cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whiteanity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of white + Christianity
Senses: examples: text: To make life more human for the oppressed and to reclaim the humanity of the oppressed as well, the racism that is built into our most cherished institutions, including our churches, must be attacked and removed “root and branch.” Without this there can be “whiteanity,” but there can be no genuine Christianity.
ref: 1974, J. Deotis Roberts, A Black Political Theology, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, published 2005, →ISBN, →OL, page 68:
text: Is it an authentic liberation theology, or is it Christianity/Whiteanity—a religion of oppression, a species of the slave master’s Frankenstein mutation of biblical religion and Christianity that Carter G. Woodson labels mis-religion and Benjamin Mays, “compensatory beliefs”?
ref: 1998, William R. Jones, Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page ix:
text: But the black church also operates out of a constructive cultural amnesia still clinging to remnants of the malignant forms of Christianity offered by slaveholders. This is not Christianity at all but may be what William R. Jones refers to as a creative and adaptive form of “whiteanity.”
ref: 2004 July, Barbara Ann Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Fortress Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 40:
qualifier: Black liberation theology
glosses: A white supremacist form of Christianity.
jurament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juraments
Senses: glosses: A pledge or vow.
Related terms: juramental
juramentally
antichretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: civil law
glosses: of or relating to an antichresis
guidelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guidelights
Etymology: From guide + light.
Senses: glosses: A light that serves to guide.
guidelights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guidelight
unurbane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unurbane
form: most unurbane
Etymology: From un- + urbane.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis language un-urbane, and only befitting the man vvho cannot give clear and ſatisfactory accounts of things, or dive deep enough into the firſt cauſes of human ignorance and confuſion.
ref: 1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter II, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume II, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], published 1760, →OCLC, pages 10–11:
glosses: Not urbane.
Suevic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suevic
form: most Suevic
Etymology: From Suevi + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Suevi or Suebi, an ancient group of Germanic peoples.
pineapple weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineapple weeds
Etymology: The fragrance has been compared to that of pineapple
Senses: glosses: Wild chamomile (Matricaria discoidea)
glosses: Dwarf coastweed (Amblyopappus pusillus)
Synonyms: sense: Matricaria discoidea
word: disc mayweed
Idist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Idists
Etymology: From Ido + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […]but on the other hand the Idists are not so few as their adversaries generally say, and among them are a good many who before 1907 were leaders and editors of Esperanto in the various countries.
ref: 2010, Otto Jespersen, “History of our Language”, in Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen (Routledge Revivals), Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A speaker or proponent of Ido (a constructed language).
Coordinate terms: Esperantist
Klingonist
Lojbanist
Tokiponist
Volapükist
Idists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Idist
100 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 100 metres, a sporting race event.
Related terms: 100-meter dash
the more common US form
200 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 200 meters
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 200 metres.
400 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 400 meters
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 400 metres.
800 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 800 meters
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 800 metres.
1500 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 1500 metres.
5000 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5000 meters
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 5000 metres.
10000 meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 10000 meters
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of 10000 metres.
Yiddishist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yiddishists
Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדישיסט (yidishist, “Yiddishist (person)”). By surface analysis, Yiddish + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The third type of secular Bar Mitzvah was developed by secular Yiddishists in the United States before and after World War II. Rifkind's book includes a Hebrew translation of a Yiddish article from 1939 describing such an event. It sounds from the description that the family and friends were Labor Zionists. The party was in place of a synagogue service and the focus had shifted from God and the Mitzvot to Zionism, Yiddish and the Jewish people.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “The Origin and History of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 57:
glosses: A proponent of the Yiddish language and culture.
Yiddishist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדישיסט (yidishist, “Yiddishist (person)”). By surface analysis, Yiddish + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the efforts of the Yiddishists.
Synonyms: Yiddishistic
Related terms: english: German: Jiddischismus (Yiddishist movement), Polish: jidyszyzm, Yiddish: ײִדישיזם (yidishizm); German: Jiddismus (word or phrase), Polish: jidyszyzm
translation: German: Jiddischismus (Yiddishist movement), Polish: jidyszyzm, Yiddish: ײִדישיזם (yidishizm); German: Jiddismus (word or phrase), Polish: jidyszyzm
word: Yiddishism
english: German: Jiddistik, Polish: jidyszystyka
translation: German: Jiddistik, Polish: jidyszystyka
word: Yiddish studies
Yiddishists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yiddishist
IAL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Auxiliary Language.
examples: text: Between 1958 and 1960, a collaboration was initiated between the Association for Computing Machinery and the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik for the definition of a universal algorithmic language, first denoted IAL, later ALGOL58, and finally ALGOL60.
ref: 2020, Giuseppe Primiero, On the Foundations of Computing, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of International Algebraic Language, later named ALGOL.
scholars and gentlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scholar and gentleman
Yiddishism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yiddish + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Yiddishist movement.
