cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sheriffwick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheriffwicks
Etymology: From Middle English shirevewyk; equivalent to sheriff + wick.
Senses: synonyms: sheriffdom
glosses: The area of jurisdiction of a sheriff.
examples: text: Thirdly, by the Acceſsion of another office, as when a Iuſtice of Peace is choſen to be Sheriff of the ſame County, his authority of a Iuſtice of Peace there is ſuſpended during his Sheriffwick; […]
ref: 1643, Michael Dalton, The Country Justice, Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace out of Their Sessions: […], 6th edition, London: […] Richard Best, […], page 14:
text: And alſo all his and their goods and chattels, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatſoever, of and from all and all manner of execution or of executions of Priſoners whatſoever, which to the office of Sheriffwick ſhall appertain, Forfeitutes, Fines, amerciaments, impriſonments, paine, penalties, or impoſitions, whatſoever, to be charged, layed, or impoſed upon the ſaid County of S. his executors, adminiſtrators or aſſigns, his or their or either of their goods, or chattels, lands, tenements or hereditaments, […]
ref: 1655, Edward Henden, William Noy, Robert Mason, Henry Fleetwood, compilers, The Perfect Conveyancer: or, Severall Select & Choice Presidents Such as Have Not Formerly Been Printed. […], 2nd edition, London: […] F. L. for George Thompson, […], page 207:
text: But the Sheriff is at much more charge, which is laid out, and is disburſed during his Sheriffwick, as experience will better inform him.
ref: 1668, Will[iam] Greenwood, Βουλευτηριον [Bouleutērion]. Or, A Practical Demonstration of County-Judicatures. Wherein Is Amply Explained the Judiciall and Ministeriall Authority of Sheriffs and Coroners. […], 3rd edition, London: […] John Place, […], and Will[iam] Place […], page 223:
synonyms: sheriffalty
sheriffdom
sheriffhood
shrievalty
glosses: The position or office of a sheriff.
sheriffwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheriffwick
undertoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undertoned
form: most undertoned
Etymology: From under- + toned.
Senses: glosses: Not sufficiently toned.
undertoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From undertone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Makeup is most often a shopper’s port of entry into recreational buying, yet it is also where race immediately thwarts that lovely sense of possibility. I want foundation by the latest maker, but it’s all too ashen or ruddy for my brown, yellow-undertoned complexion.
ref: 2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista, Boston: Northeastern University Press, page 19:
text: […] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes […]
ref: 2012 August 30, The Oracle:
glosses: Having an undertone of a specified kind.
undertoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From undertone + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undertone
theyself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Senses: examples: text: Just because they is gay, that don't mean they don't suppose to stand up for they self.
ref: 1986 April 12, John Royal, “Difference Between Asking & Ripping Off”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Themselves.
Related terms: y'allself
shortcutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shortcut
shortcutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shortcut
lovenest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovenests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of love nest.
lovenests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovenest
guttapercha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guttaperchas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gutta-percha.
guttaperchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guttapercha
goosie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goosies
Etymology: From goose + -ie.
Senses: glosses: goose
glammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlæmd/
rhymes: -æmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glam
glams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɡlæmz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glam
glamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlæmɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glam
quicke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of quick.
maintaine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of maintain.
beered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beer
beering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beer
watersnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watersnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water snake.
watersnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watersnake
water snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water snakes
form: watersnake
Senses: hypernyms: snake
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reptile
<
animal
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creature#Noun
coordinate_terms: sea snake
glosses: A snake that resides in, or spends a lot of time in, fresh water.
examples: text: It slips out of your hands easily, like a water-snake toy.
ref: 2020 November 12, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Trying to pin him down on any one topic, much less a specific time and place, is like trying to hold onto a Water Snake toy—as soon as I think I have a firm grip, he comes gooshing out the other side.
ref: 2010 November 1, Mike McMullen, I, Superhero!! :: We Wear Tights So You Won't Have To, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
text: Each time I tried to define it and pin it down to take a closer look, it seemed to slip away from me like one of those water snake toys that you can never hold on to. And then one day I finally discovered the problem.
ref: 2015 September 15, M. R. O'Connor, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Or to put it differently, tactility reveals the body as a single self-enclosed surface, like a Klein bottle or one of those “water snake” toys, a kid's novelty, in its own way a polymorphous sleeve or screen over which libidinous and[…]
ref: 2017 November 28, Keith Leslie Johnson, Jan Svankmajer, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:
text: In this Order, "toy water snake” means a toy that is a flexible tube which contains water and which is made of any rubber or plastics.
ref: 1968, Great Britain, Statutory Instruments:
text: She imagined a long pink tube with a winking hole at the end sliding from a body, like a grisly penis or one of those water-snake balloon toys kids give hand jobs to.
ref: 2016 August 22, Michelle Tea, Black Wave, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 155:
synonyms: water wiggler
water wigglie
water wienie
glosses: A toy consisting of a liquid and (optionally) plastic trinkets encased in a long, soft, plastic torus. It is difficult to grip.
