cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Said by the character Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains) in the 1942 film Casablanca, immediately prior to receiving his cut of the gambling proceeds.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
sports
glosses: Said in reference to the hypocrisy of officials who are supposed to police illicit activities but engage in those activities themselves.
wikipedia: Casablanca (film)
Derived terms: shocked, shocked
helonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helonyms
Etymology: From helo- + -nym.
Senses: glosses: The name of bogs, marshes, or swamps.
helonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helonym
gombessa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gombessas
Etymology: Borrowed from Ngazidja Comorian gombesa (“coelacanth”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coelacanth.
synonyms: word: coelacanth
gombessas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gombessa
responsive web design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
design
synonyms: responsive design
RWD
coordinate_terms: adaptive web design
qualifier: Web
glosses: Approach to web design that makes Web pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes to ensure usability and satisfaction.
Hypernyms: web design
Barton St David
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5431).
truth nuke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹuθ nuk/
Forms: form: truth nukes
form: trvth nvke
Etymology: A modification of truth bomb, from the notion of such information being as powerful as a nuclear bomb. The term is recorded from 2009, when a website TruthNuke.com was created, and was mainly used in right-wing circles on 4chan and Twitter before reaching virality in 2024.
Senses: examples: text: The governor's reputation was tarnished after an anonymous blogger dropped a truth nuke exposing her network of shadowy allies.
text: It's barbaric what they do to our children. And don't get me started onthe shots so early in this book. But trust me, I'll be dropping some truth nukes on that calamity as well.
ref: 2020, Robert Young, Ian Jacklin, Alkaline: Dr. Robert O Young's PH Diet & Mindset, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Alas, [David] Burge devolved into a raving NeverTrumper, but this gem nevertheless remains a 100-megaton truth nuke.
ref: 2021, J. J. Sefton, End of America, Washington, D.C.: Calamo, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Jfc ya boi out here dropping truth nukes
ref: 2023 August 19, u/Yawarete, “You don't say?”, in Reddit, r/SelfAwarewolves, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
text: Vivek Ramaswamy calls out all three candidates for turning on Trump after using him for money and endorsements and then drops truth nukes 🔥
ref: 2023 December 7, @bennyjohnson, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2024:
text: A truth nuke is that communism is best in a small culturally homogenous community that treats each other well, and that capitalism is best when large groups of these communities trade.
ref: 2025 June 30, u/LowPingGreasy, “Truth Nuke”, in Reddit, r/PoliticalCompassMemes, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
text: JUST IN: Mike Johnson is dropping TRUTH NUKES right now on the floor.
ref: 2025 July 3, @EricLDaugh, Twitter, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
synonyms: truth bomb
trvke
glosses: A sudden revelation of devastating and undeniably true information.
wikipedia: 4chan
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Twitter
risingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more risingly
form: most risingly
Etymology: From rising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and freedom through indentures and slavery.
ref: 1987, Brian Rotman, “King Lear and ‘nothing’”, in Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Language, Discourse, Society), Basingstoke, Hants.; London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (Nothing: Zero), page 81:
text: Painting was just one, though the most visible, witness to the perceptual change that spread through every form – reflecting not just a risingly confident avant garde, but the new views of consciousness and perception, the new apocalyptic awareness of modernity and universal change, that was brought by an age massing technology, new social conflict, increasing urbanisation, and the growing systematisation of life.
ref: 1987, Malcolm Bradbury, “‘A Dog Engulfed in Sand’: Character and Abstraction in Contemporary Writing and Painting”, in No, Not Bloomsbury, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, published 1988, →ISBN, part 1 (Writer and Critic), section 3, pages 31–32:
text: An experimental, risingly postmodern, gallery of fiction for which Invisible Man always acted as the beacon, equally made its bow, notably William Demby’s cubist The Catacombs (1965), William Melvin Kelley’s fantasist picture of white suburbia and Harlem, dem (1967), John Wideman’s peregrinatory Hurry Home (1970) and Leon Forrest’s dream-memoir of black Chicago, There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (1973).
ref: 2020, A[rthur] Robert Lee, “Introduction: 25ᵗʰ Anniversary Edition: Perspective and Memoir”, in Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: In a rising manner.
dummy foal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummy foals
Etymology: From dummy + foal, due to their tendency to wander aimlessly.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A foal suffering from neonatal maladjustment syndrome.