Yiddishism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yiddishisms
Etymology: From Yiddish + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or phrase that is characteristically Yiddish but used in another language.
Yiddishisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yiddishism
Yiddishland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yiddish + -land.
Senses: examples: text: But once Dr. Levenson, who works for the Indian Health Service and wears a colorful tapestry yarmulke, has alerted the tiny network, it almost seems as if we have stepped into Yiddishland.
ref: 2007 April 29, Patricia Cohen, “The Frozen Dozen”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2023:
glosses: A region where Yiddish is spoken; the areas of Eastern Europe or the Jewish Autonomous Oblast that had significant numbers of Jewish inhabitants.
Yiddishistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yiddish + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Yiddishist
Synonyms: word: Yiddishist
Related terms: word: Yiddishist
abelianizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abelianization
abelianisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abelianisation
Zuluise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Zuluises
form: Zuluising
form: Zuluised
form: Zuluised
Etymology: From Zulu + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Zuluize.
Zionisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Zionization.
Zionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Zionises
form: Zionising
form: Zionised
form: Zionised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Zionize.
Zuluised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Zuluise
Zuluising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Zuluise
zeolitise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zeolitises
form: zeolitising
form: zeolitised
form: zeolitised
Etymology: From zeolite + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zeolitize.
zeolitised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zeolitise
zeolitising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zeolitise
Yiddishize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Yiddishizes
form: Yiddishizing
form: Yiddishized
form: Yiddishized
Etymology: From Yiddish + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make more Yiddish or Yiddishist.
Yiddishlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yiddishlike
form: most Yiddishlike
Senses: examples: text: “Chicken Soup,” 9:30 p.m., ABC, premieres Tuesday. Comedy. Yiddishlike Jackie Mason still sounds here like he just got off the boat. “I’m a wonderful poyson,” says Jewish carpet salesman Jackie Fisher (Mason), who lives with his mother (Rita Karin) while having a secret affair with Catholic Maddie Peerce (Lynn Redgrave), otherwise known as “the shiksa next door.”
ref: 1989 September 11, Howard Rosenberg, “The Networks’ New Season : The Great Plains of Prime Time”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: Practically no one could ignore the by now stock Jewish figures that they displayed: impecunious, shabbily dressed Ostjuden (eastern European Jews) displaying their own distinguishing signs and speaking a corrupt, Yiddishlike German; […]
ref: 2005, Henry Wassermann, “Caricature, Anti-Jewish (Modern)”, in Richard S. Levy, editor, Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, volumes 1: A–K, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The children of the two families, with the help of the rabbi and other villagers, fool their parents into sharing the Seder, and peace is restored. This original story has a folktale flavor and a wry, Yiddishlike tone of voice.
ref: 2012 April 1, Heidi Estrin, “The Elijah Door: A Passover Tale by Linda Leopold Strauss”, in School Library Journal:
glosses: Rare spelling of Yiddish-like.
winsorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winsorization
Winsorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winsorizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of winsorization.
Winsorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Winsorizes
form: Winsorizing
form: Winsorized
form: Winsorized
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of winsorize.
winsorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winsorisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of winsorization.
Winsorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winsorisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of winsorization.
winsorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winsorises
form: winsorising
form: winsorised
form: winsorised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of winsorize.
Winsorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Winsorises
form: Winsorising
form: Winsorised
form: Winsorised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of winsorize.
winsorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of winsorise
winsorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of winsorise
Winsorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Winsorize
Winsorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Winsorize
Winsorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Winsorise
Winsorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Winsorise
winterisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winterisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of winterization.
tragic flaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragic flaw.
nightbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightbird
Erdenet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɜːrdɪnɛt/
Senses: examples: text: On a clear, crisp October morning, we set out for the hilly northwest. Our destination: the city of Erdenet, where a mammoth copper and molybdenum mining complex is operated jointly by the Mongolians and the Russians.
ref: 1981 December 13, Seymour Topping, Audrey Topping, “THE HIDDEN MONGOLIA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section 6, page 73:
glosses: A city in Mongolia.
Darkhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːrkɑːn/
enpr: därʹkhän
Etymology: Transliteration of Mongolian Дархан (Darxan).
Senses: examples: text: In the towns that lay next on our itinerary, the Soviet-Mongolian partnership was much in evidence. In Darkhan, for example, founded just 20 years ago on the open grasslands, we saw the factories that provide 15 percent of Mongolia's total G.N.P.; they had been built by Russians and East Europeans. At the city hall, Mayor Tumurkhoyag told us proudly that his town was an example to all developing countries. Not the least among the achievements he cited was the development of two of Mongolia's five world champions in free-style wrestling, which, along with horsemanship and archery, is a national sport. Yet about half of Darkhan's population of 60,000 live in small wooden houses and yurts that are heated by wood and coal, with outside toilets.
ref: 1981 December 13, Seymour Topping, Audrey Topping, “THE HIDDEN MONGOLIA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015, Section 6, page 73:
glosses: A city in Mongolia.
Choibalsan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: choiʹbälsän
Etymology: From Mongolian Чойбалсан (Čojbalsan).
Senses: glosses: A city in Dornod, Mongolia.
Mörön
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mûʹrûn
Etymology: From Mongolian Мөрөн (Mörön).
Senses: examples: text: Mörön was the administrative capital of Khövsgöl aimag, sure — but why here? There was no obvious difference between this dusty, treeless plain and the 200 kilometres or so of dusty, treeless plain we'd just driven through. I looked out for the wide, flowing river that would justify the town’s name but I couldn’t see anything.
ref: 2013, Tom Doig, “On the Mission”, in Mörön to Mörön: Two men, two bikes, one Mongolian misadventure, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
text: Save time by catching a flight from Ulaanbaatar to Khovsgol's provincial capital, Murun. If you’re feeling adventurous, get on a local bus from Ulaanbaatar to Murun. During the 12 hours, you’ll see the vast central Mongolian countryside.
ref: [2019 March 8, “Celebrate Mongolia's winter on an ancient, frozen lake”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021, Travel:
glosses: A city in Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
Sükhbaatar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian Сүхбаатар (Süxbaatar). Cognate with Inner Mongolian ᠰᠤᠻᠪᠠᠠᠲᠠᠷ (sukbaatar).
Senses: glosses: A city in Selenge, Mongolia.
bat'leth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt.lɪθ/
ipa: /ˈbæt.lɛθ/
Forms: form: bat'leths
Etymology: From Klingon betleH, short for batlh'etlh (“sword of honor”).
Senses: examples: text: It is a bat'leth. It belonged to my father... It has been in our family for ten generations.
ref: 1990 November 5, “Reunion”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Worf (Michael Dorn):
text: The U.K. is looking to clean up its streets with a knife amnesty program, so you can imagine their surprise when a Klingon, er, excuse me, a Klingon fan, turned in a replica Bat’leth over the weekend.
ref: 2008 August 25, Jack Loftus, “U.K. Knife Amnesty Program Turns Up Klingon Bat’leth, No Sign of Worf”, in Gizmodo Australia, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
text: Officers searched the area but didn't find the robber or the weapon, which was described as a "bat'leth."
ref: 2009 February 4, Kieran Nicholson, “Klingon sword used in two Colorado Springs heists”, in Denver Post:
text: Howard: Why did you bring that?
Sheldon: No weapon strikes more fear into a man's heart than a Klingon bat'leth.
Leonard: OK, let's get clear on something. We just gonna tell this guy to transfer all your stuff back into your account and then be on our way. No one's bat'lething anybody.
ref: 2011 March 31, “The Zarnecki Incursion” (15:59), in The Big Bang Theory, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter (Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A double-ended curved blade weapon with spiked protrusions, controlled by grips along its back, used by Klingons in Star Trek.
coenosarcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coenosarc
cœnosarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœnosarcs
Senses: examples: text: The polype‐cells were not cut off from the common cœnosarc by a septum.
ref: 1872, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Siluria, page 539:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of coenosarc.
defectless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From defect + -less.
