cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cabbalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabbalist
Jack and Jill bathroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack and Jill bathrooms
Senses: glosses: The bathroom of a Jack and Jill suite.
Jack and Jill bedroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack and Jill bedrooms
Senses: glosses: Either of the bedrooms of a Jack and Jill suite.
Jack and Jill bathrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jack and Jill bathroom
Jack and Jill bedrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jack and Jill bedroom
Lockeport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒk.pɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɒkpɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology: Compound of Locke (“a surname”) + port. The town is named after settler Jonathan Locke.
Senses: synonyms: Locke's Island
glosses: A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
mouse buttock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouse buttocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mouse (“part of a hind leg of beef”).
synonyms: word: mouse
extra: part of a hind leg of beef
mouse buttocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouse buttock
Flamatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Wünnewil-Flamatt, Fribourg canton, Switzerland.
wall screw-moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: wall moss
glosses: Tortula muralis, a moss in the family Pottiaceae.
Middletons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Middleton
Mulgrave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌl.ɡɹeɪv/
rhymes: -ʌlɡɹeɪv
Etymology: The town is named after colonial administrator George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby (1819–1890).
Senses: glosses: A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
wikipedia: George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
Hitler's buzzsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hitler's buzzsaws
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: The MG 42 machine gun.
Related terms: Stalin's organ
seeding plough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seeding ploughs
form: seeding plow
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A plough fitted with a hopper from which seed is automatically deposited.
seeding ploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seeding plough
Rzhev Meat Grinder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rzhev Meat Grinder
Senses: qualifier: World War II
glosses: The Battles of Rzhev.
riding skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riding skirts
Senses: glosses: A skirt traditionally worn by a woman while riding, able to be fastened around her waist while mounted on the animal.
riding skirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riding skirt
Schmitten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Schmitten im Taunus, Germany, renamed in 2021.
glosses: A municipality in Fribourg canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A municipality in Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
terrorbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terrorbombs
form: terrorbombing
form: terrorbombed
form: terrorbombed
form: terror-bomb
form: terror bomb
Etymology: From terror + bomb.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To bomb (chiefly civilian areas) with the intention of instilling terror and decreasing morale.
terror-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terror-bombs
form: terror-bombing
form: terror-bombed
form: terror-bombed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of terrorbomb.
terror bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terror bombs
form: terror bombing
form: terror bombed
form: terror bombed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of terrorbomb.
rope tornadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rope tornado
terrorbombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terrorbomb
terror-bombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terror-bomb
terror bombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terror bomb
terrorbombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terrorbomb
terror-bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terror-bomb
terror bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terror bomb
terrorbombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terrorbomb
terrorbombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrorbombings
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An act of terrorbombing.
prigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priggers
Etymology: From prig + -er, from prig (“filch, steal”).
Senses: glosses: A thief.
terror-bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terror-bomb
terror-bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terror-bombings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of terrorbombing.
terror bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terror bomb
terror bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terror bombings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of terrorbombing.
terrorbombings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrorbombing
terror-bombings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terror-bombing
terror bombings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terror bombing
pull the ladder up behind oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the ladder up behind oneself
form: pulling the ladder up behind oneself
form: pulled the ladder up behind oneself
form: pulled the ladder up behind oneself
form: pull the ladder up after oneself
form: pull up the ladder behind oneself
form: pull up the ladder
Etymology: Coined by analogy with phrases such as make it to the top and climb the ladder that liken success to an upward struggle.
Senses: examples: text: The odds are that, after the first flush of enthusiasm, a non-proliferation treaty is going to look to many of the have-nots like a device for letting Russia and America scramble on top of their nuclear piles and then pull the ladder up behind them.
ref: 1965 July 24, “Shall We Non-Proliferate?”, in The Economist, page 313:
text: Environmental concerns were a neat excuse for the industrialized nations to pull the ladder up behind them.
ref: 1973, Wade Rowland, The Plot to Save the World: The Life and Times of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, page 47:
text: Commented one senior administrator, “Early in my career another woman said to me, 'When you get where you're going, don't pull the ladder up behind you.' That is the prevalent attitude here."
ref: 1994, Tema Frank, Canada's Best Employers for Women: A Guide for Job Hunters, Employees and Employers, page 45:
glosses: To prevent others from attaining or benefiting from the same advantages, opportunities, or rights as oneself.
demagocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: demagocracies
form: demagogracy
form: demogogracy
Etymology: From demagogue + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: The demagocracy, (an uncouth term for a very uncouth thing,) first in this row of fated destiny, against which the Civil-service Reform Association is forming its ranks, is happily the easiest to overcome
ref: 1881 October 24, D. D. Whedon, editor, The Methodist Review, page 790:
text: The simians would require no special orientation courses to teach them the reasons for fighting, such as, “To make the world safe for Demagocracy,” or whatnot.
ref: 1959, H. G. Coulter, Time for Rebellion: A Play and Preface, page 14:
text: To these men , concerned with the dangers of anarchy and “demagocracy,” constitutional democracy was attractive in that it combined the principle of popular sovereignty with a concentration on legality.
ref: 1963, Ruth Thomas McVey, Indonesia, page 314:
text: I would argue that Westernization as a cultural attribute was less important than the fact that these men had skills disposing them to what rule-based government and^([sic]) fear 'demagocracy' )
ref: 1964, The journal of Asian studies, volume 24, page 309:
text: According to Tetens, this could never result in democracy, but in the rule of demagogues. i.e. a 'demagocracy'
ref: 2011, Bertel Nygaard, “Rousseau and Revolution in the Making of a Modern Political Culture: Denmark 1750-1850”, in Holger Ross Lauritsen, Mikkel Thorup, editors, Rousseau and Revolution, page 121:
glosses: Rule by demagogues.
rough ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough rides
Senses: examples: text: This protocol was put into place to address an informal police policy known as “rough rides.” A rough ride is a form of police brutality where handcuffed individuals are placed in transport vans without being secured by a seatbelt while an officer drives erratically. Rough rides in the Baltimore Police Department have resulted in severe injuries, including paralysis ([…]).
ref: 2017 May 12, Gina Robertiello, The Use and Abuse of Police Power in America: Historical Milestones and Current Controversies, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 301:
synonyms: nickel ride
cowboy ride
screen test
glosses: The practice of not applying a seat belt to a handcuffed detainee in a transport vehicle before driving erratically, causing that detainee to be violently shaken about.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rough, ride.
rough rides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rough ride
nickel ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickel rides
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rough ride.
synonyms: word: rough ride
nickel rides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickel ride
pull the ladder up after oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the ladder up after oneself
form: pulling the ladder up after oneself
form: pulled the ladder up after oneself
form: pulled the ladder up after oneself
Senses: examples: text: “There are a lot of people who have achieved success, but then pulled the ladder up after them,” [John M.] Connors added.
ref: 2012 May 1, Reid Oslin, “Long-time Trustee James Cleary Dies”, in The Boston College Chronicle, Chestnut Hill, MA, page 6:
text: Basically if you are on the up, don't pull the ladder up after you!
ref: 2014, Nicola Wells, "Belief To Succeed", InBUSINESS, Quarter One 2014, page 51
text: It is un-American to pull the ladder up after you; the American way is to pass it down to the next person, and silence is complicity when it comes to this.
ref: 2018, Ciaran Staunton, quoted in "Hibernia: Quote Unquote", Irish America, June/July 2018, page 31
glosses: Alternative form of pull the ladder up behind oneself.
culcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culchas
Senses: examples: text: He real. There ain't never gonna be no shortage of nigga rappers. That's all black culcha got to offa. Lotsa artists just like that, mutha phucka Mark Twain.
ref: 2020 May 15, Paul J. Farrell, What a Load of Crap; You Got Mail, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of culture.
Matran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Fribourg canton, Switzerland.
mutha phucka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutha phuckas
Senses: examples: text: He real. There ain't never gonna be no shortage of nigga rappers. That's all black culcha got to offa. Lotsa artists just like that, mutha phucka Mark Twain.
ref: 2020 May 15, Paul J. Farrell, What a Load of Crap; You Got Mail, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of mutha fucka.
reconceptualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reconceptualize + -able or re- + conceptualizable.
Senses: glosses: That can be reconceptualized.
f—kin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of f—k
f—kin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I hope he is not selling himself like some f—kin whore just to suck up some money.
ref: 2020 May 15, Paul J. Farrell, What a Load of Crap; You Got Mail, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Censored spelling of fuckin.
f—kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mista Fresh he gots a mind just like Marx's, and someday, as long as we got a lotta white niggas promotin' the black niggas, he gonna be famous and be admired by everybody, especially by all them mutha phuckin black nigga hoes doin all the f—kin.
ref: 2020 May 15, Paul J. Farrell, What a Load of Crap; You Got Mail, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Censored spelling of fuckin.
f—king
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of f—k
f—king
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
f—king
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
Norvegophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norvegophiles
Etymology: From Norvego- + -phile.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Norvegophile.
glosses: Someone who admires Norway or its culture, cuisine, history or people.
child marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child marriages
Etymology: Compound of child + marriage.
