armenians”, in The Armenian Weekly, archived from the original on 26 May 2024:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Artsakh (former unrecognized state in the Caucausus).
Artsakhis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Artsakhi
outjerks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outjerk
outjerking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outjerk
outjerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outjerk
starline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starlines
Etymology: From star + line.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical or theoretical line connecting a series of stars within a cluster or constellation.
examples: text: At the gate terminals that serviced the various commercial passenger starlines, thousands of beings—humanoid and non—went about their business laboring in numerous capacities to keep the port operating smmothly, cleanly, and safely.
ref: 2004, Cory Williams, The Taking of Cyndriel's Hope, page 124:
text: Passengers transshipping to other starlines should go to the nearest routing desk at once.
ref: 2011, Robert Silverberg, The Silent Invaders:
text: These starlines are integral to the megacorporate business model, used for both transportation of raw materials and finished goods for all of the businesses within the corporate group.
ref: 2008, Paul Elliott, Hostile, page 200:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A company that flies commercial starships.
starlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starline
starlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Horatio Huntley Hoskins (1841), Count de Denia, or, The Spaniard's ransom, a play [in verse]: “These words might a Tragedian well become, Whose glory 'tis to voice his injuries Unto the starlined vault of Heaven”
glosses: Lined or studded with stars
Hoàng Su Phì
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Hoàng Su Phì.
Senses: glosses: A rural district of Hà Giang Province, Vietnam.
flumpf
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The wind caught the reserve canopy, billowed it out. For a hideous instant, he thought the reserve lines would wrap around the mains and he’d repeat Komarov’s messy death. Then—Flumpf! The reserve canopy snapped open, seemed to yank him skyward.
ref: 2007 September 5, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, “March 25, 1969: Over the Gobi Desert, Outer Mongolia”, in Red Moon, Barrington, N.H.: Breakneck Books, →ISBN, page 251:
text: This time he had the grenade launcher, and it was as ready as he was. He held the rifle near his hip and squeezed the trigger on the launcher. Flumpf! The grenade lobbed out of the barrel and crashed into the pavement in the dead center of the remaining crowd.
ref: 2010 August 25, Rob Ruediger, “A Cure for Jake”, in Severed 2: The Rapture, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 318:
text: He paused in front of the sofa, holding his breath as one long claw emerged from beneath it. The pod was getting ready to make a run for it. It was now or never. Angus carefully laid his baseball bat to one side, waiting for the right moment to pounce, then—Flumpf! “Gotcha!” He flung himself on top of the malicious pod, squashing it flat.
ref: 2014 May 6, Anne Cameron, “A Christmas Podding”, in The Storm Tower Thief (The Lightning Catcher; 2), New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 14:
text: A man fell out of the sky and landed at my feet today. Plooff! As easy as you please he sailed down and then, flumpf! He landed.
ref: 2014 July 4, Edith Hicks, chapter 2, in I Am Hannah Flockner, ASIN B00LK36LVI:
glosses: Alternative form of flump.
flumpf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flumpfs
Senses: examples: text: It was true enough that Thomasina was on her terrace and looking into his apartment, although spying was a harsh word. “I’ll fix that,” Steve said. He moved over in full view of Thomasina and let the Venetian blind down with a flumpf.
ref: 1949, Isabella Taves, “That Unpredictable Look”, in The American Magazine, volume CXLVII, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3:
text: A flumpf of falling snow makes me look up and then Steve shouts. I see a flash of silver; it must be a real springer.
ref: 2016 September 22, Louise Gray, “The Leaper”, in The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Natural History, →ISBN, page 257:
text: Murphy barked again, sat down with a flumpf on the metal deck, and began scratching behind his ear with his back leg.
ref: 2020 November 9, Jim Genzano, Tree and Beast (A Stranger World Adventure; 1), →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of flump.
flumpf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flumpfs
form: flumpfing
form: flumpfed
form: flumpfed
Senses: examples: text: He sniffs himself suspiciously and then flumpfs into the couch, still wearing his peel.
