cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
add-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of add-in
shoeshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoeshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shoe shop.
shoeshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoeshop
rorty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːti/
rhymes: -ɔːti
Forms: form: rortier
form: rortiest
form: raughty
Etymology: 19th century UK. Unknown etymology. Farmer (1903) categorises the term as costermongers' slang.
Senses: examples: text: "Tell us a good story, Rodney — one of your rorty ones." / Mr. Rodney shrivelled. / "I fear," he murmured — "I fear I am scarcely in the — er — rorty vein to-night."
ref: 1898, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Londoners, page 280:
text: But compared with the heavy, muffling darkness of the night in which the countryside was sunk, the lights looked positively rorty
ref: 1932, Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm:
text: Any speed any gear it doesn't matter. The 2Eleven's got an enormous powerband huge performance and the rortiest exhaust I've heard in an Elise-based car
ref: 2007 May 31, “Lotus 2-Eleven - Road Test First Drive”, in Autocar:
glosses: Boisterous, rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué.
Derived terms: rortiness
rorty bloke
rorty dasher
rorty toff
tadger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tadgers
Etymology: From Scots tadger (“penis”). Compare English todger (“penis”).
Senses: examples: text: 2005, Liz Rettig, My Desperate Love Diary: by Kelly Ann, Corgi Books, UK, page 302,
G says just the thought of trying to bonk in my house was enough to shrivel his tadger and that he′d rather have sex in Argyle Street in the rush hour than try to do it at my place.
text: I mean childhood doesn′t last long anyway, by the time you realise you are a child ten years later you′re tugging at yer tadger.
ref: 2008, Andrew Melrose, Palace Pier Blues, Lulu, page 70:
text: […]we found this very funny and were laughing, sniggering and started washing our tadgers with the soap, copying this guy, the guy took exception to this and started shouting at us.
ref: 2009, Andy Bell, If Your Feet Are Tired and Weary: A Childhood Memory of a Young Boy Growing Up in the West of Glasgow ... Known Simply to Many as the Land of Temple Scurvy, AuthorHouse, page 129:
text: 2011 (2009), Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (translator), Seven Houses in France, page 97,
‘But just in case, I'm going a bit farther off,’ he pointed to the solitary teak tree and added: ‘That′s the best place in Yangambi for a piss, but l don′t want to risk him seeing my tadger.’
text: Of course the medical staff had seen all this before, and they were quick to put our minds at ease—“Come of^([sic]) then—get your fucking kit off, the officer said, now move it!” came the caring and helpful advice, or “Come on, move it, these nurses aren′t embarrassed at seeing your little tadger—why should you be?”
ref: 2012, Stephen Bridgman, My Bloody Efforts: Life as a Rating in the modern Royal Navy, page 43:
glosses: A penis.
Synonyms: sense: penis
word: fox and badger
tumble dryers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumble dryer
dummy spits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dummy spit
ministeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministerium
Milky Way Galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Milky Way Galaxy
form: Milky-Way Galaxy
Etymology: From Milky Way + galaxy.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The galaxy in which Earth and the rest of the Solar System is located.
Synonyms: Galaxy
Milky Way
Hypernyms: galaxy
mundans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mundan
Great Sky River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Sky River
Etymology: Translation of the name of the night sky phenomenon in several Native American cultures.
Senses: topics: astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Milky Way, the night sky visual phenomenon caused by dense regions of the Milky Way Galaxy appearing nebulous. (Used especially in Native American contexts.)
Synonyms: Silvery River
Milky Way
Silvery River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Silvery River
Etymology: Calque of Literary Chinese 銀河 (yínhé).
Senses: topics: astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the Milky Way, the night sky visual phenomenon caused by dense regions of the Milky Way Galaxy appearing nebulous (generally found when referring to East Asians in a historical context, situated in East Asia)
Synonyms: Great Sky River
Milky Way
Andromeda Galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After a 600-year voyage, the good news is we're exactly where we're supposed to be: We have arrived in the Heleus Cluster, Andromeda Galaxy, year 2819.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Message from Captain Dunn:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spiral galaxy in the Local Group and closest to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Andromeda, the brightest of the Messier objects and often referred to by its designation M31.
wikipedia: Andromeda Galaxy
Synonyms: word: Andromeda
sense: designations
word: Messier 31
word: M31
word: NGC 224
word: UGC 454
word: Great Nebula in Andromeda
Great Nebula in Andromeda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The Andromeda Galaxy, a term that was used before it was known to be a spiral galaxy.
