cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stimulater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stimulaters
Etymology: From stimulate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: he next produced some cider, as good and rich as wine, then giving each of us a large slice of his toasted bread, he told us to eat it and drink the cider,-—observing that he had done so for a number of years and found it the best stimulater imaginable.
ref: 1830, James Sullivan Martin, A Narrative of some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, page 181:
text: His speaker role as he defines it is as a stimulater, and not as a speaker seeking some definite course of action.
ref: 1968, Herbert Wayland Cummings, A Rhetorical Analysis of Dr. Duncan E. Littlefair Using Rokeach's Theory of the Open and Closed Mind, page 86:
text: Also, the stimulater material must be properly selected to eliminate confusion in interpreting the data.
ref: 1976, A Titan Exploration Study, page IR-80:
glosses: Alternative form of stimulator.
stimulaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stimulater
selliera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sellieras
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Selliera typically present in salt marshes
drum fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum fills
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An extended riff played on the drums
fleet admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleet admirals
form: FADM
Senses: examples: text: The last commissioned fleet admiral was William Halsey in 1945. The last to hold the rank was Chester Nimitz, who died 20 February 1966.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The highest rank in the United States Navy, NATO grade OF-10, used only during World War II.
Synonyms: word: admiral of the fleet
word: admiral of the navy
Coordinate terms: english: US Army
translation: US Army
word: general of the army
word: admiral of the fleet
fleet admirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleet admiral
alumnuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2 No more for us yon tuneful bell shall ring for morning prayers, / No more to long Biennial we’ll mount you attic stairs; / Our recitations all are passed—Alumnuses you know, / We’ll swell the praises long and loud of Alma Mater O— / Oh! Alma Mater O, &c.
ref: 1867, Ferd V. D. Garretson, Carmina Yalensia: A Complete and Accurate Collection of Yale College Songs with Piano Accompaniment, New York: Taintor Brothers, Parting Song., page 21:
text: This gentleman, whom you will immediately recognize as one of our oldest Alumnuses, is Mr. A. Squirrel who will accept a peanut from a Columbia professor of higher mathematics as quickly as he will from a Freshman, which shows that he gets along pretty well as far as being a squirrel goes, but hasn’t much sense otherwise.
ref: 1920, Columbia Alumni News, volume 12, page 151:
text: BEHOLD—ye oldest and most faithfulest of the alumnuses.
ref: 1921, Ohio State University Monthly, volume 12, number 6, page 25:
text: Prototypical rehabilitation equipment produced by alumnuses of Technical School for Workers at Bielsko-Biała
ref: 1972, Polish Scientific Periodicals, page 75:
text: And if he accepts any favors, large or small, from “overzealous alumnuses,” he runs the risk of seeing his school put on probation, receiving sanctions, or even getting the “death penalty,” which means no football program for two years—that thing SMU received in 1987.
ref: 1989, Dan Jenkins, You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: plural of alumnus
trim-trams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trim-tram
blue check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue checks
form: bluecheck
Etymology: From the blue check mark badge that was previously displayed beside the names of such users. The second sense derives from the rude behavior from an influx of users who paid for extra features in their Twitter accounts from early 2023 onwards.
Senses: examples: text: Other blue checks on Twitter also weighed including Questlove and John Mayer.
ref: 2016 January 27, Adelle Platon, “Wiz Khalifa, John Mayer & More React to Kanye West's 'Waves' Album Name Change”, in Billboard:
text: It is a cardboard gold crown, but it helps in certain cases; for example, Twitter support will prioritize intervention requests when trolls attack a blue check.
ref: 2020, Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User, unnumbered page:
text: Some posted images of the French Revolution or the Korean film ‘Parasite’ as a way to show the feelings of the masses when the powerful “elites” of Twitter could not use their accounts. This is due to a perception that many “blue checks” only retweet each other and that the social media giant somehow prioritizes these verified accounts.
ref: 2020 July 16, Seth J. Frantzman, “Many celebrate as verified Twitter users unable to tweet due to hack”, in The Jerusalem Post:
synonyms: blue check mark
blue tick
glosses: A Twitter user whose account was verified by Twitter as authentic (i.e. not a parody or imposter account) and deemed to be of public interest prior to this system's replacement by a paid verification scheme in early 2023.
glosses: An online troll, provocateur, or grifter who uses a paid account to attract greater attention after the early 2023 change on Twitter.
