cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crookings
Senses: examples: text: […] her rushes to the front door, and long hugs when he came back from a travel; all those later crookings of her little finger in his […]
ref: 1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands:
glosses: The act by which something is crooked.
weather eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather eyes
Senses: glosses: An ability to predict short-term weather.
glosses: An ability to detect undercurrents and subtleties in a situation.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:weather eye.
glosses: A device for monitoring the weather.
Derived terms: keep a weather eye open
keep a weather eye open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps a weather eye open
form: keeping a weather eye open
form: kept a weather eye open
form: kept a weather eye open
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:keep a weather eye open.
glosses: to maintain a background awareness of something; to remain alert to changes without it occupying one's full attention.
Synonyms: keep half an eye on something
keep one's wits about one
Related terms: ear to the ground
on the lookout
Telford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Telfords
form: Talford
form: Telfort
Etymology: From Old French taille fer, meaning "(he who) cuts iron" or "iron-cleaver"; used as a nickname for a man who could cleave clean through the armour of his foe. The second syllable was eventually reanalysed as native English 'ford'.
* (road): Named after Thomas Telford, a famous civil engineer.
Senses: glosses: A characteristical surname.
glosses: A new town in Telford and Wrekin borough and the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, named after Thomas Telford (OS grid ref SJ7008).
glosses: A locality in the Shire of Moira, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A borough in Bucks County and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, named after Thomas Telford.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Washington County, Tennessee, named after state senator George Whitfield Telford.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Washington, named after cattleman M. A Telford.
Derived terms: Telford and Wrekin
Telfordian
Telford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talford
form: Telfort
Etymology: From Old French taille fer, meaning "(he who) cuts iron" or "iron-cleaver"; used as a nickname for a man who could cleave clean through the armour of his foe. The second syllable was eventually reanalysed as native English 'ford'.
* (road): Named after Thomas Telford, a famous civil engineer.
Senses: examples: a Telford road
glosses: A road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly in the interstices.
Coordinate terms: asphalt
asphalt concrete
cobble
cobblestone
concrete
gravel
macadam
tar
tarmac
tarmacadam
Derived terms: Telfordization
Telfordize
new town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new towns
Senses: examples: text: The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns.
ref: 2025 October 15, David Stubbings, “News: TfL submits business case to DfT for transfer of Northern City Line services”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 11:
glosses: A planned community or urban development area.
glosses: A town built to address housing shortages after World War II.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new, town.
Related terms: Newburgh
Newbury
New City
Newton
New Town
Newtown
Newville
old town
Old Town
oldtown
Oldbury
Old City
escalation plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escalation plans
Senses: qualifier: call center jargon
glosses: A plan that specifies actions to be taken when the telephone queue exceeds acceptable levels.
cash desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash desks
Senses: glosses: A place in a restaurant, bar, or shop etc, typically containing a cash register, where a customer can pay the bill.
Synonyms: checkout
checkout counter
checkout desk
cashier's desk
till point
casta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish casta.
Senses: examples: text: Both of these political developments called attention to family lineage. In the Mexican colonial context, casta took on new meanings, referring to all the people of Mexico who were not of “pure” Spanish heritage.
ref: 2012, Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner, The Family: A World History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century.
bare-shouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not covering the shoulders.
raw_tags: of a garment
glosses: Having the shoulders not covered by clothing.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: off-the-shoulder
new towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new town
rain man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain men
Etymology: From the 1988 film Rain Man, about an autistic man with the name Raymond, misinterpreted as “Rain man” by his brother in childhood.
Senses: glosses: An autistic, or mentally and/or socially impaired person.
glosses: A non-autistic or impaired person whose mannerisms are similar to such people.
examples: text: Lovingly dubbed the Rain Man of Weed by her family, Heylia James is legendary in West Adams for being able to "eyeball an ounce from outer space with her glasses cracked," and for making "everybody's business my business" ("You Can't Miss the Bear").
ref: 2007, Kera Bolonik, In the Weeds, →ISBN, page 114:
text: David Milarch calls him the “rain man of trees” because of his brilliance with tree data and his uncanny knack for finding the big ones.
ref: 2013, Jim Robbins, The Man Who Plants Trees, →ISBN:
text: The mentorships were plenty, starting with Brian Derdall, a sort of rain-man genius in Engineering, along with T-man the technology guru, new hire peers Alex and Joel, and my new senior co-workers Ivan, Robert, and a sort of management mentor John.
ref: 2013, Mike Doiron, Thread of Life: An Adoption Story, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: An expert at something.
rain man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain men
Etymology: From rain + man.