Senses: glosses: The marriage or cohabitation between a minor and an adult or another minor.
wikipedia: child marriage
child marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child marriage
picky eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picky eaters
CRAPTCHA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CRAPTCHAs
Etymology: Blend of crap + CAPTCHA.
Senses: examples: text: Once again CRAPTCHA's have nothing specifically to do with this. They merely
make almost (and sometimes not) visible one more piece of data (after userid
and password) that must be entered into the "login" form.
Hang on, I just re-read your posts with a different slant, the key being
"without filling the form".
You arrive at a form (with or without a CRAPTCHA).
ref: 2008 October 20, rf, “CAPTCHA (verification code) and session”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet):
text: And what was it with that distracting side issue with CRAPTCHAs?
ref: 2008 October 20, rf, “CAPTCHA (verification code) and session”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet):
text: Curiously enough, firefox doesn't even see that many captchas exist. I
hit LOGIN (or whatever) and nothing happens. If I do the same thing in
chrome I get the usual craptcha process, which eventually works.
ref: 2020 April 22, The Real Bev, “Online shopping is getting more and more annoying”, in comp.misc (Usenet):
glosses: CAPTCHA.
CRAPTCHAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CRAPTCHA
colonel general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonel generals
form: colonel-general
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A general officer's rank in some nations' militaries, corresponding to the rank of either a lieutenant general or full general in the United States rank system.
wikipedia: colonel general
plough-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plough-trees
Senses: glosses: The handle of a plough.
plough-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plough-tree
colonel generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonel general
regional power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regional powers
Etymology: Since the late 20th century.
Senses: qualifier: international relations
glosses: A state that exercises significant power within a geographical region.
regional powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regional power
climate finance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Financing and other banking services intended to support the mitigation or reversal of the impacts of climate change.
rizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭz
ipa: /ˈɹɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: Coined by YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat (or one of his close friends) around May 2021 and popularized on TikTok in 2022. Rizz further increased in prominence throughout 2023 and was chosen as the 2023 Word of the Year by Oxford University Press. Contrary to popular belief, Cenat has confirmed that the term is not short for charisma, though charisma does influence its pronunciation and meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: aura
text: negative rizz, L rizz
translation: disastrously poor rizz; the ability to repel others
english: disastrously poor rizz; the ability to repel others
text: Wow, that guy has no rizz whatsoever.
text: You got her number? W rizz!
text: Bruh, that girl has better rizz than I do.
text: Baby Gronk shared that he would be focusing not on grade school or a paper route but ... his love for video games. To be fair, the purported "rizz king" of the pre-pubescent sports world is probably not the one who actually said any of the above.
ref: 2023 June 26, Lauren Mechling, “Baby Gronk, internet stardom and the Sports Dad nightmare writ large”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2023:
text: On Monday, Hill posted a TikTok using a filter which rated her 'rizz level', with it giving her 96/100 and 'rizz god' status.
ref: 2023 July 18, Ben Nagle, “Olivia Dunne's online feud with TikTok rival Breckie Hill heats up as she claims fellow social media star 'can't keep my name out of her mouth'”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2023:
text: By now we all know how stilted and off-kilter ChatGPT sounds: blind confidence and a lack of shame can get you far in life, but could it really have more 'rizz' than even the most stilted and awkward human?
ref: 2024 January 8, James Greig, “Can AI finally help me to get some rizz? An investigation”, in Dazed, London: Dazed Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2024:
text: As it turns out, Zendaya's rizz-o-meter needed to scan beyond the bounds of Arrakis to hone in on who had the most rizz of all.
ref: 2024 February 22, Kase Wickman, “Let Zendaya Tell You All About Tom Holland's Rizz”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2024:
text: While Glinda chases boys with rizz.
ref: 2024 November 18, “Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Perform a Song About Wicked”performed by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo:
synonyms: charisma
glosses: The ability to attract a love interest, usually female; charm or attractiveness.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: harizzment
rizzed up
rizzful
rizzler
rizzology
rizzonomics
rizz up
rizzy
skibidi Ohio rizz
unspoken rizz
rizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭz
ipa: /ˈɹɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: rizzes
form: rizzing
form: rizzed
form: rizzed
Etymology: Coined by YouTuber and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat (or one of his close friends) around May 2021 and popularized on TikTok in 2022. Rizz further increased in prominence throughout 2023 and was chosen as the 2023 Word of the Year by Oxford University Press. Contrary to popular belief, Cenat has confirmed that the term is not short for charisma, though charisma does influence its pronunciation and meaning.