Synonyms: english: online troll who uses the blue check
translation: online troll who uses the blue check
word: bluey
Related terms: bluetick
alumnæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All alumnæ whom she has had the privilege of welcoming back to alma mater know the cordiality of her greeting, and understand the feeling of one who writes: […]
ref: 1890, Memorial of Lydia W. Shattuck, Boston: Beacon Press: Thomas Todd, Printer, page 16:
text: Among the alumnæ, who knew her character and ability and remembered her superb classroom work, Miss Shafer’s appointment was received with genuine satisfaction.
ref: 1891, Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, page 438:
text: 1936-37 flings out its challenge for us alumnæ to better all past records in the experiences of high comradeship and service, both for our fraternity and for our communities.
ref: 1936, Alpha Chi Omega, The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega, volume 40, number 1, page 22:
glosses: plural of alumna
fryar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fryars
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of friar.
fryars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fryar
metaphysickal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaphysickal
form: most metaphysickal
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of metaphysical.
physickal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more physickal
form: most physickal
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of physical.
subphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + physical.
Senses: examples: text: Chi is just subphysical, but still beyond the reach of technological measurement. Or at least directly.
ref: 2008, Pamela Miles, Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide, page 10:
text: Quantum signature. He was there to determine the subphysical nature of the lattice sphere composition.
ref: 2009, Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void, page 542:
glosses: Below the level of the physical or tangible.
unextolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extolled.
Senses: glosses: Not extolled.
unconnubial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconnubial
form: most unconnubial
Etymology: From un- + connubial.
Senses: examples: text: The bed itself was a double one; it had as much brass work about it as a marine engine. Under the white counterpane it looked chaste and unconnubial.
ref: 1940, Norman Collins, Gold for my bride, page 51:
glosses: Not connubial.
pyramid pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: pyramids
glosses: A form of the game of pool, mainly played in the 19th century.
black pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: everlasting pool
glosses: A form of the game of pool, mainly played in the 19th century, which later merged with pyramid pool to become the game of snooker.
everlasting pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of black pool.
synonyms: word: black pool
blue check mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue check marks
form: blue checkmark
Senses: examples: text: “Some blue check marks,” he said, in reference to verified users on Twitter, “are trying to take credit for Epstein’s arrest, but I think we all know where the real investigations are coming from . . . The chans are incredible!”
ref: 2019 July 10, Travis View, “How conspiracy theorists taint the justice they seek”, in The Washington Post:
text: I think a lot of Democrats around the country imagine a Justice League-style building where all the party players have an office and there is a conference room where Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the presidential candidates, and all your favorite Blue Check Marks on Twitter get together to make strategic decisions.
ref: 2020, Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again, unnumbered page:
text: A month later most of us are voluntary detainees in our homes as part of an inspiring— if weird—act of mass solidarity. We are not doing it because «fear porn» made us or because the blue check marks hate Donald Trump.
ref: 2020 April 17, Tim Miller, “The Ballad of Clay Travis”, in Gorizont Russian Newspaper, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of blue check.
synonyms: word: blue check
blue checkmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue checkmarks
Senses: examples: text: But when records of bad decisions find their way into the spotlight, it is seemingly impossible to keep the pitchfork-wielding blue checkmarks at bay.
ref: 2019 February 14, Erik Halvorson, “Past wrongs should be met with grace and forgiveness”, in The Hillside Collegian, Hillsdale College, page A5:
text: But on the night of the caucuses, disaster! The blue checkmarks of rose Twitter caught wind of your plot!
ref: 2020 February 26, Sean Casey, “The view from the twilight zone”, in The Stanford Daily, Stanford University, page 4:
text: "I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)
ref: 2020 March, Ryan Bort, “The MAGA Mouthpiece”, in Rolling Stone, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of blue check mark.
non-Jewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Jewish.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
ref: 2014 August 20, “Why Jews are worried [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: Not Jewish, nor of Jewish descent.
vice-admiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-admirals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vice admiral.
vice-admirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vice-admiral
coalie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊli/
Forms: form: coalies
Etymology: From coal + -ie.
