cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
old man yelling at a cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old men yelling at a cloud
Senses: examples: text: The website Fangraphs recently crowd-sourced fans to rate baseball broadcast teams; NESN’s rated 11th, down from fifth last year, but the comment on Eckersley was perfect: “When [Dennis Eckersley] is in the booth, it’s prime time. He’s an example of what Hawk Harrelson could be if he wasn’t an angry old man yelling at a cloud.”
ref: 2016 May 20, Chad Finn, “NESN’S broadcast team has been talking a good game”, in The Boston Globe, volume 289, number 141, page D5, columns 2–3:
text: I’m sure that I’m just an old man yelling at a cloud here, but I hate the proliferation of glass roof panels across so many cars.
ref: 2019 November 2, Chris Tonn, “Made to be used and abused”, in Saturday Star, page W4, column 3:
text: One bizarre incident occurred in Bristol, where artist Banksy replaced hundreds of copies of Paris with doctored versions bearing airbrushed topless photos and notes reading “Race to the bottom of the pile!”, “What am I for?” and “Why am I famous?” Today, the doctored CDs are worth around £6,000 each, but the stunt also bears the stench of an old man yelling at a cloud.
ref: 2021 August 1, Adam White, “Why we’ll always have Paris”, in The Independent:
text: No matter what happens, though, it will never be the same. Maybe that’s just a sign of our times, and the price of progress. Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at a cloud. But for this child of the Pac-8, it still hurts my heart.
ref: 2022 July 6, Larry Stone, “The Pac-12 will never be the same again, and that’s sad”, in The Spokesman-Review, 140th volume, number 28, Spokane, Wash., page B4, column 3:
text: The trouble is, the message has been pitched in a novel way, making it easy to cast the likes of Moore in a Boomer-bashing Simpsons meme: she’s the old man yelling at a cloud, or Principal Skinner asking himself ‘Am I out of touch?’ before concluding, ‘No, it’s the children who are wrong.’
ref: 2023, Victoria Smith, Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women, London: Fleet, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of old man yells at cloud.
old man yelling at the clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old men yelling at the clouds
Senses: examples: text: On social media, Waters was billed as an out-of-touch “old man yelling at the clouds” with one Twitter user calling him a “selfish privileged white boomer.”
ref: 2022 August 10, Mark Daniell, “In Deep Waters?”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 17, column 6:
text: I fully realize that I am an old man yelling at the clouds. I’m an old man yelling at the clouds in my khakis and my tie, and I’m not even all that old. I know that life has passed me by. / I know that all the cool kids buy everything online. / Let them, I say. / Let them buy cool shirts that match their eyes but hang wrong on their bodies.
ref: 2022 September 18, Daniel Neman, “The many drawbacks of online shopping, awkward fits included”, in Sunday Post-Dispatch, volume 144, number 261, page C3, column 4:
text: Nowadays, anybody who talks about identity politics or describes an activist as woke is liable to be perceived as an old man yelling at the clouds.
ref: 2023, Yascha Mounk, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of old man yells at cloud.
cloudwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloudwater
protray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of portray.
MMFT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MMFTs
Senses: qualifier: professional education
glosses: Initialism of master of marriage and family therapy.
capacity crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capacity crowds
Senses: examples: text: There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
text: At an overcast Eton Dorney, roared on by a capacity crowd including Prince Harry and Prince William, the volume rose as they entered the final stages.
ref: 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited:
text: This was the day atmosphere, emotion and deafening noise returned to English football as 21,000 supporters made Wembley sound like it was playing host to a capacity crowd.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
text: The goals and entertainment dried up after the break as Wales made a raft of substitutions but, with more meaningful challenges to come, a capacity crowd at the Stok Racecourse appreciated the bigger picture with Croatia on the horizon.
ref: 2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The maximum number of people possible to watch an event in a venue.
capacity crowds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capacity crowd
cut to ribbons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts to ribbons
form: cutting to ribbons
form: cut to ribbons
form: cut to ribbons
Senses: examples: text: Staging a match at the Stok Racecourse - the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football - was therefore a means for Wales' players and staff to show their gratitude to their north Walian fans.
