cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
niefling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːflɪŋ/
enpr: nēfʹlĭng
Forms: form: nieflings
form: niephling
Etymology: Blend of niece + nephew + sibling.
Senses: examples: text: I come from a very large family (three brothers, three sisters, about as many aunts and uncles, and loads more cousins and nieflings) almost all of whom I've fallen out of contact with and honestly don't feel bad about it.
ref: 2013 April 24, Quid, “Is losing contact with your brother *that bad*?”, in Penny Arcade Forums, archived from the original on 13 May 2015:
text: As well, while writing this book, I thought a lot about the future world I hope my nieflings, Kathryn, Brittany, Evan, Wyatt, Avery, Reed, Aurora, Jordan, and Megan, will see and help to make.
ref: 2018, Shelley Streeby, “Acknowledgments”, in Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 129:
text: Here’s what that might look like: your spouse/s (your long-term partner/s, if you are unmarried, have no legal rights unless you grant it to them prior to your death), your children by majority vote, your parents, siblings, grandchildren, grandparents, nieflings, the siblings of your parents, and so on—there are rules for determining who’s next in line all the way down to your first cousins twice removed!
ref: 2021, Mortellus, “Advanced Planning”, in Do I Have to Wear Black? Rituals, Customs & Funerary Etiquette for Modern Pagans, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN:
text: To my brother Michael, my sister-in-law Cathryn, and nieflings Peter, Daniel, and Clara: I love you and wish you many exciting adventures in the years to come.
ref: 2022, A. J. Sass, Ellen Outside the Lines, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
glosses: A nibling.
nieflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niefling
no eye see
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 冇眼睇 (mou⁵ ngaan⁵ tai²).
Senses: glosses: To be unable to bear (the sight of) something anymore; to refuse to be involved further; to be disinclined to continue caring about.
Westleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Burlescombe parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST0517).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS4728).
glosses: An outer suburb of Leigh, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid red SD6501).
glosses: A northern suburb of Sydney in Hornsby shire, New South Wales, Australia.
give someone to understand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone to understand
form: giving someone to understand
form: gave someone to understand
form: given someone to understand
Senses: examples: text: Hadn't she explained and described and even—though lightly, of course; she couldn't say such a thing directly—given him to understand that this was the one unforgivable thing.
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 264:
qualifier: chiefly passive voice
glosses: To tell someone, especially indirectly; to insinuate.
Cumwhitton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *cum (“a valley”) + Old English *Hwītingtūn, a pre-existing place-name.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY5052).
Related terms: Cumwhinton
niephling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niephlings
Senses: examples: text: Excitingly, by the time we arrive for Christmas, the newest niephling, who's due in about a week courtesy of my other sister, will also be there.
ref: 2013 December 8, Françoise Harvey, “Hanky PANKy”, in Bookworms and Coffee Monsters:
text: Oh, and one important difference with the zoo’s kid freebies is that the cutoff is 11 years old. So no tweens here, please. On the upside, parents can now inform their eager 12-year-olds that they are “too grown up” to be considered kids. I know a few of my niephlings would dig that.
ref: 2014 October 3, Barbarella Fokos, “Children, children everywhere”, in San Diego Reader, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2014:
text: "I am," she said reluctantly. Did she look pregnant, somehow, already? It was probably just some magical fae thing, but it made her self-conscious anyway. Two people in one day figuring out her secret didn't bode well. "Congratulations on your future uncle-ship."
Rakken blinked. "Indeed." He blinked again. "A half-human niephling."
ref: 2021, A.J. Lancaster, The Lord of Faerie, Camberion Press, →ISBN:
text: Eparch Aranha, who seemed to Lanie no less piercingly watchful than Tan, was nevertheless easier to steer clear of, for they only occasionally attended Rainday culture nights with their niephling Lir, and that was for the sole purpose—so they proclaimed—of enjoying the sublime music of the erophains.
ref: 2022, C. S. E. Cooney, Saint Death's Daughter, Rebellion Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of niefling.
niephlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niephling
goose saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose saws
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pendulum saw.
synonyms: word: pendulum saw
goose saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goose saw
slabbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slabby
neighborlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neighborlike
form: most neighborlike
Etymology: From neighbor + -like.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of neighbourlike.
neighbourlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neighbourlike
form: most neighbourlike
form: neighborlike
Etymology: From neighbour + -like.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neighbourly.
synonyms: word: neighbourly
degchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degchis
form: degchie
Etymology: From Hindustani دیگچی / देगची (degcī).
