cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quaverous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quaverous
form: most quaverous
Etymology: From quaver + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Now slows the beat of Summer's dancing pulse; / Her voice has weak and quaverous undertones […]
ref: a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, The Dread of Falling into Naught:
glosses: quavery
Queen Maud Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Norwegian queen Maud of Wales (1869–1938).
Senses: glosses: A region claimed as a dependent territory by Norway, in eastern Antarctica.
New Thoughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Thoughters
Etymology: From New Thought + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As in the case of Christian Science, these New Thoughters have a fundamental truth, which I would by no means wish to depreciate.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
glosses: A person with New Thought beliefs.
New Ageist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Ageists
Etymology: From New Age + -ist.
Senses: glosses: New Ager
New Thoughters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Thoughter
New Ageists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Ageist
Dufour's gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dufour's glands
Etymology: First described by Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1841.
Senses: glosses: An abdominal gland in certain insects, part of the anatomy of the ovipositor or sting apparatus in female members of Apocrita.
Nasonov pheromone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nasonov pheromones
Etymology: After Nikolai Nasonov (1855–1939), Russian zoologist.
Senses: glosses: A pheromone released by worker bees to orient returning forager bees back to the colony.
wikipedia: Nikolai Nasonov
Related terms: Nasonov gland
quercitannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin quercus (“oak”) + tannin.
Senses: glosses: Tannic acid derived from oak galls.
quercimeric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An acid with chemical formula C₈H₆O₅, obtained by fusing quercitin with caustic potash.
questful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more questful
form: most questful
Etymology: From quest + -ful.
Senses: glosses: questing; in search of something
questionee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questionees
Etymology: From question + -ee.
Senses: synonyms: word: questionee
glosses: One who is questioned.
questionees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questionee
questionful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more questionful
form: most questionful
Etymology: From question + -ful.
Senses: glosses: questioning; full of questions
questward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quest + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The knight rode questward.
glosses: Toward a quest.
quezal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quezals
form: quezales
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of quetzal (the bird).
quezals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quezal
Nasonov pheromones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nasonov pheromone
quickish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quick + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: We climbed the hill at a quickish pace.
glosses: Somewhat quick.
quicklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quick + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I knew what it was real quicklike. And, of course, word got down the line real quicklike where we were going into. There were bodies stacked alongside of the road, and we were in a few of the trucks that followed the tank column.
ref: 2010, Brad Hirschfield, Remember for Life:
glosses: quickly
quickshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickshaws
Etymology: Blend of quick + rickshaw.
Senses: examples: text: Shop-owners tried to entice us into their shops, but we caught a quickshaw or taxi and asked for the nuns' convent. Never have I been so scared as I was during the next twenty minutes. There are no traffic rules in Colombo […]
ref: 1965, Janice Woodley, Not in this Way:
text: We went out together and hired a quickshaw (as the Ceylonese taxis used to be called) and I took him out for beer and lunch at my favourite Chinese restaurant.
ref: 1989, Jane Williams, Tambimuttu: bridge between two worlds:
text: We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw.
ref: 2014, Leila Hadley, Give Me the World:
glosses: A taxi.
quickshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quickshaw
yarovization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jarovization.
quidsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quid + -s- + -worth.
Senses: examples: text: It seems an eternity since I sprinted through the scrub, bullets zipping past like tin bees, slid down the crater, and there he was, ten quidsworth of NCO.
ref: 1977, Alan Coren, The lady from Stalingrad Mansions:
text: 'Bit o' fun?' spat Mike. 'That's £150 quidsworth of drums you nearly buggered up. My snare's all split and the bass pedal's packed up. Bloody lunatic.'
ref: 2004, Neil Foster, Cradle of Rock:
text: “Hey, nearly six hundred quidsworth between us,” Dai yelled as he drove at speed along the winding busy road to Hamsley. “Money when we need it, eh?” When they'd actually get the cash was another matter.
ref: 2012, Keith Blackburn, Changes in a Landscape:
glosses: pounds' worth, in terms of money
kemosabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kemosabe
quietful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quietful
form: most quietful
Etymology: From quiet + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I found the larger Pennsylvania countryside delightful in a rolling, civilized, lovely, quietful way no other range of country has ever been to me, a solace, a pleasure, a calm.