Derived terms: dummy foal syndrome
dummy foals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dummy foal
live-for-ever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live-for-evers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liveforever.
live-for-evers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live-for-ever
Seven Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: An important addition to the railway system of Canada is the Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway, which is expected to open in 1954. The line is to start from Seven Islands, on the St. Lawrence River, and run for nearly 360 miles, through undeveloped country, to mines which are being opened up at Knob Lake, in Labrador.
ref: 1952 June, “Railway Development in Labrador”, in Railway Magazine, page 362:
glosses: Synonym of Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada.
synonyms: word: Sept-Îles
word: Quebec
word: Canada
live-forevers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of live-forever
dummy foal syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dummy foal + syndrome, due to its sufferers being dubbed dummy foals.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Neonatal maladjustment syndrome.
vetinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of veterinary.
Loserville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.zə(ɹ).vɪl/
ipa: /ˈlu.zɚ.vɪl/
Etymology: From loser + -ville.
Senses: examples: text: By using their sexuality for bait as well as for pleasure, game players can satisfy both their hangups and their desires and thus keep themselves reasonably contented—on their way to lonely Loserville.
ref: 1970, Eric Berne, “Why People Play Games”, in Sex in Human Loving, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 191:
text: The movie, funny but acrid (burnt around the edges), has also spawned a spin-off book, a Swingers manual. Favreau plays Mike, a shlub strictly from Loserville who mopes over an old girlfriend and gets nowhere fast as an actor in Hollywood.
ref: 1997 May 24, James Wolcott, “When They Were Kings”, in Vanity Fair, number 441, page 87:
text: Boston has ended a 16-year run of being Loserville. It still hasn't sunken in. I don't know how long it will take.
ref: 2002 February 5, Jim Pignatiello, “Diary of a madman”, in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, volume CVIII, number 74, page 9:
text: WINNER OF THE YEAR: Leslie Moonves. The CEO of CBS has put the network back on track and kicked off a franchise with Law & Order potential with the expanded CSI. He lost Joe Abruzzese, his head of sales, to Discovery, a highprofile defection that prompted an executive at a rival network to observe, "Les and male employees don't always get alongso well." But Moonves has moved CBS from loserville to having the largest audience in TV—and even to the verge of hipness.
ref: 2003 January 24, Kim Masters, “Who Won In Hollywood This Year, who lost, and who didn't know there was a game”, in Esquire, page 42:
text: To be a smart girl was to write yourself a one-way ticket to Loserville—population you.
ref: 2005, Roberta Hamilton, “Representation and Subjectivity” (chapter 6), in Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Femenist Perpectives on Canadian Society, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, page 150:
glosses: A metaphorical town or city inhabited by losers, used to describe a real place, situation or person perceived as unsuccessful, unappealing or lacking social standing.
half-decked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halfdeck + -ed.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of or pertaining to a vessel consisting of a deck covering about half of its length or surface area.
ayy lmao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayy lmaos
Etymology: Associated with image macros of aliens, the first attested around early 2013, the phrase sharing the first syllable /ˈeɪ.l/ with alien.
Senses: examples: text: I've never actually used Alienware, and I don't actually care about people's favorite brands, I just want to start an ayy lmao thread.
ref: 2014 August 28, anonymous author, “ITT: Your Favorite Computer Brand”, in 4chan, /g/:
text: Would it be possible to win against an ayy lmao invasion?
ref: 2016 December 7, anonymous author, 4chan, /k/:
text: The number of ayy lmaos on the shadow chamber seems too small for the mission
ref: 2023 December 17, /u/mrbucket08, “Is there a way to know if an Alien Ruler is in the area? I’ve killed the Archon King, now I need to finish off the Viper King and Berserker Queen”, in Reddit, /r/Xcom:
glosses: An alien.
ayy lmao
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Associated with image macros of aliens, the first attested around early 2013, the phrase sharing the first syllable /ˈeɪ.l/ with alien.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ayy, LMAO.
half-deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-decks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halfdeck.
half deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half decks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halfdeck.
half decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half deck
half-decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-deck
amp down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amps down
form: amping down
form: amped down
form: amped down
Senses: antonyms: amp up
glosses: To calm down; to speak or behave more quietly; to reduce the energy of (something).
neem cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neem cakes
Senses: glosses: The by-product obtained in the process of coldpressing of neem tree fruits and kernels.
