cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
MES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MESes
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of main engine start.
glosses: Initialism of musical ear syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome
Related terms: english: main engine
translation: main engine
word: ME
english: main engine cut-off
translation: main engine cut-off
word: MECO
english: sustainer engine start
translation: sustainer engine start
word: SES
cash value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash values
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: Surrender value.
cash values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cash value
Erath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Derived terms: Erath County
sploof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sploofs
Etymology: Blend of spliff + tube with influence from poof.
Senses: examples: text: A common tool known as a sploof—a cardboard tube stuffed with dryer sheets—traps the pungent smoke when a user exhales into it. While the sploof doesn't completely eliminate incriminating odors, it reduces them significantly.
ref: 2014 December 5, I.M. Stoned, Dope: The 200 Most Awesome Things About Weed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: -If you're in a place where it's frowned upon to vape/smoke, I recommend using a sploof, covering the bowl, opening a window. Also, Light incense. They are honestly the best thing for a smoker. They fill the room with a strong scent, covering up any dank smell preexisting.
ref: 2015 May 4, Randall Scott, “Chapter Four - Getting Started”, in The Complete Guide to Cannabis, Randall Scott:
text: She'd flown out from the East Coast alone, and her only contributions to our joint housekeeping were blackout curtains, an elephant-shaped bong she bought on Telegraph, and something she called a sploof—made out of a paper towel roll, stuffed with dryer sheets—that she breathed into to minimize the pot smell. (We called the sploof Laura Ingalls, because its towel cap, secured by a rubber band, looked like a bonnet.)
ref: 2019 June 4, Amy Mason Doan, “6 Busting Out”, in Summer Hours: A Novel, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: “Who ate my last jar of narbo nuts?” “Ech, nobody. Those things taste like sploof.” “Well, someone ate them, because they're gone.” “You just lost them.” “I did not!”
ref: 2022 July 13, Mike McMahan, “99 Ships” (13:11 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 3, episode 6, spoken by Trildo's Wife (Cree Summer):
text: It's like being back in college (that "sploof" tube) dryer sheets stuffed into the end of a cardboard tube softening the odors, or so we thought as we wrinkled our noses at the dankness of it all hidden somewhere in the bathroom cabinet always ready to mask the smell so no one knows you smoke weed.
ref: 2024 February 7, Steven M. Wuebker, Relentless Liminality: (a few collections), Balboa Press, →ISBN:
text: We were on our third episode already. The air smelled of weed, but only a little, thanks to Cara's well-made and well-used sploof. We were sitting on the couch—well, "sitting" might've been a little strong. We were slouched deep into the cushions, our bodies more like gelatin than anything else.
ref: 2024 September 10, Jordan K. Casomar, “chapter twenty-seven ZEKE”, in How to Lose a Best Friend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A tube or bottle stuffed with dryer sheets, used to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
sploofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sploof
hot dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot dog
hot dogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot dog
life insurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life insurers
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: An insurance company that provides life insurance policies.
general insurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general insurers
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: An insurance company that provides general insurance policies.
life insurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life insurer
general insurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general insurer
sick sinus syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An arrhythmia presumably caused by a malfunction of the sinus node, the heart's primary pacemaker.
Synonyms: word: SSS
excogitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: imaginable; able to be thought or conceived of
Derived terms: unexcogitable
Related terms: excogitate
acylindric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + cylindric.
Senses: glosses: Not cylindrical.
Foard County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Robert Levi Foard.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Crowell.
Parker square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parker squares
Senses: examples: text: The use of Parker squares in the construction of sets of mutually orthogonal Latin squares is then examined.
ref: 2004, Mathematical Reviews, page 8484:
text: A main class will contain a certain type of Parker square if and only if each square in the class is isotopic to a Parker square of that type.
ref: 2004, Ian M. Wanless, “Diagonally cyclic latin squares”, in European Journal of Combinatorics, volume 25, number 3:
text: Thus, Parker squares of different types may lie in the same isomorphism class and, a fortiori, in the same isotopism or main class of latin squares.
ref: 2015, A. Donald Keedwell, József Dénes, Latin Squares and their Applications, →ISBN, page 287:
glosses: A radially symmetric Latin square.
