cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tomfool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomfools
Etymology: From tom + fool.
Senses: glosses: A silly or stupid person, especially a boy or man.
glosses: Any of various tyrant flycatchers viewed as foolishly confiding.
Derived terms: tomfoolery
tomfool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tom + fool.
Senses: glosses: Silly or stupid.
tomfool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tomfools
form: tomfooling
form: tomfooled
form: tomfooled
Etymology: From tom + fool.
Senses: glosses: To act foolishly.
out of whack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of whack
form: most out of whack
form: out-of-whack
Senses: examples: text: In its hearty directness, “Winner” suggests that being mad as hell at a system that’s out of whack is as American as Hollywood itself.
ref: 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Wrong, broken; specifically
examples: Our priorities have gotten out of whack.
glosses: Wrong, broken; specifically:
Not in proper balance; unbalanced.
examples: The floor is so out of whack that the door hits it when opened.
glosses: Wrong, broken; specifically:
Not in proper alignment.
examples: My banged-up left knee is out of whack.
glosses: Wrong, broken; specifically:
Not working or operating properly.
Related terms: out of true
wartime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/
Forms: form: wartimes
form: war time
Etymology: From war + time.
Senses: examples: text: But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.
ref: 2002 April 29, Norman Pearlstine, “A Month Of Mondays If that doesn't give you the blues, nothing will. Norman Pearlstine ranks his favorite versions of the classic "Stormy Monday Blues"--one for every doggone working day of the month.”, in CNN Money:
text: Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
ref: 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
glosses: A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
Derived terms: nonwartime
prewartime
wartime footing
wartime house
whetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: wetted
Senses: examples: text: Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46:
glosses: Having undergone the process of whetting; sharpened or honed.
examples: text: The inside of a valve has whetted parts constructed of corrosion-resistant material.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid.
whetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: wetted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whet
run-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from run off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of runoff.
examples: text: Twelve laps later, Leclerc locked up at the first chicane and clattered over the run-off area. Again, Hamilton got a run on him, and this time Leclerc defended robustly through the flat-out Curva Grande, moving very late to block Hamilton to the Ferrari's left.
ref: 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A run-off area; a paved area around the track at a spot that drivers are likely to go off, as opposed to a gravel trap, grass or a barrier.
gaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪbi/
rhymes: -eɪbi
homophone: gayby
Forms: form: gabies
form: gabey
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: I daresay I made a gaby of myself to the world
ref: 1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, chapter 1, in Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC:
text: His wrath, then, was proportionately violent when he was aware of two boys, who stopped close by him, and one of whom, a fat gaby of a fellow, pointed at him and called him "Young mammy-sick!"
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
text: "[Y]ou're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:
text: "You pair of gabeys!" she exclaimed. "You'll see him before the night's out."
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
synonyms: guffin
nincompoop
fool
glosses: A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.
unselfish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unselfish
form: most unselfish
Etymology: From un- + selfish.
Senses: examples: text: The man was in an unselfish mood that day, so decided to give a £20 note to the next charity he came across.
text: There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve. It did not accord with the rationality of plan, the moderation in expense, or even the unselfish warmth of heart, which she had believed herself to discern in him yesterday.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 114:
synonyms: selfless
generous
altruistic
glosses: Not selfish.
Synonyms: altruistic
generous
selfless
bluejacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluejackings
Etymology: Blend of Bluetooth + hijacking
Senses: glosses: The act, practice, or activity of sending anonymous text messages to a mobile phone using Bluetooth.
bluejacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of Bluetooth + hijacking
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bluejack
out-of-whack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of whack.
anamorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anamorphoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναμόρφωσις (anamórphōsis).
Senses: glosses: A distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
glosses: The use of this kind of image distortion.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods.
topics: biology
botany
lichenology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: An abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species.
Derived terms: anamorphoscope
euanamorphosis
hemianamorphosis
teloanamorphosis
Related terms: anamorphic
bluejackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluejacking
analysis paralysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralysis by analysis
Etymology: From analysis + paralysis.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being unable to make a decision due to the availability of too much information which must be processed in order for the decision to be made.
