cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rush-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The rush-hour trains are normally extremely busy.
text: An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 593–594:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rush hour.
Related terms: rush hour
methylpropene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl- + propene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isobutylene.
C of E
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːəvˈiː/
Senses: examples: text: Lasdun’s parents were Jews who converted to the C of E, and Nasreen’s communications quickly became virulently anti-semitic […]
ref: 2013, Nick Richardson, “Internet-Enabled”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 8:
glosses: Abbreviation of Church of England.
alethic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈliːθɪk/
/əˈlɛθɪk/
Forms: form: more alethic
form: most alethic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The modal operators □ and ◊ stand for alethic necessity and possibility.
ref: 2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, page 46:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the various modalities of truth, such as the possibility or impossibility of something being true.
Derived terms: alethically
nonalethic
Related terms: alethiology
perfectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectnesses
Etymology: From Middle English parfitnesse; equivalent to perfect + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being perfect; perfection.
perfumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈfjuːmə/
ipa: /ˈpəːfjʊmə/
Forms: form: perfumers
Etymology: From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.
Senses: examples: text: Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.
ref: 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
glosses: A person who makes or sells perfume.
glosses: One who perfumes something.
Synonyms: parfumier
perfumier
scentmaker
Derived terms: perfumeress
Related terms: perfumery
periodontist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodontists
Senses: glosses: A dentist whose speciality is periodontics
periphrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: of periphrase
ipa: /pəˈɹɪfɹeɪzɛz/
note: of periphrasis
ipa: /pəˈɹɪfɹəsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of periphrase
glosses: plural of periphrasis
periphrases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: of periphrase
ipa: /pəˈɹɪfɹeɪzɛz/
note: of periphrasis
ipa: /pəˈɹɪfɹəsiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of periphrase
perkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perkily
form: most perkily
Etymology: From perky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By now even I am tiring of seeing Oprah's face as it is impossible to go anywhere on her site without encountering her perkily peeking out of a closet or spinning around in a sequinned dress.
ref: 2011 May 3, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian:
glosses: In a perky manner.
perkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perkinesses
Etymology: From perky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being perky
perniciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pernicious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pernicious; destructiveness
Related terms: pernicious
perniciously
perpendicularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpendicularities
Etymology: From perpendicular + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: The condition of being perpendicular.
peskiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pesky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pesky.
pickaback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
text: The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did.
ref: 1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
qualifier: Carried
glosses: on the back or the shoulders.
pickaback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pickabacks
form: pickabacking
form: pickabacked
form: pickabacked
Senses: glosses: Dated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”).
platelet function test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platelet function tests
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several diagnostic procedures that test the blood clotting function of platelets
Related terms: bleeding time
closure time
collagen
ADP test
EPI test
platelet aggregometry
platelet count
asterisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asterisk
asterisks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asterisk
asterisking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asterisk
asterisked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asterisked
form: most asterisked
Senses: glosses: containing asterisks
Derived terms: nonasterisked
unasterisked
asterisked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asterisk
picot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picots
Etymology: From French picot, from piquer (“to prick”).
Senses: glosses: An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops.
picot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picots
form: picoting
form: picoted
form: picoted
Etymology: From French picot, from piquer (“to prick”).
Senses: glosses: To do this kind of embroidery.
picturesqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturesquenesses
Etymology: From picturesque + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He [Walter Savage Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.
ref: 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Walter S. Landor—G. P. Marsh”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, pages 245–246:
glosses: The condition of being picturesque.
pieceworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieceworkers
form: piece worker
form: piece-worker
Etymology: From piece + worker.
Senses: examples: text: The lowliest of employees, piece workers were paid only for each bird or mammal they stuffed, or each fossil they prepared.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 245:
glosses: A worker who is paid according to the number of units of work produced.
Related terms: piecework
piece-work
piece work
dod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑd/
ipa: /dɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: dods
Etymology: From Irish dod (“sullenness, anger”).