Parker squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parker square
CERA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CERAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (professional qualification). Alternatively: Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary, or Certified Enterprise Risk Analyst.
glosses: Initialism of continuous erythropoietin receptor activator.
CERAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CERA
beflag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈflæɡ/
ipa: /biˈflæɡ/
ipa: /bə-/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: beflags
form: beflagging
form: beflagged
form: beflagged
Etymology: From be- + flag.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from the beflagging of streets and the organisation of processions and festivities, the idea was to make the security arrangements so prodigious and so inconvenient that the extreme importance of the Marshal’s person would be forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people of Budapest.
ref: 1949, Derek Kartun, chapter 9, in Tito’s Plot against Europe, London: Lawrence & Wishart, page 62:
text: What she was experiencing was an absence of sounds in general, not my own peculiar distinction of noises no longer heard: the screeching of pulley-wheels as rainyday washings rose to beflag the ceiling; the thump of doors closing […]
ref: 1992, Jeff Torrington, chapter 14, in Swing Hammer Swing!, New York: Harcourt Brace, page 124:
glosses: To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
beflags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beflag
beflagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beflag
beflagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈflæɡd/
ipa: /biˈflæɡd/
ipa: /bə-/
rhymes: -æɡd
Forms: form: more beflagged
form: most beflagged
Etymology: From beflag + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: It amuses me to think by day, when broad awake in my sad English prison, and among my crazy peers, how this nightly umbrageous French solitude of mine, so many miles and years away, is now but a common, bare, wide grassy plain, overlooked by a gaudy, beflagged grand-stand.
ref: 1891, George du Maurier, “Part Sixth”, in Peter Ibbetson […], New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 410:
text: All other folks slumbered and took their rest: Vaekehu, the native Queen, in her trim house under the rustling palms; the Tahitian missionary, in his beflagged official residence; […]
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Prologue. In the Marquesas.”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: There was little ceremonial to mark the opening of the completed railway beyond the fact that a decorated train left Paddington at 8 a.m. on the morning of June 30 a hundred years ago and, passing the beflagged ends of Box tunnel, arrived at Bristol at noon.
ref: 1941 November, “Notes and News: G.W.R. Main-Line Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 521:
glosses: Decorated or hung with a flag or flags.
beflagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈflæɡd/
ipa: /biˈflæɡd/
ipa: /bə-/
rhymes: -æɡd
Etymology: From beflag + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beflag
supercompound interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of super-compound interest.
super-compound interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercompound interest
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Two-tier compound interest in which there is a higher interest rate on the accumulated unpaid interest than on the principal.
Related terms: simple interest
compound interest
PATs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PAT
alternative left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The alt-left.
Freestone County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either named for freestone peaches, or for the nature of the soil (free of stones).
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Fairfield.
Frio County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Frio River, from Spanish frío (“cold”).
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Pearsall.
wikipedia: Frio River
whistle-belly vengeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whistle + belly + vengeance.
Senses: examples: text: While East was making his toilet, Tom turned to the table, and made an assault on the bread and bacon, and then poured himself out a glass of beer and began to drink it, but was pulled up half way, and put it down with a face all drawn up into puckers by its sharpness.¶ "I thought you wouldn't appreciate the widow's tap," said East, watching him with a grin. "Regular whistle-belly vengeance, and no mistake! Here, I don't mind giving you some of my compound, though you don't deserve it."
ref: 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, page 449:
glosses: Poor-quality beer.
Synonyms: pinch-belly vengeance
whip-belly vengeance
Gaines County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Gaines.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Seminole.
pinch-gut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinch-guts
Etymology: From pinch + gut.
Senses: examples: text: Por. We are my Lady Pinch-guts men, Sir.
Co. Her Men? No, he Mice. We live upon crums,^([sic]) and a good Cat would run away with us all.