Synonyms: Andromeda Galaxy
M31
NGC 224
white nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white nebulae
Etymology: white + nebula
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a nebula that appears white in colouration through a high-powered telescope (nebulae often appear to have some hint of colour through a powerful telescope, but white when not using a powerful instrument); these nebulae were generally to be determined to be galaxies in the 20th century
Coordinate terms: spiral nebula
great nebula
spiral nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiral nebulas
form: spiral nebulae
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a spiral-shaped nebula
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a spiral-shaped white nebula; these were generally determined to be spiral galaxies in the 20th century
Dreyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dreyer
Dobsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒbˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɑbˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Dobsonians
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A Dobsonian telescope.
Dobsonian telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dobsonian telescopes
Etymology: From Dobson + -ian + telescope
From John Dobson, its inventor.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An alt-azimuth mounted Newtonian telescope; a type of reflecting telescope.
Synonyms: Dobsonian
Related terms: Dobsonian mount
alt-azimuth mount
alt-azimuth telescope
Galilean telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galilean telescopes
Etymology: From Galileo + -an + telescope.
From Galileo, who was the first to use this type of telescope for astronomy.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a type of refracting telescope (refractor) similar to the one used by Galileo Galilei.
Synonyms: Galilean refractor
toss around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses around
form: tossing around
form: tossed around
form: tossed around
Senses: examples: text: "We’ve also tossed around increasing the gate admission from $5 to $7 or $8, but we really want to avoid impacting the fairgoer, so we’re keeping admission at $5," Jensen said.
ref: 2009 August 6, Mark Olson, “County fair adapts to unfair economy”, in Chaska Herald:
glosses: To offer for suggestion.
examples: text: We tossed around the football in the park.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: To toss (throw) from one person to another..
wretche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wretches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wretch.
playnt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playnts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of plaint.
suddain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sudden.
suddain
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sudden.
grownd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grownds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ground.
playnts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playnt
grownds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grownd
unterrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + terrified.
Senses: glosses: Not terrified.
Derived terms: unterrifiedly
Related terms: unafraid
unebbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ebbing.
Senses: glosses: Not ebbing; not tending to ebb.
unwincing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wincing.
Senses: examples: text: So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution.
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 41, in North and South:
text: There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body.
ref: 1932, Barrett Willoughby, “8, 1”, in Spawn of the North, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
glosses: Not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.
Derived terms: unwincingly
ginsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The district of Song-do, about fifty-five miles from Seoul, is the centre of the ginsing industry
ref: 1904, Constance J. D. Tayler, Koreans at home: the impressions of a Scotswoman:
glosses: Dated spelling of ginseng.
biophoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophotons
Etymology: From bio- + photon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A low-energy photon emitted from a biological source (but not by bioluminescence)
biophotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biophoton
correctability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From correct + -ability.
Senses: glosses: the condition of being correctable
ergosurface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergosurfaces
Etymology: From ergo- + surface.
Senses: glosses: The outer surface of the ergosphere.
magnetocentrifugally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From magnetocentrifugal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a magnetocentrifugal manner
initial objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of initial object
initial points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of initial point
whar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Appalachia form of where.
whar
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Due to the proximity of the r key to the t key on QWERTY keyboards standard in English-speaking countries.
