cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dormition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːˈmɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: dormitions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem.
Senses: glosses: The process of falling asleep.
glosses: The process of death or the actual death itself.
examples: text: The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 507:
synonyms: koimesis
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
Derived terms: obdormition
Related terms: dorm
dormant
dormitive
dormitory
double eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double eagles
form: double-eagle
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A gold coin with a face value of $20 formerly used in the United States, the double of the US eagle coin.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Three under par, one stroke short of an ace (a hole in one) on a par-five hole.
examples: text: When a legion pitched its camp, the eagle was placed in its centre; and if it happened that two legions encamped together, they erected upon the limits of the two camps a double eagle, with heads and wings opposed.
ref: 1865, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 294:
text: The black imperial double eagle is better known and still features on the Albanian national flag.
ref: 2011, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 115:
text: That the donors were members of the local Byzantine aristocracy is shown by the double eagle on one of the female donors' attire and demonstrates the continuation of artistic production by the Byzantine elite in Venetian Crete.
ref: 2018, Eirini Panou, The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A representation of an eagle with two heads, as in the heraldic arms of Russia and Austria and in iconography from Antiquity onward (especially in the Roman Empire).
Synonyms: topics: golf
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: albatross
double feature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double features
Senses: glosses: Two feature-length motion pictures being shown back-to-back in a movie theatre, available to view for the price of a single ticket.
puffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: puffier
form: puffiest
Etymology: From puff + -y.
Senses: glosses: Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
examples: text: puffy breath
text: A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.
glosses: Coming or exhaling in puffs.
examples: text: There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20:
glosses: Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.
glosses: Having inflated cheeks.
Derived terms: foofy
huffy-puffy
poofy
puffily
puffiness
puffy sticks
gorra
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: You've gorra flippin' nerve showing your face round here.
qualifier: representing slurred pronunciation
glosses: Got a.
no duh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊ ˈdəː/
ipa: /noʊ ˈdə/
Forms: form: no doi
form: no doy
form: no dah
form: no dar
form: no der
form: no derr
form: no dur
form: no durr
Etymology: US from 1962.
Senses: examples: text: It says here not to drive with the sun shade covering the windshield of your car. No duh!
text: A long pause was followed by Hannah saying, “Well, no duh!”
“What?”
“That sign. Did you read that sign?”
“No, what did it say?”
“It said ‘State Prison Next Exit: Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers.’ That′s why I said, no duh! Like they have to tell people not to pick up hitchhikers.”
“That was a strange sign,” I agreed.
ref: 2005, Robin Jones Gunn, Gardenias For Breakfast, page 99:
text: “I could maybe buy that one, for some who has advanced up the scale of faith. However, I have trouble believing it would be sellable to the general population.”
“That′s a big ‘no duh.’ Now, I hope you don′t mind me keeping your feet to the fire. Let′s get back to your idea that maybe there are multiple paths to Heaven. And by the way, I hope you know you′re making me dizzy.”
ref: 2008, Donald James Parker, All the Stillness of the Wind, page 127:
text: Ultimately, humans aren′t wholly monogamous either. (Can we hear a “No duh,” from the bleacher seats?)
ref: 2010, Joselin Linder, Elena Donovan Mauer, Have Sex Like You Just Met - No Matter How Long You've Been Together, page xvii:
glosses: An expression or exclamation that something is exceedingly obvious or apparent, or that one would have to be extremely foolish not to realize something immediately.
Synonyms: no shit
no shit, Sherlock
thank you
Captain Obvious & you're welcome
Lieutenant Sarcasm
no really
oh really
really
no kidding
you don't say
duh
make over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes over
form: making over
form: made over
form: made over
Senses: examples: text: We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite.
text: Our made-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork […]
ref: 2006, Prevention, volume 58, number 12, page 142:
glosses: To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.
examples: text: Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow.
glosses: (of a person, particularly a woman) To give a new physical look to, especially with a new hairstyle, cosmetics, or clothes.
examples: text: The senator needs to make over his image.
glosses: (of a career, public image, etc.) To improve upon or take in a new direction.
examples: text: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it is made over to the N.E.R.
ref: 1962 April, D. Bertram, “Trans-Pennine Diversion”, in Modern Railways, page 257:
glosses: To transfer ownership (or care) of, especially by means of a legal document.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To praise (someone) excessively.
