cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fistbumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fistbump
noncannabinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncannabinoids
Etymology: From non- + cannabinoid.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is not a cannabinoid.
noncannabinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncannabinoid
English pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of different English riding classes seen at horse shows in the United States, where the horse is ridden in either hunt seat or saddle seat tack.
English riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of horse-riding featuring a flat English saddle without the deep seat, high cantle or saddle horn seen on a Western saddle, nor the knee pads seen on an Australian stock saddle.
Related terms: English pleasure
slice of the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slices of the cake
Senses: glosses: Synonym of slice of the pie.
synonyms: word: slice of the pie
slices of the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slice of the cake
project box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: project boxes
Senses: glosses: A casing or enclosure for electronic components, used by hobbyists to house what they build.
project boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of project box
pendant light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendant lights
Senses: qualifier: interior design
glosses: hanging light (usually, but not necessarily from the ceiling)
death-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death-names
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it.
ref: 1906, John Luther Long, The Way of the Gods, page 25:
text: The priest at that time would give a death-name for the deceased, eventually to be inscribed on a stone monument.
ref: 1968, Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall, Robert E. Ward, Village Japan, page 342:
text: Most death-names are not actually names but titles, given to persons on the death of a close relative.
ref: 1995, Omega: An International Journal for the Study of Dying:
text: Using death-names instead of usual names is their way to protect the feelings of the bereft (using the name of the dead might arouse sad feelings).
ref: 2015, Alan R. Kemp, Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World:
glosses: A name that is given (usually by a priest) to refer to someone who has died so that the living can avoid using the actual name of the dead person.
death-names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death-name
Jacindamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jacinda + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: When asked how long Jacindamania might play out, Edwards replied: “Nine years?
ref: 2017 September 7, Kate Shuttleworth, “Jacindamania: rocketing rise of New Zealand Labour's fresh political hope”, in The Guardian:
text: Jacindamania followed Trudeaumania in indicating that leadership in campaigns can alter political fortunes in a very short time.
ref: 2018, Patrick Weller, The Prime Ministers' Craft:
text: There's little chance Jacindamania would happen again.
ref: 2019 October 20, Heather du Plessis-Allan, “Jacindamania II is not on the cards”, in New Zealand Herald:
text: While Jacindamania could perhaps now better be described as Jacinda-meh-nia, [Grant] Robertson says Jacinda Ardern is still the best person for the job. “Jacinda is still really well respected in New Zealand. […]”
ref: 2022 May 13, Eva Corlett, “As the shine comes off NZ Labour, Grant Robertson hopes his budget can steady the ship”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Fervent admiration of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Coordinate terms: Camelot
Trudeaumania
Trudeauesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trudeauesque
form: most Trudeauesque
Etymology: From Trudeau + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Will it live on in those who never harbored the condition but who – in the Trudeauesque spirit of “embrac[ing] any style, cultural trope, or image of beauty that attracts [them] regardless of its origin" - can and might preserve many of the group's tradditions?
ref: 2006, Andrew Stark, The Limits of Medicine, page 152:
text: There were definite Trudeauesque assertions of the importance of fundamental individual rights, popular sovereignty, reduction of regional disparities, respect for multiculturalism, and the implicit denial of the two nation theory.
ref: 2013, Barry L. Strayer, Canada's Constitutional Revolution, page 93:
text: Vermont is a tolerant, wealthy, almost Trudeauesque corner of the US.
ref: 2018 December 1, David McWilliams, “Sanders is building a new political movement and could run again”, in Irish Times:
glosses: Involving the policies or values associated with Pierre Elliott Trudeau, especially those of social justice and multiculturalism.
Trudeau-esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trudeau-esque
form: most Trudeau-esque
Senses: examples: text: Collins seemed enamoured of a Trudeau-esque vision of Canada as a model for the internationalizing world, a civic-minded mosaic of multiple identities unencumbered by regulation.
ref: 2011, Marusya Bociurkiw, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect:
text: In Parliament, much of the government's rationale for the bill was framed around the government's “Trudeau-esque” commitment to a “just, peaceful and safe society.
ref: 2017, Allyson M. Lunny, Debating Hate Crime:
text: As one commentator put it sourly, “the rigidly autocratic and puritanical Saudi kingdom is not a model of Trudeau-esque hugs-and-singalongs around the national campfire” (Crowley 2016).
ref: 2018, Robert I. Rotberg, David Carment, Canada's Corruption at Home and Abroad:
glosses: Alternative form of Trudeauesque.
