cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pie in the sky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ ɪn ðə ˈskaɪ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ ɪn ðə ˈskaɪ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ ən ðə ˈskaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: The phrase is originally from the song “The Preacher and the Slave” (1911) by Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill (1879–1915), which he wrote as a parody of the Salvation Army hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By” (published 1868). The song criticizes the Salvation Army for focusing on people’s salvation rather than on their material needs:
: You will eat, bye and bye,
: In that glorious land above the sky;
: Work and pray, live on hay,
: You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Senses: examples: text: Don't you think I have anything better to do than go scrambling around hundreds of square miles of the toughest wilderness in the state looking for pie in the sky?
ref: 1950, Anya Seton [pseudonym; Anya Seton Chase], Foxfire, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin; republished Boston, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2015, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you / Just keep you crazy with nothing to do / Keep you occupied with pie in the sky
ref: 1970, John Lennon, “I Found Out”, in John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band:
text: [M]ost Americans are chronically materialistic and optimistic, more interested in short-range than long-range prospects, and have been for many generations. Pie on the table today or, at the latest, tomorrow—apple pie, mince pie, pecan pie, apricot pie, coconut cream pie, lemon meringue pie, peach cobbler pie, blueberry, blackberry, huckleberry, and pizza pie—that is what they want, not "pie in the sky," whether the source of that promise be Christianity or Marxism.
ref: 1994, Alfred W. Crosby[, Jr.], “Demography, Maize, Land, and the American Character”, in Germs, Seeds & Animals: Studies in Ecological History (Sources and Studies in World History), Armonk, N.Y.; London: M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 167:
text: […] I grew in the House Full of Practical People, so any grand, dream-chasing pursuit has always struck me as sort of pie in the sky.
ref: 2015, Sophie Hudson, “The Brat Pack Movies Didn’t Really Cover this Part”, in Home is Where My People Are: The Roads that Lead Us to Where We Belong, Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Ah, I can hear the objectors say, all this is pie in the sky and too expensive. In fact, according to Lord Burns, "this is all perfectly feasible at a reasonable cost".
ref: 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 57:
glosses: A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept; the illusory promise of a desired outcome that is unlikely to happen.
Synonyms: castle in the air
eggs in moonshine
jam tomorrow
pipe dream
the cake is a lie
Derived terms: word: pie-in-the-sky
pie in the sky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ ɪn ðə ˈskaɪ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ ɪn ðə ˈskaɪ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ ən ðə ˈskaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: more pie in the sky
form: most pie in the sky
Etymology: The phrase is originally from the song “The Preacher and the Slave” (1911) by Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill (1879–1915), which he wrote as a parody of the Salvation Army hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By” (published 1868). The song criticizes the Salvation Army for focusing on people’s salvation rather than on their material needs:
: You will eat, bye and bye,
: In that glorious land above the sky;
: Work and pray, live on hay,
: You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Senses: examples: text: After listening to descriptions of local grants between $500 and $50,000 (Montana got a total of $593,691 this year), he said the comparatively small contribution from the endowment could be replaced by a national organization that is privately run. His local critics questioned how that would work, and Jane Alexander, chairwoman of the endowment, scoffed at the idea. I think it's very pie in the sky, she said in a telephone interview.
ref: 1997 July 6, Adam Clymer, “G.O.P. Urged to Back Arts Endowment”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
text: That’s certainly the case for Gretta Whalen, a 32-year-old freelance writer and communications consultant from Los Angeles, who leans toward Sanders. Clinton, she said, “has been around for so long, and we know so much about her, and not all of it is positive.” Sanders, by contrast, seems attractive, and his ideas feel new, even if “some of them are very pie in the sky and would be very difficult to get the rest of the country on board with.”
ref: 2016 March 28, David Lauter, “Poll: As California primary nears, even Sanders supporters are uniting behind Clinton and against a common enemy: Trump”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2016:
text: Pete McCleave first heard about stem cells during his sciences degree in the 1990s. “I knew about them, I just didn’t know what they could be used for,” he says. “It all sounded very pie in the sky.”
ref: 2024 March 22, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, “‘This person saved her’: the cancer patients in need of a stem cell donor match”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of pie-in-the-sky.
screening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: screenings
Etymology: From screen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have to buy some screening and fix the doors before mosquito season starts.
glosses: Mesh material that is used to screen (as in a "screen door").