Related terms: word: makeover
Makonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈkɒndeɪ/
Etymology: From Chimakonde or Makonde, the Makonde name of the language.
Senses: glosses: A people of southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique.
Makonde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkɒndeɪ/
Etymology: From Chimakonde or Makonde, the Makonde name of the language.
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language spoken by the Makonde.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Makonde terms
malarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /məˈlɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From malaria + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His whole constitution was that of an emaciated, suffering man, malarial and gaunt.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 409:
glosses: Of, relating to, or infected by malaria.
Derived terms: antimalarial
malarial catarrhal fever
malarial fever
malarially
nonmalarial
postmalarial
typhomalarial
malarial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /məˈlɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Forms: form: malarials
Etymology: From malaria + -al.
Senses: glosses: A person who has malaria.
maliciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more maliciously
form: most maliciously
form: malitiously
Etymology: From Middle English maliciousli; equivalent to malicious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Theer, govison, (blockhead) tak that," and Jack flings maliciously at him the wisp of rushes wherewith he has rubbed down his own bemudded person.
ref: 1882, William Marshall, “Pursuit”, in Strange Chapman, volume 1, page 153:
text: All of these base qualities combined compose a maliciously beautyless whole not to be found in other countries, and prove conclusively the brutal power of great sums of money for the enforcement of vulgarity[…]
ref: 1968, New York Times Saturday review of books and art:
glosses: In a malicious manner, or for malicious reasons.
counsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: councils
Senses: glosses: plural of counsel
counsels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: councils
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counsel
straggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæɡl̩/
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: straggles
Etymology: From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin, possibly from (or cognate to) dialectal Norwegian stragla (“to walk laboriously”).
Senses: examples: text: Twenty-five hundred hands snapped at a slant to the hats. The admiral strolled onto the field, smoking, followed by a straggle of officers, walking carelessly to symbolize the privileges of rank, but straggling at distances from the admiral strictly regulated by the number of sleeve stripes on each stragger.
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 38:
text: At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold.
ref: 2005, Joe Bennett, A Land of Two Halves, page 43:
text: Apart from these few rail stations with a duka and a straggle of a few houses there was no town or village. That part of Kenya, mostly acacia bush and, further on, grassy plains with bush along the course of the few rivers, was empty of humanity […]
ref: 2008, Denis Montgomery, Crest of a Wave, page 205:
glosses: An irregular, spread-out group.
examples: text: Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it, — like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia:
glosses: An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.
organized crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organised crime
Senses: examples: text: Organized crime is largely responsible for the nation’s illicit drug trafficking.
text: The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics.
ref: 2025 March 19, Hira Humayun and Michael Rios, “Ecuador’s president invites foreign armies to fight gangs in the country”, in CNN:
glosses: A large criminal organization, or a group of such organizations, that deals in illegal goods and services.
examples: text: Organized crime has dramatically increased in our neighbourhood.
glosses: The crimes perpetrated by those organizations.
Derived terms: english: organized crime bureau
translation: organized crime bureau
word: OCB
english: NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau
translation: NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau
word: OCCB
english: HKPF Organised Crime and Triad Bureau
translation: HKPF Organised Crime and Triad Bureau
word: OCTB
Related terms: Camorra
Mafia
mob
triad
yakuza
golden girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden girls
Etymology: The senior citizen sense was inspired by a 1980s TV show, The Golden Girls, about a group of friends. The show's title was inspired by the traditional senses of the term but seems also to have been a play on golden years and silver-haired.
Senses: hypernyms: golden child
coordinate_terms: golden boy
glosses: A girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.
hypernyms: golden child
coordinate_terms: golden boy
glosses: A favored female youth, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
examples: text: In her day, Betty Grable was the golden girl of America.
glosses: A young woman who is beautiful in a wholesome and healthy way.
examples: text: Ha ha, we were teasing our mom that she's a golden girl now.
coordinate_terms: silver fox
platinum blonde
glosses: An older woman, a female senior citizen.