Related terms: extinction by instinct
Dopp kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dopp kits
form: dopp kit
Etymology: From the name of Charles Doppelt, a leatherworker.
Senses: glosses: A small leather bag containing a man's grooming tools, such as razor, shaving cream, comb, nail clippers, scissors, toothbrush, toothpaste, and cologne
Synonyms: sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: washbag
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: toilet bag
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: toiletry bag
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: toiletry kit
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: ditty bag
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: bathroom kit
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: sponge bag
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: toilet kit
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: travel kit
sense: small leather bag for toiletry supplies
word: wet pack
paper fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper fights
Senses: glosses: A play fight using balled-up paper as missiles.
clear view screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clear view screens
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A circular disc of plate glass, set into the screen of a ship's bridge and spun at high speed by an electric motor in heavy rain or snow; it offers a clear view forward.
clipper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clippers
form: clippering
form: clippered
form: clippered
Etymology: From Middle English clipper, equivalent to clip (“cut, shorten”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). The type of sailing ship is probably also from clip, in the sense of “move or run rapidly”. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper (“swift horse”), from kleppen (“to clap”), which is onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Rocks was having his hair clippered by another prisoner when Collins calmly walked past and sliced open the side of his face without breaking his stride.
ref: 2020 November 16, Dave Finlay, “Killer sliced open inmate's face while serving life for murdering dad and cutting up body”, in Glasgow Live:
glosses: To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
Related terms: Clipper chip
clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪpɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of clipper
clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪpɚz/
Senses: examples: text: TAI: One time I was using some clippers to trim downstairs and I totally caught my labia.
ref: 2010, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1697: Whoa Ooh Ahh Oww:
glosses: A tool for clipping something.
close quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkləʊs ˈkwɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: close quarters
Etymology: Originally closed quarter (“section or area”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: any of several strong wooden barriers erected across the deck of a merchant sailing ship, having loopholes through which muskets could be fired to resist boarding attacks
Related terms: close quarters
clove hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clove hitches
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a bend formed by two half hitches in the same direction, used to make a line fast to a spar or to a larger rope; it will not slip
Related terms: constrictor knot
club haul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: club hauls
form: club hauling
form: club hauled
form: club hauled
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To tack a square-rigged sailing ship in a narrow space by using a lee anchor to turn the ship.
clump block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clump blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A thick, strong single block.
choke the luff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chokes the luff
form: choking the luff
form: choked the luff
form: choked the luff
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To temporarily stop the movement of a rope through a block by jamming the sheave with the hauling rope; a pull on the rope releases it.
chubasco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tʃuːˈbɑːskəʊ/
Forms: form: chubascos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chubasco (“downpour”), from Portuguese chuva (“rain”), from Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A violent squall with thunder and lightning, encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Central America and South America.
clap on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: claps on
form: clapping on
form: clapped on
form: clapped on
Senses: examples: text: We spring out of our berths, clap on a monkey-jacket and south-wester, and tumble up the ladder.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To temporarily add something to an existing part, especially to add an additional sail to take advantage of a fair wind.
glosses: To encourage by (or as if by) applauding.
examples: text: […] clapping on about having to live on a small income because of her son's lack of ambition.
ref: 2020, Dorothy Cannell, Murder at Mullings:
glosses: To talk at tedious length; to whinge.
glosses: To decide to make a concerted effort to do something; to operate with dedication and vigor.
claw off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: claws off
form: clawing off
form: clawed off
form: clawed off
Senses: examples: text: The tiger clawed off her face.
glosses: To remove by clawing.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To beat to windward to avoid being driven on to a lee shore.
glosses: To hit or beat up (someone).
daimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌɪməʊn/
ipa: /ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/
Forms: form: daimons
form: daimones
Etymology: A modern romanization of Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “the one who divides, dispenser, tutelary deity”), intended to distinguish its ancient Greek sense from later conceptions of demons. Compare Ancient Greek Λᾰκεδαίμων (Lăkedaímōn, “Laconian dispenser”).