[…]
L. W. I wonder at it; my Lords humour is very oppoſite to hers, he loves Grandeur.
Co. So does ſhe, Sir, but hates to pat for't. She will ha' Servants for a ſhew, and they ſhall ha' Liveries for a ſhew, when company comes: But when company's gone, we are ſtripp'd and ſtarv'd; a damn'd Papiſtical Heathen.
ref: 1690, John Crowne, “Lady Pinch-guts Houſe”, in The English Frier, act 2, scene 1, page 9:
text: Pinch-gut—A mean purser.
ref: [1883, William Clark Russell, Sailors' Language, page 103:
glosses: A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
Synonyms: pinch-back
pinch-belly
pinch-commons
pinch-crust
pinchfist
pinchpenny
pinch-plum
Derived terms: word: pinch-gut money
english: allowance paid if provisions run short
translation: allowance paid if provisions run short
word: pinch-gut pay
english: ship that feed sailors poorly
translation: ship that feed sailors poorly
word: pinch-gut ship
english: bad beer
translation: bad beer
word: pinch-gut vengeance
english: very hungry
translation: very hungry
word: pinch-gutted
pinch-commons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pinch + commons.
Senses: examples: text: She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs come to reform Zetland customs, let them try how they like a Zetland storm.—You that would not perish, quit this house!"
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Pirate:
glosses: A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
Synonyms: pinch-back
pinch-belly
pinch-crust
pinchfist
pinch-gut
pinchpenny
pinch-plum
Garza County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the family of José Antonio de la Garza.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Post.
wikipedia: José Antonio de la Garza
reiteratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reiterative
celluloid ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement for women in the filmmaking industry.
gray ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: silver ceiling
;
more at glass ceiling § Coordinate terms
glosses: An informal (and often unacknowledged) barrier to promotion or advancement for younger people, as a result of older people continuing to work instead of retiring.
Related terms: ageism
Gillespie County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Robert Addison Gillespie.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Fredericksburg.
wikipedia: Robert Addison Gillespie
resorcinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From resorcin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: resorcinol poisoning
pairs of colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of colors
Senses: glosses: plural of pair of colours
yowsah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yowzah (“yes sir”).
Goliad County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the county seat.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Goliad.
goatchafer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatchafers
Etymology: From goat + chafer.
Senses: glosses: The dor, a kind of dung beetle.
goatchafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goatchafer
flint-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flint-hearted
form: most flint-hearted
Senses: examples: text: Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.
ref: 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of hardhearted.
synonyms: word: hardhearted
Related terms: flint-eyed
skinflint
flint glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flint glass
Goliad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An anagram of "Hidalgo", the name of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, without the silent H.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Goliad County, Texas, United States.
wikipedia: Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Derived terms: Goliad County
Related terms: Hidalgo County
intook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of intake
Grimes County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Jesse Grimes.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Anderson.
wikipedia: Jesse Grimes
termitine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to termites.
Calamity Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary or Cannary; 1852–1903), American frontierswoman.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The queen of spades.
wikipedia: Calamity Jane
Hansford County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John M. Hansford.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Spearman.
unpenetrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpenetrative
form: most unpenetrative
Etymology: From un- + penetrative.
Senses: antonyms: penetrative
glosses: Not penetrative.
unpenetrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpenetrating
form: most unpenetrating
Etymology: From un- + penetrating.
Senses: examples: an unpenetrating analysis
glosses: Failing to penetrate.
styme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stymes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stime.
stymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of styme
synema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syn- + -nema (“filament”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The column of combined filaments in a monadelphous flower.
Related terms: synnema
Hays County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Coffee Hays.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: San Marcos.
wikipedia: John Coffee Hays
Related terms: Hayes County
bursalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A muscle moving the nictitating membrane, as in birds.
wholewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wholewise
form: most wholewise
Etymology: From whole + -wise.
Senses: glosses: as a whole; completely
glosses: all at once
Related terms: fullwise
Guangshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwängʹshwāʹ
Forms: form: Kwangshui
form: Kuang-shui
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣水 /广水 (Guǎngshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: The area is one where the Reds have been strong for several years, and, allegedly reinforced by several thousand Reds, the revolting troops tore up some 30 li of railway track and occupied the whole area between Hsinyang and Wushengkuan, capturing Kuangshui.
ref: [1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “Armed Revolt”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: Besides habitat loss and alteration, poaching also gives cause for concern. Hunted males were observed for sale alongside Common Pheasant at a restaurant in Guangshui County, Hubei, in spring 2006.
ref: 2008 August, Yang Liu, Zheng-wang Zhang, Jian-qiang Li, Yu Zhang, Shan Lu, Xiang-feng Ruan, “A survey of the birds of the Dabie Shan range, central China”, in Forktail, volume 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83, column 1:
glosses: A county-level city of Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.
glosses: A subdistrict in Guangshui, Suizhou, Hubei, central China.
fullwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fullwise
form: most fullwise
Etymology: From full + -wise.