ref: 2008, Lauren Beukes, “Lerato”, in Moxyland, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Angry Robot, published 2010, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Abruptly, Cleo flumpfed down onto one of the chairs, her ears ringing unpleasantly.
ref: 2010, Sue Moorcroft, chapter 44, in All That Mullarkey, Camberley, Surrey: Choc Lit Limited, →ISBN, page 298:
text: I put down my muesli mid-guzzle and flumpfed into a kitchen chair, all the get-out-of-the-house adrenaline leaving my body with an almost audible whoosh.
ref: 2013, Cory Doctorow, chapter 12, in Homeland, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 264:
glosses: Alternative form of flump.
flumpfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flumpf
flumpfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flumpf
flumpfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flumpf
flumpfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flumpf
ChatGPTs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ChatGPT
ChatGPTing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of ChatGPT
ChatGPT-ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of ChatGPT
ChatGPTed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ChatGPT
ChatGPT'ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ChatGPT
ChatGPT'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ChatGPT
googlewhacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of googlewhack
if ever there were one
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: But one morn-ing the black chick-en, who had been gone ev-er since sun-rise, came back to the coop, drip-ping with dew, and a bright light in his eye—ah, that was a rogue’s eye if ev-er there were one!
ref: 1883 June, “The Naugh-ty Black Chick-en”, in Babyland, volume VII, number 6, Boston, Mass.: D[aniel] Lothrop & Company […], →OCLC, page 50, column 2:
text: An aristocrat if ever there were one, he believed none the less in the essential quality of man and deplored the economic conditions which so often tended to set up superficial and unreal barriers which make as well as separate the classes.
ref: 1928, Jessie Redmon Fauset, “Home Again”, in Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral, New YorK, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, page 324:
text: The recipient of various academic degrees and honors, Jepson, an anti-stuffed shirt if ever there were one, cared nothing for such synthetic dignity.
ref: 1952 November 1, Seth Bingham, “Master and Friend; An Intimate Sketch of Dr. Harry Jepson”, in S[iegfried] E[manuel] Gruenstein, editor, The Diapason […], 43rd year, number 12 (516 overall), Chicago, Ill.: S. E. Gruenstein, →ISSN, page 8, column 2:
text: She was about five foot four—five nine, if you counted her gelled-up bangs. She had hoop earrings that could have doubled as stirrups and her well-developed jaw was getting a workout on a piece of chewing gum. A Jersey Girl if ever there were one.
ref: 2014, Brad Parks, chapter 5, in The Player (A Carter Ross Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: Alternative form of if ever there was one.
as useful as a chocolate teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of as much use as a chocolate teapot.
synonyms: word: as much use as a chocolate teapot
inertial reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, one terminal of M is connected to the inertial reference (IR).
ref: 1974, Jose Behar Cruz, Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg, Signals in Linear Circuits, page 532:
text: This goal leads to an experiment system design which combines hardward from many technology areas: an optical telescope and IR sensors; and advanced angular intertial reference; a flexible multi-level of actuation digital control system; digital tracking processors which incorporate real-time image analysis and a pulsed, diode-pumped solid state tracking laser.
ref: 1995, “The High Altituted Balloon Experiment Demonstration of Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing Technologies”, in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, page 2841:
text: To address this potential unsafe condistion and as an interim solution, EASA issued Emergency AD 2009-0012-E […] to require implementation of an aircraft Flight Manual (AFM) operation procdure, to isolate both the Inertial Reference (IR) and ADR in case a faulty IR is detected .
ref: 2013, Federal Register - Volume 78, Issue 220, page 68348:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
synonyms: word: IR
glosses: Any of various devices found in airplanes, missiles, satellites, guns, etc. that sense and calculate data such as linear acceleration and turning rate around each axis and which send that data on to other systems.
examples: text: The SSM inertial reference sensors (star trackers (ST) and/or coarse sun sensors (CSS)) are not suitable as a tracking reference for the FSM for two reasons.