They did so with a flourish, cutting Gibraltar to ribbons with a ruthless first-half performance.
ref: 2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: tear to ribbons
cut to shreds
glosses: To rip to shreds
nod in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nods in
form: nodding in
form: nodded in
form: nodded in
Senses: examples: text: Davies, captain in the absence of the injured Aaron Ramsey, scored the opener as, completely unmarked just three yards out, he nodded in Broadhead's 22nd-minute corner.
ref: 2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To score with a header
Te Kuiti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in the King Country, Waikato Region, New Zealand.
Hufflepuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hufflepuff
LSSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSSPs
Senses: qualifier: professional title
glosses: Initialism of licensed specialist in school psychology.
Porootarao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A locality in the Waikato region, New Zealand, between Te Kuiti and Taumarunui.
quarter-asses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quarter-ass
quarter-assing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of quarter-ass
disownee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disownees
Etymology: From disown + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Why not? Because the disownee can’t justly claim to own the esteem or riches of the disowner, even if the disownee’s life will be very hard without that esteem and riches.
ref: 2012 May 23, Bryan Caplan, “The Freedom to Disown”, in EconLog:
glosses: One who is disowned.
disownees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disownee
cornobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cornobbles
form: cornobbling
form: cornobbled
form: cornobbled
Senses: examples: text: He will cornobble you very hard if he finds out.
glosses: To slap or strike someone on the head.
pre-existing conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-existing condition
preexisting conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preexisting condition
distance learner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distance learners
Etymology: From distance learning + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I feel that in the context of distance education, where emphasis must be placed on reducing the loneliness of the distance learner by building learning networks, their perspectives on constructivist learning can be strengthened by an equally important emphasis on socially shared cognition
ref: 2003, Jamie R. Kirkley, Thomas M. Duffy, Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: One who engages in distance learning.
distance learners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distance learner
Kanglas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kangla
Kangladeshis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kangladeshi
Kelce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kelces
Senses: examples: text: Jason and Kylie Kelce announced that they have welcomed a fourth daughter together.
ref: 2025 April 2, Ben Morse, “‘Whoop, there she is!’: Jason and Kylie Kelce announce birth of fourth daughter”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Kelcey
Kelcie
Kelcy
Kelse
Kelsey
Kelsie
Kelsy
Kelcey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kelceys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A unisex given name.
Related terms: Kelce
Kelcie
Kelcy
Kelse
Kelsey
Kelsie
Kelsy
Lincoln-Reagan dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lincoln-Reagan dinners
Etymology: Named after US presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, considered to be the founders of the modern Republican party, and inspired by the term Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: Lincoln dinner
Reagan dinner
glosses: An annual dinner arranged for fundraising purposes by Republican Party organizations in the United States.
wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Palermitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palermitans
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Panormitānus, with influence from Palermo.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Palermo on the island of Sicily in Italy.
Palermitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palermitan
form: most Palermitan
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Panormitānus, with influence from Palermo.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Palermo, Italy.
Palermitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palermitan
aPDT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aPDTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy.
hexaminolevulinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hex- + aminolevulinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexyl ester of 5-aminolevulinic acid, used as an imaging agent in the cystoscopic detection of bladder cancer.
Derwent Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England (and of other rivers named Derwent).
glosses: A local government area in Tasmania, Australia; in full, Derwent Valley Council.
Bodnaryk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bodnaryks
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Боднарюк (Bodnarjuk).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
kibbutzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kibbutzers
Etymology: From kibbutz + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As he reached this point in his poetic discourse, the car was nearing the ancient dwellings of Ain Jalut, a village that now bears its biblical name, Ain Harud. There a spring flows into a pool constructed by the kibbutzers; this is frequented by the people of Nazareth, who go there to freshen up and curse the Mongols.
ref: 2003, Emile Habiby, translated by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor LeGassick, The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist, Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A member of a kibbutz; a kibbutznik.
Kfar Aza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A kibbutz in southern Israel, close to the border with the Gaza Strip.
Hamasian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hamasians
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Համասյան (Hamasyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
midotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-otic
Etymology: From mid- + otic.
Senses: glosses: middle otic.
Anbu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹbo͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 庵埠 /菴埠 (Ānbù).
