cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
donkey boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkey boys
Senses: examples: text: It was just before noon, and I had completed my agreement with the donkey boy to be with me in the afternoon, when, asking his name, I remembered my message.
ref: 1902, William Eleazar Barton, The Old World in the New Century, page 368:
text: Sam prodded the beast and yelled at him; donkey boys punched the animal with their fingers to stir him up, but still the animal refused to move.
ref: 1911, Frank Gee Patchin, The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service, page 191:
text: "Tis only that imp of mischief, Nabul, and his donkey," they would say as they made way for the little rider, for everybody knew and liked little Nabul Ben Hassan, the youngest donkey boy in Cairo.
ref: 2023, Blanche McManus, Nabul, Our Little Egyptian Cousin, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of donkey-boy.
donkey boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkey boy
donkeyboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkeyboys
Senses: examples: text: Wynkyn de Worde, Informatiojn for Pilgrims (based in a great measure on William Wey, and published by Caxton) furnishes valuable hints regarding choice of cabin, contracts with skippers, provisions, lodgings on land, diet in the East, hire of mules and gratuities to donkeyboys.
ref: 1912, G. Hartwell Jones, “Celtic Britain and the Pilgrim Movement”, in Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, volume 23, page 69:
text: 'One morning, we heard unusual noises,' remembered Bertha Spafford, the American Colonist, 'and saw the worthy archaeologists playing at being donkeyboys, running alongside the donkeys and imitating the yelling, usually made by Arab boys who were mounted in the Englishmen's place.'
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 468:
text: Ya Allah! the few native donkeyboys and servants exclaimed in terror and awe.
ref: 2017, Lois Tilton, Noreen Doyle, “The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night”, in Paula Guran, editor, The Mammoth Book Of the Mummy:
glosses: Alternative form of donkey-boy.
donkeyboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkeyboy
willingnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willingnesses
Senses: examples: text: […] but it is alſo required for the effeting of the cure, that there bee firſt a willingneſſe in the Patient to be healed of his infirmitie, with a reſolution to vſe the medicines which ſhall be preſcribed;
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 49:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of willingness.
infirmitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infirmities
Senses: examples: text: […] but it is alſo required for the effeting of the cure, that there bee firſt a willingneſſe in the Patient to be healed of his infirmitie, with a reſolution to vſe the medicines which ſhall be preſcribed;
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 49:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of infirmity.
simmer up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: simmers up
form: simmering up
form: simmered up
form: simmered up
Senses: examples: text: First, simmer up a portion of peas.
glosses: To cook a food through simmering.
examples: text: Emotions simmered up when he saw his wife again.
glosses: To arise, usually of an emotion, as if from a steamy, simmering action.
-motherfucking-
Language: English
Part of speech: infix
Senses: examples: text: Person 1: Want me to buy you tickets to the Sepultura concert?
text: Person 2: Absomotherfuckinglutely!
text: Fuck me, it's gotta be The Deadhead Chemistry
The blotter got right on top of me
Got me seeing E-motherfucking-T!
ref: 2006, “Rosetta Stoned”, performed by Tool:
glosses: An intensifier.
earnestnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earnestnesses
Senses: examples: text: I wil vſe ſome motiues to perſwade all that find themſelues afſeted with this ſickneſſe, to deſire with all earneſtneſſe that they may be cured, that ſo they may be made willing alſo to apply the remedies.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of earnestness.
securitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: securities
Senses: examples: text: […] therefore it is fit that wee ſet downe the nature, properties and effects of this carnall ſecuritie, that ſo a deſire may be wrought in thoſe who are ſubiect vnto it to be cured of it.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of security.
nepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νῆψις (nêpsis)
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Wakefulness and watchfulness; a state of sobriety following a period of catharsis.
neptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nepsis.
neptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neptics
Senses: glosses: A person who has achieved a state of nepsis.
maynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayne
bridegroome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridegroomes
Senses: examples: text: But me think, it is good reaſon, that I should be at mine owne Bꝛidall, and not giuen in the Church befoꝛe I knowe the Bꝛidegroome.
ref: 1593, John Lyly, Evphves. The Anatomy of Wit., pages 57-58:
text: […] expecting the vncertaine comming of the Bridegroome, and ſo when hee came, were receiued with him into the bridall Chamber of eternall bleſſedneſſe.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bridegroom.
bridegroomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridegroome
blessednesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blessednesses
Senses: examples: text: […] expecting the vncertaine comming of the Bridegroome, and ſo when hee came, were receiued with him into the bridall Chamber of eternall bleſſedneſſe.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of blessedness.
bridall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridalls
Senses: examples: text: […] bycauſe many of them were at the Bꝛidall and mariage of a pꝛieſt, […]
ref: 1589, John Foxe, An Abridgement of the Booke of Acts and Monvmentes of the Chvrch, page 76:
text: But me think, it is good reaſon, that I should be at mine owne Bꝛidall, and not giuen in the Church befoꝛe I knowe the Bꝛidegroome.
ref: 1593, John Lyly, Evphves. The Anatomy of Wit., pages 57-58:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bridal.
bridall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bridall
form: most bridall
Senses: examples: text: […] expecting the vncertaine comming of the Bridegroome, and ſo when hee came, were receiued with him into the bridall Chamber of eternall bleſſedneſſe.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bridal.
bridalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridall
retchlesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retchlesse
form: most retchlesse
Senses: examples: text: […] but the other being ſecure and retchleſſe, ſpent their time in eaſe and ſloth, not vſing any meanes to bee prepared againſt the time of his approching,[…]
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of retchless.
fellowes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellowe
fidelitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidelities
Senses: examples: text: […] and he is for his reward pronounced bleſſed, and made Ruler of all his Maſter hath, for his fidelitie and care at his comming.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fidelity.
divyang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divyangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दिव्यांग (divyāṅg, literally “divine organ”).
Senses: glosses: A disabled person.
harmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harme
Balilihan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
watchfulnesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchfulnesses
Senses: examples: text: By all which wee ſee the neceſſitie of an holy and religious feare, ſtirring vs to watchfulneſſe, and the extreme danger of carnall ſecuritie.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of watchfulness.
RCV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of ranked-choice voting.
Catigbian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
dish detergents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dish detergent
vexillizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vexillize
vexillizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vexillize
vexillized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vexillize
vexillise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vexillises
form: vexillising
form: vexillised
form: vexillised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vexillize.
vexillises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vexillise
vexillising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vexillise
vexillised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vexillise
Belltown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Nathaniel Bell (1817–1887).
Senses: examples: text: The Belltown neighborhood has been transformed in recent decades from a grungy, semi-industrial arts district to a sort of ideal of moneyed urban living, with bike-friendly streets, hip cafés and condo towers so desirable that one penthouse there became the setting of the steamy “Fifty Shades of Grey” book series.
ref: 2024 May 29, Mike Baker, “Sleepless in Seattle as a Hellcat Roars Through the Streets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
fanpol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanpol
form: fanpols
Etymology: Blend of fan + police.
Senses: examples: text: like EVERY fanpol ever 😭 we be shipping our ships, minding our own businesses, then bAm they act like we did a crime or sumn ☠️
ref: 2022 April 30, mars (@iHugRyuk), Twitter:
text: I treat those issues very carefully in my writing, only for fanpol to accuse me of writing abuse porn. 🙄
ref: 2022 April 30, Dr Bai (@doctorbaixue), Twitter:
text: fanpols forget to realize that content warnings exist and are typically used.
ref: 2023 October 23, bive ! 7p☆ (@nyctomania_mp3), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: anti
fancop
fandomentalist
fandom Frollo
fanti
Frollo
glosses: A fan who habitually tries to control others' fannish activity.
fancop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancops
Etymology: From fan + cop.
Senses: examples: text: its like.. "stop making content of boys kissing its gross" is that a fancop or homophobe LOL
ref: 2020 May 4, Abby (@teruhaza), Twitter:
text: But no, some fancop kid thinks fictional violence should get a pass but fictional sexual content shouldn't, then claims to my entire face that nobody IRL is impacted by murder & lives w/ that trauma.
ref: 2021 December 21, Dr Bai (@doctorbaixue), Twitter:
text: Fancops joining fandoms absolutely bursting at the seams with dead dove and proshipping will never not be funny to me like what are you doing here
ref: 2022 December 26, Kiisu (@raccoon_child), Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: anti
fandomentalist
fandom Frollo
fanpol
fanti
Frollo
glosses: A fan who habitually tries to control others' fannish activity.
