cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clickbaity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clickbaitier
form: clickbaitiest
form: click-baity
form: clickbait-y
Etymology: From clickbait + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That video title looks clickbaity.
text: […] all I can wonder is, "How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?"
ref: 2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice:
text: "Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers," CentUp stated.
ref: 2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek:
text: To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.
ref: 2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
text: Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.
ref: 2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.
Derived terms: clickbaitiness
ratbaggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratbaggeries
Etymology: From ratbag + -ery.
Senses: glosses: bizarre or objectionable behaviour
ratbaggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratbaggery
clickbait-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clickbait-ier
form: clickbait-iest
Senses: examples: text: The Daily Caller, rightwing blog and trusty purveyor of all things clickbait-y, aggressively aggregated a story over the weekend that a woman has sued the city over being stopped and frisked in Brooklyn last year.
ref: 2013 July 8, Raillan Brooks, “White Women Get Stopped and Frisked, Too, Writes Fear-Mongering Journalist”, in Village Voice:
text: Even if they can't execute it as well as Buzzfeed,^([sic]) it's also fine to run some clickbait-y content to subsidise the more important but less popular reporting they^([sic]) good media outlets should produce.
ref: 2013 November 4, Steve Hind, “In defence of clickbait”, in The Guardian:
text: A tantalizing, clickbait-y headline gets slapped atop the tweet, video or blog. ("You won't believe the five life lessons in this shocking video!")
ref: 2013 December 12, Adam Richter, “Just because it's viral doesn't mean it's true”, in Reading Eagle:
glosses: Alternative form of clickbaity.
reality therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Developed by William Glasser in the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: A form of psychotherapy and counselling that focuses on the present and the ability to make decisions leading to a better future.
BME
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: British Methodist Episcopal Church.
BME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of biomedical engineering.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bone marrow examination.
examples: text: But the research found the attitude of individual BME jurors did not alter the overall outcome of the trial.
ref: 2007 June 13, Sarah Hall, “Ethnic minority jurors favour black defendants 'to level playing field'”, in The Guardian:
text: "I challenge all my colleagues in the Conservative Party and in Westminster: Don't label me as a BME. I've said that to people in the cabinet. I've said that to civil servants. I think it's patronising and insulting."
ref: 2018 March 9, “BME label insulting, says ex-minister Priti Patel”, in BBC:
coordinate_terms: BAME
glosses: Initialism of black and minority ethnic.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-Mercaptoethanol.
tonsorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tonsorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Omerie, with his shaven head and Edwardian elegance, had permanently arrested his own development, tonsorially and sartorially speaking, at the modes of London in the Fifties[…]
ref: 1974, Coleman Dowell, Mrs. October was Here, page 46:
text: Cold sweats among the tonsorially challenged.
ref: 1994, Jack Zimmerman, Ten Thousand Years in the Suburbs, page 56:
text: On horseback he looked like the ruler of a continent. Obviously he took great pains with appearance—riding boots aglitter, near-shoulder-length hair tonsorially styled[…]
ref: 2009, Michael A. Dreese, The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg:
glosses: In a tonsorial manner or context.
dukuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dukun
bomohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bomoh
disclosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disclosive
form: most disclosive
Etymology: From disclose + -ive?
Senses: glosses: Relating to disclosure.
unwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + white.
Senses: examples: text: Race Traitor was an attempt to run the film backwards, to explore how people who had been brought up as white might become unwhite.
ref: 2019 November 12, Sewell Chan, quoting Noel Ignatiev, “Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Not white.
unwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwhites
Etymology: From un- + white.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonwhite.
synonyms: word: nonwhite
bitch tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Too much estrogen, and you get bitch tits.
ref: 1996, Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club:
glosses: Gynecomastia caused by steroid abuse or obesity.
Gitxsan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪtsæn/
Forms: form: Gitxsans
form: Gitxsan
form: Gitksan
form: Kitksan
Senses: glosses: A member of a matrilineal indigenous people of Canada whose home territory comprises most of the Skeena Country.
Gitxsan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪtsæn/
Forms: form: Gitksan
form: Kitksan
Senses: glosses: A Tsimshianic language spoken in British Columbia, Canada.
Gitxsans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gitxsan
Gitksan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gitksans
form: Gitksan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gitxsan.
