cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
open access
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The amenities of the institute include a well-arranged open-access library of 18,000 volumes, and a small but valuable reference library of railway literature; the present writer is Librarian.
ref: 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
synonyms: word: OA
glosses: A set of principles and practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.
examples: text: Dominguez-González explained: "The Spanish market is no longer a monopolistic one, and there is great interest among both the existing open access operators and potential future ones in providing services on other lines."
ref: 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, pages 32–33:
glosses: Public access to infrastructure, such as railways.
Derived terms: black open access
bronze open access
diamond open access
gold open access
green open access
hybrid open access
platinum open access
Related terms: unpaywalled
plaidman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaidmen
Etymology: From plaid + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who wears a plaid.
plaidmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaidman
potshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pot shop.
potshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potshop
poursuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poursuit
primulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primuline
profuser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of profuse: more profuse
promissors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promissor
psychochemicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychochemical
pudencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudency
pucest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to anger the nation's greengrocers, but I've found Marks & Spencer's sell rhubarb that is reliably pink all the year around. And it's hardly seasonal to mention it, but of course the purest, pucest stalks are the forced kind that fill the shops after Christmas: […]
ref: 2012, Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer:
glosses: superlative form of puce: most puce
pulvilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Sprinkled with pulvillio.
earthset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From earth + set.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:earthset.
antonyms: earthrise
glosses: The event of the Earth setting under the horizon of another planet, typically the Moon (typically due to the observer being in motion over the surface of the Moon: see usage notes at earthrise).
Synonyms: earthdown
epigyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being epigynous.
eumerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euhemerism.
exeem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exeems
form: exeeming
form: exeemed
form: exeemed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exeme.
exeems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exeem
exeeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exeem
exeemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exeem
crumb-bum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumb-bums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crumbum.
misreflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misreflections
Etymology: From mis- + reflection.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of misreflecting; a bad or wrong reflection.
misreflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreflection
whorelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorelets
Etymology: From whore + -let.
Senses: examples: text: He knew she was nothing but a fubsy pig-pink whorelet and would elbow her face away when she attempted to kiss him after he had finished […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:
glosses: A young or little whore.
whorelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whorelet
clocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒki/
ipa: /ˈklɑk-/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: clockier
form: clockiest
Etymology: From clock (“to identify someone as being transgender”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, I recommend these places to my conformist trans girlfriends, who like me were and are bound by our internalised transphobia to do everything we possibly can to not be 'clocky', as we hand out verbal awards of 'fishy' to one another as commendations for doing our best to pass.
ref: 2018 October 8, Kuchenga Shenje, “Why trans people need more safe spaces to get our hair done”, in Dazed:
text: "I get super clocky," says Blossom, meaning that others may presume she is trans, not cis.
ref: 2021 June 30, Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard, “How Going on Estrogen Changed My Skin”, in Allure:
text: You cringe at someone clocky. You cringe, morbidly; thank God someone out there is clockier than you.
ref: 2022 March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “"Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, in The New Inquiry:
text: Chyna, real name Joanie Laurer, was one of the clockiest cis women in history, and I mean that as a compliment. Born in 1969 in Rochester, NY, Chyna looked like an absolute monster, packing 200 pounds of muscle onto her thick-jawed, five-foot-ten frame.
ref: 2022 August 30, Samantha Riedel, “At Wrestle Queerdom, Trans and Nonbinary Wrestlers Ruled the Night”, in Them:
synonyms: clockable
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: Clearly identifiable as transgender; capable of being easily clocked; not passing.
clockier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clocky: more clocky
clockiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clocky: most clocky
federal state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal states
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: federation (usually synonymous); see also Thesaurus:federal country
text: The United States of America, Canada, Australia and Switzerland are all federal states. Federalism combines unity with diversity.
ref: How Canadians Govern Themselveshttps://web.archive.org/web/20221010154559/https://lop.parl.ca/About/Parliament/senatoreugeneforsey/book/chapter_2-e.html, lop.parl.ca
text: The Republic of Austria is a Federal State composed of nine autonomous federal provinces.