synonyms: sieving#Noun
straining#Noun
sifting#Noun
glosses: The examination and treatment of a material to detect and remove unwanted fractions by passing it through a screen (sieve).
examples: text: quarries and mines seeking markets for screenings
glosses: Material removed by such a process; refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
examples: text: The airports are slow now because the pre-boarding screening is so inefficient.
text: This train of thought led the Company's Safety Directorate towards the revised standard […] of October 1993, which cemented a national scheme of testing for alcohol and drugs following safety-critical incidents or on suspicion of unfitness for duty, unannounced drugs screening for staff in safety-critical posts, a fixed standard for alcohol/blood levels, and clear guidelines for lunch breaks.
ref: 2023 September 6, Greg Morse, “One more for the road?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 49:
glosses: The examination of any material or persons to detect problems through any of various testing, checking, or filtering processes, as
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The examination of any material or persons to detect problems through any of various testing, checking, or filtering processes, as:
Identifying cases of a disease in a population of asymptomatic persons.
topics: business
glosses: The examination of any material or persons to detect problems through any of various testing, checking, or filtering processes, as:
Identifying latent unsuitabilities in business propositions, job applicants, or investment opportunities.
examples: text: various screenings to administer first
synonyms: screen#Noun
glosses: A test or method used for this purpose.
glosses: The showing of a film, typically by projecting it on a screen.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Shielding.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: Action done by the serving team to prevent the opposing team from seeing the server and the flight path of the ball.
Derived terms: call screening
screening constant
screening length
screening room
screening smoke
Related terms: sense: showing of a film
word: big screen
sense: showing of a film
word: small screen
sense: performing the work needed to uncover latent problems
word: due diligence
sense: performing the work needed to uncover latent problems
word: weeding out
screening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Etymology: From screen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screen
freshly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛʃli/
Forms: form: more freshly
form: most freshly
Etymology: From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The freshly picked flowers will wilt in a few days but for now are still fragrant.
text: Florence, hardly glancing round her, lest she should remind him freshly of their last parting […] led him out to a coach that was waiting at the door, and carried him away.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Filter cards were prepared from freshly collected blood (EDTA blood, 2–6 h old) and from hemolyzed blood (EDTA blood, 2–4 days stored at -20°C).
ref: 2015 July 6, “Diagnosis of Morquio Syndrome in Dried Blood Spots Based on a New MRM-MS Assay”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: He smelt freshly fried kachoris rescued from the wedding buffet.
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 54:
glosses: Recently, newly.
glosses: In a rude or impertinent manner.
Synonyms: word: lately
word: recently
sense: rude manner
word: impolitely
sense: rude manner
word: rudely
sense: rude manner
word: uncivilly
sense: rude manner
word: unmannerly
halberd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæl.bɚd/
ipa: /ˈhɔl.bɚd/
ipa: /ˈhɑl.bɚd/
ipa: /ˈhælbəd/
ipa: /ˈhælbɜːd/
Forms: form: halberds
form: halbert
form: halbard
Etymology: (1495) Middle French hallebarde, from Italian alabarda, from Middle High German helmbarte (“broad-axe with handle”), from halm, from Proto-Germanic *helmô (“handle”) + barte (“hatchet”), from *bardaz (“broadax”), literally "beard."
Senses: glosses: A two-handed pole weapon, consisting of a long pole with an axe-like blade mounted on it (at a right angle like an axe, not on the tip like a spear), and (opposite the blade) typically a spike or hook.
Derived terms: word: halberded
taxonomic: Tectaria spp.
word: halberd fern
word: halberdier
word: halberdman
word: halberdsman
taxonomic: Salix hastata
word: halberd willow
Related terms: twibill
Swiss voulge
voulge
shaggy dog story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggy dog stories
form: shaggy-dog story
Etymology: Uncertain; probably from one of two jokes, one in which a protracted search for an alleged remarkably shaggy, talking dog ends in the discovery of the dog which, though it can indeed talk, is disappointingly not so shaggy after all; or one in which an even more protracted search for the shaggiest dog in the world ends in the utterly anticlimactic punchline “Now that’s a shaggy dog!”.
Senses: examples: text: The plot as Titus Oates described it to the Privy Council was something of a shaggy dog story, long on digressions and incidental details, but short on hard facts.
ref: 2016, Anna Keay, chapter 11, in The Last Royal Rebel, London: Bloomsbury:
synonyms: shaggy-dog tale
shaggy dog tale
glosses: An intentionally long-winded joke or tale featuring the narration of typically irrelevant details, and usually ending with an absurd or pointless punchline which is often a pun or Spoonerism on a known catchphrase, with the intended humor deriving from the combination of the excessive length and the anticlimax.