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of what.
pekid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːkɪd/
Forms: form: more pekid
form: most pekid
Senses: examples: text: Don't whip Ralph while I'm gone — the poor boy aint well — he looks right pekid
ref: 1892, Bill Arp, The farm and the fireside: sketches of domestic life in war and peace, page 87:
text: Like everybody who had the flu in those days, I was pretty run-down and pekid.
ref: 1966, Kenneth Rexroth, An autobiographical novel:
text: “No sweat, Mister Goldstein. We jus' need somethin' to eat on.” “Matter with yer buddy there?” Goldstein asked suddenly. “He's lookin' a li'l pekid.” “Ain't used to workin' this hard, an' ain't eatin' right neither
ref: 2004, Verne Patten, Somewhere Every Day, page 349:
text: But they looked a little pekid before finally pulling out a 101-90 victory Friday night over the Dallas Mavericks, their first win in three games this season over a Texas team after Thursday's loss in San Antonio.
ref: 1991 February 2, Sam Smith, “Bulls close out Mavericks after getting scare”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of peaked (“sickly-looking, peaky”).
noncompulsory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + compulsory.
Senses: glosses: Not compulsory.
noninitiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + initiative.
Senses: examples: text: The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.
ref: 2008, John G. Matsusaka, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, “Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch”, in Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: In which voter initiatives cannot be brought to the ballot.
raw_tags: of a jurisdiction
constitutive ablation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gene expression that results in cell death.
science center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science centers
form: science centre
Senses: examples: text: Founded in 1967 as a private, nonprofit science center, Talcott attracts thousands of students from the region to its daylong and weekend sessions to supplement their regular science curriculum
ref: 1991 December, G. Keizer with D. M. Kennedy, “Class acts”, in Omni, volume 14, number 3, page 42:
text: Intel's hands-on science centers were so successful with students that the New Mexico State Department of Education adopted them as a model for schools.
ref: 2000 July/August, Edward E Gordon, “Help wanted: Creating tomorrow's work force”, in Futurist, volume 34, number 4, page 48:
text: Gatorade Sports Science institute(R) Committed to providing information in exercise science and sports nutrition. Visit the sports science center at www.gssiweb.com for practical training information
ref: 2001 September 24, “Skills: Which wheel should you draft?”, in Bicycling, volume 42, number 9, page 24:
text: Take Washington D.C.'s much-heralded makeover of Union Station, for example. Or in the Midwest, where adaptive reuse has driven lavish restorations of big stations in St. Louis, now primarily a marketplace, and in Kansas City, where a science center is the main tenant.
ref: 2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: An organization, location, or virtual location where science is done or exhibited, either professionally or educationally.
Related terms: aquarium
exploratorium
laboratory
planetarium
faulcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faulcons
Senses: examples: text: On Felony for ſtealing a Faulcon.
Every perſon that findeth any Falcon ... that is loſt of his Lords,...forthwith he ſhall bring to the Sherif of the County[.]
ref: 1648 Edward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
glosses: Obsolete form of falcon.
low cost carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low cost carriers
form: low-cost carrier
form: LCC
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: An airline that sells very inexpensive tickets but which does not provide (or charges for) typical services like meals or the carriage of baggage.
Synonyms: budget airline
Derived terms: word: LCC
word: ultra low cost carrier
word: ULCC
Related terms: word: low-cost
rufie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rufies
Senses: examples: text: The drug in question is Rohipnol, also called Rufinol ("rufies"). It is a prescription drug given to people who have difficulty sleeping. [...] I know several people who have experienced the effects of this drug. Two of them are close friends of mine who intentionally took rufies after having drunk one beer each; [...]
ref: 1996 June 15, Stacey Burright, “date rape UL?”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):
text: He had come to ditch his rufies and stash of filth in a bid for salvation. I gave him all the unction I could, but there's a problem with ditching your rufies and porn: you can always go out and buy some more tomorrow.
ref: 2008, Tibor Fischer, Good to be God, page 174:
text: Cabeza sold Veedub some top shelf rufies that were "guaranteed to have an object of desire limp and lifeless within sixty seconds."
ref: 2010, Barry F. Schnell, Mundo Del Wampum, page 192:
glosses: Alternative spelling of roofie.
rufie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rufies
form: rufieing
form: rufied
form: rufied
Senses: examples: text: I think all of you are right, this rookie guy's a jerk. My girlfriend's best friend got rufied last year, and it wasn't very pleasant for her. That kind of behavior is sociopathic.
ref: 1999 July 22, jason beveridge, “Too all morans out there (Purple jeuses)”, in alt.alcohol (Usenet):
text: It was after I had been "rufied" and passed out. I only remember a trapeze, a turkey baster, and a sharp pain emanating from my rectum...