Senses: glosses: to the full; completely
Related terms: wholewise
Hood County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Confederate general John Bell Hood.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Granbury.
Related terms: Hood
Hood River County
Granbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Hiram B. Granbury.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Hood County, Texas, United States.
wikipedia: Hiram B. Granbury
Hunt County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Memucan Hunt Jr.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Greenville.
wikipedia: Memucan Hunt Jr.
victimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of victimate
vigilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vigilate
viliorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of viliorate
vinews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vinew
snives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snive
skeleton screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeleton screens
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A simplified display with empty placeholders for content that has not yet loaded.
skeleton screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton screen
uningestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ingestible.
Senses: glosses: Not ingestible.
ice spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icespar
Senses: glosses: A variety of feldspar remarkable for its transparent ice-like crystals.
icespar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice spar.
Jack County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after brothers Patrick and William Jack.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Jacksboro.
swaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swape
swaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swape
multurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multurers
Etymology: From multure + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pays a multure.
multurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multurer
mulukhiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
conventicled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conventicle
Jacksboro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jack + -s- + -boro.
Senses: glosses: A town, the county seat of Campbell County, Tennessee, United States. Shortened from Jacksonboro.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Jack County, Texas, United States. From the surname Jack.
Rogation-flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rogation-flowers
Senses: glosses: milkwort
Rogation-flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rogation-flower
Rogation Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The fifth Sunday after Easter, preceding Ascension Day.
arangos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arango
Jim Hogg County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after James Stephen Hogg.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Hebbronville.
wikipedia: Jim Hogg
Hebbronville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Hebbron + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Jim Hogg County, Texas, United States.
placentophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of placentophagy.
spilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπίλος (spílos, “a spot”).
Senses: glosses: naevus
codologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codology
oreologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oreologists
Senses: examples: text: The Oreologists relate that there is a Mountain in the Province Uquang, which is so tenacious of its own right, that if any one hath feloniously taken any of its wood, fruit, or the like, he shall never be able to depart thence, being perpetually included as in a Labyrinth; but he that religiously abstaineth, may go thence without trouble.
ref: 1669, Joan Nieuhof, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Province to the Grand Tartar Cham emperour of China:
text: "Many more arguments," he says, "all leading to the same conslusion, may be deduced from the general facts, known in the natural history of mountains; and, if the oreologist would trace back the progress of waste, till he come in sight of that original structure, of which the remains are still so vast, he perceives an immense mass of solid rock, naked and unshapely, as it first emerged from the deep, and incomparably greater than all that is now before him..."
ref: 1809, Jean André Luc, An Elementary Treatise on Geology, page 108:
text: We may safely conclude, then, that the accurate and ingenious Oreologist of Geneva ought to have been a Plutonist, in order to give consistency to the principles which he had adopted, and to make them coalesce as parts of one and the same system.
ref: 1822, James George Playfair, The Works of John Playfair, page 505:
glosses: Alternative form of orologist.
oreologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oreologist
pinch-guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinch-gut
gazettment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There has to be a gazettement. So, only a third of the district was gazetted as a hardship area.
ref: 2004, Kenya National Assembly Official Record:
text: Even up until the completion of the project the evaluation and gazettment of the new land use plan incorporating project inputs was not completed due to the fact that the decision for the gazettment rests with the highest authority, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, and a longer process is needed.
ref: 2007, Sustainable Collaborative Forest Management, Center for International Forestry Research:
text: The gazettement period can be longer on a case-by-case basis depending on your duration of training before passing the MRCP.
ref: 2015, Dr. Pagalavan Letchumanan, Hard Truths Of Being a Doctor Vol2: Life and Challenges, →ISBN:
glosses: The process of publishing officially in a gazette.
you ask me, I ask who
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 你問我，我問誰／你问我，我问谁 (nǐ wèn wǒ, wǒ wèn shéi).