Derived terms: shaggy God story
Related terms: Banbury story of a cock and a bull
cock-and-bull story
fish story
tall tale
whopper
blackish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækɪʃ/
rhymes: -ækɪʃ
Forms: form: more blackish
form: most blackish
Etymology: From Middle English blackysshe, blakkyssh, equivalent to black + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Hác Sá (Black Sand) is the most popular beach in Macau. The sand is indeed a grey to blackish colour and makes the water look somewhat dirty (especially at the tide line), but it's perfectly clean.
ref: 2008, Andrew Stone, Chung Wah Chow, Reggie Ho, “Macau”, in Hong Kong & Macau: City Guide, 13th edition, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332, column 1:
glosses: somewhat black
Synonyms: word: blackish
word: nigrescent
Hypernyms: word: black
word: tinted
Hyponyms: word: inky
word: jetty
word: pitchy
word: fuliginous
word: sooty
Coordinate terms: alt: greyish
word: grayish
Derived terms: blackish-gray antshrike
blackishly
blackishness
wig out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wigs out
form: wigging out
form: wigged out
form: wigged out
Etymology: Compare freak out, etc., and flip one's wig.
Senses: examples: text: Oh no, you didn't! You called me a what? / Don't make me wig out / How you gonna let some shit like that slip out your mouth?
ref: 2003, “Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain, performed by Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:
text: An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.
ref: 2023 May 6, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: freak out
lose one's wits
glosses: To behave in an extremely erratic or irrational manner; to lose one's mind.
examples: text: Yeah, this is Creepy Steeple. That nasty monster's place... This place wigs me out...
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Creepy Steeple:
glosses: To cause to become extremely emotional or excitable.
Synonyms: flip out
freak out
Derived terms: word: wigged-out
wig out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wig outs
Etymology: Compare freak out, etc., and flip one's wig.
Senses: examples: text: “Let’s get high!” say Quill, Saturday’s opening act and maybe the most obscure name on the bill. They are also awful. They Live The Life lasts a leaden, eight minutes, ending in a percussive wig out with the band sarcastically chanting: “You’re so free!” This was played during one of the brief sunny spells, but you wouldn’t know it.
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A chaotic or crazy episode.
prehispanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Hispanic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the period of time before the 16th century when Spanish explorers arrived to Mesoamerica and South America.
inarguable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + arguable.
Senses: examples: text: To polarize, and indeed, to artificially distinguish between the secular and the religious is to dismiss the inarguable Judeo-Christian foundation of contemporary secular institutions.
ref: 1979 August 11, Lisa Capaldini, “Lessons From History”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 4:
synonyms: indisputable
unarguable
unchallengeable
antonyms: arguable
glosses: Not arguable; certain, incontestable or incontrovertible.
Derived terms: inarguably
intellectualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃuəlaɪz/
Forms: form: intellectualizes
form: intellectualizing
form: intellectualized
form: intellectualized
form: intellectualise
Etymology: From intellectual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Sentiment is intellectualized emotion.
ref: 1867, James Russell Lowell, Rousseau and the Sentimentalists:
glosses: To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
glosses: To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
glosses: To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
To use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences.
Derived terms: deintellectualize
intellectualizable
intellectualization
intellectualizer
overintellectualize
unintellectualized
jellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jellied
form: most jellied
Senses: examples: text: jellied gasoline
glosses: converted into jelly; congealed
glosses: cooked in jelly
jellied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jelly
Derived terms: jellied eels
jellied salad
unjellied
jellied eels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dish of eels, cooked and then allowed to cool in their own juices.
juridical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈɹɪdɪkəl/
Forms: form: more juridical
form: most juridical
Etymology: From juridic + -al or alternatively borrowed from Latin iuridicalis.
Senses: examples: text: ...in any case one schematizes power in a juridical form, and one defines its effects as obedience.
ref: 1978, Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley, The Will to Knowledge, Penguin, published 1998, page 85:
text: The influence of customary law on juridical practices is itself an index of the degree of popular ‘participation’ in the drafting of laws.
ref: 2009, Alain de Benoist, The Problem of Democracy, trans. Sergio Knipe, Arktos Media Ltd. 2011, page 16
glosses: Pertaining to the law or rule of law, legal; judicial, related to the administration of justice (as to jurisprudence, or to the function of a judge or court).