Senses: examples: text: Love, as we know it in the book, is a daimon which possesses and undoes each of its victims.
ref: 1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16:
glosses: Synonym of demon, particularly as
synonyms: word: demon
word: particularly as
examples: text: All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.
ref: 1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXV, number CCCLXXXVII, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC, page 121:
text: The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.
ref: 1891, W[alter] J[ames] Hoffman, The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 163:
text: Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.
ref: 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy: And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, book I, chapter 27:
text: He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
ref: 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, “Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America”, in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, volume 1, number 1, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of demon, particularly as
A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place.
Derived terms: daimonic
daimonology
Related terms: agathodaimon
daimonian
eudaimon
kakodaimon
lee shore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lee shores
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shore towards which the wind is blowing, and to which there is the danger of being driven.
God works in mysterious ways
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Possibly originating from a poem by William Cowper (who lived 1731–1800), whose first stanza reads: God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea / And rides upon the storm.
Senses: glosses: Expressing confidence that a conundrum has a solution despite it not being apparent.
examples: Person A: It seems that I'm about to be fired from my job.
Person B: Well, God works in mysterious ways — maybe it'll be the kick you need to apply to university...
glosses: Commenting that a seemingly unfortunate or unfavourable situation or change may be beneficial later or in the long run.
Synonyms: sense: a situation may be beneficial later
word: every cloud has a silver lining
sense: a situation may be beneficial later
word: blessing in disguise
claw ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claw rings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A fitting on the boom of a yacht to take the main sheet when roller reefing is used.
clean slate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean slates
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A slate on which the courses steered by a ship (and distances run) were recorded, but have been wiped clean after being entered in the log at the end of a watch.
glosses: A fresh start.
Derived terms: start with a clean slate
Related terms: wipe the slate clean
blank slate
coach horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coach horses
Senses: glosses: A horse that draws a coach.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A member of the crew who rowed the admiral's barge or a state barge
coachwhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a form of decorative square sennit work used for covering stanchions
coak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊk/
ipa: /ˈkoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
homophone: coke
homophone: Coke
Forms: form: coaks
Etymology: Uncertain. The 1933 Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible relation to an Old French cognate of Italian cocca (“notch”), to English cock or to coak, caulk ("drive oakum between planks"), "all referring to the fitting of a projection into a notch, indentation, or hollow".
Senses: glosses: A wooden dowel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The brass bearing in the sheave of a block.
coak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊk/
ipa: /ˈkoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
homophone: coke
homophone: Coke
Forms: form: coaks
form: coaking
form: coaked
form: coaked
Etymology: Uncertain. The 1933 Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible relation to an Old French cognate of Italian cocca (“notch”), to English cock or to coak, caulk ("drive oakum between planks"), "all referring to the fitting of a projection into a notch, indentation, or hollow".
Senses: examples: text: The orlop clamps and shelfpieces are then worked, and the beams and half beams placed thereon, these are coaked and bolted thereto[…]
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia:
glosses: To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
coak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊk/
ipa: /ˈkoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
homophone: coke
homophone: Coke
Forms: form: coaks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of coke (“coal fuel”).
coastal motor boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coastal motor boats
form: CMB
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a small warship used in the Royal Navy during the First World War that carried torpedoes, mines or depth charges.
CMB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMBs
Senses: glosses: Coastal motor boat.
glosses: Cosmic microwave background.
impostors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impostor
cobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cob + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cob
cobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobbings
Etymology: From cob + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Previous to the infliction of cobbing, or booting, the delinquent is fairly tried by a court, consisting of–a president, the oldest soldier; members, next two oldest soldiers, youngest soldier, next youngest soldier.
ref: 1846, Henry Marshall, Military Miscellany, page 156:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: prison
glosses: an unofficial form of punishment among the crew or prisoners involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood or a handsaw.
examples: text: It is, therefore, always so arranged that the dressing progresses gradually through all the operations, beginning in the mine and ending with the cobbing, or, as the case may be. with the concentration.