Related terms: english: phenotypically similar but is a fish
translation: phenotypically similar but is a fish
word: eel
skazka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skazki
form: skazkas
Etymology: From Russian ска́зка (skázka, “fairy tale”).
Senses: glosses: A Russian fairy tale
skazki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skazka
skazkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skazka
goosies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goosie
repulsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repulsors
Etymology: From repulse + -or.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device used to deflect or repel other objects, or for flight stability.
Derived terms: repulsor beam
repulsor ray
inlinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inlining
repulsors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repulsor
smockfrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smockfrocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smock frock.
side boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side boobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sideboob.
side-boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-boobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sideboob.
side boobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side boob; alternative form of sideboobs
side-boobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side-boob; alternative form of sideboobs
Muslimophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Muslim + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muslimphobia.
Muslimophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Muslimophobic
form: most Muslimophobic
Etymology: From Muslim + -o- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Muslim positions meanwhile which previously were identified for the most part with the extreme right have increasingly come to be respectable and mainstream
ref: 2010, Asef Bayat, Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Politics in the Global South and North. - Page 298
text: At that time, the new mosque and the foundations, which had already been widely criticised from different Muslimophobic angles, far from being a space for knowledge and dissemination of the Din of Islam, a gathering place, became more like a new place not to meet the rest of the population
ref: 2014 Frank Peter, Islamic Movements of Europe: - Page 217
text: The teachers I interviewed at Goethe Gymnasium seemed to ally the concept of Europe with multiculturalism whereas, at Tannberg, education was more Eurocentric with some teachers getting close to being Muslimophobic.
ref: 2012, Daniel Faas, Negotiating Political Identities, p 106
glosses: Alternative form of Muslimphobic.
smockfrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smockfrock
unwitherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwitherable
form: most unwitherable
Etymology: From un- + wither + -able.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being withered; imperishable; timeless.
ideator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideators
Etymology: From verb ideate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that in the lowly forms of life the function greatly exceeds the form in complexity shows conclusively that there is an inner entity synthesizing these functions, and that evolution in all its phases is but the outer response to the inner idea, and, as ideas necessitate an ideator, an inner entity is therefore necessitated.
ref: 1892, Jerome A. Anderson, Reincarnation: A Study of the Human Soul in Its Relation to Re-birth, Evolution, Post-mortem States, the Compound Nature of Man, Hypnotism, Etc:
text: Active suicidal ideators were defined as people who were seriously thinking, planning, or wishing to commit suicide.
ref: 2013, Virginia E. Richardson, Amanda S. Barusch, Gerontological Practice for the Twenty-first Century, page 136:
glosses: One who ideates; one who holds or generates an idea, or synthesizes a concept.
Related terms: idea
ideate
ideation
ideators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideator
parently
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parently
form: most parently
Etymology: From parent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A great benefit of breaking down sexism would be creation of a more "parently" society by recognizing and validating the traditional nurturing strengths of women, […]
ref: 1978, Ourselves and our children, Boston Women's Health Book Collective:
text: They feel they are caught up in all these parently duties. All their waking hours are taken up in housekeeping, caring for the daughter, son-in-law and the grandchild.
ref: 2001, Ishwar Modi, Ageing and Human Development:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parent; parental.
flyscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyscreen
dropleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropleafs
form: dropleaves
form: drop-leaf
Etymology: From drop + leaf.
Senses: glosses: A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
dropleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropleaf
firwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firwoods
Etymology: From Middle English *firwode, *firrewode, from Old English furhwudu, equivalent to fir + wood.
Senses: glosses: The wood of the fir tree.
glosses: A wood largely populated with fir trees.
firwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firwood
AMSWWBUW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined as early as 1993 in the Usenet group alt.cesium.