VCFD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ventura County Fire Department (California, USA).
Coordinate terms: english: Fire Department of the City of New York
translation: Fire Department of the City of New York
word: FDNY
english: Los Angeles Fire Department
translation: Los Angeles Fire Department
word: LAFD
Related terms: sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: county
sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: department
sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: FD
sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: fire
sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: fire department
sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: Ventura
sense: Ventura County Fire Department
word: Ventura County
copromicroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From copro- + microscopic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the microscopic examination of feces
Related terms: copromicroscopy
corynetoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corynetoxins
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of toxic antibiotics present in ryegrass
corynetoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corynetoxin
counterargumentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + argumentative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a counterargument
crossloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossloadings
Etymology: From cross- + loading.
Senses: glosses: The application of a load in a direction across the normal direction
crossloadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossloading
crowdsourcings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowdsourcing
cryodamages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryodamage
cryodamages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cryodamage
cryoresuscitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + resuscitation.
Senses: glosses: resuscitation of cryopreserved material
cyanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanidines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyanidin.
cyclooligopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclooligopeptides
Etymology: From cyclo- + oligopeptide.
Senses: glosses: A cyclic oligopeptide (cyclopeptide form of an oligopeptide)
ilkhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilkhans
head_nr: 1
form: il-khan
form: ilqan
form: il-qan
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A provincial khan (originally of the Mongol Empire), especially in Iran between the 13th and 14th centuries.
wikipedia: + (title)
Derived terms: Ilkhanate
Ilkhanid
Ilkhanate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ilkhanate
form: Il-Khanate
Etymology: From ilkhan + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: A khanate rule headed by ilkhans in 13th to 14th century southwestern Asia.
Wangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)wɑŋˈæn/
ipa: /wæŋ-/
ipa: /-ɑn/
enpr: wängʹänʹ
ipa: /ˈwɒŋən/
ipa: /(ˈ)wɑŋˈæn/
ipa: /wæŋ-/
ipa: /-ɑn/
enpr: wängʹänʹ
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal Australian people of the Isaac Region of Central Queensland.
Aesop-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aesop-like
form: most Aesop-like
form: Aesoplike
Etymology: From Aesop + -like.
Senses: examples: text: As regards the map, this was the beginning of an Aesop-like fable - 'How the Underground lines got their colours' - because they were all given a colour, although not the 'right' ones from today's perspective.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: Resembling an Aesop's fable or moral.
Related terms: Aesopian
Aesopic
Aesopish
blob-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blob-like
form: most blob-like
Etymology: From blob + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This bull's-eye first appeared on District stations from 1908, and Frank Pick would oversee its refinement during the First World War. For him, the bull's eye was too blob-like. It did not 'hold the eye'.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Alternative form of bloblike.
North Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman.
ref: 2019, The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back., The Washington Post:
text: North Macedonian police raid house, find 81 migrants.
ref: 2019, North Macedonian police raid house, find 81 migrants, United States: The Washington Post:
glosses: of, or relating to North Macedonia
North Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North Macedonians
Senses: examples: text: Rajhl, 54, a North Macedonian, said that ahead of the fall of Kabul, his employer Kam Air, the largest Afghan private airline, had contingency plans to rebase its three Boeing 737s and three Airbus 340 to Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
ref: 2021, Ognen Teofilovski, "We sneaked past the crowd": Airline pilot recounts escape from Kabul, Reuters:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of North Macedonia.