Senses: glosses: A South Asian type of cooking pot used to store biryani to keep it warm.
precapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + capitalism.
Senses: examples: text: The state farm and its administration operated under a model of paternalism that had its roots in the Soviet belief that northern indigenous peoples were like naive children in the primitive state of precapitalism.
ref: 2000, Anna M. Kerttula, Antler on the Sea, page 82:
glosses: Primitive systems of trade before the full development of capitalism.
minxishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪŋksɪʃli/
Forms: form: more minxishly
form: most minxishly
Etymology: From minxish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a minxish manner.
Cabalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kabbalah.
Cabbalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kabbalah.
Kabalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kabbalah.
cabretta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabrettas
Senses: examples: text: A manufacturer writes: We have had so much trouble with colored side leather and both colored and black cabrettas spewing within the past six or eight months that we are at our wits' end to overcome it. All of the tanners from whom we buy the stock contend that this is the best indication that all the animal fats have not been extracted from the leather.
ref: 1920, The Leather Manufacturer, volumes 31-32, page 409:
glosses: A kind of leather made from sheep hair (not wool).
cabrettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabretta
Baikalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Baikal + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: One of the dominant groups of Baikalian microorganisms consists of bacteria which are able to switch into an uncultivable state when adapting to the extreme conditions of the lake (Belkova 2004).
ref: 2016, Valentina V. Parfenova, Natalia L. Belkova, Olga S. Pestunova, Mariya Yu. Suslova, Olga N. Pavlova, “Microbiological Monitoring of Lake Baikal”, in Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein, editors, Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia (Springer Water), Cham: Springer, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia.
Related terms: Baikalia
calycule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calycules
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of calyculus (“group of bracts resembling an outer calyx”).
synonyms: word: calyculus
extra: group of bracts resembling an outer calyx
calycules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calycule
yabos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæbəʊz/
ipa: /ˈjæboʊz/
Forms: form: yabbos
Senses: examples: text: Boon: You going out tonight, Otter?
 Otter: Uh-huh.
 Boon: Norma?
 Otter: No, let me give you a hint. She's got a couple of major-league yabos.
ref: 1978 July 28, National Lampoon's Animal House:
text: "Max likes your yabos," Dani said. "In fact, he loves them."
ref: 2018, A. W. Jantha, Hocus Pocus and The All-New Sequel, Disney Book Group, →ISBN:
text: Pigboy was watching and asked. "He who was that? Holy shit, she was hot and the size of her yabos!"
ref: 2022, Lt.Colonel Jefferson Azgard Davis, Strawman Returneth!, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: assets
word: babylons
word: balloons
word: baps
word: badonkers
word: bangers
word: bazongas
word: bazookas
word: bazoombas
word: bazooms
word: bewbs
word: bobas
word: booba
word: boobage
word: boobs
word: boobers
word: boobies
word: boosies
word: bosom
word: breast [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: breasticles
word: bristols
word: bubby
word: bubs
word: bust
word: calcium cannons
word: cans
word: cantaloupes
word: casabas
word: charlies
word: chebs
word: chesticles
word: chest melons
word: chichis
word: coconuts
word: diddy
word: ding-dongs
word: dirty pillows
word: double Ds
word: dugs
word: frontage
word: front bumpers
word: funbags
word: gazongas
word: girls
word: globes
word: grapefruits
word: headlights
word: honkers
word: hooters
word: itty-bittys
word: jahoobies
word: jigglies
word: jubblies
word: jugs
word: knockers
word: lady lumps
word: love pillows
word: mammaries
word: mammary glands
word: mammas
word: maracas
word: megaboobs
word: melons
word: milkbags
word: milk jugs
word: milkers
word: mommy milkers
word: money makers
word: mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: norks
word: paps
word: pair
word: personality
word: puppies
word: rack
word: sweater puppies
word: tatas
word: teats
word: tiddies
word: tits
word: titters
word: titties
word: threepenny bits
word: top bollocks
word: torpedos
word: twin peaks
word: twins
word: udders
word: waps
word: watermelons
word: yabos
word: zoomers
glosses: A woman's breasts.
capsidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From capsid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to capsids.
cant-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cant-dogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cant hook.
synonyms: word: cant hook
cant-dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cant-dog
peevee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peevees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peavy.