ref: 1868, Guido Küstel, A Treatise on Concentration of All Kinds of Ores, page 28:
text: To-day, however, cobbing is still an important operation, carried out with a three-fold purpose: first, to separate pure masses of different minerals from one another and from adhereing pieces of gangue, preparing them at once for the market with qa minimum loss from comminution; secondly, to separate several classes of crussing ores according to the predominance of one or the other of the different minerals they contains; and lastly, to produce a classification according to the nature of the gangue.
ref: 1884, Wheaton Bradish Kunhardt, The Practice of Ore Dressing in Europe, page 19:
text: Wheeler provides greater detail on ore treatment, such as traditional cobbing and sorting methods.
ref: 2018, Hailian Chen, Zinc for Coin and Brass, page 458:
topics: business
mining
glosses: The manual separation of minerals in ore using a hammer.
examples: text: In America, Canada, and Central Europe, for example, snow lies feet deep on the ground in the winter, and the summers are sufficiently hot to enable maize to be grown successfully for cobbing,
ref: 1955, Sir Enoch Bruce Levy, Grasslands of New Zealand, page 64:
text: There were highly significant differences in percent cobbing between the two fertilizer levels, with the unfertilized treatment producing significantly more cobs than the fertilized treatment.
ref: 1995, Maize research for stress environments, page 50:
text: Symptom is stunting of plant, premature wilting of leaves, chlorotic stripes on young leaves, leaf purpling, excessive tillering and cobbing and formation of barren cobs.
ref: 2020, A. Solaimalai, P. Anantharaju, S. Irulandi, Maize Crop:
glosses: The production of cobs.
Arachne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹækni/
Etymology: From Latin Arachnē, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A woman famous for her skill at weaving. She was changed into a spider by the goddess Athena.
Related terms: arachnid
Goliath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlaɪəθ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גָּלְיָת (golyāṯ).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A giant who, according to the Bible, was vanquished in battle with King David.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: David-and-Goliath
Goliath frog
Goliath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlaɪəθ/
Forms: form: Goliaths
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גָּלְיָת (golyāṯ).
Senses: examples: text: That Goliath is so big and strong, the little man will never stand a chance against him if he on his wrong side.
text: The whisky category is a Goliath within the drinks industry.
glosses: Any large person or thing; someone or something that is abnormally large or powerful.
glosses: A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 27 liters, equivalent to 36 standard bottles.
Beltway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Extended from beltway (“freeway encircling a city”); compare also highway.
Senses: glosses: A 64-mile Interstate freeway surrounding Washington, D.C.
qualifier: mostly local usage
glosses: The expressway that surrounds another city.
examples: text: But given that it takes 60 votes to beat a filibuster and 66 to override a veto, and given that the GOP has since added four hard-right senators to its total, it’s safe to say that nothing will be happening inside the Beltway anytime soon.
ref: 2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones:
text: While not the entirety of the reason why the Beltway struggles to shed its imperial hubris and adapt to the new multipolar world, (much of that is simply complacency) understanding democratism’s hold over the governing elite is vital for explaining the unique hostility found in so much of foreign policy commentary towards a soberer and more realistic appraisal of the world.
ref: 2023 April 17, Christopher Mott, “The Democratist War on Diplomacy”, in The National Interest:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The US federal government and policy and lobbying organizations, located in Washington, D.C.
Derived terms: Beltway bandit
inside-the-Beltway
outside the Beltway
Beltway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Beltway
form: most Beltway
Etymology: Extended from beltway (“freeway encircling a city”); compare also highway.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently wishing to go Beltway in a big way, the Gap reportedly solicited Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos and media adviser Mandy Grunwald to pose for ads, but were turned down.
ref: 1993 January 6, Mark Feeney, “Impeach me tender”, in Boston Globe, page 28:
text: In a typical indictment, one columnist recently called some piece of Washington policymaking "too secret, too expert, too Beltway."