Senses: glosses: coalfish
anti-German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + German.
Senses: examples: text: The anti-German riots which erupted simultaneously in many countries in response to the torpedoing of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 reflected shifts in the status of minorities in multi-ethnic societies at a time of escalating nationalist emotions.
ref: 2013 November 24, Tilman Dedering, “‘Avenge the Lusitania’: The Anti-German Riots in South Africa in 1915”, in Immigrants & Minorities, volume 31, number 3, →DOI, pages 256–288:
glosses: Against Germans or Germany.
Derived terms: anti-Germanism
Sixties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixties
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally this was a direct result of network attitudes — as in the fifties with integration, the sixties with Vietnam, or the seventies with Watergate.
ref: 1981, Channels of Communications, page 22:
text: Both Burnham and the president were middle-aged baby boomers with an investment in their Sixties youth[…]
ref: 2016, Oliver Gruner, Screening the Sixties, →ISBN, page 179:
text: 2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/sixties-decade-was-it-good-sexual-revolution-swinging-london-hippies-culture-music-art-germaine-a7946506.html
When asked what the Sixties were all about, most people reply: peace, love, happiness.
text: Counterculture expert James Riley delves into the darkness of the Sixties to sort fact from psychedelic fiction.
ref: 2019 https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/did-the-sixties-dream-die-in-1969
glosses: The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
examples: text: The 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—an era known as "the sixties" to most observers—has perhaps generated more mythology than any other period in American history.
ref: 1999, Andrew E. Hunt, “Introduction”, in The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, →ISBN, page 1:
text: But the sixties no more ended in 1969 than they began in 1960.
ref: 2011, Rob Kirkpatrick, 1969: The Year Everything Changed, page xvii:
text: It is relatively easy to choose some event (Kent State, Altamont, Watergate, and the fall of Saigon are favorites) as the end of the Sixties[…]
ref: 2013, James J. Farrell, The Spirit of the Sixties, page 17:
glosses: A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.
Synonyms: 1960s
'60s
60s
crack team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack teams
Etymology: From crack (“highly trained and competent”, adjective) + team (“group of people”). First attested in the early 19th century, originally with reference to horse racing.
Senses: examples: text: She set the agency's crack team of detectives on the case.
text: The signal for starting was given at eleven o'clock, and horses, oxen, and men appeared equally to enter the scene; here was no false starting, no attempt at jockeying, no underhand endeavours to exclude the crack teams—honest competition and honest rivalry […]
ref: 1834 October 1, “Surrey Agricultural Association”, in The Standard, number 2306, London, page 3:
text: He then proceeded to congratulate them on the distinction gained by the splendid victory over the crack team composed of the Commander-in-Chief and his Staff, […]
ref: 1888 March 19, “India.”, in The Times (Latest Intelligence section), number 32337, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: Bush and Cheney put a crack team of lawyers and spin doctors into the Florida fight, while the Republican secretary of state, Katherine Harris, consistently interpreted Florida election law in ways favorable to Bush and adverse to Gore.
ref: 2012, Nancy L. Cohen, Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America, Catapult, →ISBN:
text: Pressed by pending U.S. clean-air regulations, a crack team of Honda engineers had been assigned to develop an engine that could satisfy the new law.
ref: 2013, Paul Ingrassia, Joseph B. White, Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: In 2019, when Theresa May was in danger of being ousted as prime minister by members of her own party, a crack team carried around gaffer tape in different colours so that they could tape over door signs lest she be photographed next to a sign saying “EXIT” (another trap that Mr Sunak has already fallen into).
ref: 2024 May 26, “Lights, camera…inaction!”, in The Economist (Britain section), London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A highly skilled, experienced and efficient team.