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna go rizz one of those girls.
text: In one of De Tolla's videos, he says that Dunne "rizzed" Madden while convincing him to attend LSU. In another video, he jokes that Madden "rizzed up" Dunne and the 10-year-old stole the gymnastics star from her boyfriend, the "drip king." "Drip" refers to swagger and style.
ref: 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
synonyms: rizz up
glosses: To seduce or attract a love interest.
Related terms: drip
goated
gyatt
ritz
sigma
rizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭz
ipa: /ˈɹɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: Clipping of Rizla+ rolling paper brand.
Senses: examples: text: And I heard that the yutes are lizz
fuck it, I’m tryna put him in the rizz
ref: 2024 September 2, “Niz” (0:31 from the start), Liz (lyrics):
glosses: An amount of rolling paper particularly of the Rizla+ brand.
palatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palatelike
form: most palatelike
Etymology: From palate + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a palate.
passionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passionlike
form: most passionlike
Etymology: From passion + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of passion.
gaugelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaugelike
form: most gaugelike
Etymology: From gauge + -like.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of gauge bosons.
bosonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bosonlike
form: most bosonlike
Etymology: From boson + -like.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bosons.
gracelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gracelike
form: most gracelike
Etymology: From grace + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On that basis, Wieman proposed, the proper object of religious inquiry remains the phenomenon of gracelike creative transformation.
ref: 2003, Gary J. Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology, page 281:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of grace.
Kaplanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kaplanian
form: most Kaplanian
Etymology: From Kaplan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mordecai Kaplan (born Mottel Kaplan; 1881–1983), Lithuanian-born American rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein.
Wiemanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wiemanian
form: most Wiemanian
Etymology: From Wieman + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Henry Nelson Wieman (1884–1975), American philosopher and theologian.
ETAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ETA
if it bleeds, it leads
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: Sensational, violent stories are to be prioritized.
bleed air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Compressed air taken from the compressor stage of a gas turbine upstream of its fuel-burning sections.
plushlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plushlike
form: most plushlike
Etymology: From plush + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of plush.
prologuelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prologuelike
form: most prologuelike
Etymology: From prologue + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prologue.
prudelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prudelike
form: most prudelike
Etymology: From prude + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prude; prudish.
prunelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prunelike
form: most prunelike
Etymology: From prune + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prune.
rabbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rabbly
form: most rabbly
Etymology: From rabble + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rabble or mob.
porterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more porterlike
form: most porterlike
Etymology: From porter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a porter (person employed to carry things).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of porter (type of beer).
stolelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stolelike
form: most stolelike
Etymology: From stole + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stole (garment).
unactorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unactorlike
form: most unactorlike
Etymology: From un- + actorlike.
Senses: examples: text: He was an unusual and intelligent Hamlet, oddly unactorlike. He played the part with the sensitiveness of an amateur, who could play that part and no other — and yet with an efficiency no amateur could ever attain.
ref: 1991, Robert Liddell, The Last Enchantments, page 96:
glosses: Not actorlike.
unlizardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlizardlike
form: most unlizardlike
Etymology: From un- + lizardlike.
Senses: examples: text: I had never realized how womanly his lips are — a female reptile's razor slit, pursing in an unlizardlike way.
ref: 2009, Alexander Stuart, The War Zone, page 164:
glosses: Not lizardlike.
vizzard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vizzards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vizard.
vizzards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vizzard
veallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more veallike
form: most veallike
Etymology: From veal + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of veal.
unsalesmanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsalesmanlike
form: most unsalesmanlike
Etymology: From un- + salesmanlike.