ref: The Federal State of Austria | Austrian Parliament, parlament.gv.athttps://web.archive.org/web/20160407075539/https://www.parlament.gv.at/ENGL/PERK/BOE/
antonyms: unitary state
confederation
glosses: A sovereign state that is a federation.
examples: text: Ceará is one of the federal states of Brazil and is located in the semi-arid northeast.
ref: 2003, Stephen Merrett, Water for Agriculturehttps://books.google.com/books?id=gQ1vG9UVGx0C&pg=PA33&dq=%22federal+states+of+Brazil%22
text: New South Wales (NSW) is one of the six federal states of Australia.
ref: 2009, Stephan Huber, School Leadership - International Perspectives
text: In this context, the integration of security committees in the federal states of Mexico with the highest incidence is promoted: Coahuila, Durango, State of Mexico, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Veracruz, ...
ref: 2020, OECD, Regulatory Governance of the Rail Sector in Mexicohttps://books.google.com/books?id=rOLODwAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&dq=%22federal+states+of+Mexico%22
text: Since reunification in 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany has had 16 rather than just eleven Länder or federal states, the five new states being Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
ref: Federal States of Germany, deutschland.dehttps://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/germany-europe/federal-states
text: Administration in the Länder (provinces, or federal states) is the duty of the state governments, the Landesregierungen.
ref: The State Governments — Austria, austria.orghttps://www.austria.org/the-state-governments
glosses: A nonsovereign state that is part of a federation, especially part of Germany or Austria.
Related terms: federal district
federal subject
federal territory
missuppose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missupposes
form: missupposing
form: missupposed
form: missupposed
Etymology: From mis- + suppose.
Senses: examples: text: There was, indeed, another Boort, or Bors, afterwards king of Benoic; but the translator has evidently missupposed Ban-Boozt to be the name of one king, and Bos that of the other.
ref: 1885, Ancient English Metrical Romances, page 4:
text: The circumstances complained of by the SEC are best controlled by the confluence of the competitive forces of the marketplace rather than by an agency that missupposes the mutual fund industry as being like a public utility.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, Mutual Fund Legislation of 1967: Hearings..., page 876:
glosses: To suppose incorrectly.
missupposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missuppose
missupposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missuppose
missupposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missuppose
missupposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missuppositions
Etymology: From mis- + supposition.
Senses: glosses: A wrong supposition.
missuppositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missupposition
Treharris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and community in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0997).
macroseepage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroseepages
Etymology: From macro- + seepage.
Senses: glosses: The seepage of relatively large amounts of material.
macroseepages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroseepage
rentaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rentalers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rentaller.
rentalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rentaler
rentaller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rentallers
form: rentaler
Etymology: From rental + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a kindly tenant, having land tenure by rental right.
rentallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rentaller
repure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repures
form: repuring
form: repured
form: repured
Etymology: From re- + pure.
Senses: glosses: To cleanse or refine again.
repured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repure
repures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repure
repuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repure
retraited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrait
retraiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrait
pull request
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pull requests
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: merge request
PR
glosses: A request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.
pull request
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pull requests
form: pull requesting
form: pull requested
form: pull requested
Senses: examples: text: The GitHub Archive records any user activity (forking, pull requesting, commenting) on the social coding site GitHub. We queried the GitHub Archive for users who had specified a company name (non-empty string) in their GitHub profile[…]
ref: 2014 June 30, Giovanni Cantone, Michele Marchesi, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 114:
text: We denote the estimated interests of a developer given a repository that he or she forked, watched, committed or pull-requested in GitHub as I(r). Similarly, we denote the estimated interests of a developer given a question that he[…]
ref: 2017 August 31, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri, Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, →ISBN, page 247:
text: GitHub Data Analysis and Its Recommender Systems In this subsection the authors present some related research works ... have studied different user behaviors on GitHub like forking, watching, commenting on issues, pull-requesting and[…]
ref: 2018 February 2, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Optimizing Contemporary Application and Processes in Open Source Software, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To submit a pull request.
