cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Inverythan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inver- + Ythan; although located on the River Ythan the hamlet is nowhere near the river's mouth.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ7541).
wikipedia: River Ythan
take a view
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a view
form: taking a view
form: took a view
form: taken a view
Senses: examples: text: Collate together all the information you can, but do remember that Michael's the one who'll take a view, not you.
text: If the insurer refuses to cover the defect in the policy, the client is just going to have to take a view.
text: But how can a client assess whether sufficient resources have been allocated to the project? This is obviously subjective but, nevertheless, clients have to 'take a view', if they are to comply with their statutory obligations.
ref: 1997, The Structural Engineer: Journal of the Institution of Structural Engineers:
text: Law Officers have taken a view on the line which the UK should take in future on proposals which the UK supports for policy reasons, even though we consider they use the wrong legal base. The Department of Health will follow this agreed line for this proposal.
ref: 2004, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. European Scrutiny Committee, Thirty-seventh Report of Session 2003-04: Documents Considered by the Committee on 17 November 2004, Including, Global Satellite Navigation System; Procedure for the Adoption of Measures Relating to Visas, Asylum and Immigration; European Defence Equipment Market, Report, Together with Formal Minutes, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 36:
topics: business
glosses: To form an opinion and take action on an issue which carries the risk of professional or legal liability; particularly where there is no obvious course of action.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take.
takes a view
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a view
taking a view
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a view
took a view
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a view
taken a view
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a view
more cushion for the pushin'
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cushion for the pushin'.
aspirined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aspirin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Mavis presentable now—washed, combed, aspirined and swimming a little in Birdie’s housedress.
ref: 1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, Plume, published 1999, →ISBN, page 30:
text: When the father protested that he could not possibly take the boy back home with so many visits left to make, Priscilla declared the child could rest at our place, aspirined and blanketed, and be picked up by his father at the end of the dhobi’s day.
ref: 2001, Shashi Tharoor, Riot, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Dressed, aspirined and hidden behind oversized sunglasses, Caitlin emerged from her front doorway into a sadistically glaring sun.
ref: 2010, Alexandra Sokoloff, chapter 9, in The Shifters (The Keepers Series), Harlequin, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Under the influence of aspirin.
examples: text: The aspirined wine still swung the world in a slow circle, from which he listened to the crickets in the silence-wrapped darkness of the backyards.
ref: 1950, Philip B. Kaye, Taffy, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, page 48:
text: Give him some aspirined insect-powder.
ref: 1951, Frank Scully, editor, The Best of Fun in Bed, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc., page 146:
text: Slowly, he lowered the flowers back into the vase and the aspirined water.
ref: 1954, Venture, page 46:
glosses: Having aspirin.
gua baos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gua bao
adrenalined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adrenalined
form: most adrenalined
Etymology: From adrenaline + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Can’t because I don’t know what he’ll do, because I am adrenalined 360 degrees opposite of relaxed.
ref: 1998, Andrea Benton Rushing, “Surviving Rape: A Morning/Mourning Ritual”, in Mary E. Odem, Jody Clay-Warner, editors, Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault (Worlds of Women; number 3), SR Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Iran across the concourse, hoping that I wouldn’t bump into anyone from work, and entered the bookshop on full alert, adrenalined to the max, feeling like an SAS man breaking into an enemy embassy.
ref: 2004, Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story, HarperTorch, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: The shining sun in the sky did not cool off the situation either. While its killer rays of heat penetrated their adrenalined bodies, the roof of the sky was caving down on them hard and fast.
ref: 2006, Albert Azaduhie Haroutounian, chapter 39, in The Clock Doc: An Essence of Time Mended Properly!, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:
text: The Egyptian soldiers’ hearts leaned over a common precipice, their bodies they imagined gripping the ground with tight reptile legs, stabilising their shaky adrenalined bodies, their spirits hovering over corporeal cliffs of mortal fear.
ref: 2006, E. I. Vernon, “The Address”, in The Ears of a Dog, Matador, →ISBN, pages 78–79:
text: Their new group, the Damned, intended to follow in those footsteps: loud, chaotic, adrenalined, raucous, riotous.
ref: 2009, Dave Thompson, London’s Burning: True Adventures on the Front Lines of Punk, 1976–1977, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Sounded like the roof was caving in on us. We ran downstairs, arms swinging, hollering and screaming and adrenalined to damn death.