ref: a. 1963, Arthur Crew Inman, The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession:
glosses: Full of quiet.
quietless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quietless
form: most quietless
Etymology: From quiet + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It was dreadful to be chained in the middle of the deep — to be the continual sport of the quietless billows — to be shunned as a fatal thing by those who traversed the solitary ocean.
ref: 1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
glosses: Without quiet; with ceaseless noise.
unrequitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + requitable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be requited.
unquietable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquietable
form: most unquietable
Etymology: From un- + quietable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be made quiet.
reiterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reiterated.
quinzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quincite.
quincite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: rose-coloured opal
quincuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The four parts which make up this monument, as we said, are the cove, two single circles, and a quincuple circle.
ref: 1776, William Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum:
glosses: fivefold; applied to five concentric circles
Cumaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cumaean
quiniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From quinine + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: a quiniferous solution
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Bearing quinine.
ratio formalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationes formales
Etymology: From Latin ratiō (“reason”) + fōrmālis (“formal”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the formal grounds for something; the essential attributes of matter as they appear in the mind or in a definition.
quishan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quishans
Senses: examples: text: A levery Cubord wᵗʰ a cloth on it, A chist A Chaire A longe quishan
ref: Quoted in: 1928, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions (page 39)
glosses: Obsolete form of cushion.
quishans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quishan
quirksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quirksome
form: most quirksome
Etymology: From quirk + -some.
Senses: synonyms: quirky
glosses: Characterised or marked by quirkiness.
quinotannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain acid obtained from cinchona bark.
quintessencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quintessence
quintessenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quintessence
yarovize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yarovizes
form: yarovizing
form: yarovized
form: yarovized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jarovize.
yarovizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yarovize
yarovizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yarovize
yarovized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yarovize
quizzification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quizzifications
Etymology: From quiz + -ification.
Senses: glosses: quizzing; teasing; mockery
quizzifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quizzification
quizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quizzes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of quiz.
flocculents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocculent
quiniretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown flocculent form of quinine.
antilogue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntiˌlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈæntɪˌlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈæntiˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈæntɪˌlɔɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντίλογος (antílogos, “contradictory, reverse”), from ἀντιλέγω (antilégō, “speak against, gainsay, contradict”). Equivalent to anti- + -logue.
Senses: topics: business
chemistry
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of or pertaining to the magnetic pole that becomes negative as its temperature increases and positive as its temperature decreases
raw_tags: in pyroelectric substances such as tourmaline
Synonyms: sense: of the magnetic pole that becomes negative when heated and positive when cooled
word: antilogous
floo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floos
form: flu
form: 'flu
Etymology: Shortened from influenza.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of flu.
transistor radios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transistor radio
sneerocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sneer + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: While the media sneerocracy only came round to Oliver because of his pro bono project, the huge number of people buying his books and wheeling their Sainsbury's trolleys in his wake had already responded to his charisma.
ref: 2002 December 5, Mark Lawson, “The fall and rise of Jamie”, in The Guardian:
text: The sneerocracy, however, are appalled to even countenance that such an uncool character could attract any woman.
ref: 2010 December 1, “Actually, Lembit's in the swim”, in Belfast Telegraph:
text: Only the Cameroons, paralysed as they are by the fashionable prejudices aired at metropolitan dinner tables and the terror of getting on the wrong side of the BBC sneerocracy.
ref: 2011, Melanie Phillips, "The election of Australia's new PM Tony Abbott is clear evidence that genuine conservative policies can win elections", Daily Mail, 8 September 2013
glosses: Openly critical and condescending people viewed collectively.
toss someone's salad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses someone's salad
form: tossing someone's salad
form: tossed someone's salad
form: tossed someone's salad
form: toss salad
Senses: examples: text: Did you toss her salad like a real man or just munch her rug like a high schooler?
text: My favorite thing about tossing her salad is that she gets so turned on, her pussy leaks buckets of salad dressing into my mustache.
text: Face buried in Gayto's ass, I dutifully stuck out my tongue, tossing his salad while I heard him jerk off as I did so.
ref: 2012, Annabel Bastione, Tossing Caesar's Salad, unnumbered page:
text: She placed her hands firmly on his ass cheeks, opened them and began to toss his salad and man she blew Papio's mind!
ref: 2013, Clifford Spud Johnson, He Don't Play Fair, Urban Books, →ISBN:
text: He toss my salad like his name Romaine
ref: 2014, Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”, in The Pinkprint:
synonyms: eat ass
rim#Etymology_2
glosses: To perform anilingus on someone.