Knob Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: An important addition to the railway system of Canada is the Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway, which is expected to open in 1954. The line is to start from Seven Islands, on the St. Lawrence River, and run for nearly 360 miles, through undeveloped country, to mines which are being opened up at Knob Lake, in Labrador.
ref: 1952 June, “Railway Development in Labrador”, in Railway Magazine, page 362:
glosses: An early name for Schefferville, Quebec, Canada. The lake was named after a prominent iron ore outcrop.
neem cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neem cake
Gyatso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjɑːtsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡjɑtsoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtsəʊ
Forms: form: Gyamtso
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Tibetan.
bag off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bags off
form: bagging off
form: bagged off
form: bagged off
Senses: glosses: To date (someone); to hook up with someone; to make out or have sex with someone.
sticky situation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky situations
Senses: synonyms: word: ass in a sling
word: bind
word: bucket of syrup
word: calvary
word: cross
word: cross to bear
word: difficulty
word: dilemma
word: dire straits
word: doghouse
word: fix
word: hole
word: jam
word: kettle of fish
word: ordeal
word: pickle
word: pinch
word: plight
word: predicament
word: quandary
word: quagmire
word: situation
word: spot
word: spot of bother
word: sticky situation
word: sticky wicket
word: tight spot
word: trouble
glosses: A difficult or unfortunate situation.
audiophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to audiophobia.
bannals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bannal
sticky situations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticky situation
Jersey toadflax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Pelisser's toadflax
Pelisser's toad-flax
glosses: A flowering plant of species Linaria pelisseriana.
Pelisser's toadflax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jersey toadflax.
synonyms: word: Jersey toadflax
Pelisser's toad-flax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jersey toadflax.
synonyms: word: Jersey toadflax
ball off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls off
form: balling off
form: balled off
form: balled off
Senses: examples: text: The ship balled off at 12 knots.
glosses: To depart, especially quickly; to hurry away; to leave at a particular speed.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To spin rope-yarns into balls, in preparation for making spun yarn.
vros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vro
ball it off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls it off
form: balling it off
form: balled it off
form: balled it off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ball off (to leave at a particular speed).
synonyms: word: ball off
extra: to leave at a particular speed
bracera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbratsera/
Forms: form: braceras
form: brazzera
Senses: glosses: A tradition type of coastal sailboat around the Adriatic Sea.
braceras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracera
brazzera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazzeras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bracera.
brazzeras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brazzera
ceraunophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceraunophiles
Etymology: From cerauno- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who loves thunder or lightning.
ceraunophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceraunophile
Dalezioses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dalezios
eeby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːbi/
rhymes: -iːbi
Forms: form: eebier
form: eebiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eepy.
waves aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wave aside
waving aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wave aside
waved aside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wave aside
lip-server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip-servers
Senses: examples: text: ... the mere nominal professor and false-hearted lip-server may do this;
ref: 1852, Joseph Adkins Beckett, Practical Sermons on some of the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, as addressed to a village congregation, page 127:
glosses: Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.
Related terms: lip service
lip-servers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lip-server
bust off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts off
form: busting off
form: busted off
form: busted off
form: bust off
form: bust off
Senses: examples: text: I'm bustin' off my pistol.
text: You better be careful, cuz he could bust off anytime.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To shoot (a gun); to shoot or start a shootout.
Redenhall with Harleston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, which includes the named places.
-cercous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From New Latin cercus, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a tail-like structure.
rhopalocercous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin rhopalium, from Ancient Greek ῥοπαλιον (rhopalion), diminutive of ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club”) + -cercous.
Senses: examples: text: Although the number of pesterior dorsal papillae has never been noted in any rhopalocercous species to vary by more than one, those of the posterior ventral survace in C. catatonki […]
ref: 1971, Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington:
glosses: Having a series of fleshy lobes or filaments.
unsandal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsandals
form: unsandaling
form: unsandalling
form: unsandaled
form: unsandaled
form: unsandalled
form: unsandalled
Senses: glosses: To remove sandals (from the feet)
leptocercous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lepto- + -cercous.
Senses: examples: text: This larva, for which the name Cercaria photifera is suggested, is a leptocercous form with pear-shaped body and a tail with fluted margins.
ref: 1922, Parasitology, page 262:
glosses: Having a single, long caudal filament or tail spine.
bellcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: bell + cast
Senses: examples: text: Lower extensions on each end also display hip bellcast rooflines while separate eaves extend over the platform.
ref: 2016, Ron Brown, Dundurn Railroad 6-Book Bundle: Rails Over the Mountains:
topics: architecture
glosses: Shaped like an inverted bell.
cornerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornerboards
Etymology: From corner + board.
Senses: examples: text: A ⁵⁄₄-inch cornerboard furred out ¼ inch gives a matching shadowline to a 1½-inch original cornerboard
ref: 2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes:
topics: architecture
glosses: A length of trim or molding used in construction to cover the external corners of a building.
cornerboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornerboard
lophocercous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lopho- + -cercous.