Senses: glosses: without a defect
Synonyms: flawless
perfect
faultless
Derived terms: defectlessness
bathtub gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathtub gins
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: rotgut, gut rot, hooch, swill, red-eye, moonshine
text: Part of Dallman's "Three Blind Mice" parody follows: / They called us donkey-braying cranks / But all they gave to win our thanks / Was bathtub gin and busted banks / For twelve long years.
ref: 1936 June 14, “‘Dates as Usual’”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 31 Jul 2013, page 2:
text: A 1976 Broadway hit, "Bubbling Brown Sugar" recreates the night life of the 1920s - when they drank "scotch in teacups" and bathtub gin.
ref: 1984 December 30, Alvin Klein, “‘Brown Sugar’ Done to a Bubbling Turn (theatre review)”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 Jul 2013:
text: And Wendy's on the windowsill / Waitin' to be let in / And we're all in the bathtub now / Making bathtub gin
ref: 1990, “Bathtub Gin”, in Lawn Boy, performed by Phish:
text: It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin.
ref: 2008 December 5, “Top 10 Prohibition Tales: Mortal Moonshine”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2012:
hypernyms: bootleg#Noun
coordinate_terms: jail juice
jungle juice
prison wine
pruno
swish
toilet wine
glosses: Gin or a similar alcoholic beverage which is of very poor quality, as if made by a homebrewer in a bathtub.
bare-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barefooted.
do not pass go, do not collect £200
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: do not pass go, do not collect $200
Etymology: From the board game Monopoly, where it was written on cards that sent the player's piece directly to jail.
Senses: glosses: A phrase telling someone to pursue a path directly without deviations.
Related terms: don't pass go
in the saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: 1990, December 28 broadcast, PBS Newshour, David Gergen
the pessimism […] in this country was in the saddle even before Saddam Hussein came along
glosses: Synonym of in control.
synonyms: word: in control
Derived terms: tall in the saddle
back in the saddle
back in the saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Well, that's it. Let's reactivate him. Wake up!” “[Yawns] Hey, chumps and chumpettes. Did you get the bomb out? Can I go back to saying the word I love to say?” “I'm sorry, but we couldn't remove it.” “It's stuck in there with glue or something. I don't know.” “Well, this is just great. What's the point of living if I can't say ass? [Gasps] Hey! I didn't blow up! Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass! All right! I'm back in the saddle.” “We couldn't disarm the bomb, so we reset the word that triggers it.” “It's from the list of words you almost never say.” “That's using your ass. So what's the word?” “We think it's better if you don't know.” “Oh, come on. I'm not going to say it. Please? Ooh, is it "please"?” “Nope.” “Hmm. Words I never say. Oh. I know. "Thanks."” “Bender, stop trying to destroy the world.” “Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it "sorry"? No. "Funderful"? Mmm... "Non-alcoholic"?” “Quit it.” “Bender.” “Stop it, mon.” “Enough already.” “"Compassion"? "Shrimp toast"? "Antiquing"?” [Explosion] “I'm all right.”
ref: 2000 November 26, Eric Horsted, “War Is the H-Word” (20:47 from the start), in Futurama, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
text: Eighteen months into his time off, a friend of Bean's who worked at Jaffe Raitt Heuer &; Weiss in Detroit had a large client that needed a senior attorney. Bean had not been actively looking to return to lawyering -- especially at a firm -- but the option to work part time appealed to him. " The client and I got along well and it was a nice firm, " Bean recalls. Before long, the position became full time and Bean is now a Jaffe Raitt partner. / "I'm back in the saddle," he says.
ref: 2009, "Off Track", Leslie A. Gordon, ABA Journal, Volume 95, Issue 2, pages 58-63
glosses: Returned to one's normal, healthy, functioning state, as from an interruption or setback.
Suebic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Suebic
form: most Suebic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Suevic.
oculolinctus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin oculus (“eye”) + linctus (“licked”), past participle of lingo (“I lick”).