Senses: glosses: sulk, huff
dod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑd/
ipa: /dɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: dods
Etymology: From Scots daud (“large piece”).
Senses: glosses: lump
dod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑd/
ipa: /dɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: dods
form: dodding
form: dodded
form: dodded
form: dodd
Etymology: From Middle English dodden.
Senses: examples: text: Angus-shire dodded cattle
ref: 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Perth:
text: Messrs. Toogood and Son’s Bronze Championship Medal for best dodded sheep of any pure breed.
ref: 1906, The Flock Book of Wensleydale Blue-faced Sheep, page 57:
glosses: to cut off, as wool from sheep's tails, or horns from a cattle; to lop or clip off
Derived terms: doddard
dodman
dod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑd/
ipa: /dɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: dods
Etymology: Abbreviation of "Tommy Dodd".
Senses: examples: text: Shunting discs (or "dods") are generously provided, and following modern practice, most of them permit a movement in any direction for which the road is set.
ref: 1951 October, Norman Crump, “Signalling at Thorpe-le-Soken”, in Railway Magazine, page 649:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A ground signal, such as a shunting disc.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: hoddy-dod
bar none
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Possibly a shortened form of "to bar none" or "barring none".
Senses: examples: text: The best tiramisu I've ever tasted, bar none.
text: Mexican horses are the finest in the world, bar none.
ref: 1913, Zane Grey, chapter 4, in Desert Gold:
text: . . . Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God's earth.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, chapter 16, in Ulysses:
glosses: Without exception; excluding nothing else of the same kind.
Related terms: any and all
one in the eye for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The success of Firefox is one in the eye for Microsoft.
glosses: An event or achievement which is unpleasant for someone, especially for those who considered it impossible or unwelcome; an annoyance.
Oozlefinch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The mascot of the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery branch, a mythical featherless, flightless bird that flies backwards to keep dust, trivia, and other inconsequentia out of his eyes.
pied-a-terre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieds-a-terre
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pied-à-terre.
pieds-a-terre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pied-a-terre
pigheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigheadednesses
Etymology: From pigheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pigheaded.
pikestaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪkstæf/
/ˈpaɪkstɑːf/
Forms: form: pikestaffs
form: pikestaves
Etymology: From pike + staff.
Senses: glosses: The wooden shaft of a pike.
examples: text: So soon as he got into the grave, he struck his pikestaff forcibly down; it encountered resistance in its descent
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping.
Related terms: plain as a pikestaff
pilaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilaffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pilaf.
pileup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pileups
Etymology: Deverbal from pile up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pile-up.
pillager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillagers
Etymology: From pillage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ...the hills of the robbers, predatorious oppreſſors of true Religion, pillagers and ſpoilers of the Church of Chriſt, of which too many ſad inſtances have been in ancient and later daies both at home and abroad.
ref: 1659, John Gauden, Ἰερα Δακρυα. Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria. The tears, sighs, complaints, and prayers of the Church of England, London: R. Royston, page 495:
text: Wall labels, if you read them, will prepare you for the shift from the conventional picture of the terrible Turk, the ravisher, the torturer, the pillager (see T. E. Lawrence) and the Turk of the massacres (see Delacroix and others).
ref: 1973 November 24, John Canaday, “Art: Echoes of Ottoman Empire”, in The New York Times:
text: And then there were those who died and were martyred in the struggle to maintain a Jewish lifestyle, murdered at the hands of deathmongers, pillagers […]
ref: 2002, Reuven P Bulka, Modern folk Judaism: the reality and the challenge:
glosses: A person who pillages.
pillbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪl bɒks/
ipa: /ˈpɪl bɑːks/
Forms: form: pillboxes
form: pill-box
Etymology: From pill + box.
