cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
himpathize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: himpathizes
form: himpathizing
form: himpathized
form: himpathized
Etymology: Blend of him + sympathize, or of himpathy + sympathize.
Senses: examples: text: As Manne (2017) and Solnit (2017) have shown, we tend to sympathize (or 'himpathize') too much with men and their standpoints, and not enough with women and their standpoints. This results in a tendency to downplay men's transgressions ...
ref: 2019, Michelle Ciurria, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: ... move in the political realm, particularly when they are challenging male authority. Female misogynists have made themselves visible in this era, being willing to exonerate, himpathize, and dismiss other women's concerns and accusations, were crucial to the outcome.
ref: 2019, L. H. Blumenfeld, Female Misogyny and Political Power, in Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, page 4
text: So here, as elsewhere, we ought to resist the pressure to himpathize. Incels have generated many headlines recently. It's easy to understand why, given the egregiously violent acts of misogyny some incels have committed.
ref: 2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: To exhibit himpathy; to inappropriately sympathize with men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.
Related terms: himpathy
himpathetic
three score and fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Hatchway had given up the ghost, in the three-score and fifth year of her age.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Sixty-fifth.
Martakert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mardakert
Etymology: From Armenian Մարտակերտ (Martakert).
Senses: synonyms: Aghdara
glosses: A town in former unrecognized Artsakh Republic.
Mardakert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Martakert.
Aghdara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Agdere
form: Aqdara
Etymology: From Azerbaijani Ağdərə.
Senses: synonyms: Martakert
glosses: A town in Azerbaijan.
Vardenis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Վարդենիս (Vardenis).
Senses: glosses: A town in Gegharkunik, Armenia.
fast-tracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fast-track
Potato Germans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Danish Kartoffeltyskere, in reference to the cultivation of potatoes in the areas they settled.
Senses: examples: text: Then there were the French Huguenot tobacco farmers (early 1700s), the “Potato Germans” and paid German soldiers (late 1700s), and Moravian crafts people (late 1700s).
ref: 2017, Andrew DJ Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.
enemyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enemy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Several facts indicate his "enemyness": (1) the Arawete killer confers names his enemy's soul gives him, but does not "wear" them himself. (2) He must not resume sexual relations with his wife until long after the killing, […]
ref: 2005, Mark S. Mosko, Frederick H. Damon, On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos, page 128:
text: While this discourse resembled other Cold War narratives of "enemyness," and while the Nation of Islam itself nurtured an oppositional identity, representations of the group were particularly racialized and classist […]
ref: 2005, Sean McCloud, Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, page 73:
glosses: The quality of being an enemy; enmity.
beat the cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats the cock
form: beating the cock
form: beat the cock
form: beaten the cock
Senses: glosses: To masturbate.
counteroppositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counteroppositional
form: most counteroppositional
Etymology: From counter- + oppositional.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or countering an opposition.
debuds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debud
debudding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debud
debudded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debud
counteropposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteroppositions
Etymology: From counter- + opposition.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to a group or entity which is itself an opposition to something.
Related terms: counteroppositional
counteroppositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteropposition
astrologises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of astrologise
astrologising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of astrologise
astrologised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of astrologise
defibres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defibre
defibring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defibre
defibred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defibre
there one has it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: And there one has it. Chamberlin had not been able to persuade representatives of so much as a single other agency to subscribe to his "pessimistic view of the situation" […]
ref: 1995, Frank Kofsky, Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of there you have it.
unabatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + abate + -ment.
Senses: antonyms: abatement
cessation
termination
glosses: The situation of going on unabated, without ceasing; continuation.
pimple and blotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Scotch (whisky)
Derived terms: pimple
Lacy Swiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mild American variety of Swiss cheese made from low-fat milk.
Coordinate terms: Baby Swiss
Baby Swiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mild American variety of Swiss cheese made from whole milk.