ref: 2000 May 1, DJ $#&@!, “Angst digipak pics”, in alt.music.kmfdm (Usenet):
text: He told a story (apologies if I leave out a detail or two) about picking up a hooker in a hotel bar, going to his room and getting rufied and waking up naked and robbed. He said he was back at the same hotel a year later and the same thing happened.
ref: 2011 May 8, Tom, “Hel Needham”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of roofie.
teach grandma to suck eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches grandma to suck eggs
form: teaching grandma to suck eggs
form: taught grandma to suck eggs
form: taught grandma to suck eggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teach grandma how to suck eggs.
don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From a 1707 translation by John Stevens of comical works of Francisco de Quevedo (1580 – 1645).
"You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs"
Senses: glosses: Don't presume to give advice to those who are more experienced.
wikipedia: Francisco de Quevedo
3-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 3-dimensional
form: most 3-dimensional
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of three-dimensional.
4-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 4-dimensional
form: most 4-dimensional
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four-dimensional.
2-dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 2-dimensional
form: most 2-dimensional
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of two-dimensional.
predicative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predicative cases
Senses: examples: text: Hjelmslev also notes that in Tabassaran, a Daghestan language of the Caucasus, a language with a very large case system (see section 5.6), there is a predicative case marked by -u-, -ä- or -ö-.
ref: 2001, Barry J. Blake, Case, page 95:
text: The conclusion could be formulated as follows: in Common Baltic, there was probably a certain marginal use of the instrumental as a marked predicative case alongside the nominative.
ref: 2004, William R. Schmalstieg, Philip Baldi, Pietro U. Dini, Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics, page 88:
text: Even Arie deJong's revision of Volapük addded a predicative case.
ref: 2005, "Paul Bartlett" (username), "New (?) conlang", in alt.language.artificial, Usenet
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A term that may sometimes be used to describe the case marking a predicative nominative (a noun that renames the subject often following a linking verb), or for the adjective that agrees with it (predicative adjective).
yester-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛstə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English yester-, yister-, from Old English ġeostran-, ġiestran- (“previous day, prior day”), from Proto-West Germanic *gesteran, from Proto-Germanic *gesteraz (“yesterday”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyés (“yesterday”). Compare Dutch gisteren, German gestern (“yesterday”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (gistradagis, “tomorrow”), Latin hesternus (“of yesterday”), Ancient Greek χθές (khthés, “yesterday”), Sanskrit ह्यस् (hyás, “yesterday”). More at yesterday.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the day preceding the present; next before the present.
glosses: Of former, earlier, or previous times.
yester-year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yester-years
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yesteryear.
beeyatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beeyatches
Senses: examples: text: She'd bonded with Madison last summer, and this year the child was a little beeyatch.
ref: 2005, Melissa De la Cruz, Skinny-Dipping, Simon and Schuster, page 147:
text: Knock my ambition all you want, but two restaurants in my hospitality group have Grand Award status, which is more than you can say for your places, beeyatch!
ref: 2008, David Kamp, David Lynch, The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge, Random House, Inc., page 35:
text: How come he spanked that beeyatch?
ref: 2006, Devlin O'Neill, A Maid for All Seasons, Volume 5: Firm Commitments: Severed Ties, Running Press, page 251:
glosses: Alternative spelling of biatch.
beeyatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beeyatch
fremds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fremd
garden centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden centre
fitness models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitness model
fitness centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitness center
laines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laine
JUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JU
aërian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of aerian.
navettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navette
solar tracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar trackers
Senses: glosses: Device that moves so as to aim a collector of solar energy at the sun as it crosses the sky
neomenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin neomēnia.
Senses: examples: text: The ſecond, Neomenia, or new moon, in which day they alwaies beganne the moneth; and twelue ſuch monethes made a yeare, by the courſe of the moone; for by the courſe of the ſunne, the yeare conteineth eleuven dayes more, which in three yeares make abouve a moneth.
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 3 Kinges VI:(please specify the verse(s)), page 707:
glosses: The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.
snowgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowgirls
Etymology: From snow + girl, modelled on snowman.