Senses: examples: text: There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.
ref: 2018 August 2, Parul Sehgal, “Beauty, bad temper and scandal in a riveting look at Princess Margaret”, in The Bellingham Herald, volume 130, number 214, Bellingham, Wash., page 15T, column 2:
glosses: A small box in which pills are kept.
examples: text: It was reported that the Germans had established trench works in front of the pillboxes. The enemy was said to have taken refuge from American fire in the pillboxes, later emerging to take up the trench positions.
ref: 1944 December 19, “Germans Stiff in Southern Reich”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 4:
text: Beneath the wide steppe sky women in white kerchiefs were digging trenches and building small pillboxes, looking up now and again in case 'those vermin' were on the wing.
ref: 2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 226:
text: "For the first time in 125 years a powerful enemy was now established across the narrow waters of the English Channel. ... Many people must have been bewildered by the innumerable activities all around them. They could understand the necessity for wiring and mining the beaches, the anti-tank obstacles at the defiles, the concrete pillboxes at the cross-roads, the intrusions into their houses to fill an attic with sandbags, on to their golf-courses or most fertile fields and gardens to burrow out some wide anti-tank ditch." So wrote Winston Churchill in Their Finest Hour, published in 1949.
ref: 2023 November 15, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A crucial part of our nation's defences”, in RAIL, number 996, page 60:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
examples: text: The doctor generously told him where he lived in a loud and audible manner, gave him half-a-crown, and was about ascending his pill-box, after bidding him call upon him, in a day or two, when a servant in a splendid livery stepped forward from the hotel […]
ref: 1838, Oasis: An Anthology to Divert an Idle Hour, volume 1, page 9:
text: […] the commercial traveller cuts in and out of the line in the dog-cart that carries his samples; the doctor contrives to be seen there in his pill-box on wheels; the eminent tragedian airs himself in a buggy; […]
ref: 1863, Elizabeth Caroline Grey, Good Society; Or, Contrasts of Character, page 5:
glosses: A doctor's carriage.
Derived terms: pillbox antenna
pillbox hat
pillowslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillowslips
Etymology: From pillow + slip.
Senses: glosses: A pillow case.
pilothouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilothouses
Etymology: From pilot + house.
Senses: examples: text: The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house.
ref: 1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness:
text: Suddenly I felt a deep pang of regret—for all those thousands of poor mortals who had not stood in a pilothouse and felt that surge of eager motion as some ancient riverboat slid through deep bayou waters and headed downstream. […] From the pilothouse I walked onto the hurricane deck and watched as the sun dropped behind the bearded oaks, casting long shadows across the limpid bayou.
ref: 1957, Carolyn Ramsey, “‘Steamin’ at de Moon’”, in Cajuns on the Bayous, New York, N.Y.: Hastings House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wheelhouse.
glosses: A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.
pimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pimpled
form: most pimpled
Etymology: From pimple + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having pimples; pimply.
Derived terms: bepimpled
unpimpled
pimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pimple + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pimple
pimply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pimplier
form: pimpliest
Etymology: From pimple + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having pimples; pimpled.
Derived terms: pimpliness
piney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪni
Forms: form: more piney
form: most piney
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piny.
Derived terms: piney dammar
piney tallow
étiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: étiquettes
Senses: examples: text: It is not here meant that there ever was any positive rule or law, which prevented this freedom between barrister and attorney; but by the étiquette of the profession, the former preserved a dignity, that kept the latter at a distance—this is the barrier at present removed through the eagerness of barristers to procure business by flattering and courting attornies, who have the distribution of it.
ref: 1809, “Counsel”, in The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners. With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage., volume VI, London: […] for the Proprietors, by Harding and Wright, […]; […] Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, […]; J[ohn] Murray, […]; A[rchibald] Constable and Co., Edinburgh; […], page 212:
text: The Duke de Choiseul—“The King of England, according to the established custom of diplomatic étiquette.” Madame de Pompadour—“Say rather the King of France; since, according to the étiquette you speak of, the King of England is called so; […”]
ref: 1811, J[ean-]L[ouis] Soulavie, the Elder, Historical Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Court of France, During the Favor of Madame de Pompadour; with Explanations of Twelve Engravings, Executed by Herself, Representing the Principal Events of the Reign of Louis the XVth, from Original Papers Preserved in the Port-folio of Madame la Marèchale D’***, London: […] John Dean, […] for William Lindsell, […] and Messrs. Longman, Rees, and Co., […], page 368:
text: At least the étiquette did not require me to kiss any part of His Majesty’s clothing.
ref: 2008, Catherine Delors, Mistress of the Revolution, Dutton, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Alternative spelling of etiquette.
Jedburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛdbərə/
Etymology: The town was randomly chosen as the namesake for Operation Jedburgh, the Second World War operation to deploy the parachute teams.
Senses: synonyms: Jeddart
glosses: A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6520).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Code name for teams of three parachuted into Occupied Europe (primarily France, but also Holland and Belgium) beginning on D-Day (June 6, 1944) to aid local Resistance groups. The men consisted of a British or American officer, a native of the country, and a non-commissioned radio operator.
Kelso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛl.soʊ/
Etymology: From earlier Calchow, from Middle Welsh Calchvynyð (Modern Welsh Calchfynydd (“lime mountain”)).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7234).
glosses: A suburb of the city of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Townsville in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A small village in northern Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A small town in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A village in the Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A ghost town in western Otago, New Zealand, which was abandoned in the 1980s after frequent flooding.
glosses: A coastal village in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: A ghost town in Fresno County, California, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
glosses: The former name of Claraville, an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: A village in Scott County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Cowlitz County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Galashiels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɡæləˈʃiːəlz/
Senses: synonyms: Gala
glosses: A town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4936).
Related terms: Gala Water
Eyemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪməθ/
rhymes: -aɪməθ
Etymology: From Eye Water (“a local river”) + mouth (“river mouth”).
Senses: glosses: A harbour town in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9464).
ATOC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Acronym of Association of Train Operating Companies
ATOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATOCs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Air Terminal Operations Center
nocuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɑ.kju.əs/
Forms: form: more nocuous
form: most nocuous
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin nocuus (“harmful”).
Senses: glosses: Likely to cause harm or damage.
Derived terms: nocuously
Related terms: nocuity
noxious
Huitzilopochtli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Uitzilopochtli
form: Vitzilopuchtli
form: Vitzliputzli
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Huitzilopochtli, from a Nahuatl language; compare Classical Nahuatl Huitzilopochtli.
Senses: examples: text: after Sacrifice made to the Goddes of warre, called Tezcatlipuca and Vitzilopuchtli of their carkaſſes, then is theyr fleſhe eaten in banquet
ref: 1578, Thomas Nicholas, transl., The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, London: Henry Bynneman, translation of Historia general de las Indias by Francisco López de Gómara, page 78:
text: They did worſhip the Idoll Vitzliputzli, the Deuill that was in this Idoll ſpake, and gouerned this Nation eaſily.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1002:
glosses: An important god of the Mexica.
feed grains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feed grain
multilogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌltɪlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈmʌltɪˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈmʌltɪˌlɑɡ/
Forms: form: multilogues
Etymology: Blend of multi- + dialogue. By surface analysis, multi + -logue.
Senses: glosses: A conversation that is many-to-many. The term is commonly used to describe the nature of conversations and interactions using social media and collaborative tools, such as social networking, online video, widgets for syndication, wikis, message boards, forums, etc.
Related terms: dialogue
trialogue
quadralogue
pentalogue
paracingulate cortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracingulate cortexes
form: paracingulate cortices
Senses: glosses: The medial prefrontal cortex of the human brain.