peevees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peevee
cantdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantdogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cant-dog.
cantdogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantdog
canthook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canthooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cant hook.
canthooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canthook
canceleer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canceleers
Senses: glosses: A hawk's turning motion in midair, often to make a second stoop toward missed prey.
canceleers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canceleer
peavee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peavees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peavy.
peavees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peavee
caphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caph
ODU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Old Dominion University.
biological big bang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: biological Big Bang
form: Biological Big Bang
Senses: examples: text: Brocks said the new study suggested the Ediacaran biota “already contained some of the creatures that gave rise to the [Cambrian] explosion, to the rise of modern animals”. The Cambrian explosion, also called the biological big bang, was a period about 538.8m years ago when almost all major animal groups started to appear in the fossil record.
ref: 2022 November 22, Donna Lu, “The real paleo diet: researchers find traces of world’s oldest meal in 550m-year-old fossil”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).
carbinier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbiniers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carabineer.
carbiniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbinier
caroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caroaches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of caroche.
caroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caroach
caroch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carochs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of caroche.
carroch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrochs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of caroche.
carroche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carroches
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of caroche.
carochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caroch
carrochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carroch
carroches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carroche
cattabu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattabus
Etymology: Blend of cattle + zebu
Senses: glosses: An animal that is a cross between the zebu and American cattle.
cattabus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattabu
cattabus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cottabus.
nvr
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of never.
NVR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NVRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of nonviolent resistance.
glosses: Initialism of network video recorder.
Ville-Marie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
captive audience meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captive audience meetings
Senses: qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: A mandatory meeting during working hours, organized by an employer with the purpose of discouraging employees from organizing or joining a labor union.
captive audience meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captive audience meeting
Birkenstocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Wearing Birkenstock sandals.
Birkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birkins
Etymology: From Old English bircen (“birchen”), probably influenced by Old Norse birkinn.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5326).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Birkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Birkins
Etymology: From Old English bircen (“birchen”), probably influenced by Old Norse birkinn.
Senses: examples: text: However, even if you have the money, you cannot simply buy a bag. Birkins are so desirable that there is a long waiting list for them, causing the prices of second-hand bags to skyrocket.
ref: 2022, Mikko Hypponen, If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable:
glosses: Ellipsis of Birkin bag.
Birkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Birkin
hand, foot, and mouth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand, foot and mouth disease.
ceaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ceazes
form: ceazing
form: ceazed
form: ceazed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of seize.
ceazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ceaze
ceazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ceaze
ceazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ceaze
hand-foot-mouth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand, foot and mouth disease.
lipography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipographies
Etymology: From lipo- + -graphy.
Senses: synonyms: haplography
glosses: A scribal or typographical error where a letter or group of letters that should be written twice is written once.
Related terms: lipogram
lipographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipography
lipodermos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipodermoses
form: leipodermos
form: leipodermus
form: lypoderma
Etymology: lipo- plus dermos (lacking + skin) derived from Greek terms λιποδερμος or λειποδερμος
Senses: examples: text: As we have seen, a mutually reinforcing synthesis between preexisting Greek cultural views of the prepuce and Greek reactions to the anti-preputial practices of certain Near Eastern peoples who had been incorporated into the Seleucid and Roman empires converges in a single medical concept: lipodermos (λιποδερμος, or, alternatively, λειποδερμος) literally, "lacking skin"—the pathological disorder of the penis whose symptom was an artificially or congenitally externalized glans penis.
ref: 2001, Frederick J. Hodges in [The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome]
text: For these physicians, lacking a complete prepuce whether artificially by circumcision or congenitally is the primary symptom of a pathological condition they called lipodermos. They devise treatments to restore the imperfect penis
ref: 2016, J. Paul Sampley, Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook: Volume I, page 120 (reprinted 2020 by Troy Martin in Theology and Practice in Early Christianity, page 44)
glosses: Lacking prepuce.
ferroconcretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferroconcrete
cazern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cazerns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of casern.
cazerne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cazernes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of casern.
cazerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cazern
cazernes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cazerne
reboardings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reboarding
en echelon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French en échelon, literally in echelon.
