cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
roll off the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls off the tongue
form: rolling off the tongue
form: rolled off the tongue
form: rolled off the tongue
form: roll off one's tongue
form: roll from the tongue
form: roll from one's tongue
form: run from the tongue
form: run off the tongue
form: trip from the tongue
form: trip off the tongue
Senses: examples: text: "Coddling criminals"—the alliteration makes it roll pleasantly off the tongue!
ref: 1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 5, in The Subterranean Brotherhood:
text: [H]e repeated under his breath: "The Rock of Chickamauga! The Rock of Chickamauga!" It rolled resoundingly off the tongue, and he liked it.
ref: 1915, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 14, in The Rock of Chickamauga:
text: Pilobolus is a word so fine and fat as it rolls off the tongue that, like a kitten or a May morning, it needs no meaning.
ref: 1978 November 20, “Dance: Fungus, Fantasy and Fun”, in Time:
text: Oh, the rhythm of my heart / Is beatin' like a drum / With the words "I love you" / Rolling off my tongue
ref: 1986, Marc Jordan, John Capek, “Rhythm of My Heart”, in Vagabond Heart, performed by Rod Stewart, published 1991:
text: I'm a fan of Aaron Sorkin. . . . I just like the way his dialogue rolls off the tongue. I like to hear people say the words he writes.
ref: 2012 July 14, Kate Murphy, “Eric Stonestreet”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Aug 2012:
qualifier: speech
glosses: To proceed into oral expression in a manner which is fluent, appealing, or glib.
raw_tags: of words
roll from the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls from the tongue
form: rolling from the tongue
form: rolled from the tongue
form: rolled from the tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
roll from one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls from one's tongue
form: rolling from one's tongue
form: rolled from one's tongue
form: rolled from one's tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
roll off one's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls off one's tongue
form: rolling off one's tongue
form: rolled off one's tongue
form: rolled off one's tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
run from the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs from the tongue
form: running from the tongue
form: ran from the tongue
form: run from the tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
run off the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs off the tongue
form: running off the tongue
form: ran off the tongue
form: run off the tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
trip from the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips from the tongue
form: tripping from the tongue
form: tripped from the tongue
form: tripped from the tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
trip off the tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips off the tongue
form: tripping off the tongue
form: tripped off the tongue
form: tripped off the tongue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roll off the tongue.
shock horror
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and, shock horror, he's middle class.
ref: 2008 July 14, Francesca Gavin, The Guardian:
text: The bulk of Castro's Secrets argues […] that Castro was aware that Lee Harvey Oswald was going to try to kill Kennedy in Dallas and (shock horror) did not warn the US authorities, ‘the most despicable decision during his nearly five decades in power’.
ref: 2012, Hugh Bicheno, “Spies of the Caribbean”, in Literary Review, section 401:
glosses: An expression of amazement at something controversial.
screen of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screens of death
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A screen or a message indicating an unrecoverable error or failure.
Derived terms: black screen of death
blue screen of death
white screen of death
Related terms: hug of death
red ring of death
screens of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screen of death
go-arounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-around
illuminosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the state of being illuminous
free morphemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free morpheme
verlanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verlanize
straiter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of strait: more strait
Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Belts
Etymology: * As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun belt.
* As a German surname, short form of the old Germanic name Baldher, composed of *balþ (“bold”) + *hari (“army”). Compare Belter.
* Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place name Beelte, a small town in Giesen.
* As a Dutch surname Van den Belt, from the noun belt (“low hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Montana.
glosses: Ellipsis of Main Asteroid Belt: a region of Solar System.