Senses: glosses: A kind of snowman with female features, intended to represent a girl.
snowdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowdogs
Etymology: From snow + dog.
Senses: examples: text: Jeremy Fisher, 13, spent a good part of the afternoon building four snowmen and a snowdog outside his home on Main Street in the Broad Brook section of East Windsor.
ref: 1995 November 30, Mary K. Feeney, “Few Problems In State As 1st Snowstorm Hits”, in Hartford Courant:
text: They then build a giant snowdog together and the ending builds up gradually as the snowdog slowly melts over the weeks.
ref: 1997, The School Librarian, volume 45, page 75:
text: Reagan quickly put the snow to good use, making a snowman in 45 minutes and even a snowdog complete with leash and sunglasses.
ref: 2004 December 29, Jason Ryan, “Let it snow”, in The Island Packet:
glosses: A visual representation of a dog made from snow.
snow out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snows out
form: snowing out
form: snowed out
form: snowed out
Senses: examples: text: The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:
ref: 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Guest”, in The Holly-Tree Inn:
glosses: To cover with snow.
examples: text: It snowed during the second week of February, snowed Thursday and Friday, snowed out the Friday night basketball game with Bethel Christian Academy, snowed until Saturday morning, then turned extremely cold
ref: 2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans:
glosses: To prevent (an event) from occurring because of snow.
Related terms: snow in
snowfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowfighters
Etymology: From snow + fighter.
Senses: glosses: Someone charged with removing snow from roads.
snowflakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snowflakey
form: most snowflakey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snowflaky.
snowstormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snowstormy
form: most snowstormy
Etymology: From snowstorm + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a snowstorm.
snow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snows down
form: snowing down
form: snowed down
form: snowed down
Senses: glosses: to fall from the sky, as snow
mincepie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mincepies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mince pie.
pull back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls back
form: pulling back
form: pulled back
form: pulled back
Senses: examples: text: Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.
ref: 1994, Linda Winstead, Guardian Angel:
text: What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.
ref: 2002, Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars:
text: An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.
ref: 2006, Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies:
text: Typically, this meant that the teams were turning around two sets a week, with a train rolling into the depot on a Sunday for what Hinze describes as a "big strip-out". This would pull the carriages back almost to the bare bones.
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 27:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
examples: text: Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said.
ref: 2010, Africasia, Birao is a garrison town near the border with Chad and Sudan:
glosses: To retreat.
examples: December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom
Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
examples: Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona
Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score when the team is losing.
PSPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSPOs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of public space protection order.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of professional scrum product owner.
PSM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PSMs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of professional scrum master.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of phono-semantic matching.
topics: automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of permanent-magnet synchronous motor.
Related terms: sense: permanent magnet synchronous motor
word: ASM
hit back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits back
form: hitting back
form: hit back
form: hit back
Senses: examples: text: The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post.
ref: 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
glosses: To retaliate
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To return a missed phone call with (someone).
cut back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts back
form: cutting back
form: cut back
form: cut back
Senses: examples: text: The foliage is out of control and needs to be cut back.
text: Some U.S. banks are cutting back their dealings with embassies and other foreign institutions in the United States because of the difficulty of complying with money-laundering rules, the Wall Street Journal reported.
ref: 2010 November 19, Elinor Comlay, "Banks cut back on trading with embassies: report", Reuters (wire) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AJ07J20101120
text: The organization has slimmed down and cut back on its education programming, but the Jazz Market remains a critical gathering place in Central City, and the orchestra is more tightly bonded than before.
ref: 2019 May 28, Giovanni Russonello, “After a Scandal, the New Orleans Jazz Market Rises Again”, in The New York Times:
text: The £3bn held by NR as a contingency fund to cover the impact of events brought about by extreme weather, which enables repairs following flooding and embankment failures, is also to be cut back.
ref: 2023 May 3, 'Industry Insider', “Funds for railway's upkeep”, in RAIL, number 982, page 84:
glosses: To reduce the amount of (something).
examples: text: We need to cut back heavily on office supplies. Is there another vendor we can use?
glosses: To reduce spending.
examples: text: He needs to cut back on doughnuts. He weighs 289 pounds!
text: I've cut back to one pack of cigarettes a week.
glosses: To reduce consumption.
examples: text: I cut back again myself and went over the top of the wave.
ref: 2016, Michael Panckridge, Chasing the Break:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: To perform the cutback maneuver.
examples: text: He almost scored but the defender cut back to him.
glosses: To use a short cut; to move to a location to block someone; to cut someone off
raw_tags: with to
naufragous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin naufragium (“shipwreck”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It is the most dangerous shipwreck, that this naufragous world can give, the shipwreck of faith.
ref: 1862, Thomas Adams, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Of or pertaining to a shipwreck.