Synonyms: Macedonian
Skopian
Skopjan
not grow on trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But I think you should know
Before you let love go
That true love just don't grow
On trees
ref: 1967, Willie Clarke, Johnny Pearsall, “True Love Don’t Grow on Trees”, in Sings Sweet Soul!, performed by Helene Smith, Miami, USA: Deep City Records, LP 1001:
text: ‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:
text: The reason why they’re so interested in what we have here is fuel-cell experts don’t grow on trees and it’s relatively high-level expertise you need.
ref: 2018 February 2, Tyler Orton, “‘Fuel-cell experts don’t grow on trees’: Ottawa pledges $670k to industry group”, in Business Vancouver:
glosses: To be rare, not abundant, not easily acquired.
antithiamine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + thiamine.
Senses: examples: text: An antithiamine factor has antithiamine activity, and may cause thiamine deficiency if it is too prevalent.
glosses: Acting against thiamine or its effects.
antithiamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antithiamines
Etymology: From anti- + thiamine.
Senses: glosses: Any agent that acts against thiamine or its effects.
quill pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quill pens
Senses: glosses: A pen (writing instrument) made from a quill (a wing or tail feather of a large bird).
Synonyms: feather pen
sumn
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of something, representing African-American Vernacular English.
Q-max
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Combination of Q from Qatar + maximum.
Senses: glosses: Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft allowed to dock at liquefied natural gas terminals at Qatar.
Coordinate terms: Aframax
Chinamax
handymax
Panamax
post-Panamax
New Panamax
Suezmax
Capesize
quill pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quill pen
angler's loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angler's loops
Senses: glosses: A type of knot which creates a very stable loop even in slippery rope or cord.
angler's loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angler's loop
arbor knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbor knots
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A type of knot used to secure fishing line to the arbor of a fishing reel.
arbor knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbor knot
artillery loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artillery loops
Senses: synonyms: harness loop
manharness hitch
manharness knot
glosses: A type of knot used to create a loop on the bight of a rope, considered to be rather unstable.
artillery loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artillery loop
peepals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peepal
caninoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caninoid
form: most caninoid
Etymology: From canine + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: "The vast underground garage is patrolled by another species of humanoid (caninoid?), these tooled to look like pet dogs but functioning as police vehicles."
ref: 1989 September 23, Dick Roraback, “Beverly Hills Diamond Jubilee to End With Drawings, Dining”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
examples: text: Lower jaw with several rows at anterior, outer row enlarged, posterior teeth larger but not caninoid. Upper jaw with several rows at anterior, less rows than lower jaw, outer row larger but not caninoid. No canines present.
ref: n.d. "Tigrigobius saucrus" Goby Net (accessed 2 Nov 2019)
glosses: Having the appearance or characteristics of a canine tooth.
caninoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caninoids
Etymology: From canine + -oid.
Senses: examples: 2018 Vyacheslav Kharchienko et al, eds, Dependable IoT for Human and Industry: Modeling, Architecting, Implementation, River Publishers, 2018, page 38.
"A local company (Boston Dynamics) has produced a family of robots who have become media stars: ...; SpotMini a "caninoid" can open doors, descend stairs backwards, and run autonomously in mixed human robot packs."
glosses: A being having the appearance or characteristics of a canine (canid).
examples: text: "Probably the terminal, wide, oblique mouth, usually armed with enlarged teeth or caninoids or large canines of the Otalithinae, indicates the hunting of prey in superficial water,..."
ref: 1936, Max Weber, L.F. de Beaufort, The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, volume VII, E.J. Brill, pages 483–4:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tooth having the appearance or characteristics of a canine tooth.
harness loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harness loops
Senses: glosses: A type of knot generally known as the artillery loop.
harness loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harness loop
caninoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caninoid
manharness hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manharness hitches
Senses: glosses: Synonym of artillery loop.
synonyms: word: artillery loop
manharness hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manharness hitch
manharness knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manharness knots
Senses: glosses: Synonym of artillery loop.
synonyms: word: artillery loop
manharness knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manharness knot
shit-stirring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “They stir up more troubles and crave the whole world to be in chaos, acting like a shit-stirring stick,” Mr. Kang said on the usually stolid 7 p.m. national news program on CCTV, China’s state broadcaster.
ref: 2019, Jane Perlez, “China Reacts to Trade Tariffs and Hong Kong Protests by Blaming U.S.”, in New York Times:
text: We should expect more attempts Tuesday night, and for Biden and Warren to spend most of their night evading competitors and shit-stirring moderators.