Senses: glosses: A paraphilia involving licking the eyeballs.
kurti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurtis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kurta.
alwaysness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From always + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that 'alwaysness' can have its beginning and its end, or at least that 'alwaysness' can be conceived as once having begun and once having to end.
ref: 2007, Dirk Van Hulle, Mark Nixon, All Sturm and No Drang:
text: This sense of “alwaysness” is reproduced by the group in question through shared rememberings, notably the telling ofstories, an activity in which both women and men participate.
ref: 2007, Nancy Cook, Gender Relations in Global Perspective:
text: Yet I loved her, so much, and still do, and always will, because that is love, the unending alwaysness, and I therefore wished only to please her, to reduce her absence, to pretend I was under the care of a fictitious shrink by the name of Dr.
ref: 2011, Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being or lasting indefinitely or always; continuity; indefiniteness; eternity.
Derived terms: non-alwaysness
do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Camas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Clark County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A town near Seville, Spain
parabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parable
little black books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little black book
audio-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio-book
audio book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of audiobook.
audio books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio book
signorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signorises
form: signorising
form: signorised
form: signorised
Etymology: From signor + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The planets mild their lamps benign quench'd out, / And cruel stars in heav'n did signorise, // Whose influence cast fiery flames about, / And hot impressions through the earth and skies.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liii
glosses: seigniorize.
remew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remews
form: remewing
form: remewed
form: remewed
form: remue
Etymology: From Middle English remewen, from Old French remuer, from Medieval Latin remutare, from Latin re- + mutare.
Senses: examples: text: But with that faith wherewith he could remew / The steadfast hills, and seas dry up to naught, / He pray'd the Lord upon his flock to rew, / To ope the springs of grace, and ease this drought.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, lxx
glosses: To remove.
adenines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.dɪ.nɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of adenine (multiple adenine molecules)
First People
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: First Peoples
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people
A First Nation; any of the indigenous peoples of Canada excluding the Métis and Inuit
glosses: An indigenous people
An Aboriginal Australian people; any of the indigenous peoples of Australia excluding the Torres Strait Islanders
synonyms: Aboriginal
First Nation
juramentados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juramentado
gochujang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊ.t͡ʃu.d͡ʒæŋ/
/ɡɒ-/
/-d͡ʒu-/
/-d͡ʒɑŋ/
Forms: form: gochujangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 고추장 (gochujang).
Senses: examples: text: This was where my obsession with jjigae began. I set out to learn how to make not only this gateway jjigae, but all of the most popular jjigae of Korean cuisine: sundubu jjigae, kimchi jiigae^([sic]), gochujang jjigae and doenjang jjigae. Chicken soup may be for the soul, but jjigae is comfort food of the highest order.
ref: 2024 September 25, Jane Lee, “‘Jjigae is comfort food of the highest order’: my obsession with cooking Korea’s best-loved soups”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A condiment based on red chili, used in Korean cuisine.
jillick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪ.lɪk/
Forms: form: jillicks
form: jillicking
form: jillicked
form: jillicked
Senses: glosses: To skip or skim a stone across water.
Bolognese sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bolognese sauces
Senses: synonyms: bolognese
glosses: A tomato- and ground meat-based sauce originating in Bologna, Italy.
wikipedia: Bolognese sauce
perpetuana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpetuanas
form: perpet
form: perpetuance
form: perpetuano
Senses: examples: text: The chief commodities that the European ships bring hither, are linen cloaths, both coarse and fine, some woollens also, as bayzes, searges, perpetuanas, &c.
ref: 1703, William Dampier, A Voyage to New Holland:
glosses: A durable wool serge fabric.
Related terms: perpetual
lasting
perpetuanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetuana
postlumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + lumbar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated posterior to the lower back or loins.
sparganum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spargana
Senses: glosses: The plerocercoid larva of Spirometra tapeworms, responsible for sparganosis.
spargana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparganum
correalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Frederick John Kiesler, from correlation and realism.
Senses: glosses: The dynamics of continual interaction between people and their natural and technological environments.
wikipedia: Frederick John Kiesler
glutenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gluten + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without gluten.
prolefeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prole + feed, coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: Some words, on the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. An example was prolefeed, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses.
ref: 1949, Orwell, George, 1903-1950, Nineteen eighty-four, →OCLC:
text: Far from being guaranteed to blow your mind, We Will Rock You is guaranteed to bore you rigid. The show is prolefeed at its worst.
ref: 2002, Theatre Record, volume 22, numbers 10-18, page 615:
text: Thousands have escaped Plato's cave to form the resistance. The proles remaining in the cave continue to be subjected to prolefeed from the enemy, but they love to be entertained and it hasn't even occurred to them that their freedom and their American sovereignty is on the verge of extinction.
ref: 2008, Mark Watterson, Don't Weep for Me, America, page 209:
glosses: Worthless entertainment and propaganda designed to satisfy the masses.