Related terms: tossed salad
rim job
zonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonifications
Etymology: From zone + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The creation or process of creation of a zone.
Related terms: zonify
toss salad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses salad
form: tossing salad
form: tossed salad
form: tossed salad
form: toss someone's salad
Senses: examples: text: I can't stand her. The way her lips always seem to pucker as if she's about to toss salad everytime^([sic]) she finishes a sentence... ugh. Can't fucking stand her.
ref: 2003 April 5, BloodRedRazorBlade [username], “Re: Hahahaha! Scare Tactics!”, in alt.horror (Usenet):
text: I started to lick her back, down to her butt cheeks. I stopped there. I might've been in a freaky mood but I wasn't ready to toss salad.
ref: 2004, Harold L. Turley II, Love's Game, Strebor Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 114:
text: He said I also have to toss salad at the bus station for rent money, so I got a cooking book.
ref: 2004 July 9, RJS2084 [username], “I must confess”, in rec.music.artists.debbie-gibson (Usenet):
glosses: To perform anilingus.
Synonyms: eat ass
rim
Related terms: tossed salad
OTEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OTECs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of ocean thermal energy converter.
glosses: Acronym of ocean thermal energy conversion.
OTECs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OTEC
mongtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mongtards
Etymology: From mong (“person with Down syndrome”) + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: And no-one say ask AOL because we all know that their help desks are populated by 12 year old mongtards
ref: 2004 January 9, Tricky Dicky [username], “OT:Anyone Know If AOL Use NAT (Network Address Translation)?”, in uk.media.dvd (Usenet):
text: How many groups have you posted this drivel to, you spamming mongtard?
ref: 2005 November 13, neil h, “Re: What Amazon doesn't want you to know.”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
text: Anyway, as I said up there, if the census points were properly run there would be no real holdups for the vast majority of drivers, but since they are apparently thought up and run by utter mongtards who have no appreciation of the disruption they cause for miles down the road, they can go take a flying fuck to themselves until they sort themselves out.
ref: 2008 November 9, Grimly Curmudgeon [username], “Re: OT: Censuses”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
glosses: An extremely stupid person.
mongtards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongtard
-fag
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -friend
form: -frog
Etymology: From fag (“homosexual man, annoying person, etc.”); compare -man. Popularized on the 4chan online community (see also Christopher "Moot" Poole's tripcode of #faggot). First attested in c. early 2000s.
For similar semantic drift in slang from derogatory to neutral, ironic or affectionate, compare some senses of bugger, cunt, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I'll forward this to a few lawfags and see what he^([sic]) deal is.
ref: 2008 May 18, Askren [username], “Re: Is Cos and RTC violating U.S. tax law?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: Oh, also, using Outhouse Express...yeah, really shows off what a Usenet newfag you are, just a lil FYI for ya. You might wanna try XNews or Agent or any *REAL* news browser (not a mail client with some sloppily added extras).
ref: 2008 July 11, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “BTW Lego Newfag”, in rec.toys.lego (Usenet):
text: The pathetic Usenet oldfags will cling to their pathetic, outdated and boring medium as the new-world forumites rule the Interwebs universe.
ref: 2009 June 18, Onslaught Six [username], “Re: I really didn't study for this test”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):
glosses: Suffix that forms pejorative nouns, generally referring to specific types of people and sometimes used ironically or even affectionately.
wikipedia: 4chan
Christopher Poole
semantic drift
Related terms: 厨
shahadah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shahadahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shahada.
shahadahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shahadah
scifag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scifags
Etymology: From Sci(entologist) + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks for playing, scifag.