Senses: examples: text: 'What the hell was she trying to do?' I asked Callum. 'You ask me, I ask who?' he looked bemused.
ref: 2014 04, Celina Wong, Righteous Betrayal, PartridgeIndia, →ISBN, page 27:
text: "No, I'm not colour-blind, but it's been like this since I can remember. Even Doctor Lam doesn't know why all home-building blocks look grey to me. How come like that, ah?" "You ask me, I ask who?"
ref: 2020 December 27, Tan Jie Ying, “"The Colour of Glass"”, in Home Groan: A NutMag Anthology, Malaysian Writers Society:
text: So Bilbo's nephew Frodo... Aiyah, dun ask me why their name all so funny, can or not? You ask me, I ask who?
ref: 2023 September 8, Devyani Sharma, From Deficit to Dialect: The Evolution of English in India and Singapore, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: I don't know, how should I know
socdologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socdologers
Senses: examples: text: Where-unto shall I liken Theologus, Planning attacks and preparing socdologers ?
ref: 1854, Julia Ward Howe, Passion-flowers, page 128:
text: Mr. J. K. Ingalls, in the introduction to his "Social Wealth," deals a few socdologers to economic sophisms.
ref: 1884, Liberty (Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order):
text: There is one clause, however, which my friend, Screechorn, says is a "socdologer."
ref: 1894, American Economist - Volumes 13-14, page 232:
text: That was a socdologer, but Billy was socdologer proof, and after a moment's pause, he responded with an emphasis none can command but those who communicate important and undeniable truths.
ref: 1956, The Emory University Quarterly - Volumes 12-13, page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of sockdolager (“finishing blow or conclusive argument”).
examples: text: Do not allow your mind to wander from your work, or the extra pull of a socdologer may send you off your pins, if you are standing on an uncertain foundation ; and the fish unhook himself, when by attention he could have been successfully landed.
ref: 1870, Horace Elisha Scudder, The Riverside Magazine for Young People, page 148:
text: Let me turn aside to dwell on the pleasant remembrance of the capture of a real socdologer.
ref: 1895, Sir Herbert Maxwell, Post Meridiana: Afternoon Essays, page 334:
text: This was partly occasioned by the confounded, socdologer of a foreman; partly, by the blunders of the compositors, a choir of journeymen & apprentices, as unlike our choice little group of Charley & Willard &c &c as Scotch snuff is unlike gold dust.
ref: 1987, Harvard Library Bulletin - Volume 33, page 323:
glosses: Alternative form of sockdolager (“something large or exceptional; a whopper”).
socdologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socdologer
belly vengeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many of them were off almost as soon as they came; the taste of her small beer was quite sufficient to get them going throughout all the neighbourhood. It obtained the name of belly vengeance, and belly vengeance it truly is.
ref: 1833, Rev. Rowland Hill, “Dialogue XLIL: Alderman Greedy's Character”, in Village Dialogues, 29th edition, volume 2, London: T. T. & J. Tegg, page 266:
text: Aw, my dear! sich sour maggoty bread, and sich ratten stinking bickies, and sich sour belly-vengeance beer, when we cud git any.
ref: c. 1860, John Tabois Tregellas, “California”, in Cornish Tales, page 66:
text: Tea an' coffee are things 'at dooant mend wi' warmin up, an' yo connot allus wait woll fowk mak it, an' soa if yo want to sup yo mun awther goa an' beg a drop o' watter, or pay fourpence for a glass o' belly vengeance, or yo mun get a glass o'drink—but yo've noa need to get a dozzen.
ref: c. 1890, John Hartley, “New Machinery &c.”, in Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series:
glosses: Poor-quality, sour beer likely to cause a stomachache.
Related terms: pinch-belly vengeance
whip-belly vengeance
whistle-belly vengeance
bargander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barganders
Etymology: Corruption of burrow + gander.