Derived terms: juridical act
juridically
juridical person
metajuridical
nonjuridical
semijuridical
Related terms: juridic
juridicial
Kamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a Bantu people of Kenya.
Kamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the language of this people.
glosses: an extinct language of Brazil.
Kamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan གམ་པ (gam pa).
Senses: examples: text: Under the plan released last week, the highway known as G695 is expected to run through southern Tibet’s Cona county – which lies immediately north of the disputed India-Tibet border demarcated by the Line of Actual Control (LAC) – Kamba county, host of a noted military camp, and Gyirong county near the border with Nepal.
ref: 2022 July 20, Laura Zhou, “China-India border: Beijing’s new highway plans near disputed territory expected to spark concern in Delhi”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2022, China / Diplomacy:
text: Under the plan released last week, the highway known as G695 will run through southern Tibet’s Cona (Tibetan: Tsona) county – which lies immediately north of the disputed India-Tibet border demarcated by the Line of Actual Control (LAC) – Kamba county, host of a noted military camp, and Gyirong county near the border with Nepal.
ref: 2022 July 21, “China to build second highway through Aksai Chin, claimed by India as part of Ladakh”, in Tibetan Review, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2022:
glosses: A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
voodooism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voodooisms
Etymology: From voodoo + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Voodooism is Devil worship pure and simple.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 189:
glosses: A religious cult, from Haiti, involving witchcraft and sorcery.
glosses: Any voodoo practice.
Karuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karuks
form: Karuk
form: Karok
Etymology: Borrowed from Karok káruk (“upstream, upriver (people)”), because they live upstream on the Klamath River while the Yurok live downstream.
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of California who reside along the Klamath River.
Karuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karok
Etymology: Borrowed from Karok káruk (“upstream, upriver (people)”), because they live upstream on the Klamath River while the Yurok live downstream.
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by this tribe, which is either a language isolate or perhaps Hokan.
sciatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sciatique, from Late Latin sciaticus, variant of ischiadicus, from Ancient Greek ἰσχιαδικός (iskhiadikós), the adjective of ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the ischium.
glosses: Of, or relating to sciatica.
Derived terms: sciatic formane
sciatic hernia
sciatic nerve
sciatic neuropathy
sciatic spine
sciatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: sciatics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sciatique, from Late Latin sciaticus, variant of ischiadicus, from Ancient Greek ἰσχιαδικός (iskhiadikós), the adjective of ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip”).
Senses: glosses: The sciatic nerve.
glosses: A person with sciatica.
Katcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Kadu language from Saharan Africa
Kerebe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a language spoken on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania
Khakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian хака́с (xakás, “a Khakas”).
Senses: glosses: A Turkic-speaking people in South Central Siberia, who lives along the upper reach of the Yenisei River north of the Sayan Mountains.
Khakas
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Khakas
form: most Khakas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian хака́с (xakás, “a Khakas”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Khakas people or their language.
Khakas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian хака́с (xakás, “a Khakas”).
Senses: glosses: A Yenisei Turkic language spoken by the Khakas people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Khakas terms
Kibosho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a dialect of the Kichagga language
Kichagga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chaga (“Bantu dialect continuum”).
synonyms: word: Chaga
extra: Bantu dialect continuum
Kikuyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kikuyus
form: Kikuyu
Etymology: Borrowed from Kikuyu Gĩkũyũ.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Bantu people of Kenya.
Kikuyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Kikuyu Gĩkũyũ.
Senses: examples: text: If the idea of “exotic” and complex languages with features you’ve never imagined thrills you, I guarantee you’ll get more out of studying Navajo, American Sign Language, Kikuyu, Vietnamese, Cree, Cantonese, Quechua, or Nuuchahnnulth than Quenya, Klingon, or attempting to make your own.
ref: 2023 December 30, Daniel W. Hieber, “Why I hate conlangs”, in Linguistic Discovery, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:
glosses: The language of this people.
glosses: A large town in Kiambu County, Kenya, named after the Kikuyu people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kikuyu terms
Kilegi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a language spoken in parts of Tanzania
Kimbu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
knee socks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee sock
knee sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee socks
Senses: examples: text: Nasty unpolished toe-crushing boots are equally acceptable, but don't let anyone see you wearing neat woolly knee-socks.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 62:
glosses: A sock that reaches almost up to the knee.