EPIC FAIL!
ref: 2008 February 9, barb, “Re: scifag to anonfags: don't do this "for Lisa"”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: There were a couple of elderly scifags sitting opposite the State Library at one stage.
ref: 2008 October 19, stop-scientology [username], “Melbourne, Australia, october 18, 2008: Anon protest against the cultof Scientology”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: So you are a scifag trying to make those who post against scifags look like crazy fuckers.
ref: 2009 June 9, Pisces [username], “Re: IRA vet seeks black blotter”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):
glosses: A Scientologist.
scifags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scifag
namefag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namefags
Etymology: From name + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Anonymous, Monica is a "namefag", you are hogging her limelight and now she's desperate to get it back... :)
ref: 2008 February 12, Alexia Death, “Re: Article Recommendation for "Anonymous"”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: In fact, people who even used a name or tried to maintain any continuity of identity at all were generally mocked as namefags.
ref: 2008 June 27, henri, “Re: Jesus - what is happening at Enturbulation.org”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: More people were criticizing him on AnonOps and Twitter as a namefag, moralfag, and leaderfag.
ref: 2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who uses a name online (either their real name or a username) as opposed to posting anonymously, especially on the 4chan community.
namefag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: namefags
form: namefagging
form: namefagged
form: namefagged
Etymology: From name + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Someone who namefags themself for the attention is derided, someone who namefags themself for the cause (eg: being police contact for their locality, getting permits, etc) is lauded.
ref: 2008 February 20, Anonymous [username], “Re: OPERATION RECONNECT - APRIL”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: Maybe some anons not careful enough get namefagged.
ref: 2008 September 25, Ackerland [username], “Re: Garry Scarff aka Happy Smurf; still spying after all these years?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: According to posts on WWP, the Anon who was struck did not want to have to namefag himself, which would have been necessary to press charges.
ref: 2009 January 18, Beth, “Re: protesters assaulted in Clearwater; apparently by a retard”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: To reveal one's identity or have one's identity revealed.
namefags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namefag
namefags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of namefag
leaderfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaderfags
Etymology: From leader + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: You don't speak for anonymous, so how bout you quit playing leaderfag and let us get back to work?
ref: 2008 August 31, xenubarb [username], “Re: Angry Gay Pope and the message he sends”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: And who put you in charge of a public vigil, leaderfag?
ref: 2008 December 3, GarryS, “Re: SoCal Anonymous planning candlelight vigil for Lisa McPherson”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: More people were criticizing him on AnonOps and Twitter as a namefag, moralfag, and leaderfag.
ref: 2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: A person, especially a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous, who acts bossy or unilaterally declares themselves to be in control of something.
leaderfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaderfag
urucum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese urucum, borrowed from Old Tupi uruku, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruku, from Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲuku.
Senses: examples: text: Martius found most dressed in bits of clothing, their hair wildly tangled and their faces dyed red with urucum.
ref: 2006, William Bryant, The Birds of Paradise: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life, page 67:
text: They paint them, or at least parts of them, with urucum (reddish) plant dye or even their own blood if there are no urucum plants nearby.
ref: 2012, Daniel Everett, Language: The Cultural Tool, Profile, published 2013, page 122:
text: Bixin results from lycopene oxidation and it is the main carotenoid found in the seed coat of urucum fruits (Bixa orellana L.), which is cultivated in tropical countries of South and Central America, Africa and Asia.
ref: 2013, Uchoa et al., ‘Antioxidant Properties of Singlet Oxygen Suppressors’, in Natural Antioxidants and Biocides from Wild Medicinal Plants, p. 78
glosses: Achiote.
egofag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egofags
Etymology: From ego + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Makes being an egofag / dramallama a sort of "risky" thing when you give a rat's ass about "protecting your online rep."
ref: 2008 August 11, AnoNotAmused [username], “Re: TD--"OCMB excuses"”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: EFB are the whiners, the harassers, the loudmouthed swaggering egofags that endanger everyone else.
ref: 2008 December 4, barb, “Re: The Curious Incident of the Nut in the Night-time”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: I have no idea of what any of this means, but if standing up to bullies, asserting myself when I disagree and taking responsibility for what I post by putting my name to it, is being an "EGOFAG" then I bear the label with pride.
ref: 2011 April 15, Monica Pignotti, “Re: Monica Pignotti: Malicious Smear Campaign Escalates after Ronald Federici v Pignotti et al Court Case Dismissal”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: An egotistical or attention-seeking person.