ref: 1997, Kurt Finsterbusch, Annual Editions: Sociology, 97-98:
text: 2002 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/nochild/lemann.html
Your New Yorker article posed the question, "Can the president's education crusade survive Beltway politics?"
text: And wouldn't you know, the real-life Dean, in a real-life debate, used a line the show's writers had proposed for him. Nothing more Beltway than that.
ref: 2003 September 21, Howard Fineman, “Dean: Not Just A New-School Kinda Guy”, in Newsweek:
text: Then he went Beltway and started rooting for the Orioles.
ref: 2003 July 8, “Unabomber Manifesto - an excerpt”, in sci.astro (Usenet):
glosses: Of or relating to the culture of Washington, D.C.; politicized.
Related terms: K Street
adrenal artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenal arteries
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An artery in the human abdomen that supplies blood to the adrenal glands.
dietary indiscretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietary indiscretions
Senses: glosses: The act, especially among animals, of eating things that should not be eaten, such as metal or plastic objects.
after-discovered evidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: "After-discovered evidence that a cap...identified as belonging to the accused who was convicted, belonged to another...who had a similar gun, motive and opportunity, and admitted to several that he had committed the crime, held ground for a new trial." Hines v. Commonwealth. June 14, 1923. p. 365 §4
topics: law
glosses: Evidence discovered after a legal decision has been reached. A party may attempt to have the decision reversed using this evidence. They must first prove that the evidence could not have been discovered until after the decision was reached.
Synonyms: word: newly-discovered evidence
airplane mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airplane modes
Senses: synonyms: flight mode
aeroplane mode
coordinate_terms: vibrate mode
silent mode
glosses: A feature of some cellular phones and computers that disables the radio, thus precluding any interference with avionics and allowing the phone's stand-alone features (such as its games or scheduler) to be used safely in environments requiring minimal radio interference.
allelomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allelomorphs
Etymology: From allelo- (“other”) + -morph (“shape”), from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”). Coined by English biologists William Bateson and by Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Senses: examples: text: In such cases each member acts as the allelomorph of any other member, and only two can occur in any one female, and only one in any male.
ref: 1916, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila, page 11:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of allele.
synonyms: word: allele
Derived terms: allelomorphic
allelomorphism
altar wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altar wines
Senses: glosses: A particular type of wine produced for ritual consumption during the Roman Catholic Mass.
Anirban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bengali অনির্বাণ (onirban), from Sanskrit अनिर्वाण (anirvāṇa), meaning an eternal or inextinguishable flame (of life), from Sanskrit अ- (a-, “un-”) + निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “dying”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Bengali, one of the most common names found among Bengalis.
après ski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French après ski.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of après-ski.
Ariana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑːɹiˈænə/
Etymology: Modern simplification of Arianna, Ariane and Arianne, all forms of the Greek name Ariadne ("most holy"; Cretan Greek αρι (ari) "most" and αδνος (adnos) "holy"). There has been some confusion with the similar sounding Adriana and Adrienne.
* By folk etymology also associated with Welsh arian (“silver”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Ariana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑːɹiˈænə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Ariāna, from Ancient Greek Ἀριανή (Arianḗ).
Senses: glosses: a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of ancient period for a district of wide extent between Central Asia and the Indus River, comprehending the eastern provinces of the Achaemenid Empire that covered entire modern-day Afghanistan, east and southeast of Iran, Tajikistan and northwestern Pakistan
arse about face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: arse-about-face
form: arse about front
form: arse about tip
form: arse about tit
Senses: examples: text: No wonder it doesn't look right mate, you've got the whole thing arse about face.
text: It’s absurd, topsy-turvy, arse-about-face. But shit, nonetheless, demands a reading, and vice versa.
ref: 2003, Ian Sansom, The Truth About Babies: From A-Z, Granta, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Someone blows a hole in the head of the owner a couple of places along the Gap and nobody seems to give a shit. Fucking arse about face this fucking place.