Senses: examples: text: Along with the new hospital, dispensaries were opened at Ampow (菴埠) and Tat-hau-pow (達濠埠), 9 miles distant from the city; each one was visited every alternate week. They were kept open until 1872; the dispensary at Tat-hau-pow was again started in 1875.
ref: [1936, K. Chimin Wong [王吉民], Wu Lien-teh [伍連德], “Period 1866-1879. Adoption of new methods for medical work”, in History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to the Present Period, 2nd edition, Shanghai: National Quarantine Service, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 423:
english: 伍連德
translation: 伍連德
text: Chen Bo'er, originally named Chen Shunhua, was born to a wealthy merchant’s family in Anbu, a small town in Chaoan County, Guangdong, in 1907.
ref: 2017, Wang Zheng, “Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film”, in Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:
glosses: A town in Chao'an district, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese, Postal Romanization
word: Ampow
planespot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: planespots
form: planespotting
form: planespotted
form: planespotted
Etymology: Back-formation from planespotting.
Senses: examples: text: So if you go to planespot at LAS, check your winds. they could save you a trip down there. ¶ PHL is also another good place to go. You may have to go a fair bit to get to it, but you can actually park right next or near the Tower to planespot.
ref: 2000 November 8, A Guy Called Tyketto, “Re: Airports with good viewing galleries?”, in rec.travel.air (Usenet):
text: At the U.S. airports where I planespot you see this phenomenon manifested clearly. The planespotting idiots will ignore an Air China 747-400 as it glides in beautifully for landing, […] but let a dirty-looking stealth-schemed United 777 come in and they all get so excited they can barely keep from trembling and can't hold their cameras steady.
ref: 2001 March 7, Joe, “Re: What's so great about the 777?”, in rec.travel.air (Usenet):
text: You missed the best place of all to planespot. EAA week at OSH (in late July/early August).
ref: 2002 January 13, Michael G. Koerner, “Re: Airports been to”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet):
glosses: To take part in planespotting.
FSDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪzˌdoʊ/
Forms: form: FSDOs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Flight Standards District Office, any of the locally affiliated field offices of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Oio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of Guinea-Bissau.
glosses: A rural locality in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand.
Te Kawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A rural community and hill in the Waikato region, New Zealand.
spinellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinella
gonosaccus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gono- + saccus (“sac”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A section of membranous tissue on the hind body wall of the abdomen of an insect, normally sac-like but sometimes everted.
gonapsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonapses
Etymology: From gon- + Ancient Greek ἁψῑ́ς (hapsī́s, “arch”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure with an apex on the dorsal membrane on sternum IX.
Coordinate terms: gonarcus
Sutton Common
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood in the town of Sutton, borough of Sutton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2565).
glosses: Some areas of common land elsewhere in England.
midshave
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + shave.
Senses: examples: text: Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.
ref: 1998, Rebecca Poole Forée, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: “What did he say? The barber.” / “Not a word. He stopped midshave, straight-blade razor in his hand, and he went to his cabinet and got them for me.[…]”
ref: 2004, Peter Robinson, “Going Back”, in The Price of Love and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, published 2010, →ISBN, page 44:
text: There was just one slight wrinkle: The best-known justice of the peace was also the town barber. That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.
ref: 2004, Harriet Baskas, Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: “Okay,” I say, “I guess we can put it on the credit card, but I can’t take it in tomorrow morning because I have a banana job.” / This stops him midshave.
ref: 2008, Beth Lisick, Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 24:
text: And then at 1:00 a.m., as if a switch had been flipped, the night turned to a sea of flame. Addison stood midshave, transfixed by the sight.
ref: 2017, Theo Emery, Hellfire Boys: The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World’s Deadliest Weapons, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 325:
text: I needed to quickly establish what kind of character the gunman was. To do so, I came up with a scene in a barbershop, where an enemy attacks the main character midshave.
ref: 2017, Hirohiko Araki [pseudonym; Toshiyuki Araki], translated by Nathan A. Collins, Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga, San Francisco, Calif.: Viz Media, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Dom Denario caught Cotton’s eye in the reflection of the pocket-sized mirror that hung on the cinderblock wall. A pit-stained, stretched-out undershirt struggled to contain his fat belly (only doing so with the help of black suspenders), while globs of shaving cream adhered to his face like melted marshmallows. He stopped what he was doing, midshave.
ref: 2017, Todd Gilmour, Karyn Rae, The 51st State: State of Affairs, [Okatie, S.C.]: Karyn Rae Publishing, →ISBN, pages 159–160:
text: THE TENTATIVE KNOCK on his door made Gabe pause, midshave.
ref: 2017, T.J. Kline, chapter 17, in The Radcliffes, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: During a shave.
midshave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + shave.