Coordinate terms: Lacy Swiss
conjunctivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The abnormal situation in which the conjunctiva begins to cover the cornea.
pumpkin chunkin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin chunking
form: punkin chunkin
Etymology: Modified from chucking to form an approximate rhyme. Compare punkin.
Senses: glosses: The informal sport of hurling a pumpkin as far as possible by mechanical means.
anticode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticodes
Etymology: anti- + code
Senses: glosses: A set of codewords such that the minimum Hamming distance between any two codewords is large.
Tranmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Preah Vihear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Khmer ព្រះវិហារ (prĕəh vihiə, “temple; sanctuary”), named after the Preah Vihear Temple.
Senses: glosses: A province in northern Cambodia, bordering both Thailand and Laos
glosses: A town, the provincial capital of Preah Vihear, Cambodia.
chop chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chop chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A clipped backbeat; a muted chord that marks the off-beats or upbeats.
Related terms: word: chuck
chop chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chop chord
idiobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idio- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to idiobiology.
Lingdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lockwood parish, Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ6716).
Boosbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lockwood parish, Redcar and Cleveland district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ6617).
thioxane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioxanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The saturated heterocycle that has four methylene groups, one sulfur atom and one oxygen atom
Synonyms: oxathiane
Hindley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hindleys
Etymology: From Old English hind (“hind, female deer”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to hind + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6204).
glosses: A hamlet in Stocksfield parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ0559).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Hindley Green
Hindley's screw
Hindley-Milner type system
dinlo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinlos
form: dinlow
Etymology: From Romani dinolo.
Senses: qualifier: especially Portsmouth
glosses: A fool.
dinlow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinlows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dinlo.
Makki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Makkis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَكِّيّ (makkiyy, “Meccan”). This surname is mostly found in Sudan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
king of birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The eagle.
Hallowes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæləʊz/
Forms: form: Hallows
Etymology: From Old English halh (“hollow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
yogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoggers
Etymology: From Romani yogger, yogengri (“gun”), from yog (“fire”).
Senses: examples: text: The vavver mush pulls out a chiv and penned he would mor Joey's dadrus, but his dai got the yogger out and shot the mush in one leg. The dui mushes prasters off in the drag and poggers it up against a rooker and they were lifted to ...
ref: 1984, Thomas Alan Acton, Donald Kenrick, Romani Rokkeripen To-divvus: The English Romani Dialect and Its Contemporary Social, Educational and Linguistic Standing:
text: "They carries yoggers an' all — they'd mar a man for three grand, like me dead father they would."
ref: 2007, Dominic Reeve, Beneath the Blue Sky: Four Decades of a Travelling Life in Britain:
text: Only thing is, he tripped up on the stairs, the yogger went bang, as yoggers are apt to do, and he ended up blowing the bottom of his own arm off. One of his brothers, Dennis, panicked, pulled out a revolver, aimed it at Mad Mickey D's nut and ...
ref: 2013, Horace Silver, Judas Pig, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: 'I've seen the yogger up there so I got it out of the wardrobe . . .' She was babbling, half-crying with the aftermath of terror. She'd used the old gypsy word for gun and in her panicked state she had't even noticed.
ref: 2018, Jessie Keane, Fearless: The Most Shocking and Gritty Gangland Thriller You'll Read This Year, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
qualifier: Romani slang
glosses: A gun.
Maesglas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maes-glas
Etymology: From Welsh maes + glas (“green field”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the city of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3086).
McKellen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
just friends
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Jack has confirmed that, contrary to the rumors that he and Jill are dating and are planning to marry, he and Jill are just friends.
text: And thanks to my particular brand of romantic dysfunction - the one where I lose interest in every guy I sleep with as soon as the deed is done - after , we'll finally be able to go back to being the kind of just friends we're supposed to be.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Mira Lyn Kelly, Just Friends: A Moira McTark Re-Release - Sexy Friends to Lovers, Mira Lyn Kelly:
text: “Oh, my God.” Cora found herself laughing. It felt like forever since she’d laughed, too. “You know that’s going to set the rumors off again.” Even Ygara had thought she and Janae were a couple. The truth was that Janae had been more than interested, though she’d taken it gracefully when Cora had turned her down. Now that the awkwardness had settled, they could be just friends.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 13, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 241:
text: Nick had asked her to be his date for the wedding. It had been under the guise of "just friends," but I knew better because Nick didn't do just friends with women.