Synonyms: PCC
phlebolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛbəlɪθ/
[ˈflɛbəlɪθ]
Forms: form: phleboliths
Etymology: From phlebo- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A calcareous deposit in a venous wall or thrombus.
query processing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Processing of a specific set of instructions for extracting particular data.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Processing to extract data from a database and present it for use.
mess with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: messes with
form: messing with
form: messed with
form: messed with
Senses: examples: text: Don't mess with the controls. I just got everything adjusted correctly.
glosses: To interfere with.
examples: text: Hey! Quit messing with my brother.
glosses: To diss; to put down.
examples: text: Don't worry: I'm just messing with you.
glosses: To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner.
examples: text: You know I mess with you heavy.
text: He reaches out to me on Instagram like "yo, I mess with you super heavy. I'm down in Allentown, PA - I heard this song 'No Regrets'. It's super crazy, shit gives me the chills. I got a proposal for you. Give me 6 months to get you a deal and we'll see if we can make a management situation happen. If I can't do this 6 months, then fuck it, But I want to see you in a better position because your music’s amazing, its real."
ref: 2021 July 9, Huey V (quoted), Shirley Ju, “Meet Huey V | Next up out of Milwaukee's Rap Scene”, in Flaunt Magazine, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2022:
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: To admire, enjoy, or approve of.
examples: text: Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations […]
ref: 1836, George Simpson & al., HBC Standing Rules and Regulations, §18
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mess, with. To eat with.
Synonyms: word: fuck with
word: play the devil with
sense: rustic US
word: play hob with
Related terms: mess around
salutiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saljuːˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more salutiferous
form: most salutiferous
Etymology: From Latin salūtifer (“healthy, health-giving”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: innumerable auxiliatory powers, all of them salutiferous
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
text: [W]hen warm water is impregnated with salutiferous substances, it may produce great effects as a bath.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 421:
glosses: Conducive to good health; healthy.
glosses: Conducive to safety or salvation.
pinch-hit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinch-hits
form: pinch-hitting
form: pinch-hit
form: pinch-hit
Senses: examples: text: Jones pinch-hit for Smith in the sixth.
text: “Some people think that pitchers aren't complete athletes and some of them maybe weren't, but others were, so I think you'd remember Red Ruffing who used to pinch‐hit all the time, sometimes for outfielders, even though he was as complete a pitcher there was. […]” If he is wrong, however, and designated hitting does turn out to be a good thing, pinch‐hitting as now understood will become a thing of the past.
ref: 1973 January 4, Wells Twombly, “Now the 10th man”, in The New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bat in place of another player
examples: text: Jones pinch-hit for Smith during today's presentation.
glosses: To do something in the place of another person who is not able to perform or is less skilled; to substitute or stand in for somebody.
pinch-hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinch-hitters
Senses: examples: text: The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final.
ref: 1983 June 27, Kevin Dupont, “METS GAIN SPLIT; STAUB TIES MARK”, in The New York Times:
text: Since the World Series era began in 1903, only two players, Craig and Dusty Rhodes of the 1954 New York Giants, have appeared in three consecutive postseason games as pinch-hitters and delivered run-scoring hits in each.
ref: 2011 October 21, Benjamin Hoffman, “Postseason Pinch-Hit Star, Three Games Running”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pinch hitter.
pinfeather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinfeathers
form: pin feather
Etymology: From pin + feather.
Senses: glosses: A developing feather as it emerges through the skin.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: filoplume
pinkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinknesses
Etymology: From pink + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pink
pinprick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinpricks
form: pin-prick
Etymology: From pin + prick.
Senses: glosses: An insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point.
glosses: A mildly annoying wound or damage.
examples: text: The stars were pinpricks of light in a clear night sky.
glosses: A very tiny dot.
pinprick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinpricks
form: pinpricking
form: pinpricked
form: pinpricked
form: pin-prick
Etymology: From pin + prick.
Senses: examples: text: The water pinpricked her face as she stepped into the shower.
glosses: To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
examples: text: By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144:
text: He had always had to repress the urge to pinprick her enthusiasms.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: To puncture with a tiny hole or holes.
pinsetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinsetters
form: pin-setter
form: pin setter
Etymology: From pin + setter.
