cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
soupify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soupifies
form: soupifying
form: soupified
form: soupified
Etymology: From soup + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Here we are soupifying the blend by adding vegetable stock, as well as coconut milk and plantains, two favorite ingredients in the tropics.
ref: 2013, Mark Reinfeld, The 30-Minute Vegan: Soup's On!:
text: Carefully transfer batches of the soup to a blender and pulse until soupified, or use a handheld immersion blender.
ref: 2015, Stephanie O'Dea, 5 Ingredients or Less Slow Cooker Cookbook, page 87:
text: Fad drugs too new to have names are swallowed by college students by the fistful, soupifying their brains.
ref: 2020, Josh Swiller, Bright Shining World, page 18:
glosses: To make into soup.
soupified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soupify
soupifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soupify
soupifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soupify
Szczesniak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Szczesniaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Szcześniak and Szczęśniak.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
fly the blue pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies the blue pigeon
form: flying the blue pigeon
form: flew the blue pigeon
form: flown the blue pigeon
Senses: glosses: To steal lead from the roof or other parts of a building.
Related terms: blue pigeon flyer
blue pigeon flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blue pigeon flyers
Senses: glosses: One who steals lead from the roof or other parts of a building.
Related terms: fly the blue pigeon
blue pigeon flyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue pigeon flyer
Torresgarcia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Torresgarcias
Etymology: From Torres + Garcia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Torresgarcias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Torresgarcia
Szczesniaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Szczesniak
lint-scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lint-scrapers
Senses: glosses: A young surgeon.
lint-scrapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lint-scraper
Tamblyns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tamblyn
trial division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trial divisions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A simple method of finding the divisors of an integer, or establishing if the integer is prime, by selecting a set of smaller integers and seeing if there is a zero remainder upon division by each one
Peckhamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peckhamites
Etymology: From Peckham + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person from Peckham, London, England.
Shelman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shelmans
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Schellmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Peckhamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peckhamite
half-value thickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-value thicknesses
Senses: glosses: the thickness of a given shielding material required to halve a given type of radiation
put someone's pipe out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone's pipe out
form: putting someone's pipe out
form: put someone's pipe out
form: put someone's pipe out
Senses: examples: text: “I'll tell you something, too,” retorted the captain, duskily flushing. “I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now.”
“I can tell you the names of a number of gentlemen you'll never deal with any more, and that's the whole of Longhurst's gang,” said Jim. “I'll put your pipe out in that quarter, my friend. Here, rout out your traps as quick as look at it, and take your vermin along with you. I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him.”
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in The Wrecker:
glosses: To scupper someone's plans.
Related terms: put that in your pipe and smoke it
Shad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shads
Etymology: * As an Urdu and Persian surname, from شاد (šâd, “glad, cheerful”). This surname is mostly found in Pakistan.
* As an English surname, from the noun shad.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Schade, itself related to Schaden (“damage”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ADIZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADIZs
form: ADIZes
Senses: examples: text: Thursday morning began with reports of multiple warplane incursions into the ADIZ, and cyber-attacks targeting the websites of the president’s office and the ministries of foreign affairs and defence.
ref: 2022 August 5, Helen Davidson, “What the fallout from Pelosi’s visit means for Taiwan and China”, in The Guardian:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of air defense identification zone.
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: AD
Deepwater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor city in Henry County, Missouri, United States, named after Deepwater Creek.
glosses: A township in Bates County, Missouri.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Salem County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: Dated form of Deep Water, in West Virginia.
glosses: A small town on the Northern Tablelands in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A coastal locality in the Gladstone Region of Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A locality in the south-east of South Australia.
Shads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shad
Shelmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shelman
paucident planigale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paucident planigales
Etymology: From paucident (nonce borrowing from Latin paucidens (“having few teeth”), apparently not otherwise used) + planigale (“carnivorous marsupial of genus Planigale”). Compare Translingual Paucidentomys.