ref: 2014, Carol Piner, “Hurricane Hazel”, in Evidence of Insanity, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Think back to the first time you dared think about getting a doctorate. Excited? Surprised at your audacity? Adrenalined? Scared? What did you dream about?
ref: 2015, Noelle Sterne, “Sneaking Up on the Dissertation”, in Challenges in Writing Your Dissertation: Coping with the Emotional, Interpersonal, and Spiritual Struggles, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, section 1 (The Decision: Your Dream, Your Life), subsection “What Will the Degree Do for You?”, page 6:
glosses: Under adrenaline.
quiet quits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quiet quit
quiet quitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: While this schedule (Table 8.1) may still present itself as ideal and not a reality, entre-employees use quiet quitting; identifying that work will always be present and many components of it can (and should) be saved for the next day.
ref: 2023, Sydney D. Richardson, Making the Entrepreneurial Transition, page 113:
text: To be clear, quiet quitting does not mean that collaborators are resigning, rather, they are no longer working extra hours, specially without compensation, are not defining themselves by the work they do or the position they hold or subscribing to the hustle-culture mentality which means that they live to work.
ref: 2023, Ramesh Behl Rajagopal, Paradigm Shift in Business, page 427:
text: In the past few years, quiet quitting has become quite the phenomenon in the workplace. Quiet quitting is not actually quitting your job, but slowly not showing up anymore or going the extra mile.
ref: 2024, Dr Ali Fenwick, Red Flags, Green Flags: Modern psychology for everyday drama:
glosses: present participle and gerund of quiet quit
quiet quitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of the ceasing of overachieving at one's workplace.
Derived terms: word: quiet quit
word: revenge quitting
Tangiwai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A small rural community of the Ruapehu District, Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand. New Zealand's worst rail disaster, the Tangiwai disaster, occurred nearby in 1953.
Shimoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Whangaehu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A river in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, New Zealand; in full, Whangaehu River.
glosses: A settlement beside this river in Rangitikei district, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
dinnertable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinnertables
Senses: examples: text: John. Up there. Robert. At the dinnertable? (Pause.) You mean up there around the dinnertable, or up upon the stage? (Pause.) John. In the house. Robert. Around the dinnertable?
ref: 1977, David Mamet, A Life in the Theatre, Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 15:
text: Even women he met at society parties looked at him across dinnertables in an inviting manner, sometimes even slipping their place cards into his pocket with their telephone numbers hastily scribbled on them.[…]He even began to enjoy dinnertable conversation, as it was a way of spreading the word on his ever increasing art collection.
ref: 1988, Dominick Dunne, People Like Us, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, pages 175 and 206:
text: At the Nugent tribal dinnertable we think of fastfood as a mallard or quail, garlic’d and buttered to perfection.[…]We talk each night before bed, do chores together, have great daily reviews at the dinnertable throughout the year, and I make sure we spend as much quality, heart-to-heart time together as possible.[…]Maybe that’s one of the reasons a hunting family feels so much better connected to the precious food that feeds us at our dinnertables.[…]This killing game for the dinnertable is serious stuff, and I, for one, will never let its impact be diminished.
ref: 2002, Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent, Kill It & Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 2, 50, 75–76, and 84:
glosses: Uncommon form of dinner table.
dinnertables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinnertable
fossil car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossil cars
Senses: examples: text: Replacing the fossil car by an electric vehicle by estimation reduces the energy for transport by a factor of four.
ref: 2018, Rob Roggema, Contemporary Urban Design Thinking: The Australian Approach, pages 188–189:
text: Poland opposes new EU carbon market, 2035 fossil car ban
ref: 2022 June 28, Reuters.com:
glosses: An automobile powered by a fossil fuel.