Synonyms: dream team
milking table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milking tables
Senses: glosses: A type of massage table containing an extra hole for the penis, so a man can be masturbated or fellated from below.
Related terms: glory hole
count-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: count-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from count off.
Senses: glosses: The act of counting off.
Related terms: word: countdown
word: countout
general of the air force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generals of the air force
Senses: glosses: A commissioned military officer of the highest rank in the United States Air Force, NATO grade OF-10,. This rank is currently out of use.
marshal of the RAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshals of the RAF
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The highest rank in the Royal Air Force, NATO grade OF-10, currently out of use.
Synonyms: marshal of the air force
marshals of the RAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshal of the RAF
generals of the air force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of general of the air force
tribal tattoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribal tattoos
Senses: glosses: A monocolor sleeve tattoo with a geometric design, supposedly similar to the tattoos of various indeterminate native peoples.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tribal, tattoo.: a tattoo signifying association to a particular tribe.
Hong-kong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The harbour of Hong-kong is famed among foreign residents in China for its extreme healthiness; and many a sojourner at Macao, after trying what medicine and exercise could do for him there, has at length repaired to Hong-kong, and found what he had so long sought in vain.
ref: 1841, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Philadelphia: E. Littell & Co., page 362:
text: We stated in our preceding volume, that in the month of August last year, Sir H. Pottinger and Sir W. Parker had sailed for Hong-kong, which was the place of rendezvous for the ships destined for the expedition to the northward.
ref: 1843, “Chapter XI.”, in The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1842, London, page 264:
text: Art. XV. provides for debts, incurred by Chinese dealers or merchants at Hong-kong, being recovered through the English courts of justice. Should the debtor fly from Hong-kong to the Chinese territory, and be known or found to have property, real or personal, the fourth clause of the general regulations will be applicable to the case, on application being made by the consul.
ref: 1844, The Indian Mail, a Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia, page 296:
glosses: Obsolete form of Hong Kong.
boat cloak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boat cloaks
Senses: examples: text: Captain Waddell threw aside a large boat cloak which he had thrown over his own and my shoulders to protect us both from the spray of the sea and intense heat of the sun, and also took off his gloves.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90
text: Frere observed with some astonishment that the chaplain wrapped himself in a boat cloak that lay in the stern sheets.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 421:
glosses: A large cloak worn at sea, especially a navy blue cloak worn as part of formal naval dress.
ice circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice circle
ice crawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice crawler
ice discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice disc
ice disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice disk
ice tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice tongue
ice tsunamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice tsunami
iced capps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iced capp
capp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capps
Senses: glosses: Clipping of cappuccino.
Derived terms: iced capp
flagstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagstand
flounderlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flounderling
fluoropyrroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoropyrrole
forecovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecover
fraxinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraxinin
lootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looties
form: looty
Etymology: From a derivation of Hindi लूटना (lūṭnā, “to loot”).
Senses: examples: text: Hyder Ali's stragglers, or looties as they were called, committed such repeated depradations upon all the European habitations, even to the edge of the works of the fort, that the proprietors removed everything valuable […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 93
glosses: An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
looties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lootie
glosses: plural of looty
bone in one's body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One might think, reading through his works, that the man did not have a sympathetic bone in his body.
ref: 2006, Robert C. Solomon, Living with Nietzsche, page 95:
text: The dwelling would have easily had rooms to spare for a couple of weary travelers, but the caretaker was an exceedingly cautious man without a compassionate bone in his body.
ref: 2012, Peter Devine, True to the Code: Stories of the American Character:
glosses: The slightest shred of some personal characteristic (specified with a preceding adjective).