ref: 2019, Jim Newell, “The Biggest Stage Has Two Front-Runners”, in Slate:
glosses: troublemaking, especially by provoking negative behavior from others.
shit-stirring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She’s built and maintained an improbable career based solely on her prodigious shit-stirring and her ability to turn every tragedy, from the death of her fiancé, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, to the election of this calamitous president, into attention for herself.
ref: 2018, Gabrielle Bruney, “Omarosa Says the Trump N-Word Tape is Real, But We Already Have Enough Proof of His Racism”, in Esquire:
glosses: troublemaking, especially by provoking negative behavior from others.
shit-stirring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shit-stir
equalizer knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equalizer knots
Senses: glosses: A type of knot generally used to create load-sharing on two anchor points, with adjustable length stand loops to the hitch points.
equalizer knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equalizer knot
womens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He gonna make pretty womens
Jump an' shout
Then the world wanna know
What this all about
ref: 1954, “Hoochie Coochie Man”, Willie Dixon (lyrics), performed by Muddy Waters:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of women (“plural of woman”).
examples: text: He wondred at her wiſedome heuenly rare, / Whoſe like in womens witt he neuer knew;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 84:
text: […]it is good to be applyed to womens breaſts, that grow ſore by the aboundance of milke comming into them: as alſo to repreſſe the overmuch bleeding of the hemorrhoids, to coole the Inflammations of the parts thereabouts, and to give eaſe of paines:[…].
ref: 1640, John Parkinson, “Symphitum majus. Great Comfrey.”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 524:
text: Then for womens cloaths, the cabadge of cloath of ſilver, brancht Sattin, and the like, went for pin-cuſhions, pin-pillows, womens purſes; and if black, Church-wardens capes.
ref: 1671, [Richard Head (denies authorship); Francis Kirkman (purported)], “He is Bound Prentice to a Taylor, the Knavery of that Trade, His Master of a Stitch, He is Turn’d over to a Baker, who Misusing Him He Runeth Away”, in The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. […] The Second Part. […], London: […] Francis Kirkman, […], →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: Obsolete form of women's (possessive case of women).
Related terms: mens
war effort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war efforts
Senses: examples: text: During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.
ref: 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
text: Curwen had inherited a printing business in Plaistow, east London. In 1915 the government appealed for scrap metal to help the war effort. Curwen gazed at the 'clever, fussy, pretentious Victorian typefaces spread about his composing room floor' and felt a wave of revulsion. He sent away more than 200 founts of type, retaining just one plain one, Caslon Old Face.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 161:
text: It meant the Edwardians enjoyed a golden age of rail travel, because independent companies could briefly provide a quality service before being forced into austerity to support Britain's resource-sapping war effort.
ref: 2025 October 15, Howard Johnston, “Public versus private: is there any difference?”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 62:
glosses: A coordinated mobilisation of a country's resources, both industrial and human, in support of its military forces during a war.
Related terms: war economy
war efforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war effort
Curwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
arteriovenostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriovenostomies
Etymology: From arterio- + veno- + -ostomy.
Senses: examples: text: Arteriovenostomies occurred slightly less than 30,000 times in 1992; between 1986 and 1992, the rate increased by 34 percent in white beneficiaries and by 73 percent in black beneficiaries.
ref: 1994, Health Care Financing Review, page 84:
text: To save the life of Okoro, a procedure called "arteriovenostomy for renal dialysis" was recommended for him.
ref: 2005, The News - Volume 25, page 45:
text: In contrast, Black beneficiaries were found to have substantially higher rates than White beneficiaries in the use of four procedures performed in the hospital: amputation of part of the lower limb, surgical debridement, arteriovenostomy, and bilateral orchiectomy.
ref: 1998, Mariellen Laucht Kuehn, Cultural diversity and disability, page 27:
glosses: The implantation of a shunt or cannula for chronic renal dialysis.
arteriovenostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arteriovenostomy
alkine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkines
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alkylamine.