Senses: examples: text: You roll out of bed, ready for a fresh, new day. But it’s the same miserable day it was yesterday. Your electric razor dies in midshave because of a power failure.
ref: 1969 November 1, Business Week, pages 63–64; republished in “The War That Business Must Win”, in Patrick E. Connor, compiler, Dimensions in Modern Management, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Her eyes strayed across the flat landscape and her fingers stilled, knife in midshave down a potato.
ref: 1992, Christine Dorsey, Kansas Kiss, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 143:
text: In Amarillo, Texas, he was hustled from his compartment in midshave, his face still decorated with puffs of lather, and found himself face to face with the entire town, which had gathered to watch him eat a sandwich and drink a Coca-Cola with the mayor.
ref: 1996, Joyce Milton, Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 100:
text: “What’s your problem, Neill?” Will asked, stopping in midshave. “You’ve never seen a guy with facial hair before?”
ref: 1998, Kieran Scott, Kiss and Tell, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 112:
text: The barber scraped off another stripe of soap and whiskers. “Take her to Jamison,” the colonel said. / “No,” I said. / The barber froze in midshave, and the colonel opened his eyes.
ref: 2008, Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Dressed in his shorts and in midshave, he opened the door and admitted Henry Topel and Bert Carvel, who had already rebuffed the efforts of Biden and the other young Democrats to get him to run against Boggs.
ref: 2010, Jules Witcover, Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Frequently, in midshave, the excitable president would spring out of his armchair, lather flying off his face, to make a point.
ref: 2011 winter, David Greenberg, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Image of Presidential Activism”, in The Image (Social Research: An International Quarterly; volume 78, number 4), New York, N.Y.: The New School for Social Research, →ISBN, page 1074:
glosses: A point in time during a shave.
subcampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcampaigns
Senses: examples: text: A joint (lianhe) service campaign, however, is where each service branch plays the leading role in each of several relatively autonomous subcampaigns in separate time and (sometimes) space. In such a campaign, it is possible for the Air Force to conduct an air subcampaign where the ground forces, Navy electronic warfare and special operations elements, and long-range surface-surface missile forces play a supportive role.
ref: 1999, James C. Mulvenon, Richard H. Yang, The People's Liberation Army in the Information Age, page 154:
text: Campaigns for capturing supremacy will be subcampaigns of joint campaigns and one of the latter's independent objectives.
ref: 2007, Decoding the Virtual Dragon, page 124:
text: The halting of Hamas's suicide subcampaign at this juncture is significant.
ref: 2010, Robert A. Pape, James K. Feldman, Cutting the Fuse, page 234:
glosses: A campaign that is one part of a larger, coordinated campaign.
sweet-potatoey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweet-potatoey
form: most sweet-potatoey
Etymology: From sweet potato + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: sweet-potatoey flavour
text: The rain forest may be loaded with all kinds of edible fruits like […] the giant irregularly oblong green fruit called mbé (Anonidium mannii) that falls with a far-carrying head-crushing thud and whose orange flesh with its sweet-potatoey flavor is so rich in protein that in a real fix its ripe pasty flesh eaten salted and spiced with chilies makes a delicious substitute meal.
ref: 1995, Louis Sarno, edited by Stephen Ciabattoni, Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzélé Pygmies and Sounds of Their Forest Home, Roslyn, NY: Ellipsis Arts, page 60:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sweet potatoes.
mingebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mingebags
Etymology: From minge + bag.
Senses: glosses: A jerk; a mean or obnoxious person; a miser.
mingebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mingebag
slimlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slimlined
form: most slimlined
Senses: glosses: Synonym of slimline.
synonyms: word: slimline
Benbeculan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Benbeculan
form: most Benbeculan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Benbecula.
Benbeculan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benbeculans
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Benbecula.
Benbeculans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Benbeculan
Brumwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stoven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Brampton with Stoven parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Waveney district (OS grid ref TM4481).
irreflexiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreflexive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irreflexive; irreflexivity.
B2B2C
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of business-to-business-to-consumer.