Related terms: with every bone in one's body
credit bureau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit bureaus
form: credit bureaux
Senses: glosses: data collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to responsible agencies
credit bureaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit bureau
mispersons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misperson
Orion drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orion drive
trinitites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinitite
bare navy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Three weeks we had been at sea on bare Navy, when we dropped anchor off Porthaven," said Long Jim. "Bare Navy, you understand, is regulation rations and nothing else, the canteen having run dry; […]
ref: 1914, Leslie Cope Cornford, Echoes from the Fleet, page 62:
text: A tragic memory of Edwardian times, when butter or even margarine was a luxury in the Navy. Living on bare Navy symbolized having to exist on the coarse fare supplied by the Service.
ref: 1946, Edwin Radford, Unusual Words and how They Came About, page 15:
text: Far too often, indeed, it was a case of 'bare Navy', the maritime equivalent to the soldier's 'hard-tack'; […]
ref: 1959, Reginald Hargreaves, The Narrow Seas, page 296:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The situation where available food is limited to basic service rations.
bait advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Synonym of bait and switch.
synonyms: word: bait and switch
switch selling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Synonym of bait and switch.
synonyms: word: bait and switch
marionettish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marionettish
form: most marionettish
Etymology: From marionette + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a marionette, with stiff mechanical movements.
drumster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drumsters
Senses: glosses: A drummer; one who plays a drum.
drumsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drumster
dehospitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehospitalizes
form: dehospitalizing
form: dehospitalized
form: dehospitalized
Etymology: From de- + hospitalize.
Senses: glosses: To discharge (a patient) from hospital.
Related terms: dehospitalization
dehospitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehospitalizations
Etymology: From de- + hospitalization.
Senses: glosses: The discharge of a patient from hospital.
Related terms: dehospitalize
dehospitalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehospitalize
dehospitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehospitalize
dehospitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehospitalize
dehospitalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehospitalization
inky-dinky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋki ˈdɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: inky-dinkies
Senses: examples: text: You know you cannot get smaller lights than inky-dinkies but when you push one stop, you can use an inky-dinky for key lighting.
ref: 2013, Dennis Schaefer, Larry Salvato, Masters of Light, page 323:
text: A regular package here would give you six pieces of 1K tungsten lights, ten pieces of inky-dinkies, one HMI if you're lucky.
ref: 2015, Harriet Margolis, Alexis Krasilovsky, Julia Stein, Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World, page 151:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A small key light.
inky-dinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋki ˈdɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Forms: form: more inky-dinky
form: most inky-dinky
Senses: synonyms: itsy-bitsy
glosses: Very small; minuscule.
inky-dinkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inky-dinky
HMIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HMI
backshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backshops
Etymology: From back + shop.
Senses: glosses: A specialized store or workshop found in service industries, such as locomotive and aircraft repair.
backshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backshop
Helwith Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Horton in Ribblesdale parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD8169).
en plein
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From French en plein.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: Being a simple bet on a single specific outcome, especially a number in roulette.
ERW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ERWs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of enhanced-radiation weapon (“neutron bomb”).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of explosive remnant of war.
ERWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ERW
electronic smog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: electromagnetic radiation that causes undesirable interference
summer smog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer smogs
Senses: glosses: Photochemical smog.
summer smogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summer smog
eccentric abstraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of abstract sculpture that suggests organic forms.
edifice complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edifice complexes
Etymology: From the psychoanalytical sense of complex.
Senses: examples: text: There may be fewer dictators these days, he says, but instead local authorities run by city politicians “want to follow in the footsteps of mad King Ludwig of Bavaria and indulge their edifice complexes”.
ref: 2005, The Bulletin, numbers 6477-6485, page 63:
text: The McKees' Munster Mansion continues a long tradition of Texans with edifice complexes.
ref: 2006, Jerome Pohlen, Oddball Texas: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places, page 63:
text: When John Juliani described theatre in Canada as suffering from an edifice complex, he had in mind regional theatre companies that occupied buildings like the SLC.
ref: 2013, Michael McKinnie, City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City:
glosses: The desire to construct or own spectacularly imposing buildings.
edifice complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edifice complex
Crosby Garrett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7209).
event tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: event trees
Senses: glosses: An inductive analytical diagram that uses Boolean logic to examine a chronological series of events and their consequences.
event trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of event tree
executive privilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications and to resist certain subpoenas and other oversight.
frontlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: backlit
glosses: illuminated with light from the front
cocklestoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocklestove
dzongpon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dzongpons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dzongpen.
lipoduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipo- (lipid) + duct + -ion, a commercial wordplay on liposuction.