Marmelade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in northern Haiti.
redness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rednesses
Etymology: From Middle English reednes, rednesse, from Old English rēadnes (“redness”), equivalent to red + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nancy Reagan is famous for the redness of her wardrobe.
glosses: The state or quality of being red.
examples: text: Redness and swelling are associated with certain superficial infections.
glosses: A red discoloration, especially of skin.
Coordinate terms: reddishness
Related terms: reddening
ruddiness
erythema
rash
Gemeinschaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gemeinschaft.
councillor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councillors
form: councilor
form: councilour
form: councillour
Etymology: Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council. By surface analysis, council + -or.
Senses: glosses: A member of a council.
examples: text: The comments were made at a council meeting last month, during which one councillor questioned whether changing the names would be pushing reconciliation efforts along too quickly. […] At a city council meeting on Oct. 8, Campbell River councillors discussed a letter sent by the B.C. Geographical Names Office inviting comments on the name changes.
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor.
Synonyms: word: councilmember
sense: gendered terms
word: councilman
word: councilwoman
Derived terms: word: cllr
word: councillorship
word: parish councillor
word: privy councillor
word: town councillor
word: works councillor
Related terms: Privy Councillor
stifled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stifled
form: most stifled
Senses: examples: text: The stifled attempt at reform led to further resentment.
glosses: That has been interrupted, suppressed etc
stifled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stifle
Korean Wave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹi.ən ˈweɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹiːən ˈweɪv/
Forms: form: the Korean Wave
form: Korean wave
form: Hallyu
form: K-wave
Etymology: Calque of Korean 한류(韓流) (Hallyu, “Korean current”), from Korean + wave.
Senses: examples: text: The spread of South Korean (hereafter Korean/Korea) popular culture across borders, that is, the Korean Wave or hallyu, whose origin dates back to the late 1990s, is no longer a new phenomenon to media users and scholars of media, communications, cultural, and narrative studies alike.
ref: 2020, Hyesu Park, Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
text: By the time almost all restrictions on Japanese culture were lifted in January 2004, the Korean Wave—a term coined in China—had washed across Asia.
ref: 2005, Norimitsu Onishi, Roll Over, Godzilla: Korea Rules, The New York Times:
text: ...with your smart phones and Twitter and Me2Day and Kakao Talk. It’s no wonder so many people around the world have caught the Korean Wave, Hallyu.
ref: 2012, Barack Obama, Remarks by President Obama at Hankuk University, The White House:
glosses: The rise in popularity of South Korean popular culture in other countries since the 1990s.
ailurophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īlyo͝oəʹrəfīl'
ipa: /aɪˈljʊəɹəˌfaɪl/
enpr: īlo͝oʹrəfīl'
enpr: ālo͝oʹrəfīl'
ipa: /aɪˈlʊɹəˌfaɪl/
ipa: /eɪˈlʊɹəˌfaɪl/
Forms: form: ailurophiles
Etymology: From ailuro- (“cat”) + -phile (“lover”), from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros, “cat”) + φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).
Senses: examples: text: He played the piano well, was an enthusiastic ailurophile, and persistently played solitaire while talking and writing.
ref: 1971, E. F. Bleiler, “Introduction”, in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Montague Rhodes James, page 4:
text: When the archbishop would send Philip on an assignment, he would leave the cat in the care of the archbishop, who apparently was not an ailurophile.
ref: 2001, Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, Praying With the Saints: Making Their Prayers Your Own, page 192:
text: Alicia is not a serious ailurophile, however; she neglects Chestnut, and Chestnut knows it.
ref: 2002, Carol Shields, Unless, page 195:
text: Your identity as an ailurophile (cat lover) is confirmed by cat hair on your clothes, but that is a distinction that most of us will gladly forfeit.
ref: 2005, Dan Rice, Bengal Cats: Everything about Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Health Care and Behavior, page 53:
glosses: A person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover.