Senses: examples: text: Organization: AMSWWBUW.
ref: 1994 April 2, Brendan Dunn, “*FAQ* theory of the mind , 5_11 ; requested by”, in sci.psychology.misc (Usenet):
text: According an inside AMSWWBUW source, that threat was actually traced back to the infacmous^([sic]) would-be terrorist organization, FrAt (Fr@nc!-m / Ast@t!ne).
ref: 1996 March 14, Roger Douglas, “Re: hello”, in alt.games.mornington.cresent (Usenet):
text: The greatest use of Cesium tonnage-wise is in the annual Cesium orgies sponsored by AMSWWBUW.
ref: 2005 June 17, Me (originally by Cipher), “alt.cesium FAQ”, in alt.cesium (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of association of mad scientists who want to blow up the world.
kumkuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kumkumas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kumkum.
kumkum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊmkʊm/
Forms: form: kumkuma
form: kunku
form: kungumam
Etymology: From Hindi कुमकुम (kumkum) from Sanskrit कुङ्कुम (kuṅkuma).
Senses: examples: text: A maid passed her the gold thali with a lamp and kumkum and turmeric powder in it.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 197:
text: Saubhagya Devi sent Alak Kishori to fetch kumkum.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 134
glosses: A red powder, made from saffron or turmeric, used ceremonially by Hindu women to make various markings on the body, especially the tilak.
kumkumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kumkuma
kumkums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kumkum
deathmask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathmasks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of death mask.
deathmasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathmask
methodistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more methodistical
form: most methodistical
Senses: examples: text: His wife […] is at present as free from any Methodistical notions as her husband: I say at present; for she freely confesses that her brother’s documents made at first some impression upon her, and that she had put herself to the expense of a long hood, in order to attend the extraordinary emotions of the Spirit […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of methodistic.
synonyms: word: methodistic
travelworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more travelworn
form: most travelworn
Etymology: From travel + worn.
Senses: glosses: Worn or damaged from being taken on travels.
spider senses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider sense; alternative form of Spidey-senses
Bárðarbunga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Icelandic Bárðarbunga, from Bárður + bunga (“bulge, protuberance”), literally "Bárðar's bulge".
Senses: glosses: An Icelandic subglacial stratovolcano located under the ice cap of Vatnajökull glacier.
junkheap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junkheaps
Etymology: From junk + heap.
Senses: glosses: A collection or pile of unwanted things
junkheaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junkheap
peartree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peartrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pear tree.
peartrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peartree
footballish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From football + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Don Torrey gives the picture originally of a shaggy-headed footballish fellow making a slave of the old piano.
ref: 1942, William Page Harbeson, History of the Tau Chapter of Psi Upsilon, page 112:
text: He was a big handsome footballish guy who quoted love poems by Kipling and these poems were not at all like other poems, such as Hiawatha and The Cremation of Sam McGee and Casey at the Bat and Little Orphant Annie.
ref: 1962, Harry Allen Smith, To Hell in a Handbasket, page 127:
text: Debating the point was the fraternity's chief sadist, the aforementioned “Kluman the Obnoxious,” Kluman of the bulging malevolent black eyes, swarthy scowl, dark bass voice, and footballish build and disposition.
ref: 2000, R.F. Dietrich, The Final Solution: A Novel for the End of Days, page 29:
glosses: Having the physical characteristics associated with an American football player; being large and muscular.
spider sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider senses
Senses: examples: text: And yes, sometimes it is hard to tell where a person is coming from until you talk to him for a little while, but nine times out often, you can use your spider senses to know when a man is not your type.
ref: 1998, Kim Coles, I'm Free, But It'll Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles, page 3:
text: Care to let the rest of the Scooby Gang in on whatever's got your spider senses tingling?"
ref: 1999, Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, Deadly Genes, page 165:
text: Always keep your radar up and, if you feel your spider senses tingling, they're tingling for a reason.
ref: 2005, Romy Miller, Man Magnet: How to Be the Best Woman You Can Be in Order to Get the Best Man:
text: Hopefully your spider sense is tingling at the very thought of putting multiple copies of that block of code onto our index page, because mine sure is.
ref: 2007, Eldon Alameda, Practical Rails Projects, page 73:
text: When there are plenty of witnesses, you make act sheepish or naïve, but when you are the last one to leave, and your spider sense is reverberating with the creeper vibe, it is absolutely necessary to stand your ground.
ref: 2011, Trixie Tamerlane, From the Other Side: Pourings from the Mind of a Bartender, page 18:
glosses: Alternative form of Spidey sense
drop-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-leafs
form: drop-leaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dropleaf.
drop-leafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-leaf
drop-leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-leaf
dropleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropleaf
broseph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹoʊsəf/
ipa: /ˈbɹəʊsəf/
Forms: form: brosephs
form: brosef
form: brosif
Etymology: 2000s, blend of bro + Joseph.