Senses: examples: text: Thanet has abundance of wild-fowl in a severe winter; and a bird, called the bargander, in Latin, chemaloper, often frequents the marshes and waters in it.
ref: 1801, The New Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs Guide:
text: Here he sees the whirlings of the ducks, hears the booming of the bitterns, the scream of the heron, the whistle of the plover; sees the figure of the wild geese, the deceit of the lapwing, the variegated beauty of the bargander, the single circling of the curlew, the rapid flight of the teal, the more noisy rush of the dunbird, and listens to the pleasing call of the widgeon: -- these are the varieties which set the embers of his soul on fire.
ref: 1829 November, “Wild Fowl Shooting”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 23, page 162:
text: Well, we remained at Petala from the 16th to the 24th -- eight shooting days, and killed between us sixty-seven and a-half brace of woodcock, twenty- seven brace of teal, thirty-three brace of widgeon, fifteen brace of ducks, seven and a-half brace of geese, two brace of sea-pheasants, one and a-half brace of barganders and one hare; so far as we were concerned, (that is, my friend and I) we would have been well satisfied to remain for another eight days; but below stairs the rumblings of a coming storm, the premonitory symptoms of a mutiny, at length made themselves so distince, that it was absurd to attempt to feign ignorand any longer: there was nothing for it but to never ourselves like brave men for the coming struggle.
ref: 1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 146:
text: And such egs not only Doves do bring, but house hens also, Partridges, Peahens, Geese, and Brants, or the female Barganders.
ref: 1937, University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory, Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum, page 12:
glosses: Synonym of shelduck.
synonyms: word: shelduck
barganders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargander
hedgy-boar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedgy-boars
form: hedgyboar
Etymology: From hedgy + boar.
Senses: examples: text: Aw loar! the owld gipsies what do live 'pon hedgyboors and that soort of mait, was more betterer off then we wor was regaard to livin'.
ref: c. 1860, John Tabois Tregellas, “California”, in Cornish Tales, page 67:
text: He sought where grew, in aspect lew, / The skedgwith and the scow, / And he routed the sleepy hedgy-boar, / And the lively padgypaow.
ref: 1895, Joseph Thomas, “The Quest of the Gwidgy-gwee”, in Randigal Rhymes, page 15:
text: Billy was a forthy fellow, prickly as a hedgyboar.
ref: 2011, Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy; 2):
glosses: A hedgehog.
Related terms: hedge-boar
hedgy-boars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedgy-boar
redecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rede + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: A flaw or an unsoundness in redecraft is a thought-putting which is unsound or cheatsome or guilesome.
ref: 1888, The Edinburgh Review - Volume 168, page 126:
text: These are, in redecraft, the English language and literature, mathematics, psychology; in handcraft, the physical sciences, physics, chemistry, biology; with regular and ample laboratory work in each.
ref: 1895, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Proceedings of the Annual Convention - Issues 8-12, page 78:
text: Accordingly, that institution or school is best which enforces habits of order, attention, obedience, discrimination, memory ; which then secures skill in handcraft and redecraft, and likewise shows how these habits and this skill may be applied in useful avocations.
ref: 1897, Daniel Coit Gilman, A Study in Black and White, page 8:
glosses: The class of subjects for study that rely upon logic and reasoning, as opposed to experimentation and observation.
terricoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terricole
crinolette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crinolettes
Etymology: From crinoline + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The Princess of Wales has won two millinery victories this year -- both on the side of common sense. She has banished the crinolette, in spite of Paris. She has retained the small bonnet in fashion, still in spite of Paris.
ref: 1883 October 6, “Hurrah, For the Princess!”, in Punch, volumes 84-85, page 161:
text: The jupon or steel petticoat, which in the crinoline period was bell-shaped, in 1869 became flat in front and at the back sloped groundwards from the waist, where the tournure or "crinolette" projected over the jupon in a sweeping curve.
ref: 1935, Baron Angus Holden, Elegant modes in the nineteenth century: from high waist to bustle:
text: About 1873, the crinolette was abandoned and the bustle was forced to drop down the back of the skirt because of the long line of the popular cuirass bodice; it was later discarded when the fashionable silhouette narrowed still further with the 'princess line' dresses of the later 1870s.
ref: 1995, Karen Baclawski, The Guide to Historic Costume, page 95:
glosses: A whalebone, cane, or steel framework that was worn between petticoat and dress, attached at the waist and projecting backwards but not as far to the sides as in the case of a full hoop skirt.
crinolettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crinolette
doublepack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublepacks
Etymology: From double + pack.