Synonyms: cataholic
catlover
catophile
felophile
felinophile
Hyponyms: cat lady
Related terms: ailurophilia
ailurophiliac
ailurophilic
pre-production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-productions
form: preproduction
Etymology: From pre- + production.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The process of preparing the elements involved in a motion picture, theatrical play, or other performance.
film projector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film projectors
Senses: glosses: An opto-mechanical device for displaying motion pictures by projecting them on a projection screen (Movie projector for projection of moving images from film).
glosses: An opto-mechanical device for displaying still pictures by projecting them on a projection screen (Slide projector for projection of still images from film).
Related terms: document camera
overhead projector
movie projector
slide projector
allocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌæl.əˈkæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɛl.əˈkæɪ.ʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /əlɵˈkeʃən/
Forms: form: allocations
Etymology: From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō. By surface analysis, allocate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.
text: Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
glosses: The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
examples: text: The farmer received his full allocation of water from the government.
glosses: That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region
Derived terms: allocational
allocation unit
buddy memory allocation
deallocation
dynamic memory allocation
file allocation table
misallocation
overallocation
pachinko allocation
preallocation
reallocation
static memory allocation
suballocation
underallocation
lignum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin lignum (“wood”)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Dead wood, typically in the context of a substrate for lichens.
lignum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignums
Etymology: Contraction of polygonum (“plant of the family Polygonaceae”).
Senses: glosses: A perennial shrub, Duma florulenta, native to semiarid areas of inland Australia.
examples: text: They assembled in the lignum / Where the Boss said pigs were thick.
ref: 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 10:
glosses: Land covered by lignum.
Derived terms: lignum aloes
Related terms: lignum nephriticum
lignum rhodium
lignum vitae
neorealist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neorealist
form: most neorealist
Etymology: From neo- + realist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the post World War II international relations movement of neorealism.
examples: text: If by “neorealism” you mean the opposite of manufactured effects, of the laws of dramaturgy, spectacle, and even of cinematography, then Rossellini has made the only neorealist films.
ref: 1972 April 24, Charles Thomas Samuels, “Fellini on Fellini”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Of or pertaining to the post-World War II Italian movement of neorealism, which focused on realistic portrayals of daily life.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Of or pertaining to the neorealism movement in art, which emerged in Britain around 1914.
neorealist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neorealists
Etymology: From neo- + realist.
Senses: examples: text: DeSanctis wasn't a neorealist; he was a follower of D'Annunzio, who took calendar-art shots of the sea.
ref: 1972 April 24, Charles Thomas Samuels, “Fellini on Fellini”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: Rossellini was one of a diverse group of filmmakers, including Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, who became known as neorealists for their determination to get out of the studio and rediscover a sense of gritty, working-class authenticity.
ref: 2009 January 13, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Roberto Rossellini”, in New York Times:
glosses: An adherent of neorealism.
apologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒləd͡ʒiːz/
ipa: /əˈpɑləd͡ʒiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of apology
glosses: plural of apologie
apologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒləd͡ʒiːz/
ipa: /əˈpɑləd͡ʒiːz/
Senses: glosses: A list of people unable to attend a meeting, typically presented as the first item on the agenda.
Derived terms: with apologies to
apologies
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒləd͡ʒiːz/
ipa: /əˈpɑləd͡ʒiːz/
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of my apologies.
tfb
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of too fucking bad.
social studies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of history, geography, civics, sociology, economics, and other social-science subjects, especially in primary and secondary school.
off-off-Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-off-Broadways
Etymology: From off- + off-Broadway.
Senses: glosses: A New York City area off-Broadway-style show, but not operating under the aegis of the theatrical unions.
off-off-Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off- + off-Broadway.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an off-off-Broadway production.
Derived terms: off-off-off-Broadway
off-off-off-Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-off-off-Broadways
Etymology: From off- + off-off-Broadway.
Senses: glosses: A theatrical production performed in spaces remote from Manhattan, but nonetheless in the greater New York City area, and which otherwise fits the description of an off-off-Broadway show.
off-off-off-Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off- + off-off-Broadway.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an off-off-off-Broadway production, or to the space in which they are performed.
Nagykanizsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Hungary.
capretto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caprettos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian capretto.