ref: 2000, Jim Bernard Breckinridge, Peter Jakobsen, UV, Optical, and IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, page 926:
text: In order to achieve an inertial line-of-sight angle measurement most EO/IR missiles use gyroscopic motion within their seeker head, so that the gyroscopic inertia (i.e. angular momentum) provides an inertial reference that may be translated into stabilisation.
ref: 2004, David Titterton, John L. Weston, Strapdown Inertial Navigation Technology, page 483:
text: In spite of the planet is moving along a circular path, it is physically stationary and undergoes no acceleration in the local inertial reference.
ref: 2017, Jacob Schaf, The True Origin of the Gravitational Dynamics, page 71:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An inertial frame of reference.
new leases of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new lease of life
waiting periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiting period
Pantagruelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pantagruelian
form: most Pantagruelian
Senses: examples: text: Giant pheasants and thrushes, crisply roasted and garnished with rich sauces, a huge vat of potage de légumes, a tub of salade Niçoise, a side of bifteck drenched in gravy. This Pantagruelian feast, the doctor surmised, was a reflection of the frustration M. Testevin faced from the restrictions placed on his diet over the past years because of his liver condition.
ref: 1968, John G[rant] Fuller, chapter 6, in The Day of St. Anthony’s Fire, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 109:
text: What still remains a mystery is how she managed to put away the entire midday meal that I had left for her, Ted, and Bill. And that this Pantagruelian triple lunch in no way diminished the gusto with which she silently tucked into her dinner, doing more than justice to sundry delectable coals of fire contributed by Margot.
ref: 1989, Dido Merwin, “Appendix II: Vessel of Wrath: A Memoir of Sylvia Plath”, in Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 339:
text: [H]e espied a heavily built woman waddling towards him eating a large meat pie. She looked like an earthy peasant from a Brueghel painting. / […] ‘I wonder if you could direct me to the Vice-Principal’s office.’ / ‘Yis, I can,’ she said, gravy running down her chin. […] / ‘Thanks,’ he said, wondering who this Pantagruelian lady might be.
ref: 2005, Billy Hopkins, chapter 50, in Anything Goes, London: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN, pages 409–410:
text: Indeed, including the wines, liqueurs, coffee, tips, service charges and various taxes, this Pantagruelian feast which must have provided pleasant memories for the guests, cost us . . . a little less than two Swiss francs per person!
ref: 2008, Robert-Aloys Mooser, translated by Neal Johnson, “[Postlude] Salmon and champagne”, in Mary S. Woodside, editor, The Russian Life of R.-Aloys Mooser, Music Critic to the Tsars: Memoirs and Selected Writings, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Ceredigion: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 203:
text: The soldier, however, indicated that I should begin eating, and after checking with my parents one last time, I sat down and dug into this Pantagruelian feast.
ref: 2009, Paul-Henri Rips, “Prison – Dole and Paris”, in E/96: Fate Undecided (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs; series II), Toronto, Ont.: The Azrieli Foundation, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of pantagruelian.
Ashina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑːˈʃiːənɑː/
/ɑːˈʃiːnə/
Forms: form: the Ashina
Etymology: From Chinese 阿史那 (Āshǐnà).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The Turkic tribe who served as the ruling dynasty of the Göktürks during the First and Second Turkic Khaganates (552–603 and 682–744, respectively).
Ashina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑːˈʃiːənɑː/
/ɑːˈʃiːnə/
Etymology: From Japanese 蘆(あし)名(な) (Ashina, literally “reed-name”).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Japanese clan, which became distinct from the Miura branch of the Taira clan during the late Heian period, came to prominence during the Sengoku period, and which became extinct during the early Edo period with the death of its twenty-second head, 蘆(あし)名(な)千(せん)鶴(つる)丸(まる) (Ashina Sentsurumaru, 1650–1653).
Darenth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5671).