Senses: examples: text: Fragment of pot-net (?), blue ring-beads only, set in pairs or as above in threes, threaded en echelon. Strung as above.
ref: 1923, George Andrew Reisner, Excavations at Kerma, volume 4, page 105:
glosses: In echelon
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: In echelon:
Staggered; offset so that the wing turret on one side is mounted further forwards than the one on the opposite side.
raw_tags: of wing-mounted gun turrets on a warship
examples: text: This fault zone trends north-south, consists of en echelon horsts and grabens striking about 30° cast of the zone's trend, and was active from the Jurassic through the Eocene. The presence of the grabens, their orientation and en echelon arrangement, and the age of movement are all consistent with divergent strike-slip movement.
ref: 1985, Fossil Energy Update, page 74:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In echelon:
Consisting of a series of diagonal lines, each somewhat offset from its neighbors, approximately parallel, but at an angle to a particular direction.
HSFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HSF
cavaletto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavalettos
form: cavaletti
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cavalletto.
cavalettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavaletto
cavaletti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavaletto
caviary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caviaries
Etymology: Blend of cavy + aviary
Senses: glosses: A place where guinea pigs are raised by humans.
caviary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of caviar.
caviaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caviary
bassorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bassorin
cerasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerasin
kerasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerasin
unstupified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstupified
form: most unstupified
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unstupefied.
uncherishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncherishable
form: most uncherishable
Etymology: From un- + cherishable.
Senses: glosses: Not cherishable; unable to be cherished.
Kolai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolay
Etymology: From Kohistani Shina کولئی (kolay).
Senses: glosses: A tehsil and city in Kolai-Palas district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
glosses: A Dardic ethnic group of Indus Kohistan which speak Kohistani Shina and reside in Kolai-Palas.
glosses: A dialect of Kohistani Shina spoken in the tehsil.
cebularz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Warsaw made me mute and clueless, but, I had to admit, the place smacked of home. Under the spell of the cebularze, I let my knish quest languish and spent days at the cafés along Good Street.
ref: 2014, Laura Silver, Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, Waltham, M.A.: Brandeis University Press, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Two culinary treats particular to the Lublin region are cebularz, an onion-scattered bread bun, and forszmak, a goulash flavoured with gherkins and other cottage-garden vegetables.
ref: 2018, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Poland, 8th edition, London: APA Publications, →ISBN:
text: The bakery is well known for good quality bread and cebularze (pletzlach) based on traditional recipe.
ref: 2018, Esther Minars, A Lublin Survivor: Life is Like a Dream, Eastbourne, England: Sussex Academic Press, →ISBN, page 357:
glosses: A wheat dough pancake with diced onion and poppy seed, originating in traditional Polish and Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.
Kolai-Palas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Urdu کولئی پالس (kolay pālis) from Kohistani Shina پالس کوہستان (pālis kohistān).
Senses: glosses: A district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
qameez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qameezes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kamees.
end-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: End-times thinking has a long and rather unimpressive history as prediction, but Žižek adopts it anyway (perhaps as a useful lie), […]
ref: 2010 June 25, Steven Poole, “Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek”, in The Guardian:
text: I gazed from the railing with a contemporary Alaskan’s gloom, a pilgrim bearing witness to end-times in the temple of the glaciers.
ref: 2022 November 22, Tom Kizzia, “End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of end times.
End Times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1999, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Are We Living in the End Times?, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN:
ref: 2004, Bruce David Forbes, Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series, Macmillan, →ISBN:
ref: 2005, James M. Efird, Left behind?: What the Bible Really Says about the End Times, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, →ISBN:
ref: 2007, Hank Hanegraaff, The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible Really Says About the End Times and Why It Matters Today, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of end times.
cestuis que trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestui que trust
chacoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaco
chagrinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chagrin
chagrinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chagrinning
form: most chagrinning
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chagrining.
chewed the scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chew the scenery
chewing the scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chew the scenery
chews the scenery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chew the scenery
chafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaft
chalaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chalan
chalaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chalan
chairmaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chairman
chairmaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chairman
champarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champart
Champies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Champy
chasseed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chasse
chattie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”).
chauff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauffs
Senses: examples: text: Then Billy told his chauffeur to see what he could do, and the chauff didn't get under the car, he just examined the petrol supply business and in about sixteen seconds she was all right.
ref: 1910, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Garryowen: The Romance of a Race Horse, page 291:
glosses: Alternative form of chauf (“a chauffeur”).
chauff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chauffs
form: chauffing
form: chauffed
form: chauffed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chauf (“to chauffeur”).
chauffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chauff
chauffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chauff
flat-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flat-headed
form: most flat-headed
form: flatheaded
Etymology: From flat + headed.