ref: 2004, Mick Lee, Scream If You Want To Go Faster, Authors On Line Ltd, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Like we didn't move here for my job, we came here (for ...) to become a student and study for a degree and it's arse about face. We tend to do things in an arse-about-face way no matter how hard we try. And I, at the risk of being hopelessly inarticulate I like the arse about face-ness of the LETS system.
ref: 2006, Peter North, quoting an anonymous member of a local currency scheme, “Self-Analysis: Do Members see LETS as a Social Movement?”, in Alternative Currency Movements As A Challenge To Globalisation?: A Case Study of Manchester's Local Currency Networks, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, Part II Manchester's Alternative Currency Networks, page 99:
text: We've got it so arse about face in modern society.
ref: 2010, Sean Gallacher, The Eskimo, page 27:
glosses: Placed or arranged the opposite way to the way it should be.
examples: text: Use them to inpregnant^([sic]) a woman: muddle up past and future, in-breed across time-zones, turn the family tree into a tangled bush, roots and shoots all arse about face.
ref: 2006, Liz Jensen, Egg Dancing, page 212:
glosses: Arranged in a confused or haphazard way; muddled.
arse about face
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: arse-about-face
form: arse about front
form: arse about tip
form: arse about tit
Senses: examples: text: We've been looking at it arse about face.
ref: 2005, Sam Smith, The End of Science Fiction, page 179:
text: ‘Look, Mary. That chap is sitting arse about face. He's having a laugh. He can't be serious.’
‘Don't be so critical, George. More than likely it's his first time on a horse.’
ref: 2011, Russell Shaw, Easy: A Dogs Life, page 54:
text: What was it about Charlie Resnick that made him so special? With his shirt still crumpled from the wash and his tie knotted arse-about-face.
ref: 2011, John Harvey, Rough Treatment, page 31:
glosses: In a manner that is opposite to or the reverse of the way it should be, backwards.
examples: text: Meanwhile the Law, as usual, tumbles arse about face: the killings multiply; the cops are clueless and duly arrest the wrong man.
ref: 2005, John Orr, Hitchcock and 20th Century Cinema, page 67:
glosses: In a confused or haphazard manner.
arthropodologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: arthropodologists
Etymology: From arthropod + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies arthropods.
Related terms: arachnidologist
crustaceologist
big lug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big lugs
Etymology: Emphatic form of lug (“large man”).
Senses: glosses: A man with a large, strong physique but a gentle personality.
borganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/
Forms: form: borganisms
Etymology: The word and concept are derived from the Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.
Senses: synonyms: superorganism
glosses: An organization of autonomous organisms that exhibit collectivism: individual "units" that have merged to yield a unified construct and may have a collective consciousness.
topics: government
literature
media
politics
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Some forms of government.
box out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boxes out
form: boxing out
form: boxed out
form: boxed out
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To position oneself between an opposition player and the basket in anticipation of getting a rebound.
glosses: To arrange a situation so as to exclude (someone).
bulk liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulk liquids
Senses: examples: text: Vegetable oils and fish oils are common bulk liquids.
glosses: A liquid that undergoes commercial transportation in large volumes, usually not including petroleum products. For example, in many regions, milk from dairies is often transported in a tanker truck rather than a truckload of milk churns.
camiknickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæm.əˌnɪk.əz/
Etymology: Blend of camisole + knickers. The term was coined in the 1920s when camiknickers were introduced as a briefer garment than combinations. The garment reappeared in the lingerie market in the 1990s under the name teddy or body.
Senses: glosses: A women's undergarment covering the torso, worn for example under short dresses or slacks.
Synonyms: teddy
body
casita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈsiːtə/
/kɑˈsiːtə/
Forms: form: casitas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish casita (literally “small house”).
Senses: examples: text: Last fall, construction began on the new spa building with […] about 30 two-bedroom, free-standing casitas.
ref: 2007 May 11, Nick Kaye, “Icon Vallarta and Pronghorn”, in New York Times:
text: AARP, the research and advocacy behemoth, has begun aggressively promoting the spread of these units, often referred to as casitas or, more cheekily, granny flats.
ref: [2023 September 6, Michelle Cottle, “The Magic of the Granny Flat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment.