Senses: examples: text: We are in the very unsalesmanlike business of defying popular demand.
ref: 1999, Lee Stringer, Grand Central Winter, page 185:
glosses: Not salesmanlike.
surprised Pikachu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surprised Pikachus
Senses: examples: text: Some of Broncos Country is left fuming over a start so poor that it is the only team in franchise history that has been this inept, but the rest of us are wearing the surprised Pikachu face.
ref: 2019 October 2, James Burky, “Fangio not at fault for foul start to season”, in The Metropolitan, MSU Denver, page 8:
text: Then without saying so much as a goodbye to Laurie or Steve, who has just arrived at the scene with a surprised-Pikachu look on his face, Will marches toward the exit.
ref: 2020, Isla Chiu, Ringing in the Lunar New Year, unnumbered page:
text: "I don't choose my monsters based on how cute they are, you know."
"You don't?! Really?"
Duh. Why the surprised Pikachu face?
ref: 2022, Yuu Tanaka, translated by Yuko C. Shimomoto, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 3, unnumbered page:
glosses: Synonym of shocked Pikachu.
synonyms: word: shocked Pikachu
stilettolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stilettolike
form: most stilettolike
Etymology: From stiletto + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stiletto.
dielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dielike
form: most dielike
Etymology: From die + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] no apparent set of dielike or lotterylike propositions […]
ref: 2004, David Johnson, Truth Without Paradox, page 140:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a die (object rolled to produce a random number).
gorgonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorgonlike
form: most gorgonlike
Etymology: From gorgon + -like.
Senses: examples: text: When Wilde originally wrote Earnest he never intended Lady Bracknell to be quite so gorgonlike. She became the stereotyped domineering and antagonistic mother-in-law in George Alexander's "reworked" version.
ref: 1997, Patrick M. Horan, The Importance of Being Paradoxical, page 109:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gorgon.
rebellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rebellike
form: most rebellike
Etymology: From rebel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rebel; rebellious.
roelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roelike
form: most roelike
Etymology: From roe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the roe of fish.
tarnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tarnlike
form: most tarnlike
Etymology: From tarn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tarn.
lagoonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lagoonlike
form: most lagoonlike
Etymology: From lagoon + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lagoon.
typhoidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more typhoidlike
form: most typhoidlike
Etymology: From typhoid + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of typhoid.
twilightlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twilightlike
form: most twilightlike
Etymology: From twilight + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of twilight.
trefoillike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trefoillike
form: most trefoillike
Etymology: From trefoil + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a trefoil.
toadstoollike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toadstoollike
form: most toadstoollike
Etymology: From toadstool + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a toadstool.
unfernlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfernlike
form: most unfernlike
Etymology: From un- + fernlike.
Senses: glosses: Not fernlike.
characterizationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From characterizational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of characterization.
unprophetlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprophetlike
form: most unprophetlike
Etymology: From un- + prophetlike.
Senses: glosses: Not prophetlike.
unpriestlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpriestlike
form: most unpriestlike
Etymology: From un- + priestlike.
Senses: glosses: Not priestlike.
preadulthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The period of life before adulthood.
prealcoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prealcoholics
Etymology: From pre- + alcoholic.
Senses: glosses: One who is not yet an alcoholic.
prealcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + alcohol.
Senses: glosses: Before the consumption of alcohol.
prealcoholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prealcoholic
prealcoholism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The period of an individual's life before the onset of alcoholism.
prealgebraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Before the study of algebra.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a prealgebra.
prebroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: Before a broadcast.
postbroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: After a broadcast.
prebroadcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + broadcasting.
Senses: examples: an actor's prebroadcasting career
glosses: Before the development or the use of broadcast media.
prebullying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bullying.
Senses: examples: text: a prebullying behaviour in young children
glosses: Before the onset of bullying.
precarcinomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + carcinomatous.
Senses: glosses: Before the development of a carcinoma.
preceders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preceder
stasis papillomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease characterized by chronic congestion of the extremities, with blood circulation interrupted in a specific area of the body.
postcollusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + collusion.
Senses: glosses: After collusion.
precollusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + collusion.
Senses: glosses: Before collusion.
postcollision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + collision.
Senses: glosses: After collision.
precollisional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + collisional.
Senses: glosses: Before collision.
precollision
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + collision.
Senses: glosses: Before collision.
indigenistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indigenistic
form: most indigenistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indigenist.
synonyms: word: indigenist
indigenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigenisms
Senses: synonyms: indigenismo
glosses: Any of various sociopolitical ideologies promoting the interests of indigenous peoples.
Related terms: indigenist
indigenistic
indigenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigenism
precontroversy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + controversy.
Senses: glosses: Before a controversy.
precontroversial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + controversial.