Gitksans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gitksan
cobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobots
Etymology: Blend of collaborative + robot
Senses: examples: text: But then Mr. Kuzmin discovered Universal Robots, which makes collaborative robots, or cobots, which are small, affordable and designed to operate safely side by side with workers. They are easy to program to do multiple tasks and allow the company to crank out parts around the clock.
ref: 2018 November 7, Janet Morrissey, “When Robots Ring the Bell”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: A robot intended to interact physically with humans in a shared workspace.
cobots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobot
extrapersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + personal.
Senses: glosses: Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
pericutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + cutaneous.
Senses: glosses: Around or near the skin.
sindooram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sindoor.
sindoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sindhur
form: sindhuram
form: sindooram
Etymology: From Sanskrit सिन्दूर (sindūra, “red lead”).
Senses: examples: text: After she’d brushed her hair and twisted it into a knot, she got her sindoor out of the cabinet. It was in a tiny, flat copper container, and the powder was bright red.
ref: 2023, Chetna Maroo, Western Lane, Picador, page 27:
glosses: A traditional red or orange cosmetic powder from India, usually worn by Hindu women along the parting of the hair as a sign of marriage.
closet drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closet dramas
Senses: glosses: A play that is intended to be read, rather than performed on stage.
closetedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more closetedly
form: most closetedly
Etymology: From closeted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a closeted manner.
unprestigious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprestigious
form: most unprestigious
Etymology: From un- + prestigious.
Senses: glosses: Not prestigious.
put to shame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to shame
form: putting to shame
form: put to shame
form: put to shame
Senses: examples: text: Any other man in my place would have gone to his house and shot him down like a dog. I wanted to do it, and was minded to do it, but a better thought came to me: to put him to shame; to break his heart; to kill him by inches.
ref: 1902, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in A Double Barrelled Detective Story:
text: [Europe] has ever carried her own standard of perfection, by which we can measure her falls and gauge her degrees of failure, by which we can call her before her own tribunal and put her to shame,—the shame which is the sign of the true pride of nobleness.
ref: 1916 July 2, Rabindranath Tagore, The Spirit of Japan: A Lecture:
text: After a sarcastic reporter asked him to explain quantum computing the self-avowed ‘geek’ leapt to the challenge and put him to shame.
ref: 2016, Maya Oppenheim, “Justin Trudeau shuts down sarcastic reporter with an impromptu explanation of quantum computing”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 02 Jan 2018:
glosses: To humiliate; to disgrace.
examples: text: Henry put me to shame; he fought, and fought bravely. John and I had made no resistance.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 19, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
text: [T]he dog is said to have the most diseases second to man; the horse comes next; but the wild ones put us to shame by their superior health and the beauty that belongs to right development.
ref: 1911, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, chapter 3, in Our Androcentric Culture:
text: But in Edith, Ms. Stapleton also found vast wells of compassion and kindness, a natural delight in the company of other people, and a sense of fairness and justice that irritated her husband to no end and also put him to shame.
ref: 2013 June 1, Bruce Weber, “Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie Bunker’s Better Angel, Dies at 90”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jan 2018:
glosses: To outdo thoroughly; to surpass; to outperform; to show up.
Synonyms: confound
puts to shame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put to shame
putting to shame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put to shame
REBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: CBT
cognitive behavioral therapy
glosses: Initialism of rational emotive behavior therapy.
excize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excizes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of excise.
excizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excize
capital structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital structures
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The way that a corporation finances its assets through some combination of equity, debt, and hybrid securities.
demob-happy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demob-happy
form: most demob-happy
Etymology: From demob + happy.
Senses: examples: text: Their demob-happy CEO has been expressing her true opinions on the Treasury.
glosses: Feeling exhilarated due to one's imminent release from a difficult or time-consuming burden.
metallacyclopentenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallacyclopentene
suppression order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppression orders
Senses: glosses: A gag order.
suppression orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppression order
unitarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitarianists
Senses: glosses: unitarian / Unitarian
unitarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitarianist
compound duple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A metre with two beats, each divided into three.
rat printing office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat printing offices
Senses: glosses: A printing office that employs workers for low wages so as to drive rivals out of business.
rational horizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rational horizons
Senses: glosses: celestial horizon
citizen's arrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizen's arrest
citizens' arrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citizen's arrest
rapso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæp.səʊ/
Etymology: Blend of rap + calypso
Senses: glosses: A form of Trinidadian music that grew out of the social unrest of the 1970s, with elements of soca, calypso, and hip-hop.
raptorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more raptorially
form: most raptorially
Etymology: From raptorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The gonydeal angle is large and acute, and the bill is long and almost raptorially hooked.
ref: 2013, Pete Dunne, Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion, page 264:
glosses: In a raptorial manner.
gonydeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The gonydeal angle is large and acute, and the bill is long and almost raptorially hooked.
ref: 2013, Pete Dunne, Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion, page 264:
glosses: Relating to the gonys.
picspam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picspams
Etymology: From pic + spam.