Senses: examples: text: The dasyurids examined were the Paucident Planigale, Planigale gilesi, and the Kowari,[…].
ref: 1982, Michael Archer, Carnivorous Marsupials, Volume 1, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 255:
text: The Paucident Planigale is a robust marsupial. Its head and body are 6-8 cm long. It has only two premolar teeth in each upper and lower jaw, instead of three as the other four planigales have. The Paucident Planigale has soft, dense, colourful fur.
ref: 1983, Keith Davey, “Our Arid Environment: Animals of Australia's Desert Regions”, in Reed, page 92:
text: However, for small cryptic species such as the southern ningaui Ningaui yvonneae, narrow-nosed planigale Planigale tenuirostris and paucident planigale P. gilesi, range extensions are probably more apparent than real[…].
ref: 1994, Daniel Lunney, Future of the Fauna of Western New South Wales, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, page 86:
synonyms: Giles' planigale
glosses: Planigale gilesi, a very small species of carnivorous marsupial endemic to desert areas of southern and eastern Australia.
Related terms: dasyurid
marsupial mouse
marsupial shrew
paucident planigales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paucident planigale
Staymans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stayman
like anything
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I came here and worked like anything to be an example before them.
ref: 1999, Julia G. Crane, Statia Silhouettes, page 57:
glosses: With plenty of effort, speed, etc.
like old boots
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, I worked like old boots; and all through the beastly long term I went on steadily creeping ahead of those two.
ref: 1905, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 639:
glosses: Synonym of like anything (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”).
synonyms: word: like anything
extra: (“with plenty of effort, speed, etc.”).
Related terms: tough as old boots
Szymanowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Szymanowski
McShane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McShanes
form: McShan
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Seáin (“son of Seán”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
singagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singagrams
form: singogram
Senses: examples: text: Although Harry wasn't with Taylor at Christmas, he reportedly sent her a singagram to let her know he was thinking of her — and she found it hilarious.
ref: 2013, Louisa Jepson, Harry Styles - Every Piece of Me, page xiii:
text: Communication may be ineffective if the wrong medium is used. Informing an employee that he or she has been made redundant by a singagram would be totally inappropriate.
ref: 2015, Andy Mottershead, Alex Grant, Judith Kelt, OCR Business for A Level:
text: What you need them for, or would like them to do, is entirely up to you (within reason of course!), but our clients often use them for promotions, singagrams or as waiters or even for wind-ups (Cheeky Events, 2014).
ref: 2020, Erin Pritchard, Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences, page 84:
glosses: singing telegram
singagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singagram
Gerhardts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerhardt
McShanes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McShane
Martineaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Martineau
Gallegoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallegos
Deep Water
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Deepwater
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Mim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Miriam.
Dirac sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dirac seas
Etymology: First postulated in 1930 by the British physicist Paul Dirac.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles with negative energy.
Dirac seas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dirac sea
reaction mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaction masses
Senses: examples: text: A small rise in the temperature of the reaction mass increases the reaction rate, which further increases the temperature of the mass.
ref: 1984, Chemical Engineering:
text: Our proposal involves the use of liquid core fission reactors to heat reaction mass, probably hydrogen, to stellar temperatures; ...
ref: 1981, Willard F. Libby, Talking to People, →ISBN:
text: But hydrogen is expensive in Luna and any mass could be reaction mass; it just would not be as efficient.
ref: 1966, Robert Anson Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Putnam Publishing Group:
glosses: Fuel for nuclear energy.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Working mass.
kinchin cove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinchin coves
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: An orphan beggar boy trained to become a thief.
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A man who robs children.
kinchin coves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinchin cove
go-along
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-alongs
Senses: glosses: An ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
examples: text: A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob".
ref: 2002, Meg Arnot, Cornelie Usborne, Gender And Crime in Modern Europe, page 82:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery.
go-alongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-along
Copeman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gladstone claret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gladstone clarets
Etymology: After William Ewart Gladstone, who reduced the duty on French wines.
Senses: glosses: Cheap claret.
wikipedia: William Ewart Gladstone
Gladstone clarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gladstone claret
Chadband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chadbands
Etymology: After the character of Mr Chadband in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House (1852).