Senses: glosses: Having a flat head.
Derived terms: flat-headed cat
flat-headedness
Related terms: flathead
Flathead
chenixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chenix
chenices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chenix
chesil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chessil.
Chevrel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Chevrel cluster
Chevrel phase
Chevrel cluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chevrel clusters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chevrel phase.
synonyms: word: Chevrel phase
Chevrel clusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chevrel cluster
chinchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chinchy: more chinchy
chinchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chinchy: most chinchy
flatheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flatheaded
form: most flatheaded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flat-headed.
chinbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinbone
chincoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chincough
chocko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chockos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of choco (“militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier”).
chockos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocko
civie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of civvy.
Raph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raphs
Etymology: Clipping of Raphael.
Senses: examples: text: “I’d made a terrible mistake and told Raphael in the park one night that I will never ever leave him again. That was in 1989,” she said. […] I got to see what real goodness was by being away from Raph.
ref: 2019 March 26, Alix Strauss, “She Developed a Filter. He Became More Outgoing.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Raphael.
Gounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡaʊ̯ndə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Gounders
form: Goundar
form: Gavundar
form: Kounder
form: Koundar
form: Kavundar
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil கவுண்டர் (kavuṇṭar, “protector of the country”).
Senses: examples: text: What is intriguing is the poor performance of the party in Karur, another Kongu heartland, where it got only 14,269 votes. Poll observers feel the KNMK had purposefully fielded a weak candidate, R Natarajan, in Karur to help shift their votes to AIADMK's M Thambidurai, a Gounder by caste.
ref: 2009 May 21, Jayaraj Sivan, “Gounder consolidation could pose headache to major parties”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2012:
text: DMK’s Coimbatore district secretary and former Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy said there was a wrong impression that the KNMK could bring the entire Gounder community under its fold. As a region dominated by Gounders, it was only natural that the members of the community would be spread across all parties and not under one.
ref: 2013 December 29, K. V. Prasad, “KNMK, a sub-regional party at the crossroads”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2013:
text: The settlement, spread over 20 acres, has 460 families, with 133 houses occupied by Chakkliyan families. Other families are of upper-caste Gounders and various Hindu communities.
ref: 2017 June 23, Shaju Philip, “A marriage sharpens caste divide in Kerala village”, in The Indian Express, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: A title used by various communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Related terms: kshatriya
vaishya
innerstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of inner + understanding.
Senses: glosses: Comprehension of one's own purported innate knowledge.
Related terms: overstand
cloye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloyes
form: cloying
form: cloyed
form: cloyed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cloy.
cloyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cloye
codeias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codeia
coreign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coreigns
form: coreigning
form: coreigned
form: coreigned
Etymology: From co- + reign.
Senses: glosses: To reign jointly.
coreigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coreign
coreigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coreign
coreigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coreign
coregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + regnant.
Senses: glosses: Reigning jointly.
stripeseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stripe + seed.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of tropical flowering plants in the genus Piriqueta, especially Piriqueta cistoides, Piriqueta viscosa, and Piriqueta racemosa.
corveting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corvet
corveted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corvet
corvettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvetting
cornuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornus
coryphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coryphes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coryphée.
coryphes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coryphe
Cane Corsos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cane Corso
whisper down the lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Chinese whispers
cotelette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotelettes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cutlet.
Related terms: cotelette de volaille
cotelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotelette
cotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cotted
form: most cotted
Senses: examples: a cotted fleece
glosses: matted; tangled
examples: a cotted temper
glosses: difficult to please
Ayyadurai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil அய்யா துரை (ayyā turai, “nobleman, ruler, chief”).
Senses: examples: text: "Surprise!!!!! We got married!" "The Nanny" alum tweeted Sunday, sharing a snapshot of herself with her new husband, inventor-entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai.
ref: 2014 September 8, Nardine Saad, “Fran Drescher of 'The Nanny' marries Shiva Ayyadurai”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
text: Ola CEO and co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal — pictured in the top image alongside Vogo CEO and founder Anand Ayyadurai — said he hopes that the deal and integration will improve last-mile transportation options across India.