Benadryls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Benadryl
Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Totaling 33,000, the Tajik nationality is mostly concentrated in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, east of the Pamirs in southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The rest are scattered in a few counties south of the Tianshan Mountains within the same autonomous region.
ref: 1993, “TAJIK NATIONALITY”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, 中国少数民族风情录 [In Search of China's Minorities], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
english: In Search of China's Minorities
translation: In Search of China's Minorities
glosses: A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Currant Bun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Currant Bun
form: the Currant Bun
form: currant bun
Senses: synonyms: Bath bun
glosses: The Sun (celestial body).
examples: text: Had to go further down the road to get me Currant Bun / "Hello isn't that George on page one?"
ref: 1979, “In the Middle of the Night”, performed by Madness:
text: THAT painfully honest little newspaper, the Sun, was boiling with indignation yesterday about the case of the Tory minister who tried to smear Paddy Ashdown. […] Imagine, for instance, this call. […] K[elvin] M[acKenzie]: “Paddy Pantsdown? We done ’im already, Douggie. Don’t you read the Currant Bun?” […] Two weeks ago the editor of the Independent, a daily paper, was being screamed at by the Sun (aided by Britain’s biggest tabloid, the Sunday Times). Why? For having the unspeakable nerve to reveal all about Mrs Bottomley. We’ll get you, warned the Currant Bun.
ref: 1992 July 22, Andrew Moncur, “Diary”, in The Guardian, London, page 21, columns 1–5:
text: He normally read the Sun, swearing it was the best indicator of what would happen to the FTSE. His theory was simple: so many of the barrow boys trading on LIFFE read the currant bun that the markets were bound to do whatever its money column said.
ref: 2008, Nicola Monaghan, Starfishing, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 87:
text: A friend returns from Istanbul to report spotting him reclining by the pool with a copy of The Sun resting atop the pile of papers on the drinks table. This wouldn’t go down well back home, where the Scousers still boycott the paper 20 years after its Hillsborough coverage. Many Brits go abroad to indulge tastes discouraged here but Stevie G is the first case of someone flying to Turkey to read the Currant Bun in safety.
ref: 2009 July 7, Matthew Norman, “[Sporting Miscellanies] Stevie G risks wrath as he soaks up The Sun”, in Evening Standard, London, page 50, columns 1–2:
text: After the bruising experience of Thursday morning, [Liz] Truss attempted a different tack, writing a piece for The Sun. In the article, which went online late on Friday evening, she told the paper’s readers that when she became Prime Minister, her government “could not afford to dither or delay”. […] Truss, a Remainer turned Brexit true believer, is clearly unfit for the post she has not yet held for a month and no number of flimsy articles in the Currant Bun will shake that widely held view.
ref: 2022 October 2, Euan McColm, “Truss a ‘crank theorist’ whose experiments cause chaos: The new Prime Minister appears to have scant regard for the impact of her Government’s actions on voters worried about the impact on their pensions, mortgages and jobs”, in Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2022, page 8:
glosses: The Sun (British newspaper).
NSTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Service Training Program, a Philippine civic education program.
glosses: Initialism of New Straits Times Press, a conglomerate of publishing companies in Malaysia.
DHSUD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.
DSWD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Social Welfare and Development.
glycerolipidomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerolipidome
glycerolizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycerolization
glycolylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycolylation
glyconucleolipids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyconucleolipid
glycoresins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycoresin
glycosylinositols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycosylinositol
glymmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glymmer
gneissgranites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gneissgranite
gneeves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gneeve
goafings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goafing
godbwyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godbwye
Ko-chiu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 箇舊 /个旧 (Gèjiù), Wade–Giles romanization: Ko⁴-chiu⁴.
Senses: examples: text: He released Min Li-sung when he publicly “admitted his errors,” but he continued to hold the son, who refused to repent.¹¹ He thus warned landowners in the Ko-chiu area not to deal with the French.
ref: 1973, Roger V. Des Forges, “Leading Society”, in Hsi-liang and the Chinese National Revolution, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 104–105:
text: The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.
ref: 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 97:
text: According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test the experiment. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.
ref: 1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 56–57:
glosses: Alternative form of Gejiu.
gomens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gomen
gomesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gomesin
gonostyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonostyle
Goshens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Goshen
gothettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gothette
Gothettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gothette
Lengshuijiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 冷水江 (Lěngshuǐjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: In Lengshuijiang, a city in Hunan Province, a directive from the regional justice bureau warned lawyers and law firms that they could face disbarment for expressing opposition to the constitutional changes.
ref: 2018 March 8, Steven Lee Myers, Javier C. Hernández, “Murmurings of Dissent Upset China’s Script for Xi’s Power Grab”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2018, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county-level city of Loudi, Hunan, China.
Lianyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 漣源 /涟源 (Liányuán).
Senses: examples: text: The woman’s husband discovered his wife missing when he went to check on her on Saturday morning, the Hunan province-based news portal Voc.com.cn reported.
When he entered the room he found a three-square-metre hole in the floor and his wife, 45-year-old Chen Jiaoyang, gone, the report said.
The couple lives in Shizhuling, a village in the city of Lianyuan, which had been hard hit by heavy rains over the previous two days.
ref: 2017 June 27, Zhuang Pinghui, “Sleeping woman swallowed by sinkhole in central China after bedroom collapses in heavy rain”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2017, China society:
glosses: A county-level city of Loudi, Hunan, China.
gownds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gownd
gradges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gradge
grainfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grainfall
Guyandottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guyandotte
gyroxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroxin
Louxing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 婁星 /娄星.
Senses: glosses: A district of Loudi, Hunan, China.
habergions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habergion
habitualisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitualisation
Shuangfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 雙峰 /双峰 (Shuāngfēng).
Senses: glosses: A county of Loudi, Hunan, China.
hagbusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagbus
alt-lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alt lit
form: Alt Lit
form: Alt-Lit
Etymology: From alt- + lit.
Senses: examples: text: Alt Lit are dismissive of conventional notions of original authorship. On the website of the digital publisher Muumuu House, run by Alt Lit writer Tao Lin, many featured works are curated Twitter feeds.
ref: 2016, Adam Hammond, Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Tao Lin's novel Taipei best expresses the capitalist realism of Alt Lit.
ref: 2018, Matt Seybold, Michelle Chihara, editors, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of alternative literature, a literary movement influenced by internet culture, social media, and online publishing that emerged in the 2010s.
Alt Lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of alt lit.
Alt-Lit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “He was adjacent to a specific literary group, called Alt-Lit, who were trying to establish a new canon in literature,” Cortassa says.
ref: [2024 March 30, Leo Barraclough, “‘Long Live the Tyrant,’ About Publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano, the ‘Basquiat of the New York Literary Scene,’ Eyes Spring Shoot”, in Variety:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of alt-lit.
carnall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carnall
form: most carnall
Senses: examples: text: By all which wee ſee the neceſſitie of an holy and religious feare, ſtirring vs to watchfulneſſe, and the extreme danger of carnall ſecuritie.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of carnal.
varietie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varieties
Senses: examples: text: […] of which Chriſt giueth vs ſo many warnings, as of nothing elſe more oft and earneſtly, in ſo many and ſuch great varietie of Parables , Examples and Admonitions.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of variety.
Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llansantffraid community, Powys, Wales, historically in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SJ2220).
goale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goales
Senses: examples: text: And therefore as Runners for a prize make moſt ſpeed when they come neereſt vnto the Goale […]
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 52:
text: Capt. Nelson for want thereof has been confin’d in the common goale of St. Georges above 2 years upon 2 attachments for costs in a decree grounded upon a double verdict of common law and referred to the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice of England, which was never obtain’d nor the first determin’d.
ref: 1916, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. 1706-1708 June, page 159:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of goal.
goales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goale
native tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native tigers
form: Native Tiger
Senses: examples: text: The “Native Tigers” (Thylacinus cynocephalus) are yet more to be dreaded among sheep than the “devils;” but, fortunately, they are far less numerous.
ref: 1852, Louisa Anne Meredith, My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years, volume 2, page 264:
text: Of the carnivora the largest is an animal known as the hyæna, or, native tiger, which grows to the size of a large dog.
ref: 1859, William Fairfax, editor, Handbook to Australasia; Being a Brief Historical and Descriptive Account of Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, and New Zealand, page 103:
text: Upon my first visit to the cavern, my suspicions fell upon the Thylacinus, or native tiger, as the animal most likely to have carried these bones into it.
ref: 1886, Samuel Henry Wintle, “The Fossil Mammalian Remains of Tasmania Compared with Those of the Mainland”, in The Victorian Naturalist: The Journal & Magazine of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, volume 3, number 4, page 40:
glosses: Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
they hit the Pentagon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Originated from an exchange in a May 2020 OneyPlays let's play video about recording said video on a short notice: Lyle jokes that Chris shook him awake and Zach chimes in, shouting: "Lyle, Lyle, turn on the TV, they hit the Pentagon! They hit the fucking Pentagon, Lyle!" in reference to the September 11 attacks. Popularized widely by a viral image macro of a character from the 2022 animated film Turning Red, using the phrase "They hit the fucking Pentagon," in reference to discussion surrounding a viral remark that the film, set in 2002, did not mention the September 11 attacks.