Synonyms: knee high
kreplach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creplach
form: creplich
form: kreplakh
form: kreplech
form: kreplekh
form: kreplich
Etymology: From Yiddish קרעפּלאַך (kreplakh), a regional plural form of קרעפּל (krepl, “meat dumpling”).
Senses: glosses: Small dumplings of Eastern European origin, filled with meat or cheese and served usually in soup.
kriging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: Kriging
Etymology: From the name of Danie G. Krige, South African engineer, + -ing.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Wiener-Kolmogorov prediction
glosses: A regression technique used to interpolate data.
wikipedia: Danie G. Krige
Derived terms: cokriging
krige
Kuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Kenya and Tanzania.
kvetchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kvetchier
form: kvetchiest
Etymology: From kvetch + -y.
Senses: glosses: persistently whining or complaining
Derived terms: kvetchily
kvetchiness
Kwere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people from the coast of Tanzania.
Kwere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
fashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fashion
fashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fashioned
form: most fashioned
Senses: examples: text: It was neatly arranged with old fashioned furniture.
ref: 2014, Z A Bukhari, This Love, →ISBN:
text: I've been thinking of that for a while; I was going to go with Island Fashioned or Eastern Fashion, but they both sound shit.
ref: 2017, Jonathon Mcluskie, Thai Fashioned Trouble: Mr. Leopold, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a specified fashion or style
examples: text: It was there also that, untill 1783, the famous Carlin performed his italian jokes, then very fashioned , and to which, since, has succeeded nobler kind of plays.
ref: 1846, J. C. G. MARIN DE P***, A Fortnight in Paris, page 62:
text: I praised the tie of a ribbon, carelessly, the next afternoon, — declare it's every word true, sir ; — she met me in the evening with that very fashioned tie
ref: 1855, Laura Greenwood, The Rural Wreath; Or, Life Among the Flowers, page 225:
text: I like the appearance of both those sisters very much: they look spirited & accomplished, & informed; they are both handsome, & have good figures, & a very fashioned look & manner.
ref: 1972, Fanny Burney, Joyce Hemlow, Althea Douglas, The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay).:
text: Timofay clams right up, but being very fashioned and eloquent, he bids them all a loving smile, as getting to know them was not the reason for making this trip, for He knows that women come as frequently as the changing of the tide and will always be there.
ref: 2011, Dann'yl Lebedoff, Our Steppes:
glosses: In style; fashionable.
examples: text: “Transitionology” developed in Spain into a very fashioned discipline that left a strong footprint on the whole of Eastern and Central European studies.
ref: 2012, Solidarity with Solidarity, →ISBN:
text: As I have mentioned earlier, your thoughts and emotions are functioning perfectly and must be using them in a very fashioned and orderly manner, if ever, guided by an Entity or an Angel spirit along the way if you find difficulty in adjusting to the new environment.
ref: 2013, Angel V. Ornedo Jr., Knowing the Infinite Creator: Telepathic Conversations with Jesus Christ, →ISBN:
text: May not some books be more technically difficult to put together than others, and may not their raw material be less fashioned, less well prepared?
ref: 2014, Pittard, Race & History, →ISBN:
text: Men's talking and demeanor is very fashioned, while a woman's is hot air and wild just as in sex and politics.
ref: 2015, Erik Cloud, The New Age Bible, →ISBN:
text: It remains more open, less formal, seemingly less fashioned.
ref: 2016, Richard Andrews, A Prosody of Free Verse: Explorations in Rhythm, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Well designed or put together.
Hyponyms: fully-fashioned
new-fashioned
old-fashioned
Derived terms: fashionedness
unfashioned
molestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒlɪˈsteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌməʊlɪˈsteɪʃən/
enpr: mō'lĕstāʹshən
ipa: /ˌmoʊlɪˈsteɪʃən/
Forms: form: molestations
Etymology: From Old French molestacion, from Latin molestatio. By surface analysis, molest + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of molesting.