Senses: examples: text: Chadbands have nothing to do with art, and their appearance on every possible occasion is an insult to artistic intelligence. The priest is the enemy of art; always has been, and always will be. Art is pagan, and the prattle of the preacher will never make it anything else.
ref: 1891, Alfred Trumble, The Art Collector: A Journal Devoted to the Arts and the Crafts, page 50:
text: Would a Chadband, a deliberate hypocrite, have achieved the stern self-abandonment with which he now set himself to readjust Edward Albert's affairs?
ref: 1941, H. G. Wells, You Can't Be Too Careful:
glosses: A smug preacher.
wikipedia: Bleak House
Chadbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chadband
all mops and brooms
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: intoxicated; drunk
Fairbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and seaside resort in Arthog community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6113).
grass-comber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass-combers
Senses: examples: text: Passenger.—What o'clock is it?
Mr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.
ref: 1803, John Davis, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802, page 439:
glosses: A country fellow; a rustic.
grass-combers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass-comber
guv'nors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guv'nor
muffin-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffin-faces
Senses: synonyms: smock-face
glosses: A feminine countenance or complexion; a smooth, girlish face.
muffin-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muffin-face
dimidium dimidiumque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Humorously Latinized version of "half and half", once used by students.
Senses: examples: text: And when the young Anglo-Roma Gents went out between the acts, in order to imbibe dimidium dimidiumque, or gingiber, (doubtless the ginger-beer of the moderns,) they received at the theatre door […]
ref: 1848, Albert Smith, Angus Bethune Reach, The Man in the Moon, volume 3, page 107:
text: I was still fresh, which was something; a trifle warm perhaps, and well disposed towards a pint of the dimidium dimidiumque of the ancients had such been available, but, in default of nectar, I sought another comforter, […]
ref: 1893, Charles Thomas Paske, Frederick George Aflalo, Myamma: A Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah, page 153:
glosses: half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar)
Arthog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Welsh ruler Arthog ap Ceredig.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6414).
Birmese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Burmese.
Birmese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Birmese
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Burmese.
Birmah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Burma.
what o'clock is it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: what's the time?
Master of the Rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masters of the Rolls
Etymology: The sense of a baker is a pun alluding to bread rolls.
Senses: glosses: The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.
examples: text: What do I care for lawyers! Aʼnt I a baker and Master of the Rolls myself: […]
ref: 1828, George Cruikshank, The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, page 144:
glosses: A baker.
Masters of the Rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Master of the Rolls
Grace's card
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: The six of hearts.
cold meat cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold meat carts
Senses: glosses: A hearse.
cold meat carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold meat cart
cold meat box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold meat boxes
Senses: examples: text: "Perhaps you have a charm for never growing any older?"
"No; but I could not lead such a life. I have already a bad cough."
"Ah, I see you already in the cold-meat box."
ref: 1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings, page 45:
glosses: A coffin.
cold meat boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold meat box
Tianshui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tyěnʹshwā
Forms: form: T'ien-shui
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天水 (Tiānshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: The spectacular cave shrines of Maichishan in southern Kansu have always been known to the citizens of T‘ien-shui (Ch‘in-chou) about thirty miles to the northwest.
ref: [1969, Michael Sullivan, “Foreword”, in The Cave Temples of Maichishan, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page vii:
text: On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.[…]
Finally we arrived in Tianshuei, an old, old city with impressive walls, 25 feet or more in height and at least 20 feet in thickness, surrounding the rectangular city, which runs about 1 to 2 miles north to south and 4 to 5 miles east to west.
ref: [2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:
text: Smoke was used to make Friday’s drill at Yifu Experimental Middle School in Gansu province more realistic, but the volume generated was too large, said the official Xinhua News Agency. It said Friday’s drill was jointly organized by the school and Tianshui city’s Civil Air Defense Office.
ref: 2015 September 20, “150 students ill in China after breathing in smoke at drill”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2024:
text: We were still recovering from our Sian getaway, and I was still feeling a bit feverish. So sleep was good. Three hours later, we got off in Tienshui. We were in Kansu province now.
ref: [2016, Bill Porter, “Tienshui”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:
text: I arrived in Tianshui an hour before sunset. Here was a city of flyover walkways and half-built skyscrapers that ran mile after bleak mile along the dirty waters of the Jie River. Tianshui was once surrounded by high gateways and spectacular city walls, whose lines followed the river. Modern Tianshui has lost those walls: Only the very oldest residents remember they once existed.
ref: 2020 May 11, Anna Sherman, “A Poetic Journey Through Western China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Gansu, in northwestern China.
apartments to let
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "He's got apartments to let upstairs."