Senses: examples: text: “I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92:
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: originally
glosses: The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
examples: text: They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]
ref: 1985, Stephen King, Nona:
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
pint-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pint-size
form: most pint-size
Senses: examples: text: The thing we’ll all remember is Arya Stark, Supreme Badass Of The Seven Kingdoms. Not Jon Snow, not Daenerys, but the pint-size warrior who spends the first part of the fight just annihilating White Walkers one after the other, then turns out to be the one who deals the killing blow the the^([sic]) Night King.
ref: 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of pint-sized.
pinyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinyons
form: pinyones
Senses: examples: text: They passed solitary pinyons and collected the nuts when they could to process later.
ref: 2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 303:
glosses: Alternative spelling of piñon.
piñon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnjən/
rhymes: -ɪnjən
homophone: pinion
Forms: form: piñons
form: piñones
form: pinon
form: pinyon
Etymology: From Spanish piñón.
Senses: examples: text: They planted a few piñons.
text: The hills were covered with clusters of piñon.
text: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Anglos call it a “kiva fireplace” and put several in every Santa Fe style building, carefully burning piñon firewood upright in the approved local manner.
ref: 1994, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine.
glosses: A pine nut.
Synonyms: sense: North American pines
word: piñon pine
piousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piousnesses
Etymology: From pious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Two mating dogs looked up with dejected piousness.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 171:
glosses: The condition of being pious; piety.
piroshki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piroshki
form: piroshkis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pirozhki.
net net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net nets
Senses: examples: text: What's the net net?
topics: business
hypernyms: net
glosses: A true and final result, after more than the obvious subtractions and allowances.
net net
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Net net, we're losing money.
topics: business
glosses: After all subtractions and allowances.
examples: text: Net net, what do we have to do today?
topics: management
glosses: Without lengthy explanation.
Related terms: get to the point
grandfather clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandfather clause
radiodiffusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiodiffusions
Etymology: From French radiodiffusion. By surface analysis, radio- + diffusion.
Senses: examples: text: The provisions of paragraph (1) concern the exclusive right of the author to authorize the radiodiffusion of his works and the communication to the public of the radiodiffusion of these works.
ref: 1967, Records of the Intellectual Property Conference of Stockholm, June 11 to July 14, 1967, volume I, Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization, published 1971, document S/1, article 11bis, page 51:
text: On July 29, 1982 the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) was created. It was the first institution for audiovisual regulation. Its aim was to protect the independency of the radiodiffusion public service and to attribute the terrestrial frequencies.
ref: 2008, Fabrice Lequeux, “DTV in France”, in Wendy Van den Broeck, Jo Pierson, editors, Digital Television in Europe, Brussels: VUBpress, Academic and Scientific Publishers, →ISBN, page 81:
text: […]been recalling the recent broadcast when he commented in his Radio column on 11 February 1945 that: listening to The Corn is Green or Love on the Dole I feel sure that the radiodiffusion of standard drama is a good thing.
ref: 2018, Chris Hopkins, Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: The act of broadcasting by radio; transmission.
examples: text: Signal Corps and Tank Corps men together devised equipment on the master-oscillator principle which the signalmen installed after the Armistice to make a radiotelegraph network connecting the Paris headquarters with the Army of Occupation. Of considerable extent and surely one of the earliest successes of the sort, the network engaged stations at Antwerp, Spa, Koblenz, Trier, Toul, and Chaumont at various stages between November 1918 and September 1919. The control was twenty miles outside Paris, at a site in the British zone far enough away to escape the radiodiffusion from the Eiffel Tower spark transmitter.
ref: 1956, Dulany Terrett, The Signal Corps: The Emergency (To December 1941), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1970, →LCCN, page 19:
text: Concomitant with this repression is an idealisation of one’s self, of a social sharing that was realised in the literature of intimacy with the Zone or the radiodiffusions of popular song.
ref: 1995, Adrian Rifkin, Street Noises: Parisian Pleasure, 1900-40, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A broadcast.
argumentums ad hominem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argumenta ad hominem
Senses: examples: text: To go at all largely into this conſideration would much exceed the limits of even one of my own notes; (oh, how my argumentums ad hominem would deal about them, were I inclined (as I am not at all) to let them looſe, gentlemen, among you!)