ref: 2019, Kat Mizera, Nowhere Left to Run:
glosses: Participants in a two-way non-romantic friendship.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see just, friends.
more than friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here we go again / I kinda wanna be more than friends / So take it easy on me / I'm afraid you're never satisfied
ref: 2010, Neon Trees, Animal:
glosses: Participants in a two-way relationship that is closer than a typical friendship, especially a romantic or marital relationship.
St Agnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7250).
glosses: An island in the Isles of Scilly, England (OS grid ref SV8808).
glosses: A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region of Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
unional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnjənəl/
Etymology: From union + -al. Also, interference from German unional.
Senses: examples: text: When man is unional, the spirit conceives and brings forth strength, the soul listens to wisdom and is led into security, the body has issue in stedfastness and peace.
ref: 1843, The New Age, Concordium Gazette, & Temperance Advocate:
text: The revolutionary action of the party is expressed through the specific means of the unional organization, consequently through the general strike , perfected with all means which revolutionary experience shall successively advise, and transfers the functions of the state to the unional organs or to the individual […]
ref: 1907, International Socialist Review, volume 7, page 345:
glosses: Pertaining to a union.
examples: text: PM Huber conceives the European principle of democracy as giving the individual through unional as well as national procedures a sufficiently effective opportunity to influence the basic decisions of European policy. […] Yet it would be a misunderstanding of the unional principle of democracy to place only the individual Union citizen in the centre. […]
ref: 2006, Armin von Bogdandy, “Constitutional principles of Europe”, in Eibe Riedel, Rüdiger Wolfrum, editors, Recent Trends in German and European Constitutional Law: German Reports Presented to the XVIIᵗʰ International Congress on Comparative Law, Utrecht, 16 to 22 July 2006 (Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht; 188), Berlin · Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The principle of conferral binds the EU with respect to any unional action and can be understood as a presumption in favour of the competences of the Member States.
ref: 2011 October 12, Albrecht Weber, “The Distribution of Competences between the Union and the Member States”, in Hermann-Josef Blanke, Stelio Mangiameli, editors, The European Union after Lisbon: Constitutional Basis, Economic Order and External Action, Berlin · Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, page 313:
glosses: Pertaining to the European Union.
Rose Bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The annual NCAA college football championship game typically played on New Year's Day.
glosses: The namesake stadium in Pasadena, California where the game is played.
signpainter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signpainters
Etymology: From sign + painter.
Senses: examples: text: Frank Fisher’s butcher’s shop had been in business, he liked to tell people, for more than 300 years. A while back, a signpainter was commissioned to advertise this fact on an outside wall, in case any strangers should pass through the market town of Dronfield in Derbyshire and feel compelled to stop and inspect a time capsule.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone who paints signs.
Sausal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish sauzal (“willow grove”), sauce (“willow”) + -al, from Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix (“willow”) (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Alameda County, California, United States.
glosses: A river in San Mateo County, California, United States.
cutting block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting blocks
Senses: examples: ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “Most of the interior was taken up by a walk-in meat larder, with just enough room left over for a counter, a crimson-stained cutting block and Frank himself.”, in The Guardian:
glosses: chopping block; cutting board
on the slide
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The L-shaped shopping parade, which had once wooed custom away from the small shops down the hill, was on the slide, left stranded by changes in consumer habits.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
text: Yvonne was on the slide.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 280:
glosses: in decline
boning knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boning knives
Senses: examples: text: He held up his right-hand index finger to the light, to reveal a worn-away depression near the knuckle, the upshot of seven decades trimming meat with a narrow-handled boning knife.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: a sharp-pointed and narrow-bladed kitchen knife, used for removing the bones of poultry, meat, and fish.