Senses: glosses: meat from a kid, or young goat
Synonyms: cabrito
Related terms: chevon
shits-and-giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shits and giggles.
kicks-and-giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kicks and giggles
malt liquor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malt liquors
Senses: glosses: beer, especially that having a higher than normal alcohol content.
glosses: Any beverage brewed from malt, including ale, beer and porter, typically having lower alcohol content than modern brews.
Related terms: superlager
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dappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dappas
Etymology: From dapper.
Senses: examples: text: "Hoo man ye dappa!"
glosses: A term used to insult those who are smartly dressed
glosses: Dapper, smart.
smartly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɑː(ɹ)tli/
Etymology: From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: smartly dressed
glosses: In a smart manner.
examples: text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
glosses: Quickly.
glosses: Intelligently.
gunya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gunyah.
Related terms: mia mia
ralphie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːɹˈfi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ralphies
form: rafie
Etymology: From Ralph Gardeners High School in North Shields, which had a past reputation as a bad school, + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A scruffy school child.
Derived terms: alt: Hartlepool
word: rarf
startup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/
ipa: [ˈstɑɹɾˌʌp]
Forms: form: startups
form: start-up
Etymology: Deverbal from start up.
Senses: antonyms: shutdown
glosses: The act or process of starting a process or machine.
examples: text: Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
examples: Add an app to run automatically at startup in Windows 10, Microsoft Support
3. With the file location open, press the Windows logo key + R, type shell:startup, then select OK. This opens the Startup folder. / 4. Copy and paste the shortcut to the app from the file location to the Startup folder.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: autostart
glosses: A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.
Derived terms: startup time
Related terms: autostart
launch → launch pad
startup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/
ipa: [ˈstɑɹɾˌʌp]
ipa: /ˈstɑːtəp/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/
ipa: [ˈstɑɹɾˌʌp]
Forms: form: startups
Etymology: From start + up, describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.
Senses: examples: text: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, “Februarie,” Glosse,
Galage) a startuppe or clownish shoe.
text: But Hob and Iohn of the countrey they stept in churlishly, in their high startvps […]
ref: 1592, Robert Greene, A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, London: John Wolfe:
text: 1619, Michael Drayton, “The Ninth Eglogue” in Pastorals. Contayning Eglogves, With the Man in the Moone, London: John Smethwicke, reproduced in J. William Hebel (ed.), The Works of Michael Drayton, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932, p. 564,
When not a Shepheard any thing that could,
But greaz’d his start-ups blacke as Autumns Sloe,
glosses: A kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.
glosses: A kind of gaiter or legging.
examples: text: That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: One who comes suddenly into notice; an upstart.
sweet cheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet cheeks
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, sweet-cheeks! Can you take my order real quick?” “Hi. Sure thing.” “Sorry--” “What can I get you?” “Uh, mixed green salad, and we'll do the garlic zoodles.” “Zoodles. Good choice.” “Thank you.” “(inhales deeply) "Good choice."” (indistinct chatter) “Zoodles are zucchini noodles.” “"Sweet cheeks"? Seriously, dude?” “She had cherubic cheeks. It's a compliment.” “"Sweet cheeks" is your butt.” “No, it's not.” “It is. It's like calling somebody, I don't know, "sugar tits."” “That's totally inappropriate.”
ref: 2022 January 13, James Gunn, “A Whole New Whirled” (26:41 from the start), in Peacemaker, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Peacemaker (John Cena):
glosses: A term of address implying the person addressed has attractive buttocks.
Zimba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the Congo
glosses: A town in southern Zambia.
cold chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold chisels
Etymology: So called because it was used for cutting cold metal, as distinguished from a blacksmith's chisel for cutting hot iron.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, Macpherson stood just outside the door, holding a cold chisel which he had taken from a dungaree pocket […] and there Mr. Willison found him.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: A narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc.
sporting house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporting houses
Senses: glosses: A brothel.