Related terms: B2B
B2C
business model
business-to-business-to-consumer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: A business model that blends B2B and B2C frameworks together, forming a new business model where businesses collaborate with other businesses to sell a product or service directly to the consumer.
Synonyms: B2B2C
Coordinate terms: business-to-business
business-to-consumer
Related terms: business model
in bad taste
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Jokes about someone’s physical appearance are in bad taste.
text: While some envied not finding their own Rolls-Royce like his under the tree, and instead smiled as they opened a pair of socks or new pajamas, others saw it as an ostentation in bad taste.
ref: 2022 December 28, Marta Rodríguez Peleteiro, “Georgina criticised for “almost pornographic” gift to Cristiano Ronaldo”, in AS USA:
synonyms: in poor taste
distasteful
glosses: Offensive or inappropriate (of an action, often of jokes).
wedbreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wed-breach
form: wed breach
Etymology: From wed + breach. Compare English spousebreach (“adultery”), Old English ǣwbryċe (“adultery”).
Senses: examples: text: […] it wasn't wedbreach he minded, that was all in the way o'life; but as for Hiram and hisn, he'd as soon feed a hole in hell as fill their empty stomachs.
ref: 1897, Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, Love in the Backwoods:
glosses: Adultery.
Tinderesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tinderesque
form: most Tinderesque
Etymology: From Tinder + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Facebook Dating, a service that's only available in a few markets right now, also got a new feature called "Secret Crush," which will let you match with your Facebook friends in a Tinderesque kind of way.
ref: 2019 May 1, BGR, “Facebook's new 'Secret Crush' isn't cute — it's creepy”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
text: The shot is a run-of-the-mill Tinderesque snap: abs flex in the foreground; toilet paper hangs in the background; a black-and-white filter gives the shot an aura of noir mystique.
ref: 2023 October 5, Annie Rauwerda, “On Wikipedia, Anyone Can Be a Model”, in Slate, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
glosses: Characteristic of the online dating platform Tinder.
stanchedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of stanch
outchip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outchips
form: outchipping
form: outchipped
form: outchipped
Etymology: From out- + chip.
Senses: examples: text: If someone before you comes in with a CSI of 22, you should continue to act as a CSI of 15. However, if it's folded to you on the button, you outchip both of your remaining opponents.
ref: 2007, Lee Nelson, Tysen Streib, Kim Lee, Kill Everyone: Advanced Strategies for No-Limit Hold 'Em Poker Tournaments and Sit-n-Go's, Las Vegas, N.V.: Huntington Press, →ISBN, page 68:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To have more (poker chips) than.
outchips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outchip
outchipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outchip
outchipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outchip
pie chimney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie chimneys
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pie bird.
synonyms: word: pie bird
pie funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie funnels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pie bird.
synonyms: word: pie bird
pie vent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie vents
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pie bird.
synonyms: word: pie bird
pie whistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie whistles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pie bird.
synonyms: word: pie bird
pie chimneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie chimney
pie funnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie funnel
pie vents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie vent
pie whistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie whistle
wardrobings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardrobing
currence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin currentia + -ence, from Latin currō (“to run”).
Senses: examples: text: And the time consumed in discussion will certainly not have been lost, if it only strips the argument of all sentimentalism and false currence, and leaves it to be judged by good sense and sound reason.
ref: 1854 January, “The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLIV, number CCLXXXIX, London: John W. Parker and Son, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: The quality of being current (generally circulated and accepted); currency, currentness.
Related terms: concurrence
decurrence
intercurrence
occurrence
recurrence
transcurrence
nonquant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonquants
Etymology: From non- + quant.