Senses: examples: text: A first sporocyst generation and two reiae generations are then developed, and, finally, there erupt from the snail characteristic lophocercous (i.e., keeled) cercaria (Fig. 173) , with pigmented eye-spots, abundant penetration glands and a distinctive anterior end, having an antero-ventral mouth and a pair of clustered openings for the penetration gland.
ref: 1943, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Clinical Parasitology, page 398:
synonyms: lophocercal
glosses: Having a tail structure with lateral lobes or extensions.
ingassing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + gassing.
Senses: examples: text: Outgassing of oxygen is strongest when primary production rates are greatest; ingassing is at a maximum during net respiration.
ref: 2010, Heinrich D Holland, Karl K. Turekian, Isotope Geochemistry:
glosses: The process of absorbing or dissolving gasses into a material.
Coordinate terms: outgassing
corniceline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornicelines
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The (invisible) horizontal line corresponding to the level of the cornices of a building, or numerous buildings.
cornicelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corniceline
bar down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bars down
form: barring down
form: barred down
form: barred down
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To loosen mined ore in a cart using a bar in order to enable it to move through a chute.
topics: business
mining
glosses: To remove or pat down loose debris.
melonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛˈləʊni.əs/
ipa: /mɛˈloʊni.əs/
rhymes: -əʊniəs
ipa: /məˈləʊni.əs/
ipa: /məˈloʊni.əs/
rhymes: -əʊniəs
ipa: /mɛˈləʊni.əs/
ipa: /mɛˈloʊni.əs/
rhymes: -əʊniəs
Forms: form: more melonious
form: most melonious
Etymology: Likely from a misconstruction of melodious, under influence from other Latinate adjectives ending -onious; compare commonious.
Senses: examples: text: KEATING’S COUGH LOZENGES.—A good speech or an effective song cannot be given if the vocal organs are in an unsound condition, or affected with hoarseness or irritation. To remedy the latter, and to produce melonious enunciation, every public character, whether of the Bar, the Senate, or the Pulpit, should have at hand Keating’s Cough Lozenges, which are patronised by the majority of the Imperial Parliament, the Bench, and the leading members of the Operatic Corps.
ref: 1858 April 3, The Musical World, volume 36, number 14, page 221:
text: Tilly. 'Rastus, am it yer melonious voice dat speaks dese words?
ref: 1888, Henry H. Putnam, The Mariner’s Return, Act II, page 14:
glosses: Melodious.
Seisen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 清川(せいせん) (seisen).
Senses: examples: text: Chosen (Korea) is mountainous and has abundant rainfall and great power resources. An American gold-mining company has a plant of 800 horsepower on a branch of Seisen River and has recently installed a plant of 1,600 horsepower on Kuron River, in northern Chosen.
ref: 1921, “Asia”, in World Atlas of Commercial Geology, volume II, Washington, D. C.: United States Geological Survey, →OCLC, page 30, column 3:
text: Privateers of Fleet Air Wing One on 31 July blew up a span of a large railway bridge near the mouth of the Seisen River in Northwest Korea, damaged another railway bridge and two trains and strafed a cannery, grading machinery at an airfield, and small craft along the coast in this area.
ref: 1945 August 11, “U. S. War Roundup”, in Army Navy Journal, volume LXXXII, number 51, Whole No. 3283, Washington, D. C., →OCLC, page 1505, column 4:
text: At Chinnampo, the mining company’s steam launch, with an old American salt named Captain Barstow, was waiting to take us 75 miles farther north to Anju, the old town on the Seisen River, mentioned many times in the newspapers during the late war.
ref: 1962, Robert H. Ivy, “Westward to the Far East”, in A Link with the Past, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 17–18:
glosses: Synonym of Chongchon: the Japanese-derived name
synonyms: word: Chongchon
extra: the Japanese-derived name
raw_tags: in reference to Japanese Korea
wikipedia: Columbia University Press
bawl off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bawls off
form: bawling off
form: bawled off
form: bawled off
Senses: examples: text: He bawled off at the disobedient children.
text: He got his pants bawled off by his boss.
glosses: To severely scold; to shout at; to (figuratively) remove by shouting invective.
chafing-dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafing-dishes
Senses: examples: text: The first chafing-dishes of which historic mention is made consisted of a pan heated over a pot of burning oil, the pan resting upon a frame which held the pot of oil.