Derived terms: South Darenth
Related terms: english: the river
translation: the river
word: Darent
drop waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop waists
Senses: examples: text: But nothing beats the drama of a ravaged drop-waist dress from the 1920s – one that leaves a trail of sequins in your wake.
ref: 2024 May 12, Tish Weinstock, “This Vintage Lover Is Calling Time On The ’90s Fashion Obsession”, in British Vogue:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
synonyms: dropped waist
glosses: A waistline (on a dress etc.) that is positioned around the hips, below the natural waist.
dropped waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropped waists
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of drop waist.
synonyms: word: drop waist
EmRata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A syllabic abbreviation from Em (“Emily”) + clipping of Ratajkowski.
Senses: examples: text: Equally effervescent was EmRata in 2001 Versace; meanwhile Zendaya, clothed in a 1996 John Galliano for Givenchy gown that could rival Queen Victoria’s regal mourning robes, was a slay for the ages.
ref: 2024 May 12, Tish Weinstock, “This Vintage Lover Is Calling Time On The ’90s Fashion Obsession”, in British Vogue:
glosses: Emily Ratajkowski (born 1991), American model and actress.
onch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒŋk/
ipa: /ˈɒŋx/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
rhymes: -ɒŋx
ipa: /ˈɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɑŋk
Forms: form: onchs
Etymology: From Coptic ⲱⲛϧ (ōnĥ), from Egyptian anx-Z1 (ꜥnḫ, “life, to live, symbol for life”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ankh.
revolverman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolvermen
Etymology: From revolver + -man.
Senses: examples: text: For this unhappy circumstance, I must apologize to the legion of Dan Wesson fans and to the company. As serious revolvermen all know, Dan Wesson guns are fine firearms and shoot as well as anything that you can find. Sometimes, …well, they’re better.
ref: 1987, Wiley M. Clapp, “Double Data” (chapter 12), in Dean A. Grennell, Wiley M. Clapp, Gun Digest Book Of Handgun Reloading, Northbrook, Ill.: DBI Books, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 149:
glosses: A person skilled in the use of a revolver.
pistolman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistolmen
form: pistol man
Etymology: From pistol + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person armed with a pistol; a person skilled in the use of a pistol.
onchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒŋks/
ipa: /ˈɒŋxs/
rhymes: -ɒŋks
rhymes: -ɒŋxs
ipa: /ˈɑŋks/
rhymes: -ɑŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of onch
revolvermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolverman
pseudoreflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoreflections
Etymology: From pseudo- + reflection.
Senses: examples: text: That is, t′x+y=0 is the pseudo-reflection of tx+y=0 if the ideal points (ρ′,1,0),(ρ,1,0) on the lines are a pair in the involution ρρ′=-h.
ref: 1967, A Background (natural, Synthetic and Algebraic) to Geometry, CUP Archive, page 293:
text: A linear transformation g∈BL(V) is a pseudoreflection if rank (g-I)=1.
ref: 1985, Susan Montgomery, Group Actions on Rings, American Mathematical Soc., page 104:
text: It will be convenient to introduce two generalizations of the notion of pseudoreflection.
ref: 2009 January 9, Nicholas M. Katz, Twisted L-Functions and Monodromy, Princeton University Press, page 23:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An invertible linear transformation of a finite-dimensional vector space such that it is not the identity transformation, has a finite (multiplicative) order, and fixes a hyperplane.
pseudoreflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoreflection
are we there yet
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used on a journey to ask the estimated time of arrival.
-vert
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: glosses: Used to refer to a person with a particular personality around other people.