Senses: examples: text: Numerous groups have reported that adenovirus infectivity can be upregulated by interaction with null (DNA-free) cationic liposomes by simple mixing prior to infection in a process commonly referred to as lipoduction.
ref: 2005, R. Singh, D. McCarthy, K. Kostarelos, “Surface modification of adenovirus by zwitterionic (DMPC:Chol) liposomes can up- or down-regulate adenoviral gene transfer efficiency in vitro”, in Journal of drug delivery science and technology:
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: A pharmaceutical mechanism in which liposomes open ducts in, or penetrate, the skin to target a deeper layer, e.g. the fat cells causing cellulite.
dzongpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dzongpens
form: dzongpon
form: jongpen
form: jongpon
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha རྗོང་དཔོན (rjong dpon).
Senses: glosses: A leader or official of a district in Bhutan
Related terms: dzong
dzongpens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dzongpen
jongpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jongpens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dzongpen.
jongpens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jongpen
dzongpons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dzongpon
jongpon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jongpons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dzongpen.
jongpons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jongpon
Ormside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district, served by Bandleyside Parish Council and including the settlements of Great Ormside and Little Ormside.
scroonch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʊnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /skɹuːnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʊntʃ
rhymes: -uːntʃ
Forms: form: scroonches
form: scroonching
form: scroonched
form: scroonched
Senses: examples: text: He scroonched down flat on his belly and wiggled right under the fence
ref: 1950, The Hopkins Review:
glosses: to crouch
examples: text: The patient is shown how to hold one end of the string in his lips, and with a scroonching lip motion, to bring the marshmallow up to his mouth
ref: 1969, International Journal of Orthodontics:
text: The firelit face was low to the ground, tuening slowly from side to side; abruptly I realized that the turning head was sniffing the air on one side and then the other, scroonching its nose rather like an ape as it did so
ref: 2010, David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology:
glosses: to scrunch
scroonched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scroonch
scroonches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scroonch
scroonching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scroonch
Luri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Lurish
glosses: A Southwestern Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs of Western Asia.
Lurish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Luri (“language continuum”).
synonyms: word: Luri
extra: language continuum
flagfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagfalls
Etymology: From flag + fall.
Senses: examples: text: Boyce took him ahead at the flagfall , with the Hughes horse in pursuit
ref: 1945, Con O'Leary, The Grand National:
text: June 22, 2020, David Milnes, The Lir Jet swoops late to deny Wesley Ward's Golden Pal in Norfolk in The Racing Post
The result looked unlikely soon after flagfall when Wesley Ward's Golden Pal blazed a trail down the centre of the track under Andrea Atzeni
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The start of a horse race
glosses: A fixed fare charged at the beginning of a taxi ride
Related terms: flag down
flagfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagfall
yogathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yogathons
Etymology: From yoga + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A prolonged session of yoga.
yogathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yogathon
wankathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wankathons
Etymology: From wank + -athon.
Senses: glosses: A prolonged session of masturbation
wankathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wankathon
hot tubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tubbers
Etymology: From hot tub + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses a hot tub
hot-tubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-tubbers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot tubber.
poolgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poolgoers
Etymology: From pool + goer.
Senses: glosses: A person who goes to a swimming pool
poolgoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poolgoer
Gräfenberg spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gräfenberg spots
Etymology: Named after German physician and scientist Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of G-spot.
synonyms: word: G-spot
mitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitter
sauced up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sauce up
saucing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sauce up
sauces up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sauce up
Scotby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Wetheral parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in city of Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY4455).
Wetheral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in City of Carlisle district (OS grid ref NY4654).