Senses: examples: text: I think it was lysachan's site that got me into the series -- her picspams are fun, (heavy on the Prentiss love).
ref: 2010 April 25, cyn########, “Re: [ASLM] Life under the moss-covered rock”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated (Usenet):
text: Days, weeks, even months are spent in creating vids, picspams, icons, original art, and sometimes novel-length works of fiction.
ref: 2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 17:
text: […] television and movie fans posting fan fiction on LiveJournal, fans of celebrities creating picspams on Tumblr, […]
ref: 2014, Francesca Coppa, “Pop Culture, Fans, and Social Media”, in Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa M. Senft, editors, The Social Media Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A post on a blog featuring a collection of pictures, generally of the same subject or from the same source.
examples: text: Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something.
ref: 2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR.
ref: 2009, Francesca Coppa, "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness", Cinema Journal, Volume 48, Number 4, Summer 2009, page 111
text: Long, and full of picspam... You have been warned!
ref: 2009 September 17, Kate XXXXXX, “Re: Part 3!”, in alt.sewing (Usenet):
glosses: Such blog posts collectively.
preautistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + autistic.
Senses: examples: text: Bettelheim's (1967) theory of autism proposes that for several possible reasons (e.g., pain or discomfort, misperception) the preautistic child perceives that his mother has rejected him/her and begins to withdraw from him/her […]
ref: 1989, Johnny L. Matson, Chronic schizophrenia and adult autism:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
qualifier: autism
glosses: Before the readily apparent onset of autism.
picspams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picspam
actabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actability
unactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unactable
form: most unactable
Etymology: From un- + actable.
Senses: examples: text: Some parts in the surrealist play were said to be unactable.
glosses: Impossible to act.
raw foodism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From raw food + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rawism.
synonyms: word: rawism
raphidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to raphides.
raphidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphidians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Raphidia.
raphidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raphidian
rantankerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rantankerous
form: most rantankerous
Senses: glosses: argumentative; quarrelsome; cantankerous
scan lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scan line
fish and brewis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Newfoundland meal of codfish and hard bread or hardtack.
brewises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brewis
scrunchion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrunchions
form: scruncheon
form: scrunchin
Senses: glosses: A small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.
scrunchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrunchion
cunt-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌntstɹʌk/
Forms: form: more cunt-struck
form: most cunt-struck
form: cuntstruck
Senses: examples: text: Shem looked up at Bourne with a curious grin. ‘Seems to me you're getting a bit cunt-struck.’
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 156:
text: I do not agree, for instance, that he is a philosopher, or a thinker. He is cunt-struck, that's all. And he will never be a writer.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 4:
text: He was still in a condition of hopeless lust. He was tormented, flailing, cuntstruck. Karima was forty-seven to his thirty-three and she would fuck half the night away—it was exhausting, exultant, terrific stuff.
ref: 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Sexually obsessed with women, or with a specific woman.
salaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salafs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سَلَف (salaf, “predecessor”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the earliest Muslims, including Muhammad's companions and followers.
Derived terms: Salafism
Salafistic
salafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salaf
special rapporteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special rapporteurs
Senses: glosses: A person who works on behalf of a regional or international organization and is charged with investigating, monitoring and recommending solutions to specific human rights problems.
rat-trap cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat-trap cheeses
Etymology: So called because it might be used in baiting a trap.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: government cheese (sometimes humorously synonymous)
text: Having spent twice as much money as I had intended during the first month in New York, I tried to live even more frugally than I had earlier in the year. I still ate rye bread and rat-trap cheese in my room, but less of it[…]
ref: 1951, Erskine Caldwell, Call it Experience: The Years of Learning how to Write, page 112:
synonyms: rat cheese
glosses: Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.
synonyms: rat cheese
rat cheese
glosses: Inexpensive unexceptional cheese.