Derived terms: child molestation
nonmolestation
geometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.oʊˈmɛt.ɹɪk.əl/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.əˈmɛt.ɹɪk.əl/
Forms: form: more geometrical
form: most geometrical
Etymology: From geometric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 26:
glosses: Of, or relating to geometry; geometric.
glosses: Consisting of lines and simple shapes.
raw_tags: of a design
glosses: Having the stairs supported by the wall at one end only.
raw_tags: of a staircase
Derived terms: ageometrical
chronogeometrical
crystallogeometrical
geometrical pace
geometrical progression
hypergeometrical
metageometrical
nongeometrical
ungeometrical
quietness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quietnesses
Etymology: From Middle English quietnes, quietnesse, quietenesse, qwietnesse, qwietenesse, equivalent to quiet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of sound; silence or hush.
glosses: Absence of disturbance; calm, stillness or serenity.
Synonyms: sense: absence of sound
word: silence
sense: absence of sound
word: roo
Related terms: quietude
red wigglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red wiggler
juglines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jugline
muskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muskie; see muskellunge
pritchel holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pritchel hole
hardy holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardy hole
mudbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudbug; see crayfish
bluegills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluegill
bettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betta
shiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiner
grenadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɛnədiːn/
Forms: form: grenadines
Etymology: Borrowed from French grenadine, from Middle French grenade (“pomegranate”).
Senses: glosses: A cordial syrup made from pomegranates.
glosses: A dilute drink made from this syrup.
glosses: A thin gauzy fabric of silk or wool, used for women's clothing and men's woven luxury ties.
qualifier: formerly a trade name
glosses: A dyestuff consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.
pomegranates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomegranate
tortas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torta
arachnidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹæknɪdɪzəm/
rhymes: -æknɪdɪzəm
Etymology: From arachnid + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being poisoned as a result of a spider's bite.
Hypernyms: envenomation
norovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒɹə(ʊ)vaɪɹəs/
Forms: form: noroviruses
Etymology: From Nor(walk) + -o- + virus.
Senses: examples: text: The norovirus causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Norovirus, the genus of Norwalk virus, which causes gastric distress in humans.
package store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: package stores
Etymology: From the state laws of Connecticut and Georgia which declare that purchased liquor must be in a sealed container or removed from the premises in a bag or other package.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not like there was any shortage of booze in Eloe. There were package stores and churches every hundred feet.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, pages 153–154:
synonyms: packie
liquor store
off-licence
offy
state store
hypernyms: store#Noun
shop#Noun
<
establishment
;
place
glosses: A retail store that sells alcoholic beverages, specifically one in which only sealed containers may be sold for consumption off the premises.
Related terms: word: packaged goods
word: brown bag
Pauline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pô'lēn'
ipa: /ˈpɔːˌliːn/
ipa: /pɑˈlin/
Etymology: From French Pauline, in turn from Latin Paulina; in regular use since the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The youngest child of George and Emily Johnson was named Emily after her mother, and Pauline in honor of the only sibling of Emperor Napoleon of France, whose life was the object of George Johnson's consuming interest.
ref: 1987, Betty Keller, Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson, Formac Publ. Co., published 1989, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Derived terms: Paulinism
Paulinist
Paulinize
Related terms: word: Paula
word: Paulina
word: Paul
Pauline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pô'lēn'
ipa: /ˈpɔːˌliːn/
ipa: /pɑˈlin/
enpr: pô'līn'
ipa: /ˈpɔːˌlaɪn/
enpr: pô'lēn'
ipa: /ˈpɔːˌliːn/
ipa: /pɑˈlin/
Etymology: From Paul + -ine.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Of or relating to the Apostle Paul, his writings, his doctrines, and the form of Christianity that arose from them.
Derived terms: word: Pauline conversion
english: religious order
translation: religious order
word: Pauline Fathers
Related terms: Paulist
laccase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laccases
Senses: examples: text: Higushi (54) reported on mushroom phenol oxidase prepared by the method of Freudenberg and its use for oxidation of coniferyl alcohol and related compounds and demonstrated that the enzyme product was a mixture of tyrosinase and laccase.
ref: 1962, Forest Products Journal, volume 12, page 142:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several copper-containing oxidase enzymes found in plants and microorganisms.
lacquerware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlakəwɛː/
Forms: form: lacquerwares
form: lacquer-ware
Etymology: From lacquer + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Domestic demand from middling as well as noble audiences for exotic semi-luxury imports such as cotton goods, porcelain and lacquer-ware was strong enough to stimulate moves towards import substitution.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 356:
synonyms: japan
glosses: Decorative items coated with lacquer.
daylight robbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdeɪlaɪt ˈɹɒb(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˌdeɪˌlaɪt ˈɹɑb(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: daylight robberies
Etymology: From daylight + robbery, originally used literally to refer to robbery occurring in the daytime rather than at night, which was thought to be more audacious or risky.