Related terms: code review
pull requests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pull request
pull requests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull request
pull requesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull request
pull requested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull request
merge request
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merge requests
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: word: MR
word: pull request
glosses: Synonym of pull request.
merge requests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merge request
retrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrate
retrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrate
retraict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retraicts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of retreat.
retraict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retraicts
form: retraicting
form: retraicted
form: retraicted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of retreat.
retraicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retraict
retraicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retraict
retraicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retraict
retraicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retraict
Excited States of America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Excited States of America
Etymology: Blend of excited + United States of America. From perceived excitability of the American people.
Senses: examples: text: The longest serving host of the NBC political chat show Meet the Press passed to his eternal reward recently, and the Excited States of America lived up (or down) to its somewhat sardonic anglophilic nickname.
ref: 2008 June 23, Douglas Bell, “Falling over ourselves to pay tribute to Tim Russert”, in Toronto Life, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
text: Over the past number of years, I’ve warmed to his writings in The National Post; a newspaper he started and once owned. The takedown of Diane Francis for her column suggesting that Canada be bribed to join the “Excited States of America” should be required reading for all Canadians.
ref: 2015 February 25, Tony Wilson, “Conrad Black and that meddlesome Supreme Court”, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Canada:
text: The fact that 148 years after Confederation, 10 provinces and three territories eventually married and stayed married without blowing up (literally and figuratively), is to be celebrated, especially when it would have been so easy (and yet so sad) to have packed it all in and joined the Excited States of America.
ref: 2015 August 24, Tony Wilson, “Confederation Day”, in BarTalk, British Columbia, Canada: Canadian Bar Association in British Columbia, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022:
text: One in which English and French would work together and one which would leave pettiness and ‘small Canada thinkers’ behind. It would have been easy to be de-railed from the Big Picture of a Big Canada. Returning to the old-prejudices of the past would have been comforting to many, but then what? A set of small squabbling colonies slowly dropping one by one into the “Excited States of America”? If this were to be the case, there would have been no chance for a North American state where change would be peaceful and evolutionary; no chance for a state which cares for all its citizens.
ref: 2017 July 5, John Edwards, “John Edwards writes on Canada”, in The Millstone, Mississippi Mills, Ontario, Canada:
text: The Excited States of America may have had the most trusted television news anchor in the universe, Walter Cronkite, but Canada had the most trusted weather prognosticator: Winnipeg-born Saltzman.
ref: 2019 February 20, Claude McIntosh, “Do you think the weather man is fake news?”, in Seaway News, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada:
text: Comparing elections between Canada and the Excited States of America is a bit like comparing the halftime shows at the Super Bowl and the Grey Cup.
ref: 2020 November 6, Jon Snobelen, “Canada, let's resist the urge to watch down south with smugness”, in Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
glosses: The United States.
Synonyms: Excited States
Related terms: Excited States
T-shape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-shapes
Etymology: Probably from T-shaped, the figurative sense.
Senses: examples: text: The T-shape stands for people who are broad (horizontal) and deep (vertical). T-shaped people are interested in ... Consequently, organizations like to hire people who encompass these broad and deep T-shaped skills and experiences.
ref: 2014 December 2, Ryszard Klempous, Jan Nikodem, Innovative Technologies in Management and Science, Springer, →ISBN, page 7:
text: T-shape: These roles have broad and deep competencies and are in the middle of the chain, for example, information architect, infrastructure architect, business architect or solution architect. Governance: These roles on the top of[…]
ref: 2016 November 30, Sameer Paradkar, Cracking the IT Architect Interview, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 18:
text: ... An explanation of the T-shape can help students to see the connection between the “broad” that general education courses offer and the “deep” that the vocational part of their program develop.
ref: 2018 August 23, Yassi Moghaddam, Haluk Demirkan, Jim Spohrer, T-Shaped Professionals: Adaptive Innovators, Business Expert Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A set of knowledge or skills that are both broad and deep.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see T, shape.
T-shapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-shape
rozelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rozelles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roselle (“edible hibiscus”).
rozelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rozelle
Razdelnoye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rozdilna (“Ukrainian city”).
Excited States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Excited States
Etymology: Blend of excited + United States
Senses: glosses: The United States.
Synonyms: Excited States of America
memory safety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Protection from software bugs and security vulnerabilities resulting from improper memory management, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers.