American cheese portrayed as such.
Related terms: mousetrap
rattrap
harkara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harkaras
form: halcarra
form: halcarrah
form: halkara
form: hercarra
form: hercarrah
form: hercurrah
form: herkara
form: hircar
form: hircara
form: hircarra
form: hircarrah
form: hircurra
form: hircurrah
form: hirkara
form: hirkarah
form: hurcara
form: hurcarah
form: hurcarra
form: hurcarrah
form: hurcurra
form: hurcurrah
form: hurkara
form: hurkarah
form: hurkura
form: hurkurah
Etymology: From Bengali হরকরা (horkora).
Senses: glosses: A runner who carried mail; a messenger or courier.
harkaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harkara
Tiele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tiele
form: Chile
form: Tele
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 鐵勒／铁勒 (Tiělè).
Senses: glosses: A member of a confederation of Turkic peoples living to the north of China and in Central Asia, emerging after the disintegration of the Xiongnu confederacy.
Synonyms: Gaoche
priceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From price + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being priced.
crow's ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Australian teak
flindosy
glosses: Flindersia australis, a rainforest tree from New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.
supplemental jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The authority of United States federal courts to hear additional claims substantially related to an original claim, even though the court would lack the subject-matter jurisdiction to hear the additional claims independently.
Barnard's Star
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for American astronomer E. E. Barnard, who measured its proper motion in 1916.
Senses: glosses: A very low-mass red dwarf star about six light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
lesulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesula
lissencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lissencephaly + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with, or relating to, lissencephaly
glosses: Having a cerebral cortex with a smooth surface
lisencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lissencephalic.
octacyanomolybdates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octacyanomolybdate
Rotterdammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rotterdammers
Etymology: From Rotterdam + -er, probably modelled on Dutch Rotterdammer.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Rotterdam.
Rotterdammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rotterdammer
Rottie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rotties
Etymology: From Rottweiler + -ie.
Senses: synonyms: Rott
glosses: A Rottweiler dog.
Rotties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rottie
glosses: plural of Rotty
royalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From royal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being royal.
Roussannes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roussanne
Royal Free disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After an apparent outbreak in 1955 in the Royal Free Hospital.
Senses: glosses: chronic fatigue syndrome
wikipedia: Royal Free Hospital
roustabouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roustabout + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a roustabout.
roustabouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From roustabout + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roustabout
routeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From route + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a route.
rubuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubus
rungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rungu
runholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runholder
odourisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odorization.
odourization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odorization.
orbital motorway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbital motorways
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ring road.
synonyms: word: ring road
bumblebee model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumblebee models
Etymology: Coined by Kostelecký, in reference to the fact that bumblebees' ability to fly has sometimes been questioned on theoretical grounds, and yet they do fly successfully.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: An effective field theory describing a vector field with a vacuum expectation value that spontaneously breaks Lorentz symmetry.
bumblebee models
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumblebee model
Rurales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish
Senses: glosses: The Mexican Guardia Rural (Rural Guard), a force of mounted police or gendarmerie that existed between 1861 and 1914.
Russellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russellites
Etymology: From Russell + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Sir Thomas Russell, 1st Baronet (1841–1920), Irish politician and agrarian agitator.
examples: text: When Malone next looked round he was gone. "He is one of these Second-coming fanatics," he whispered to Enid. There are a lot of them—Christadelphians, Russellites, Bible Students and what-not.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A follower of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement.
Related terms: Russellian
Russellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russellite
Russophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Russophobic
form: most Russophobic
Etymology: From Russo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to Russophobia.
Related terms: Russophobe
Russophobia
Rupp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
russulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of russula
ryotei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryoteis
form: ryotei
Etymology: From Japanese 料亭.
Senses: examples: text: Ryoteis usually look like traditional Japanese inns or even private homes.
ref: 1986, Fodor's Japan:
glosses: A kind of luxurious traditional Japanese restaurant.
ryoteis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryotei
rumminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rummy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "Tut!" said old Bittlesham. "Tut is right," I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. "But if you haven't dropped a parcel over the race," I said, "why are you looking so rattled?"
ref: 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
glosses: The quality of being rummy, or odd.
spinback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinbacks
Etymology: From spin + back.
Senses: glosses: A disc jockey's technique of suddenly playing a section of a record in reverse.