Derived terms: Belter
Belts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Belt
drug deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug deals
Senses: synonyms: dope deal
glosses: An illegal business transaction where cash or something else of value is exchanged for illegal drugs, usually conducted in a clandestine manner.
examples: text: A new drug deal of mammoth proportions which has excited the liveliest amount of interest in the wholesale and retail trade in Cincinnati, and throughout the State, has just been consummated.
ref: 1902 March 1, American druggist and pharmaceutical record, volumes 40-41, page 152:
text: Agrichemical interests, not part of the drug deal, were advised to pursue their own bill,
ref: 1985, Jack Doyle, Altered harvest: agriculture, genetics, and the fate of the ...:
text: Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have denounced the lack of transparency in a multinational HTV/AIDS drug deal for developing countries.
ref: 2001, West Africa, numbers 4258-4273:
text: There is little downside to the drug deal – the losses involved are profits from potential future sales of patented drugs.
ref: 2005, John English, Ramesh Chandra Thakur, Andrew Fenton Cooper, Reforming from the Top: A Leaders’ 20 Summit, page 36:
text: After 2004 two deals were brought to market, 2005 has welcomed its first drug deal already in January.
ref: 2005, Alexander Kirsch, Securitization of Intellectual Property as a Funding Alternative, page 53:
text: The drug deal reached among the countries appeared to be a temporary relief to the developing countries.
ref: 2005, P. K. Vasudeva, World Trade Organization: implications for Indian economy:
text: Drug companies are even giving doctors "free gists, free meals, free education, special deals" in order for those doctors to accept their drug deal.
ref: 2007, Jonas E. Alexis, In the Name of Education, page 84:
text: The two sides also agreed on a prescription drug deal with sanctions on pharmaceutical companies that failed to provide discounts for low-income Californians.
ref: 2008, Mark Baldassare, Cheryl Katz, The Coming Age of Direct Democracy: California's Recall and Beyond, page 201:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drug, deal.
Derived terms: drug dealer
drug deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug deal
trainshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainsheds
Senses: examples: text: "We've spent time talking and listening. Our latest plans celebrate Victorian features, including the original trainshed and the Great Eastern Hotel," said Robin Dobson, Group Property Director at Network Rail Property.
ref: 2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 52, about Liverpool Street station in London:
glosses: Alternative form of train shed.
trainsheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainshed
train shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train sheds
form: trainshed
Senses: examples: text: As David Leboff points out in London Underground Stations, it is the giant train shed [at Earl's Court] with its iron and glass roof that gives the station its 'main line railway feel'.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A building, adjacent to a railway station building, covering the tracks and platforms with a roof.
Synonyms: overall roof
Related terms: tramshed
tram shed
upspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈspiːk/
ipa: /ˈʌpspiːk/
Forms: form: upspeaks
form: upspeaking
form: upspoke
form: upspoken
Etymology: From up- + speak.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, if I didn't stay in your home," upspoke the maiden lady, "I shouldn't care to know what it would become."
ref: 1921, Wallace Irwin, Seed of the sun:
glosses: To speak up; advocate.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To speak with upspeak; uptalk.
Derived terms: upspeaker
upspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈspiːk/
ipa: /ˈʌpspiːk/
Etymology: From up- + speak.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the nurse answers in upspeak. “You can work on it only if you're supervised.” Even the Oil of Olay moisturizer is confiscated. “It's in a glass jar?” Upspeak again.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Flock, But Inside I'm Screaming:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A manner of speaking in which the intonation of one's voice rises at the end of a statement, as if expressing uncertainty or asking a question; uptalk.
upspeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upspeakers
Etymology: From upspeak + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks up; an advocate.
examples: text: The upspeak rule is applied non-systematically, i.e. upspeakers do not convert all RP falling tones to rising tones, even where the structural conditions for the operation of the rule are fulfilled.
ref: 2003, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology:
glosses: One who speaks with upspeak, or the raising of intonation at the end of statements.
decurdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + curdling.
Senses: glosses: The cutting of curds into blocks as part of cheesemaking.
betouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betouches
form: betouching
form: betouched
form: betouched
Etymology: From be- + touch.
Senses: examples: text: Betouching the matter contained in your Lordship's letter, albeit I know mine own insufficiency …
ref: 1832, The progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth
text: In time's long picture gallery, Whatever's excellent indeed Will some one ever stop to see, Betouch its faded tints, [...]
ref: 1838, James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins, The Western messenger:
text: Betouch us too ! The wicked woman deserves to die — but her death — how horrible !
ref: 1852, James Grant, The Scottish cavalier:
text: "Tis folly, perhaps, to think of them, betouch us, too ! so near the Moat of Urr,' said the smith, with a perceptible shudder, as he glanced covertly over his shoulder.'
ref: 1904, James Grant, The captain of the guard:
glosses: To touch about or all over; contact; concern; regard; handle.