Senses: examples: text: "There was a lot of suspicion internally," recalls [Till] Guldimann, because traders and executives — nonquants — didn't believe that such a thing could be quantified mathematically.
ref: 2009 January 4, Joe Nocera, “Risk Mismanagement”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2023:
text: The team does an excellent job sharing their complex ideas and concepts in a way that is easy to understand for quants and nonquants alike.
ref: 2017 June 16, Wesley Gray, “Investment Blogs You Should be Reading”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
glosses: One who is not a quant (a quantitative analyst).
nonquants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonquant
quantdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From quant + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Within quantdom, the question of whether alpha exists as a finite market commodity is a topic of debate.
ref: 2007 January 22, Anthony Bianco, “Outsmarting The Market”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
text: By day, Mr. [Sercan] Ozbay works in electronic trading, the branch of quantdom indicted in Michael Lewis's new book, "Flash Boys," for shaving microseconds off the speed of trades in order to game the market.
ref: 2014 May 11, John Leland, “Barcelona in Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022:
synonyms: quantland
glosses: The domain of quants (quantitative analysts) and their work.
quantdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quant + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: My eventual quantdom was not the culmination of a single-minded, eye-on-the-prize march to fulfill my destiny. It was the result of a series of accidents.
ref: 2007, David Leinweber, “A Series of Accidents”, in Richard R. Lindsey, Barry Schachter, editors, How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 10:
text: As quantdom grew more glamorous in the '90s — and as nerdhood in general became more firmly entrenched in the business world during the dot-com boom — any lingering ridicule behind quant faded away.
ref: 2010 May 16, Ben Zimmer, “Quants”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022:
glosses: The state of being a quant (a quantitative analyst).
Liberlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːbə(ɹ)lændə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Liberlanders
Etymology: From Liberland + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Chased down by Croatian police, he and five other Liberlanders were forcibly removed to the local town of Beli Mansir and there confined on charges of exiting Croatia illegally, from other than an approved border station.
ref: 2018, Tom W. Bell, From the Nation State to Stateless Nations: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: A person from Liberland or of Liberlandish descent.
megatrillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatrillions
Etymology: From mega- + trillion.
Senses: examples: text: The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.
ref: 2013, Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A great number of trillions.
megatrillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megatrillion
Liberlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈliːbə(ɹ)lændɪʃ/
Etymology: From Liberland + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In less than two weeks, Liberland has at least the design trappings of: a police department, a ministry of culture, a Liberlandish language institute, a sign language group, a news media outlet, an investment club, a gun club, and even a Humans of Liberland page, ready for the influx of new citizens.
ref: 2015 April 29, Anne Quito, “The world's newest micro-nation is already a leader in nation branding”, in Quartz:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Liberland or its people.
Liberlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Liberlander
nepotism friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepotism friends
Etymology: Modelled after nepotism baby (“someone who benefits from their parent's influence or support”).
Senses: examples: text: The latest viral figure suddenly getting multi-million dollar brand deals may just be a nepotism friend, or the best friend of someone who is already famous.
ref: 2023 September 26, Mariah Espada, “How Internet Nepo-Friends Have Cultivated Their Own Online Stardom”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2023:
glosses: Someone who benefits from having a famous or influential friend.
Derived terms: word: nepo friend
nepotism friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nepotism friend
nepo friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepo friends
Etymology: Compare nepo (“nepotism”).
Senses: examples: text: the most followed korean actress with her nepo friend who got a cameo role through her friends
ref: 2022 June 17, @lovheqrts, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
text: Can someone make me their nepo friend?
ref: 2022 December 19, @_haaniyah_, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
glosses: Clipping of nepotism friend.
Related terms: nepo baby
nepo friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nepo friend
Koolickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koolickle
PB&P
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PB&Ps
Senses: examples: text: The PB&P, I suspect, is never going to go mainstream. No matter. I'm hard at work passing this bit of culinary magic down to a new generation.
ref: 2012 October 24, Dwight Garner, “Making a Meal Out of Peanut Butter and Pickles”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2023:
glosses: Initialism of peanut butter and pickle, a sandwich made using these ingredients.
Related terms: PB&J
PB&Ps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PB&P
voraphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vorarephilia.
voreaphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vorarephilia.
exergonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exergonically
form: most exergonically
Etymology: From exergonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an exergonic manner.