Synonyms: backspin
spinbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinback
Skidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skidis
form: Skidi
form: Skiri
Senses: glosses: A member of a band of Pawnee people who, in historical times, lived mainly along the Platte River, and now live in the Pawnee Nation, in Oklahoma.
Skidi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skiri
Senses: glosses: Their language.
Skidis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skidi
bottle rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle rockets
Senses: examples: text: Giggling children hid in the ditches and shot bottle rockets in front and behind them as they walked past; the sparks shot through the air like manic, fizzing fireflies.
ref: 2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 158:
glosses: A small skyrocket that can be launched from an empty bottle.
hellaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hellacious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being hellacious.
cage fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cage fights
Senses: glosses: An individual fight in the sport of cage fighting.
pearl-clutching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pearl-clutching
form: most pearl-clutching
Etymology: From the image of a genteel woman clutching her pearl necklace in shock.
Senses: examples: text: When John Kerry “outed” Mary Cheney in a 2004 presidential debate, it was already well known that Mary Cheney was a lesbian. You can't out the already out, no matter what pearl-clutching pundits would have you believe.
ref: 2007, Amanda Marcotte, It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Even the biggest doe-eyed, pearl-clutching Etsy muffin has to find some way to make it okay to be negative, because we have no choice.
ref: 2010, April Winchell, Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 131:
text: There's something truly irresistible about the pearl-clutching cartoons that came out during the time people thought women on bicycles were single-handedly going to bring society to ruin.
ref: 2013, Jeff Smith, Jessica Abel, Matt Madden, editors, The Best American Comics 2013, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: Prim, prudish, or easily offended.
Synonyms: pearl-clutchy
Related terms: pearl-clutcher
clutch one's pearls
deep stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sexual position, a variant of the missionary position, where the female's legs are over the male's shoulders to enable maximum penetration.
leisure suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leisure suits
Senses: glosses: A casual suit consisting of a shirt-like jacket and matching trousers, often associated with American-influenced fashion and fads of the 1970s.
roundnose grenadier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundnose grenadiers
Senses: glosses: Coryphaenoides rupestris, a marine ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae.
transpeninsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + peninsular.
Senses: glosses: Passing through a peninsula.
routeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: routeways
Etymology: From route + way.
Senses: glosses: A way along which a route can be followed; a road or path.
routeways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of routeway
rubber duckie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber duckies
Senses: glosses: A rubber duck (bath toy).
rugby shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugby shirts
Senses: synonyms: rugby
glosses: A shirt of the kind worn by rugby players, usually short-sleeved and with a buttoned opening at the neck like a polo shirt, but with a stiffer collar.
rugoseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rugose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being rugose.
runt disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A wasting graft-versus-host disease of animals.
rufoferruginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rufoferruginous
form: most rufoferruginous
Etymology: From rufo- + ferruginous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of a rusty red colour.
kibun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Korean 기분(氣分) (gibun).
Senses: qualifier: Korea
glosses: emotion; feeling; mood
examples: text: For example, a Korean's kibun is damaged when someone does not show him or her proper respect by bowing soon enough or low enough, not using honorific words, or handing him or her something with the left hand.
ref: 2009, Mary E. Connor, The Koreas, page 243:
qualifier: Korea
glosses: face; dignity; prestige
comparsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparsa
quill pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quill pigs
Senses: glosses: porcupine
quill pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quill pig
beggar's purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An appetizer in the form of a pouch of phyllo dough with various toppings.
pranama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pranamas
form: pranam
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रणाम (praṇāma).
Senses: glosses: The touching of the feet in Indian culture as a sign of respect.
glosses: A reverential salutation, obeisance, prostration, bow
postfader
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + fader.
Senses: glosses: After audio processing by a fader.
prefader
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + fader.
Senses: glosses: Prior to audio processing by a fader.
pranam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pranams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pranama.
Pribnow box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pribnow boxes
Etymology: Named after David Pribnow.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Pribnow-Schaller box
glosses: The nucleotide sequence TATAAT, an essential part of a promoter site on DNA for transcription to occur in bacteria.
pregenitality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + genitality.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The pregenital phase of development.
Shaolin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃaʊlɪn/
Forms: form: Shao-lin
Etymology: From Mandarin 少林 (Shàolín).