Senses: glosses: Before a controversy.
postcontroversial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + controversial.
Senses: glosses: After a controversy.
postcontroversy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + controversy.
Senses: glosses: After a controversy.
FART
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: färt
ipa: /fɑːt/
enpr: färt
ipa: /fɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: FARTs
Etymology: Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.
Senses: examples: text: Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.
ref: 2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter:
text: “Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.
ref: 2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter:
text: Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.
ref: 2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118:
synonyms: GC
GCF
gendercrit
gendercritter
TERF
terven
glosses: A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
jump point search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An optimization to the A* search algorithm for uniform-cost grids.
Leninisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leninism
Stalinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stalinism
preconspiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + conspiracy.
Senses: glosses: Before a conspiracy.
postconspiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + conspiracy.
Senses: glosses: After a conspiracy.
FARTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FART
tervens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terven
precoronation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + coronation.
Senses: glosses: Before a coronation.
precopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precopies
form: precopying
form: precopied
form: precopied
Etymology: From pre- + copy.
Senses: examples: text: However, in a true cloud computing environment, you don't know which other physical server the VM will be moved to, and therefore you don't know where to precopy the data.
ref: 2015, James Bond, The Enterprise Cloud: Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT, page 75:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To copy in advance.
precopied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precopy
precopies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precopy
precopying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precopy
precontemporary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + contemporary.
Senses: glosses: Earlier than contemporary.
metromaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metromaniacal
form: most metromaniacal
Etymology: From metro- + maniacal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to one who has metromania.
precox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of praecox.
dementia precox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dementia praecox.
preculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From precultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Before the development of culture.
gendercritters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gendercritter
pencatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of predazzite.
predazzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predazzites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hyponyms: pencatite
glosses: A substance formed from dolomite by volcanic agency, once thought to be a distinct mineral species.
predecessorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From predecessor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being a predecessor.
cakeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakefuls
form: cakesful
Etymology: From cake + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Trans World Airlines had a cakeful of candles recenly^([sic]) to light up an anniversary.
ref: 1965, Indian Aviation, page 237:
text: Roscoe Cheers to the girls, Young Roscoe Beautiful girls, Both Who fill our stage. Roscoe Delicious, Young Roscoe Enticing, Roscoe The crème de la crème. Young Roscoe A cakeful of icing, Cannot compare to them.
ref: 1971, James Goldman (book), Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), “Bring On The Girls”, in Follies: The Complete Recording, TVT Records, published 1998:
text: Love and sex, these were an icing on his whole cakeful of goodies. Like many women, Rebecca realized that such a cakeful of goodies could not exist for him were she not there to do the innumerable drudge tasks of daily existence.
ref: 1976, Dorothy T. Samuel, “Liberating Marriages”, in Love, Liberation, and Marriage, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, →ISBN, page 127:
text: My birthday was coming up, and although I prefer to just let it slip by, I thought the little ones should have a cakeful of candles to blow out and a chance to sing Happy Birthday.
ref: 1988, Dorothy Weiss Gottlieb, Inez Bellow Gottlieb, Marjorie A. Slavin, “There’s No Such Thing As an Ex-Grandparent”, in What to Do When Your Son or Daughter Divorces, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 128:
text: First, get an idea of what it feels like to work the muscle by sitting up straight and exhaling fully, as if you were blowing out a cakeful of candles;
ref: 1990, Health, page 61:
text: Imagine you're faced with a cakeful of candles and have to blow out only one of them.
ref: 1992, the editors of Klutz, “Hand Whistling”, in Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of, Klutz, →ISBN, section “Two More Minutes and You Still Can't Get It”, page 34:
text: ‘I can go all day hardly eating anything. Then, wham, I get this dreadful urge and in no time I’ve eaten cakesful of calories!’
ref: 1992, Eve Brock, “Assist Yourself! Identify your Negative Wizards”, in Think Slim: The Seven-Step Programme to Slim-Fitness, London: Vermilion, →ISBN, part I (The Seven Steps to Slim-Fitness), page 80:
text: She stabbed the cigarette into her mouth, lit up, and blew smoke from her lungs as if she were blowing out a cakeful of candles.
ref: 2001, Ray Garton, Sex and Violence in Hollywood, Gollancz, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: The latest is: we got a little more frosting in the north. Not a cakeful, but more than a nibble.
ref: 2003, Xcp: Cross-cultural Poetics, page 123:
text: The same kitchen table where he must have blown out so many cakefuls of birthday candles over the years.