Related terms: memory-safe
memory-unsafe
memory-safe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
antonyms: memory-unsafe
glosses: Able to ensure memory safety.
raw_tags: of a program or programming language
memory-unsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Not memory-safe.
raw_tags: of a program or programming language
Russia leathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russia leather
rybat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rybats
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A vertical dressed stone beside a door or window.
rybats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rybat
ruths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruth
rispettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rispetto
Sindhudesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sindhi سنڌو ديش (sindhudēš, “Country of Sindh”).
Senses: examples: text: He and his associates started traveling all over Sindh to propagate the cause of Sindhudesh.
ref: 2007, B. Raman, The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane:
glosses: A sovereign state proposed by separatists to be established as a homeland for Sindhis.
glosses: Sindh.
Related terms: Sindhudeshi
Aledo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Murcia, Spain.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Mercer County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A city in Parker County, Texas, United States.
Sindwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sindhwork.
remead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remeads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of remeid.
remead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remeads
form: remeading
form: remeaded
form: remeaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of remeid.
remeaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remead
remeads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remead
remeads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remead
remeading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remead
remeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remede
remeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remede
antidance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + dance.
Senses: examples: text: Issuance of the 1892 “Rules for Indian Courts” reified this law, albeit the implementation of BIA antidance policy varied among the Western Indian agencies; nevertheless, many ceremonies became defunct […]
ref: 2005, Suzanne J. Crawford, Dennis F. Kelley, American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia, page 211:
glosses: Opposing dancing.
Chinese hamburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese hamburgers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roujiamo (“Chinese meat sandwich”).
synonyms: word: roujiamo
extra: Chinese meat sandwich
Chinese hamburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese hamburger
reemphasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reemphases
Etymology: From re- + emphasis.
Senses: glosses: The act of reemphasizing; a second or subsequent emphasis.
reemphases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reemphasis
there is no Planet B
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined by British comedian and writer Rob Newman in 2006, in his stage show There Is No Planet B: A history of the world backwards. In 2007, Newman performed a song called No Planet B at Heathrow Climate Camp, after which activists painted the phrase on placards, first at the Heathrow Climate Camp, and then at COP15 in Copenhagen. The phrase was later popularized by British researcher and writer Mike Berners-Lee in his 2019 book There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years. It is a play on words based on the phrase "there is no plan B".
Senses: glosses: There is only one Earth, so humans must try to conserve Earth's environment by taking steps to mitigate climate change, etc.
wikipedia: Mike Berners-Lee
rattlebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattlebags
Etymology: From rattle + bag.
Senses: glosses: A mixed bag, or indiscriminate collection.
rattlebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattlebag
ratafee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratafees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ratafia.
ratafees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratafee
randems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of randem
wazzbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wazzbags
Etymology: From wazz + bag.
Senses: examples: text: “Yeah, we know what that wazzbag, Kevin is up to, that little wretch. How dare you strike Rachel? I'll skin you alive,” Anthony said and slapped him across his face. Kevin looked unmoved and just smirked. Chandler's men wrestled the two[…]
ref: 2020 June 4, Rayna Arora, The Royal Blood, Notion Press, →ISBN:
text: Tyler says, “Stop being such a wazzbag and live for once. We're gonna be fine.” Octavia walks midway and sits down with the grass bestowed between her knees. Kierra asks, “What are you doing?” Octavia replies, “Everyone come over.
ref: 2022 June 17, Lis Frimpong, Forbidden Entries, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: A detestable or stupid person.
wazzbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wazzbag
rabbonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabboni
raash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See raad.
Senses: glosses: The electric catfish.
wazukhanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wazukhana
third-parties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of third-party
wazzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wazz
motorkhanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorkhana
third-partying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of third-party
third-partied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of third-party
Pinckneyville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pinckney + -ville.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Clay County, Alabama, United States, named after Thomas Pinckney.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Perry County, Illinois, United States, named after Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States, named for the Pinckney family of South Carolina.
Bangabhumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali বঙ্গভূমি (boṅgobhumi, “Land of Vanga”).
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: Bengal
glosses: A sovereign state proposed by separatists to be established as a homeland for Bengali Hindus.