Doctorowian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Doctorowian
form: most Doctorowian
Etymology: From Doctorow + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.
ref: 2022 September 7, Gillian Brassil, “The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine:
glosses: Of or pertaining to E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015), American novelist, editor, and professor.
simpery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simpery
form: most simpery
Etymology: From simper + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Angela is still chittering. “And as a result, we’re dropping the story. You know we never cover suicides. Putting them on TV might encourage people to do it. So—sorry, Charlie.” She gives a simpery smile, as if no one’s ever used the tuna line on me before.
ref: 2007, Hank Phillippi Ryan, chapter 3, in Prime Time (Charlotte McNally), New York, N.Y: Tom Doherty Associates, published February 2016, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Characterized by a simper; smirky.
netcoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more netcoppy
form: most netcoppy
Etymology: From netcop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [p.s. tony-- while your posts are entertaining, followups to every posting in a thread that's basically noise doesn't make a favorable impression. keep it up and i shall hound you to the ends of the earth with my vile invective and unwarranted advice {does that sound netcoppy enough? no, really. i mena, i try, you know? but it's not easy assuming ruling status when one is at heart an anarchist.}]
ref: 1997 January 29, damonically incorrect, “STINKIN' BADGER”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):
text: d) when you light into people for off-topic posts, besides being off-topic yourself to begin with, a lot of people think of your actions as petty and netcoppy and mean-spirited, and it doesn't build support for your viewpoint.
ref: 1999 November 7, Jonathan K., “TOAW2 PBEM Problem...”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (Usenet):
text: Oh, they flooded groups, all right. Just like the other guys did, right up until the party line dictated that they all become Concerned Citizens and get all netcoppy and beard-strokingly stuffed shirtish and unfun.
ref: 2005 December 5, Russell B, “Re: 2005 alt.flame Awards: Call for Nominations”, in alt.romath (Usenet):
glosses: Like or resembling a netcop.
netcoppish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more netcoppish
form: most netcoppish
Etymology: From netcop + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: My post wasn't netcoppish, and I didn't call you any names.
ref: 1994 August 11, Scott Ashdown, “Proposal: Moderation of c.s.a.advocacy”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet):
text: However, if I was feeling netcoppish, I'd ring up Portsmouth Uni (that is correct, no?) and suggest they restrict mail access to one Matthew Charman, on account of him planning a denial of service attack...
ref: 1999 July 13, Shim, “Sig complaint”, in freeserve.discuss (Usenet):
text: Moving around discussions isn't just netcoppish, arrogant, or misguided. It is trollish. That PA Bear can do it doesn't mean it is proper. Suggesting someone to move over is a hell of a lot different than shoving them over.
ref: 2009 August 5, VanguardLH, “Re: IE8”, in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general (Usenet):
glosses: Like or resembling a netcop; netcoppy.
Putinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Putin + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Putin’s recent ubiquity has brought great prominence to the practice of Putinology. This enterprise – the production of commentary and analysis about Putin and his motivations, based on necessarily partial, incomplete and sometimes entirely false information – has existed as a distinct intellectual industry for over a decade.
ref: 2017 February 22, Keith Gessen, “Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The study or analysis of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician, president of Russia.
Related terms: Kremlinology
misdeedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misdeedy
form: most misdeedy
form: misdeedie
Etymology: From Middle English misdedi, from Old English *misdǣdiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *missadādig, equivalent to misdeed + -y. Cognate with West Frisian misdiedich, Dutch misdadig, German missetätig.
Senses: examples: text: Within the compass of that narrow dwelling, did the active, misdeedy, and enterprising urchin, play off his exuberant sports in trick, and game, and gleesome frolic; […]
ref: 1823, The Scots Magazine, volumes 91-92, page 451:
glosses: Given to misdeeds; naughty or criminal.
nematodontous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nematodontous
form: most nematodontous
Senses: examples: text: Many Polytrichaceae species have nematodontous peristomes.
glosses: Formed from bundles of whole, dead cells.
lycaon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: lycaons
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Λυκάων (Lukáōn, “Lycaon”) the mythological king of Arcadia who was transformed into a wolf by Zeus, λυκάων (lukáōn, “wolves”), from λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”).
Senses: glosses: An eastern wolf or Algonquin wolf of Canis lycaon or subspecies Canis lupus lycaon.
Sabet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sabets
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian ثابت.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Persian.
Sabets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabet
Fiteny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fitenys
form: Fiteni
Senses: glosses: A surname from Maltese.