ref: 2009, Julie Myerson, The Lost Child: A True Story, London; Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 296:
text: One day, I hope to add another zero to the same old one, as I blow out a cakeful of candles – a faceful of smiles on my wrinkled pate.
ref: 2010, Ron Jost, Holding Out the Hand of a Dead Relative, Great Horned Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: As much as a cake has.
cakefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakeful
cakesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cakeful
predestinately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From predestinate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a predestinate manner.
minor order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor orders
Senses: examples: text: cleric in minor orders
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: One of the orders of the Catholic Church lower than the major orders (diaconate and priesthood); i.e. the order of acolyte, exorcist, lector or porter.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see minor, order.
preinterpret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preinterprets
form: preinterpreting
form: preinterpreted
form: preinterpreted
Etymology: From pre- + interpret.
Senses: glosses: To interpret in advance.
preinterprets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preinterpret
preinterpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preinterpret
preinterpreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preinterpret
prelatehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prelate + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prelateship.
synonyms: word: prelateship
prelanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelanguages
Etymology: From pre- + language.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Vocal utterances that precede the development of language.
prelanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelanguage
prelecture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + lecture.
Senses: examples: text: The prelecture small-group discussion might consist of students sharing their perceptions of the most important ideas in the assigned reading.
ref: 2011, Karen Eriksen, Handbook of Counselor Preparation, page 70:
glosses: Before a lecture.
postlecture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + lecture.
Senses: glosses: After a lecture.
preludially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preludial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As, or in the manner of, a prelude.
premidnight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + midnight.
Senses: glosses: Before midnight.
premieress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premieresses
Etymology: From premier + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female premier.
premieresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premieress
premeditatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From premeditating + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: premeditatedly
glosses: In a premeditated manner.
premegalithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + megalithic.
Senses: glosses: Before the megalithic era.
premorning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + morning.
Senses: glosses: Before morning.
overarchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overarching
overarchingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overarching + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being overarching.
Leopards Eating Faces Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Leopards Eating Faces Party
Senses: examples: text: Always a rush when Members of Parliament for the Leopards Eating Faces Party suddenly discover the horror of faces eaten by leopards.
ref: 2019 August 19, Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg), Twitter:
text: “I never thought Leopards would eat *my* face, sobs broadcaster who mortgaged its integrity for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.”
ref: 2019 December 15, Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ), Twitter:
text: "I never thought the leopards would *actually* eat people's faces," sobs centrist politician who didn't really become concerned when the Leopards Eating Faces Party started gaining power.
ref: 2022 June 24, Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous), Twitter:
glosses: Alternative form of Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
Suella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suellas
form: Sue Ella
form: Sue-Ella
Etymology: Blend of Sue + Ella.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Related terms: Ella
Ellen
Sue
Sue Ella
Sue-Ella
Sue-Ellen
Sue Ellen
Suellen
RYO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RYOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of roll-your-own.
RYOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RYO
bad winner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad winners
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sore winner.
synonyms: word: sore winner
bad winners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad winner
premusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + musical.
Senses: glosses: Before music.
premorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From premoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: McCormick and other ethicists, however, leave room for the possibility that some homosexual acts, while they may be premorally evil, are not morally evil and may, indeed, be morally good.
ref: 2018, Todd A. Salzman, Michael G. Lawler, Virtue and Theological Ethics: Toward a Renewed Ethical Method:
glosses: In a premoral manner; before the development of a sense of morality.
premutiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + mutiny.
Senses: glosses: Before a mutiny.
prepolice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + police.
Senses: glosses: Before the creation of a police force.
glosses: Before police involvement.
prerailroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + railroad.
Senses: glosses: Before the development of a railroad, or railroads in general.
prepolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + polling.
Senses: glosses: Before a poll takes place.
preroutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preroutines
Etymology: From pre- + routine.
Senses: glosses: A routine carried out in advance of something else.
preroutines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preroutine
presacrificial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sacrificial.
Senses: examples: a presacrificial religious ritual
glosses: Before a sacrifice.
presatisfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presatisfies
form: presatisfying
form: presatisfied
form: presatisfied
Etymology: From pre- + satisfy.
Senses: glosses: To satisfy (requirements) in advance.
presatisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of presatisfy
presatisfies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of presatisfy
presatisfying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of presatisfy
preserveress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preserveresses
Etymology: From preserver + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female preserver.
preserveresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preserveress