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Gallaeci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Callaeci
Senses: glosses: An ancient Celtic people who inhabited Gallaecia.
Derived terms: Gallaecian
Callaeci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gallaeci.
sifaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈfɑːkə/
Forms: form: sifakas
Etymology: Borrowed from Malagasy sifaka.
Senses: examples: text: Sifakas have single births, and infants ride first on their mother's front until they are about 3 months of age, then move to the mother's back, and they usually become totally independent at an age of about 6 months (Jolly 1996).
ref: 2000, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, 2nd edition, Academic Press, page 62:
text: Coquerel's sifaka (P. coquereli) is easily seen in the northwestern regions. Its chestnut-coloured arms and thighs, and piercing yellow eyes, make it particularly handsome. Like all sifakas, the young are born in June and July.
ref: 2008, Nick Garbutt, Hilary Bradt, Derek Schuurman, Madagascar Wildlife, Bradt Travel Guides, page 53:
text: Sifakas can jump about ten metres (thirty-three feet) – a little further than the human long-jump world record – which is not bad given that they are less than two foot high.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:
glosses: Any of several endangered medium-sized lemurs that comprise genus Propithecus.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Propithecus diadema
word: diademed sifaka
taxonomic: Propithecus verreauxi
word: Verreaux's sifaka
alt: = Verreaux's sifaka
word: white sifaka
word: For more
sifakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sifaka
pop tags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops tags
form: popping tags
form: popped tags
form: popped tags
Etymology: New clothing purchases often come with tags that need to be removed.
Senses: examples: text: We were popping tags all over the place. After years making do with the sales rack at JCPenney we were flying up to New York and Chicago for spending sprees, buying ourselves diamond chains and gold watches.
ref: 2008, Jermaine Dupri, Young, Rich, and Dangerous: The Making of a Music Mogul, page 3:
text: Chris; Well we're on our way to pop some tags you wanna come? / Dow; Naw, Im good. / Dink; Yeah bro still be wearing shit from the 90's, money is still stuck in time. / Juice; Yo, bro don't beat yourself treat yourself.
ref: 2011, A. K. A. Smalls, Low Patience's, page 3:
text: I'm gonna pop some tags
Only got 20$ in my pocket
I'm, I'm, I'm huntin', lookin' for a come up
This is fucking awesome
ref: 2012, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Thrift Shop”:
glosses: To go shopping, especially for clothing, especially on a spree.
olympiadane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olympiadanes
Etymology: From Olympiad + -ane?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanically interlocked molecule composed of five interlocking macrocycles, resembling the Olympic Rings.
olympiadanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olympiadane
nonsteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + steric.
Senses: glosses: Not steric.
unorthographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorthographical
form: most unorthographical
Etymology: From un- + orthographical.
Senses: glosses: Not orthographical; not conforming to rules of orthography.
unmedically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmedically
form: most unmedically
Etymology: From unmedical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed so meagre is the matter, so flimsy the arguments, and so unmedically are they expressed, that I scarcely believe the work was written by a medical man at all.
ref: 1823, Joseph Joy Magee, “Letter to Doctor Cheyne”, in Collection of Nineteenth Century Pamphlets Relating to Various Trials and Court Procedure in Ireland, page 37:
text: When Robbie had his “sick attacks,” Mary explained unmedically, he had to be rushed to the emergency room.
ref: 2012, Linda Dahl, Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams:
glosses: In a way that is not medical.
wardswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardswomen
Etymology: From ward + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female guard.
wardswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardswoman
shiveriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shivery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being shivery.
Estonianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Estonian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Estonian.
Livs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Liv
deattribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deattributes
form: deattributing
form: deattributed
form: deattributed
Etymology: From de- + attribute.
Senses: glosses: To cease to attribute (a work of art or literature, etc.) to a particular person.
Related terms: deattribution
deattributing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deattribute
deattributes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deattribute
deattributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deattribute
antilaser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + laser.
Senses: examples: antilaser goggles
glosses: Protecting against lasers.
tristratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Divided into three layers.
koniocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From konio- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a set of neurons found ventral to each of the magnocellular and parvocellular layers, and involved in vision.