Related terms: egofaggotry
egofags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egofag
bohío
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohíos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bohío, Taíno *bohi (“house, dwelling”) (compare Lokono bohy (“house”)). From the Taíno term used by the natives of Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands, as recorded by Spanish colonizers.
Senses: glosses: hut (a small timber dwelling with thatched roof)
lulzfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lulzfags
Etymology: From lulz + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: Since the beginning of the campaign, there'd been a tension between its "lulzfags," who held that Anonymous must have no higher cause than its own cruel amusement, and the "moralfags," for whom the cause of fighting an oppressive cult was an end in itself.
ref: 2009 September 21, Julian Dibbell, The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology:
text: With the rise of the moralfags, some lulzfags drifted away.
ref: 2012 June 22, Quinn Norton, “How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down”, in Wired:
text: “Moralfags attack and protest based solely on issues involving freedom on the internet and in real life,” he explained. “Lulzfags attack whoever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want, simply for the bonus of the lulz.”
ref: 2013 October 23, Jasper Hamill, “Is Anonymous Suffering An Identity Crisis?”, in Forbes:
glosses: A person, especially a member of Anonymous, who causes disruption or attacks a target for amusement rather than as a principle-based protest or demonstration.
Related terms: moralfag
lulzfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lulzfag
Malvi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malvi माळवी (māḷvī).
Senses: glosses: A Rajasthani language spoken in Rajasthan and in northwestern Madhya Pradesh, India.
perimeter fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perimeter fences
Senses: examples: text: So if your prospective school is proudly displaying that "We Are Outstanding" banner on its perimeter fence, well, that is wonderful … but do bear in mind that in all likelihood it has been awarded for results in those two subjects, rather than for its delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum which brings out the best in every child. Which is, of course, what makes a great primary school.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A fence that circles the perimeter of an area in order to prevent access.
Terrassa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located at the feet of the Prelitoral mountain range.
screenwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screenwrites
form: screenwriting
form: screenwrote
form: screenwritten
Etymology: From screen + write.
Senses: examples: text: That was two years ago, and Patricia MacLachlan, the author of the children's book from which the TV Sarah derived, has been prevailed upon to screenwrite a sequel.
ref: 1993, John Leonard, New York Magazine, page 64:
text: The stage is set for Jeffrey to convince Sandy to help him, and his words recall Dune's Duke Leto's words to his son, Paul, which Lynch had screenwritten from Frank Herbert's novel.
ref: 2008, Greg Olson, David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, page 228:
text: Amini screenwrote Jude and The Wings of the Dove and now directs his first feature.
ref: 2014, Nigel Andrews, The Two Faces of January – film review, FT.com
glosses: To write (a script) for film or television.
Synonyms: script
Related terms: screenwriter
Móstoles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain
Leganés
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in central Spain, about 11 km southwest of central Madrid
Algeciras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Algeciras, from Arabic الجزيرة الخضراء (al-Jazīrah al-Khaḍrāʾ, “Green Island”) in reference to nearby Isla Verde. Doublet of Algiers and Algeria.
Senses: glosses: A city on the Bay of Gibraltar, in Andalusia, Spain.
Baha'ist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baha'ists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baháʼíst.
Bahaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bahaists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baháʼíst.
Baha'ists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baha'ist
Bahaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bahaist
bodies corporate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body corporate
Way of St. James
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: Any of the pilgrimage routes to the shrine of the apostle St. James the Great, in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Santiago de Compostela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Santiago
form: Compostela
Senses: glosses: A city in A Coruña province, Galicia, Spain, a major Christian pilgrimage site.
horned up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horned up
form: most horned up
Senses: glosses: horny
Eofandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Jack Speer. Perhaps related to eolithic.