Senses: glosses: A package containing two of an item, often DVDs or CDs.
emplectons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emplecton
doublepacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doublepack
swanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanships
Etymology: From swan + ship.
Senses: examples: text: "That's what I feel," replied Jasper, relieved, then chuckled to see the sleek, bewhiskered head of a seal pop out of the water by the swanship.
ref: 1979, Lorna Baxter, The eggchild, Dutton Juvenile, →ISBN:
text: He might have been drowned, along with fat Basil, that arrogant merchant, when the swanship broke apart. Indeed, he thought, in all of his wanderings since his birth in the Carthaginian hills, he had rarely been far from death.
ref: 1983, Dikkon Eberhart, Paradise: A Novel, Stemmer House Pub, page 14
glosses: A ship shaped like a swan.
raw_tags: in fiction
swanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swan + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "A flight towards swanship, certainly." "Full swanship," said the girl. "I won't have him for a swan yet in my aviary; he must first grow other and finer feathers."
ref: 1910, The Pall Mall Magazine:
text: The biography bears the ever-accompanying character of historical writings, with this aim: the obscuring of unpleasant episodes, the promotion of all geese to swanship. The people of the West are particularly sensitive to criticism.
ref: 1912, The Nation, page 15:
text: He is a dingy duck who would assume swanship, a crow who would strut as a peacock, an alley cat who would pass himself off as a lion. Imagining himself gifted above all of us perfected craftsmen, he has the effrontery to range ...
ref: 1943, Dent Smith, Encore: A Continuing Anthology:
glosses: The status of being a swan; swanhood, swanness.
swanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swanship
scintillon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scintilla + -on.
Senses: examples: text: There are two separately isolatable systems: the particulate (scintillon) system and the soluble system.
ref: 1970, Per Halldal, Photobiology of Microorganisms, page 436:
text: Schematic representation of scintillon structure and localization, along with the proposed mechanism for triggering the bioluminescent flash of Gonyaulax.
ref: 1990, Journal of Cell Science - Volume 95, Issues 1-4, page 322:
text: The proton influx from the acidic vacuole to the dense body of the scintillon thus triggers the flash.
ref: 1992, United States. Office of Naval Research, Naval research reviews - Volumes 44-45, page 27:
text: LBP binds luciferin at pH 8.0 but not at pH 6.3 (10); upon acidification of the scintillon, the luciferin is therefore released for reaction with an activated LCF.
ref: 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States:
glosses: The mechanism for particulate-based bioluminescence.
headspaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of headspace
softpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft point.
softpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softpoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft point.
Sumatran laughingthrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sumatran laughingthrush
prelocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prelocates
form: prelocating
form: prelocated
form: prelocated
Etymology: From pre- + locate.
Senses: examples: text: Manufactured strain gage rosettes are now being used to prelocate the gages with respect to the proposed hole center.
ref: 1967, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Annual Report, page 82:
text: Where sections are more than about 500 feet (152.5 m) apart, prelocate all cross sections on aerial photographs.
ref: 1979, Donald L. Brakensiek, Field manual for research in agricultural hydrology, page 297:
text: In addition, the green ventilation ducts which emerge at two points in the wall had to be cut into the mosaic, as it had not been possible to prelocate them.
ref: 1987, Deanna Petherbridge, Art for architecture: a handbook on commissioning, page 39:
glosses: To locate in advance.
prelocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prelocate
prelocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prelocate
headspacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of headspace
minxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minx
minxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minx
loculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loculations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin loculus + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: When no response occurs within 24 hours, loculation should be excluded by ultrasonography, and urokinase should be infused to enhance drainage.
ref: 1998, Burke A. Cunha, Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine, →ISBN, page 345:
text: In this stage, there is a progressive tendency toward loculation of the fluid and the formation of limiting membranes.
ref: 2005, Ronald B. George, Chest Medicine: Essentials of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, →ISBN:
text: Trauma patients are at risk of developing gram-positive empyema, characterized by early loculations and formation of dense adhesions because of hemothorax, which offers both a rich supply of bacterial nutrients as well as fibrin.
ref: 2015, Juan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The localized failure of a region to drain fluids, resulting in an enlarged mass.