ref: 1790, Fulke Greville, Reflection: A Poem, in Four Cantos…, page 134:
text: Four pages of polemic, ridicule, rhetoric, innuendo, calumny, detraction, contumely, begging of questions, a prioris, argumentums ad hominem, pathetic fallacies, ignoratio elenchis, undistributed middles… (regaining thread) Not even Kendall’s finest lyric achievement is safe from Grigsby’s flailing haymakers and knees to the groin.
ref: 1977, University of Melbourne, Meanjin, page 46:
text: 1998: “Reina 616”, rec.arts.movies.current-films (Google group): GOOD WILL HUNTING is absolutely terrific!, the 26ᵗʰ day of August at 8 o’clock a.m.
I would have no quarrel with the above. If someone DISAGREES it’s one thing. But people go further and tell me I’m WRONG, dead wrong, tasteless, lacking in judgment (we are now getting into the area of argumentums ad hominem (attacking the person instead of the argument).
glosses: plural of argumentum ad hominem
generic names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generic name
spatiotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: other: /ˈspæɪ.ʃiː.əʉˌtem.pə.rəl/
other: /ˈspeɪ.ʃiː.əuˌtem.pə.rəl/
other: /ˈspeɪ.ʃiː.oʊˌtɛm.pə.rəl/
enpr: 'spā-shē-ō'tĕm-pə-rəl
rhymes: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: more spatiotemporal
form: most spatiotemporal
form: spatio-temporal
Etymology: From spatio- + temporal.
Senses: examples: text: Physical existence, thus, is essentially spatiotemporal ubiety; and that which has or lacks ubiety, that is, is or is not present at some place in space at some time, is always some what or kind—which may be a kind of substance, or of property, or of relation, or of activity, or of change, or of state, and so on.
ref: 1956, Sidney Hook, editor, American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States:
glosses: Of, concerning, or existing in both space and time.
glosses: Of or concerning spacetime.
Synonyms: geotemporal
temporospatial
chronospatial
Derived terms: spatiotemporal continuity
spatiotemporal database
spatiotemporal gene expression
simpliciter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭmplĭʹsĭtər
ipa: /sɪmˈplɪsɪtə/
Etymology: From the Latin simpliciter (“simply”, “plainly”), from simplex (“simple”).
Senses: examples: text: The charge was reduced from aggravated assault to assault simpliciter.
text: Leaving aside this report, I make the general observation firstly that the CA has pointed out in PP v UI [2008] 4 SLR(R) 500 […] that rape simpliciter "is already ‘an inherently odious and reprehensible act’… that exacts ‘irretrievable physical, emotional and psychological scars on [the] victim’” […]
ref: 2022, Paragraph 68, Public Prosecutor v CJH ([2022] SGHC 303)
topics: human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Simply, absolutely; without any qualification or condition.
intensifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intensify
intensifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intensify
intensifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intensifyings
Senses: examples: text: Overtiming, development only for detail and subsequent intensifyings, keeping the lights pure and the shadows clear, by judicious use of the alum bath mentioned, will give an interesting variety of tones, which is a relief from the monotony […]
ref: 1892, The American Amateur Photographer, volume 4, page 157:
glosses: An intensification.
periodic tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodic table
grapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grapple
grapples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grapple
luxuriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of luxuriate
luxuriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of luxuriate
luxuriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of luxuriate
barrenest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of barren: most barren
barrener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barreners
Etymology: From barren + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: For the purpose of more fully investigating the causes of barrenness, I have examined the ovaries of several heifers which were, after very careful trial, condemned and killed as barreners […]
ref: 1865, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 266:
glosses: A barren animal, one that cannot bear young.
barrener
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From barren + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of barren: more barren
baronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barony
double-nosed Andean tiger hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-nosed Andean tiger hounds
Senses: glosses: A South American dog with two sets of nostrils
baronetcies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baronetcy
security hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security holes
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: A security vulnerability in a computer system.
pot-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-girls
Senses: examples: text: […] he turned with practised insolence to a pot-girl in a red shawl who could not have uttered an audible word to save her soul, but who blushed and giggled with pleasure at this mark of attention.
ref: 1905, Arnold Bennett, Tales of the Five Towns:
glosses: A girl who works serving customers in an inn or public house.