Senses: examples: text: Eofandom, from about 1930 to 1933, existed before fandom became an entity; generally comprised of folk with no sense of group existence whose interests were in collecting stf and scientificomics, and who eagerly hunted down any items with any sort of stfnal significance. Such fanzines as Science Fiction Digest and The Comet were the mags of the day. Primitive trilobites crawled about on the ocean floor. Letter-writing was a major activity, and stfnists depended on hcs of the past as much as, or more than, prozines for sustenance.
ref: 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Numerical Fandoms:
text: The Grennells were making their first visit to the home of the Scion of Eofandom in ten years, having last visited here in 1955 while the house was being built.
ref: 1966 November, Bob Tucker, “How I Plotted To Get DAG Flang”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 10:
text: A Fan History Lounge would be a great way to educate modern-day fans about Eofandom, fanac during World War II, and so on.
ref: 2009 November, John Purcell, “From the Hinterlands”, in Askance, volume 3, number 5 (whole number #17), page 21:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The earliest period of science fiction fandom (1930–1933).
Meronyms: eofan
in pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Whenever possible locomotives make the journey in pairs between Waterloo and Nine Elms, in order to minimise line occupation.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265:
glosses: In groups of two individuals or items.
scooby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoobies
Senses: examples: text: 'What about reactivating these collectors' guns of yours: know anyone who'd be able to do that?'
'Not a scooby, m'lud.
ref: 2003, Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood:
text: It's all sound and fury, signifying naught; but you've got a scooby that there's more to this than reaches the eye.
ref: 2011, Charles Stross, Rule 34, →ISBN:
text: I wish I knew how to talk to girls. I haven't got a scooby what to say to her, but I know I want to talk to her.
ref: 2012, Jim Carrington, Drive By, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Scooby.
euthanasiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euthanasiacs
Senses: examples: text: .The dream of euthanasiacs. T/rey had been unable to help themselves, just couldn't stop, like men who fall vulnerably in love with the icy, contraceptive minions of the women's liberation fronts, those past mistresses of polisexual agitprop.
ref: 2002 J Lilly, The Last Carnival - Page 104
text: Never mind that these euthanasiacs are spiritually vacant. I think you can make the term "dignity" stick. Whatever happened to those guys who, knowing they only had a short time left, determined to milk life for all it was worth?
ref: 1995 Louis Moore, Life at Risk: The Crises in Medical Ethics - Page 190
text: In other words, the euthanasiacs, in pushing for voluntary euthanasia, are merely biding their time, waiting until democracies which once prized freedom can be sold the idea that benefiting humanity by ridding it of retrograde ...
ref: 1949, Paul Bussard, The Catholic Digest, volume 14, page 37:
text: But it is in the face of divine charity seeking always to save life that it cannot be maintained, and so Earth's own view is at the opposite pole from euthanasiacs who are allied with him in ridiculing what he rejects.
ref: 2002 Paul Ramsey, The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics - Page 155
glosses: A person that supports or aids any procedure related to euthanasia
euthanasiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euthanasiac
reflex angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflex angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
Related terms: acute angle
obtuse angle
right angle
round angle
reflex angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflex angle
wood-pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood-pigeons
Senses: examples: text: If Sémiramis be a Wood-pigeon in Greece, it may, perchance have been an House-pigeon in the Countrey of Ajhur.
ref: 1671, John Gregory, Gregorii Opuscula : or, Notes & Observations upon some Passages of Scripture, with other learned Tracts, page 236:
text: ONE of the most interesting and controversial problems connected with the wood-pigeon is the huge winter flocks which many believe are reinforced by migrants or 'foreigners' from abroad.
ref: 1955, “Scottish Agriculture”, in Fisheries, volumes 35-36, Scotland: Department of Agriculture, page 209:
text: For a decade, up to 60% of the wood-pigeon population were removed each winter.
ref: 2001, Michael R. Conover, Resolving Human-Wildlife Conflicts, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of wood pigeon.
wood-pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood-pigeon
parasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of parisyllabic.
imparasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of imparisyllabic.
homonationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + nationalist.