"Get out, man," I laughed. "That chap has more sense than either of us!"
ref: 2019, Credo Fitch Harris, Wings of the Wind:
glosses: The condition of being stupid or crazy.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see apartment, let.
Related terms: toys in the attic
upper storey
insane
choklit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choklits
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of chocolate.
head beetler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head beetlers
Senses: examples: text: The line of flunkies, like a rijiment of tin men workin' on strings, all together threw up their hands in horror, a look on their face like someone stole their last penny, and the head beetler of them, bowin' till his three ends met, said, […]
ref: 1920, Seumas MacManus, Top o' the Mornin', page 161:
text: Later Mattie, the 'head beetler' of my father's family, arrived wearing his customary tweed jacket.
ref: 2016, Patrick Deeley, The Hurley Maker's Son:
glosses: The leader of a group of workmen.
head beetlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head beetler
Lung-yen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 龍巖 /龙岩 (Lóngyán), Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-yen².
Senses: examples: text: After the Nineteenth Route Army had recovered the area around Lung-yen in western Fukien from the communists in October 1932, Hsü took the initiative in establishing the Reconstruction Council.
ref: 1974, Lloyd E. Eastman, The Abortive Revolution, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:
text: In October the army captured eight counties in western Fukien and established a “Committee on the Rehabilitation of Western Fukien” (Min-hsi shan-hou wei-yuan-hui) at Lung-yen.
ref: 1977, Angela N. S. Hsi, “Socialist Reform and the Fukien Rebellion 1932—34”, in Journal of Asian History, volume 11, number 1, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of Longyan.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
scaldrum dodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaldrum dodges
Etymology: See dodge (“a trick”).
Senses: glosses: A beggar's trick of burning the body with a mixture of acids and gunpowder, so as to appear to have been injured in an accident.
chicken stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “We play for chicken stakes,” Bunny told him. “Pennies.”
ref: 2010, Joan Smith, Dangerous Dalliance:
glosses: Small paltry stakes.
Dingxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: dǐngʹshēʹ
Forms: form: Ting-hsi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定西 (Dìngxī).
Senses: examples: text: In 1973 the esteemed and beloved Premier Chou assigned a mumber of leading comrades of departments concerned under the State Council to investigate the drought situation and help solve difficulties in Tinghsi Prefecture.
ref: [1978 November 7 [1978 November 1], “Why Can't the Hsianghsiang Experience Be Implemented in the Chinghui Irrigtion Area?”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 216, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lanchow and Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original by Ho Tung-chung (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Northwest Region, page N 2:
text: On 3 May Hsü Ta’s army made contact with Kökö Temür’s forces near Tinghsi in Kansu.
ref: [1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “Hung-wu: The Period of Consolidation, 1368–1380”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:
text: For instance, in the arid Dingxi region of Gansu, deforestation forced the local population to tear up the sod to use as fuel, thus further reducing the already inadequate carrying capacity of the land and exacerbating the region’s serious poverty.
ref: 1999, The China Human Development Report, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
text: The quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province toppled brick walls and telephone lines, shattered mud-and-tile-roofed houses, and sent cascades of dirt and rock down hillsides that blocked roads and slowed rescue efforts by crews trying to reach remote areas.[…]
“I saw the bulb hanging from the ceiling start swinging wildly around. I woke my two friends and we ran into the bathroom to hide,” said arts student Li Jingui, 21, who was on the fourth floor of a school dormitory in Dingxi when the shaking started.
ref: 2013 July 22, “Earthquake kills scores in northwest”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2013, World:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
daisy-kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daisy-kickers
Senses: examples: text: Do you observe that stout fellow yonder, with a stick in his hand? He has been a Daisy-kicker, and, by his arts and contrivances having saved a little money, is now a regular dealer, and may generally be seen here on selling days.