Synonyms: mother-in-law apartment
granny annexe
charge hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge hands
form: charge-hand
Senses: glosses: deputy to a foreman in a factory
churmuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From East India, typical in West Bengal.
Senses: glosses: A light snack food made from puffed rice seasoned with onions, spices, pepper, etc.
circuit slugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuit sluggers
Senses: examples: text: Gil Hodges became the greatest circuit slugger ever to wear Dodger flannels.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A talented baseball batter who hits home runs.
code block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code blocks
form: code-block
form: codeblock
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A block of source code, often one that is delimited by brackets or in some similar way, depending on the programming language.
qualifier: coding theory
glosses: A string, usually of a certain specific length, of characters, which have been encoded and transmitted to a receiver.
Related terms: programmer's block
scope
completist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːtɪst/
Forms: form: completists
Etymology: From complete + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: completist - A dope who tries to have a complete collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during one's incumbency in some office. […]
ref: [1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Completist:
text: Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist.
ref: 1953 Winter, William "Bob" Tucker, “The Philadelphia Story”, in Science Fiction Newsletter, number 28, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2019, page 13:
text: There's no new material on it, just previously issued bits and pieces. That rules out the completist collector. Go figure.
ref: 1997 June, Harvey Pekar, “CD Reviews”, in JazzTimes, →ISSN, pages 120–121:
text: But it’s even harder for me, because… I am a completist. Once I start reading an author’s work, I need to read everything that writer has written. I can’t veer away. I need to check all that author’s books off my mental list. My knowledge of their work must be complete.
ref: 2008 June 21, Matt Selman, “The Completist”, in Time:
text: But in conversations with people who listen at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists. That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to.
ref: 2017 November 12, Doree Shafrir, “Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds”, in BuzzFeed News:
text: Then a bunch of commercially cynical books […] designed to capitalize on the wise-man status that his death conferred and (in my case successfully) to separate Wallace completists from their money.
ref: 2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
glosses: A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.
examples: text: A completist philosopher holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered.
glosses: A person who champions any philosophy which focuses on the completeness of something.
completist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːtɪst/
Forms: form: more completist
form: most completist
Etymology: From complete + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The completist collector of Conan will want not only all the Conan paperbacks, but also those about Conan or using the name Conan to promote sales of other books by Robert E. Howard.
ref: 1982 Spring, Charlotte Laughlin, “Conan in Paperback”, in Paperback Quarterly, volume 5, number 1, page 21:
text: The company decided to include every scrap of recorded material, no matter how insignificant. Sometime excerpts were only a few seconds long, with the recording cut off by Parker, the recording engineer, or the producer following a false start, technical problem, or other blatant error. No matter—every flub was issued, available for scrutiny. This completist philosophy was subsequently extended to Parker's other two record companies, Dial and Verve, as well as to his live performances, often captured on amateur equipment in informal settings.
ref: 2013, Henry Martin, Keith Waters, “Jazz Since the 1980s”, in Essential Jazz, →ISBN, pages 215–216:
text: Many collectors have a strong interest in particular artists or genres of music, often combining these with a general collection, but taking a more completist approach.
ref: 2013 November, Roy Shuker, Popular Music Fandom, →ISBN, Record Collecting and Fandom, page 173:
glosses: Which attempts to collect something completely.
Related terms: completism
completionist
completist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːtɪst/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of completest.
computer technician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computer technicians
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who repairs computers, typically both hardware and software.
Related terms: information systems technician
system administrator
technical support
eventide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːvənˌtaɪd/
Forms: form: eventides
Etymology: From Middle English eventyde, from Old English ǣfentīd, derived from ǣfen (“evening”) + tīd (“time”). By surface analysis, even + -tide.
Senses: examples: text: The mist rises from the lake at eventide.
synonyms: word: eve#Noun
word: even#Noun
word: forenight#Noun
word: een
word: eve
word: even
word: evening
word: eventide
word: eveningtide
word: eveningtime
word: evetime
word: forenight
word: undern
word: vesper
word: vespertide
hypernyms: tide#Noun
time#Noun
coordinate_terms: noontide#Noun
morningtide#Noun
glosses: Evening.