Senses: examples: text: When this occurs, the homophobic Othering of heteronationalism must be performed in a subtler way akin to Pascoe’s (2007) fag discourse, so that the homonormative homosexual bodies remain included within the nation. As an illustration of how these different homonationalist and heteronationalist masculine processes of Othering can co-exist in one space, it is worth revisiting the case of Afrikaner nationalism.
ref: 2019 March 9, Koen Slootmaeckers, “Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism”, in Theory and Society, volume 48:
synonyms: homonational
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supporting homonationalism.
homonationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homonationalists
Etymology: From homo- + nationalist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of homonationalism.
homonationalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homonationalism
homonationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homonationalist
mediaevalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediaevalistic
form: most mediaevalistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medievalistic.
medievalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medievalistic
form: most medievalistic
form: mediaevalistic
Etymology: From medieval + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Even in medievalistic material that manifestly reveals its non-medieval nature there is always the claim that this material is actually medieval (sometimes even more medieval than that which is recovered).
ref: 2009, Elizabeth Scala, Sylvia Federico, The Post-Historical Middle Ages:
glosses: Having a medieval style, though not actually from that era.
examples: text: The medievalistic seminars conducted by Professor Marceli Handelsman produced a considerable number of works on society and power in the Merovingian and Carolingian Europe.
ref: 1975, Acta Poloniae Historica:
glosses: Relating to the study of medievalism.
Münchausen's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Münchausen syndrome.
hyperlinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperlinearities
Etymology: From hyper- + linearity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hyperlinear.
hotplug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotplugs
form: hotplugging
form: hotplugged
form: hotplugged
Etymology: From hot + plug.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To plug in (a device) while the system is turned on and running.
Derived terms: hot-pluggable
Related terms: hot-swap
hotplugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hotplug
hotplugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotplug
hotplugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotplug
declamated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of declamate
declamating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of declamate
declamates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of declamate
hysterodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æmɪk
Etymology: From hystero- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: hysterokinetic
proterodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protero- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: proterokinetic
amphidynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + dynamic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of amphikinetic
synonyms: word: amphikinetic
acrodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acro- + dynamic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: rhizokinetic
acrokinetic
qualifier: Indo-European
glosses: Having the accent on the root in the strong cases and on the ending in the weak cases.
raw_tags: of root nominals
examples: text: If the bacillus, discovered in 1884 by Lustgarten,” in Weigert's laboratory, is really the specific virus of syphilis, this bacillus undoubtedly belongs to the general acrodynamic bacteria, though giving rise to a remarkably slow dynamic evolution of the organisms, this latter remaining unusually long in the different states that correspond to the different degrees of the dynamic evolution of syphilis.
ref: 1891, New York Medical Journal - Volume 54, page 67:
text: Natural and acquired immunity against general acrodynamic bacteria represents the same condition of the system.
ref: 1891, Leartus Connor, The American Lancet - Volume 15, page 357:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Giving rise to an acquired immunity.
hand gel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand gels
Senses: glosses: antibacterial gel for the hands
kiddiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdiət/
Forms: form: kiddiots
Etymology: Blend of kid + idiot
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: script kiddie
kiddiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddiot
jackall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackalls
Senses: examples: text: 1774?, Oliver Goldsmith, A History of the Earth and Animated Nature
The jackall, the syagush, the wolf, and the dog, are of this kind; they pursue with patience rather than swiftness; their prey flies at first, and leaves them for miles behind; but they keep on with a constant steady pace […]
text: A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.
ref: 1819 July 1, “The Political Vis——ss”, in [John Mitford], editor, The New Bon Ton Magazine; or, Telescope of the Times, volume III, number 15, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of jackal.
kutauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hunting a Kutauss, or Civet.
ref: 1801, Sporting Magazine:
text: The kutauss is remarkably bold, sparing nothing which it can overcome, and frequently killing merely, as it were, for sport.
ref: 1873, Thomas Rymer Jones, Mammalia:
glosses: civet
jackalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackall
kurchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an Indian language?