Synonyms: dinosaur-burner
garlic'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garlic'd
form: most garlic'd
Senses: examples: text: There is an all-pervading smell of petrol and heavily garlic’d cooking, for these small families are still eating the minestra verde and maccaroni as prepared by Emma’s cook, Mariana.
ref: 1969, Mollie Hardwick, “‘O Attic shape, fair Attitude!’”, in Emma, Lady Hamilton, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; San Francisco, Calif.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1970, →ISBN, page 40:
text: In Jack’s opinion Stephen was little better than a slut: his papers, odd bits of dry, garlic’d bread, his razors and small-clothes lay on and about his private table in a miserable squalor; and from the appearance of the grizzled wig that was now acting as a tea-cosy for his milk-saucepan, it was clear that he had breakfasted on marmalade.
ref: 1972, Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1998, →ISBN, page 146:
text: At the Nugent tribal dinnertable we think of fastfood as a mallard or quail, garlic’d and buttered to perfection.
ref: 2002, Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent, “I Kill It, I Grill It”, in Kill It & Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of garlicked.
Cross River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Calabar.
Ebonyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Abonyi River, ultimately of Igbo origin.
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South East geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Abakaliki.
fight windmills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights windmills
form: fighting windmills
form: fought windmills
form: fought windmills
Senses: examples: text: But even if the moral costs do not concern you, then be concerned with the financial costs; the billions we are all paying to fight windmills.
ref: 2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of tilt at windmills.
Hawkesbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7686).
glosses: A town in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada, named after Lord Hawkesbury.
examples: text: Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.
ref: 2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 60:
glosses: A river, the Hawkesbury River, in New South Wales, Australia, named after Lord Hawkesbury (as in Ontario).
glosses: A local government area, the City of Hawkesbury, located near Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, named after the river.
Derived terms: Port Hawkesbury
Bayelsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South South geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Yenagoa.
Lingyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lǐngʹyüǎnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 凌源 (Língyuán).
Senses: examples: text: The facility – located in western Liaoning, near Inner Mongolia and Hebei – is one of six prisons in Lingyuan, a small city with a population of 650,000.
ref: 2018 October 5, Mimi Lau, “Daring prison break in guards’ uniforms grips China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2018, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Harqin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Bronze horse fittings in the shape of flying fish were found in a tomb of the late Spring and Autumn period in the Harqin Zuoyi Mongolian Autonomous County, Liaoning province.
ref: 1978 December, Yang Hung, “The Chariot in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, columns 2, 3:
text: The broader manner attested at Hejiacun anticipates a style which survives into the second half of the eighth century. It is seen developed most individually in parcel-gilt silver platters excavated at Harqin Qi in Liaoning from the tomb of the high official Liu Zan who died in 796.
ref: 1995, William Watson, The Arts of China to AD 900, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 240, column 2:
synonyms: Kazuo
glosses: A Mongol autonomous county in Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
glosses: A banner in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
geopolitical zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geopolitical zones
Senses: topics: government
glosses: A type of federally recognised region in Nigeria, consisting of multiple states.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see geopolitical, zone.
geopolitical zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geopolitical zone
fastfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Today, though, millions of American workers and students have their breakfast “on the run,” choosing morning sandwich meals from the nearest fastfood establishment, eating a breakfast sandwich such as the Egg McMuffin or Breakfast Burrito from MacDonald’s, a Croissan’wich from Burger King, or a bagel sandwich from a deli. If fastfood is not an option, a frozen muffin or biscuit sandwich heated in the microwave, a Waffle ’Wich made from sliced turkey and cream cheese between frozen waffles, or even pizza toast made with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese are other types of breakfast sandwiches that have become popular in recent years.
ref: 1996, Kathlyn Gay, Martin K. Gay, Encyclopedia of North American Eating & Drinking Traditions, Customs & Rituals, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Any company that puffs smoke through a stack on the roof—and that includes restaurants, fastfood or otherwise—may already be breaking regulations without knowing it.[…]Furthermore, containers and other packaging are being made biodegradable. Many fastfood restaurants have followed this trend.
ref: 2000, William G. Nickels, James M. McHugh, Susan M. McHugh, Paul D. Berman, “Ethical Behaviour, the Environment, and Social Responsibility”, in Understanding Canadian Business, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, →ISBN, part 1 (Business Trends: Cultivating a Business in Diverse Global Environments), chapter section “The Impact of Environmental Issues on Business”, pages 150–151:
text: And we sure as hell wouldn’t waste good hunger or any one of our much anticipated family mealtimes on fastfood or junkfood. At the Nugent tribal dinnertable we think of fastfood as a mallard or quail, garlic’d and buttered to perfection.
ref: 2002, Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent, “I Kill It, I Grill It”, in Kill It & Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of fast food.
Satanalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Satan + Saturnalia
Senses: examples: text: […] until a complaint was made to the government, the licentiousness of these Satanalia was so gross, that it would have shocked a Greek audience, though accustomed to the plays of Aristophanes.
ref: 1843, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt, page 270:
text: This whole fraud, and these riotous Saturnalia, —I should rather say downright Satanalia, —approved as they are by the body of the Greek ecclesiastics at Jerusalem, ought to exclude those who have the control and management of them from Protestant approbation and ecclesiastical intercommunion.
ref: 1847, John Wilson, The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described - Volume 2, page 473:
text: It amused me to picture the consternation of the Friends, could they have peeped in at the Black Saturnalia; or, as they would have called it, Satanalia, in Barbadoes or Jamaica;
ref: 1871, Thomas Hood, The Works of Thomas Hood, page 321:
text: We, children of earth, observe a satanalia of the early autumn in honor of the harvest-moon.
ref: 1914 September, Tamotsu Iwado, “Home-Made Letters from Japan”, in Japan, number 47, page 28:
text: He did not pay too much attention to the reasons for the shops being unusually busy, although he had been told by Apulius that most people were now in the throes of preparation for the festival of Satanalia.
ref: 2012, Cyril Smith, Arbutus, page 407:
glosses: Synonym of Saturnalia, emphasizing the immorality of the celebration.
synonyms: word: Saturnalia
word: emphasizing the immorality of the celebration
Satanalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Satan + -alia.
Senses: examples: text: By this time you probably have your own private The Exorcist experience story to add to a lengthening collection of "satanalia '74."
ref: 1974, “Demon Phenom”, in The Lutheran Witness, volume 93, page 4:
text: Now cult cops appear everywhere: officers attend a few cult seminars, return to their departments, and organize portfolios of Satanalia so that they themselves can give seminars to teachers, parents, and enforcers;
ref: 1991, Robert D. Hicks, In Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult, page 33:
glosses: Evidence of Satanic activity.
looking like something the cat's dragged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look like something the cat's dragged in
looked like something the cat's dragged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look like something the cat's dragged in
looks like something the cat's dragged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look like something the cat's dragged in
looks like something the cat dragged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look like something the cat dragged in
looked like something the cat dragged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look like something the cat dragged in
looking like something the cat dragged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look like something the cat dragged in
looks as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
looking as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
take out in trade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes out in trade
form: taking out in trade
form: took out in trade
form: taken out in trade
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, rural grocers gave a slightly higher price for eggs if the money was taken out in trade.
ref: 1986, Deborah Fink, Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition, and Change, page 59:
text: I loved that because there were times when he'd send clothes over to my father's tailor shop to be done up, and he would pick up his things and not pay for them and he'd say, take it out in trade and we'd get our bread.
ref: 2002, Carolyn Eastwood, Near West Side Stories, page 129:
glosses: To accept repayment of a debt in the goods or services in which the debtor deals, rather than in money.
Related terms: in kind
Prakritism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑːkɹɪtɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑkɹɪtɪzəm/
Forms: form: Prakritisms
Etymology: From Prakrit + -ism; compare Prakritic, Prakritize.
Senses: examples: text: ¹ This constant use of sabbai in Chand may be nothing more than a Prakritism for the nom. pl. of Skr. sarvve.
ref: 1872, John Beames, Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India, volumes II: The Noun and Pronoun, Trübner and Co., page 25:
text: With this chapter we once more enter definitely into the sphere of Prakritism. In a considerable number of cases the variations seem to be, in fact, strictly Prakritic.
ref: 1930, Maurice Bloomfield, Franklin Edgerton, “XIV: Vocalic Liquids and Other Vowels”, in Vedic Variants: A Study of the Variant Readings in the Repeated Mantras of the Veda, volume II: Phonetics, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, page 295:
text: Dukūla appears to be the name of a particular kind of textile and a yarn […] Some think that the term is a Prakritism for dvikūla, that is, a cloth with two borders. This is, however, unlikely, because of the use of the term for a kind of yarn.
ref: 2020 January 2, Patrick Olivelle, “Long-distance trade in ancient India: Evidence from Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra”, in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, volume 57, number 1, SAGE, →DOI, page 39:
coordinate_terms: Sanskritism
glosses: A (usually Sanskrit) word borrowed from a Prakrit, especially one showing the characteristic phonological developments separating the Prakrits from Sanskrit.
Prakritisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prakritism
pulls off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull off
pulling off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull off
pulled off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull off
North Central
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geopolitical zone of Nigeria, consisting of the states of Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau, as well as the Federal Capital Territory.
North East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Northeast
Senses: synonyms: North East England
glosses: One of nine official administrative regions of England, comprising Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham as well as a small part of North Yorkshire.
glosses: Alternative form of Northeast (“a region of the contiguous United States”).
glosses: A geopolitical zone of Nigeria, consisting of the states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe.
muftiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muftiates
Etymology: From mufti + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of a mufti.
glosses: The area governed by a mufti.
muftiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muftiate
spotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spottos
Etymology: Likely a compound of spot + yellow, or possibly a compound of spot + -o; exact origin unclear.
Senses: glosses: a car game in which players try and spot yellow cars, especially popular among Australian children
glosses: a yellow car
spottos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotto
if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: if someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical question used to discourage the interlocutor from blind obedience.
Related terms: follow someone off a cliff
mangwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangwa
form: mangwas
Etymology: From Japanese 漫画(まんぐわ) (mangwa), using the historical kana spelling of 漫画(まんが) (manga).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of manga.
wikipedia: historical kana spelling
parabrella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parabrellas
Etymology: Blend of parasol + umbrella
Senses: glosses: An umbrella that can also serve as a parasol.
parabrellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parabrella
m*therfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: m*therfuckers
Senses: examples: text: Sure, it's good fun to poke at someone else's writing, but it's also too easy and somebody might get their vowels poked out. Worst of all, a new person wandering in might see the spectacle and decide that m.w is REALLY "The Meanest M*therfuckers in the Whole Damn*d Usenet!" (tm). Depending on their intentions, they'll either leave (if looking for thoughtful, supportive folks) or join fullblast into the "fun" (if a flamer). Either way, it's our loss.
ref: 1996 December 31, Jack Mingo, “Innocent Bystander”, in misc.writing (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: Good to see Wild Jimmy Spruill mentioned on the 'L. I've been hanging with one of his comtemporaries ^([sic]) lately, Bo Diddley, Jr. who is one bad m*therfucker! Bo's guitar work is heavily influence by Wild Jimmy. Of course, he has been and will most likely continue to be overlooked in favor of long haired guys in cowboy boots with high tech pedals and artificially aged guitars.
ref: 2004 May 31, car...@seancarneyband.com, “anyone care to guess the guitarist (it's not ronnie earl)”, in bit.listserv.blues-l (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: Want to F*CK up your motor buy some ACCEL fuel injectors. These pieces of SH*T are absolutely JUNK! Managers like Elie Nahed, Steve Mashek, and Abe Del-Rio know all about them but are just pushing sales and F*CKING up peoples engines the B*STARDS! Boycott these M*THERFUCKERS!!! They're Liars and deny they gotta a problem! Want some more sh*t buy their COP's and put that crap on your motor! google is full of people that ACCEL Performance group has literally SCREWED! Buyer BEWARE!!!
ref: 2014 April 12, John Kennerson, “ACCEL Performance Group wants to SCREW YOU!!!”, in alt.autos (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
glosses: Censored spelling of motherfucker.
m*therfuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of m*therfucker
Paxlovid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæksˈloʊ.vɪd/
ipa: /ˈpæks.lə.vɪd/
Senses: glosses: Brand name for a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir used to treat COVID-19.
Lagevrio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈɡɛv.ɹi.oʊ/
Senses: glosses: Trade name of molnupiravir
seismophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seismo- + -phobia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The fear of earthquakes.
Derived terms: seismophobe
seismophobic
Shermanite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shermanites
Senses: glosses: A resident of Sherman, an unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Shermanites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shermanite
Etorre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Corruption of Italian Ettore?
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian.