ref: 1911, Real Life in London, page 162:
text: There was a “daisy-kicker” there in a twinkling to take reins and lead the horses off for a drink and a rubdown, with the older ostler waiting hopefully by the stable doors to see if he might make money by putting them up for the night, […]
ref: 2018, Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch:
glosses: An ostler at a large inn.
daisy-kickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daisy-kicker
hangman's wages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sum of thirteenpence halfpenny.
closet of decency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closets of decency
Senses: glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: bathroom
closets of decency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closet of decency
Raisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ra'isi
form: Raeisi
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian رئیسی (ra'isi), ultimately from Arabic رَئِيس (raʔīs, “chief, leader”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian surname رئیسی (ra'isi)
sandwich pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich picks
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of draft pick awarded to Major League Baseball teams for the loss of free agents under certain conditions, and taking place in the supplemental round between the first and second rounds of the MLB amateur draft.
sandwich picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwich pick
sandwich panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich panels
Senses: glosses: A structure providing high rigidity and low weight, consisting of a low-density core with a thin skin-layer bonded to each side.
Related terms: sandwich theory
sandwich panels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwich panel
queered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of queer up
queers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of queer up
queering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queer up
queer parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queer parade
menu fatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From menu + fatigue.
Senses: examples: text: A large variety of food is needed to provide the crew choices and to avoid menu fatigue. The monotony effects from repeated food exposures are factors of duration of exposure, the initial pleasantness of the foods consumed repeatedly over time, and frequency and recency of eating the food ... food is consistently identified in [post-spaceflight] debriefs as one of, if not the most, important factor to crew morale. The variety and quality are important to motivate consistent caloric intake and prevent nutritional deficiency and weight loss.
ref: 2016 October 5, Evidence Report: Risk of Performance Decrement and Crew Illness Due to an Inadequate Food System, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, page 20:
text: In space, menu fatigue can have serious consequences. Lost appetites could result in astronauts not eating enough food, which may lead to body mass loss, nutritional deficiencies, and other health issues.
ref: 2021 May 5, Nathan Cranford, Jennifer L. Turner, “How Does Spaceflight Change Food Appeal?”, in Roundup, Johnson Space Center, NASA:
coordinate_terms: compassion fatigue
donor fatigue
redemption fatigue
glosses: The exhaustion of one's appetite due to dietary monotony.
scabby sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scabby sheep
Senses: examples: text: […] the Abbot ought to be informed of the fast, and bestow upon the Monk a corrective discipline; and that, if he did not mend his manners in consequence thereof, he ought to be expelled from the Society, as a scabby sheep, lest he should ruin others by his example.
ref: 1780, Jean Louis de Lolme, The History of the Flagellants, page 124:
glosses: A person who has been in bad society and is consequently shunned to prevent their bad habits or reputation from spreading.
gully-raker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gully-rakers
Senses: glosses: A cattle thief.
gully-rakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gully-raker
Glenties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in County Donegal, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 8194).
put in the pin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts in the pin
form: putting in the pin
form: put in the pin
form: put in the pin
Etymology: From the ancient peg tankard, which was furnished with a row of pins, or pegs, to regulate the amount which each person was to drink.
Senses: glosses: To refrain from drinking alcohol.
yoxter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoxters
Senses: examples: text: […] U was an Uptucker, fly with the cord; / V was a Varnisher, dressed like a lord; / Y was a Yoxter that eat caper sauce; / Z was a Ziff who was flashed on the horse.
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
glosses: A convict returned from transportation before his time.
yoxters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoxter
Ennistymon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in County Clare, Ireland.
soors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soor
Lung-hai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 龍海 /龙海 (Lónghǎi), Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-hai³.
Senses: examples: text: Lung-hai in Fukien
There is an enlightening report about Lung-hai county (龍海縣). Lung-hai is three or four miles from the sea, and 28 km by sea from the city of Amoy.
ref: 1974, China News Analysis, volumes 945-1024, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: LUNGHAI COUNTY AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY--As of now, Lung-hai County of Fukien Province has more than 300 large and medium-sized tractors and 960 hand-operated tractors, for a total of 21.054 HP: 11.000 shellers: 11.000[...]
ref: 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China, numbers 433-438, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:
text: Yüeh-kang, also called Yueh-ch'üan-kang, was situated in present-day Hai-ch'eng chen in Lung-hai district.
ref: 1990, Ren-chuan Lin, “Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the 16th and 17th Centuries”, in Barend ter Haar, transl., Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, page 169:
glosses: Alternative form of Longhai.