ref: 1914, Janet McKenzie Hill, Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-dish Dainties, page 151:
glosses: Alternative form of chafing dish.
chafing-dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chafing-dish
chaffing-dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaffing-dishes
Senses: examples: text: He began, therefore, with drawing the coals this way and that, to separate the ashes from the unconsumed wood and pieces of flesh; and having filled his chaffing-dish with ashes, descended to the pavement , turned towards the east side of the ascent to the altar , and laid them down in the place that was allotted for the garbage of the birds , and the ashes that were cleansed from off the golden altar.
ref: 1823, William Brown, Antiquities of the Jews, page 356:
glosses: Alternative form of chafing dish.
chaffing-dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaffing-dish
chaffing dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaffing dishes
Senses: examples: text: Steam tables, bains marie, and chaffing dishes require that an accurate external probe thermometer be used.
ref: 2003, Ronald H. Schmidt, Gary E. Rodrick, Food Safety Handbook, page 511:
glosses: Alternative form of chafing dish.
chaffing dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaffing dish
bawls off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bawl off
bawling off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bawl off
bawled off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bawl off
unbaleful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbaleful
form: most unbaleful
Etymology: From Middle English unbaleful, from Old English unbealuful, equivalent to un- + baleful.
Senses: examples: text: The Unbaleful Bourbon
ref: 1948, Investors Chronicle and Money Market Review, volume 174, page 371:
text: In the old days 'pourings on to boats' in New York were an ideal curtain to a visit: particularly in prohibition days, when you knew that in a very litde while you would be on a bar stool, ordering a legitimate and unbaleful glass of morning beer.
ref: 2011, Alec Waugh, The Fatal Gift:
text: Handle creaks, cattlecake flies like a shuttlecock, rattles the pailful: Sniff while the harm of death dies by the charm of breath, all bales unbaleful.
ref: 2014, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper, Words of Mercury: Tales from a Lifetime of Travel:
glosses: Not baleful, harmless, innocent.
Derived terms: unbalefully
begger off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beggers off
form: beggering off
form: beggered off
form: beggered off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bugger off.
synonyms: word: bugger off
begin upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begins upon
form: beginning upon
form: began upon
form: begun upon
Senses: examples: text: The wolf began upon the deer.
glosses: To physically attack (someone or something).
examples: text: That was when she began upon me.
glosses: To verbally attack (someone or something).
blob off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blobs off
form: blobbing off
form: blobbed off
form: blobbed off
Senses: glosses: To ejaculate.
blot up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blots up
form: blotting up
form: blotted up
form: blotted up
Senses: glosses: To eat or drink (something).
beggar off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beggars off
form: beggaring off
form: beggared off
form: beggared off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bugger off.
synonyms: word: bugger off
whopperjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑpɚd͡ʒɔd/
ipa: /ˈʍ-/
ipa: /ˈwɑpɚd͡ʒɑd/
ipa: /ˈʍ-/
Forms: form: more whopperjawed
form: most whopperjawed
form: whipperjawed
form: whopper-jawed
form: whomperjawed
Etymology: Earliest known use is from 1854 (see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: […] whopper jawed fogies, […]
ref: 1854 January 3, “Farm Work for December”, in Industrial Luminary, volume 1, number 24, Parkville, Missouri, page 1, column 5:
text: The fact that inexperienced, ignorant men have often been induced by the advice of mere theorists, or their own over-confidence, to undertake this kind of building, resulting, as might naturally be expected, in ungainly, crooked, whopper-jawed, and cracked walls, is no evidence whatever against the system, but only an evidence of the folly of men, in undertaking what they don’t understand.
ref: 1856 July 24, “Gravel, Grout, or Concrete Buildings”, in American Phrenological Journal, volume XXIV, number 1, New York, page 10, column 1:
text: The newspaper politician-editors are whistling to keep up courage. They have found some green persimmons somewhere, for their whistling is badly whopperjawed.
ref: 1894 July 10, “Editorial Notes”, in The Progressive Farmer, volume 9, number 22, Raleigh, North Carolina, page 2, column 1:
text: “I much prefer straight sailin‘ tew this goin‘ in cattery-wampus towards one shore an‘ then skewin‘ off towards the others,” said he, suiting the action to the words. “It‘s enough tew make a feller whopperjawed.”
ref: 1907, Richard Taylor Wiley, “XVIII. On Bridenhall Shoal”, in Sim Greene and Tom the Tinker‘s Men: A Narrative of the Whisky Insurrection; Being a Setting Forth of the Memoirs of the Late David Froman, Esquire, J. C. Winston, page 157:
text: “Conflicting circumstances have me so seriously muddled I am whopperjawed if I can say, but it looks like it. A boy seldom turns loose of a pocketknife by accident.”