Related terms: Bangabhumiya
debatey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more debatey
form: most debatey
Etymology: From debate + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “It is, at the very least, worth some kind of debate.” As I fold my arms, I can feel my heart beating against my wrist. / “No, it isn't,” Tamsin says. “Not now, anyway. We're making friends, Leo. It's meant to be fun, not debatey.”
ref: 2022, Roz Nay, The Hunted, Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Inclined to or characterised by debate.
wazzocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wazzocked
form: most wazzocked
Senses: examples: text: It'll be so nice to see them again, and have a might of not bothering about anything domestic and just getting on with the serious business of getting utterly wazzocked.
ref: 2011, Sam Holden, Diary of a Hapless Househusband, page 196:
glosses: Drunk.
bullumteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullumteers
Etymology: From volunteer, as pronounced by sepoys.
Senses: examples: text: The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
ref: 1880, Francis John Bellew, Memoirs of a Griffin; Or, A Cadet's First Year in India, page 202:
text: We were all bullumteers on the Canal works.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, His Brother’s Keeper:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A volunteer of certain regiments of the old Bengal Army.
bullumteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullumteer
Dru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dro͞o
ipa: /dɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: synonyms: Drew
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, also used as a formal given name.
synonyms: Drew
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Drusilla or Drucilla, also used as a formal given name.
glosses: A surname.
machine zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machine zones
Etymology: Coined by cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll.
Senses: examples: text: Echoing Mollie’s wish to stay in the machine zone, they spoke of gamblers’ desire for “time-on-device,” or TOD.
ref: 2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, page 3:
text: How does technology hold us close, so close that we turn to it instead of turning within? It keeps us in a “machine zone.”
ref: 2015, Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: As one addict explains, she is not playing to win but to ‘stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters.’
ref: 2020, Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A trance-like state of immersion reached through intense interaction with gambling machines.
Drucilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Drusilla
rows back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of row back
rowing back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of row back
rowback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowbacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of row-back.
rowbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowback
AMRAAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AMRAAMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of advanced medium-range air-to-air missile.
AMRAAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AMRAAM
bicycle monarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicycle monarchies
form: bicycling monarchy
Etymology: From press images of members of the Dutch and Danish royal families riding bicycles.
Senses: glosses: A relatively informal and modest style of monarchy, as found in Scandinavia and the Low Countries.
wikipedia: Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
bicycle monarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle monarchy
bicycling monarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicycling monarchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bicycle monarchy.
bicycling monarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycling monarchy
New Albany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Floyd County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Floyd County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Story County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Wilson County, Kansas, named after New Albany, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Union County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cinnaminson Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Franklin County and Licking County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mahoning County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Albany Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Beloit, Wisconsin.
scumbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scumbug
gap yah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gap yahs
Etymology: From stereotypical pronunciation by the privileged upper class. Compare yah (“an upper-class person”). Gap Yah was the name of a comedy sketch of this kind, published on YouTube in February 2010.
Senses: examples: text: I was at university in Paris for three months and I missed my friends desperately. I'd gone away without them on my gap yah but being in the Caribbean alone was fun, and people there were friendly and made me feel safe.
ref: 2020, Grace Campbell, Amazing Disgrace: A Book About "Shame":
text: I pushed a strawberry sweet into my mouth, bagged up the afternoon's rubbish and thought about what my gap-yah girl would be called, what her favourite colour was, her favourite food.
ref: 2020, Naomi Joy, Do Her No Harm:
text: The sneers about my gap yah. The eye-rolling whenever I mentioned Exeter. Full of posh pricks, you said once. I thought I wasn't cool enough for you.
ref: 2022, Nicole Kennedy, After Paris:
glosses: A gap year.
wikipedia: Gap Yah
YouTube
gap yahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gap yah
conicopla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conicoplas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conicopoly.
conicoplas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conicopla
time-on-device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time on device
Senses: examples: text: Complementing efforts to extend time-on-device by anticipating players’ conscious desires, another set of design strategies operate at an unconscious level, much like the affective appeals of architecture and ambience.
ref: 2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, →ISBN, page 59:
topics: gambling
games
synonyms: TOD
glosses: The time spent playing on a gaming machine, seen as a metric.