Ettore's observation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A pessimistic adage stating that the other line/queue (such as at a stand or a store) always moves faster.
incannulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incannulation
incapsidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incapsidation
improvals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of improval
inclusion functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inclusion function
inclusion riders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inclusion rider
INCO terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of INCO term
inchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inchi
incycloductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incycloduction
Indian sandalwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian sandalwood
Indian rhinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian rhino
indeterminate states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indeterminate state
indenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indenyl
indazolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indazolo
indanylidenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indanylidene
Indo-Asians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indo-Asian
indolecarbamidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indolecarbamidine
indoliniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indolinium
information-theoretic deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of information-theoretic death
inflammomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inflammome
infinitesimalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinitesimalization
infradivisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infradivision
infragranules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infragranule
infrasections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infrasection
inlauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inlaut
inlet manifolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inlet manifold
INMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of INM
zaspopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zaspopathy
impossible event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impossible events
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: An event that contains no possible outcomes and thus cannot possibly occur; an empty set.
impossible events
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impossible event
Serobyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Serobyans
form: Serobian
form: Seropian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Սերոբյան (Serobyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Serobian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Serobians
Etymology: Variant of Serobyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Serobians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Serobian
Serobyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Serobyan
a bob each way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two bob each way
Etymology: A phrase from gambling. See bob (“shilling”) and the gambling sense at each way.
Senses: examples: text: Of course the member for St. Albans says, both. He likes to have a bob each way, which is in keeping with the statement he made the other day in this debate.
ref: 1965, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives, page 577:
glosses: A situation of hedging one's bets, refusing to commit to either side of a question.
Related terms: six of one, half a dozen of the other
dangwai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dɑŋˈwaɪ/
Etymology: From Mandarin 黨外／党外 (dǎngwài).
Senses: examples: text: The evolution of Taiwan’s democracy — starting with the dangwai (黨外, “outside the party”) political movement during the 1970s and 1980s, the formation of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1986 and the party’s ascent to government in 2000 — was a long and thorny path involving contributions by many democracy advocates.
ref: 2021 November 14, Min-yung (李敏勇) Lee, “DPP must outgrow era of infighting”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2021:
text: During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protest movements arose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- the dangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominent movements occurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986.
ref: 2021, Richard C. Bush, Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: outside the party
two bob each way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a bob each way.
Abbots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abbot
Arkwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Arkwright
Jianping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 建平 (Jiànpíng).
Senses: examples: text: After finishing the one-year course, Wang was made cotton consultant for the whole of Chienping county.
ref: [1975 May, Hsueh-wen Hsin, “A New Type of College”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 5, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 7–8:
text: Jianping County is located in west Liaoning Province. With an annual rainfall of 400 mm, the climate falls in the semiarid category with monsoon climate.
ref: 2001, Rongsen Lu, “Combating Desertification with Seabuckthorn”, in Dov Pasternak, Arnold Schlissel, editors, Combating Desertification with Plants, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 296:
text: Niuheliang is a hilly ridge on the boundary between Lingyuan and Jianping County in Liaoning Province. From 1983 to 1985, archaeologists uncovered more than ten ritual sites and a group of tombs.
ref: 2001, Tianlong Jiao, “Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology”, in Gender and the Archaeology of Death (Gender and Archaeology Series), number 2 (Archaeology; Gender Studies), Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: A county of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Longcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍城 /龙城 (Lóngchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Leading comrades from Dalian, the Dongling District of Shengyang, Qidaoquanzi Township in Chaoyang’s Longcheng District, Anshan, and the Ganjingzi District of Dalian made statements on their own position successively in the meeting.
ref: 1994 October 14 [1994 September 17], “Liaoning Official on Township Enterprises”, in Daily Report: China, number 94-199, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Shenyang LIAONING RIBAO pp 1, 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 69, column 2:
text: Ms. Jiang Weizhen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, was tried by Longcheng District Court on November 30, 2017, for passing out informational materials that exposed the persecution of her faith by the Chinese communist regime.
ref: 2017 December 16, “Liaoning Woman Tried for Passing Out Information Exposing the Persecution of Her Spiritual Belief”, in Falun Dafa - Minghui.org, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2018:
glosses: A district of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Shuangta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 雙塔／双塔.