ref: 1915, Clarence E. Hatfield, The Tug of the Millstone, Richard G. Badger, pages 238–239:
text: Cattwumpus, arfybarsed, whopperjawed, it‘s an impossible construct, the cosmos given us to observe in the fun-house mirror of our perception, and we‘re just kids at the carnival, our faces smeared with spun sugar and wild excitement, alive and happy till we hit exhaustion and break down into tears.
ref: 2021 September 8, George Bradley, A Stroll in the Rain: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: North Carolina
glosses: Crooked, misaligned, out of sorts.
whipperjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whipperjawed
form: most whipperjawed
Senses: qualifier: North Carolina
glosses: Alternative spelling of whopperjawed.
ellicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ellick
smoke shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke shops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smokeshop.
smoke shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke shop
Uttarā
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit उत्तरा (uttarā)
Senses: glosses: Uttarā, wife of Abhimanyu and the mother of परीक्षित्.
neem oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neem oils
Senses: synonyms: margosa oil
glosses: A vegetable oil pressed from the fruits and seeds of the neem.
margosa oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margosa oils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of neem oil.
synonyms: word: neem oil
motor banca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor bancas
Etymology: From motor + banca, where the latter itself is from Tagalog bangka.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of motorized banca.
synonyms: word: motorized banca
owner-type jeepney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owner-type jeepneys
Etymology: From owner + -type + jeepney.
Senses: glosses: a Jeep meant for private use (designed as a smaller, lighter version of the jeepney, similar to the original US military Jeep and its non-military derivative)
bone out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bones out
form: boning out
form: boned out
form: boned out
Senses: glosses: To leave; to run away.
secondary sanction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary sanctions
Etymology: From secondary + sanction.
Senses: glosses: Extraterritorial sanctions imposed on third-country entities that trade with already sanctioned entities.
secondary sanctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary sanction
swordmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordmistress
swordsmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordsmistress
fire marshall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire marshalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fire marshal.
FRQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRQs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of free-response question.
Coordinate terms: DBQ
MCQ
FRQs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FRQ
booger off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boogers off
form: boogering off
form: boogered off
form: boogered off
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bugger off.
synonyms: word: bugger off
dodecaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecaphobics
Etymology: From dodeca- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Someone who suffers from dodecaphobia
dodecaphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dodecaphobic
form: most dodecaphobic
Etymology: From dodeca- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from dodecaphobia
dodecaphobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecaphobic
East Allington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7748).
brass off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brasses off
form: brassing off
form: brassed off
form: brassed off
Senses: glosses: To shoot someone or something.
glosses: To insult, criticize or scold (someone).
buy out from under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys out from under
form: buying out from under
form: bought out from under
form: bought out from under
Senses: examples: text: We better make an offer before somebody buys the house out from under us.
glosses: To purchase (something) that (somebody else) intends to buy.
examples: text: He bought out from under his legal problems.
glosses: To make a payment to escape from or cancel (a problem).
bushel measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushel measures
Senses: examples: text: By the Act of Queen Anne, a bushel measure should be chained to a post in the centre of every fruit market, and the clerk of the market bound to measure by it upon payment of 1 d.
ref: 1836, Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons, page 7:
text: For instance, you would find it impossible to get one-fourth of a bushel of parsnips into a peck measure. The bushel measure has, by custom, ceased to be a standard measurement.
ref: 1916, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, Establishment of Standard Weights for Various Commodities, page 46:
text: This calculation is based on a cone of the same height heaped upon the same bushel measure described above, but the cone is considered in this case to be heaped upon the area of the open top of the measure instead of the top including the sides, the diameter thus being 18 1⁄2 instead of 19 1⁄2 inches.
ref: 1918, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Legal Weights (in Pounds) Per Bushel of Various Commodities, page 5:
glosses: A container that contains exactly one bushel (four pecks), used as a measuring device for commodities sold by the bushel.
kindergärtner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kindergärtners
form: kindergärtner
Etymology: From German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”). The other sense is not used in German.