Derived terms: koniocellular cell
konio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: dust
gaslighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaslighters
Etymology: From gas + lighter.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, lights gas.
gaslighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaslighters
Etymology: From gaslight + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in the psychological tactic of gaslighting.
gaslighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaslighter
hemifield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemifields
Etymology: From hemi- + field.
Senses: synonyms: semifield
glosses: Half of the field of vision.
hemifields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemifield
ipsilesional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ipsi- + lesion + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: On the same side as a lesion.
Derived terms: ipsilesionally
Related terms: ipsilateral
hemineglect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + neglect.
Senses: glosses: A neuropsychological condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain, the patient exhibits a deficit in attention to and awareness of one side of space.
ipsilesionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ipsilesional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: On the same side as a lesion.
breakdown lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakdown lorries
Senses: glosses: A tow truck.
breakdown truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakdown trucks
Senses: glosses: A tow truck.
recovery truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery trucks
Senses: glosses: A tow truck, recovery vehicle.
neat line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neat lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neatline.
browned-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more browned-off
form: most browned-off
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of browned off.
know which side of the bread is buttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows which side of the bread is buttered
form: knowing which side of the bread is buttered
form: knew which side of the bread was buttered
form: knew which side of the bread is buttered
form: known which side of the bread was buttered
form: known which side of the bread is buttered
Senses: examples: text: It was a graceless and ungrateful act and, in view of Blowitz’s Orléanist sympathies, must have antagonized from the start that stalwart champion of the inoffensive Princes’ rights. But Boulanger, a political general on the make, knew which side of the bread was buttered, and to his skill in posing as a guardian of Republican virtues was soon added his power of exciting the love for a military hero which lies embedded within the French breast.
ref: 1962, Frank Giles, “A reporter at work”, in A Prince of Journalists: The Life and Times of Henri Stefan Opper de Blowitz, London: Faber and Faber, →OCLC, page 124:
text: Catherine had hired Phillip before she’d married John. He was a partner in the prestigious firm of Benchley, Tarrance, and Paulson. Benchley knew which side of the bread was buttered. The old fart had catered to Catherine’s every whim.
ref: 2001, Julie Garwood, chapter 7, in Mercy, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: On the other hand, the decision to beef up the standard fare without raising prices is a signal that Intel knows which side of the bread is buttered.
ref: 2003 October 9, Ken Fisher, “Pentium 4 Extremely Expensive Edition, cache boost for everyman”, in Ars Technica:
glosses: Alternative form of know which side one's bread is buttered on.
know which side of one's bread is buttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows which side of one's bread is buttered
form: knowing which side of one's bread is buttered
form: knew which side of one's bread was buttered
form: knew which side of one's bread is buttered
form: known which side of one's bread was buttered
form: known which side of one's bread is buttered
Senses: examples: text: The crowd that turned out to welcome Schmitz shows that every one of them knew which side of his bread is buttered and who furnishes their butter.
ref: 1906 December 8, San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, volume LXXII, number 23, San Francisco, Calif.: Frederick Marriott, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:
text: Most of you have no doubt heard a person described as “not knowing which side of his bread is buttered.” Well, I’m sorry to say that there are some of that species running around loose in our corridors. They don’t take advantage of the opportunity offered them in the finest education found anywhere in the world.
ref: 1937 February 19, “Are the Three R’s, Readin’, Ritin’, and ’Rithmetic to You, or Just 3 R’s?”, in Katherine Crofts, editor, The Northerner, volume X, number 25, Fort Wayne, Ind.: North Side High School, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
text: Crenshaw forged a personality based on staying in the middle, and always with an exit strategy. It is said that his secret agenda is to run for Mayor, but he also knew which side of his bread is buttered.
ref: 2007 June 28, W. W. G. Hale, chapter 12, in Dance with the Devil: The AIDS Conspiracy, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of know which side one's bread is buttered on.