Senses: examples: text: When Zhang led a team of agronomists to Shuangta district, Chaoyang city, to deliver lectures on fruit tree cultivation techniques in late 1987, they found the audience consisted of only four old mean who just wanted to kill time rather than learn anything.[…]
The annual income of local peasants jumped from 720 yuan per capita in 1987 to 1,033 yuan in 1989 in the Shuangta district.
ref: 1990 November 14 [1990 November 14], “Peasants Seek to Learn New Farming Techniques”, in Daily Report: China, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 31–32:
glosses: A district of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Beipiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bāʹpyouʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北票 (Běipiào).
Senses: examples: text: Jehol has a one-million-ton mine at Peipiao and a new open-cut mine at Fuhsin with a five-million-ton capacity.[…]
Dairen is a smaller center, as are the coal-mining areas around Penchi, Fuhsin, and Peipiao.[…]
Coal is also produced in eastern Jehol at Peipiao, and at the new open-cut mine at Fuhsin, 110 miles west of Mukden, where a 60 to 70-meter seam of coal lies beneath a 20-meter overburden.
ref: [1955, George B. Cressey, Land of the 500 Million: A Geography of China, McGraw-Hill Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 135, 167, 309:
text: Dubbed Mei long, which means "soundly sleeping dragon" in Chinese, the dinosaur was about 21 inches long, or about the size of a large bird. Several features indicate its avian origins.
The sleeping skeleton was found near Beipiao City in Liaoning Province.
ref: 2004 October 14, “Dinosaur Fossil Found In Sleeping Position”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2023, Findings:
text: Authorities in the northeastern city of Beipiao last week provided a subsidy of 31.8 million yuan to Linggang Beipiao Steel Pipe, a unit of Lingyuan Steel.
ref: 2013 June 7, Ruby Lian, Fayen Wong, “Some China steelmakers start to curb output, but glut to persist”, in Joseph Radford, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2025:
glosses: A county-level city of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.
Winders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Winder
Axlers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Axler
f`num``num`k
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: f##k
Senses: examples: text: > Cursing has no place in polite conversation and is not necessary. Is this the way one would talk in:
>the work place,
Yes
>in the classroom,
Sometimes but not when conversing with a tutor.
> in a meeting,
Depends on nature of meeting, quite often yes
>in casual conversation,
F##K yeah
>with family and friends,
Yes on both accounts, infact^([sic]) my own mother says things like "shit yeah!"
>in public?
Depends on the ocasion.^([sic])
ref: 1999 September 2, Spyda, “What happened to the Black Lance Personell??”, in alt.games.wing-commander (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: f##k the dough, I'm staying broker than a busboy / Got my mom barging in my room like "Did you just cuss boy?" / f##k naw, I reign rebellious / Hardheaded ca't be phased by what tey tell us
ref: 2000 August 2, Jeremy Spencer, “Microphone Killer (ficTitious freesTyle)”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: > My little retarded Bast, at this juncture, George Bush looks like the Knight in Shining Armor, compared to the inept and totally useless Nigger !!!
Oh F##k NO !
Even Obama can't make Bush look good.
If Bush came back in 2012 and tried it again, Obama would be guaranteed a second term with twice the votes he got the first time.
ref: 2010 September 24, Bast, “Warren Buffett says Recession is NOT over !!”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
glosses: Censored spelling of fuck.
f`num``num`k
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: f##k
Senses: examples: text: Two weeks ago I was ferrying my Grumman Tiger from Detroit to Wash DC area to show it to a prospective buyer. Hard IFR......2000 foot ceiling, tops to 10,000, and a 40 knot headwind with a lot of bumps. After an hour of slogging along through moderate rainshowers, I was thinking: gee......this really isnt^([sic]) much fun ! Just then the #2 cylinder swallowed an intake valve, causing a drastic loss of power and shaking the whole plane as if part of the prop had come off. Now my thinking changes to : "Oh F##K !"