synonyms: word: alkylamine
alkines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkine
Punkie Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈpʌŋki ˌnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈpəŋ-/
Etymology: From punkie (“lantern similar to a jack-o’-lantern”) + night.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Somerset
glosses: A night near the end of October, related to Halloween, observed in parts of South West England by the displaying of punkies (“lanterns similar to jack-o'-lanterns”), and traditionally by children begging for candles for their punkies and threatening people who refuse their requests.
anjan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anjans
Senses: examples: text: The anjan tree is found in isolated patches in dry areas of the subcontinent and is the source of one of India's most durable timbers.
ref: 2000, Subhadra Menon, Pallava Bagla, Aruna Ghose, Trees of India, page 78:
text: The present paper addresses the non-timber produce of anjan (Hardwickia binata).
ref: 2000, A.K. Bisaria, R. Tiwari, “Non Timber Produce of Anjan (Hardwickia binata)”, in Multipurpose Tree Species:
text: The anjan plantation was intercropped with clusterbean, cowpea, greengram and sesamum during kharif season of each year of study i.e. 2001-02 to 2003-04.
ref: 2007, Sunil Puri, Agroforestry: Systems and Practices, page 167:
glosses: A hardwood tree (Hardwickia binata) native to dry regions of the Indian subcontinent.
examples: text: ...yields extremely hard, heavy and durable timber (trade name-anjan) that is used in a variety of ways locally.
ref: 1997, Journal of Tree Sciences - Volumes 16-21, page 29:
text: H. binata yields an extremely hard, very heavy (specific gravity 1.08; weight 69 lb/cft) and durable timber known in trade as Anjan.
ref: 1999, Annals of Forestry - Volumes 7-8, page 71:
glosses: The wood obtained from this tree.
anjans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anjan
barberchairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barberchair
barberchaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barberchair
barber chairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barber chair
barber chaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barber chair
barber-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barber-chairs
form: barber-chairing
form: barber-chaired
form: barber-chaired
Etymology: From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.
Senses: examples: text: Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree.
ref: 1998, Jim Deaton, Crosscut Saw Reflections in the Pacific Northwest, page 15:
text: It would have barber-chaired on him. The little ones had barber-chaired but they weren't split up very high.
ref: 2000, Lloyd Keeland, The Lusty Life of Loon Lake Lloyd, page 251:
text: He made the first cut, the notch, and then as he made the back cut, it barber-chaired and kicked back on him.
ref: 2014, Jesse W. Thompson, Samson & Delilah's Haunted B & B:
glosses: To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.
raw_tags: of a tree being felled
glosses: To split (a tree) in this manner.
barber-chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the resemblance of a tree split in this way to a barber chair.
Senses: examples: text: Cutting through a limb that's bowed under the weight of the tree will create a mini barber-chair effect and the limb could shoot out at you when you release the pressure by cutting it.
ref: 2011, Michael Levatino, Audrey Levatino, The Joy of Hobby Farming:
glosses: Alternative form of barber chair (when used attributively).
barber-chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barber-chair
barber-chairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barber-chair
barber-chaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barber-chair
jetline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetlines
Etymology: Blend of jetliner (“jet airliner”) + airline (“air carrier”)
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: airline
glosses: An airline that flies jet aircraft.
Related terms: jetliner
jetport
brain traffic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve. Therefore he is never normally subject to "imaginations."
ref: 1969, A. E. Wilder-Smith, The drug users: the psychopharmacology of turning on, page 217:
text: When a large amount of one amino acid is administered, the delicate balance of amino acid "brain traffic" becomes distorted.
ref: 1996, Karl J. Abrams, Algae to the Rescue:
text: Most of this brain traffic, healthy or otherwise, consists of specialized messenger cells, called neurons, which transmit electrical and chemical signals to other cells throughout the brain, muscles and other parts of the body.
ref: 2011, John Pollack, The Pun Also Rises:
glosses: The movement and coordination of internal signals that govern the working of the body and mind, especially neural impulses and hormones.
examples: text: This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST
ref: 1929, QST - Volume 13, Issues 1-6, page 40:
text: But the system continues operating. "Brain traffic" is developing. It spreads to the widest range of specialists, from a rank-and-file engineer to a prominent scientist; from an ordinary manager of a plant to an executive of a national corporation.