Senses: examples: text: The special relation between men and their totems is shown by a belief which exists in a large number of tribes, to the effect that the men have the power to make their own totem animal or plant increase in numbers; so that a kangaroo man can cause the kangaroos to multiply, a rain man can make rain, and so on. A kangaroo man cannot make rain, nor can a rain man do anything to increase the number of kangaroos.
ref: 1913, Walter Hutchinson, Customs of the World, →ISBN:
text: We believe that if we want rain, the rain man of the tribe must imitate the rain by squirting water from his mouth, and the painters must retrace the age-old paintings at the cave of the water totem.
ref: 1978, William Tydeman, The Theatre in the Middle Ages, →ISBN:
text: As a huge crowd watched in anticipation, the 52-year-old rain man whooped and chanted while hopping about on a hillside.
ref: 1995 November 7, Mike Foster, “Raindancer charged with manslaughter - after 7 die in flooding!”, in Weekly World News:
text: This is presumably because CIFOR used the services of a “rain man,” whose charges to keep rain away from Bogor for the evening were a small fraction of what it would have cost to hire a marquee.
ref: 2005, Nathan C. Russell, Simone Staiger-Rivas, Knowledge-sharing solutions for a CGIAR without boundaries, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A man who is believed to have power to control the rain.
examples: text: These depict in vivid descriptions how the rain man in the west expands in the form of a black cloud; white clouds precede him which unfold like a flower;
ref: 2009, Andrea Bandhauer, Maria Veber, Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia, →ISBN, page 71:
text: In Santiago Atidán some saints' images are the embodiments of ancestral protective spirits called naguales — community founders, lightning men, mist men, rain men, earthquake men — who retreated to the mountains leaving the images and sacred bundles behind.
ref: 2010, Garrett W. Cook, Renewing the Maya World: Expressive Culture in a Highland Town, →ISBN:
glosses: A spirit of the rain.
gym clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clothing, specifically athletic wear, worn to a gym, fitness center or health club for the purpose of physical activity.
glosses: Clothing worn by students during physical education class at school.
dirty girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty girls
Senses: glosses: An adult female, usually young, who acts in a promiscuous manner and often has an “easy” reputation or also a female usually sexually thinking.
Synonyms: DG
wife beater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife beaters
Senses: examples: text: The drink, which at 5.2 per cent alcohol is stronger than many other lagers and therefore makes people drunker and sometimes more aggressive more quickly, has acquired the unflattering soubriquet of "wife beater".
ref: 2007 November 15, Victoria Moore, “Where did it all go wrong for the beer they call 'wife beater'?”, in The Daily Mail:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wifebeater.
mercy rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercy rules
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: slaughter rule
knockout rule
skunk rule
glosses: A rule that ends a one-sided contest prior to its natural conclusion.
strapless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strap + -less. The noun sense is by analogy of strap-on.
Senses: glosses: Without a strap or straps; usually describing women's clothing without shoulder straps.
strapless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straplesses
Etymology: From strap + -less. The noun sense is by analogy of strap-on.
Senses: synonyms: word: clit
word: clitoris
word: girlcock
word: girldick
word: gock
word: hen
word: ladybits
word: ladyparts
word: ladystick
word: princess wand
word: shenis
word: strapless
word: strap-off
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The penis of a trans woman.
straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strap
straps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strap
dirty laundry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you bring your dirty laundry round on Saturday, I'll wash it for you.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, laundry.
examples: text: If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss.
text: Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see.
ref: 2017, David Montgomery, Thoughts on the Abundant Life, page 337:
glosses: Unflattering or embarrassing facts, or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.
examples: text: Place your dirty clothes in the dirty laundry.
glosses: A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.