Senses: glosses: A collection of Chinese martial arts that claim affiliation with the Shaolin Monastery.
prick test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prick tests
Senses: glosses: A test for allergies, performed by pricking the skin with a needle or pin containing a small amount of the allergen.
preadvised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + advised.
Senses: glosses: advised in advance
preactivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preactivates
form: preactivating
form: preactivated
form: preactivated
Etymology: From pre- + activate.
Senses: glosses: To activate in advance.
Related terms: preactivation
preactivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preactivate
preactivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preactivate
ungeniality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + geniality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ungenial.
misdefining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdefine
misdefines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdefine
misdefinitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdefinition
misdefined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdefine
nonbibliographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bibliographic.
Senses: glosses: Not bibliographic.
anachronists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anachronist
assalamu alaikum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Assalamu alaikum, Nibal” Hajar said politely to the sleek, spotted animal. “I'm trying to find out what Allah is like. Do you know what Allah is like?” “Do I know what Allah is like?”
ref: 2005, Many Voices One Faith, →ISBN, page 72:
text: As an example, here is an exchange on the Islamic Awakening chat room, from February 27, 2002:
 ABDULLAH: Assalamu Alaikum. Does anyone know where you can find videos of jihad online?
ref: 2006, Gabriel Weimann, Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges, →ISBN, page 107:
text: She was all beauty; he reached out his hand to give her a program, and said, "Assalamu Alaikum Samia," as he handed the program to her […]
ref: 2010, Ameerah A. Rahman, The Unveiled: A Peak Into Lives as They are Unveiled, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of salaam alaikum.
zuihitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 随筆 (ずいひつ, zuihitsu, “essay”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese literature genre consisting of loosely connected essays and fragmented ideas
bijou problemettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bijou problemette
Coasean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Coasean
form: most Coasean
Etymology: From Coase + -an.
Senses: examples: text: We demonstrate that the entitlement owner's choice between two different kinds of Coasean transactions acts as a credible signal whether she has a relatively high or relatively low valuation.
ref: 1995 March 24, Ian Ayres, Eric Talley, “Solomonic Bargaining: Dividing a Legal Entitlement to Facilitate Coasean Trade”, in The Yale Law Journal, volume 104, number 5, page 1032 of 1027-1117:
glosses: Of or relating to Ronald Coase (1910–2013), British economist and author.
neuromyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromyths
Etymology: From neuro- + myth.
Senses: examples: Holonym: neuromythology
hypernyms: myth
belief
glosses: A commonly-held false belief about neuroscience or something falling within its area of study.
neuromyths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuromyth
neuromyotonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuromyotonia
neuromyotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to neuromyotonia.
assalamu alaykum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salaam alaikum.
dextrinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dextrin + -oid?
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Applied to a mushroom that turns reddish-brown upon application of Melzer's reagent.
Synonyms: pseudoamyloid
Derived terms: nondextrinoid
pseudoamyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + amyloid.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: dextrinoid
pseudofluid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudofluid
form: most pseudofluid
Etymology: From pseudo- + fluid.
Senses: examples: the pseudofluid character of a powder
glosses: Resembling, but not actually, a fluid.
pseudofluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofluids
Etymology: From pseudo- + fluid.
Senses: glosses: Any substance of this kind.
pseudofluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudofluid
Boston marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boston marriage
mise en abymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mise en abyme
metric miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metric mile
Spokane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spoʊˈkæn/
Etymology: A number of etymologies of the name have been proposed, most frequently Sun children, children of the Sun, or muddy people. According to Barry Pritzker (2011), these interpretations are most probably popular etymologies derived from an actual self-designation of Spoqe'ind, meaning round head.
Senses: glosses: A Native American Plateau tribe who inhabited the eastern portion of Washington state and parts of northern Idaho.
Spokane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /spoʊˈkæn/
Etymology: A number of etymologies of the name have been proposed, most frequently Sun children, children of the Sun, or muddy people. According to Barry Pritzker (2011), these interpretations are most probably popular etymologies derived from an actual self-designation of Spoqe'ind, meaning round head.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Spokane tribe, a member of the Salish (or Salishan) language family.
glosses: A large city, the county seat of Spokane County, Washington.
glosses: Any of various other places in the United States.