Derived terms: eventide home
Related terms: evenstar
cultist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌltɪst/
Forms: form: cultists
Etymology: From cult + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of a cult.
Derived terms: anticultist
counter-cultist
death cultist
multicultist
Qultist
mercy-killing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mercy killing.
rarefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rarefactions
Etymology: From Middle French raréfaction. By surface analysis, rarefy + -faction.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his ſeal'd vial, being broken under water, ſuck'd in a conſiderable quantity of it, whether, becauſe of ſome little rarefaction of the Air included in the ſealing, or becauſe of the infrigidation of that Air by the ſnow, or for both theſe Reaſons, or any other, I ſhall not Now diſpute.
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “Title I. Experiments Touching Bodies Capable of Freezing Others.”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 21, page 52:
glosses: A reduction in the density of a material, especially that of a fluid.
Related terms: rarefact
mercy killing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercy killings
form: mercy-killing
Senses: glosses: Active euthanasia.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In sports, a premature ending of a one-sided game or contest due to a mercy rule.
Related terms: mercy killer
angel of mercy
coup de grâce
put someone out of their misery
onwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From on + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
glosses: Onward.
Derived terms: onwards and upwards
onwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From on + -wards.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of onward
footed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtɪd/
rhymes: -ʊtɪd
Etymology: From foot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foot
interception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈsɛpʃən/
Forms: form: interceptions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin interceptiō; compare French interception.
Senses: glosses: An act of intercepting something, the state of being intercepted, or a thing that is intercepted.
glosses: An aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A passing play where the ball is caught by the opposing team.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A pass that is intercepted by an opposing player.
glosses: precipitation that does not reach the soil, but is instead intercepted by the leaves, branches of plants and the forest floor.
Derived terms: topics: rugby
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: interception try
word: lawful interception
word: interceptional
intercepted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intercept
intercepting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intercept
pan-loafy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pan-loafy
form: most pan-loafy
form: pan loafy
form: panloafy
Etymology: From pan-loaf + -y, of Scottish origin. A pan-loaf was more expensive than ordinary bread.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps it is a class thing. Pan loafy people can also be very stuffy and toffee nosed and hence arrogant.
ref: 1993, K Stephen, “Proud to be British?”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):
text: The Central belt is becoming more weedjie. Edinburgh is still pretty pan-loafy. Fifer is bools-in-the-mooth.
ref: 1999: Muttley, Life's not worth it in uk.people.support.depression http://groups.google.com/group/uk.people.support.depression/browse_thread/thread/12380b7bb065f05a/bbc538e49e23ca53?lnk=st&q=pan-loafy&rnum=9#bbc538e49e23ca53
text: >What is a scots lol?
I think it could be a panloafy way of saying loyal, instead of leal.?
ref: 2005, Eve McLaughlin, “Re GROS a brilliant service”, in soc.genealogy.britain (Usenet):
glosses: Posh, pretentious or stuck-up
visibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪz.ə.bli/
ipa: /ˈvɪzɪbli/
Forms: form: more visibly
form: most visibly
Etymology: From visible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.
text: Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.
ref: 2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase:
text: The question, which visibly moved Clinton, delves into an area of the candidate’s life that is deeply personal but rarely discussed. Clinton’s friends and confidants describe the former first lady as a devout Methodist whose faith guides much of what she does.
ref: 2016 January 25, Dan Merica, “In personal exchange, Clinton laments using faith to ‘judge so harshly’”, in CNN:
glosses: In a visible manner; openly.
Synonyms: apparently
evidently
plainly
obviously
brutality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːˈtælɪti/
ipa: /bɹuˈtælɪɾi/
Forms: form: brutalities
Etymology: From brutal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being brutal.
examples: text: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A cruel or savage act.
examples: text: police brutality
text: school brutality
glosses: The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence.
Derived terms: police brutality