Grundmeier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
heart eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I use the smiley face with the hearts for eyes as my emoji. I think the cat with heart eyes isn’t serious enough. My mom’s favourite emoji is the frog, just because she likes frogs.
ref: 2016 November 7, Lauren Cochrane, quoting Beth Ditto, “Beth Ditto on liking the word fat, meeting Kate Moss and shopping at thrift stores”, in The Guardian:
text: The weekiversary posts are just the tip of the frozen-barf iceberg. There are also close, glistening photos of their home-cooked nightly dinners (kissy face #shesakeeper). There are unrelenting, near identical pictures of one of them napping next to a cat (heart-eyes #allmine).
ref: 2018 March 24, Krista Burton, “Are You Really in Love if It’s Not on Instagram?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A depiction of the eyes in the shape of two heart symbols, usually as part of the 😍 emoji.
examples: text: “Remember how crazy he seemed for Lampetia the moment he saw her on Helios’s island? He was making heart eyes at her the whole time. I actually thought he wanted to stay there with her instead of coming back with us.”
ref: 2016, Michelle Madow, Elementals: The Complete Series, Dreamscape Publishing, →ISBN, Book Three: The Head of Medusa, page 371:
text: While Will talks, Southpaw laps from his bowl of water, but mostly stares up at his owner with heart eyes. When the bartender comes back to take away our empty plates, I realize I haven’t tasted a single bite.
ref: 2017, Tessa Bailey, Follow, [self-published], →ISBN, page 60:
text: Half an hour later we’re all in the living room, Mum and Dad installed on the sofa. Elijah is tucked in the crook of Mum’s arm, and she and Dad are gazing down at him with complete heart eyes. It turns out they managed to get on an earlier flight and wanted to surprise us.
ref: 2017, Lisa Williamson, All About Mia, Oxford: David Fickling Books, →ISBN, page 343:
text: He [Adam Brody] is so good at kissing. He is so good at looking at people with heart eyes. He is so good at smiling sheepishly. If he taught a class in yearning, I would take it.
ref: 2024 October 1, Elizabeth Logan, “Adam Brody’s Typecasting Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving”, in Glamour:
glosses: An amorous or adoring look directed at someone or something.
heart eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heart eyes
form: most heart eyes
Senses: examples: text: Leanne hadn’t ever experienced that blissful state. Oh, she’d dated, a couple of times seriously, but she’d never felt so lovey-dovey, heart eyes about any man. Someday, Leanne hoped she would. A happily ever after might be nice.
ref: 2021, Melissa McClone, Her Christmas Kiss, Cardinal Press, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: From gold and diamond to silver and small, we’re heart-eyes about them all. Not to mention, they’re one of the most versatile jewelry options you can opt for.
ref: 2022 November 14, Victoria Giardina, “The 22 best hoop earrings of 2022: Gold, silver, diamonds, huggies, more”, in New York Post:
text: It's giving: "I deserve the finer things in life." And to that, we say: yes, yes, you do. We’re completely heart-eyes over this luxurious gown paired with sculptural gold statement sandals[.]
ref: 2023 September 13, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “11 Amazing Barbie Halloween Costumes for Living Your Best Barbiecore Life”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Enamored; very fond.
hypercrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + crystalline.
Senses: examples: text: The groundmass exhibits almost no evidence of flow structure. This is in distinct contrast to the conspicuous flow structure shown by the hypercrystalline groundmasses of the dacites at all the other localities in the region with the partial exception of O'Leary Peak.
ref: 1902, Geological Survey (U.S.), Professional Paper - United States Geological Survey, Superintendent of Documents, pages 75-76:
text: In the hypercrystalline varieties the glass has partly devitrified to give spherulites. In the holocrystalline varieties an “ alteration ” occurs along flow lines as localised patches which may link together leaving the unaltered material as clear spots. This gives the rock a maculose appearance.
ref: 1955, Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Royal Society of New South Wales, page 217:
text: There is also a known suggestion that the vacua consist of hypercrystalline: classical spacetime coordinate and fields are parameters of coherent states [19].
ref: 2018, Florentin Smarandache, Victor Christianto, From Hilbert to Dilbert, Divine Publishing, page 58:
glosses: Having a high level of crystals.
one percenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one percenter
sooty-headed bulbul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sooty-headed bulbuls
Senses: glosses: A bird of species Pycnonotus aurigaster, of the bulbul family Pycnonotidae, of southeastern Asia.
stove enamel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The laboratory-type spring-driven movement is housed in a strong die-cast case finished in cream stove enamel.
ref: 1950 September, “Notes and News: The Jackson Timer”, in Railway Magazine, page 642:
glosses: A heatproof enamel produced by heat treatment in a stove, or a paint imitating it.
basiolabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basio- + labial.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
zoology
glosses: Bottom facing the lips.
microsquamules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsquamule
weekiversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌwiːkɪˈvɜː(ɹ)səɹi/
Forms: form: weekiversaries
Etymology: Blend of week + anniversary.