Senses: synonyms: holy shit
oh my God
glosses: Used to indicate that an event or news of an event is cause for alarm.
Cahokia Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈhoʊki.ə haɪts/
Etymology: From Cahokia + heights.
Senses: glosses: A city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri.
shipwracke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipwrackes
Senses: examples: text: And doe you ſe how he inſulteth ouer me, as though hee had gotten a great aduantage, and how hee taketh heere his reuenge vpon me, for the ſhipwracke hee ſuffered before, in the matter of his ſyllogyſme?
ref: 1609, “P. R.” [i.e., Robert Persons], “The First Chapter Ansvvering to the First of M. Thomas Mortons Three Vaine Inquiryes, Concerning the Witt, Memorie, Learning, Charitie, Modestie, and Truth of His Aduersarie, P. R.”, in A Qviet and Sober Reckoning vvith M. Thomas Morton Somewhat Set in Choler by His Aduersary P. R. […], [Saint-Omer, France]: [s.n.], →OCLC, §IIII (Another Vaine Contention Brought by M. Morton about Skill in Logike), page 37:
text: It is a ſeeming peace, more dangerous then any warre ; and in outward appearance a quiet calme, but in truth the moſt perillous tempeſt, in which many millions of ſoules doe ſuffer ſhipwracke, and ſinke into the gulfe of endleſſe perdition.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of shipwrack.
shipwrackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipwracke
endlesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is a ſeeming peace, more dangerous then any warre ; and in outward appearance a quiet calme, but in truth the moſt perillous tempeſt, in which many millions of ſoules doe ſuffer ſhipwracke, and ſinke into the gulfe of endleſſe perdition.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
text: [...] He ſcorn’d to chide / The ſtomackfull Feind, ſince ever-damned He / Sufficiently pays for his endleſſe Pride, [...]
ref: 1648, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVIII. The Persecution. Stanza 35.”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC, page 350, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of endless.
gulfe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulfes
Senses: examples: text: That is the Gulfe of Greedinesse, they say, That deepe engorgeth all this worldes pray...
ref: 1590, Spenser, “II.xii”, in The Faerie Queene:
text: […]implunging our ſelues into the gulfe of our ſinne
ref: c. 1614, Daniel Dyke, Two Treatises:
text: It is a ſeeming peace, more dangerous then any warre ; and in outward appearance a quiet calme, but in truth the moſt perillous tempeſt, in which many millions of ſoules doe ſuffer ſhipwracke, and ſinke into the gulfe of endleſſe perdition.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gulf.
gulfes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulfe
lethargie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lethargies
Senses: examples: text: This Apoplexie is (as I take it) a kind of Lethargie, a sleeping of the blood, a horson Tingling.
ref: c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:
text: […]firſt, becauſe inſenſible diſeaſes are in themſelues moſt deſperate, as the Lethargie, dead palſie, apoplexie.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
text: Or that a Dead Palſie, or Lethargie ſhall not ſeaze upon thee, and put thee paſt Repentance, or perhaps a burning Fever, or a Frenzy?
ref: 1707, Hero Sibersma, “Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, Explained and Applyed”, in The Glory of God Most Brightly Maniſested at the Danube, Shining Forth in Like ſplendour at Ramellies & Barcelona, and no leſs conſpicuous at Turin; In ſeveral Moſt ſignal Victories Obtained by the Confœderates over the Arms of the French King. In Perpetual Remembrance Thereof in Three Sermons Upon ſeveral Texts of Scripture opened and applied, The Seventh Sermon, page 72:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lethargy.
hopelesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hopelesse
form: most hopelesse
Senses: examples: text: And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:
text: And euen in acute ſickneſſes, as Feauers and burning Agues, we account the patient moſt hopeleſſe and helpleſſe, when as he is paſt feeling of his ſickneſſe.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hopeless.
helplesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helplesse
form: most helplesse
Senses: examples: text: For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: And euen in acute ſickneſſes, as Feauers and burning Agues, we account the patient moſt hopeleſſe and helpleſſe, when as he is paſt feeling of his ſickneſſe.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
text: [H]ovv is it [a worm] vexed vvith the ſcorching beames [of the sun], and vvrings vp and dovvne, in an helpleſſe perplexity; not finding vvhere to ſhrovvd it ſelfe; hovv obnoxious is it to the ſoules of the ayre, to the feet of men, and beaſts?
ref: 1630, Ios. Exon. [i.e., Joseph Hall of Exeter], “Upon a Worme”, in R[obert] H[all], editor, Occasionall Meditations, London: […] [Benjamin Alsop and T. Fawcet?] for Nath[aniel] Butter, →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of helpless.
senselesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more senselesse
form: most senselesse
Senses: examples: text: Novv, to begin vvith Fortitude, they ſay it is the meane betvveen Covvardiſe & raſh Audacitie, […] Clemencie & Mildneſſe, betvveene ſenſeleſſe Indolence and Crueltie: […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Of Morall Vertue”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 69:
text: [T]he vvorld thruſts it ſelfe betvvixt me and heauen; and, by his darke and indigeſted parts, eclipſeth that light vvhich ſhined to my ſoule. Novv, a ſenſeleſſe dulneſſe ouer-takes mee, and beſots mee; my luſt to deuotion is little, my ioy none at all: Gods face is hid, and I am troubled.
ref: 1608, Joseph Hall, “Epistle I. To Sʳ. Robert Darcy. The Estate of a True, but Weake Christian.”, in Epistles […], volume I, London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Samuel Macham & E[leazar] Edgar […], →OCLC, 2nd decade, page 108:
text: […]and contrariwiſe, the more ſenſeleſſe and ſtupid, the more hardly can they be reſtored to their ſpirituall health.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of senseless.
wretchednesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wretchednesses
Senses: examples: text: Of Cue firſt that foꝛ her wickedneſſe was all mankinde dug to wꝛetchedneſſe[…]
ref: 1561, Geoffrey Chancer, compiled by Jhon Lidgate, The workes of Geffrey Chaucer, page 102:
text: And not contented with this, they abuſed the Kings name to ferue their villanie, and wretchedneſſe.
ref: 1615, Alexander Neville, Norfolkes Furies, or A View of Ketts Campe, page 27:
text: […]and therefore ſeeke not to better their eſtate till God open their eyes, and giueth them the ſight and ſenſe of their pouertie and wretchedneſſe.
ref: 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wretchedness.
paint up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints up
form: painting up
form: painted up
form: painted up
Senses: examples: text: I spent the weekend painting up my shed.
glosses: To paint a surface, place or picture.
examples: text: I'll hire people for the difficult chores, but I can paint up the damaged areas on the living room walls.
glosses: To touch up a paint job.
examples: His description painted you up to be a monster.
glosses: To make someone or something appear to be a particular way.
Llansantffraid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + sant + Ffraid, the church of Saint Ffraid, the Welsh name for St Bridget.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish served by Llansantffraid and Deytheur Parish Council) in Powys, Wales.
glosses: Alternative form of Llansantffraed, Ceredigion, Wales.
Derived terms: Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog
Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain
yrs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yrs.
land on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lands on
form: landing on
form: landed on
form: landed on
Etymology: Phrasal verb of land (“to arrive at”) + on (“atop; above; onto; etc.”)
Senses: examples: text: In 1969, Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon.
text: I was shoved down and my backpack landed on the pavement.
glosses: To land atop of; to fall on the surface of.
examples: text: I wanted pepperoni pizza, but my friend was a vegetarian, so we landed on having cheese pizza.
glosses: To reach a common conclusion or agreement, usually following a small period of disagreement.
Llansantffraed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + sant + Ffraid, the church of Saint Ffraid, the Welsh name for St Bridget.
Senses: glosses: A place in Wales:
A small coastal village and community in Ceredigion (OS grid ref SN5167).
synonyms: Llansantffraid
glosses: A place in Wales:
A parish and locality in Gobion Fawr community, Monmouthshire (OS grid ref SO3510).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A small village in Talybont-on-Usk community, Powys (OS grid ref SO1223).
tidy one's sock drawer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tidies one's sock drawer
form: tidying one's sock drawer
form: tidied one's sock drawer
form: tidied one's sock drawer
Senses: examples: text: My tax return has to be completed today, but I feel a sudden urge to tidy my sock drawer.
text: That guy at work asked me to a party on Saturday, but I think I'm tidying my sock drawer that night.
glosses: To do, or supposedly do, a mundane and unimportant activity as an excuse to avoid something onerous or unappealing.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tidy, one's, sock, drawer.
evening bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evening bats
Senses: glosses: A vesper bat, of any of several species, including
glosses: A vesper bat, of any of several species, including:
Nycticeius humeralis, a vesper bat of the Eastern US.
pointing mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointing marks
Etymology: From pointing (“placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note”) + mark.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: In Anglican chant, a mark in the text which corresponds to a barline in the chant, which indicates the syllables on which the chant changes note; typically a vertical line ( | ) or apostrophe ( ' ).
pointing marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointing mark
Anglican chant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglican + chant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: A form of chant in which unmetrical text (chiefly psalms) are sung, in which a short, harmonized melody is sung by a choir, with the chant usually corresponding to a single verse.
day gecko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day geckos
form: day geckoes
Etymology: Compound of day + gecko.
Senses: glosses: Any gecko of the genus Phelsuma, notable for being diurnal when most other geckos are nocturnal.
Hyponyms: Seipp's day gecko
Gobion Fawr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Barbarous Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Barbarous Age
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Middle Ages.
synonyms: word: Middle Ages
fashos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fasho
builder's cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: builder's cups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of builder's mug.
synonyms: word: builder's mug
builders' cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: builders' cups
Senses: glosses: Synonym of builder's mug.
synonyms: word: builder's mug
builders' mug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: builders' mugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of builder's mug.
builder's cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of builder's cup
builders' cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of builders' cup
builders' mugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of builders' mug
mercy flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercy flushes
Senses: examples: text: A more usual problem with a hatch is that it was shut too tightly. Rig for dive checks can be done submerged, with sea pressure on the outer hatch. New JOs, doing the check, sometimes forget and shut the outer hatch even more tightly when checking it shut. Subsequently, opening the hatch on the surface can be difficult, even demanding a dive to loosen the hatch. Generally happens only once per career (kinda like a mercy flush over a pressurized sanitary tank).
ref: 1995 October 18, Doug Huffman, “Seawater in submarines”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):
text: For the cruise ship sailors among us; the stool flush ball valve has a three foot long lever positioned at the users elbow. Because of the quantity and quality of submarine food one gets into the habit of "mercy flushes" that are periodic quick pops of the flush valve open and shut (kind'a like with a 1.6 gpf commode).
ref: 1998 April 18, dhuf...@awod.com, “Things S**t-Canned Over the Side ”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):
text: Roni lowered her voice and whispered, "That's Taylor Britt. She's got irritable bowel syndrome that's exacerbated by stress." ¶ "That's nasty. We definitely need a mercy flush."
ref: 2008, Kate Harmon, Sorority 101, New York, N.Y.: Speak, →ISBN, page 97:
text: The radiators thumped with steaming water, and a long stream of hissing air sounded miserably through the valves. From one of the stalls came a painful-sounding groan, and someone shouted, "For Christ's sake, give us a fucking mercy flush, would you!"
ref: 2015, Thomas O'Malley, Douglas Graham Purdy, Serpents in the Cold, New York, N.Y. […]: Mulholland Books, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: An additional toilet flush to reduce odor or decrease the likelihood of the toilet pipes becoming clogged.
mercy flushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercy flush
Aeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aeon
Aeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of aeon.
Caddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Cadendone in the Domesday Book, the placename derives from the Old English personal name Cada + -ing (“belonging to”) + dūn (“hill, down”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0619).
wikipedia: Domesday Book
Flitton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Flitton and Greenfield parish, Central Bedfordshire borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0535).
Derived terms: Flitton and Greenfield
Flitton and Greenfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire borough, Bedfordshire, England, which includes these two villages.
Related terms: Flitton
Greenfield
Clophill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English clop (“tree stump”) + hyll (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0837).
Pulloxhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The only acceptable suggestion is that the first element is a lost Old English personal name *Pulloc, closely related to the name Pollock, hence *Pulloc + -s- + hill.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire borough, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0633).
body soaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body soap
tetrapodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetrapod + -ic.
Senses: glosses: tetrapod
Pennoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
New Norfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for convicts and settlers moved from Norfolk Island.
Senses: glosses: A town in Derwent Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.