Derived terms: Spokane County
Spokane Valley
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Spokane terms
marinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marinize
marinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marinize
marinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marinize
marinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marinizations
form: marinisation
Etymology: From marine + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Adaptation for marine environments.
marinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marinization
dickmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dickmatized
form: most dickmatized
Etymology: Blend of dick + hypnotized.
Senses: examples: text: […] And this dick belongs to you whether you like it or not, babygirl.” All I could do is look at him with a big smile on his face . . . like he just had me dickmatized.
ref: 2011, Brenda L. Carruth, Lies and Betrayal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 56:
text: He glanced at Jonathan where the sheet had fallen away from him. Oh yeah. Dickmatized.
ref: 2013, Christopher Koehler, Settling the Score, Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, pages 21–22:
glosses: Impressed by or obsessed with a penis.
dickmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dickmatize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dickmatize
Elizabethan collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elizabethan collars
Senses: glosses: A fluted frill worn at the neck; a ruff.
glosses: A protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.
Synonyms: sense: protective device for animal
word: buster collar
sense: protective device for animal
word: cone of shame
sense: protective device for animal
word: E-collar
sense: protective device for animal
word: pet cone
sense: protective device for animal
word: pet lamp-shade
Elizabethan collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elizabethan collar
cone of shame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cones of shame
Etymology: From its conical shape, and the idea that it may be used to stop a misbehaving pet from causing shameful damage or that the pet is embarrassed by it.
Senses: glosses: An Elizabethan collar (protective medical device worn by an animal).
E-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-collars
Senses: glosses: An Elizabethan collar (protective device worn by animal).
pet cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pet cones
Senses: glosses: An Elizabethan collar.
pet lamp-shade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pet lamp-shades
Senses: glosses: An Elizabethan collar (conical device worn by an animal).
cervical collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervical collar
Belgrader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgraders
Etymology: From Belgrade + -er.
Senses: glosses: a native or resident of Belgrade, Serbia
Brandenburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹændənbɜːɡə/
ipa: /ˈbɹændɚnbɝɡɚ/
Forms: form: Brandenburgers
Etymology: From Brandenburg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of city of Brandenburg an der Havel, Brandenburg, Germany.
Brandenburger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹændənbɜːɡə/
ipa: /ˈbɹændɚnbɝɡɚ/
Forms: form: Brandenburgers
Etymology: From Brandenburg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Belgraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgrader
Brandenburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brandenburger
Saco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑkoʊ/
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in York County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Somerset Township, Steele County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Phillips County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A river in New Hampshire and Maine which discharges into Saco Bay.
glosses: A barrio in Ceiba municipality, Puerto Rico.
glosses: A river in Maranhão state, Brazil.
glosses: A river in Pará state, Brazil.
Daimler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Daimlers
Etymology: From German Daimler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A company
A German automotive company (Daimler A.G., Daimler-Benz)
glosses: A company
A British luxury motor car manufacturer. (Daimler Company)
glosses: A company
Ellipsis of Daimler-Chrysler, an American automobile maker.
Daimler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daimlers
Etymology: From German Daimler.
Senses: glosses: A motor car manufactured by this company
Darmstädter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darmstädters
Etymology: From German Darmstädter.
Senses: examples: text: This particular deficiency is betrayed, though, in quite another direction, by the course adopted by the Darmstädters in dealing with the question of naming their streets.
ref: 1887, W[illiam] Beatty-Kingston, Music and Manners: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character, volume II (Manners), London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 341:
text: Many Darmstädters also comforted themselves with the thought that their town was such an attractive place that the Allied armies, now only 80 miles from the stretch of the Rhine nearest to them, would no doubt want to use it as an area headquarters when the fighting stopped.
ref: 1993, James Fyfe, The Great Ingratitude: Bomber Command in World War II, Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 186:
text: A police car stationed in front of the synagogue was less a reminder that this welcome might not be shared by all Darmstädters (which undoubtedly was the case, because Darmstadt like the entire Weinstrasse had been notoriously “brown”), than a reflection of typical anxieties of the German state and the Darmstadt community after the Holocaust.
ref: 2017, Michael Geyer, “Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History”, in Michael Meng, Adam R. Seipp, editors, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, New York, N..Y: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, section IV (Family Histories), page 265:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Darmstadt.
Dortmunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dortmunders
Etymology: Borrowed from German, or from Dortmund + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
glosses: A kind of pale lager beer.
Darmstädters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Darmstädter
Dortmunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dortmunder