I declared an emergency.....and the controller at Toledo told me that Metcalf airport was five miles behind me. He did a great job of helping me get turned around and down.....and when I came out of the clouds, there were three very pretty runways to choose from. I managed to get the plane on the ground in one piece. (By the way....the guy in Virginia bought it anyway....he's putting a new engine on now)
ref: 1997 April 23, Steve Cassidy, “Is IFR flight any fun ?”, in rec.aviation.ifr (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: oh f##k Jim
that looks like the crabs on Mrs Nookie's......... :-)
ref: 2002 March 5, Robbo, “Optical illusion , how many horses”, in affrc.chat (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: Oh f##k, like we didn't know Google was about - of course anyone (including myself) can type a few words into a search engine prompt. I was thinking RSS was around to prompt discussion and share experiences.....
ref: 2003 May 23, Drug Buddy, “That time of year....”, in rec.skiing.snowboard (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
glosses: Censored spelling of fuck.
f`num``num`k
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f##k
form: f##ks
Senses: examples: ref: 2003 May 16, EER-MUSIC.com, “Hey Mike Raedy! "Who the f##k is this Holdsworth?" My answer . . .”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: You guys are f#King wicked.... Why is everyone on new groups so cool? Why don't you guys email me so I can meet up with you to kick your nerd asses. Or can't you take the time? Insted^([sic]) you gotta bash peoples^([sic]) adds.^([sic]) Don't get pissed off cause you can't afford a good deal. This clie goes for $550 USD and you J-Brones can't afford $450 CDN. One more thing, if I could return it to the store don't you think that I would of by now!!!!!! Haven't you F##KS ever bought something online? Of course you have, your F##King GEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ref: 2004 May 20, DAKA, “FS: Sony Clie UX40 New $450”, in ott.forsale.computing (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: You may think that 'Stupid F##ks Drive Trucks' but how many truck accidents are caused by inexperienced 'F##cks who Drive Cars' that pull out in front of trucks and brake suddenly or try to challenge them for a space on the road or a lane? Quite a few I invisage!^([sic]) And how many times have I let trucks in front of me and I don't get a courtesy indicator... that's not inexperience or a stupid F##ck, that's down right ignorance in my book!! So there are some nasty truck drivers too, Doug!!
ref: 2009 September 18, LozzaBIntoPink, “Stupid F##ks driving trucks.”, in aus.cars (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
glosses: Censored spelling of fuck.
f`num``num`k
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: f##k
form: f##ks
form: f##king
form: f##ked
form: f##ked
Senses: examples: text: ohh yes my Highness Lord, I'll F##K my self.
ref: 2000 May 30, MarKopolo, “Kaazmann says: FUCK YOU ALL !”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: S: I'm not f###ing cheating you here, I caught it
D: what would you do in my position?
S: F##k you
D: and you too
ref: 2001 March 6, Paul Caren, “Disgusting Slater”, in aus.sport.cricket (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
text: Now we have this dibarkle of Lopns not getting a slot on the digital. Well F##k me. Sorry ladies reset button time! Reboot it and let's start again. I call it Hobby Radio for the want of a better name. But I think it sums it right up. Doesn't mean you can't make a dollar! My way removes the Narrowcast bullshit! Removes the dobbing others in shit for not being on air! Removes the 2000 reserve fee IF you get it at default price! Stuff a bidding war! 2000 is too much now!
ref: 2009 December 15, Station X, “Is anyone going to listen to LPONS with Digital Radio?”, in aus.radio.broadcast (Usenet), retrieved 31 Jul 2022:
glosses: Censored spelling of fuck.
Sheather
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sheathers
Etymology: From sheather, an occupational surname for a maker of scabbards.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Sheathers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheather
f`num``num`ks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f##ks
Senses: glosses: plural of f##k
f`num``num`ks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: f##ks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of f##k
f`num``num`king
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: f##king
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of f##k
f`num``num`ked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: f##ked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of f##k
fish farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish farmers
Etymology: From fish + farmer or fish farm + -er.
Senses: synonyms: pisciculturist
glosses: A person who rears fish for commercial purposes.
Related terms: fisherman
fishmonger
Long Key
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida, United States.
Nittolo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nittolos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Nittolo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Sandyston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
South East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geopolitical zone of Nigeria, consisting of the states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.
South South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geopolitical zone of Nigeria, consisting of the states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers.
South West
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geopolitical zone of Nigeria, consisting of the states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo.
glosses: One of the nine regions of Western Australia.
if someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it.
Nittolos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nittolo
Allwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Allwoods
Etymology: Variant of Elwood.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Amberson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bə.sən/
ipa: /ˈæm.bɚ.sən/
Forms: form: Ambersons
Etymology: Patronymic surname, from Ambrose + -son. It could also be an Americanized form of some Scandinavian surname, such as Norwegian Ambrossen.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States.