ref: 2018 December 18, Jon Russell, “Ola, Uber's India rival, invests $100M in scooter rental startup Vogo”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: CLRI scientist N Ayyadurai says recombinant DNA technology was used to edit the DNA of the bacteria to enable it to grow collagen. The bacteria which is naturally present in raw skin or hide gives leather it strength and flexibility. Layers of collagen are assembled to make the bioleather.
ref: 2023 February 21, U. Tejonmayam, “This leather is fashioned in a lab”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2023:
glosses: A surname from Tamil.
cozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coze
cozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coze
crapiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crapy: most crapy
glosses: superlative form of crapey: most crapey
crapier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crapy: more crapy
glosses: comparative form of crapey: more crapey
crapey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crapier
form: crapiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crapy.
creagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creaghs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creach.
creagh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creaghs
form: creaghing
form: creaghed
form: creaghed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creach.
creached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creach
creachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creach
creachs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creach
creaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creach
creaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creagh
creaghs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creagh
creaghed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creagh
creaghing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creagh
cricky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪk.i/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: more cricky
form: most cricky
Etymology: From crick + -y.
Senses: examples: a cricky feeling in my neck
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a crick.
cricky
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪk.i/
rhymes: -ɪki
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crikey.
superlativenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superlativeness
homogeneous widths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homogeneous width
peltogaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peltogasters
Etymology: From Latin Peltogaster.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
hypernyms: peltogastrid
glosses: Any member of the genus Peltogaster.
peltogasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peltogaster
host rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of host rock
host-rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: host-rocks
Senses: examples: text: Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.
ref: 1968, Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, page 148:
text: The column dif δ¹⁸O indicates the difference between de δ¹⁸O of the calcite cement in the veins and its adjacent host-rock.
ref: 2007, Olivier Lacombe, Jérôme Lavé, Francois M. Roure, Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins, page 99:
text: We simplify the concept of thermodynamic equilibrium by assuming that 100% of the melt will be in thermodynamic equilibrium with a fixed weight fraction of the host-rock it travels through.
ref: 2019, S. Ferrero, P. Lanari, P. Goncalves, Metamorphic Geology: Microscale to Mountain Belts, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of host rock.
host-rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of host-rock
hostrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostrocks
Senses: examples: text: According to the nature of the hostrock, the Sheeted Intrusive Complex has been subdivided into the Diabase or the Basal Group. In the latter the hostrock is pillow lava, this being the olnly difference between them.
ref: 1963, The Mineral Resources and Mining Industry of Cyprus, page 16:
text: Before becoming physically concentrated within streams, specks of gold-silver alloy are disseminated within a hostrock which may be of any rock type.
ref: 1995, Brian J. Skinner, Michael M. Kimberley, Stephen C. Porter, The Dynamic Earth, Casebook: An Introduction to Physical Geology, page 259:
text: Hostrock identified as quartzite may indicate silicification of pelitic country rock.
ref: 1998, Henry C. Berg, Bradfield Canal Quadrangle: Alaska Resource Data File, page 117:
glosses: Alternative form of host rock.
hostrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostrock
tea buffet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea buffets
Senses: glosses: A buffet which serves food from an afternoon tea.
tea buffets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea buffet
hot works
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hot work
hot worked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot work
rhinophymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhinophymic
form: most rhinophymic
Senses: glosses: Rhinophymatous.
fboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fboys
form: f boy
form: f-boy
form: f. boy
form: f.boy
Etymology: From f + boy.
From the use of "f" as a censored form of "fuck".
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fuck boy.
Related terms: eff
fgirl
tempts fate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tempt fate
tempting fate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tempt fate
tempted fate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tempt fate
haveage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haveages
form: havage
Senses: examples: text: In neighbourliness, then, and for the sake of his haveage, Nicky Nan's first welcome home had been kindly enough.
ref: 1914 November, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Nicky-Nan, Reservist”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 196, number 1189, page 677:
text: As to her haveage I am as ignorant as yourselves.
ref: 1916, Ashton Hilliers, “Demi-Royal”, in The Living Age, volume 291, page 213:
text: Nor could he tell me anything when I questioned him concerning his haveage; which I did upon report that he was courting my housemaiden Grace Pascoe, an honest good girl, whom I was loth to see waste herself upon an unworthy husband.
ref: 2022, Arthur Quiller-Couch, News from the Duchy:
glosses: Lineage; family background.
haveages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haveage
splenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splenoses
Etymology: From spleno- + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formation of mini-spleens in other parts of the body, from the lodging of splenic tissue fragments in other regions, of limited splenic function.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A mini-organ resulting from an incidence of such.
quasimoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasimoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quasi-moon.
Katzenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Katzenbergs
Senses: glosses: A surname
Herostratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Herostratic
form: most Herostratic
Senses: examples: text: Would his unconscious feelings of inadequacy be overcome by his Herostratic act (considered as expiation through punishment)?
ref: 2003, Bettina L. Knapp, French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Recent U.S. examples of Herostratic terrorists are Arthur Bremer, Samuel Bych, and John Hinckley Jr. Bremer shot Governor George Wallace in May 1972, leaving Wallace paralyzed for life.
ref: 2007, R. Hrair Dekmejian, Spectrum of Terror, CQ Press, →ISBN:
text: The Herostratic criminal manifested self-destructive desires aiming to achieve goals with any means while simultaneously generating ‘self-glorification’ and feelings of insecurity among the public (Borowitz 2005).
ref: 2015, Trevor Calafato, Paul Caruana, “Terrorism in Transition: The Implications of Cyber-Terrorism”, in Savvas Katsikides, Pavlos I. Koktsidis, editors, Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe, Springer, →ISBN, part II (Politics and Security), page 208:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of herostratic.
rhody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodies
Etymology: Clipping of rhododendron + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In doing the metering from the rhody leaves you will compensate for the overbrightness of the sky.
ref: 1994, American Rhododendron Society Journal, page 67:
text: I looked out the window and tried to see over the pink rhododendrons and down the block. […] I couldn’t see a thing but a tangle of leathery rhody leaves, and over that, two neighbors standing on the sidewalk talking.
ref: 2007, Karen Karbo, Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 172:
text: Jesse gave a whoop, then was out of the saddle and ducking behind a clump of rhododendron, putting his horse crosswise between himself and the beeves. […] A musket ball ripped through rhody leaves near his head.
ref: 2014, Lori Benton, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of rhodie (“rhododendron”).
Big Quit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Quit
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Big Quit.
glosses: Synonym of Great Resignation.
synonyms: word: Great Resignation
cha chaan teng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cha chaan tengs
form: cha chaan tang
form: char chaan teng
form: char chaan tang
form: cha chan teng
form: cha chan tang
form: char chan teng
form: char chan tang
form: cha charn teng
form: cha charn tang
form: char charn teng
form: char charn tang
form: cha can teng
form: cha can tang
form: char can teng
form: cha caan teng
form: cha caan tang
form: char caan teng
Etymology: From Cantonese 茶餐廳 /茶餐厅 (caa⁴ caan¹ teng¹, literally “tea restaurant”).
Senses: glosses: A restaurant typically with eclectic and affordable menus, featuring Hong Kong-style cuisine, originating from Hong Kong.
Synonyms: CCT
cha chaan tengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cha chaan teng
triconsonantals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triconsonantal
handgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handgates
form: hand-gate
Etymology: From hand + gate.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hen look for a path to the right leading through a handgate and into the woods.
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 76:
glosses: A gate that can be opened and closed by hand.
handgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handgate
pannierway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannierways
form: pannier way
form: pannier-way
Etymology: From pannier + way.
Senses: examples: text: The tracks are paved with sandstone slabs in parts, and are called trods or pannier ways, and these ancient tracks cross many miles of high wild moorland that lead to and from the old bridge.
ref: 2011, John Wright, Child From Home: Memories of a North Country Evacuee, page 34:
text: In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors.
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 81:
hypernyms: pathway
trailway
trod#Etymology_3
glosses: A stone-paved path along which goods were transported in panniers.
Related terms: towpath
pannierways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pannierway
pannierless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pannier + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without panniers.
Queen Anne's thimbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A blue North American flower of the phlox family, Gilia capitata.
B-lister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-listers
Etymology: From B-list + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As any producer knows, a good leading man can make all the difference. Mr Chapek turned out to be a B-lister; Mr Iger, who transformed Disney’s fortunes, is a corporate megastar.
ref: 2022 November 21, “Disney brings back a star of the past. But its real problem is the script”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: A-lister
glosses: Someone on a B-list.
B-listers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of B-lister
statey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stateys
Senses: examples: text: I remember getting pulled over in NY by a Statey the very day after I got my MC endorsement
ref: 2008 June 8, .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com, “Motorcycle Checkpoints in NY? Where's the outrage?”, in misc.legal (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of statie.