Related terms: in lieu of
local
location
locative
loculate
locule
loculus
loculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loculation
raciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raciations
Etymology: From race + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: But socially, raciation is one of the most debated and important issues of modern times.
ref: 1975, Marvin Harris, Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology:
text: European experiences and concerns that there was a serious failure to appreciate the extent to which inequalities conditioned by biologically informed geographical raciations differed from inequalities that could be appropriately understood through the concepts of an ethnicity localized to groups of various lines of European descent.
ref: 1999, Christine Koggel, Moral Issues in Global Perspective, →ISBN, page 220:
text: At the outset it should, perhaps, be made clear that I believe, with most biologists, that evolutionary factors, similar to those that have been operative in producing raciation in other animal species, have also been operative in the human species -- but with a significant added difference, namely, the consequences which have resulted from man's entry into that unique zone of adaptation in which he excels beyone all other creatures, namely culture, that is to say, the man-made part of the environment.
ref: 2002, Robert F. Murphy, American Anthropology, 1946-1970, →ISBN:
glosses: The division of people or other organisms into races.
raciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raciation
work the oracle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works the oracle
form: working the oracle
form: worked the oracle
form: worked the oracle
Senses: examples: text: Holdaway reports that procedural rules are often considered irrelevant by the British police as they go about their daily duties. The occupational culture of the British police condones the use of “verbals” or “working the oracle.”
ref: 2006, Thomas Barker, Police Ethics: Crisis in Law Enforcement, page 90:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To fabricate a suspect's verbal statement.
examples: text: You've thought there were some high souls that didn't do it—that wouldn't, I mean, to work the oracle, lift a little finger of their own. But, Lord bless you, give them a chance—you'll find some of the greatest the greediest.
ref: 1901, Henry James, The Papers:
text: "You must work the oracle." said Lettice smiling at him. / And John Valentine did work the oracle to such good purpose that when, two days later, the brother and sister went to London for ten days, John Valentine went with them.
ref: 1906, John Strange Winter, A Simple Gentleman:
text: It is his glowing eye and ingenuous smile that works the oracle, I fancy.
ref: 1910, Walter Arnold Mursell, Two on a Tour:
text: O' course we worked the oricle; you bet! / But, 'Struth, I ain't recovered frum it yet!
ref: 1917, C. J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke:
glosses: To manipulate circumstances to one's personal advantage.
Xishui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹshwāʹ
Forms: form: Hsi-shui
form: Sishui
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 浠水 (Xīshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.
ref: [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:
text: A belated Chinese Communist report disclosed today that a local armed revolt against the Communist government broke out in Hsishui county in Hupei province on Feb. 21 and 22.
ref: [1952 March 23 [1952 March 22], “Revolt by 280 Armed Men in Red China Acknowledged”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 104, number 180, St. Louis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2A, column 6:
text: On the way back to Hsishui County centre, we admired the mass of spring blossom of tung trees, and others.
ref: [1972, Rewi Alley, “Agriculture and Industry in Two Chinese Hinterland Counties”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XI, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:
text: China's agricultural ministry said on Thursday it had confirmed a new African swine fever outbreak near the city of Huangguang in the central province of Hubei.
The outbreak occurred on a farm of 636 pigs in Xishui county, it said, adding that 13 had already died and a further 24 were sick.
ref: 2018 November 15, Dominique Patton, “China confirms new African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2024, World:
text: So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.
ref: 2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022:
glosses: A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
Xishui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shēʹshwāʹ
Forms: form: Hsi-shui
form: Sishui
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 習水 /习水 (Xíshuǐ).
Senses: glosses: A county of Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
Tuscia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Tuscia, derived from tuscus (“Etruscan; Tuscan”).
Senses: glosses: A region of Italy comprising today's region of Tuscany, a great part of Umbria, and the northern parts of Lazio.
Kenedy County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Mifflin Kenedy.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Sarita.
Kenedy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Karnes County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Kenedy County
Kinney County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Henry Kinney.
Senses: glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Brackettville.
wikipedia: Henry Kinney