Senses: examples: text: "Come on, broseph," he calls back to Lucas, grinning wildly. "Let's spy on them!"
ref: 2007, Rick Barba, The Shrieking Shadow, Aladdin Paperbacks, published 2007, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Anybody who walks into your room knows immediately that you get blasted, broseph, and that most of your pride, social standing and self worth are derived from your ability to drink litres upon litres of spiced rum.
ref: 2010, Jonny Wakefield, Bryce Warnes, & Anna Zoria, "What's on you wall?", The Ubyssey (University of British Columbia), Volume 92, Number 11, 7 October 2010, page 4
text: “That I am, broseph. That I am.”
ref: 2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth, Carolrhoda Lab, published 2014, →ISBN, page 312:
glosses: A comrade or friend.
Synonyms: bro
brother
dude
Related terms: brosephine
notaries public
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notary public
secretaries general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretary general
surgeons general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon general
surgeon-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surgeons-general
form: surgeon-generals
form: surgeons-generals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Surgeon General.
surgeons-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon-general
surgeon-generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon-general
Surgeon-General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Surgeons-General
form: Surgeon-Generals
form: Surgeons-Generals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Surgeon General.
Surgeons-General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Surgeon-General
Surgeon-Generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Surgeon-General
Surgeons-Generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Surgeon-General
Surgeons General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Surgeon General
brosephine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹoʊ.sə.fin/
ipa: /ˈbɹəʊ.sə.fiːn/
Forms: form: brosephines
Etymology: Blend of bro + Josephine, after the pattern of broseph.
Senses: examples: text: in other words, ROCK ON, BROSEPHS (and brosephines)!!!
ref: 2003 October 5, Emomakesmefart [username], “Jables on SNL”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):
text: First of all, good luck finding anyone willing to play beer pong in a wood-paneled rec room, say goodbye to fist-bumping with your brosephines while watching Dane Cook on if Dad's got the remote during an Everybody Loves Raymond marathon, […]
ref: 2007, Jake Martin, "Ask Jake", Rose Hill Magazine (Fordham University), Spring 2009, page 7
text: But in the other no-less-important stylistic sense, these guys are doing the Lord's work for bros and brosephines everywhere.
ref: 2014, Eddie Alterman, "Two Big Shows" (editor's letter), Car and Driver, Volume 59, Number 8, February 2014, page 9
glosses: A female comrade or friend.
Synonyms: broette
dudette
ladybro
sister
Related terms: broseph
brosephines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brosephine
broette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊˈɛt/
Forms: form: broettes
Etymology: From bro + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: And if you're not a bro or broette in the Lord, we'd love to tell you how you can become one.
ref: 2009, Claude T. Stauffer, Stay the Course and Stick with the True Gospel, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page xxiv:
text: Shout out to the amazing bros and broettes who live every goddamn day with the super-wonderful company of their Greek friends!
ref: 2012, "The First Annual Squatties", The Botetourt Squat (satirical newspaper of the College of William & Mary), Volume 2, Issue 6, 27 April 2012, page 8
text: […] in roughly equal measure to the species of college bro and broette more likely to be found in a bar across the street.
ref: 2014 April 17, Brianne Richson, “Iowa City's divided soul”, in The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, page 4A:
glosses: A female comrade or friend.
Synonyms: brosephine
dudette
ladybro
sister
brosephs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broseph
broettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broette
marihoochie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And it's all because of those innocent little tokes on that pipeful of MARIHOOCHIE.
ref: 2000, Bradley M. Fralick, Through My Head: Essays by a Brain Injury Survivor, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: Slowly I reach toward my cigarette pack for the marihoochie, […]
ref: 2004, Poe Ballantine, God Clobbers Us All, Hawthorne Books, →ISBN:
text: “Would you like to smoke some marihoochie?” Indio asked her.
ref: 2013, Robert Andrew Mannie, Dolphin Days, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Marijuana.
scatter gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatter guns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shotgun.
synonyms: word: shotgun
scanxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of scan + anxiety.