Related terms: sporting girl
sporting woman
sporting lady
instill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: instills
form: instilling
form: instilled
form: instilled
form: instil
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin instillō.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
synonyms: impress
ingrain
din
implant
infix
glosses: To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
glosses: To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
Derived terms: instillment
reinstill
uninstilled
Related terms: indoctrinate
infuse
inculcate
cribbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪbɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crib
cribbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪbɪŋ
Forms: form: cribbings
Senses: glosses: The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
examples: text: After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.
text: US Army Corps of Engineers site
If the structure is to be raised in place without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing.
glosses: As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
glosses: The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
qualifier: ethology
glosses: A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
examples: text: […] cribbings from Leonardo's notebooks […]
ref: 1976, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Drawing Now (issue 2, page 19)
glosses: An act of plagiarism.
catherinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catherinettes
Senses: examples: text: And then again, on 25 November, Saint Catherine's Day (Saint Catherine is of course the patron saint of unmarried women), the done thing was to get hold of a catherinette, an unmarried girl of twenty-five or over, to drag her of to the rue de Cléry, to borrow a stepladder from the bistro opposite the statuse of Saint Catherine (they were quite used to lending it!), and get the girl to climb up and offer the statue a bunch of flowers you'd thoughtfully bought beforehand, giggling the while.
ref: 1980, Robert Doisneau, Photographs, page 16:
text: If no marriage had been concluded by the age of twenty-five, the young woman became a "catherinette" and soon a spinster.
ref: 1995, Christa Hämmerle, Plurality and individuality:
text: Obviously a girl can be a catherinette only once in her lifetime; it's always beautiful and a little sad, like one's first love.
ref: 2009, Ruth Reichl, Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, →ISBN:
text: The card thus presents a conundrum: is she a modiste making her way in the world of work through the needle trades, or is she a catherinette, whose principal ambition is to wed?
ref: 2017, Masha Belenky, Kathryn Kleppinger, Anne O’Neil-Henry, French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Alternative form of Catherinette.
clems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clem
clems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clem
clem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: clems
form: clemming
form: clemmed
form: clemmed
form: clam
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *clemmen, *clammen, from Old English clemman, clæmman (“to press, surround”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“to squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch klemmen (“to jam, pinch, stick”), German klemmen (“to jam, clamp; to be stuck, stick [to a surface]”).
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Here he's back home again, and without work, and without a penny, and thou knows t' little one and I were pretty well clemmed to death when thou got us a bit o' bread and meat last night. We were that!"
ref: 1889, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Between Two Loves, Ch. VI, p. 110:
text: Who are half clemmed from year’s end to year’s end, and see no close to it, no hope, no finish but the pauper’s deals!
ref: 1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “IX. Old Things”, in The Great House:
glosses: To be hungry; starve.
clem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: clems
Etymology: From Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, equivalent to cloam. Similar linguistic development led to the Northumbrian pronunciation of hyem, equivalent to the RP home.
Senses: qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: A brick or stone.
qualifier: chiefly Hartlepool; plural clem; chiefly Hartlepool; plural clem
glosses: One stone (unit of mass).
glosses: A testicle.
Synonyms: clemmy
clem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: clems
form: clemming
form: clemmed
form: clemmed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clam (“to adhere”).
mixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪksɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: He is mixing the paint.
glosses: present participle and gerund of mix
mixing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪksɪŋ
Forms: form: mixings
Senses: examples: text: No two mixings of these paints are ever the same.
glosses: The act, or the result of making a mixture.
Derived terms: antimixing
bandmixing
beat mixing
biomixing
code mixing
code-mixing
convective mixing time
free mixing
macromixing
micromixing
mixing board
mixing bowl
mixing console
mixing desk
mixing time
nonmixing
phenotypic mixing
race mixing
race-mixing
mixing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪksɪŋ
Forms: form: more mixing
form: most mixing
Senses: examples: text: A strictly stationary and mixing process with finite expectation satisfies a Law of Large Numbers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of a stochastic process, to be asymptotically independent (in a precise mathematical sense).
Derived terms: mixingness
Related terms: ergodic
borrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔrəwɪŋ/
Etymology: From borrow + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She is borrowing my pen.
glosses: present participle and gerund of borrow
qualifier: crime
glosses: Shoplifting.
borrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔrəwɪŋ/
Forms: form: borrowings
Etymology: From borrow + -ing.