Milltown Malbay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The affix Malbay is from Mal Bay, on the coast.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Clare, Ireland.
German duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named "German" as a favourite dish among German sugar-bakers in London's East End.
Senses: glosses: A sheep's head stewed with onions.
Lahinch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish leath inse.
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town in County Clare, Ireland.
homographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a homographic manner.
cock-robin shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-robin shops
Senses: glosses: A small, disreputable printing office.
cock-robin shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-robin shop
cat's meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Animals' lungs used to be sold as food for cats.
Senses: examples: text: You must let him have all the jaw-work to himself, and give a holiday to your cat's meat.
ref: 1821, J. Burrowes, Life in St George's Fields:
glosses: A person's lungs.
Related terms: cat meat
kitty crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to cats' fondness for the plant; see crack (“form of cocaine”).
Senses: glosses: cat thyme (Teucrium marum)
Jack-in-the-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacks-in-the-water
Senses: glosses: An attendant at the watermen's stairs on the river and seaport towns.
Jacks-in-the-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jack-in-the-water
quockerwodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quockerwodger
againster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: againsters
Etymology: From against + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They felt that the fellow was a quockerwodger rather than a politician, an againster rather than a true American, an oppositionist in fundamental things rather than a sincere patriot.
ref: 1944, Morris Allison Bealle, Washington Squirrel Cage, page 9:
synonyms: anti
oppositionist
glosses: One who opposes something.
againsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of againster
Weare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in New Hampshire, consolidated with Hillsborough County.
Longridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8709)
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6037).
glosses: A hamlet in Penkridge parish, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9015).
glosses: A village in West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9562).
glosses: A surname.
shove in the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoves in the mouth
Senses: examples: text: Then he's the most comfortable ghost I ever heard of; for Theodore and I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane, with two or three underlings of the gallery about him […]
ref: Noctes Ambrosianae (volume 3, page 334)
glosses: A glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.
hogoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogoos
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, you may either put it into the pike, with the oysters, two cloves of garlic, and take it whole out when the pike is cut off the spit; or, to give the sauce a hogoo [haut goût], let the dish into which you let the pike fall be rubbed with it; […]
ref: 1877, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Kettner's Book of the Table, page 350:
glosses: Alternative form of hogo (“strong unpleasant smell”).
hogoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogoo
step it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps it
form: stepping it
form: stepped it
form: stepped it
Senses: glosses: To run away; scram.
outstrippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outstripping
outmodings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outmoding
Hickeys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hickey
ginger-hackled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Originally used to describe a certain colour or colours in gamecocks. See hackle.
Senses: examples: text: Speak lower. Somebody may be on the watch — perhaps that old ginger-hackled Jew.
ref: 1865, William Harrison Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard: A Romance, page 113:
text: “Lord Meriweather!” came a shout from the hallway. A ginger-hackled footman careened to a stop by the open door.
ref: 2014, Jo Ann Brown, A Bride for the Baron, page 39:
glosses: Having reddish or flaxen hair.
ecosocialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecosocialistic
form: most ecosocialistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ecosocialism.
HDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HDTs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hot-dip temperature.
glosses: Abbreviation of hot-dip tinning (the tinning process).
glosses: Abbreviation of hot-dipped tin (the layer deposited).
HDT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hot-dip tinned.
Related terms: HDA
HDB
HDG
HDZ
tin
tinned
tinning
Torrenses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Torrens
on one's own bat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I think you should go on your own bat—and I can get you some cash support.
ref: 1977, Lennard Bickel, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written, page 37:
text: Have ye done it on your own bat or did he kick you out?
ref: 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 149:
glosses: Alternative form of off one's own bat.
Jerry Sneak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jerry Sneaks
Etymology: After a character in Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret, a farce first performed in 1763.