Senses: examples: text: Even now, almost nine years after Dr. Jablons declared me cured, when I have a "scanxiety" attack or see a frightening cancer headline, I replay his words in my mind and remind myself that I will likely live to play with my son's children and maybe even spend my retirement savings.
ref: 2011, Lori Hope, Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know, Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Nevertheless, we both experienced the usual "scanxiety" — the nervous feeling one gets at the approach of a scan date.
ref: 2012, Jai Pausch, Dreaming New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss, Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 78:
text: “It’s an amazing step in our healing journey, as it can be nerve wracking to go through the ‘scanxiety’ every six months,” says Teicher.
ref: 2014 April 25, Erin Ellis, “Mother finds unique way to share her cancer story with others”, in The Vancouver Sun:
glosses: Anxiety experienced while waiting to undergo a medical scan or receive the results of one.
Karafuto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 樺太 (Karafuto).
Senses: glosses: Japanese name for Sakhalin (island in Russia)
glosses: a Japanese prefecture (Karafuto-chō) on the South Sakhalin, commonly called South Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945.
unsellability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sell + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Property of being unsellable.
Related terms: sellability
unsellable
sellability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sell + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Property of being sellable; ability to be sold.
scatter-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatter-guns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shotgun.
synonyms: word: shotgun
do no harm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does no harm
form: doing no harm
form: did no harm
form: done no harm
Etymology: Calque of Latin prīmum nōn nocēre.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, make your mind easy! I shall do no harm, if I do no good."
ref: 1889, Wilkie Collins, chapter 51, in The Legacy of Cain:
text: [G]et government out of the gambling business. . . . These officials pervert public policy, which should at least do no harm.
ref: 1999 March 29, William Safire, “Essay”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Aug 2014:
text: First, consider the moral minimum, do no harm.
ref: 2005, Patricia Illingworth, Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care, Routledge, →ISBN, page 100:
text: A doctor's principle code is, "First, do no harm."
ref: 2008 December 20, Judith D. Schwartz, “Making Hospitals Greener — and Patients Healthier”, in Time, retrieved 18 Aug 2014:
text: Hence, some people consider non-maleficence to be the most basic of all the cardinal principles of ethics; it lays down the least minimum condition for ethical correctness, as if to say: "even if you would not do good, at least do no harm."
ref: 2012, A. Bame Nsamenang, editor, Handbook of African Educational Theories and Practices, →ISBN, page 100:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To perform no actions which will be injurious or in any way unfavorable to another person, regardless of whether one does anything of positive benefit for that other person.
Related terms: word: nonharmful
word: beneficence
word: nonmaleficence
english: first, do no harm
translation: first, do no harm
word: primum non nocere
surgeon generals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon general
fees simple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fee simple
latent variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latent variables
Etymology: The variables are latent (“hidden”) because they are not directly observed, but instead inferred from other variables.
Senses: examples: text: Each of these is a latent variable, which is measured by one or more observable variables.
ref: 1995, J. Tague-Sutcliffe, L. Vaughan, C. Sylvain, “Using LISREL to Measure the Impact of Information on Development: London Site Pilot Study”, in Paul McConnell, editor, Making a Difference: Measuring the Impact of Information on Development, Proceedings of a Workshop, page 141:
text: 2002, Cavid J. Bartholomew, 1: Old and New Approaches to Latent Variable Modelling, George A. Marcoulides, Irini Moustaki (editors), Latent Variable and Latent Structure Models, 2012, page 1,
The earliest use of latent variable ideas in time series appears to have been due to Wiggins (1973) but, as so often happens, it was not followed up. […] The basis for this remark can be explained by reference to a simple example which, at first sight, appears to have little to do with latent variables.
text: As stated earlier, in addition to having df greater than 0, the second condition for model identification is that the latent variables have to be scaled.
ref: 2008, Donna Harrington, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, page 26:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A variable that is not directly measured but is inferred by means of a mathematical model from one or more directly observed variables.
Synonyms: sense: variable not directly measured
word: hidden variable
sense: variable not directly measured
word: hypothetical construct
sense: variable not directly measured
word: hypothetical variable
Related terms: latent space
latent variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latent variable
duplivincular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin duplus (“double”) + Latin vinculāre (“bind”), from vinciō (“bind”).
Senses: examples: text: The duplivincular ligament present in the order Arcida is a derived character.
glosses: The quality or character of being doubly bound, bound twice over.
other rank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: other ranks
Senses: examples: text: He knew that Sergeant-Major Cowley wanted to get the Other Ranks out of the hut with that captain carrying on like that, and he did not see why the old N.C.O. should not have what he wanted.