Senses: synonyms: highway robbery
price gouging
glosses: The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Conduct which unfairly deprives an opponent of an advantage or a win; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
examples: text: A daylight robbery of a store carries with it a risk that the store clerk will be present and a confrontation will ensue, so grounds to fear a daylight robbery give rise to a reasonable inference that the defendant is armed and dangerous.
ref: 2006, Sarah N. Welling, “Stop and Frisk”, in Paul Finkelman, editor, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, volume 3, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page 1570, column 1:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see daylight, robbery.
bolo ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolo tie
knuckleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knucklehead
nightcrawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightcrawler
streamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streamer
wet flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet fly
snells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snell
dry flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry fly
bobbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobber
crampons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crampon
treble hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treble hook
sinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinker
ladyfingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladyfinger
beignets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beignet
cast net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cast nets
Etymology: From cast + net.
Senses: synonyms: casting net
glosses: A (usually weighted) fishing net that is thrown and then pulled back by means of an attached line.
Derived terms: word: cast-net
word: cast-netter
cast nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cast net
teachings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teaching
Coordinate terms: learnings
panfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panfishes
form: panfish
Etymology: From pan + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Panfish are caught primarily for eating, rather than for sport.
glosses: Any fish that is suitable for cooking in a frying pan by virtue of its size and taste.
Related terms: gamefish
divider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaɪdə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dividers
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From divide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I was greatly his inferior, but love is a quick divider of shares: he that gathers much has nothing over, and he that gathers little has no lack.
ref: 1891, George MacDonald, A Rough Shaking, page 33:
glosses: One who or that which divides or separates.
examples: text: It is perfectly possible to separate one area of a room from another, or even to create an entirely new room, with a lightweight room divider that assembles with a minimum of fuss.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: One who or that which divides or separates.
A physical object for dividing up a space.
glosses: One who or that which divides or separates.
A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
glosses: One who or that which divides or separates.
An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
glosses: A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
glosses: The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
Derived terms: checkout divider
current divider
dividerless
hair divider
inductive voltage divider
room divider
voltage divider
word divider
tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪlz/
homophone: tales
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of tail
tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪlz/
homophone: tales
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: examples: text: So I'm putting on my top hat, tying on my white tie, brushing off my tails.
ref: 1935, Irving Berlin, Top Hat, White Tie and Tails:
glosses: Clipping of tailcoat.
examples: text: Tails, I win.
antonyms: heads
glosses: The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Tailings; waste.
examples: text: The tails can be collected until the evolving distillate is down to about 10 percent, and the stillhead[…]
ref: 2011 February 9, Bill Owens, Alan Dikty, The Art of Distilling Whiskey and Other Spirits: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Potent Potables, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 39:
qualifier: alcohol production
glosses: Tailings, feints.
tails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪlz/
homophone: tales
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tail
pisseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 25:34:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss
emesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪsɪs/
Forms: form: emeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμεσις (émesis), from ἐμέω (eméō, “vomit”). Compare ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”, noun). Synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.
Senses: examples: text: Syrup of ipecac almost always forces an emesis.
text: A female, aged 57 years, was left affected with abdominal dropsy after an attack of fever. On the 3d of March, 1836, she took 6 drops of croton oil, and in the substances rejected by emeses, four living caterpillars were perceived at first, and subsequently ten others.
ref: 1837 May 24, “Living Caterpillars in the Human Intestines”, in Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, volume I, number 12, page 747:
text: Information included coexisting diseases, alcohol misuse, other substance misuse, medications taken at the same time as antituberculosis treatment (focusing on antiretroviral and azole antifungal agents), and the presence of gastrointentinal symptoms (nausea, emesis, diarrhoea, abdominal pain).
ref: 1996 October 5, Williamson Z. Bradford et al., “The changing epidemiology of acquired drug-resistant tuberculosis in San Francisco, USA”, in The Lancet, volume 348, number 9032, →PMID, page 929:
text: Several nurses stood outside the doors holding clipboards and dispensing yellow plastic emesis basins to a restless line of a least^([sic]) a dozen patients in long sleeves, heavy trousers, and work boots.
ref: 2010, Candace Calvert, chapter 1, in Disaster Status, Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, page 7:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The act or process of vomiting.