ref: 1974, The Daily Review - Volume 20:
text: To tie knowledge management directly to the university's nervous system, Nielsen created a Web site for its employees that acts as a brain traffic controller.
ref: 2001, Government Executive - Volume 33, Issues 9-15, page 44:
text: They don't let themselves get distracted by brain traffic, emails, or interruptions.
ref: 2013, Laura Stack, Focusing on Your Work, page 13:
glosses: The discussion of ideas, especially over the Internet.
examples: text: The intensity of the radio noise, the vital nature of the decisions that have to be made — right now — the requirement for accelerated brain traffic; they were often more than a guy could effectively handle.
ref: 1999, John Darrell Sherwood, Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience, page 58:
text: The Sea-Wolf bore down on me for all my brain-traffic would bear.
ref: 1906, Carl Sandburg, Tomorrow Magazine:
glosses: An ability to think, with an emphasis on the limited capacity and speed a person is capable of, analogous to the limits of a road system for handling vehicular traffic.
Mantecan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mantecan
form: most Mantecan
Etymology: Manteca + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Manteca, California, in the United States.
Mantecan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mantecans
Etymology: Manteca + -an
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Manteca, California, in the United States.
Mantecans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mantecan
Indophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Indo- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: The extreme Indophobic discomfort with the connection of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin was exemplified by the conviction of the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, who, without knowing a word of the language, proposed that Sanskrit was not a cognate of Greek, it was Greek.
ref: 2001, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: Even the Hindus have more knowledge than us in some matters of astronomy and mathematics'—a virtually unprecedented admission for the often Indophobic Abdul Lateef.
ref: 2002, William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, Penguin, →ISBN, page 95:
text: The fiercest peak of Indophobic violence was reached during the May–June 1930 riots, and then in July–September 1938, with clear anti-Muslim overtones.
ref: 2015, Jayati Bhattacharya, Coonoor Kripalani, Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.
Related terms: Indophobe
Indophobia
unicorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unicorn
unicorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unicorn
unicorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To the second series belong the unicorned and bicorned species of Asia.
ref: 1868, Hugh Falconer, Charles Murchison, Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer:
text: Doctor Shepard related in his book that unicorned sheep exist in Nepal and on occasion are even sent to Europe.
ref: 1938, Life and Letters To-day - Volume 20, page 35:
text: Here may be the explanation of the one-horned cows and bulls that Aelian says were to be found in Ethiopia and of the unicorned cattle reported by Pliny as living in the land of the Moors.
ref: 2012, Clint Marsh, Varla Ventura, Unicornicopia:
text: Clearly a unicorned animal could be produced by bending an animal's horns inwards as they grew and twisting them together, or, presumably, by removing one horn and manipulating the other.
ref: 2014, Chris Lavers, The Natural History Of Unicorns:
glosses: Having a single horn.
work one's buns off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works one's buns off
form: working one's buns off
form: worked one's buns off
form: worked one's buns off
Senses: examples: text: I worked my little buns off making my special souffle for you!" She said,
ref: 2001, June Marshall, The Dirty Seven: Ladies Beware!:
text: The poor girl has been working her buns off at the catering business and the most we've done so far is cuddle on the couch.
ref: 2008, Sheba McBride-Harris, Between Two Storms, page 168:
text: She and her husband had just retired, and I'm thinking, “Why am I still working my buns off?”
ref: 2009, Barbara Waxman, Bob Mendelson, How to Love Your Retirement: Advice from Hundreds of Retirees:
text: You know while I was here working my buns off he was out somewhere playing the hot-shot.
ref: 2014, J L Daniels, Mirror Opposites, page 345:
glosses: Alternative form of work one's butt off.
works one's buns off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work one's buns off
working one's buns off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work one's buns off
worked one's buns off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work one's buns off
well heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well heeled
form: most well heeled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-heeled.
Manteca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish manteca.
Senses: glosses: A city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
angkong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑŋˈkɔŋ/
Forms: form: angkongs
Etymology: From Tagalog angkong, from Hokkien 俺公 (án-kong, “paternal grandfather”).