Senses: examples: text: A few years ago Miss Blow, of St. Louis, took up, with the kindergärtners of that city, a study of “The Mother Play and Nursery Songs” in the German.
ref: 1886, Angeline Brooks, “The Theory of [Friedrich] Fröbel’s Kindergarten System”, in The Kindergarten and the School, Springfield, Mass.: Milton Bradley Co., page 51:
text: Six churches have been built, and we now have about 800 communicants and three men studying for the priesthood; four kindergärtner are now in training and hundreds of children are receiving Christian instruction.
ref: 1955 September 25, “Something Hidden: Report of the 1955 Joint Committee on Programme and Budget […]”, in Peter [Morton] Day, editor, The Living Church, volume CXXXI, number 13, Milwaukee, Wis.: Church Literature Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22, column 1:
text: It is another to maintain that the expertise needed to decide how best to run kindergartens in terms of what goes on within their walls is to be found among those who have never ventured inside them. The justification of the enlistment of the layman as kindergärtner would require a denial that there is indeed a relevant expertise in this area and a corresponding redefinition of the area of competence that makes an adept of any naturally shrewd human being.
ref: 1989, Alastair Hannay, “Politics and [Paul] Feyerabend’s Anarchist”, in Marcelo Dascal, Ora Gruengard, editors, Knowledge and Politics: Case Studies in the Relationship Between Epistemology and Political Philosophy, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, →ISBN, part 6 (The Antimethodologists), page 252:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kindergartner (“person who teaches at a kindergarten”).
examples: text: It’s like chasing a couple of kindergärtners around.
ref: 2004 October 12, Jod Kaftan, editor, The Simple Life (Cine-manga), Hamburg: Tokyopop, →ISBN, page 27:
text: The Kindergarten School had been dismantled, and our kindergärtners benefited by receiving the playground equipment. […] Kindergärtners and first graders were expected to learn the names of as many states as possible.
ref: 2006 December 1, Rochelle LaMotte McDonald, “Year Round Education 1990-91”, in Educating Shelly, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
text: This year’s batch of four-year-old kindergärtners on the school van I drive have an overwhelming case of ants in their pants. […] I have a new four-year-old kindergärtner who recently rode with me for the first time. […] One of my kindergärtners was quite upset when I picked her up one day because hadn’t had time to brush her teeth after eating lunch.
ref: 2017 February 15, Angeline Haen, Sweet Wisdoms, Brunswick, Me.: Shanti Arts Publishing, →ISBN, “Ears and Eyes”, “Dad’s Eyes”, and “Dome Some Good” sections:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of kindergartner (“child who attends a kindergarten”).
kindergärtners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kindergärtner
buck up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bucks up to
form: bucking up to
form: bucked up to
form: bucked up to
Senses: glosses: To rebel against (someone or something); to stand up to or struggle against (someone or something).
buggerise about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buggerises about
form: buggerising about
form: buggerised about
form: buggerised about
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bugger about.
synonyms: word: bugger about
barangay captain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barangay captains
Etymology: From barangay + captain, with the former from Tagalog barangay.
Senses: topics: government
synonyms: barangay chairman
glosses: leader of a barangay
barangay chairman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barangay chairmans
Senses: topics: government
glosses: Synonym of barangay captain.
synonyms: word: barangay captain
bundy on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bundies on
form: bundying on
form: bundied on
form: bundied on
Senses: antonyms: bundy off
glosses: To check in; to clock in.
bundy off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bundies off
form: bundying off
form: bundied off
form: bundied off
Senses: antonyms: bundy on
glosses: To check out; to clock out.
Pulham St Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM2185).
Related terms: Pulham Market
bunk into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bunks into
form: bunking into
form: bunked into
form: bunked into
Senses: glosses: To meet with (someone); to run into or bump into (someone).
glosses: To knock into or bump up against (something).
bed spacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedspacing.
Christmas Capital of the Philippines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Christmas Capital of the Philippines
Etymology: After the Giant Lantern festivals held every Christmas in the capital of the province, San Fernando.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Pampanga
glosses: A nickname for Pampanga.
Pulham Market
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM1986).
Related terms: Pulham St Mary
Starston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM2384).
sandilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænˈdiː(j)ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: sandillas
Etymology: Misconstruction of sandía, on the assumption it contains the Spanish diminutive suffix -illa.