Derived terms: antiemesis
antiemetic
copremesis
emetic
emetology
haematemesis
hematemesis
hyperemesis
Forteana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Fortean + -ana.
Senses: examples: text: A monthly “Journal of Strange Phenomena”, founded in 1973 as a primary forum for news, discussion, links and archives to core and fringe forteana.
ref: 2000, Bob Rickard, John Michell, Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special, →ISBN, page 367:
glosses: Fortean (supernatural or anomalous) phenomena.
Related terms: Fortean
Lambya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Malawi and Tanzania.
Langi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people who live in central Uganda.
Langi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Belyando spew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ultimately of Australian Aboriginal derivation; named for the Belyando River of central Queensland.
The expression dates from no later 1891, from when it was in use in a shearer′s song.
Senses: examples: text: Filariasis, anchylostomiasis, tropical anaemias, and the many and varied tropical disorders, from malaria and dengue to Barcoo rot and Belyando spew, await the application of modern research methods to place them on the necessary footing to render prophylaxis and treatment more satisfactory[…].
ref: 1908, Australasian Medical Association, Australasian Medical Gazette: The Journal of the Australasian branches of the British Medical Association, volume 27, page 25:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An illness afflicting shearers, characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over in stifling heat (though more likely due to a local grass).
Synonyms: Barcoo sickness
Barcoo spew
Barcoo vomit
Burdekin vomit
Bishop Barker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bishop Barkers
Etymology: After Frederic Barker, who became the second Anglican bishop of Sydney, Australia, in 1855 and was noted for his height and for being a teetotaller. The expression became obsolete in the 1870s.
Senses: examples: text: 1898, Price Warung, Dictionary Ned, in Half-Crown Bob and Tales of the Riverine, quoted in 1970, Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore,
For a "Bishop Barker" he would compose a quatrain on any subject – a person preferred – suggested by the man who tipped him the drink […] .
text: Henry lays a shilling down on the wet bar towel at the Lass, asks Murwillumbah Marie for some ship′s biscuits or cheese but they don't do them on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays any more, and he brings back two cold, foaming Bishop Barkers.
ref: 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155:
glosses: A very tall glass of beer.
neer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neers
form: near
form: neir
Etymology: From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.
Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: (anatomy) Kidney.
soms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of som
Buckley's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It wer′n′t no guyver neither; fer I knoo / That any other bloke ′ad Buckley′s ′oo / Tried fer to pick ′er up.
ref: 1915, C. J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Gutenberg eBook #4730:
text: 1956, Brent of Bin Bin (Miles Franklin), Gentleman at Gyang Gyang, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900141,
“Wot with the basic wage an′ the high price of livin′, might cost too much,” said Beardy, grinning. “An′ all you young sparks has got such a turr′ble drooth on yez for the pooty faces and pink cheeks of girls that I'd have Buckley′s of gettin′ in the runnin′.”
glosses: Ellipsis of Buckley's chance.
Buckley's and none
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buckley's and Nunn
Etymology: Uncertain. Various folk legends are listed at Buckley's chance.
Senses: glosses: A supposed two chances (probabilities), being Buckley's chance (meaning a very small chance) or no chance at all.
Related terms: Buckley's
Buckley's chance
Madame Bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Anna Bishop, wife of Henry Bishop, composer of the song Home! Sweet Home!, or possibly after a publican of the same surname.
Senses: glosses: A drink comprising port, sugar and nutmeg.
hermitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hermitizes
form: hermitizing
form: hermitized
form: hermitized
Etymology: From hermit + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to isolate oneself; to become a hermit
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: to cause to become Hermitian
back fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back fires
form: backfire
form: back-fire
Etymology: From back + fire.
Senses: glosses: A small, controlled fire set in the path of a larger uncontrolled fire, in order to limit the spread of the large fire by removing its fuel.
glosses: An explosion produced either by a running internal combustion engine that occurs in the air intake or exhaust system rather than inside the combustion chamber or unburned fuel or hydrocarbons ignited somewhere in the exhaust system.
meso-region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meso-regions
Etymology: From meso- + region.
Senses: glosses: An administrative system that is equivalent to a prefecture or a department. It is used in Brazil as a third-level administration between state and micro-region.
Related terms: macro-metropolitan area
metropolitan region
micro-region