Synonyms: dirty washing
Derived terms: air one's dirty laundry in public
wash one's dirty laundry in public
Related terms: dirty linen
straping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of strapping.
moolah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moolahs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mullah.
moolah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moola (“money”).
straped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of strapped.
flogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flog
flogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flog
floging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of flogging.
flogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flog
shouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulderings
Senses: examples: text: 1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly.
text: […] at the Jefferson Memorial or the Statue of Liberty, amid the noisy presence and restless shoulderings of other tourists.
ref: 2005, Jeff Mann, Loving Mountains, Loving Men:
glosses: The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
topics: architecture
glosses: The process of bracing a load with a jutting structural member such as a corbel or bracket.
examples: text: And farther, that being fitted to each other on their flat sides, alternate male and female (see drawing annexed), by means of the shoulderings or wedgewise-securings, and abutments, which will be better and more clearly understood by a view of the drawings annexed to these presents, and to which we hereafter particularly refer;
ref: 1803, Repertory of Arts Manufactures and Agriculture:
text: Furthermore the shoulderings which were put outside the wheels to prevent them from slipping off the axles, are the proclamations of the prophets which lend weight to the evangelical and apostolic writing lest it should be doubted by any of its readers.
ref: 1995, Saint Bede (the Venerable), Seán Connolly, Jennifer O'Reilly, Bede: On the Temple, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: A flanged portion of something, similar to a lip but occurring on the side rather than the rim.
glosses: The rounding and raising of the top edges of slate tiles.
shouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoulder
shouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a shouldered arch
text: Whorls 7 beside those of the embryo-shell; they are slightly shouldered below the suture, between which shoulder and the suture they are slightly hunchy; the last is rather small and slightly flattened.
ref: 1898, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology (volume 26, page 244)
antonyms: unshouldered
glosses: Furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.
examples: text: She was bare-shouldered.
glosses: Having or pertaining to (a specific kind of) shoulders.
shouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoulder
Derived terms: bare-shouldered
bar-shouldered dove
big-shouldered
broad-shouldered
golden-shouldered parrot
red-shouldered hawk
round-shouldered
shouldered brown
white-shouldered antshrike
white-shouldered black tit
white-shouldered fairywren
yellow-shouldered ladybird
moola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːˌlɑː/
ipa: /ˈmuː.lə/
ipa: /ˈmyː.lɑ/
ipa: /ˈmuː.lɑ/
ipa: /ˈmʊ.lɑ/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: moolah
Etymology: Unknown, attested since the 1920s. Suggested origins, none of which are accepted by mainstream lexicographers, include:
* from Romani mol (“have value, be worth”)
* from Irish moll óir (“heap of gold”) However, this is unlikely because of the difference in pronunciation.
* from French moulin (“mill”)
* from Chinook Jargon moola (“mill”)
* from Sanskrit मूल (mūla, “capital, principal”)
* coined by Chuck Green, a friend of Damon Runyon
Senses: examples: text: “Well, to fix this house, we need money, correct? Does anyone know if we have any money? Anyone?” “Uh...” “Cash.” “Coin.” “Moola.” “Gold.” “Wonga.” “Rubles.” “Milk.” “Lettuce.” “Bread.” “Dough.” “Sweet cream.” “Stripper tips.” “Anyone?” “Colin Robinson was in charge of paying all the bills in the house, and now Colin Robinson is dead.”
ref: 2022 July 12, Stefani Robinson & Paul Simms, “Reunited” (16:24 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
synonyms: word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money, cash.
Derived terms: gwolla
moola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːˌlɑː/
ipa: /ˈmuː.lə/
ipa: /ˈmyː.lɑ/
ipa: /ˈmuː.lɑ/
ipa: /ˈmʊ.lɑ/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: moolas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mullah.
imus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imu
facial cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facial creams
Senses: glosses: any product designed to be rubbed into the face, either as a foundation for other makeup or as a moisturizer
fairy dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Based on the story of the fictional character Peter Pan, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: Of course Peter had been trifling with them, for no one can fly unless the fairy dust has been blown on him.
ref: 1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “Come away, Come away!”, in Peter and Wendy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 54:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A magical powder that would give the power of flight to whoever it was sprinkled on.
examples: text: It's not that some magic private sector fairy dust makes the firms all be runs^([sic]) soundly. Lots of bad businesses are out there. But they tend to lose money and close.
ref: 2011 May 19, Megan McArdle, quoting Matt Yglesias, “When Should Governments Contract Out?”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Any apparently magical ingredient or effect; a panacea.
examples: text: This led to a certain amount of complacency on my part and certainly the fairy dust and mescaline cocktails I took day and night could only have contributed to my uncommonly satiated drive for a good fuck.
ref: 2001, Simon Logan, I-O, Prime, →ISBN, page 102:
synonyms: angel dust
glosses: The drug phencyclidine.
Related terms: pixie dust
unflattering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unflattering
form: most unflattering
Etymology: From un- + flattering.
Senses: examples: text: Daniel Halper, online editor at the conservative Weekly Standard and the author of Clinton, Inc., an unflattering portrait of the Clintons, theorizes Huma had little choice after the second sexting fiasco but to stick with Hillary.
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
glosses: Not flattering.
unflattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + flattering.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unflatter
fangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fang
fangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fang
fannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ænɪʃ
Forms: form: more fannish
form: most fannish
Etymology: From fan + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.
ref: 1995 September 4, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: Intersection”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <9509042250393785@emerald.com>:
text: Arguably, though, “Jericho” fans are just television fans at their most fannish, meaning (still, and after all these years) most Trekkie-like. Fans of “Star Trek” continue to represent the gold standard for American fandom, not only because they were the first to love a television show to distraction (and communicated that love before the Internet), but also because they spun from that love the breath of life.
ref: 2007 May 30, Virginia Heffernan, “End-of-Days Fidelity for ‘Jericho’”, in The New York Times:
text: At any point in our fandom journey ― whether in our first fandom or as a fannish veteran, whether in the very first stages of falling in love with a text or slowly removing ourselves from a community, whether leaving a fandom bitterly or transitioning to a different mode of engagement ― we tend to feel strongly about the fan objects, their creators, and our fellow fans.
ref: 2018, Kristina Busse, “Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: Of or relating to a fan; characteristic of fandom.
Hyponyms: fanboyish
fangirlish
Derived terms: fannishly
fannishness
multifannish
farting around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fart around
fart around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: farts around
form: farting around
form: farted around
form: farted around
Senses: glosses: To waste time, or to fool about.
Synonyms: fart about
fool around
paternal grandfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal grandfathers
Senses: coordinate_terms: paternal grandmother
maternal grandfather
maternal grandmother
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paternal, grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Hypernyms: grandfather
feed into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds into
form: feeding into
form: fed into
form: fed into
Senses: examples: text: The River Frome feeds into the Avon in the centre of Bristol.
glosses: To be a tributary of another river or waterway.
raw_tags: of a river
examples: text: The high proportions of Asian students at prestigious universities feed into the stereotype of Asians putting a high value on education.
glosses: To perpetuate; to reinforce.
piny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pinier
form: piniest
form: piney
Etymology: From pine + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a piny fragrance
text: The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but every thing is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps, which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having many pines.
Related terms: pine green
pinewood
feel around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels around
form: feeling around
form: felt around
form: felt around
Senses: examples: text: I felt around in my pockes for my keyring in vain.
glosses: To grope; to explore an area with one's hands, usually in search of something.
glosses: To gather information sneakily; to seek out information without revealing that one is actively searching for it.
Synonyms: sense: explore an area with one's hands
word: fumble
word: grubble
sense: gather information sneakily
word: nose
sense: gather information sneakily
word: snoop
word: feel around
word: forage
word: scramble
word: glaum
word: grabble
word: grope
word: poke
Hypernyms: word: feel
word: search
webinars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webinar
ferine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/
Forms: form: more ferine
form: most ferine
Etymology: From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.
Senses: examples: text: the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 162:
glosses: Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
ferine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/
Forms: form: ferines
Etymology: From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.
maternal grandmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal grandmothers
Senses: coordinate_terms: maternal grandfather
paternal grandfather
paternal grandmother
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal, grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Hypernyms: grandmother
film out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: films out
form: filming out
form: filmed out
form: filmed out
Senses: glosses: To transfer images or animation from videotape or digital files to a traditional celluloid film print.
examples: text: Oil from the spill filmed out over the ocean.
glosses: To form a film on the surface of something.