Senses: examples: text: Were you surprised when your parents remained calm when you told them about your grades? When you failed your midterms, I went to your house and apologized. Granted that your angkong hit me with his cane, which I guess I deserved. I didn't want you to be less of who you were before you met me.
ref: 2017, Ariesa Jane Domingo, Better Than Fiction, Summit Publishing Company Inc., page 91:
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: paternal grandfather; paternal grandpa
examples: text: After Angkong was buried, a Chinese altar, with the accompanying table for making offerings, was purchased and installed in the dining room. His portrait and altar faced the dining table, and from then on, the altar would be the focal point of family life.
ref: 2017, Ari C. Dy, “Introduction”, in Chinese Buddhism in Catholic Philippines: Syncretism as Identity, Anvil Publishing, Inc.:
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: term of address for one's paternal grandfather
Coordinate terms: sense: paternal female
word: ama
sense: maternal male
word: guakong
sense: maternal female
word: guama
breastling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastlings
Etymology: From breast + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A suckling babe or child.
Synonyms: suckling
breastlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastling
social piranha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social piranhas
Senses: glosses: Malapropism of social pariah.
quattuordecillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quattuordecillion
quattuordecillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quattuordecillionth
quindecillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quindecillionth
quintillionaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintillionaire
five-pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: five-pin bowling (played only in Canada)
fivepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fivepins
Etymology: five + pin
Senses: glosses: Any of the bottle-shaped targets with rubber rings around them that are used in fivepin bowling.
cyprinodontine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyprinodontines
Senses: glosses: Any pupfish of the subfamily Cyprinodontinae
cyprinodontines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyprinodontine
cytoadhesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytoadhesin
cytohistologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cyto- + histologically.
Senses: glosses: In a cytohistological manner
Pieech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Piech
Etymology: Anglicization of German Piëch
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Pięch
decollectivisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decollectivisations
Etymology: From de- + collectivisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decollectivization.
dehydrodimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydrodimer
discovertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From disco- + vertebral.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the intervertebral discs
dorsumal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dorsum + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of dorsal.
synonyms: word: dorsal
eigenworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenworms
Etymology: From eigen- + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of the fundamental movements that make up the wiggles of a worm
eigenworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenworm
elasmobranchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elasmobranchians
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the subclass Elasmobranchii
electrocompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocompressions
Etymology: From electro- + compression.
Senses: glosses: electrostatic (or electromagnetic) compression
electrotransformant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotransformants
Etymology: From electro- + transformant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A transformant undergoing electrotransformation
electrotransformants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotransformant
PPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PP
BHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BH
Qajar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Qajar dynasty which ruled Iran from 1789 to 1925.
Qajar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qajars
Senses: glosses: A member of the Qajar dynasty.
Ilkhanid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Ilkhans.
Ilkhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ilkhans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ilkhan.
Tulunid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Tulunids.
Hamdanid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Hamdanids, a Shi'ite Arab dynasty that ruled northern Syria in 906–1004.
Hamdanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamdanids
Senses: glosses: A member of the Hamdanid dynasty.
blow-up doll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-up dolls
Senses: examples: text: For thirty-six years the Lost Property office was managed by Maureen Beaumont, and when I went there to interview her, back in the late Nineties, she told me people didn't seem embarrassed about what they'd lost. She'd known men collect stashes of porn, or blow-up dolls.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 196:
synonyms: love doll
sex doll
glosses: A sex toy in the form of an inflatable life-size doll.
blow-up dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow-up doll
arahantship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arahant + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: according to the scriptures arahantship is possible as long as the Dhamma exists. He went on to say, however, that while arahantship may be theoretically or doctrinally possible, it is realistically impossible because of the absence today of both suitable teachers and people with pure, clear minds.
ref: 1992, George D. Bond, The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka: Religious Tradition, Reinterpretation and Response, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., →ISBN, page 140:
text: First the fruit of arahantship arises, then the knowledge of destruction.
ref: 2005, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 746:
text: He attempts in his sermons to help his audience bring together several components of practice: faith (P. saddhā) in the Buddha as the exemplary arahant, understanding the special place of the Paṭṭhāna in the quest for arahantship,
ref: 2011, Jason A. Carbine, Sons of the Buddha: Continuities and Ruptures in a Burmese Monastic Tradition, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 156:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: the position of arahant.