Senses: examples: text: The two, who are adorably celebrating their "weekiversary" in the shots, both snapped selfies by the beach, indicating they chose somewhere by the ocean to celebrate their first seven days as husband and wife (the lovebirds did not reveal the exact location of their getaway).
ref: 2014 July 2, Alyssa Toomey, “Newlyweds Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard Share Romantic Honeymoon Pics, Celebrate "Weekiversary"”, in E! News:
text: This couple celebrates their “weekiversary” every week, without skipping. Ever. […] The responses on their weekiversary posts have dropped from dozens of “You two!!” and “Cutest couple ahhhhh!!” comments in the early days of their relationship to just a single comment from one of their moms.
ref: 2018 March 24, Krista Burton, “Are You Really in Love if It’s Not on Instagram?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A commemorative event like an anniversary, but taking place weekly rather than annually.
microsquamule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsquamules
Etymology: From micro- + squamule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small squamule.
methylnorhomosekikaic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl- + nor- + homo- + sekikaic acid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
chemistry
lichenology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: (normally 4'-O-methylnorhomosekikaic acid) A depside carboxylic acid with IUPAC name 3-((2,4-dihydroxy-6-propylbenzoyl)oxy)-2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-6-pentylbenzoic acid
wait for Godot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits for Godot
form: waiting for Godot
form: waited for Godot
form: waited for Godot
Etymology: Refers to the surreal comic play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, in which two tramps engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting "Godot", who never arrives.
Senses: examples: text: But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule.
ref: 2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and Power, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 96:
text: We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another ­– doubtless very different – St. Benedict.
ref: 1984, Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: To wait hopelessly.
wikipedia: Waiting for Godot
wheaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatons
form: Wheaton
Etymology: Named after Wil Wheaton, and coined by John Kovalic in the webcomic Dork Tower in 2009.
Senses: examples: text: One wheaton amounts to 500,000 followers on Twitter.
ref: 2015 October 2, Alex Chernikov, “13 units of measurement to blow your mind”, in IO Technologies:
glosses: A unit of influence equal to 500 thousand followers on the Twitter microblogging site.
wikipedia: Dork Tower
Wil Wheaton
Derived terms: milliwheaton
wheatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheaton
milliwheaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliwheatons
Etymology: From milli- + wheaton.
Senses: examples: text: A Wheaton is described as 500,000 followers, making a milliwheaton equivalent to 500 followers. Please take the time to follow the Sip Advisor on Twitter, so I can reach milliwheaton heights.
ref: 2017 May 17, Sip Advisor, “Mixer Mania #20 – Measure of Success”, in Sip Advisor:
glosses: A unit of influence equal to one thousandth of a wheaton, or 500 followers.
milliwheatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliwheaton
reversgram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversgrams
Etymology: From reverse + -gram.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semordnilap.
synonyms: word: semordnilap
reversgrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversgram
ophthalmophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós, “eye”) and φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: The primary concern that J.Y. presented was a symptom of ophthalmophobia (similar to social phobia).
ref: 2011, Cathy A. Malchiodi, Handbook of Art Therapy, page 155:
text: There is more to come' and Kundan's face got filled with ophthalmophobia (an anxiety disorder characterized by a morbid fear of revealing) as he heard the voice of Tanuja.
ref: 2020, Karan Arora, MARDISTAAN, page 73:
text: I knew, a form of illusion known as ophthalmophobia — fear of the eye. It ranged from mere aversion at being gazed at, all the way to the subjective development of real physical illness out of otherwise trifling ailments.
ref: 2022, Arthur B. Reeve, The Social Gangster:
glosses: Synonym of scopophobia.
synonyms: word: scopophobia
pine sap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine saps
Senses: glosses: The sap of a pine tree, or of conifers more broadly stated.
naked broomrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked broomrapes
Senses: glosses: A parasitic flower, Orobanche uniflora, of the genus Orobanche (broomrapes).
Engelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Engelian
form: most Engelian
Etymology: From Engel + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German statistician and economist.
firsocostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor drug.
irreflexivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreflexive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of irreflexiveness.
synonyms: word: irreflexiveness