Fipa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania and Zambia.
firescorched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more firescorched
form: most firescorched
Etymology: From fire + scorched.
Senses: glosses: blackened by contact with fire
firewagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firewagons
Etymology: From fire + wagon.
Senses: glosses: A fire engine.
flail about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flails about
form: flailing about
form: flailed about
form: flailed about
Senses: examples: text: Barry continued to shout obscenities and to flail about in a strait jacket, finally succumbing to the effects of intravenously administered tranquilizers.
ref: 1969, Theodore Millon, Modern Psychopathology: A Biosocial Approach to Maladaptive Learning and Functioning:
glosses: To wave one's arms (or upper body) about violently, rather like a flail.
glosses: To make efforts that are strenuous but disorganized and ineffectual.
food waste disposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food waste disposers
Senses: glosses: A machine, built into the waste tube of a domestic sink, that shreds unwanted food and flushes it away.
Synonyms: garbage disposal
incalcitrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I had wanted to be able to blame someone. I had wanted an incalcitrant father, a possessive mother, a wild and violent argument.
ref: 2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 261:
glosses: recalcitrant.
empty the bench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empties the bench
form: emptying the bench
form: emptied the bench
form: emptied the bench
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to remove the varsity players from a game and insert junior varsity players. Usually happens toward the end of a one-sided contest.
for all
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: For all his protests, he was forced to have a bath.
text: For all that she was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these things with unaverted eyes.
ref: 1909, H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica:
text: Maguire made an horrendous meal of the most basic piece of work to make it a treble helping of dreadful defending by England and for all the flair and fantasy of their attacking play there is no hiding away from the fact this is a serious weakness.
ref: 2019 September 10, Phil McNulty, “'England horribly fallible in defence' against Kosovo in Euro 2020 qualifying”, in BBC Sport:
text: Collins' death can be put down to his devil-may-care attitude—his decision to journey through hostile territory in a large convoy, the inadequate choice of the members of the convoy, and the tactics he adopted in the ambush. For all the debate about ballistics and entry and exit wounds, and the use of powerful historical imaginations, it matters more that Collins was killed than how he was killed. Concentration on the events at Béal na mBláth has, moreover, often meant a failure to place them in the overall context of the war.
ref: 1988, Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War:
glosses: In spite of, despite.
examples: text: For all x in A, x² is even.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: for any
given any
given an arbitrary
glosses: Applying to every element of a set; the universal quantifier ∀.
forbiddingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forbiddingly
form: most forbiddingly
Etymology: From forbidding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a forbidding manner
forbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forbear
forefeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English forefet, forfete, equivalent to fore- + feet.
Senses: glosses: plural of forefoot
forefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefeet
Etymology: From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.
Senses: glosses: Either of the front feet of a quadruped.
examples: text: I was not even sure I could change it at all, but I was convinced that I had to change my foot plant and land higher on my forefoot, rather than my heel.
ref: 2014, Allan Lawrence, Olympus and Beyond, page 100:
glosses: The front part of a person's foot.
examples: text: I could see the waves boiling white under her forefoot.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A piece of timber terminating the keel at the fore end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.
forefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forefoots
form: forefooting
form: forefooted
form: forefooted
Etymology: From Middle English forefot, forfote, equivalent to fore- + foot.
Senses: glosses: To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
examples: text: He took the first one that broke and rolled his loop and forefooted the colt and it hit the ground with a tremendous thump.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 106:
text: By the time she was twelve, she could flank and mug as well as her brothers, she could forefoot anything that moved, but it didn't matter.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 51:
glosses: To catch (a horse) by binding its front legs together with rope.
foreran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forerun
forerun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreruns
form: forerunning
form: foreran
form: forerun
Etymology: From fore- + run.
Senses: examples: text: Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 131:
glosses: To run in front.
examples: text: These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene 4]:
text: And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter V.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
glosses: To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
Derived terms: forerunner
fortalice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːtəlɪs/
Forms: form: fortalices
form: fortilice
form: fortilage
Etymology: From Medieval Latin fortalitia, from fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fortress.