Derived terms: betouch-us
marginalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more marginalistically
form: most marginalistically
Etymology: From marginalistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: This was mainly due to the activities of the marginalistically inclined political economist Warming.
ref: 1967, Joosep Nõu, Studies in the development of agricultural economics in Europe, page 388:
glosses: In a marginalistic manner.
marginalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marginalistic
form: most marginalistic
Etymology: From marginal + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Price is strictly an abstract marginalistic concept.
ref: 2001, Philip A. Lawn, Toward Sustainable Development: An Ecological Economics Approach, page 115:
glosses: Tending towards marginalism; having the characteristic of being marginal.
Derived terms: marginalistically
mysticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: mysticalities
Etymology: From mystical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being mystical; mysticism.
mysticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mysticality
women's room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: women's rooms
form: woman's room
Etymology: Probably a generic variant of the earlier-attested ladies' room (“a waiting room for women”).
Senses: examples: text: Women were expected to use the toilet provided for the general public... Plans have been made for a women's room at this station.
ref: 1918 May 16, US Department of Labor, Monthly Labor Review:
glosses: Synonym of ladies' room: a public restroom intended for females.
synonyms: word: ladies' room
extra: a public restroom intended for females
glosses: A waiting room in a railway station or other public building intended exclusively for women and usually including a separate women's lavatory.
Synonyms: sense: lavatory
word: bathroom
sense: women's waiting room
word: ladies' room
Hypernyms: sense: lavatory
word: bathroom
sense: waiting room
word: waiting room
Coordinate terms: men's room
Related terms: little girls' room
movie deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movie deals
Senses: examples: text: Adding to her irritation were the continuing rumors that Selznick had taken advantage of her in the movie deal.
ref: 2011, Ellen Firsching Brown, John Wiley, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey From Atlanta to Hollywood, page 120:
text: Consider this, the buzz around the Harry Potter series did not reach a frenzy until the movie deal was announced and the fourth book was published.
ref: 2008, Susan Gunelius, Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon, page 149:
text: Sandra Bernhard has landed a movie deal with Alive Pictures for a screenplay she co-wrote, titled "It Came From Poland."
ref: 1986 October 11, Steve Gett, “On The Beat”, in Billboard, page 26:
glosses: An agreement between a movie production studio and various other stakeholders for the production of a movie, usually based on some source material or other intellectual property created or owned by one or more of the stakeholders.
examples: text: News that he had signed a movie deal with 20th Century-Fox had broken in the summer of 1943. Although Como's movie deal came earlier than he expected, it was the norm for a successful singer to look to Hollywood as the next step on the career path.
ref: 2009, Malcolm MacFarlane, Ken Crossland, Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record, page 35:
text: The agent had arranged a movie deal for Rockne in Hollywood, and at the end of dinner Walsh and Fuller put Rockne in a cab to the train station to catch an overnight to Kansas City, where he would take a morning mail flight to Los Angeles.
ref: 2006, Leigh Montville, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, page 306:
text: A story had run on the front page of the Hollywood Reporter that Michael Jackson had signed a five year movie deal with Disney.
ref: 1993, Lisa D. Campbell, Michael Jackson: The King of Pop, page 289:
glosses: An agreement between a movie production studio and an actor, director, or other person involved in the making of movies, by which that person agrees to participate in the production of a certain number of movies for the studio.
movie deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of movie deal
volatilisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volatilisation
Israelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Israel + -ian, in the historical sense coined by American Jewish theologian Harold Louis Ginsberg in 1982 in contrast to Israelite.
Mostly used by non-native speakers of English, instead of the standard word Israeli.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the northern kingdom of ancient Israel, its people, or their language.
glosses: Israeli.
Israelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Israelians
Etymology: From Israel + -ian, in the historical sense coined by American Jewish theologian Harold Louis Ginsberg in 1982 in contrast to Israelite.
Mostly used by non-native speakers of English, instead of the standard word Israeli.
Senses: glosses: A person from the northern kingdom of ancient Israel.
glosses: An Israeli.
Related terms: Israeli
Israel
Israelite
boom goes the dynamite
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined by Brian Collins, a college student from Ball State, during a collegiate basketball sportscast.
Senses: examples: text: Brown and Paden ride the Silverado chairway to heaven. And...boom goes the dynamite.
ref: 2006 November, Susan Schnier, “The Bomb Squad: A day in the boots of Squaw Valley's snow-safety patrol”, in Skiing, page 126:
text: "Fine, have it your way." ¶ And boom goes the dynamite! ¶ I had won the battle.
ref: 2006, Bradley Myers, I Was a Teenage Dumpeal, page 161:
text: Boom goes the dynamite, scores are tied, and we are even-steven!
ref: 2010 November 22, David Hoselton, “Small Sacrifices”, in House:
text: In the next second, that is exactly what happened. Big Man made a wide Texas swing, left his chin open and boom! goes the dynamite.
ref: 2011, Adrianne Byrd, King's Promise, page 69:
glosses: Indicating that something spectacular has happened, particularly where a plan or an effort has successfully culminated.
aha! moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aha! moments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aha moment.
aha moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aha moment
peptic ulcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptic ulcer
gatorboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gatorboard
Senses: glosses: A rigid but lightweight sheet material composed of a layer foam between thin layers of wood pulp vaneer. Available in a variety of thicknesses from 1/8" - 1". Commonly used for mounting photographs and graphics.
Synonyms: Gatorfoam
Gatorboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gatorboard.
Gatorfoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Gatorboard.
mutafacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From muta- + -facient.
Senses: examples: text: After indicating the mode in which these factors interact in determining the development of the organism and in affecting their own activist, it is shown that they have also a mutafacient action, i.e. are able to affect each other's mutation rates.
ref: 1945, Plant Breeding Abstracts: Volume 15, page 4:
text: Size of circle indicates frequency of seedlings, continuous and direct but mutafacient and indirect.
ref: 1958, Genes, Plants, and People: Essays on Genetics, page 66:
glosses: capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents)
Synonyms: mutagenic
mafics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mafic
dragon's wort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A calque of Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn, “tarragon”).
Senses: glosses: A perennial herb, tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus.
glosses: Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum, a flowering plant in the arum (Araceae) family.
glosses: Bistorta officinalis (common bistort, a plant in the knotweed (Polygonaceae) family, once classified as Persicaria bistorta and Polygonum bistorta.
glosses: Arisaema dracontium, green dragon, a herbaceous perennial native to North America.
Israelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Israelian
antedatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antedatable
form: most antedatable
Etymology: From antedate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being antedated.
gothiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gothy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gothy.
simplity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: simplicity
calidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calidities
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caliditās, whence the Italian calidità. Compare calid.
Senses: examples: text: The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]
ref: 1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Cockatrice”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: Heat.
espiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espier
mandibulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
gainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French gaignage (“pasturage, crop”), French gaignage (“pasturage”). See gain (verb).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The horses, oxen, ploughs, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage.
glosses: The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself
tillages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tillage
thwite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θwaɪ̯t/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: thwites
form: thwiting
form: thwited
form: thwited
Etymology: From Middle English thwiten, from Old English þwītan (“to cut, cut off”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną (“to split”). See whittle, thwittle, and compare thwaite (“a piece of land”), doit (“small coin, small amount, bit”).
Senses: examples: text: Other shot forth theyr Boltes, and wyth theyr Prouerbes proceedyng from their malicious Mouthes thwited the pore Women at their pleasure.
ref: 1580, William Painter, “Two Gentlewomen of Venice”, in Joseph Jacobs, editor, The Palace of Pleasure, volume 3, Tome II, London: David Nutt in the Strand, published 1890, page 145 of 56–57:
text: I knowe one of your crew who would not sweare for no good, and vsed ordinarilie to pray with his mé in his chamber, and yet beeing at a Knights house, where hee had good entertaynemét, they prayed so hartilie amongst them, that for conscience sake they faire thwited me of a valence of a bedde, and caried that & a piece of plate with them to the value of twentie nobles at the least.
ref: 1601, Certaine Questions by way of Conference betwixt a Chauncelor and a Kinswoman of his concerning Churching of Women, page 32:
text: Now then: this great storme, we see is past, and ouerblowne: and this terrible accusation, is much like to a Sampsons post, thwited to a pudding pricke, as the Prouerbe is. Well now: what more? We must not yet so go away. […]
ref: 1602, Roger Marbecke, A Defence of tabacco: with a friendly answer to the late printed booke called Worke for chimny-sweepers, &c., London: Richard Field for Thomas Man, page 1602:
text: The Iewes say, it was his Nic-name, or name of disgrace; that in scorne they called him so. For that, all his credit (forsooth) came, by casting a stone, and hitting Goliah, by chance, right in the fore-head: and so, they thwited him with that name. They gave it him, in scorne: but he bare it, in earnest.
ref: 1611 March 24, Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached Before the Kings Maiestie at White-Hall on the XXIV. of March, A.D. MDCXI. being Easter Day, and being also the day of the Beginning of His Majestie's most Gracious Reigne”, in XCVI. Sermons, 2nd edition, Richard Badger, published 1732, page 442:
glosses: To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle.
thwited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thwite
thwites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thwite
thwiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thwite
breastplough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastploughs
form: breastplow
Etymology: From breast + plough.
Senses: glosses: A kind of plough, worked by handles near the worker's breast, and in some types by pushing with the breast/chest, by which ploughing can be done by hand (without a draft animal), albeit more slowly and difficultly, or by which turf (peat) can be cut for fuel; the type commonly used in preindustrial Britain is analogous to a spade with a large T-shaped handle gripped with both hands.
Related terms: breast drill
breastploughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastplough
colaborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colaborers
form: colabourer
Etymology: From co- + laborer.
Senses: hypernyms: word: collaborator
word: coworker
word: employe
word: employee
word: laborer
word: labourer
word: person
word: toiler
word: workie
word: worker
glosses: Someone who labors with another; a partner in labor (manual work).
colaborers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colaborer
flouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flouncers
Etymology: From flounce + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who flounces.
flouncers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flouncer
septical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septical
form: most septical
Senses: glosses: septic
pseudo-anglicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-anglicism
cubatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubature
Navajo whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Navajo white
truepenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truepennies
form: true-penny
Senses: examples: text: Hamlet: . . . Give me one poor request.
Horatio: What is't, my lord? we will.
Hamlet: Never make known what you have seen to-night. . . .Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.
Ghost: [Beneath] Swear.
Hamlet: Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny?
Come on—you hear this fellow in the cellarage—
Consent to swear.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: "Ha!" said Christie, "art thou there, old True-penny? here, stable me these steeds, and see them well bedded, and stretch thine old limbs by rubbing them down; and see thou quit not the stable till there is not a turned hair on either of them."
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 37:
text: "Duncan! you are, what I call, a clear-minded man. Well worth thinking of, old Truepenny!"
ref: 1870, Wilkie Collins, chapter 25, in Man and Wife:
text: "Hear me, Father Almighty. . . . Are you there, old Truepenny?"
ref: 1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son:
glosses: An honest, reliable fellow.
cooking spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking sprays
Senses: glosses: An aerosol sprayed on to cooking pans to make them nonstick.
interversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interversions
Etymology: From Late Latin interversiō.
Senses: glosses: Embezzlement.
Related terms: intervert
isofunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + functional.
Senses: glosses: Having the same function
Derived terms: isofunctionally
microfiltered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + filtered.
Senses: glosses: filtered through a microfilter
phosphocaseinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphocaseinates
Etymology: From phospho- + caseinate.
Senses: glosses: A complex of calcium phosphate and casein manufactured from skimmed milk
protidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to protein, peptides and similar materials
bus drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus driver
Flavians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flavian
bewander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewanders
form: bewandering
form: bewandered
form: bewandered
Etymology: From be- (“around, about”) + wander. Compare Saterland Frisian bewonderje, Middle Dutch bewanderen, German bewandern.
Senses: examples: text: Or 'twas wont to be so, / Just a few years ago, / At the time when Jack used to bewander to know, / That a Corporal's Guard Left the Old Barrack […]
ref: 1839, The New Sporting Magazine:
text: The spring and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]
ref: 1907, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman, The Heart of the empire:
text: […] and anon the case became grievous to her and she set out to bewander the regions saying, "Haply shall Allah reunite me with my children and my husband!"
ref: 1996, Richard F. Burton (Translator), The Arabian Nights:
glosses: To wander around or about; roam.
seroprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroproteins
Etymology: From sero- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein found in blood serum
Derived terms: seroproteinaceous
thermise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermises
form: thermising
form: thermised
form: thermised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of thermize.
thermises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thermise
KTM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Keretapi Tanah Melayu (“Malayan Railways, the main rail operator in the Malay Peninsula”).
glosses: Shortening of Kathmandu
Coordinate terms: sense: other Malaysian railway systems
word: LRT
sense: other Malaysian railway systems
word: MRT
GEF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: eclipse
glosses: Initialism of Graphical Editing Framework.
examples: text: The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s negotiator appeared to block the final deal presented by China, telling the plenary that he could not support the agreement in its current form because it did not create a new fund for biodiversity, separate to the existing UN fund, the global environment facility (GEF). China, Brazil, Indonesia, India and Mexico are the largest recipients of GEF funding, and some African states wanted more money for conservation as part of the final deal.
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Global Environment Facility.
examples: text: The Green European Foundation (GEF) is a European-level political foundation whose mission is to contribute to a lively European sphere of debate and to foster greater involvement by citizens in European politics. GEF strives to mainstream discussions on European policies and politics both within and beyond the Green political family.
ref: 2022 July 24, Laura Bazen, Professor Karen Douglas, Abbie Richards, Kaja Pavlinić, Michael Trube and Raluca Besliu, “Fighting Conspiracy Theories on TikTok”, in Green European Foundation, page 4:
glosses: Initialism of Green European Foundation.
interversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interversion
GMF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Graphical Modeling Framework.
candyass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candyasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of candy-ass.
lols
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lol
loling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lol
tooth sockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tooth socket
sovereignism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovereigntism
form: souverainism
Etymology: From sovereign + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political independence of a nation or a region. It opposes federalism and approaches independentism movements.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The defence of the sovereignty of individual European countries in the face of broader European or European Union integration.
Related terms: sovereignist
sovereigntist
king eider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king eiders
Senses: glosses: A large sea duck that breeds along Arctic coasts, Somateria spectabilis.
king eiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king eider
chiastolite slate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiastolite slates
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rock formed by contact metamorphism of carbonaceous shale, characterized by prominent cleavage or schistosity and the presence of conspicuous chiastolite crystals in a fine-grained groundmass.
chiastolite slates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiastolite slate
chlormanganokalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal mineral, K₄MnCl₆, which occurs in yellow rhombohedra.
spasmophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spasmophiles
Senses: glosses: A person who has spasmophilia
ICYWW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in case you were wondering.
Related terms: ICYW
bewile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: bewiles
form: bewiling
form: bewiled
form: bewiled
Etymology: From Middle English biwilen, biwiȝelien (“to delude, deceive”), from Old English *bewīlian, *bewiġlian. Equivalent to be- + wile. Doublet of beguile.
Senses: examples: text: He was utterly bewitched and bewiled by her beauty, and upon the following day an opportunity to prove his devotion occurred.
ref: 1865, Ballou's monthly magazine:
text: Whomever else I might bewile, I loved him well, sorry.
ref: 1895, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Bibelot:
text: To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me, which though it alter not love's sole effect, yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight. I may not evermore acknowledge thee, lest my bewiled guilt should do thee shame.
ref: 1995, Constance O'Banyon, La Flamme:
glosses: To delude; deceive; beguile.
besoothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besoothes
form: besoothing
form: besoothed
form: besoothed
Etymology: From be- + soothe.
Senses: examples: text: Attracting downward some responsive grace Or balm which heal'd him, like the hand of God: Or haply music, (like the lyre of old, Tuned into magic by the sweeping touch Of David, when he charm'd the fiend from Saul,) Besoothed the spirit; till o'er all his frame A lulling softness exquisitely crept, And he was cradled in the charm of sound.
ref: 1842, Robert Montgomery, Martin Luther, Luther: or, The spirit of the Reformation:
text: Nature then with rapture trembles, Music flows divine along To besoothe our restless feeling By the magic thrill of song.
ref: 1903, Thomas Ostenson Stine, Echoes from Dreamland:
synonyms: word: console
word: solace
word: besoothe
word: cheer
word: comfort
word: console
word: solace
word: soothe
glosses: To soothe about or all over; comfort.
but good
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Ryder rode beside her, pleased at her pleasure, knowing that he'd surprised her but good.
ref: 1992, Catherine Coulter, The Hellion Bride, →ISBN:
text: [T]he debate is a sublime mismatch: He's expected to whip this guy, but good.
ref: 2000 October 2, Jessica Reaves, Frank Pellegrini, “For Bush, It's an Expectations Game; For Gore, It's Learning From His (Few) Mistakes”, in Time:
text: Dr. Gerald Bortolazzo, or Doc, as he is known, has some story to tell about a horse, his new career as a horseman and how he, if he did not exactly cheat death, fooled it but good.
ref: 2011 August 16, Joe Drape, “Postcards From Saratoga Springs: There’s a Doctor in the Paddock”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2012:
glosses: To a high degree; very thoroughly; in a most definite manner.
Synonyms: in spades
Related terms: and how
beat the pants off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the pants off
form: beating the pants off
form: beat the pants off
form: beaten the pants off
form: beat the pants off
form: lick the pants off
form: whip the pants off
Senses: examples: text: American workers can outcompete and beat the pants off anybody, anywhere.
ref: 1987 September 6, Bernard Weinraub, “Reagan Tells Congress to Shun Protectionism”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2012:
text: Jeffrey Vinik, manager of the $56 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, the world's largest and most closely watched mutual fund, "beat the pants off the managers of other large funds," in the words of one analyst.
ref: 1996 June 3, John Greenwald et al., “Magellan's New Direction”, in Time:
text: Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace.
ref: 2001 June 24, Janice Castro, “Business”, in Time:
glosses: To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
Synonyms: clobber
beat the daylights out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the daylights out of
form: beating the daylights out of
form: beat the daylights out of
form: beaten the daylights out of
form: beat the daylights out of
form: beat the daylight out of
Senses: examples: text: Punching fast and furiously, I would beat the daylights out of them until they were bloody all over.
ref: 1993, Lester Sumrall, The Life Story of Lester Sumrall, →ISBN:
glosses: To beat (someone) severely.
examples: text: The guy beat the daylights out of me, and I made a dollar. My wrestling license cost five dollars.
ref: 2007, Greg Oliver, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: To defeat (someone) thoroughly and decisively, especially in a physical fight.
Synonyms: clobber
beat the daylight out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the daylight out of
form: beating the daylight out of
form: beat the daylight out of
form: beaten the daylight out of
form: beat the daylight out of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beat the daylights out of.
knock the daylights out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks the daylights out of
form: knocking the daylights out of
form: knocked the daylights out of
form: knocked the daylights out of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knock the living daylights out of.
knock the daylight out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks the daylight out of
form: knocking the daylight out of
form: knocked the daylight out of
form: knocked the daylight out of
Senses: glosses: Synonym of beat the daylights out of.
synonyms: word: beat the daylights out of
Synonyms: clobber
lick the pants off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: licks the pants off
form: licking the pants off
form: licked the pants off
form: licked the pants off
form: beat the pants off
Senses: examples: text: "Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!"
ref: 1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in The Heritage of the Sioux:
glosses: To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
Synonyms: clobber
besinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besinges
form: besingeing
form: besinging
form: besinged
form: besinged
Etymology: From Middle English bisengen, bezengen, from Old English besenġan (“to singe, burn”), equivalent to be- + singe.
Senses: examples: text: All sainct confederations infringed, / And for light cause would prince with prince enquarrel; / Countries bestreamed with blood, with fire besinged […]
ref: 1838, Robert Southey, The poetical works:
glosses: To singe about or all over.
whip the pants off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whips the pants off
form: whipping the pants off
form: whipped the pants off
form: whipped the pants off
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beat the pants off.
belull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belulls
form: belulling
form: belulled
form: belulled
Etymology: From be- + lull.