Related terms: naufragate
froust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frousts
form: frousting
form: frousted
form: frousted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frowst.
frousts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of froust
frousting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of froust
frousted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of froust
flightcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flight + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, we must hone our skills of flightcraft to a new level of efficiency.
ref: 2006, Eric Begbie, A Waterfowler's Bedside Book:
glosses: The ability, skill, or art of flying.
flightcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flightcraft
Etymology: From flight + craft.
Senses: examples: text: I use the phrase " flightcraft " rather than " aircraft," because flightcraft implies motion. Our structures are commonly known as... flightcraft.
ref: 1930, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents, Hearnings:
glosses: An aircraft, especially one in motion or flight.
Det
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dets
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of detective.
primitia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈmɪʃə/
Forms: form: primitias
form: primitiae
Etymology: From Latin primitiae (“first fruits”).
Senses: glosses: The first fruits.
examples: text: the primitias of your parsonage
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: The first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
primitiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primitia
primitias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primitia
frenchise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frenchises
Etymology: From french + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: […] the clerk of the Sebastian Circuit Court issued a writ of quo warranto, against the appellee, Raphael M. Johnson, requiring him to show by what authority or warrant, he exercises the office and frenchise of Mayor of the City of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian, in this State.
ref: 1857, Reports of cases at law and in equity argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Arkansas, Volume 17, B.J. Borden, page 408:
text: Meetings of Freemen legally & peaceably assembled to Petition Congress for the Elective Frenchise not to be taken away by law, […]
ref: 2008, Steven Hahn, Land and labor, 1865, University of North Carolina Press, page 472:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of franchise.
supercrescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From Latin supercrescens, present participle of supercrescere.
Senses: examples: text: consume or diminish the supercrescent or overgrown Flesh
ref: 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery:
glosses: Growing on some other growing thing.
reverse-commute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverse-commutes
form: reverse-commuting
form: reverse-commuted
form: reverse-commuted
Senses: glosses: To travel to a more urban area in the evening and from it in the morning.
reverse commute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse commutes
Senses: glosses: A trip to a more urban area in the evening, or from it in the morning.
reverse-commutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reverse-commute
reverse-commuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reverse-commute
reverse-commuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverse-commute
reverse commutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse commute
zac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zacs
Senses: examples: text: Coated with black crumbs and custard, the zac streaked out of his mouth like a dum-dum and ricocheted off a tureen.
ref: 1980, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, Picador, published 1981, page 13:
text: 'You're very fortunate.' 'I worked for it, every zac and deener.'
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 370:
glosses: Alternative form of zack.
blood rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood rules
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rule requiring that a player receive medical attention before continuing to play if he is bleeding or there is blood on him or his clothes.
blood rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood rule
reverse commuter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse commuters
Senses: glosses: Someone who travels to a more urban area in the evening and from it in the morning.
reverse commuters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reverse commuter
Bennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Benny
butter curler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter curlers
Senses: glosses: A kitchen tool designed to produce decorative butter shapes for use in food decoration.
frenchises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frenchise
X-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pronunciation of its text representation: a letter X with overbar (X̄).
Senses: examples: text: For example, the fact that give must occur as the leftmost constituent of the V-bar containing it follows from two conditions. The first is a putatively universal linearisation (i.e. word-order) principle proposed by Stowell (1981, p. 68) which we might call the PERIPHERY PRINCIPLE: this can be outlined informally as in (33) below:
 (33) PERIPHERY PRINCIPLE
 (33) The head term of a Phrase appears at the periphery of X-bar
 What (33) says is that the Head must be the leftmost or rightmost immediate constituent of X-bar.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 350:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: X-bar theory
glosses: A phrase, or, equivalently, a node in a syntax tree, which consists either of: (1) an adjunct and another X-bar phrase, (2) a head, X, and an optional complement, or (3) a conjunction sandwiched between two other X-bars. The X is a "pro-letter" which can be substituted by letters such as N for noun, V for verb, P for preposition, I for inflectional, etc.
Hyponyms: I-bar
N-bar
P-bar
V-bar
Meronyms: adjunct
head
complement
Derived terms: X-bar theory
give suck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives suck
form: giving suck
form: gave suck
form: given suck
Etymology: From give + suck (verb) (bare infinitive, though now generally felt as a noun).
Senses: examples: text: Wo be in those dayes to them that are with chylde, and to them that geve sucke.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
text: "She brought forth the earth from her belly. She gave suck. The earth brought forth woman and the woman brought forth the first man out of her belly."
ref: 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 35:
glosses: To suckle; to give milk from the breast (to).
UAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Arab Republic: a former country composed of modern Egypt and Syria.
United Arab Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the United Arab Republic
Senses: glosses: Former (1958-61) country in the Middle East composed of the modern states of Egypt and Syria.
glosses: Former (1961-71) official name of Egypt after Syria left the union.
Synonyms: word: UAR:
Derived terms: UAR
red chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red chips
Etymology: Blend of Red China + blue chip
Senses: glosses: A stock or other investment in a perceived high-value and reliable company of the People's Republic of China.
Related terms: blue chip
monosuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosuits
Etymology: From mono- + suit.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of one-piece clothing that covers all or most of the body
monosuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monosuit
testificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testificates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin testificātus.
Senses: examples: text: The statutory part is, " that no tenant or servant be received without testificate of their carriage, agreeable to the bond annexed," upon the pain of arbitrary punishment ;
ref: 1829, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, page 399:
text: ...and the same day a proclamation was issued, requiring all heritors, and in their absence, their factors and chamberlains, to convocate all the inhabitants on their lands, and to bring them before any of the privy councillors or commissioners appointed by the counil, and cause them to swear the abjuration-oath, and receive a testificate to serve as a free pass, without which any person who should adventure to travel should be holden and used as a communer with the said execrable rebels ;
ref: 1842, James Aikman, Annals of the Persecution in Scotland, page 506:
text: Roger Hastie, parochiner of Keithe, compeired, desireing mariage of a woman in the forsaid parishe, and being demanded concerning a testificate from Irland, quher he had resided of late, as he alleadged, answered ingenuouslie that he had brought none over with him from thence, being forced to omitt it throghe the troubles of the countrie, but was able to give his oathe, and qualifie otherwise, that he was nether maried as yet, nor scandelous in his cariage in the place quher he had liued.
ref: 1843, John Stuart, Extracts from the Presbytery Book of Strathbogie:
text: ... there seems no reason why a certificate should not have been written and signed by the same person but, in any event, the woman who presented it was ordered to leave the parish, a decision which may have had something to do with the fact that she was presenting a child for baptism on her own, the father being dead according to the testificate and so there was no one to support mother and child apart from kirk funds.
ref: 1992, Anne Gordon, Candie for the Foundling, page 300:
text: In the eighteenth century there was a system of interparish testificates that was very similar to the internal passport system imposed upon serfs in Czarist Russia up to the late nineteenth century.
ref: 2013, Thorbjørn Campbell, Arran: A History, →ISBN:
hypernyms: certificate#Noun
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document#Noun
glosses: A certificate of good character that was required to allow travel between parishes in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Related terms: internal passport
wriggle out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wriggles out of
form: wriggled out of
form: wriggled out of
form: wriggled out of
Senses: examples: text: The worm wriggled out of the man's pocket.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wriggle, out of.
examples: text: RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey claimed the operator was trying to "wriggle out of its agreements and block fair pay for its members".
ref: 2025 June 25, Richard Wilcock, “Network News: RMT overtime ban prompts XC cancellations warning”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 11:
glosses: To avoid performing a duty or fulfilling an obligation, by sneaky means.
seatwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seat + work.
Senses: glosses: The schoolwork done by students sitting at their desks during schooltime.
Related terms: chairwork
wanker's cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I was just amazed the poor boy didn't get wanker's cramp having to count out fifteen thousand pounds in cash.
ref: 2001, Dermet Bolger, The Valparaiso voyage:
text: It's amazing how you can get wanker's cramp from frantically squeezing a brake lever
ref: 2003, Battleax, uk.rec.motorcycles.classic https://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles.classic/browse_thread/thread/2cb2328223fc3b67/7b76482a41cd3ec6?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22wanker%27s+cramp%22#7b76482a41cd3ec6
text: I remember when we were like learing the hand break turns and just like that one session gave me like the fucking worst wanker's cramp I've ever like felt in my life.
ref: 2020, Gigguk, Trash Taste podcast:
glosses: An ache in the wrist caused by repetitive movements.
wrong-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wrong-foots
form: wrong-footing
form: wrong-footed
form: wrong-footed
form: wrong foot
form: wrongfoot
Senses: examples: text: Johnson hesitated with his back to goal and was dispossessed by Mulumbu, who instantly played Odemwingie through on goal. The Nigerian kept his composure to wrong-foot Reina.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To cause a competitor to move or put weight on the wrong foot, as by making an unexpected move.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To cause a competitor to move or put weight on the wrong foot, as by making an unexpected move.
To play the ball in an unexpected direction, forcing (the opponent) to change direction suddenly.
examples: text: The Swedish academy had defied bookies’ predictions and wrongfooted critics too many times in the past, and if there was one consensus in the run-up, it was that the prize would not go to Europe, where six of the last ten winners had come from.
ref: 2023 October 5, Philip Oltermann, “Jon Fosse’s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the global stage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: He is cast as a master of brinkmanship who uses shock and chaos to wrongfoot opponents before settling, in the end, for more sober outcomes.
ref: 2025 February 5, “The Guardian view on Trump’s foreign policy: an alarming new order takes shape”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To catch (someone) off balance, off guard; to surprise.
glosses: To place (someone) at a tactical disadvantage.
Related terms: on the wrong foot
start off on the wrong foot
yule log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yule logs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Yule log.
zip-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ever since actor and WH cover star Alexandra Daddario slow-mo jogged onto our screens in the Baywatch reboot, we’ve been wondering what she did to look that fit in a red zip-up swimsuit.
ref: 2023 March 20, Rebecca Gillam, Bridie Wilkins, “Alexandra Daddario and her PT on how she built her Baywatch bod + her 10 regular workout rules”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Fastened by means of a zip.
zip down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zips down
form: zipping down
form: zipped down
form: zipped down
Senses: examples: text: "Naughty cat," she said, but less fiercely, while she zipped down her jacket and made a warm pocket for the kittens in the crook of her arm.
ref: 1968, John Crowe Ransom, Kenyon College, The Kenyon review: Volume 30:
text: And the man, another Jamaican, says him don't buy puss in a bag so open the bag and make me see the goodies, and I zip down my pants and take it out, and then he asks me to jack off and I'm feeling weird […]
ref: 2007, S. J. Rozan, Bronx Noir:
glosses: To unzip.
varroatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Varroa + -osis
Senses: glosses: A disease of honeybees caused by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.
Synonyms: varroosis
gantas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganta
Issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪʃ(j)u/
/ˈɪʃ(j)ə/
Forms: form: Issues
Etymology: From Free (“not enslaved”) Issue (“progeny”), "an antiquated designation for descendants of enslaved people who were freed before the Civil War", later applied to Monacans because Virginia laws for a time required births to be registered as either "White" or "Colored", erasing Indians, and clerks later haphazardly classified Monacans (even from the same mother and father) as "Mixed Indian", "Negro", or "Issue".
Senses: glosses: A Monacan Indian; a member of a Mestee group originating in Amherst County, Virginia.
Latinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latinists
Etymology: From Latin + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As the best plan will be to allow it to speak for itself, I here give the black-letter fac-simile, together with the original Latin without the contractions, from which it will be seen that the writer was a fair mediæval Latinist.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A scholar who studies the Latin language.
Latinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latinist