Senses: examples: text: Tell them whatever thou hast a mind of the weakness of this fortalice, or aught else that can detain them before it for twenty-four hours.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: A small fortress.
Franny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frannie
Etymology: Diminutives with -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Frances, Francine, and Francesca.
Frannie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franny
Etymology: From Fran + -ie. The town was named after Frannie Morris, daughter of the town's first postmaster.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.
glosses: A town in Wyoming, United States.
information systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of information system
pompadour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒmpədʊə/
ipa: /ˈpɒmpədɔː/
ipa: /ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/
Forms: form: pompadours
form: pompador
Etymology: From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.
Senses: glosses: A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
examples: text: Squat and perspiring, with a low pompadour and a thin black mustache, he was inevitably disheveled by evening.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 17:
text: The Donald's strange pompadour and Hillary's strange server have eclipsed all the usual primary permutations.
ref: 2015 August 22, Maureen Dowd, “Donald Trump Struts in His Own Pageant”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2015:
glosses: A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.
examples: text: […] head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour […]
ref: 1812, George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves, page 409:
glosses: A crimson or pink colour.
glosses: A corsage with low square neck.
glosses: A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.
Synonyms: sense: man's hairstyle
word: do
sense: man's hairstyle
word: ducktail
sense: man's hairstyle
word: quiff
Derived terms: pompadour fish
pompadour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒmpədʊə/
ipa: /ˈpɒmpədɔː/
ipa: /ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/
Forms: form: pompadours
form: pompadouring
form: pompadoured
form: pompadoured
form: pompador
Etymology: From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.
Senses: examples: text: But by mid-afternoon we had both grown tired of putting on and taking off the clothes my mother and Beata had made for Lillian Russell, and of taking down and pompadouring again the wig Beata had turned backside front so it should be long where ladies' hair was supposed to be long.
ref: 1944, Skulda V. Banér, Latchstring Out, page 33:
text: 1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I parted my hair back and smoothed it instead of pompadouring it.
glosses: To style hair into a pompadour
fortilice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortilices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fortalice.
flower-sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flower-sweet
form: most flower-sweet
Senses: glosses: as sweet or attractive as a flower
foody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: foodier
form: more foody
form: foodiest
form: most foody
Etymology: From food + -y.
Senses: glosses: Eatable; fit for food or consumption.
glosses: Food-bearing; fertile; fruitful.
glosses: Of, relating to, composed of, or supplying food.
foody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodies
Etymology: From food + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foodie.
Derived terms: foodyism
forge-hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forge-hammers
Senses: glosses: a hammer used by a blacksmith
guid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of GUID.
rhamnose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhamnoses
Etymology: From translingual Rhamnus "genus of buckthorns" + -ose (“used to form names of sugars”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A methyl-pentose, 6-deoxy-L-mannose, which occurs in the leaves and flowers of poison ivy and is a constituent of many plant glycosides.
domestic dispute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic disputes
Senses: glosses: A situation where two or more people living in the same household are involved in a verbal or physical altercation and police intervention is requested.
rheumatic fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheumatic fevers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the joints and the heart following a respiratory infection with streptococcus.
stiffeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stiffener
rhizosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizospheres
Etymology: From rhizo- + -sphere.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: The soil region subject to the influence of plant roots and their associated microorganisms.
remote keyless entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remote keyless entries
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A remote control system used to lock and unlock the doors of a vehicle or building and sometimes to perform other functions.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The remote control device used for this purpose.
rhodochrosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodochrosites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥοδόχρως (rhodókhrōs, “having rosy colour”), from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonate MnCO₃.
Synonyms: sense: crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonate
word: dialogite
sense: crystalline mineral composed mainly of manganese carbonate
word: red manganese
scam artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scam artists
Senses: glosses: A person who attempts to defraud others by presenting a fraudulent offer and pretending that it is legitimate; a con artist.
Related terms: scam artistry
okurigana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okurigana
Etymology: From Japanese 送(おく)り仮名(がな) (okurigana).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).