Senses: examples: January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
glosses: An instance of something being borrowed.
examples: text: Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking this statement comes straight from the latest UKIP manifesto, it is in fact a quotation from The Anglish Moot, a fan-page promoting the use of the 'Anglish' language — that is, English with all foreign borrowings stripped away.
ref: 2017 March 25, Lili Bidwell, “Anglish: A Brexiteer’s lingua franca?”, in The Cambridge Student, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2021:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
Derived terms: borrowing card
false borrowing
learned borrowing
pseudo-borrowing
reborrowing
semantic borrowing
semi-learned borrowing
defatigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈfætɪɡəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more defatigable
form: most defatigable
Etymology: From Latin defatigatus, past participle of defatigare (“to tire or weary”).
Senses: examples: text: The author wishes to acknowledge the help of his peerful editor, Fredrica Friedman, and his defatigable researcher, Susan Hall, as well as that of his severest critic, P. Bear.
ref: 2001, Cleveland Amory, The Cat Who Came for Christmas:
glosses: Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued.
wikipedia: physical fitness
Derived terms: undefatigable
councilwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councilwomen
Etymology: From council + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: When it was the defense’s turn to try to rebut the prosecution’s case, lawyers for Mr. James called just two witnesses [—] two former councilwomen who tried to bolster the assertion of Mr. James that he could not approve property sales unilaterally.
ref: 2008 April 17, Jonathan Miller and Richard G. Jones, “Ex-Newark Mayor Convicted of Fraud”, in The New York Times:
text: A New York City councilwoman was charged with assault after a heated protest at the Brooklyn site of a proposed men’s homeless shelter at which, the authorities say, she bit a police chief.
ref: 2024 July 17, Hurubie Meko and Nate Schweber, “City Councilwoman Is Charged With Biting Police Chief During Protest”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A female member of a council, especially a city council.
Hypernyms: councilmember
councilman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councilmen
Etymology: From council + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Ford, a former captain in the Navy Reserves and a management consultant, and Ms. Pfeifer are often at odds with the three councilmen over policy issues.
ref: 2011 October 1, Zusha Elinson, “A Hand Slap Resounds in Sausalito”, in The New York Times:
text: Council says the mayor and a former councilman may have engaged in a "quid pro quo." / […] / Council says, according to a handwritten note, Fey offered to support a pay raise for Mayor Ellis if Ellis would support a raise or a job appointment for Fey's wife, Gina.
ref: 2019 March 4, “Phillipsburg council calls for new investigation of alleged quid pro quo”, in 69 News:
glosses: A male member of a council, especially a city council.
Hypernyms: councilor
councillor
councilmember
Derived terms: councilmanic
councilmanship
councilmanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From councilman + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The next and perhaps the most important question raised by the appeal of plaintiff, is as to the method of ascertaining the net amount of councilmanic debt outstanding, or that which has been created without the consent of the electors.
ref: 1916, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Pennsylvania State Reports, page 36:
text: THERE was a string band on the Councilor, made up of cabin and dining-room boys who could play mandolin and guitar. It always played in the evenings […] one complete bar of “Dardanella.” Smiles were wiped from every councilmanic face.
ref: 1921, Adventure, page 125:
text: 1969 October, Pennsylvania History vol 36 No 4: The Socialists of Reading Pennsylvania and World War I — A Question of Loyalty, Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.
In the Reading, Pennsylvania, councilmanic elections of 1917 […]
text: In the event the county council shall fail to adopt a plan for the division of McMinn County into five (5) councilmanic districts or divisions as set forth above, the districts shall be identical with the five (5) civil and school districts in existence ...
ref: 1980, Private Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the General Assembly, Tennessee:
text: Councillor Yancey has found a reliable ally in Councillor Saunders. […] Blacks in Boston are victimized by persistent councilmanic nondecision making.
ref: 2000, William E. Nelson, Black Atlantic Politics: Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a councilman or councilwoman; pertaining to a (municipal or other) councilor, particularly to the district they represent.
privy council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privy councils
Etymology: From Middle English prive (“secret, private, confidential”) + counseil.
Senses: glosses: A body of advisers to a sovereign, functioning much as a cabinet.