Jaccard coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jaccard coefficients
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jaccard index.
synonyms: word: Jaccard index
Jaccard indices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jaccard index
Jaccard coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jaccard coefficient
Jaccard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Jacquard.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Jaccard coefficient
Jaccard distance
Jaccardian
Jaccard index
Jacquard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Jaccard.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: jacquard
Jacquard loom
Jacquard machine
curtseyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtseyers
Etymology: From curtsey + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who curtseys.
curtsier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtsiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curtseyer.
curtseyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtseyer
curtsiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curtsier
Cossimbazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cassumbazar
form: Casumbazar
form: Cossumbazar
form: Kasembazar
form: Kasimbazar
Senses: glosses: A major European trading centre in India; now a suburban area of Berhampore City in West Bengal.
Cassumbazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cossimbazar.
Casumbazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cossimbazar.
Kasembazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cossimbazar.
Kasimbazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cossimbazar.
RevPAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RevPACs
form: REVPAC
Senses: topics: business
coordinate_terms: RevPAR
glosses: Abbreviation of revenue per available customer: a profitability metric used by hotels.
Cossumbazar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cossimbazar.
committeeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From committee + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The committeeless freshman proceeded to spend her ample available time on right-wing media outlets, like Newsmax and the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.
ref: 2022 October 17, Robert Draper, “The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Without a committee; not belonging to any committee.
Cinnaminson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Senamensing, a Native American word.
Senses: glosses: A township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
Monongahela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˌnɒŋɡəˈhiːlə/
/-ˈheɪ-/
Etymology: From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).
Senses: glosses: An Iroquoian Native American culture from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia, whose sites have been mostly found in the Monongahela River valley.
Monongahela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˌnɒŋɡəˈhiːlə/
/-ˈheɪ-/
Etymology: From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).
Senses: glosses: A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.
examples: text: Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority’s legislative agenda would look like.
ref: 2022 October 17, Robert Draper, “The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: word: Mon City
glosses: A city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: Monongah
Monongalia County
speedbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speedbridges
form: speedbridging
form: speedbridged
form: speedbridged
form: speed bridge
Etymology: From speed + bridge.
Senses: examples: text: He's good at speed bridging and he's also organized a 1v1 tournament on the game mode before.
ref: 2021 July 19, Bhagyasri Chaudhury, “Who is Purpled? James Charles slammed for posting pic of Minecraft YouTuber, 17”, in MEAWW:
text: Ten teams of four competitors participate in eight different minigames that test a variety of skills within Minecraft. These skills can range from anything between player-versus-player combat, speedbridging, parkour, building, and more.
ref: 2021 October 31, Hannah (Tyler) Dahlberg, “Minecraft Championship (MCC) All-Stars: First half of the competing teams revealed”, in Sportskeeda:
text: This technique is useful in shooting games, PvP games, Minecraft, and clicking games. It provides fast clicking, with the virtue that you can kill more enemies, do speed bridging, and more.
ref: 2022 June 6, RJ Frometa, “Drag Click Test: Improve Your Clicks Per Second Rate With Drag Clicking Technique”, in Vents Magazine:
text: Knowing how to speed bridge without falling to your death can come in handy in some of these servers.
ref: 2022 September 23, Petra Dolovski, “How to Speed Bridge in Minecraft”, in Diamond Lobby:
topics: video-games
glosses: To build a bridge under oneself using one of several techniques which minimize the amount of crouching, resulting in a significantly faster pace of construction.
Derived terms: speedbridger
speedbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speedbridge
speedbridging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speedbridge
speedbridged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speedbridge
Valmai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: vălʹmā
ipa: /ˈvælmæɪ/
Etymology: Coined by Welsh author Allen Raine in 1899 for a Welsh character in her novel By Berwen Banks. In a footnote in the novel, Raine states the name means "like May," almost certainly referring to a Welsh etymology of fel (“as, like”) + Mai (“May”).