Hilary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪləɹi/
Etymology: From Latin Hilarius (“cheerful, happy”), name of a fourth-century saint, and from its feminine form Hilaria.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: St Hilary
Related terms: Hillary
Hilary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪləɹi/
Etymology: From Latin Hilarius (“cheerful, happy”), name of a fourth-century saint, and from its feminine form Hilaria.
Senses: examples: text: It was the first day of term, and one of the rare days in Oxford when the weather was deceitfully marvellous; when its warmth promised more sunshine and joy than the relentless rain and sleet Hilary inevitably brought.
ref: 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 447:
topics: education
law
glosses: Ellipsis of Hilary term.
Jules
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
homophone: joules
homophone: jewels stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ʒuːl/
Etymology: From French. Doublet of Julius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
Derived terms: Julesburg
Jules
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
homophone: joules
homophone: jewels stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ʒuːl/
Forms: form: Jools
Etymology: Diminutive, influenced by Etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A male given name A nickname for Julian or Julius.
glosses: A female given name A nickname for Julia or Julie.
Antoinette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌæntwəˈnet/
Etymology: From French Antoinette, feminine diminutive of Antoine, equivalent to Anthony.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French; best known for the ill-fated French queen Marie Antoinette.
Memphis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛmfɪs/
Etymology: From Latin Memphis, from Ancient Greek Μέμφις (Mémphis), from Egyptian mn-nfr.
Senses: glosses: A city of ancient Egypt.
examples: text: Trump dispatched the National Guard in the nation’s capital last month and announced last week that he would utilize it next in Memphis.
ref: 2025 September 19, Patrick Svitek, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement, “Most Americans critical of Trump on crime, economy and other issues, poll finds”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2025:
glosses: The largest city in Tennessee, United States, and the county seat of Shelby County.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A town in Pickens County, Alabama.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A census-designated place in Manatee County, Florida.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A census-designated place in Clark County, Indiana.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A small city in Macomb County and St. Clair County, Michigan.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A former village in DeSoto County, Mississippi.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A small city, the county seat of Scotland County, Missouri.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A village in Saunders County, Nebraska.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A hamlet in the town of Van Buren, Onondaga County, New York.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Ohio.
glosses: The name of several towns or cities in the US.
A city, the county seat of Hall County, Texas.
Derived terms: Memfrica
Memphian
Memphibian
Memphis rap
Memphite
Memphitic
Memphitical
Memphrica
Clementina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latinate form of Clementine.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Johnnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Johnny
Etymology: From John + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name John.
Related terms: word: Jenny
word: Janie
english: parallel female diminutives
translation: parallel female diminutives
word: Jeanie
Bess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕs
ipa: /bɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: Variant of Beth, a clipping of Elizabeth.
Senses: examples: text: Come hither Beſſe, and let me kiſſe my Boy: […]
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], page 172, column 2:
text: "Jack, couldn't you call me Bette again? You know how much I hate Bess. I don't know what's happened; you've been calling me Bette since we came to California and now, suddenly, you're calling me Bess."
There's a long silence. Dad's still up on his knees; I'm driving along Sepulveda Boulevard toward Olympic.
"Well, Bette, I married you as Bess and I've always liked that name. It's a name you don't hear very often; it's a strong name like you. Every time I call you Bette I'm afraid somebody else might answer."
ref: 1981, William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
examples: text: Listen here, Bess.
topics: LGBT
glosses: A term applied to a fellow gay man, usually preceding an admonition.
Derived terms: Bessbrook
Bessie
Bessy
Beethoven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪˌtəʊvən/
ipa: /ˈbeɪtˌhəʊvən/
ipa: /ˈbeɪˌtoʊvən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Etymology: Borrowed from German Beethoven, which is itself of Dutch origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German [in turn from Dutch], usually applying to Ludwig van Beethoven.
Derived terms: Beethovenian
Louvre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːv(ɹə)/
ipa: /ˈluːvə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːvɹə
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from French Louvre. More at Louvre Palace.
Senses: examples: text: God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.
ref: 2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68:
text: I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.
ref: 2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130:
text: I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.
ref: 2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85:
text: IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.
ref: 1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49:
text: For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.
ref: 1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172:
text: They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.
ref: 1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319:
glosses: A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.
loue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loues
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of love.
loue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loues
form: louing
form: loued
form: loued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of love.