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 301:
text: There were to be these raiders – Amon, myself and thirty ‘other ranks’ […]
ref: 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 125:
text: Originating as an officers' style, this one was quickly embraced by Other Ranks as well.
ref: 1975, Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory:
text: As I was wearing no badges of rank I was mistaken for an other rank.
ref: 1992, AJ Deane-Drummond, Arrows of Fortune, page 42:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier who is not a commissioned officer.
other ranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of other rank
factor analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factor analyses
Senses: examples: text: Factor analysis is a generic term that we use to describe a number of methods designed to analyze interrelationships within a set of variables or objects.
ref: 1993, Richard A. Reyment, K. G. Jöreskog, Applied Factor Analysis in the Natural Sciences, page 71:
text: Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and principal components analysis (PCA) both are methods that are used to help investigators represent a large number of relationships among interval-level variables in a simpler (more parsimonious) way.
ref: 2005, Nancy L. Leech, Karen Caplovitz Barrett, George Arthur Morgan, SPSS for Intermediate Statistics: Use and Interpretation, page 88:
text: Hence, the idea of nonlinear factor analysis should not be treated as an extension of the basic factor analysis concept, but should be considered as an inherent effort to make factor analysis more complete and useful.
ref: 2007, Melanie M. Wall, Yasuo Amemiya, “Chapter 16: A Review of Nonlinear Factor Analysis and Nonlinear Structural Equation Modeling”, in Robert Cudeck, Robert C. MacCallum, editors, Factor Analysis at 100: Historical Developments and Future Directions, unnumbered page:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A statistical method used to describe variability among observed correlated variables in terms of one or more unobserved variables (called factors).
examples: text: Separate exploratory factor analyses using an oblique rotation were conducted on the item sets measuring task values, task difficulty perceptions, and ability perceptions.
ref: 1999, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Allan Wigfield, “In the Mind of the Actor: The Structure of Adolescents' Achievement Task Values and Expectancy-Related Beliefs”, in Richard M. Lerner, Jasna Jovanovic, editors, Cognitive and Moral Development and Academic Achievement in Adolescence, page 219:
text: The factor analyses clearly showed significant vectors where variables of campesino identity are related.
ref: 2008, Nina K. Müller-Schwarze, When the Rivers Run Backwards, page 368:
text: Consequently, exploratory factor analyses were utilized to identify a factor structure represented by the survey items.
ref: 2010, Nicole Nicotera, Inna Altschul, Andrew Schneider-Munoz, Ben Webman, “Conceptual and Analytic Development of a Civic Engagement Scale for Preadolescents”, in Jeff Keshen, Barbara A. Holland, Barbara E. Moely, editors, Research for What?: Making Engaged Scholarship Matter, page 81:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A statistical study performed using the method.
Related terms: factorist
regression analysis
factor analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factor analysis
ski skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of skate skiing.
synonyms: word: skate skiing
skate skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski skating
Senses: glosses: One of the two major styles of cross-country skiing, in which the skier proceeds on an even surface instead of tracks, using a technique which resembles ice skating.
Related terms: classic skiing
jery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeries
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of bird, endemic to Madagascar, in the genera Neomixis and Hartertula.
thamnornis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: synonyms: thamnornis warbler
glosses: A bird endemic to Madagascar of species Thamnornis chloropetoides.
pronouncing dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronouncing dictionaries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pronunciation dictionary.
synonyms: word: pronunciation dictionary
pronouncing dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronouncing dictionary
fong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, Scribner-Simon & Schuster, New York: 1996, p 147.
'Get away from my door or I'll come out and give every one o' ye a good fong in the hole of yeer arse.'
glosses: A kick.
fong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A penis.
Related terms: fong kong
Bahasa Indonesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian bahasa Indonesia.
Senses: glosses: The official name of the official language of Indonesia, otherwise known as Indonesian.
classic skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the two major styles of cross-country skiing, in which the hands and legs are working diagonally and the skis are moved along parallel tracks.
Related terms: skate skiing
reduced-fat milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reduced-fat milks
Senses: glosses: milk from which about half of the cream has been removed
Synonyms: word: semi-skimmed milk
sci-fier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.faɪ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: sci-fiers
Etymology: From sci-fi + -er.
Senses: glosses: A science-fictioner.
science-fictioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science-fictioners
Etymology: From science fiction + -er.
Senses: glosses: A science fiction movie or television program.
Related terms: actioner
scifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scifiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sci-fier.
ratfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rat + folk.