Derived terms: privy councillor
she-devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-devils
Etymology: From she- + devil.
Senses: examples: text: In order to exorcise this she-devil, the attendants made circles on the walls with charcoal, within each was written: "Adam, Eve, Lilas, avaunt!"
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 114:
glosses: A female devil (as opposed to a he-devil, male devil).
examples: text: Monsieur Margot groaned. “Go, then, my friend,” said he, “procure the ladder! Oh, those she devils!—what could make me such a fool!”
ref: 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XVI, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: A woman whose bad temper, cruelty or wicked ways are so extreme as to evoke an image of the devil.
Synonyms: sense: female devil
word: deviless
sense: bad-tempered woman
word: shrew
siddhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siddhis
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिद्धि (siddhi).
Senses: qualifier: tantric Buddhism
glosses: spiritual power or psychic ability
arsenical bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenical bronzes
Senses: examples: text: Oetzi the Iceman's axe was of arsenical bronze.
glosses: A natural and artificial alloy of copper containing a small amount of arsenic, that oxidates less than pure copper and was widely used during the chalcolithic period.
Synonyms: arsenical copper
Marseillaise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː.seɪˈjɛz/
ipa: /mɑːɹseɪˈjɛz/
Forms: form: the Marseillaise
Etymology: Borrowed from French Marseillaise.
Senses: glosses: The French national anthem, La Marseillaise, with at least seven verses plus the chorus.
Mondayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Monday + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I hope to have the job finished by Mondayish.
glosses: On or around Monday.
Mondayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mondayish
form: most Mondayish
Etymology: From Monday + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder if on this Monday morning all the world is rested? No, no! Many of the best people of the world feel Mondayish. They overdid the Sunday and had no rest.
ref: 1798, Thomas De Witt Talmadge, Around the Tea-table:
text: He loses the robustness and vigor of his physical frame, so that after preaching twice on the Sabbath, he feels Mondayish, and perhaps Tuesdayish.
ref: 1846, Annual Report of the American Tract Society, volumes 21-25, page 9:
glosses: feeling ill, especially used of clergymen having worked all day Sunday
examples: text: You all know that my work on the Sabbath day is very hard, and I used to think that I was entitled to something good after the labors of the day, and generally took a stiff glass of brandy and water. I did this, as I thought, to strengthen me, but I invariably passed a restless night, was always Mondayish, and felt unfit for anything; but since I have given up the brandy and water, I feel as well on Monday morning as I did on Saturday night.
ref: 1839, James Miller, Alcohol; it's place and power:
text: As an ordinary drinker, he always used to find it necessary to have a glass of something as a night-cap, and then he always woke up in the morning hot and feverish, and Mondayish. That word Mondayish would be banished out of the language if they would only banish alcohol.
ref: c. 1862, “Total Abstinence for ministers”, in Journal of the American Temperance Union:
glosses: hungover after a weekend of drinking (as a presumed contributing explanation for a clergyman feeling Mondayish)
examples: text: I feel a bit Mondayish this week at the start of a long project.
glosses: grumpy and disheartened on returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
Derived terms: Mondayishness
Related terms: Mondayitis
Monday-morning feeling
fruitfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitfulnesses
Etymology: From fruitful + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: productiveness
fertility
fecundity
glosses: The state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.
fruitfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fruitfully
form: most fruitfully
Etymology: From fruitful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fruitful manner; productively.
productiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From productive + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: productivity
glosses: The state of being productive.
productively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more productively
form: most productively
Etymology: From productive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a productive manner.
Derived terms: unproductively
nulla nulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nulla nullas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nulla-nulla.
z.l.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: A transliteration of Hebrew ז״ל (Z.L.).
Senses: examples: text: Yitzhak Rabin (z"l) was a warrior turned peace-maker.
glosses: Of blessed memory, may he/she/they rest in peace; used after a reference to one or more people who died.
housebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housebreakings
Etymology: From house + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: breaking and entering
text: The accused was charged with housebreaking and theft.
coordinate_terms: shopbreaking
glosses: The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.
housebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From house + breaking.
Senses: qualifier: animal training
glosses: present participle and gerund of housebreak
Related terms: housebreaker