Senses: examples: text: "I am Valmai Powell, the niece of Essec Powell, the preacher."
ref: 1899, Allen Raine, By Berwen Banks, London: Hutchinson & Co., Chapter I.:
text: The house party included Mr., Mrs., and Miss Radcliff, Masters Richard, Victor, and Miss Valmai Jenkins (Herbert Park), Mr. Trevor and Miss Giblin, Mr. Philip and Mr. Edgar Belfield, Miss Jones, Miss M. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Simpson and their daughter, Miss Manning, Miss Brennan, and Mr. Godfrey Jenkins.
ref: 1907 July 19, “Lady's Special Column.”, in The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser, Armidale, New South Wales, page 2:
text: Valmai, third daughter, was married to Mr. James South, only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. South, Brisbane[…]Valmai looked regal in white silk Jersey, cut on classical lines, with high gathered georgette yoke.
ref: 1948 June 18, "JANE", “Double Wedding”, in Maryborough Chronicle, Maryborough, Queensland, page 6:
glosses: A female given name.
Derived terms: word: Val
O-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O-shots
Senses: examples: text: Next, according to her medical charts, a women’s health specialist diagnosed her with “perimenopause” and prescribed testosterone cream. Another gynecologist recommended an “O shot,” or vaginal rejuvenation procedure.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of orgasm shot.
orgasm shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orgasm shots
Senses: topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: O-shot
glosses: A procedure involving the injection of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) into the vagina, claimed to improve orgasms.
comes in from the cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of come in from the cold
coming in from the cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come in from the cold
glans clitoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Misconstruction of glans clitoridis (literally “glans of the clitoris”). The genitive of clitoris is clitoridis.
Senses: examples: text: Only years later, on a sexual-medicine fellowship with Dr. Goldstein, did she learn how to examine the vulva and the visible part of the clitoris, also known as the glans clitoris. The full clitoris, she learned, is a deep structure, made up largely of erectile tissue, that reaches into the pelvis and encircles the vagina.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Misconstruction of glans clitoridis.
came in from the cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come in from the cold
glosses: past participle of come in from the cold
country beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country beers
Etymology: See country (“made in India, not imported”).
Senses: glosses: Beer made in India, not imported from Europe or elsewhere.
glosses: A cooling fizzy drink made with tamarinds, lemons, sugar, etc.
country beers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country beer
superapparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superapparent
form: most superapparent
Etymology: From super- + apparent.
Senses: examples: text: “When I went through medical school, we did not learn anything in particular about the clitoris beyond the fact that it exists, basically,” said Dr. Peters. As a result, he said, he developed “this subconscious bias that it’s not going to be this superapparent structure. But it is.”
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Very apparent.
accordancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accordancy
VVIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VVIPs
Senses: examples: text: On opening day at London's Frieze Art Fair, VIPs are allowed in at 2 pm and VOPs at 5 pm, but the VVIPs specially invited by sponsor Deutsche Bank gain entry at 11 am to check out the best work.
ref: 2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:
text: When Chintoo asked for encores, she chuckled like a VVIP who’d come prepared for her fans.
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 59:
coordinate_terms: VIP
VOP
glosses: Initialism of very, very important person.
S.T.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S.T.I.s
form: S.T.I.'s
Senses: examples: text: “We don’t do a great job about talking about sex from a pleasure-based perspective,” said Dr. Frances Grimstad, a gynecologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. “We talk about it from a prevention standpoint. We’re trying to prevent S.T.I.s,” or sexually transmitted infections.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: S.T.D.
glosses: Initialism of sexually transmitted infection; also STI.
S.T.I.s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of S.T.I.
CLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CL
CIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CIA
Madagascars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madagascar
VVIPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VVIP
endowment mortgages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endowment mortgage
very, very important person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: very, very important persons
Senses: glosses: A very important person of high-ranking or spending power, used especially when anyone can obtain VIP treatment, to distinguish people with especially high requirements.
Derived terms: word: VVIP
english: very, very important person
translation: very, very important person
word: V.V.I.P. ()
word: VIP
english: very important person
translation: very important person
word: V.I.P. ()
very, very important persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of very, very important person
V.V.I.P.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: V.V.I.P.s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of VVIP ("very, very important person")
Cirion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Syriam.
kanto boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanto boy
takatak boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takatak boy
yosi boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yosi boy
taboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taboots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tazia (“ceremonial representation of the tombs of Muhammad's grandsons”).
synonyms: word: tazia
extra: ceremonial representation of the tombs of Muhammad's grandsons
taboots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taboot