Senses: examples: text: Ratfolk are timid by nature and Singe was trying to make her own way outside her native society. Ratfolk males don't yell and threaten and promise massive bloodshed unless they intend to deliver. They don't banter.
ref: 2002, Glen Cook, Angry Lead Skies: A Garrett, P.I., Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: If it's just the ratfolk looking for a bit of payback, there's no reason to think you and I are in any further danger.
ref: 2010, Ari Marmell, Agents of Artifice: A Planeswalker Novel, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
text: Foreigners wouldn't know that some ratfolk can suck it down by the barrel. Once the kids were away, Singe began babbling about needing to get back to the house fast. We had a garderobe that a ratgirl could use.
ref: 2011, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Down These Strange Streets, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: Intelligent anthropomorphic creatures akin to (or created from) rats.
rat-folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ratfolk.
lizardfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪz.əd.fəʊk/
ipa: /ˈlɪz.ɚd.foʊk/
Forms: form: lizardfolk
Etymology: From lizard + folk.
Senses: examples: text: The guard beasts were intended to keep the dangers of the jungle out of Emath—the tribes of scaly lizardfolk...
ref: 1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag, Baen Books, →ISBN:
text: Lizardfolk druids are easier to integrate with the average game than are their centaur counterparts — it nothing else, it's easier to take a lizardfolk than a centaur into a dungeon.
ref: 2002, David Eckelberry, Mike Selinker, Masters of the Wild, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
text: When a lizardfolk chooses this ability, he can detect opponents within 10 feet (double that if the scent is upwind, one-half if downwind) and may take a move action to determine the direction of a scent.
ref: 2003, Dawnforge: Crucible of Legend, Diamond Comic Distributors, →ISBN:
text: Shara's blade cut the creature's flank, then the demon leaped over the terrified lizardfolk and vanished in a rising cloud of mist. “Quarhaun!” Shara called. “Bring Kssansk to look at this!”
ref: 2011, James Wyatt, Oath of Vigilance: A Dungeons & Dragons Novel, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
text: Several groups of dead sand lizardfolk were scattered across their path. Sand lizardfolk, or salamanders, were the desert cousins to the normal lizardman or lizardfolk.
ref: 2011, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval: The Book of Loss, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 260:
text: “These are the lizardfolk!” They did not look like lizards, but Temur, too, had heard of the tribes to the west who rode under the banners of dragons and wore their hide as armor.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts, Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Our friend here is a lizardfolk.
ref: 2013, Tim Rose, The Forging, Author House, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of intelligent anthropomorphic creature akin to (or created from) lizards; lizardman.
lizard-folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizard-folk
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lizardfolk.
Cookies and Cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cookies 'n Cream
Senses: glosses: A flavor of ice cream made by combining vanilla or sweet cream ice cream with chunks of chocolate cookie (often Oreos)
Cookies 'n Cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cookies and Cream.
wipe down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wipes down
form: wiping down
form: wiped down
form: wiped down
Senses: examples: text: Please wipe down the kitchen appliances.
text: The fridge door is grimy. Please wipe it down with some spray cleaner.
text: Since. f. A dish-cloth, fleece-cloth, cloth to wipe down tables, or to rub the house.
ref: 1673, Randle Cotgrave, A French and English dictionary, page SIL SIM SIN:
text: "Officially...no comment," Randy answered and he took the damp kitchen towel from Annie and used it to wipe down the countertop of any dish water residue.
ref: 2013, Mike Gilmore, chapter 29, in Levels of Power: The Legislator, →ISBN, page 160:
coordinate_terms: rinse down
wash down
wipe off
glosses: To clean the exterior surface of an object, from top to bottom, typically by hand using a damp dishcloth or other cleaning cloth.
Derived terms: word: wipedown
word: wipe-down
Related terms: wipe away
wipe out
wipe up
wipedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wipedowns
form: wipe-down
Etymology: Deverbal from wipe down.
Senses: examples: text: I have to give my taxi a quick wipedown after lunch.
text: The cloudy windows that have inspired complaints from riders on social media for several years need more than a squirt of window cleaner and a wipe down. They need to be replaced.
ref: 2022 October 10, Larry Higgs, The Star-Ledger:
glosses: The act of cleaning the exterior of an object, typically by hand using a damp dishcloth or other cleaning cloth.
wipe-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wipe-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wipedown.
wipedowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wipedown
oakness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oak + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness.
ref: 2004, François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Crime Fictions: Subverted Codes and New Structures, page 2:
text: For Aristotle, an acorn becomes an oak, because it has the essence of oakness within it, which means it should become an oak.
ref: 2007, Siniša Malešević, Mark Haugaard, Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought, page 86:
glosses: The quality of being oak, or of being an oak tree.
pseudo-state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-states
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudostate.
pseudofruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofruits
Etymology: From pseudo- + fruit.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: accessory fruit
false fruit
pseudocarp
glosses: A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.
pseudotaxodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + taxis + -odont.