Senses: examples: text: Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]
ref: 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183:
text: […] the noon with a luscious repast, the afternoon with a play or a pallet repose, the evening with a wanton consort, accoutred with a rear-banket, to belull the abused soul with the sleep of an incessant surfeit.
ref: 1992, Joan Larsen Klein, Daughters, wives, and widows:
glosses: To lull about; lull all over; lull completely.
the pants off
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "And did you also feel like you could whip the pants off any mother's son alive?"
ref: 1937 April 5, “Miscellany”, in Time:
text: Reuters had scooped the pants off the U.S. press.
ref: 1943 December 13, “The Press: Scooped Again”, in Time:
text: Jeffrey Vinik, manager of the $56 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, the world's largest and most closely watched mutual fund, "beat the pants off the managers of other large funds," in the words of one analyst.
ref: 1996 June 3, John Greenwald et al., “Magellan's New Direction”, in Time:
text: The Eden Project is his medium for getting that message across to the masses without boring the pants off them.
ref: 2001 March 16, Christopher Redman Bodelva, “Feast of Eden”, in Time:
text: "Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer. He could dance the pants off Churchhill."
ref: 2001 September 7, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: Brooks to Broadway: Get Happy”, in Time:
text: "Doom 3 is just going to terrify the pants off people," says Rob Smith, editor of PC Gamer magazine.
ref: 2004 April 12, Chris Taylor, “Video Games: You Ought to Be in Pixels”, in Time:
text: Roosevelt not only remade America, but he also charmed the pants off everybody while he did it.
ref: 2006 June 25, Richard Lacayo, “The Making of America — Theodore Roosevelt”, in Time:
text: Those of us old enough will also recall that Japan used to scare the pants off Americans and just about everyone else.
ref: 2010 March 29, Michael Schuman, “What Japan's Years of Paralysis Teach America”, in Time:
glosses: An intensifier used with some transitive action verbs to indicate that the action is performed with thoroughness, vigor, or complete success.
Derived terms: beat the pants off
spectral theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectral theorems
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a theorem providing conditions under which an operator or matrix can be diagonalized
cheat-sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheat-sheets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cheat sheet.
cheat-sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheat-sheet
velarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: velarises
form: velarising
form: velarised
form: velarised
Etymology: From velar + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of velarize.
velarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of velarise
velarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of velarise
velarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of velarise
EKC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis.
pseudomembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Forms: form: pseudomembranes
Etymology: From pseudo- + membrane.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A layer which resembles a membrane, especially one forming over a mucosal surface.
CLOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLOBs
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of character large object, a collection of character data in a database management system.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of central limit order book.
Related terms: BLOB
CLOBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CLOB
Luwians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Luwian
Luvians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Luvian
Milyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian group.
Synonyms: Lycian B
studette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studettes
Etymology: From stud + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Those soap - opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?
ref: 1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The v-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune:
text: The Bahamian resort had been hopping with hot to trot studs and studettes.
ref: 2011, Judith Arnold, Father Found:
glosses: A sexually attractive, promiscuous female.
Hayasan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Hayasa + -an.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Hayasa, its people or language
Hayasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hayasans
Etymology: From Hayasa + -an.
Senses: glosses: an inhabitant of ancient Hayasa
Hayasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hayasa + -an.
Senses: glosses: the language of Hayasa of unknown affiliation, attested in only few names
Hayasans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hayasan
Hayasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hayaša
form: Ḫayaša
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Hittite 𒆳𒌷𒄩𒅀𒊭 (KURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-ša /⁠Ḫayaša⁠/). The name has been compared to the ethnonym of Armenians — հայ (hay). Martirosyan derives it from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos (“metal”), thus "land abounding in metal".
Senses: glosses: An ancient Bronze Age kingdom mentioned in Hittite inscriptions of 16–13th centuries BC, located in northern Anatolia.
Derived terms: Hayasan
Mysian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪən/
Forms: form: Mysians
Etymology: From Mysia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of ancient Mysia.
Mysian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪən/
Etymology: From Mysia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An extinct unclassified language, possibly belonging to the Anatolian subgroup of Indo-European languages.
Mysian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪən/
Etymology: From Mysia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mysia, its people, their language, or their culture.
Mysians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mysian