rib-rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rib-racks
Senses: examples: text: An early photograph of Frank’s shop shows an immaculate display of marbled rib-racks in the window
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A rack used for ribs (as meat)
spice rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spice racks
Senses: glosses: A rack used to store spice jars or, less commonly, loose spices
Cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cup
CUPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Acronym of Common Unix Printing System, a subsystem for using printers, found across many Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
jokul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈjoʊ.kəl/
rhymes: -əʊkəl
homophone: yokel
Forms: form: jokuls
Etymology: From Icelandic jökull (“glacier”). Doublet of ickle.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, Kailash is also the only jokul in China that was explicitly banned from climbing.
glosses: A mountain covered with ice and snow, a snow mountain.
honest John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honest Johns
Senses: examples: text: The high street was a place of utility once, with concentrated amenities. It was a place of wildly fluctuating codes of behaviour and scruples. Particular smells. Finicky proprietors. Honest johns. Crooks.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An ordinary, honest, member of the public
bathbomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathbombs
Senses: examples: text: the pumped-out sweet citrus vanilla scent of Lush bathbombs
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of bath bomb.
turning-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnings-away
Senses: examples: text: One of this century’s stranger trends has been a turning-away from the chains – and a deliberate revival of the props and symbols of yesterday’s vanished high street.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A deliberate rejection and movement or development in a different direction.
Ladies' Mile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Part of Hyde Park in London where fashionable women used to congregrate.
glosses: A shopping district in Manhattan, New York City at the end of the 19th century.
bufferize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bufferizes
form: bufferizing
form: bufferized
form: bufferized
Etymology: From buffer + -ize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To buffer; to store in a buffer.
bufferized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bufferize
bufferizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bufferize
bufferizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bufferize
nab the rust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nabs the rust
form: nabbing the rust
form: nabbed the rust
form: nabbed the rust
Senses: examples: text: […] did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.
ref: 1807, The Port Folio, page 313:
text: Spurstow discovered it, of course, and nabbed the rust. He went off to Rye, ran Ottershaw to earth in the Ship, and asked him what the devil he meant by it.
ref: 1968, Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax, page 155:
glosses: To take offense; to become upset.
shekarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shekarries
Senses: glosses: Dated form of shikari.
shekarries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shekarry
pauncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paunchers
Senses: examples: text: […] a bascinet and a steel cap with visors, breastplates, a pauncher, greaves, and vambraces and rearbraces. The owner's piety is suggested by an image of the Blessed Mary in alabaster and another of St. John the Baptist.
ref: 1921, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Great Britain: Royal Historical Society:
text: […] and lively renditions of this armor, with breast plaques, and lamellar shoulder guards, pauncher or midriff guard, […]
ref: 2017, Peter Lorge, Warfare in China to 1600, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of paunce (“abdomen armor”).
tinker's curse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "If they get off their stunt I don't suppose they care a tinker's curse what is truth or what is not."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Synonym of tinker's damn.
synonyms: word: tinker's damn
not worth a tinker's curse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of not worth a curse.
synonyms: word: not worth a curse
cogers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coger
hop the twig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops the twig
form: hopping the twig
form: hopped the twig
form: hopped the twig
Senses: glosses: To run away.
glosses: To die.
potcheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potcheens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poteen.
potcheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potcheen
pitch the nob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fast and loose (“fraudulent game”).
synonyms: word: fast and loose
extra: fraudulent game
whipjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /wɪpˈdʒæk/
Forms: form: whipjacks
Senses: synonyms: turnpike sailor
glosses: A beggar who pretends to be a sailor.
whipjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipjack
starvation wage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: starvation wages
Senses: glosses: A wage so low that it can barely support a person.
snapps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of schnapps.
spunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spungers
Senses: examples: text: Bell[inda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartfr[ee]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bell[inda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlyer got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.
ref: 1697, [John Vanbrugh], The Provok’d Wife: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn-Fields, London: […] J[ames] O[rme] for R[ichard] Wellington, […], and Sam[uel] Briscoe […], →OCLC, act III, page 30:
glosses: Obsolete form of sponger.
spungers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spunger
salvatellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salvatella
schroffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schroff
pigeon's milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: key to the midway
glosses: An imaginary liquid that people may be sent to fetch as a prank.
Biddell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
clowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clowdier
form: clowdiest
Senses: glosses: Early Modern form of cloudy
yerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yerd
yerds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yerd
yerding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yerd
yerded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yerd
rhinocerosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nine or ten Leagues from the Cape Eaſtward there is a Chain of Hills full of Lyons, Elephants, and Rhinoceroſſes of a prodigious bigneſs.
ref: 1688, A Relation of the Voyage to Siam, London: T. B. for J. Robinson and A. Churchil, page 64:
text: Of these caves the work before us contains several remarkable details, particularly of one at Kirkdale in Yorkshire, where the bones of hyænas, tigers, bears, wolves, foxes, weasels, elephants, rhinocerosses, hippopotamusses, horses, oxen, deer, hares, rabbits, rats, mice, ravens, pigeons, and other birds were found, indiscriminately dispersed in a sediment of loam, all bearing the trace of having been gnawed, with marks, corresponding to those of hyænas’ teeth, those parts of bones only being left, which hyænas are observed to spare, and the very excrement of these ferocious animals being detected among other remains, dispersed in the mud.
ref: 1825, The British Review, and London Critical Journal, volume XXIII, London: printed for L. B. Seeley and Son, “Geological Antiquities”, page 560:
text: I also saw rhinocerosses, waterbuffaloes, different kinds of goats, tapirs, zebras, jackals, wolves, rabbits and two very large turtles.
ref: 1998, Peter Richardus, editor, Tibetan Lives: Three Himalayan Autobiographies, Curzon Press, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: plural of rhinoceros
apparatusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Had this Thing been known 50 Years ago, there had then been doubtleſs fifty of theſe Apparatuſſes to one we find now.
ref: 1755, Benjamin Martin, The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical, and Mechanical, 3rd edition, London: printed for W. Owen, page 324:
text: A classification based on the reunion of apparatusses engaged in the performance of one function, is identical with a classification founded on the reunion of apparatusses engaged in the performance of another function.
ref: 1842, William Jackson Hooker, The London Journal of Botany, volume I, London: Hippolyte Baillière, page 580:
text: The establishment of early modern state apparatusses is seen as a kind of continuous-flow water heater for this trickling down, where client-oriented apparatusses are seen as particularly central (lower administration, church, school, etc.).
ref: 1988, Peter Auer, Aldo di Luzio, editors, Variation and Convergence: Studies in Social Dialectology, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: plural of apparatus
mediomeniscotibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medio- + meniscotibial.
Senses: examples: text: An incision was made over the medial meniscus; a blunt dissection was then used to open the knee joint capsule and the mediomeniscotibial ligament (MMTL) was transected to destabilise the medial meniscus (Glasson et al. 2007).
ref: 2020 February 19, P. Pousinis, “Lipidomic identification of plasma lipids associated with pain behaviour and pathology in a mouse model of osteoarthritis”, in Metabolomics:
text: In this model transection of the mediomeniscotibial ligament (MMTL) results in a slowly progressing joint pathology and pain phenotype
ref: 2020 September 29, Peter R. W. Gowler, “Refining surgical models of osteoarthritis in mice and rats alters pain phenotype but not joint pathology”, in PLOS One:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Medial and meniscotibial.
Alcuin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Alcuinus, romanization of Old English Ealhwine.
Senses: glosses: Alcuin, a Northumbrian clergyman and scholar
Stokesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ5208).
boyang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bowyang.
Roding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The river's name is from Old English *Hrōþa (a personal name).
Senses: glosses: A river in Essex and Greater London, England, which flows into Barking Creek before it reaches the Thames near Barking.
RPK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Russian РПК (RPK), which is an initialism of ручной пулемёт Калашникова (ručnoj pulemjót Kalašnikova, “Kalashnikov hand-held machine gun”).
Senses: glosses: A Soviet 7.62×39mm cartridge light machine gun
pKas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pKa
Knights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former unincorporated community in Franklin County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Missouri, United States.
Related terms: Knight
lappeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lap.
absolute differential calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1926 [Blackie & Son], Marjorie Long (translator), Tullio Levi-Civita, The Absolute Differential Calculus (Calculus of Tensors), 1977, Dover https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8PzDAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22absolute+differential+calculus%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi60s2Pq5DsAhX94zgGHf40DQ0Q6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=%22absolute%20differential%20calculus%22&f=false.
text: 1931 [Blackie Company], A. J. McConnell, Applications of Tensor Analysis, 1957, Dover, page v,
The absolute differential calculus came into prominence as the instrument best fitted for dealing with the general theory of relativity and it has also been found indispensable for the differential geometry of hyperspaces.
text: Instead, it is of interest to try to look at the emergence of the absolute differential calculus (ADC in the rest of this chapter) from the viewpoint of the mathematical community of the time.
ref: 1999, Umberto Bottazzini, “8: Ricci and Levi-Civita: from differential invariants to general relativity”, in Jeremy Gray, editor, The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890-1930, Oxford University Press, page 241:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Ricci calculus; the rules of index notation and manipulation for tensors and tensor fields, as developed by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro.
Related terms: tensor analysis
vulnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hunt mentioned vulnology as a putative specialty in wound care, not tissue viability per se, and dismissed the proposal as being too narrow.
ref: 2008, R. White, “Tissue viability in tomorrow's NHS”, in Journal of Wound Care:
glosses: The care and treatment of wounds.
flounciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flouncinesses
Senses: examples: text: The ostrich can loosen the feathers to help dissipate body heat or draw them close to conserve it. That flounciness is also the quality that has caused human fashion to repeatedly fall in and out of love with ostrich feathers.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
glosses: The state or quality of being flouncy
Cherufe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical man-eating creature in Mapuche mythology made of rock crystals and magma that cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Greenhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY6665).
glosses: A hamlet in Kingsley parish and Cheadle parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9846).
glosses: A suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8054).
glosses: A hamlet east of Selkirk, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4929).
poinard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poinards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poniard.
Yevlakh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Azerbaijani Yevlax.
Senses: glosses: A town in Azerbaijan.
long-tailed blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-tailed blues
Senses: glosses: A small, blue gossamer-winged with brown border butterfly with cryptic, dull under wing, Lampides boeticus, of the family Lycaenidae.
Askern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse askr + Old English ærn (literally “building surrounded by ash trees”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5613).
Lapalissade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lapalissades
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lapalissade.
Lapalissades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lapalissade
DSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of display screen equipment.
Related terms: VDU
DSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Diploma of Secondary Education, the university admission test in Hong Kong.
WRULD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WRULD
form: WRULDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of work-related upper limb disorder.
Related terms: ULD
WRULDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WRULD
long-tailed blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-tailed blue
Hotchley Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A locality with a gypsum works in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5528).
Alexandrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alexandrine
Talca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and commune, the capital of Talca province and Maule region, Chile.
glosses: A province in Maule region, Chile; in full, Talca Province.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Ensenada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish ensenada.
Senses: glosses: A number of places, including
examples: text: The 36 miles from Petrohué to Puerto Varas can be covered direct by motor coach, but a steamer on Lake Llanquihué [sic] provides an alternative from Ensenada, 11 miles from Petrohué.
ref: 1949 May and June, H. R. Stones, “From Argentina to Chile via the Southern Lakes”, in Railway Magazine, page 151:
glosses: A number of places, including:
A locality east of Puerto Varas, Llanquihue province, Los Lagos region, Chile.
Thursby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thursbys
Etymology: From Old Norse Þórr (“Thor”) + býr (“town, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY3250).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old Norse.
betasselled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betasselled
form: most betasselled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of betasseled.
Larmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
eastern Orphean warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern Orphean warblers
Senses: glosses: Sylvia crassirostris, an Old World warbler. Now sometimes Curruca crassirostris.
western Orphean warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: western Orphean warblers
Senses: synonyms: figpecker
beccafico
pettychaps
glosses: Sylvia hortensis, an Old World warbler. Now sometimes Curruca hortensis.
Leather
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English surname, from the noun leather.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Yelland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yellen
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Fremington parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4931).
Fremington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5132).
glosses: A hamlet in Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE0499).
Bidder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Prebble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prebbles
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Preble
d'Alembertian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d'Alembertians
Etymology: From Jean le Rond d'Alembert + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we note that #92;partial#95;#92;mu#92;partial#92;mu#61;#92;eta#123;#92;mu#92;nu#125;#92;partial#95;#92;mu#92;partial#95;#92;nu#61;#58;Template#58;#92;partial²#125;#92;over#123;#92;partialt²-#92;nabla²#61;#92;square, which is known as the d'Alembertian, is invariant under Lorentz transformations.
ref: 2011, Ashok Das, Lectures on Gravitation, Singapore: World Scientific, page 25:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The d'Alembert operator.
wikipedia: Jean le Rond d'Alembert
vorlage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.lɑː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹˌlɑ.ɡə/
Forms: form: vorlages
Etymology: From German Vorlage.
Senses: examples: text: It is not enough to twist the body slightly in anticipation of planting the pole; the runner must be in a position of extreme vorlage before increasing the forward lean by reaching forward with the pole.
ref: 1936, Charles Nancrede Proctor, Skiing: Fundamentals, Equipment, and Advanced Technique, page 91:
glosses: A skiing position in which the skier leans forward while keeping their heels in contact with the skis.
examples: text: The following are just a few of the reasons mistakes were made: (1) poor quality vorlages (i.e., manuscripts being copied from—some contained worm holes or became very dark from deterioration) […]
ref: 2013, Steven B. Cowan, In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Vorlage.
Related terms: vorlages
Westcentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West-centrism
Etymology: From West + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of viewing the world from a Western perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of Western culture.
Meronyms: Eurocentrism
Related terms: Westcentric
West-centrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Westcentrism.
Hak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haks
Etymology: * As a Dutch surname, variant of Haack.
* As a Czech surname Hák, from the noun hák (“hook”).
* As a Cambodian surname, from Khmer ហាក់ (hak), itself of Chinese origin and from 和 (“peace”), compare He.
* As an Islamic name mainly in India, borrowed from Bengali হক (hok). Compare Haq.
* Also as a Chinese surname, from 郝 (hǎo), see Hao.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hellabyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellabytes
Etymology: From hella- + byte.
Senses: examples: text: Now imagine constructing something like that for 100 arguments. Your routine would run into the millions of hellabytes.
ref: 2010 July 28, Glenn Knickerbocker, “Re: Avoiding interpret?”, in comp.lang.rexx (Usenet), message-ID <MrGdnVh2XfvTLs3RnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@bestweb.net>:
text: > I have a few episodes on one of my hard drives...downloading some more / > now...[…]I've had this very intention ever since the news of Cannell's death reminded me of how much I loved TRF [The Rockford Files]. Picked up another hard drive with hellabyte capacity. ;^)
ref: 2010 October 5, Wanda, “Re: OT - RIP Stephen J Cannell”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet), message-ID <NJadnd2ZPr2LtzbRnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@earthlink.com>:
text: At these rates of growth, within the next decade or two, the human race could well be sitting on top of more than 1 × 10²⁷ bytes of data—that’s a whole hellabyte.