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: Having many irregular short teeth transverse to the hinge that are not ctenodont or pseudoctenodont forms.
raw_tags: of a bivalve
seckilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seckill
seckills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seckill
seckill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seckills
form: seckilling
form: seckilled
form: seckilled
Etymology: From sec + kill.
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: to kill an enemy within seconds
seckilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seckill
pseudotail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudotails
form: pseudo-tail
Etymology: From pseudo- + tail.
Senses: examples: text: A number of species, however, have a pseudotail consisting of a few postcloacal vertebrae, but annulation is incomplete and a terminal shield is consistently present.
ref: 2002, Jay M. Savage, The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The spermatozoon of Saduria entomon is long and bent, resembling a whip. It consists of a very long pseudotail (1.86 mm long), which lacks an axoneme, and an extended head (112 pm long) that hangs down at an acute angle,” scientists in Poznan, Poland report.
ref: 2012, Issues in Life Sciences: Zoology, →ISBN:
text: A true human tail (persistent vestigial tail) is rare and is differentiated from a pseudotail and an acrochordon by the presence of a central core of mature fatty tissue, small blood vessels, bundles of muscle fibers, and nerve fibers.
ref: 2014, Lawrence F. Eichenfield, Ilona J. Frieden, Andrea Zaenglein, Neonatal and Infant Dermatology, →ISBN:
glosses: An appendage that is similar to a tail in location and gross appearance but which lacks some of the features of a true tail.
otomycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'tō-mī-kō'sĭs
ipa: /ˌəʊtəʊmɪˈkəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: otomycoses
Etymology: From oto- + mycosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a fungal infection in the outer canal of the ear
thru-hike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thru-hikes
Etymology: From thru + hike.
Senses: examples: text: … but you can expect a thru-hike of the Florida Trail to take up to three months …
ref: 2004, Sandra Friend, The Florida Trail, Big Earth Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:
text: I shaved my head for the start of our thru-hike, …
ref: 2011, Francis Tapon, Hike Your Own Hike, SonicTrek, →ISBN, page 23:
text: … to our 2,658-mile thru-hike, …
ref: 2014, Karen Berger, Daniel R. Smith, The Pacific Crest Trail, The Countryman Press, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: an end-to-end walk of a long-distance trail in one unbroken trek
thru-hike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thru-hikes
form: thru-hiking
form: thru-hiked
form: thru-hiked
Etymology: From thru + hike.
Senses: examples: text: I've always wanted to thru-hike…
ref: 2006, David Miller, AWOL on the Appalachian Trail, Wingspan Press, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: to walk a long-distance trail end to end, in one unbroken trek
Derived terms: thru-hiker
bardee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bardees
Senses: synonyms: bardee grub
glosses: Alternative form of bardie.
bardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bardies
Senses: synonyms: bardy grub
glosses: Alternative form of bardie.
fox in the box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fox in the box is like just a sharp, y'know, like nippy kinda player, scores the goals but don't do much else just a fox in the box. They just score goals close by, few tap-ins.
ref: 2023 July 13, First We Feast, 20:14 from the start, in Harry Kane Takes One For the Team While Eating Spicy Wings, spoken by Harry Kane:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player with good finishing and movement inside the penalty area; a poacher.
tomayto tomahto
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tomayto, tomahto.
watch meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch meetings
Senses: glosses: A Christian religious service held on New Year's Eve.
watch meetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watch meeting
tetraka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrakas
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of warbler in the genus Xanthomixis, native to Madagascar.
Paeonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /piˈoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: Paionia
form: Pæonia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παιονία (Paionía).
Senses: glosses: The land of the Paeonians, a people inhabiting between the lands of Macedonians, Thracians, and Illyrians.
Related terms: Paeonian
slavehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slavehoods
Etymology: From slave + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a slave.
portlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more portlily
form: most portlily
Etymology: From portly + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a portly manner.
porterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From porter + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a porter.
determinerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From determiner + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without a determiner.