Related terms: Wetherall
hand sanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand sannies
Senses: examples: text: Jake: Also the way Damon just danced like, ‘Ew! Don’t touch. Don’t touch.’ That was all him. That wasn’t in the script. We were like, ‘It would be funny if you acted like a lady stripper.’
Damon: Well I was stripper but I’m also a germaphobe. I’m like, ‘Ew! Ew! Hand sanny. Hand sanny.’”
ref: 2014 November 13, Lupe R Haas, quoting Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, “'Let’s Be Cops' Star Damon Wayans Jr. On Being a Germaphobe”, in Cine Movie:
text: They intertwine and overlap with the ease, adding depth to Julie's (Merced) relationship with her mom, Keun's (Jacob Batalon) desire to throw a good old-fashioned high school rager, and even a little time for the delightful D'Arcy Carden to show up as Stuart's (Moore) publicist and ask for "hand-sanny."
ref: 2019 November 8, Proma Khosla, “Netflix's 'Let it Snow' is here to kick your holiday season off right”, in Mashable:
text: You need your hand sanny to do what it’s meant to do (get rid of nasties) as well as not leave your hands feeling horribly dry in the process.
ref: 2020 December 21, “Handy Hand Sanny”, in Troublesmiths, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021:
glosses: hand sanitizer
Auldgirth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX9186).
spasmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spasming
Carronbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Carron + bridge, bridge across Carron Water.
Senses: glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8798).
Europlate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Europlates
Etymology: From Euro- + plate.
Senses: glosses: A number plate with the standard European Union format.
glass lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass lizard
foxes in henhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox in the henhouse
jewel anemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel anemones
Senses: glosses: Corynactis viridis, a brightly-coloured anthozoan.
jewel anemones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jewel anemone
sinistrorsely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sinistrorse + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sinistrorse manner.
dextrorsely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dextrorse + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dextrorse manner.
Yiddishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Yiddish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Yiddish.
taxi yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi yellow
Jesus God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Behind his right shoulder was a wall, with a corner of a painting in its frame, the naked leg of Cupid just visible — “Jesus God!” Jan shouted, having recognized himself at last.
ref: 2007, Kage Baker, Gods and Pawns: Stories of the Company:
text: And oh Jesus God, it was good to feel the touch of another human, let alone the press of a woman's flesh against his own. How long had it been?
ref: 2011, Norah Wilson, The Merzetti Effect:
glosses: Synonym of Jesus Christ.
synonyms: word: Jesus Christ
pronoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronoids
Senses: glosses: A person who experiences pronoia, the belief that others are conspiring to do them good.
pronoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characterized by such a belief.
pronoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronoid
bearded pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded pigs
Senses: glosses: The Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus), native to Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula.
glosses: The Palawan bearded pig (Sus ahoenobarbus), native to the Philippines.
bearded pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearded pig
Ardoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3676).
glosses: A location in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, on the A76 road and River Nith (OS grid ref NS8305).
glosses: A community in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, including Over Ardoch and Mill of Ardoch (OS grid ref NN8311).
glosses: A community in North Frontenac, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A minor city in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States.
Kirkconnel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7311).
kniffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪfliz/
Etymology: From Alemannic German Knöpfli (“pastry similar to spaetzle”). Compare the verb knöpfen (“to button”).
Senses: examples: text: Ed enjoyed kniffles, sauerbraten, a glass of pilsener taken away from home and Cosey's sight...
ref: 1987, Richard Irwin Rossbacher, Now Remembered: Living Pennsylvania History Through 1900, page 517:
text: Making kniffles for the sauerkraut supper, both at the church and in earlier years in my parent's house and hauling them over to the church in a big kettle.
ref: 2004, St. John's Lutheran Church, 150th Anniversary, 1854-2004:
text: In a separate pan, mix flour and eggs into boiling water, then mix in what he calls the "kniffles."