Senses: examples: text: Two other persons, swarthy and ferocious as Bedouins, and naked as Lazzaroni, were crouching in the dirt, and sharing a sandilla (water-melon), the scarlet slices of which they ate in company; […]
ref: 1852, “A Peruvian Omnibus”, in Charles Hale, editor, To-Day: A Boston Literary Journal, volume 2, page 91:
text: Maj. McKinstry, commanding the United States post at San Diego, charitably marched to the rescue and kindly took the government of the twin republics in out of the cold, and bade Hercules Melendez go home and be a good boy, cultivate sandillas and have an ever open eye for jerked beef.
ref: 1881, Horace Bell, Reminiscences of a Ranger or, Early Times in Southern California, page 210:
text: Beans constitute an important food for the people at large. Maize, potatoes, roots, and vegetables of every description, melons of sweet flavor (the sandilla, or watermelon, especially) are cultivated in the so-called chacaras, or small rain in the season.
ref: 1884, Holger Birkedal, “Perú, Bolivia, and Chile”, in The Overland Monthly (2), volume 4, page 184:
text: Besides the regular dividends the neat and interesting job of occasionally carving a surplus sandilla is performed, and the metallic chink of the resulting proceeds in the stockholder’s pocket gives forth a highly melonious sound.
ref: 1909 January 17, “Editorial Points”, in The Los Angeles Times, part II, page 4:
glosses: A watermelon.
sandillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandilla
Earsham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3289).
athamantin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To the bodies, in the artificial formation of which, in the manner stated, chemists have succeeded, belongs valerianic acid. This acid, which is found ready formed in the root of Valeriana officinalis, and was lately discovered by Winkler* as a constituent of athamantin, a remarkable crystalline body, extracted from the root of Athamantina oreoselinum, was some years ago obtained by Dumas and Stass† as the product of oxidation of the fousel oil (hydrated oxide of amyl), to which it relates in the same manner as acetic acid does to alcohol.
ref: 1844 November 24, James Sheridan Muspratt, “On the pretended production of valerianic acid from indigo, and on the acid resulting from the fusion of hydrate of potassa with lycopodium”, in The Medical Times. Pharmaceutical Number, number 6, London, page 138, column 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound (C₂₄H₃₀O₇).
Geldeston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3991).
scrotum frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrotum frog
FBOE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fraternal birth order effect.
FGCU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Florida Gulf Coast University.
orthoped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːθəˌpiːd/
ipa: /ˈɔɹθəˌpid/
Forms: form: orthopeds
Etymology: See orthopod § Etymology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of orthopod.
synonyms: word: orthopod
water frog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water frogs
Senses: examples: text: This scenario indicates that the water frogs living on Crete diverged from the other western Palearctic water frogs a minimum of 5 million years and a maximum of 6 million years ago, and that the water frogs of Karpathos diverged from Anatolian relatives about 3 million years ago.
ref: 1994 May 13, Two New Water Frog Species from the Aegean Islands Crete and Karpathos (Amphibia, Salientia, Ranidae), number 470, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of waterfrog.
water frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water frog
orthopeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoped
atheologian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atheologians
Etymology: From a- + theologian, or atheology + -an.
Senses: examples: text: I leaue heere to your owne conſiderations, the places, examples, and authorities of holy Scripture,which are miſtaken, and this Monſiure might alleage. For of this aſſure your ſelues, theſe Atheologians, or maimed Diuines, will no more faile therein, then the Negromancers do, in the inuocation of their ſpirits, and diuels,or in their healing of diſeaſes.
ref: 1602, Étienne Pasquier, “The third Booke of the Ieſuits Catechiſme”, in The Ieſuites Catechiſme. Or Examination of their doctrine, page 135:
text: They of your ſociety , as they tooke their originall from a ſouldier,ſo they are the onely Atheologians whoſe heades entertaine no other obiect but the tumult of realmes; […]
ref: 1603, John Hayward, chapter 8, in An Answer to the First Part of a Certaine Conference, Concerning Svccesion, Pvblished not long ſince vnder the name of R. Dolman, London: […] Simon Waterſon,and Cuthbert Burbie:
text: To any one who knows what controversy really means the reading of such work as Dr. lightfoot.'s recently republished criticisms on Supernatural Religion, after the much-vaunted work of German theologians, or atheologians of the present day, or of their imitators and admirers in England, is like reading a proposition of Euclid after a speech of Mr. Gladstone's.
ref: 1889 December 28, “The Bishop of Durham”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 68, number 1783, London, page 729, column 1:
text: From this condition of our prevalent religious nurture we may distinctly trace the readiness of the Christian age to dispense with God and be satisfied with a fancied human evolution of the Christian morals that we are addicted to; according to the teaching of the brood of atheologians who are capturing our seminaries and invading our pulpits.
ref: 1904 December 24, “The Lordship of Christ”, in Salvation, volume VI, number 12, New York, page 368:
glosses: A person who is not a theologian, especially one who opposes theology.
atheologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atheologian