Senses: glosses: The tree Holarrhena pubescens.
lazyload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lazyloads
form: lazyloading
form: lazyloaded
form: lazyloaded
Etymology: From lazy + load.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To load (data) only at the point where it is needed.
lazyloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lazyload
lazyloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lazyload
lazyloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lazyload
lexicostatistician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexicostatisticians
Etymology: From lexico- + statistician.
Senses: glosses: One who studies lexicostatistics.
leafy greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnz
Forms: form: leavy greens
Senses: examples: text: Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
glosses: leaf vegetables
lexicostatisticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicostatistician
Lentner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Missouri.
nasendoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasendoscopies
Etymology: From naso- + endoscopy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nasoendoscopy.
nasendoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasendoscopes
Etymology: From naso- + endoscope.
Senses: glosses: instrument used in nasal endoscopy
nasendoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasendoscope
nasendoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasendoscopy
isotropies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotropy
manoever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of manoeuvre and maneuver.
manoever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of manoeuvre and maneuver.
marburgviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marburgvirus
Eurofags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eurofag
psychosensorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From psycho- + sensorial.
Senses: glosses: psychosensory
Proxmired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Proxmire + -ed, after William Proxmire (1915–2005), American Democratic politician who issued an annual "Golden Fleece Award" to focus media attention on projects he viewed as a self-serving waste of tax dollars.
Senses: glosses: Obstructed to find fault.
raw_tags: of scientific research
wikipedia: William Proxmire
destaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destaffs
form: destaffing
form: destaffed
form: destaffed
Etymology: From de- + staff.
Senses: glosses: To divest of staff or employees.
Related terms: word: destaffing
destaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destaff
destaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From destaff + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Why was there not more talk about destaffing, pay trains, or simplified signalling or single-tracking?
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
glosses: The process of elimination or reduction of personnel.
destaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destaff
destaffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destaff
trimalleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
Etymology: From tri- + malleolar (though strictly speaking there are only two malleoli).
Senses: glosses: Involving the lateral malleolus, the medial malleolus, and the distal posterior aspect of the tibia.
raw_tags: of an ankle fracture
bimalleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
Etymology: From bi- + malleolar.
Senses: glosses: Involving the lateral malleolus and the medial malleolus.
raw_tags: of an ankle fracture
Britfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Britfags
Etymology: From Brit + -fag.
Senses: examples: text: inb4 all the Britfags come in defending their precious "food"
text: This is just one Britfag's opinion…
If you lot are willing to vote a creationist into the second most powerful position in the world, you deserve what ever^([sic]) you get, you fucking 6,000 B.C. faggots.
ref: 2008 September 17, Obscene Dog [username], “Re: Anonymous Hacks Sarah Palin's Yahoo E-Mail”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: Britfags are descendants of the losers who stayed in the British isles^([sic]) and kowtowed to the faggot Stuart queens like James I, and Charles Iand II.
ref: 2011 July 23, gus, “Re: OT: Lucien Freud”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
text: The idea that split infinitives are not OK was invented by pretentious Britfags who had Latin molested into them when they were schoolboys, right along with the Oxford comma.
ref: 2013 March 3, GLOBALIST [username], “BBC article on Grammar Nazis "Please see me after class"”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):
glosses: A person from the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: Brit
Briton
Britfags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Britfag
Utsjoki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Finnish word for the municipality.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Lapland, Finland.
Küntscher nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Küntscher nails
form: Kuntscher nail
Etymology: Gerhard Küntscher is credited with the first use of this device in 1939.
Senses: glosses: A metal rod forced into the medullary cavity of a bone to treat a fracture.
Küntscher nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Küntscher nail
apostemating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apostemate
apostemated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apostemate
capsuloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsuloplasty
dGTPase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dGTPases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrolase enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction dGTP + H₂O ⇌ deoxyguanosine + triphosphate.
dGTPases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dGTPase
Amazonianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amazonianists
Etymology: From Amazonian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Amazonian regions and cultures.
Siberianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siberianists
Etymology: From Siberian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Siberian regions and cultures.
Amazonianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amazonianist
Siberianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Siberianist
fortimicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortimicin