cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
getting nowhere fast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get nowhere fast
got nowhere fast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get nowhere fast
gotten nowhere fast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get nowhere fast
💣
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 💣s
Etymology: A pun.
Senses: examples: text: I will blow up your house 💣💥
text: Dropping truth 💣s
translation: Dropping truth bombs
english: Dropping truth bombs
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text: Taylor Swift is the 💣!
translation: Taylor Swift is the bomb!
english: Taylor Swift is the bomb!
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text: Lmao Madame Web completely bombed at the box office 💣 What a joke 😂🤦
glosses: Bomb (various senses).
💣
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 💣s
form: 💣ing
form: 💣ed
form: 💣ed
Etymology: A pun.
Senses: examples: text: The first thing that popped in my head "who’s really behind this 💣ing?" Could it be manipulation by Trump&Saudis? To start that war w/ Iran, Iraq? Raise oil prices to fill pockets? Who's to say with a fake POTUS! Anything’s possible!
ref: 2019 September 15, @CaroleLSpencer, Twitter:
text: Well if your Playoff bracket wasn't 💣ed yet, should be now
ref: 2022 October 9, u/SRASC, “Race Thread: NCS Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course, starting at 2:00pm EDT on NBC (NCS32)”, in r/NASCAR, Reddit:
glosses: Bomb (various senses).
taxtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Whether you are into double declining balance depreciations or just reconciling your checkbook and putting your house in order for taxtime, you simply cannot find a more powerful desktop calculator for so little money.
ref: 1978 January, “(Advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 132, number 1, page 19:
text: It seems to me that the only way you are ever going to get rid of your extra load of 70 employees at taxtime is to make sure that the person is as well educated as possible, and you have taken a particular interest with fams and small businesses who by nature of their operatiaon have some thorning operations which frequently require counseling or additional eduction.
ref: 1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight, Tax Simplification Proposals:
text: Learn more about our Boat Gift Program and head for smoother sailing at taxtime.
ref: 1996 April, “(Advertisement)”, in MotorBoating, volume 177, number 4:
text: […] to keep records of legitimate income deductions such as business expenses, business vehicle mileage and repair records, personal investment losses, and virtually every other type of business record necessary to accurately deduct expenses and overhead from his gross income at taxtime.
ref: 1997, United States of America V. Valenti, page 4:
text: My older brother, Danny, systematically cuts his food and lifts it to his mouth, rarely raising his eyes to horizontal level; generally serious and reserved, taxtime tends to accentuate his demeanor.
ref: 2001, Arthur Dimond, Blurred Images, page 11:
glosses: Alternative form of tax time.
tax time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax-time
form: taxtime
Senses: examples: text: If this status is applicable to you, verify that your tax advisor has experience with Uniform Capitalization and work closely with him or her to determine the tax consequences prior to tax time.
ref: 2010, Diane Kennedy, Loopholes of the Rich:
text: To get the most business deductions when tax time rolls around, consult an accountant.
ref: 2014, Christine Adindu, Home Cash Power:
text: Hey, he'll thank me come tax time.
ref: 2014, Mark Victor Young, Risk:
glosses: The time of year when one must prepare, file, and pay income tax.
tax-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've rented a tiny office month-to month (expense for tax-time) and gone there on my lunch hour and after work.
ref: 2001, Daniel H. Jones, How to Write a Best-Seller While Keeping Your Day Job!:
text: Understanding what kind of cut the CRA will take can help you decide, first, whether a flip is worthwhile, and second, how much money you need to set aside in order to avoid a nasty surprise at tax-time.
ref: 2009, Ralph R. Roberts, Flipping Houses For Canadians For Dummies:
text: He told too of the ritual his father would perform at tax-time: he would lay out the IRS forms on the dining-room table, go right to the bottom line, to “Amount Owed,” ask the family, “How much should we give the government this year?”
ref: 2014, Kim Townsend, John William Ward: An American Idealist:
glosses: Alternative form of tax time.
Saino's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sainsbury's + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Throw on an oversized denim jacket for those chillier evenings and you’re good to go for that summer bev on Osborne Road, followed by a cheeky trip to Saino’s for a £5 bottle of Echo Falls.
ref: 2021 April 2, Jessamie Rattray, “What your go-to Jesmond girl summer look says about you”, in The Tab:
glosses: Sainsbury's (British supermarket chain).
button seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button seals
Senses: examples: text: Crete now takes its proper place as a half-way house between Egypt and the AEgean. The seals of the period show on them primitive pictographs that are certainly derived from the pictographs of the so-called button seals of Egypt.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 50:
glosses: A small circular seal (imprinting device) of a type used in Ancient Egypt and the Near East.
at the first
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Professor Flinders Petrie, although doubtful at the first, has for many years assigned the deposits in which they were found to the time of the XIIth Dynasty.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 66:
glosses: Dated form of at first.
Tirynthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tirynthian
form: most Tirynthian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tiryns.
Akineton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: biperiden
Sere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A proposed language family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
aureothricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A by-product made during the thiolutin fermentation.
nonureotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ureotelic.
Senses: glosses: Not ureotelic.
fish wrapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish wrappers
form: fish-wrapper
form: fishwrapper
Senses: examples: text: Using his arms as if he planned to en­circle a giant globe, Dad folded the lat­est edition of the local fish wrapper into something akin to its original shape. The final crease hid a portion of the headline blaring the news of Justice Abe Fortas’ $20,000 fee […]
ref: 1969 May 12, E. C. Stevens, “Looking glass by E. C. Stevens: The big questions”, in Lompoc Record, number 28, Lompoc, Calif., page 12, column 5:
text: I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for a while. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best […]
ref: 2006, Sandra Scoppettone, chapter 1, in Too Darn Hot: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Late in the summer of 1936, flush with $75 from winning the West Virginia Open in a playoff, Sam Snead took the train to New York and briefly got lost in the crowds but managed his connection to Pennsylvania for the $5,000 Hershey Open. […] “I looked at Hershey as a chance to see the big guns I’d been reading about in the fish wrappers, to see if I stood any chance up against ’em.”
ref: 2012, James Dodson, “The University of Golf”, in American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Synonym of fish wrap.
synonyms: word: fish wrap
fish wrappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish wrapper
anti-Yankeeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anti-Americanism.
synonyms: word: anti-Americanism
anti-Yanquismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anti-Americanism.
synonyms: word: anti-Americanism
anti-yanquismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-Yanquismo.
antiyanquismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anti-Yanquismo.
baroquism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tendency to favour/use the baroque style.
TIGTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
fish-wrappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish-wrapper
fish-wrapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-wrappers
Senses: examples: text: WHAT BROUGHT on my sudden adversion to anything scanty (in the old scanty town) was that re­cent letter by a well-meaning lady who objected to the brevity of costumes worn by our local high school majorettes. “Indecency,” I believe, was one of her stronger words. And, by golly, I think she’s right. By 1922 stan­dards. Of course, in those days they didn’t advertise hinder-binders in the local fish-wrappers.
ref: 1965 November 5, Jim Gilmartin, “Along Marin’s Sports Trail: No Scanty Clause In Code Of Morals–Times Have Changed”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 105, number 196, San Rafael, Calif., fourth section, page 39, column 1:
text: When I arrived at a banquet to do a story about local volunteer firefighters, one of the volunteers said, “Come on in. So you work for the local fish-wrapper, huh?”
ref: 2007, Entrepreneur Press, Roscoe Barnes III, Public Relations Made Easy, [Irvine, Calif.]: Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 50:
text: One little news article—all right, three, but one of them’d been in the local fish-wrapper and shouldn’t count—and every bartender in the area knew about him and Ginny working together, because they were worse gossips than a cul-de-sac of 1950s housewives.
ref: 2015, L.A. Kornetsky [pseudonym; Laura Anne Gilman], Clawed (A Gin & Tonic Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
glosses: Alternative form of fish wrapper.
fishwrapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishwrappers
Senses: examples: text: I took a long, hot soak in the bathtub and spent another twenty minutes with the local fishwrapper while waiting for my duds to return. The Post-Intelligencer brought me up to date on witch burning as they practice it in the Northwest.
ref: 1982 September, Gordon DeMarco, chapter 23, in The Canvas Prison, San Francisco, Calif.: Germinal Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: A well-arranged badger fight, particularly one that drew a raucous crowd, often rated a Page 1 story in the local fishwrapper.
ref: 1987, Jack Fleming, “The Badger Fight”, in Copper Times: An Animated Chronicle of White Pine County, Nevada, Seattle, Wash.: Jack Fleming Publications, →ISBN, section I (Environment), page 4:
text: Everett bowed, flexed his biceps, and when a familiar detective happened too close to collect the suspect’s firearm, he found himself suddenly swaddled in a big dinosaur hug, just as a photographer from the local fishwrapper prepared to take a shot.
ref: 1995, W.E. Davis [Wally Davis], chapter 6, in Black Dragon (A Gil Beckman Mystery), Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Alternative form of fish wrapper.
fishwrappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishwrapper
shorb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorbs
Etymology: Clipping of shorebird.
Senses: examples: text: The first of the rare species of shorb for AZ I started finding this fall was the Semipalmated Sandpiper, an overlooked and overeported species in Maricopa County.
ref: 2016 September 10, Caleb Strand, “Fall Madness: Shorebirding And More!!!”, in Birding With Caleb (blog), archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023:
text: With it was a much larger curlew species: Long-billed Curlew (the largest regularly occurring shorb in the ABA)
ref: 2019 December 20, Jared Conaway, “On The Wesside Feelin Like a Great”, in AK-AZ Birder (blog), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024:
text: Unfortunately people coming back down the beach flushed the small shorb flock but they flew to the golf course and stuck around a bit.
ref: 2023 September 24, Mary Walsh, “Archived copy”, in Macaulay Library, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A shorebird.
outboardmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Most outboard.
Loramie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Shelby County, Ohio, United States.
shorbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Landscape of the beach, you can see all the little dots lining the waterline are shorbs
ref: 2017 August 15, Drew Beamer, “Avocet Trip Report: Day Three (Prime Hook, Clifton Farm, and DuPont Nature Center)”, in crazed4birds (blog), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024:
text: Long-billed curlews, black-necked stilts, and American avocets are large, gorgeous "gateway" shorbs that beginners can easily identify.
ref: 2023, Sneed B. Collard III, “12 Shorebirds Every Montana Should (Kinda) Know”, Good Enough Guide, in Montana Outdoors, March–April 2023 issue, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2023, page 39:
text: The bird all the way on the left looks like a Wood Sandpiper, but I'm a little out of practice with Eurasian shorbs so I won't call it for sure
ref: 2024 March 29, “are these curlew sandpipers? guangdong china”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024:
glosses: plural of shorb
female-centric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more female-centric
form: most female-centric
Senses: glosses: Featuring and oriented towards women and girls; sidelining or excluding men and boys.
Hackleton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP8055).
nondevastating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not devastating.
gynecoobstetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to gynecology and obstetrics.
postgynecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: After any gynecological surgery.
postgynecologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of postgynecological.
rulewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rule + writing.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rulemaking.
synonyms: word: rulemaking
rulewriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rulewriters
Etymology: From rule + writer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rulemaker.
synonyms: word: rulemaker
slew rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slew rates
Senses: glosses: The change of voltage or current, or any other electrical or electromagnetic quantity, per unit of time.
slewrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slewrates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slew rate.
telewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of writing teleplays.
paraphrasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paraphrase + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The quotation which follows is a paraphrasal condensation of the reading in the Jones text (Jones, op. cit. 1: pp. 298–299).
ref: 1967 May, Martin Levey, Medical Ethics of Medieval Islam with Special Reference to al-Ruhāwī’s “Practical Ethics of the Physician” (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge; new series, volume 57, part 3), Philadelphia, Pa.: The American Philosophical Society […], →LCCN, footnote 242, page 79, column 2:
text: The syntactic nature of suffixation is emphasised through seeking paraphrasal equivalents to standard noun abstracts, leading to the conclusion that manner nominalisations and fact nominalisations are fundamentally different because they show different underlying syntactic structures.
ref: 1990, M[ervyn] F[rancis] Lang, Spanish Word Formation: Productive Derivational Morphology in the Modern Lexis (Croom Helm Romance Linguistics Series), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 23–24:
text: The aim of this chapter has been twofold: […] 2. to throw light upon the transmission of tradition and expository and paraphrasal usage of it in the Gospel.
ref: 1996, Peder Borgen, Early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, →ISBN, pages 155–156:
glosses: Of or relating to paraphrase.
paraphrasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraphrasals
Etymology: From paraphrase + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Condensation and paraphrasal of a report made to Governor Averell Harriman by Judge J. Irwin Shapiro, Commissioner of Investigation of the State of New York, on his investigation into the affairs of the State Liquor Authority.
ref: 1960, “New York (State) Liquor Authority”, in Library of Congress Catalog; Books: Subjects; A Cumulative List of Works Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards, 1955–1959, volume 15 (Netu–Perio), Paterson, N.J.: Pageant Books, Inc., page 39, column 3:
text: From German to Martian, with love, I did an impromptu paraphrasal of a poem about a Spanish dancer.
ref: 1963 November, Roger Zelazny, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes”, in Judith Merril [pseudonym; Judith Josephine Grossman], editor, The Year’s Best SF, 10th annual edition, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, published 1965, →LCCN, section 2, page 233:
text: This petition, requesting each student to sign his name and home state, will be circulated throughout the campus along with a paraphrasal of the Bill itself.
ref: 1964 May 1, “Petitions Circulating For Civil Rights”, in The Vermont Cynic, volume 82, number 8, Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont, →ISSN, page one, column 5:
text: Above we find a paraphrasal of the “Suffering Servant” imagery of Jesus, although the understanding presented here is not that which interpreters see in Scripture.
ref: 1971 October, Carey Landry, Dan Onley, Joe Wise, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Medium and the Message: A Guide for Religious Educators, Cincinnati, Oh.: North American Liturgy Resources, page 48:
text: The Icelandic Poem also gives us the names of the sixteen rune Fuþark under the kenningar form, a kind of paraphrasal frequently used in skaldic poetry.
ref: 2018, Alain de Benoist, translated by Jean Bernard, “The Characteristics of Fuþark”, in Runes and the Origins of Writing, Arktos Media Ltd., →ISBN:
glosses: The act or product of paraphrasing.
Related terms: phrasal
paraphrasals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraphrasal
manfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænflu.ənsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: manfluencers
form: menfluencer
Etymology: Blend of man + influencer, equivalent to man + -fluencer. Lexicalized within academic parlance by by Swiss-German political scientist Regula Stämpfli in a podcast 2022-12-31 shortly after Andrew Tate’s arrest in Romania, as recognized by herself, after marketing lingo dated to the Corona year 2020 to designate a counterpart to emerging female brand influencers.
Senses: examples: text: as part of an emerging research agenda on the implications of responses to manfluencer culture in education settings, we suggest a particular focus on the extent, form and effect of school leadership’s responses to this phenomenon.
ref: 2023 December 17, Stephanie Wescott, Steven Roberts, Xuenan Zhao, “The problem of anti-feminist ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate in Australian schools: women teachers’ experiences of resurgent male supremacy”, in Gender and Education, volume 36, number 2, →DOI, pages 167–182:
text: “These ‘manfluencers’ propagate a lot of the same kind of red-pill ideas, the same kind of theories from evolutionary psychology. […]
ref: 2024 August 14, Vittoria Elliott, “Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet”, in WIRED:
glosses: A manosphere influencer.
wikipedia: Andrew Tate
manfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manfluencer
computer sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer science
disjunctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disjunct + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is one thing to plan, another to execute. How can it be otherwise? The plan rises before the mind’s eye, captivating by its beauty and originality; takes no account of the frequent falterings which one must feel in essaying an untried path, allows nothing for interruptions from sickness, sorrow, or fatiguing professional pursuits, takes not within its ken the contingencies of life, the occasional procrastination in which the mind will indulge, and the disadvantages which distance from the press, disjunctness of publication, and the imperative demands of the printer’s familiar, may concur in producing.
ref: 1853, Samuel Neil, “Preface”, in The Art of Reasoning: A Popular Exposition of the Principles of Logic, Inductive and Deductive, […], London: Walton and Maberly, […], pages iv–v:
text: The other elements of the atonal style are the disjunctness of the melodic line which progresses by leaps and bounds, a sometimes almost self-conscious experimentation with a certain spasmodicness of rhythmic phrase, and a mixture of imagination and logic in the omission of the "unessentials" of form.
ref: 1949, Patricia Ann Rapp, Contemporary American Piano Music, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
text: Thanks to their phenomenological materialism—the disjunctness of their aspects, the palpability of the stuff they are made of—many of Rodin’s sculptures resist being “grasped”: where “to grasp” is “to comprehend” as image.
ref: 2015, Sebastian Zeidler, Form as Revolt: Carl Einstein and the Ground of Modern Art (A Signale Book), Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, →ISBN, page 74:
synonyms: disjunction
glosses: The quality of being disjunct.
synth bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnthʹbās
ipa: /ˈsɪnθ.beɪs/
Forms: form: synth basses
form: synthbass
Etymology: Compound of synth + bass.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of keyboard bass.
synonyms: word: keyboard bass
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The use of a synthesizer for a bassline.
therapy-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɛɹəpi spik/
Forms: form: therapy speak
form: therapyspeak
Etymology: From therapy + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: We recommend that authors and reviewers carefully consider whether manuscript quality is enhanced by the use of therapy-speak.
ref: 2022 January 15, Amy M Franks, David Caldwell, “Unpacking the Use of Therapy-Speak in Scholarly Writing”, in American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, volume 87, number 3, published 1 April 2023, →DOI:
text: Whatever Huberman’s failures of honesty and communication, for instance, he appears extremely well versed in the kind of therapy-speak that’s supposed to tame libidinous excess — suggesting that predators and cads can work through this system as well as any other.
ref: 2024 March 27, Ross Douthat, “The Quest for a New Vision of Sexual Morality”, in The New York Times:
hypernyms: jobspeak
psychologese
therapese
glosses: The employment of psychologic jargon to converse with other people.
Related terms: psychobabble
neurobabble
neurotrash
therapy speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of therapy-speak.
tattooes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tattoo
follow to the grave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows to the grave
form: following to the grave
form: followed to the grave
form: followed to the grave
Senses: examples: text: Credit card debt doesn’t follow you to the grave. Rather, after death, it lives on and is either paid off through estate assets or becomes the responsibility of a joint account holder or cosigner.
ref: 2024 February 13, Holly D. Johnson, Credit Card Debt After Death:
glosses: To cease existence or importance with (a person or thing) upon their passing or destruction.
lucrativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lucrative + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Heah I was de chief janitah an’ custodian of de democratic headquahters of Cook county, a position of responsibility an’ lucrativity.
ref: 1908 May 28, “[Love of Pork Forger’s Bane: Negro Janitor of Cook County Democracy Hall ‘Falls.’ He Fears Effect on Party. Regrets Using John Tansey’s Name, as Political Blunder.] Disgrace on ‘De Pahty.’”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXVII, number 128, Chicago, Ill., page 3, column 2:
text: As before, the rate of preference (or aversion) between x and y (say between risk and lucrativity of meat) equals, in equilibrium, their rate of transformation; and the price of each asset is proportionate to its marginal productivity, the latter being redefined as the utility of the best set of its marginal contributions to various parameters (e.g., to risk or lucrativity of meat, salt, etc.).
ref: 1938 October, J[acob] Marschak, “Money and the Theory of Assets”, in Ragnar Frisch, editor, Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, volume 6, number 4, Colorado Springs, Colo.: Econometric Society, page 321:
text: There are no Democracies in the West; there are only rank plutocracies, all of them now Fascist to the finger tips, having thrown over Cobden and Bright, and grasped the enormous economy and lucrativity demonstrated by the Socialists of State-financed Capitalism which is English for Fascism.
ref: 1945, Bernard Shaw, “Bernard Shaw on Democracy”, in Ramananda Chatterjee, editor, The Modern Review (A Monthly Review and Miscellany), Calcutta: Prabasi Press, page 68, column 2:
text: At start of war, Sir Reg had zealously immersed himself in his newly acquired venture of immeasurable lucrativity, having astutely harnessed an American wife and yet more irons for the fire – shooting irons.
ref: 2014, Frank Valentine, “Slow Ahead”, in The Final Yarn, London: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., →ISBN, page 51:
synonyms: lucrativeness
glosses: The quality of being lucrative.
fall women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fall woman
inconspicuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inconspicuous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Where, by the way, I offer, whether galls (ſuppoſing all aſtringents work by twiſting and curling, as before I ſhewed) do not twiſt the aculeate particles of diſſolved copperas, making of themſelves no colour, into numerous cones, and thereby produce a black colour; the propriety of cones, and pyramids, and other acuminate bodies, being to return none of the light they receive, which is the ſame, as to cauſe inconſpicuity or blackneſs.
ref: 1756, Thomas Birch, compiler, The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, from Its First Rise. In Which the Most Considerable of Those Papers Communicated to the Society, Which Have Hitherto Not Been Published, Are Inserted […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], page 65:
text: The cataract of the anterior capſula. […] It is known by viewing the pupil; behind which, after the cataract is depreſſed, the anterior lamina of the capſula remains obſcured; likewiſe by the opaque appearance behind the pupil, and inconſpicuity of the couching inſtrument behind the pupil.
ref: 1793, William Rowley, The Rational Practice of Physic of William Rowley, M.D. […], volume III, London: […] [F]or the Author; sold by E. Newbery, […]; J. Hand, […], page 290:
text: Slipping the rope from the jenny, he handed her off to his fellow in blackguardly deals, and with remarkable inconspicuity put on the halter and dug in his heels.
ref: 2017, Jan D. Hodge, The Bard & Scheherazade Keep Company, San Jose, Calif.: Able Muse Press, →ISBN, page 55:
synonyms: inconspicuosity
inconspicuousness
glosses: The quality of being inconspicuous.
Related terms: conspicuity
firewood-gatherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firewood-gatherer
soy banter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of soy boy + banter.
Senses: examples: text: The Soy Banter (TM @fender_splendor) 'jokes' in these and Marvel movies are all just variations on the line: "Okay, so I guess THIS is happening..."
ref: 2019 November 25, @cushbomb, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2019:
text: Everything having Joss Whedon soy banter sucks, but it's also gonna suck 5-10 years from now when the backlash hits and all genre stuff will be a Villeneuve riff with zero jokes allowed.
ref: 2021 December 11, @Dok845, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2021:
text: the quippy soy banter that started in Marvel movies and has permeated all movies/TV.
[user Reindeeraintreal's quote reply:] The Joss-Whedon-inification of culture.
ref: 2022 June 28, hotdrinkformat34, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2024, comment section of "Things you hate from the past decade? (2010s)":
text: most of the attention the game has received focuses on the game's "Whedonesque" dialogue, also known as "soy banter."
ref: 2023 January 25, Dani Di Placido, “The Backlash Against ‘Forspoken,’ Explained”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2023:
glosses: Synonym of Buffyspeak (“jocular and irony-laden style of film and TV dialogue pioneered by Joss Whedon”).
synonyms: word: Buffyspeak
extra: jocular and irony-laden style of film and TV dialogue pioneered by Joss Whedon
conspicuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conspicuous + -osity.
Senses: examples: text: This Lake is foure ſcore miles in length, and according to its interualling Circuite, ſometimes two, three, foure, or fiue miles in breadth: yet the body thereof, bending directly South-weſt; keepeth a glaſſie courſe, till it ſalute the auſtiere conſpicuoſity of the ſabulous and ſtony Deſarts: […]
ref: 1632, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Aduentures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauayles, from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell and Humphery Mosley […], page 254:
text: To contradict the mistake would be to rivet curiosity upon the pilgrim, and bid “the blushing primrose top the poppy’s idle part”—to succumb, elevates me to a position of conspicuosity which cannot be hid.
ref: 1846, “[Pearls from Popish Places. By a Serious Party.] Letter II.—To Mrs. Rustler.”, in Douglas Jerrold, editor, Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine, volume IV, London: […] [A]t the Punch Office, […], page 349:
text: It is said by her counsel that to have gone into Henley at that time with a damaged car would have made them too conspicuous. But you will remember that she has said she was not aware that she was being watched. If that was so, you will consider whether the question of conspicuosity would have been present to her mind.
ref: 1933, John Galsworthy, Over the River, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 277:
synonyms: conspicuity
conspicuousness
glosses: The quality of being conspicuous.
Related terms: inconspicuosity
flea-flickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flea-flicker
cabbage root flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabbage root fly
horn flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horn fly
tzetze flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tzetze fly
phorid flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phorid fly
tachina flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachina fly
scorpion flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpion fly
Oriental fruit moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oriental fruit moth
metaethnographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaethnography
meta-ethnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meta-ethnographies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metaethnography.
meta-ethnographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meta-ethnography
meta-ethnographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metaethnographic.
shone through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shine through
alt-righty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alt-righty
form: most alt-righty
Etymology: From alt-right + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [Ryan Murphy] explained that in addition to playing that alt-righty cult leader “Kai” we were introduced to in the trailer, Evan Peters (surprisingly the biggest winner of the cast departures of Jessica Lang and Lady Gaga) will also multi-task by appearing as several famous cult leaders.
ref: 2017 August 30, Kyle Munzenrieder, “Wait, Why Is Andy Warhol in American Horror Story?”, in W:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of the alt-right.
Chipping Warden and Edgcote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district, which includes the named places.
underadherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + adherence.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the substantial personal, social, and economic consequences of patients’ underadherence to medication regimens, the prevalence and impact of underadherence to antipsychotic regimens have been studied extensively.
ref: 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1214:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Insufficient adherence to a treatment.
Related terms: underadherent
Kyanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
underadherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underadherent
form: most underadherent
Etymology: From under- + adherent.
Senses: examples: text: Although half of adult outpatients receiving antipsychotic monotherapy in the CTVHCS were adherent to their treatment regimens, a large proportion were underadherent, and a small proportion had medication oversupply.
ref: 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1214:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Showing underadherence to a treatment; insufficiently adherent.
raw_tags: of a person
Eggertz tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eggertz tubes
Senses: examples: text: The depth of liquid looked through in the Eggertz tubes is so small that the operator has not much difficulty in rapidly adjusting the liquids […]
ref: 1895, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, volume 14, page 1022:
glosses: A graduated tube used in determining the carbon content of steel.
Eggertz tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eggertz tube
FGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FGAs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
coordinate_terms: SGA
glosses: Initialism of first-generation antipsychotic.
FGA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.
ref: 2024 March 17, Daniel Medina and Bob Ortega, “Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Foundation for Government Accountability.
winkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From winky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Resplendent, happy and glorious, appeared our Princess and our Prince! and mightily enjoying the feast of music prepared for them in small parcels, sat all the Royalties and Attracting Magnates; while the great officers of State (in such a state, too! with the thermometer at ninety-five degrees in the electric light shade, if any) watched, lynx-eyed, yet with the gentle winkiness of the cooing turtle-dove.
ref: 1897 July 3, “Jubilopera Notes”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXII, London: […], page 333, column 1:
text: Very few people duped or abused his confidence, for he knew how to uncover lies with extraordinary sagacity; but even that did not irritate him: “The poor wretch,” he often said to us with his delightful smile, “the poor wretch thought that he was deceiving me; but I read falsehood on his face and divined it from the trembling of a little muscle down there in the corner of the mouth which I know very well; it was made known to me also by the ‘winkiness’ of his eyes; there was a moment when I was on the point of betraying myself. Pshaw! he ’s an unhappy creature all the same.”
ref: 1898, Léon Daudet, translated by Charles de Kay, “Life and Literature”, in Alphonse Daudet […], Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 24:
text: His cheeks showed plump and pleasant pinkiness, / His hair a fascinating kinkiness; / Droll was his left eye’s lurking winkiness, / But, dears, his little brain lacked thinkiness!
ref: 1915 October, Rose O’Neill, “The Kewpies and Little Hieronimous”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, volume LXI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, pages 442–443:
text: The Tarantino comparison is obvious, thought it reduces Amores Perros to imply that it’s some kind of Latin Pulp Fiction — the former has a more serious dramatic agenda, and none of the self-satisfied winkiness that makes Tarantino fun but also a pernicious progenitor of empty ironizing ad infinitum.
ref: 2001 June 7–13, Jodi Ramer, “Bitch, bitch, bitch: Tripartite Amores Perros as vast and complex as Mexico City”, in Andrew Hanon, editor, SEE Magazine, number 392, Edmonton, Alta.: Gazette Press Ltd., →ISSN, page 38:
glosses: The quality of being winky.
Bow Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From its shape, like a bow (the weapon).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Hao (“atoll in French Polynesia”).
official mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: official marks
Senses: glosses: A form of intellectual property in Canada, consisting of a name or design used by a Canadian public authority for goods or services, somewhat similar to a trademark. Symbol Ⓜ.
official marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of official mark
synth basses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synth bass
ReA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of reactive arthritis.
Shropshire Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The cheese was developed in Inverness, Scotland, and was given the name of Shropshire only for marketing purposes.
Senses: glosses: A kind of blue cheese made from cow's milk and coloured with annatto.
joy-to-stuff ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joy-to-stuff ratios
Senses: examples: text: It's more about evaluating the joy-to-stuff ratio in your life, and halting the hyperconsumerism that is creating excess debt, complications, and stress.
ref: 2005, Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, What Women Really Want, page 135:
text: Philip Brewer […] advises increasing what he calls the joy-to-stuff-ratio and redefining guilty pleasures as shared social experiences that people can revisit together in a frugal manner.
ref: 2017, Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow, page 198:
glosses: A person's ratio of time spent enjoying life to time spent acquiring material goods.
joy-to-stuff ratios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joy-to-stuff ratio
wreaks havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wreak havoc
wreaking havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wreak havoc
wreaked havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wreak havoc
wrought havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work havoc
Red Gelao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A'ou, an endangered Gelao language of Guizhou, China.
glosses: Vandu, an endangered Gelao language of Ha Giang Province, Vietnam.
longtail cast-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longtail cast-on
cybermilitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybermilitants
Etymology: From cyber- + militant.
Senses: glosses: A militant who is active in cyberspace.
cybermilitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybermilitant
phagocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phage + -cidal.
Senses: examples: text: Evaluation of the antiviral activity of tea tree and eucalyptus EOs aerosolised via a nebuliser showed strong virucidal activity against airborne influenza virus A strain [13] and phagocidal activity against E. coli phage M13 [14].
ref: 2021 October 28, Ekaterina Mirskaya, Igor E. Agranovski, “Control of Airborne Microorganisms by Essential Oils Released by VaxiPod”, in Atmosphere, volume 12, number 11, →DOI, page 3:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: That destroys or inactivates bacteriophages.
stall off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stalls off
form: stalling off
form: stalled off
form: stalled off
Senses: glosses: Dated form of stall (“to employ delaying tactics against”).
Settla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Settler Swahili (“a pidgin language”).
synonyms: word: Settler Swahili
extra: a pidgin language
Settler Swahili
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Settla
glosses: A Swahili pidgin mainly spoken in large European settlements in Kenya and Zambia.
Jingzhao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 京兆 (Jīngzhào).
Senses: examples: text: From 1254 to 1257 Qubilai appointed Lian Xixian to head the newly created Pacification Commission in Jingzhao (modern Xi’an), where he concentrated on enforcing existing decrees from ÖGEDEI KHAN’s reign (1229-41), limiting interest to an amount equal to the principal and emancipating all Confucian scholars held in slavery.
ref: 2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Lian Xixian (Lien Hsi-hsien)”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332, column 2:
glosses: Former name of Xi'an: the capital of Shaanxi Province, China, under the Yuan Dynasty.
shaded fan-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaded fan-foots
Etymology: From shaded + fan-foot.
Senses: glosses: Herminia tarsicrinalis, an inconspicuous species of small, tan-colored erebid moths found in Europe.
sock into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: socks into
form: socking into
form: socked into
form: socked into
Senses: glosses: To beat or assault (a person).
socionomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socionome
Serians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Serian
Serians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Serian
tantrem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantrems
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, ma'am, it is only Master Percy in one of his tantrems," answered the nurse. "it will soon be over, and then he will be good."
ref: 1865, H. M. R, The Beginnings of Evil. Being Tales on the Ten Commandments, page 125:
text: When Briónes came the second day, expecting to find the Princess quite recovered, she forthwith fell into her tantrems at the sight of him.
ref: 1862, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 60, page 92:
glosses: Obsolete form of tantrum.
tantrems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tantrem
ph.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Nauta: They're -- I think it's U-Storage (ph.). Not -- don't quote me on that U-Storage. I don't know. Life Storage (ph.), I believe. U-Storage, Life-Storage.
ref: 2024 April 11, Case 9:23-cr-80101-AMC Document 448-1 Exhibit A, page 60:
glosses: Abbreviation of phonetic; used in parentheses after an utterance in transcripts to indicate that the transcriber has, to ensure accuracy, represented the sounds heard and that the actual referent may be spelled differently.
poop shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poop shoots
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poop chute.
Tizer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tizer
Senses: synonyms: Gin and Gospel Gazette
Tap-tub
glosses: The Morning Advertiser newspaper.
Tap-tub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tap-tub
Senses: synonyms: Gin and Gospel Gazette
Tizer
glosses: The Morning Advertiser newspaper.
Gin and Gospel Gazette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gin and Gospel Gazette
Senses: synonyms: Tap-tub
Tizer
glosses: The Morning Advertiser newspaper.
Janeen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
tibby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tibbies
Senses: examples: text: If he comes up here, I'll be one upon his tibby.
ref: 1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, page 58:
glosses: A person's head.
three-toed woodpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-toed woodpecker
short‐term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short‐term
form: most short‐term
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-term.
short‐term
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more short‐term
form: most short‐term
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-term.
shortterm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shortterm
form: most shortterm
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-term.
shortterm
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shortterm
form: most shortterm
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-term.
marsh hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsh hawk
coon song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coon songs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: minstrel song
glosses: A song in a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people.
Related terms: coon tune
coon tune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coon tunes
Etymology: From coon + tune, chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: A song or piece of music performed by a black musician.
Related terms: coon song
muscle mommies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscle mommy
Caspian shemaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caspian shemayas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Danube bleak.
synonyms: word: Danube bleak
High Legh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English lēah, recorded as Lege in 1086 (DB); High was added from the 15th century.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7084).
shemaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shemayas
Etymology: From Persian شاه (šâh) + ماهی (mâhi).
Senses: glosses: Any of certain fishes in the genus Alburnus.
Derived terms: Caspian shemaya
Manyas shemaya
shemayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shemaya
J-O
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: J-Os
form: J-Oing
form: J-Oed
form: J-Oed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of J/O.