know on which side one's bread is buttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows on which side one's bread is buttered
form: knowing on which side one's bread is buttered
form: knew on which side one's bread was buttered
form: knew on which side one's bread is buttered
form: known on which side one's bread was buttered
form: known on which side one's bread is buttered
Senses: examples: text: “Hush!” said Tunstall, “remember our master.” / “Pshaw!” answered his mercurial companion; “he knows on which side his bread is buttered, and I warrant you has not lived so long among Englishmen, and by Englishmen, to quarrel with us for bearing an English mind.[…]”
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 24:
text: There was a speech by Ellena, which she delivered from before a backdrop on which were idealized portraits of such famous persons as Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Golda Mier and Margaret Thatcher. There was also one of a lady attired as an ancient Greek warrior, presumably the mythical Queen Hippolyte. This one looked remarkably like Ellena herself. (“I suppose that the artist knew on which side her bread is buttered,” sneered Fenella.)
ref: 1984, A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, “The Last Amazon”, in John Grimes: Reserve Commodore […], [New York]: SFBC Science Fiction, published January 2004, →ISBN, chapter 22, page 102:
text: Knowing on which side their bread is buttered, planners would reject the notion that slum dwellers are more qualified than trained specialists to work out the answers to their problems or that a composite of their localized plans would be better than any “rationalized” bureaucratic solution.
ref: 1997, Frederic C. Thomas, “The Intractability of Urban Poverty”, in Calcutta Poor: Elegies on a City above Pretense, Armonk, N.Y.: East Gate, →ISBN, page 166:
text: I don’t live in Bend for a reason, but Bend is a town that knows on which side its bread is buttered, and attracting live music is clearly part of that vision.
ref: 2019 December 26, Will Kennedy, “Pop Music Dreams”, in Camilla Mortensen, editor, Eugene Weekly, volume 38, number 52, Eugene, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of know which side one's bread is buttered on.
umlautless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From umlaut + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not exhibiting or marked by the phonological process of umlaut or an umlaut diacritic.
legitims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legitim
talians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talian
provisories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provisory
legislatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legislative
polacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polac
bridal couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridal couples
Senses: glosses: The bride and bridegroom on their wedding day, and possibly for a short time thereafter, for example during their honeymoon.
zzzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zzz
zzzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zzz
kittenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kitten + -less.
Senses: examples: text: On the next day there were no kittens, and the next day and all the other days were kittenless and quiet.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Sending of Dana Da:
glosses: Without kittens.
foothole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footholes
form: foot hole
Etymology: From foot + hole, possibly influenced by foothold.
Senses: examples: text: The 24-year-old, who made three one-day appearances against Australia last summer, injured his ankle on Wednesday and further damaged it yesterday when he slipped in the footholes.
ref: 2006, Mike Averis, The Guardian:
text: "The wicket didn't play too bad today. Day five is going to be the biggest worry. The footholes will get bigger as the day goes on."
ref: 2013, Peter Siddle, BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hole in a cricket pitch made by the bowler's foot during the runup.
topics: business
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sports
glosses: A hole into which the foot can be wedged to aid in climbing; a foothold.
glosses: A foothold.
examples: text: They floundered into deep footholes at every step.
ref: 1945, Sara Katherine Casey Maynard, Scott and His Men, page 50:
text: Wherever there were tracks of children, sleds, large dogs, other couples, or a solitary walker with long, steady paces, these footholes had filled with a veneer of ice.
ref: 1952, Ben Maddow, Forty-four Gravel Street, page 99:
text: The trees of the region were fearsomely marked with large footholes scratched by a giant feline animal, and once they saw at a distance a striped creature like a hyena with the markings of a tiger.
ref: 1976, Christina Stead, Seven Poor Men of Sydney, page 300:
text: With each step her leg sunk up to the knee. When she pulled her boots back out again she tinged her own footholes with red-brown mud, like the edging of blood around a punctured bandage.
ref: 2007, Owen Sheers, Resistance, page 119:
text: Only two footholes are needed due to the wolf's narrow gait, as the hind foot oversteps the front paw print. (Courtesy Oliver Matla) .
ref: 2012, Toni Shelbourne, The truth about wolves and dogs, page 20:
glosses: A deep footprint; a hole made by a foot.
moldless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mold + -less.
Senses: examples: moldless hot pressing of ceramic capacitors
glosses: Without a mold.
mouldless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mould + -less.
Senses: examples: mouldless hot pressing of ceramic capacitors
glosses: Without a mould.
footholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foothole
snoops around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snoop around
snooping around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snoop around
snooped around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snoop around
wedding-ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding-rings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wedding ring.
lesenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesene