cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Spursy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɜːzi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
Forms: form: more Spursy
form: most Spursy
Etymology: From Spurs + -y. Tottenham Hotspur consistently finish near the top of the Premier League but have won few trophies in recent years.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1978-79 season, Chelsea, who had come up the year before, finished dead last in the first division and were relegated again. But no worries, I still had my Robins in the top flight. But then they did something more Spursy than anything the Spurs could ever dream of. They were relegated in successive seasons between 1980 and 1982[…]
ref: 2018 May 15, Roger Bennett, Michael Davies, Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972, Knopf, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Rice has a solid tournament for England. He is excellent in the quarter-final against France, until it all goes a bit Spursy for Harry Kane who uncharacteristically misses a penalty in the 2-1 defeat.
ref: 2024 January 30, Pete May, Massive: The Miracle of Prague, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Then came the hammer blow as Pennant stated: "England are Spursy."
ref: 2024 March 26, Joe Brophy, quoting Jermaine Pennant, “Gareth Southgate’s record and ‘Spursy’ England worry me – we may have to play Italy, France and Spain to win Euros”, in talkSPORT:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Having a promising team, but losing in an embarrassing way.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Unpredictable.
Kodungallur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cranganore
form: Codangalur
form: Codungalur
Etymology: From Malayalam കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂർ (koṭuṅṅallūṟ).
Senses: glosses: A historically significant town in Thrissur district, Kerala, in southwestern India.
Marbury and District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.
wikipedia: Marbury cum Quoisley
HoF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HoFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hall of fame.
HoF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In 9:31 Dragon the HoF slew the Archdemon.
ref: 2015 July 1, [deleted account], Reddit:
text: The HoF, if alive, is mentioned in DA2 and in DA:I, possibly quite a lot depending on their relationships with various NPCs.
ref: 2017 August 29, Alicorna, Reddit:
text: The HoF is a character many have wanted to see return someday.
ref: 2024 October 16, Sapphic_Copper, Reddit:
qualifier: Dragon Age fandom slang
glosses: Initialism of Hero of Ferelden; the player character in Dragon Age: Origins.
HoFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of HoF
saliureses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saliuresis
visual effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual effect
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: VFX
glosses: The totality of techniques in filmmaking and video production by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of live-action shots.
macrolocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolocations
Etymology: From macro- + location.
Senses: examples: text: The macrolocation within a river basin is usually determined by areas of major pollution loads, population centers, etc. Macrolocation can be specified, as well, according to percent areal coverage using basin centroids.
ref: 2018, Larry W. Canter, River Water Quality Monitoring:
text: In the process of valorization and selection of acceptable potential microlocation for energy plants within the selected macrolocation, it is necessary to apply a certain procedure, which will be uniform in all its aspects.
ref: 2019, Mangey Ram, Hoang Pham, Advances in Reliability Analysis and its Applications, page 81:
text: The score, moreover, aims to provide practical guidance in finding a macrolocation for new warehouses.
ref: 2022, Florian Diehlmann, Facility Location Planning in Relief Logistics, page 147:
text: We cannot be emphatic on this point—the documentary evidence is too scarce—but analysis of microlocation and macrolocation appear to indicate that, in establishing these fortifications, consideration was given to the need to defend the Principality from attack.
ref: 2022, Craig Owen Jones, Princely Ambition: Ideology, castle-building and landscape in Gwynedd, 1194-1283:
glosses: A region or area that contains smaller sites or locations (microlocations).
examples: text: CCD images for the macrolocation were also obtained.
ref: 2009, Shota Kuwahara, Toshiki Sugaiab and Hisanori Shinohara, “Determining exact molar absorbance coefficients of single-wall carbon nanotubes”, in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics:
text: Fig. 1 shows the development of the macrolocation of strains depending on displacement h of the cutting-edge and the value of shearing force P_c. The macrolocation of strains starts directly after the loss of stability by the shearing force (Fig. 1b) .
ref: 2012, J.P. Boehler, Akhtar S. Khan, Anisotropy and Localization of Plastic Deformation, page 57:
text: […] steel composition via the C/Nb ratio (microstructure variation), through wall thickness position (both microstructure and strain history variation) and macrolocation […]
ref: 2017, JB Wiskel, J Ma, J Valloton, DG Ivey, H. Nenein, “Strain aging on the yield strength to tensile strength ratio of UOE pipe”, in Materials Science and Technology:
glosses: The macroscopic area in which a microscopic event takes place or in which a microscopic focus exists.
examples: text: The shore is continuously lined with potential dead substrates, and there is no need for the larvae to perform “macrolocation” (they do need to perform “microlocation,” having arrived at an intertidal rock, to assure proximity to potential mates). In contrast, live hosts are not guaranteed to be at all locations, and macrolocation must also be performed.
ref: 2001 June, O Mokady, I Brickner, “Host-associated speciation in a coral-inhabiting barnacle”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution, volume 18, number 6:
glosses: A movement to a new area, as opposed to a movement within the area in which one currently resides.
macrolocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrolocation
rajju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rajjus
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rope (“a unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second”).
synonyms: word: rope
extra: a unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second
submandibular duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Wharton's duct
submaxillary duct
glosses: A small duct that drains saliva.
Wharton's duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of submandibular duct.
synonyms: word: submandibular duct
rajjus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rajju
submaxillary duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of submandibular duct.
synonyms: word: submandibular duct
inside man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside men
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shill (“an accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game”).
synonyms: word: shill
extra: an accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game
Related terms: con man
inside job
insider
insider trading
inside men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inside man
euornithian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euornithians
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ornithuromorph.
synonyms: word: ornithuromorph
euornithians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euornithian
ambiortiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambiortiforms
Senses: glosses: Any ornithuromorph dinosaur of the group Ambiortiformes.
ambiortiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambiortiform
patagopterygiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patagopterygiforms
Senses: glosses: Any ornithuromorph dinosaur of the group Patagopterygiformes.
patagopterygiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patagopterygiform
yanornithiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yanornithiforms
Senses: glosses: Any ornithuromorph dinosaur of the group Yanornithiformes.
yanornithiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yanornithiform
bronze-winged jacanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronze-winged jacana
duck off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ducks off
form: ducking off
form: ducked off
form: ducked off
Etymology: From duck + off.
Senses: glosses: To lie low; to hide.
glosses: To leave or exit quickly.
Derived terms: word: ducked off
ducks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duck off
ducking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of duck off
ducked off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ducked off
form: most ducked off
form: ducked-off
Senses: glosses: Lying low; hidden.
ducked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duck off
green gentians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green gentian
when I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
short-toed snake eagles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-toed snake eagle
duck or no dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Do you mean it is 'fish or cut bait,' 'duck or no dinner ?'" asked the librarian.
ref: 1917, Malcolm C. Fenwick, Life in the Cup, page 22:
text: You were urged to keep status quo, shut your mouth, and go along with the flow. It was sort of like a Louisiana saying, "It was duck or no dinner."
ref: 2014, Art Crews, Judy Burleigh-Crews, We Made ’Em Look Good, page 76:
text: The Charter was, of course, a compromise beteen the different approaches of the leading members of the Independent Alliance. There had been arguments galore about it. At one point, the attempted input from councillors had prompted an exasperated Michael Fitzmaurice to say that they should be told they would have to accept the 'full duck or no dinner.'
ref: 2020, Shane Ross, In Bed with the Blueshirts:
glosses: Synonym of take it or leave it.
synonyms: word: take it or leave it
examples: text: The same thing that has given a bent to many other minds—necessity. With him it was shoot duck or no dinner.·
ref: 1889, Lew Wallace, Living Leaders of the World:
text: In Birchley's phrase, there was no stability: 'either duck or no dinner'.
ref: 1992, R. P. T. Davenport-Hines, Judy Slinn, Glaxo: A History to 1962, page 318:
text: Asked by Steadman what he did when Johnson threw at him, Baker replied: "It was either duck or no dinner."
ref: 1998, Henry W. Thomas, Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train, page 391:
glosses: Alternative form of all duck or no dinner.
no duck, no dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of duck or no dinner.
no fish, no dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: If fish is not served, then dinner will not take place.
glosses: Synonym of duck or no dinner.
synonyms: word: duck or no dinner
cephalanthins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalanthin
hand-adze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-adzes
form: hand adze
Senses: glosses: A type of adze swung with one hand.
hand-adzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-adze
hand adze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand adzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand-adze.
hand adzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand adze
exfoliative cytology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exfoliative cytologies
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A microscopic examination of cells that are either shed by the body or scraped from tissue in order to diagnose a medical condition.
exfoliative cytologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exfoliative cytology
Hadnagy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hadnagys
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Hadnagy.
Senses: examples: Christopher Hadnagy
glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
hydronium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydronium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: oxonium ion
glosses: A positively charged ion that is formed when a hydrogen ion joins with a water molecule.
oxonium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxonium ions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hydronium ion.
synonyms: word: hydronium ion
hydronium ions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydronium ion
oxonium ions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxonium ion
adze-eye hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adze-eye hammers
Senses: glosses: A type of hammer having an extended eye.
adze-eye hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adze-eye hammer
Diachenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diachenkos
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Дяченко (Djačenko).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
clinothulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A light pink variety of clinozoisite.
Coordinate terms: clinozoisite
thulite
denasals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denasal
Garibaldi biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Garibaldi biscuits
Etymology: Named after Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Senses: glosses: A biscuit consisting of currants sandwiched between biscuit dough.
Garibaldi biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Garibaldi biscuit
Local Lynx of Cold Clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A collection of cold interstellar clouds, located at the near end of the Local Ribbon of Cold Clouds, which itself is located in the Local Bubble, in the Local Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
Local Ribbon of Cold Clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A collection of cold interstellar clouds, located in nearby space, in the Local Bubble, in the Local Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
Derived terms: Local Lynx of Cold Clouds
Related terms: Local Fluff
Local Interstellar Cloud
body-ody-ody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒdi.ɒdi.ɒdi/
ipa: /ˈbɑdi.ɑdi.ɑdi/
rhymes: -ɒdi
Etymology: Reduplication of body. Popularised by, if not coined on, RuPaul's Drag Race.
Senses: examples: text: You are serving body-ody-ody!
qualifier: drag slang
glosses: The feminine figure of a drag queen.
wikipedia: RuPaul's Drag Race
Stanthorne and Wimboldsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (without a council) in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England.
Shan State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Myanmar.
Rakhine State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Myanmar.
Kachin State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Myanmar.
dirtybud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirtybuds
Etymology: From dirty (“out of tune”) + earbud (“a small earphone designed to be placed in the ear canal for use with portable sound systems”). Popularised by the videos of Australian tech YouTuber, drummer and audiophile Wade "DankPods" Nixon since the late 2010s and early 2020s.
Senses: examples: text: Ahaha! I'm hopefully hitting up a Cashies in the new year as I’ve seen buckets of bootleg ipod dirtybuds. Definitely want to try to blow some up 👀
ref: 2020 December 26, @PodsDank, Twitter:
text: Oh I already knew that I just didn’t expect the plug-in to make all my audio sound like I had 5 dollar bargain bin dirtybuds on
ref: 2021 December 6, @siverstorm, Twitter:
text: The only things really on my radar right now are openheart's $10 and $20 buds, the fiio em3s, and the bgvp dx5's. I don't mind the apple dirtybud shape/style either, just don't know of anything quality that uses it.
ref: 2022 September 6, u/Gobbelcoque, “Need a pair of flat (non-in-ear) earbuds”, in r/iems, Reddit:
text: I remember when I was so happy with my USB-Stick/mp3player, no name dirtybud and YouTube rips 🤤. I'm somehow unable to find that "Zen" with my current setup somehow.
ref: 2023 January 20, “This was my endgame 8 years ago. What’s next?”, in r/headphones, Reddit:
text: SWAP NOW, AS A AUDIOPHILE GO NOW, DONT USE DIRTYBUDS USE GOOD EARBUDS
ref: 2024 September 30, @cc_goten, Twitter:
glosses: A mediocre earbud with poor audio quality, especially one that is cheap, a bootleg or a knockoff.
Synonyms: nuggbud
plushsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plushsuit
dirtybuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirtybud
nuggbud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuggbuds
Etymology: Blend of nugget (“an item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition”) + earbud (“a small earphone designed to be placed in the ear canal for use with portable sound systems”). Perhaps coined, certainly popularised, by the videos of Australian tech YouTuber, drummer and audiophile Wade "DankPods" Nixon.
Senses: glosses: A dirtybud (“mediocre earbud”), especially one paired with a cheap, low-quality or knockoff MP3 player.
nuggbuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuggbud
mohaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohaffas
Etymology: From Hindi मुहाफ़ा (muhāfā) and Urdu محافہ (muḥāfa), from Persian محافه (miḥâfah) and Arabic مِحَفَّة (miḥaffa), related to Arabic حَفَّ (ḥaffa, “to enclose, to border”).
Senses: examples: text: Now perform the religious ceremonies; array me in new and delicate cloathing; perfume me with coſtly eſſences; and, having placed me and the phyſician in a mohaffa,ᶜ throw over it an embroidered covering.
ref: 1799, Jonathan Scott translating 'Inayatallah as Bahar-Danush, or, Garden of Knowledge..., Vol. II, p. 74
roman: ᶜ A cloſe litter, uſed chiefly by women, and covered often with velvet, broad cloth, or ſilk richly embroidered with gold and ſilver, ſometimes intermixed with pearl and precious ſtones. The frame alſo is ſometimes of ſilver thickly plated over the wood, but always beautifully lacquered.
text: In addition, imagine them to desire three riding horses, for which two extra camels would be needed to carry food and water; and a mohaffa camel, on which two men might be carried simultaneously, in panniers slung on either side of the animal. Half a dozen spare camels would have be taken along, in case some of those laden were to sicken or die, as well as an extra mohaffa camel—since, on account of the necessity of having a balanced load, the double mohaffa could never be divided between two camels.
ref: 2003, Christina Phelps Grant, The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel, and Explorations, page 153:
glosses: Alternative form of mihaffa.
mohaffas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mohaffa
grownt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: past participle of grow
love it or lump it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loves it or lumps it
form: loving it or lumping it
form: loved it or lumped it
form: loved it or lumped it
Senses: glosses: Synonym of like it or lump it.
synonyms: word: like it or lump it
loves it or lumps it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of love it or lump it
loving it or lumping it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of love it or lump it
loved it or lumped it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of love it or lump it
multimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + mate.
Senses: examples: text: Some of these are poly intimacy, polyamory, polygamy, omnigamy, multimate, multiple adult relationship, combo, cellular family, expanded family, nonexclusive relationship, intimate friendship and inclusive relationship.
ref: 1992, Deborah M. Anapol, Love without limits, page 4:
glosses: Having multiple romantic or sexual partners.
Hillarynomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hillary + -nomics.
Senses: examples: text: But the timing and circumstance of its authorship in January make it the best guide to what Hillarynomics is likely to look like.
ref: 2015 December 6, Matthew Yglesias, “This is our best look at Hillary Clinton's economic agenda”, in Vox:
text: And whether it's Hillarynomics or Ivankanomics, the core belief at work here is that social insurance must everywhere and always be a government-supplied or mandated benefit.
ref: 2016 September 15, James Pethokoukis, “Donald Trump's theory of love”, in The Week:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The economic ideas of Hillary Clinton.
Ivankanomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ivanka + -nomics.
Senses: examples: text: And whether it's Hillarynomics or Ivankanomics, the core belief at work here is that social insurance must everywhere and always be a government-supplied or mandated benefit.
ref: 2016 September 15, James Pethokoukis, “Donald Trump's theory of love”, in The Week:
text: “Interestingly though, we have someone who did just that. Ivanka Trump did just that, securing $1.5 billion in relief from the private sector for small businesses, $10 billion to [community development financial institutions], which are banks that help minority and low-income communities. But I don’t remember the term ‘Ivankanomics,’ do you?” Ms. McEnany continued.
ref: 2021 January 6, John Bowden, “Former Trump spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany slams Forbes cover featuring Kamala Harris”, in The Independent:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The economic ideas of Ivanka Trump.
Galloes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallo
postwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + writing.
Senses: examples: text: Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.
ref: 2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, page 171:
glosses: The stages of a book that take place after writing.
mohaffah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohaffahs
Senses: examples: text: The thermometer hanging round my neck, was up to 116; and the little remaining water, which was in a leathern bottle, suspended at the corner of the mohaffah, had become so thick, resembling the residuum of an ink-stand, that, parched and thirsty as I felt, I could not relieve my distress, by any attempt to swallow it.
ref: 1805 December, Julius Griffiths, “A Journey across the Desert”, in The Monthly Mirror, page 362:
text: Mr. H. took his favourite horse with him; and he had a machine, called a mohaffah, fitted up for common use. This machine was composed of two boxes, partly filled with mattresses, on which the traveller might sit; these boxes were slung on each side of a camel. Little posts were fixed in the outside corners, with a canvass covering thrown over them, which shaded the travellers from the extreme heat of the sun.
ref: 1853, Maria Hack, Winter Evenings..., page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of mihaffa.
mohaffahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mohaffah
mahafah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahafahs
Senses: examples: text: The maháfah is a big closed dhulí, used chiefly at marriage ceremonies, and by rich women when travelling.
ref: 1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, page 82:
text: There are three objections: you ride in a Mahafah, like the king; second you sit on the same throne; and third, you did not offer anything to the king. These are acts of disrespect to the king and against the decorum of the court.
ref: 2001, Islam and the Modern Age, volume 32, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of mihaffa.
mahafahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahafah
mahafa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahafas
Senses: examples: text: Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel... There is an another much less objectionable form of this apparatus, which is not unfrequently used by ladies of rank or persons in ill health. It was called a mahafa by our dragoman and Arabs, though Lane ignores both the name and the thing, which is remarkable, considering that it is not uncommon in Egypt. The mahafa consists of a pair of boxes, or rather frames, some five feet long, two or more wide, and about two deep, with posts at the outer corners, and a wooden bottom. These frames, like those of the moosultah, are hung across the pack-saddle, and a large and usually showy awning is supported over all by the posts at the corners and another resting on the pack-saddle in the centre, besides which it has side curtains, or when used by Mussulman women, perhaps lattices.
ref: 1856, George P. Marsh, The Camel: His Organization Habits and Uses Considered with Reference to His Introduction into the United States, pages 115-116:
text: We all rode camels except C. (Mrs. Marsh) who travelled in the mahafa... [Her camel], though a very large and strong animal, (7 ft. 3 inches high) was heavily burthened with the mahafa, and its contents, and the width of this mahafa was a great obstacle in the very narrow passages.
ref: 1909, Elizabeth Green Marsh, Caroline Crane Marsh: A Sketch, pages 34-35:
glosses: Alternative form of mihaffa.
mahafas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahafa
⠰⠦
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: glosses: The opening guillemet.
raw_tags: punctuation
⠴⠆
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: glosses: The opening guillemet.
raw_tags: punctuation
⠰⠶
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The parentheses, ⠶
Senses: glosses: The opening brace, {
raw_tags: punctuation
⠶⠆
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Etymology: The parentheses, ⠶
Senses: glosses: The closing brace, }
raw_tags: punctuation
mahaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahaffas
Senses: examples: text: ... as Mrs. — was too much of an invalid to travel, in the usual manner, upon the back of the camel, a Mahaffa was procured for her. This Mahaffa answers for a carriage among the grandees and princesses of Arabia, and is of such simple and rude construction as none but the unprogressive Arab would tolerate; and yet perhaps it answers the purpose for which it is designed better than any thing more artistic. It consists of two boxes, about five or six feet long, and three or four wide... Over the rough sticks was thrown a patchwork covering, intended for an awning... the apartments are roomy enough to contain several persons, but the strength of a single camel would not be adequate to so great a burden. One person on each side is the allotted weight, and the individual who is destined to be shaken and tortured has the option of being stowed between cushions and pillows... or to take the motion the natural way on bare boards.
ref: 1859, Caroline Paine, Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip, pages 235-236:
text: The qurchis, security forces, brought him out of the harem in a litter (mahaffa), and the heralds called for the courtiers. Thus, the shah thwarted the conspiracy by showing himself alive.
ref: 2022, Rudi Matthee, The Safavid World, pages 396-397:
glosses: Alternative form of mihaffa.
mahaffas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahaffa
mahaffah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahaffahs
Senses: examples: text: The men ride on camels in certain wooden boxes,² in which they sleep and eat...
ref: 1863, John Winter Jones & al. translating Ludovico di Varthema as The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema..., p. 33
roman: ² The Shugduf, the Taktrawân, the Shibriyah, and the Mahaffah, vehicles of different construction, borne by camels, and used by the more wealthy pilgrims in making the Hajj.
glosses: Alternative form of mihaffa.
mahaffahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahaffah
Charles Darwin's frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Charles Darwin's frogs
Senses: glosses: A critically endangered species of dicroglossid frog, Minervarya charlesdarwini, that is endemic to the Andaman Islands, India.
Charles Darwin's frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Charles Darwin's frog
deltoidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltoidi
Etymology: Like deltoid, ultimately from Ancient Greek δέλτα (délta), the triangular fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, and the suffix -(ο)ειδής (-(o)eidḗs, “-like”), the source of English -oid. This suffix has usually been adapted in Neo-Latin as -oīdēs or -oīdeus (giving Latin deltoīdēs or deltoīdeus), but the variant or misspelling -oīdus is attested in some Latin texts. As an English word, the form deltoidus might have been taken from such Latin variants, or may have been created analogically within English by simply combining deltoid with the ending -us (seen in some other muscle names such as trapezius).
Senses: examples: text: The deltoid muscle of the human raises the arm. Its anterior section pulls the arm forward and rotates it inward while its posterior section pulls it backward and rotates it outward. The same muscle in the animal, known as the deltoidus, abducts the upper portion of the forelimb and flexes the shoulder.
ref: 1983, Fredric Sweney, The Art of Painting and Drawing Animals, page 37:
text: The deltoidus is a thick, large triangular muscle that covers the shoulder joint in the front, behind and laterally. It encircles the cap of the shoulder. The muscle fibers converge to unite in a thick tendon which inserts into the middle lateral side of the upper arm bone. The muscle's basic action is to lift the arm away from the body. It makes sense then that forward, lateral, and backward movements are necessary to work the muscle fully. ¶ The trapezius is a flat triangular muscle that covers parts of the neck, shoulders and upper back.
ref: 2012, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder:
text: The muscles involved in the external rotation are: Infraspinatus, Teres minor, Deltoidus and Supraspinatus.
ref: 2013, Mihaela Manisor, Cosmin Marcu, Gheorghe Tomoaia, Liviu Miclea, “Comparison between Titan and Cobalt Hydroxyapatite-Coated Shoulder Prosthesis”, in Advances in Intelligent Control Systems and Computer Science, page 194:
text: Other muscles appear less affected by fatigue in the movement with amplitude increase during the cocking phase for the biceps brachii, and frequency decrease for the extensor digitorum and duration increase for deltoidus during the strike phase.
ref: 2017, Annie Rouard, Thomas Robert, Ludovic Seifert, “Biomechanics of ice tool swinging movement”, in The Science of Climbing and Mountaineering, page 173:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the deltoid muscle.
thoseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From those + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: viewer asks Barney , in the cause of news, ibid, why the thus of this thoseness, and Barney replies that he is taking out a girl who will soon be Hollywood's new sensation for a round of the early morning spots.
ref: 1939, Bernard Molohon, Hollywood Date Bureau, page 102:
text: It was not a pleasant face , but there was certainly nothing to indicate his Those'''ness.
ref: 1994, Chapman Magazine (publisher), Chapman, Issues 76-79, page 53:
text: A sense of "thoseness" also facilitates descriptions of physical space such as, "one of those [un de ces] service staircases where obscene grafitti are scribbled outside the back doors of flats."
ref: 2006, Johns Hopkins Press (publisher), Modern Language Notes, Volume 121, page 995:
text: the state of generality without substance (those-ness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas).
ref: 2009, Christopher Eagle, Cratylism and Its Discontents, Modernist Theories of the Perfect Language, page 79:
text: Eagle proposes that the Recherche stages a tension between a typological and a particularizing style, playing "the state of generality without substance (thoseness) against the state of phenomenal appearance (thisness, haeccitas)."
ref: 2015, Hannah Freed-Thall, Spoiled Distinctions, Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism, page 158:
text: There is no difference between such two cliques of people except that these of theseness would arm themselves with guns and sticks, and those of thoseness would arm themselves with rosaries and miswaks.
ref: 2024, Mohamed Abulinein, The Reflections, An English Translation of Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti’s ‘An-Naẓarāt’ – Part I:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being those (something referred to).
Related terms: thisness
thatness
theseness
theseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From these + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is no difference between such two cliques of people except that these of theseness would arm themselves with guns and sticks, and those of thoseness would arm themselves with rosaries and miswaks.
ref: 2024, Mohamed Abulinein, The Reflections, An English Translation of Mustafa Lutfi Al-Manfaluti’s ‘An-Naẓarāt’ – Part I:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being these (something referred to).
Related terms: thisness
thatness
thoseness
death by a thousand papercuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of death by a thousand paper cuts.
convenience sample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convenience samples
Senses: glosses: A sample acquired by convenience sampling.
marches to the beat of a different drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of march to the beat of a different drum
marching to the beat of a different drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of march to the beat of a different drum
marched to the beat of a different drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of march to the beat of a different drum
SEGM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine.
chifir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чифир (čifir) (or чифирь (čifirʹ))
Senses: glosses: A very strong black tea made by a special method popular in Russian prisons
synoeciosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of enantiosis.
synonyms: word: enantiosis
Llanwinio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2626).
densiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: densimetry
Derived terms: densiometric
bionaïve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bionaive.
bio-naive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bionaive.
bio-naïve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bionaive.
Figarden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fig Garden
Senses: synonyms: Bullard
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California.
Fig Garden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Figarden.
Florida Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay located between southern Florida and the Florida Keys.
Straits of Florida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Straits of Florida
Senses: synonyms: Florida Strait
Florida Straits
glosses: A strait between southern Florida and Cuba.
Florida Strait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Florida Strait
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Straits of Florida.
synonyms: word: Straits of Florida
Florida Straits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Florida Straits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Straits of Florida.
synonyms: word: Straits of Florida
Macro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
underviewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underviewed
form: most underviewed
Etymology: From under- + viewed.
Senses: examples: text: The authors roamed far. They have tucked a world of jewel-like windows in a text that shows not only the glories past but the underviewed, underrated accomplishments of recent centuries.
ref: 1977 April 11, Jane Holtz Kay, “Stained glass: windows as art”, in The Christian Science Monitor, number 96, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, page 18:
text: Cable managers in systems with access and community service channels regularly complain that they are underused and underviewed.
ref: 1982, Stewart M[ark] Hoover, “The Media Reform Movement at the Crossroads”, in The Electronic Giant: A Critique of the Telecommunications Revolution from a Christian Perspective, Elgin, Ill.: The Brethren Press, →ISBN, section IV (Agenda for Reform), page 141:
text: The essay is interesting enough, but to start this ultimately rather slight piece with an unannounced full-blast “spoiler” for the underappreciated and still underviewed science fiction gem Moon (2009) may not violate any constitutionally protected rights, but it sure crosses the line of polite conversation.
ref: 2011 May–June, John Caruso, “Spoiler Alert”, in UTNE Reader, number 165, Topeka, Kan.: Ogden Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 7, column 1:
text: This is an underviewed gem—Netflix it!
ref: 2012, Max Brallier, Geoff Baker, “The Cinema: Men at the Movies”, in Man Enough? The Facts and Stats Every Real Guy Should Know, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Not viewed enough.
SAUCE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.
dimples of Venus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With the subject standing erect but relaxed, a point is drawn with a skin marker at the spinal intersection of a line jointing the dimples of Venus (S1).
ref: 2006, Gerard A. Malanga, Scott Nadler, Musculoskeletal Physical Examination: An Evidence-based Approach, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: two small indentations on the lower back
inediates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inediate
Nolichucky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Tennessee, a tributary of the French Broad.
Wagatha Christie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of WAG (“wife or girlfriend”) + Agatha Christie (“a whodunnit fiction writer”)
Senses: examples: text: The “Wagatha Christie” libel battle kept headline writers and lovers of soap opera happy for months.
ref: 2022, Kate Moore, Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph (page vii)
text: While I was sitting carefully crafting witty Wagatha Christie tweets, Dougie was doing a deal that ensured he could retire before he hit forty.
ref: 2023, Portia MacIntosh, Better Off Wed:
glosses: A dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.
cimolopterygid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimolopterygids
Senses: glosses: Any ornithurine dinosaur of the family Cimolopterygidae.
cimolopterygids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cimolopterygid
rooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From "we'll all be rooned" (i.e. ruined), the refrain of a pessimistic character in John O'Brien's 1921 poem Said Hanrahan.
Senses: examples: text: There is a sense that 'we'll all be rooned' no matter what action is taken. That the War on Terror is exacerbating the problem rather than alleviating it.
ref: 2007, Aidan Carvill, Everyone's a Breather!: Open Source Code to Humanity, page 3:
text: On the one hand, 'we'll all be rooned', it is such a catastrophe; and on the other, let's get to it, there's still so much to be done.
ref: 2014, Timothy Neale, Crystal McKinnon, Eve Vincent, History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, page 265:
text: We will all be rooned because readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic are not being taught proper no more.
ref: 2014, Bernie Dowling, 7 Shouts: My Shout Book 1
glosses: Ruined; utterly spoiled or destroyed.
Fréchet derivative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fréchet derivatives
Etymology: Named after Maurice Fréchet.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An extension of the concept of the derivative from real-valued functions of one real variable to functions on normed spaces.
Fréchet derivatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fréchet derivative
hopperboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopperboys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hopper boy.
hopperboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopperboy; alternative form of hopper boys
Cantley, Limpenhoe and Southwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England, which includes the named places.
tylo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τύλη (túlē, “swelling”) and τύλος (túlos, “lump, knot”)
Senses: glosses: Relating to callused and swollen things.
Related terms: gonotyl
Valmikism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Balmikism.
Balmikism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Valmikism
Senses: glosses: The beliefs of a Hindu sect who revere the sage Srishtikarta (also called Bala Shah or Lal Beg) as their ancestor and patron saint.
Valmikis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Valmiki
Pauma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Paamese (“a language of Vanuatu”).
synonyms: word: Paamese
extra: a language of Vanuatu
hesperornithean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesperornitheans
Senses: glosses: Any ornithurine dinosaur of the group Hesperornithes.
hesperornitheans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesperornithean
ichthyornithean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyornitheans
Senses: glosses: Any ornithurine dinosaur of the group Ichthyornithes.
ichthyornitheans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyornithean
lettuce keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettuce keepers
Senses: glosses: A large lidded bowl designed to keep a lettuce crisp.
lettuce keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lettuce keeper
ecoporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + porn.
Senses: examples: text: Ecoporn recalls the visuality of romanticism while alluding to some of the biological activities that ground anthropomorphism.
ref: 2016, Paul C. Adams, Jim Craine, The Routledge Research Companion to Media Geography:
glosses: Synonym of ecopornography.
synonyms: word: ecopornography
African milk tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African milk trees
Etymology: Named for the white latex released whenever one of the cylindrical stems is pierced or cut. See also African milk barrel.
Senses: examples: text: An example of a species found in western Africa is Euphorbia trigona, commonly known as the African milk tree. The sap of this species was able to cause loss of corneal epithelium 16 h after direct exposure to the sap in a 60-year-old male.
ref: 2014 May 30, Victor Kuete, Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 505:
text: One problem that you may encounter with your African milk tree is that because of their height and small root structure, these plants have a tendency to topple over.
ref: 2017 September 14, Maaike Koster, Emma Sibley, “Euphorbia trigona”, in Urban Botanics: An Indoor Plant Guide for Modern Gardeners, Quarto Publishing Group USA, →ISBN:
text: The African milk tree is a fast-growing, triangular-stemmed succulent from Angola and central Africa. It forms a multi-branched, upright plant, which can grow up to 3m/10ft, but is unlikely to reach this size as a potted plant.
ref: 2023 April 11, Paul Rees, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Cacti and Succulents, Frances Lincoln, →ISBN, page 85:
synonyms: cathedral cactus
glosses: A type of succulent plant cultivated in West Africa, resembling a cactus, of species Euphorbia trigona.
Hypernyms: spurge
euphorbia
malvid
fabid
rosid
eudicot
angiosperm
tracheophyte
plant
Limpenhoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Cantley, Limpenhoe and Southwood parish, Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3904).
convenience samples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convenience sample
bivisible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivisibles
Etymology: bi- + visible
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of fishing fly in two contrasting colors, intended to be easily seen by both the angler and the fish.
bivisibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivisible
active rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A commercial radio format combining modern hard rock and older classic rock.
adult album alternative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: AAA
adult alternative
triple A
glosses: A radio format combining various styles of pop and rock with new wave, jazz, etc., but generally excluding hard rock and rap.
adult alternative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adult album alternative.
synonyms: word: adult album alternative
make shit shake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes shit shake
form: making shit shake
form: made shit shake
form: made shit shake
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To get things done, or make things happen.
lambda leak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambda leaks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of superleak.
synonyms: word: superleak
lambda leaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambda leak
flurryingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flurryingly
form: most flurryingly
Etymology: From flurrying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a flurry.
FICINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by author and futurist August Cole, from fictional intelligence, modelled on similar terms in espionage such as SIGINT.
Senses: glosses: The use of fiction writing as a way to predict plausible future scenarios that may assist military intelligence.
glengarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glengarrys
form: glengarries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Glengarry (“type of cap”).
glengarries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glengarry