Related terms: potboy
potman
fender bender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fender benders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fender-bender.
flatmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatmate
F&M
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of foot and mouth (foot-and-mouth disease).
foot and mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of foot-and-mouth disease.
gedankenexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gedankenexperiments
form: gedanken experiment
form: Gedanken experiment
form: Gedankenexperiment
Etymology: From German Gedankenexperiment (“thought experiment”), from Gedanke (“thought”) + Experiment (“experiment”).
Senses: examples: text: So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores?
ref: 2005 January 6, Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, retrieved 04 Feb 2012:
text: John told her about his dissertation, about the equations he had concocted from a gedanken experiment. "What's a gedanken experiment?" she asked him. / "It's where you just think an experiment, but you don't actually do it, you just think it through," he told her.
ref: 2005 Aug, Eugene Mirabelli, “The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 109, number 2, page 143:
glosses: thought experiment
marriage of convenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marriages of convenience
Etymology: Calque of French mariage de convenance.
Senses: examples: text: Widely published author and business consultant would like a marriage of convenience with a woman who is an Irish or Austrian citizen. You get legal resident status in U.S. (and eligibility for student aid), and I get eligibility for prison furloughs plus the citizenship of a neutral country in a few years so I can start a new life elsewhere.
ref: 1988 April 23, Adam Starchild, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: A marriage motivated by some reason other than love; for example, one conducted to obtain residence rights in a country, for financial gain, or for political purposes.
examples: text: Libertarians and the Religious Right make odd bedfellows, but that marriage of convenience in the Republican Party has stuck around since the 1980s.
text: Kofi Annan’s marriage of convenience is likely to last only as long as it takes the political players to build up war chests ahead of another electoral bout.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: A big tent alliance of disparate factions (such as political factions).
Hyponyms: sham marriage
castratrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæsˈtɹeɪtɹɪks/
Forms: form: castratrices
Etymology: From Latin castratrix or castrate + -trix with feminine agent-nounal suffix; compare castrator.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:castratrix.
glosses: A female who castrates (either literally or metaphorically).
raw_tags: used in philosophy or psychoanalysis
Related terms: castrator
castratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæsˈtɹeɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of castratrix
forward passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forward pass
Lyonnais
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lyon or its inhabitants.
Marseillais
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marseillais
form: most Marseillais
Etymology: From French Marseillais/marseillais.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Related terms: Massiliote
Marseillais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marseillais
Etymology: From French Marseillais/marseillais.
Senses: examples: text: Where ordinary Frenchmen were divided, the Marseillais were united.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Woodsworth, Seeking Provence: Old Myths, New Paths:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Related terms: Massiliote
Toulousain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toulousains
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Toulouse, the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and the Occitania region, France.
glosses: An inhabitant of Toulouse.
examples: text: [B]y 1200 the Saint Gilles held territory in Provence as vassals of the Holy Roman emperor, land in the Toulousain from the king of France, and property in Gascony from the king of England.
ref: 2000, Stephen O'Shea, The Perfect Heresy, Profile Books, published 2001, page 47:
glosses: The area around or (historically) belonging to Toulouse.
Niçois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /niːswɑː/
Forms: form: more Niçois
form: most Niçois
Etymology: Borrowed from French Niçois.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Nice, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Niçois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /niːswɑː/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Niçois.
Senses: examples: text: [La Remembrança Nissarda] runs weekly lessons in the Niçois language and chants niçois (traditional Niçois songs and chants), and cultural workshops on Niçois history, carnival traditions and cuisine nissarde (local cooking).
ref: 2007, Nicola Williams, Catherine Le Nevez, Provence & the Côte d'Azur:
glosses: The dialect of Occitan spoken in the Nice area.