ref: 2008 October, Orange Coast Magazine, page 94:
glosses: Egg dumplings or noodles used in German cuisine
Synonyms: spaetzle
Mazzetti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mazzettis
Etymology: From Italian Mazzetti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Gaetz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪts/
homophone: Gates
Forms: form: Gaetzs
form: Gaetzes
Senses: examples: text: "I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)
ref: 2020 March, Ryan Bort, “The MAGA Mouthpiece”, in Rolling Stone, page 42:
text: The committee’s investigation into Gaetz began in 2021 but was put on hold while a separate, yearslong federal sex-trafficking investigation into the former congressman was underway.
ref: 2024 December 23, Sarah Ferris and Jeremy Herb, “House Ethics report finds evidence Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs including paying a 17-year-old for sex in 2017”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Gates
Inslee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
CD147
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD147s
form: CD 147
form: CD-147
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cluster of differentiation 147. A cellular receptor, associated with malaria, COVID-19, type-2 diabetes
Synonyms: basigin
BSG
EMMPRIN
M6
EMMPRIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMMPRINs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer, a cellular receptor, associated with malaria, COVID-19, type-II diabetes.
Synonyms: basigin
BSG
CD147
M6
basigin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basigins
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene that codes for the basigin (BSG) protein.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein encoded by the basigin (BSG) gene.
Synonyms: BSG
basigin gene
BSG gene
basigin protein
BSG protein
CD147
cluster of differentiation 147
EMMPRIN
extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer
M6
Derived terms: BSG
Dahalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aweer [Term?] (“stupid, worthless”).
Senses: glosses: A people living in coastal Kenya.
Dahalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aweer [Term?] (“stupid, worthless”).
Senses: glosses: Their endangered Cushitic language, notable for featuring all four airstream mechanisms found in human language.
outpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtpæd/
Forms: form: outpads
Senses: examples: text: [T]he construction of additional buildings in the parking area site and/or the development of 'outpads' constitutes […]
ref: 1982, The Pacific Reporter:
text: “The toughest thing to find in Europe is locations—they don't have strip centers with outpads at any price. So, you look for companies who are already in control of real estate or who have the capability to gain access to it,” says Frank Steed, ...
ref: 1996, Restaurant Business:
text: ... was to place a few entertainment components — usually cinemas and restaurants — on outpads, either on separate […]
ref: 2001, Michael D. Beyard, Developing Retail Entertainment Destinations, Urban Land Inst:
glosses: A part of a shopping center located outside the main building, nearer to the street, amid the parking lot.
outpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpad
ureido-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /jə.ɹiː.əd.oʊ/
ipa: /jʊ.ɹiː.ɪd.əʊ/
Etymology: From ureide + -o-, from urea + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ureylene.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing the univalent radical NH₂CONH–
deep clean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep cleans
Senses: glosses: Any thorough cleansing, especially one conducted in order to disinfect a place that has or may have been contaminated with a disease vector such as a virus, bacteria, etc.
deep clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep cleans
form: deep cleaning
form: deep cleaned
form: deep cleaned
Senses: glosses: To conduct a deep clean.
Derived terms: deep cleaner
deep cleaning
deep cleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deep clean
deep cleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deep clean
high-touch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All high-touch surfaces must be disinfected.
glosses: That is subject to a high volume of direct contact by human hands.
sclereide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclereides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sclereid.
deep cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep cleanings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deep clean.
synonyms: word: deep clean
deep cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep clean
deep cleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deep clean
e-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-boy
weather bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The schooner was then within two miles, and in another hour came dashing by close to us in a noble style, and hove to upon our weather bow […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 126
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The bow of a ship that is turned towards the wind.
karyothecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyotheca
cap-à-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cap-a-pie.
Sinkinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lasagnette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lasagnettes
Senses: glosses: A type of ribbon pasta that is rippled like the edge of a sheet of lasagna
glosses: A type of sheet pasta, a narrower version of lasagna
glosses: A type of cut pasta, small cut rigatoni sized flat rectangles with rippled edges, akin to mini-lasagnas, typically used in pre-made ready-to-eat heat-to-serve canned lasagna