Ongar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to be a derivative of Old English wong (“plain, field”), in the sense of "meadow".
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and post town with a town council in Epping Forest district, Essex, England, the parish includes Chipping Ongar.
glosses: An outer western suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Derived terms: Chipping Ongar
High Ongar
Chipping Ongar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town in Ongar parish, Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5503).
High Ongar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Epping Forest district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL5603).
whey aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wye aye.
planter's chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planter's chairs
Senses: examples: text: Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 203:
glosses: A type of wooden one-person armchair with wickerwork backing, designed to be used in tropical climates.
planter's chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planter's chair
Uzbekizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Uzbekize
Uzbekizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Uzbekize
Uzbekized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Uzbekize
Uzbekization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Uzbek + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something Uzbek.
dictatorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dictator + -less.
Senses: examples: text: We dispose of our heritage of wealth to assist and reinforce what remains of what we call "a free world," though the regime in the United Kingdom is very close to Communism and a failure, as all dictatorless socialist states are bound to be.
ref: 1985, Arthur Inman, The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 1457:
text: Stalin himself, who spoke of the joy of Soviet life in 1936, clearly had no affection for pictures of happiness in a future dictatorless, “self-regulating” society and in images of mass consumerism.
ref: 2010, Richard Stites, Passion and Perception: Essays on Russian Culture, New Academia Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Under such a political order, the dictatorless republican government ruled by laymen was very stable.
ref: 2017, Katsumi Fukasawa, Religious Interactions in Europe and the Mediterranean World: Coexistence and Dialogue from the 12th to the 20th Centuries, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: without a dictator.
raw_tags: of a place
Americanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From American + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Ambition: An Americanless England. Also, sales. Address: Watch bill-boards.
ref: 1914, Irwin Leslie Gordon, Who was who 5000 B.C. to date: biographical dictionary of the famous and those who wanted to be, page 102:
text: Winter clientele is 70% French, heavily Italian and Belgian, and nearly Americanless.
ref: 1968, Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe, page 584:
text: When sports director Jim Mueller of WJKW, Cleveland, asked how people felt about the start of an Americanless Olympiad, half didn't know it was under way.
ref: 1980, U.S. News & World Report, page 21:
glosses: without Americans.
dot down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dots down
form: dotting down
form: dotted down
form: dotted down
Senses: examples: text: […]Makazole Mapimpi became the first Springbok try scorer in a RWC final when he dotted down in the 67th minute.
ref: 2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times:
text: France centre Nassira Konde crossed for her second try to close the gap, but Meg Jones ensured England had the final say as she latched on to replacement Holly Aitchison's kick to dot down.
ref: 2025 September 20, Mike Henson, “Kildunne stars as England see off France to make final”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
synonyms: touch down
cross
cross the line
glosses: To score a try
written in the stars
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1948, Tony Martin (performer), Leo Robin (composer), It Was Written in the Stars
It was written in the stars
That our love would be born
It was written in the stars
We'd meet early one morn
text: In the end it felt as if it was written in the stars. Every 12 years South Africa have an unerring habit of winning World Cups and they have done so again, following up their triumphs of 1995 and 2007 with another prodigious display of power and might.
ref: 2019 November 2, Robert Kitson, “Rugby World Cup: South Africa surge to glory as England fall short”, in The Observer:
glosses: Destined to happen, fated to happen.
RWC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RWCs
Senses: examples: text: The high, high concept that takes Robbo there is a Faragian dystopia where, to ensure a home nations win in the RWC, it’s been made illegal for foreign rugbyists to enjoy the miraculous benefits of Lucozade Sport.
ref: 2015 September 19, Jack Seale, “The new Lucozade advert: rugby stars attempt 'the Lineker'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Rugby World Cup.
triplexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triplexities
Etymology: From triplex + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being triplex
triplexities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triplexity
elevenfoldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elevenfold + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being elevenfold.