ref: 2012, Florida State University College of Law, Florida State University Law Review, volume 39, pages 652–653:
text: Star Trek showed us a world where doors slid open as we approached, where we had small flip-open communicators that let us talk to anyone in the world, where we had wall-size screens and video communication, silver discs that stored hellabytes of data, universal translators, medical beds, desktop computers, tablets that gave us instant access to information, supercomputers that understood speech, and a lot of other technologies we’re still designing and building.
ref: 2012, Mark Clark, Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, →ISBN:
text: We are running out of words to describe how much data we have.[…]MIT’s Andrew McAfee and others have actually proposed that we settle on “hellabyte” – as in, “helluva lot of data,” to describe the next stage of the data deluge.
ref: 2013 October 25, Dominic Basulto, “Welcome to the hellabyte era, as in a helluva lot of data”, in The Washington Post:
text: Beyond an exabyte (10¹⁸ bytes), we have the zettabyte (10²¹ bytes) and yottabyte (10²⁴ bytes), which follow the prefixes offered by the International System of Units (SI). In response both to the rapid growth of data and the proliferation of terms, some have suggested that we simply use “hellabyte,” for “hell of a lot of bytes.”
ref: 2014, Joe Arnold, members of the SwiftStack team, OpenStack Swift: Using, Administering, and Developing for Swift Object Storage, O’Reilly Media, published 2015, →ISBN, “Chapter 1: The Evolution of Storage”, “The Growth of Data: Exabytes, Hellabytes, and Beyond”, page 4:
glosses: 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.
Synonyms: brontobyte
ronnabyte
hellabytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellabyte
preferre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preferres
form: preferring
form: preferred
form: preferred
Senses: examples: text: […] let him go,
 And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 118, column 2:
text: And therefore doe they preferre the beloved, and verifie that the Gods likewiſe preferre the ſame:[…]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “27. Of Friendſhip.”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 92:
text: But if hee preferre theſe things before CHRIST, though hee ſeeme to hold his fayth, yet CHRIST is no foundation vnto him, in that hee preferres thoſe vanities before him.
ref: 1610, Saint Augustine, chapter XXI, in J[ohn] H[ealey], transl., St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: […], [London]: […] George Eld, →OCLC, book WHAT IT IS TO HAUE CHRIST FOR THE FOUNDATION: WHO THEY ARE, THAT SHALBE SAUED(AS IT WERE)BY FIRE. CHAP. 26., page 868:
glosses: Obsolete form of prefer.
preferres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preferre
studly caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: StudlyCaps
Etymology: From studly + caps.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of upper camel case.
synonyms: word: upper camel case
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of alternating case.
synonyms: word: alternating case
Sarumyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarumian
Etymology: Transliteration of Armenian Սարումյան (Sarumyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
wikipedia: Saruman
Sarumian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sarumyan.
alternating case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alternating + letter case.
Senses: examples: text: The prose passage was on the left page of a booklet, in upper case, lower case, or alternating case.
ref: 1974, Max Coltheart, Roger Freeman, Case alternation impairs word identification:
text: College students read a passage presented in AlTeRnAtInG cAsE on a CRT while their eye movements were monitored.
ref: 1979, George W. McConkie, David Zola, Is visual information integrated across successive fixations in reading?:
glosses: Alternative form of alternating caps.
alternating caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alternating + caps.
Senses: examples: text: I'm compelled to draw the line at aLtErNaTiNg CaPs.
ref: 2006, Dan Macsai, ALtErNaTiNg CaPs are damaging our children:
text: Nowadays, there's the common practice of typing a word in all caps to indicate SCREAMING, the use of aLteRnAtInG cApS (often associated with SpongeBob memes) to convey mockery
ref: 2019, Nicole Galluci, A look at the Ubiquitous Habit of capitalizing letters to make A Point:
synonyms: alternating case
spongecase
coordinate_terms: all caps
camel case
initial caps
upstyle#Noun
headline style
title case
sentence case
downstyle#Noun
glosses: A form of capitalization where capital letters are randomly placed throughout the word(s), now used to convey mockery through text messages or in internet comment sections.
all-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Providing instruction for male students only.
raw_tags: of a school