Senses: examples: text: But very often blust'ring blades / Are Jerry Sneaks at home.
ref: 1832, The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth, page 189:
glosses: A henpecked husband.
wikipedia: The Mayor of Garret
Jerry Sneaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerry Sneak
great-great-nephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-nephews
Etymology: From great- + great-nephew.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great-grandnephew.
synonyms: word: great-grandnephew
long-tailed one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-tailed ones
Senses: examples: text: He said these people were going to leave with two other men on the Tuesday for the West Coast. That he saw a good deal of money with one person of the four and some "long tailed ones."
ref: 1924, Richard Hill, The Maungatapu Mountain Murders, page 65:
glosses: A banknote of high denomination.
long-tailed ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-tailed one
get someone's shirt out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets someone's shirt out
form: getting someone's shirt out
form: got someone's shirt out
form: got someone's shirt out
form: gotten someone's shirt out
Senses: examples: text: You've got his shirt out somehow, Honeybun; he'll do you a mischief. What did you say?
ref: 1876, Arthur Griffiths, Lola: a Tale of the Rock, volume 1, page 19:
glosses: To make someone angry.
Related terms: shirty
shirtlifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirtlifter
shirtlifting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shirt + lifting.
Senses: glosses: Of a man: effeminately homosexual.
Related terms: shirtlifter
Painswick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8609).
O'Doherty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: O'Dohertys
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochartaigh (“descendant of Dochartach”). Compare Doherty.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
barneymugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This may sound horribly old-fashioned, but I'd like permission to tak you out, you know, shake loose, do some barneymugging or whatever they call it today.
ref: 2003, Robert O. Barclay, The Ponder Legacy, page 69:
text: Having me on, are you? And I'm sure you do barneymugging brilliantly, but you never answered me question.
ref: 2015, Annalisa Russo, Angel Lost, Angel Found:
text: "Ready for some barneymugging, bird?" Thirt asked.
ref: 2018, Charlotte Laws, Devil in the Basement: White Supremacy, Satanic Ritual and My Family:
text: The process of flirting, foreplay and ultimately barneymugging can be used for or against you.
ref: 2018, Evelyn Chartres, The Van Helsing Paradox:
qualifier: circa 1920s
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
CCP virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From CCP (“Chinese Communist Party”) + virus.
Senses: examples: text: The CCP virus, which originated from China, ...
ref: 2020, Ramsis F. Ghaly MD, Coronavirus the Pandemic of the Century and the Wrath of God, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: For nonporous surfaces such as steel, in a dark and low-humidity environment, the CCP virus has an 18-hour half-life—the time required for it to decrease by half , according to the researchers' findings.
ref: 2020, Dr. Alan Pateman, China, Covid-19, World Domination, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: That's no longer a “theory.” It's a fact. So, apparently, is the conclusion that the CCP virus came out of a laboratory in Wuhan, not some nearby “wet market.”
ref: 2021, E. Lee Jensen, Weeding the Garden, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
text: Fauci helped steer US funding for creating the Wuhan lab that let loose the CCP virus and has been proud of working with Chinese scientists while ignoring that they are beholden to the CCP.
ref: 2021, Joel S. Hirschhorn, Pandemic Blunder: Fauci and Public Health Blocked Early Home COVID Treatment, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 85:
synonyms: China virus
Chinese virus
glosses: COVID-19 virus.
wikipedia: Chinese Communist Party
bepanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: be-pantsed
form: bepantsed
Etymology: From be- + pant + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: D. Lincoln Orr wired our poor be[-]panted editor, ‘Pants for Fall will be cut lower, but the prices are not due for a fall, but will rise higher. It behooves you to have those memorable ones re-seated.’
ref: 1919, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, volume XXIV, page 727, column 2:
text: We shall smile upon the first bepanted females who appear likewise.
ref: 1937, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, “Summer People”, in A Home in the Country, New York, N.Y.: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 154:
text: His mind was on that bepanted rear-end and its tender verso.
ref: 1973, Richard [Martin] Stern, Other Men’s Daughters, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 65:
text: Her right hand came back and smoothed lightly over the point where bepanted body ceded to stringent leg.
ref: 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion: A Novel, Baskerville Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 26:
text: Stage Door does both, contrasting more aggressive, bepanted characters with meeker, more feminine ones while also playing out the subplot of Tony Powell’s affairs and Judy’s dates with lumbermen.
ref: 2002, Judith Roof, “Spatial Attractions”, in All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, Urbana, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, section “What’s to a Door?”, page 46:
glosses: Synonym of betrousered.
synonyms: word: betrousered
be-pantsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Dear Jané, / Maybe Mrs. J. P. M., who objects to her daughter-in-law’s “pants,” has a son like my husband.[…]Be-pantsed Housewife, L.A.
ref: 1954 July 17, “Most Sincerely, Jane Palmer”, in The Mirror, volume VI, number 240, Los Angeles, Calif., part II, page 6, column 5:
text: “When women are emancipated, or feel they are about to be,” writes Laver, “they invariably steal some article of male attire: the hat, the coat, the waistcoat, and finally, the trousers.” No be-pantsed and booted militant of Women’s Lib would quarrel with that.
ref: 1970 May 21, Alice Blankfort, “What’s in a hem?”, in Imperial Beach Star-News, number 22, Imperial Beach, Calif., page B-1, column 6:
text: I cross my flannel be-pantsed legs and sigh.
ref: 2011 January 2, Rebecca Ross, “A new year of the same ol’ same ol’”, in Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola, Fla., section “Shiny happy people”, page 4E, column 6:
glosses: Alternative form of bepanted.
bepantsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + pantsed.
Senses: examples: text: 1. WHEN WILBUR WAS A LITTLE BOY AND DADDY’S PANTS WERE FRAYED / 2. A SNIP OF THE SHEARS / A STITCH OR TWO / 3. AND WILBUR WAS BEPANTSED ANEW
ref: 1925, Life, volume 86, page 22:
text: Parents don’t like it, but are trying to stay in communication with their behaired sons and their bepantsed daughters. Although his daughters have his permission to wear slacks to school during extreme weather, they are not permitted to do so when the weather is good, said Ed VanDriel of 1212 West Mountain Avenue.
ref: 1970 January 28, Sarah Bennett, “Parents not with it”, in Fort Collins Coloradoan, volume 96, number 288, Fort Collins, Colo., page 16, column 1:
text: gee! i like your pants-suit, flotilla! i think i’ll wear mine tomorrow![…]One in every office···the first gal to sashay in to work bepantsed···
ref: 1971 March 15, [Jimmy] Hatlo, “Hatlo’s They’ll Do It Every Time”, in The Evening Sentinel, volume XC, number 78, Carlisle, Pa., page 3:
text: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
ref: 1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page eight, column 3:
text: The winter pants didn’t fit either, I discovered, but I did find a couple of ancient pairs of wash-and-wears that came within a belt notch or so of fitting, close enough for wear as long as I kept the belt cinched up. Thus bepantsed, I went out and hit the men’s stores looking for a couple of cheap pairs of pants to do me over until I regained some weight.
ref: 1995 August 5, “Weight for me — my pants are falling down”, in The Anniston Star, Anniston, Ala., page 8A, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of bepanted.
betuxedoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + tuxedo + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I speak of those begowned and betuxedoed ones who attend the Parker Playhouse performances and rush for the exits the minute the final curtain goes down – who charge from their seats even while the actors are taking curtain calls and should be allowed their moment of triumph.
ref: 1971 January 26, “Mike Morgan”, in Fort Lauderdale News, volume 60, number 99, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., column 1:
text: Magic isn’t for begowned, fur-wrapped, bejewelled, betuxedoed adults.
ref: 1991, Gail McCutcheon, “Curriculum and The Magic Flute”, in George Willis, William Henry Schubert, editors, Reflections from the Heart of Educational Inquiry: Understanding Curriculum and Teaching through the Arts, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Betuxedoed waiters hover comfortably, lovingly, with that professional blend of attentiveness and distance.
ref: 1993, TheaterWeek, volume 6, page 40, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of tuxedoed.
synonyms: word: tuxedoed