cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
St. Luke's summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little summer of St. Luke
form: Saint Luke's summer
form: St. Luke's little summer
Senses: examples: text: to me there was something infinitely pathetic and appealing in the idea of the egg having a sort of St. Luke's summer of commercial usefulness.
ref: 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:
text: Almost every virtue of every season is contracted into the little span of St. Luke's summer, the very vintage of the year's juices.
ref: 1934, Sir William Beech Thomas, The Yeoman's England:
glosses: A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
Synonyms: Indian summer
little summer of St. Luke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little summers of St. Luke
Senses: glosses: Synonym of St. Luke's summer.
synonyms: word: St. Luke's summer
chromedome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromedomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chrome dome.
monkeys might fly out of my butt
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Popularized by the 1992 film Wayne's World. Likely a variation on pigs might fly.
Senses: examples: ‘I am sure he'll pay you back tomorrow.’ ‘Yeah right, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.’
glosses: A response to a suggested situation that one thinks has no chance of ever occurring.
Synonyms: pigs might fly
race against time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: races against time
Senses: examples: text: Scottish curler Eve Muirhead was left facing a race against time to make the first European Tour event of the season after being stung by a wasp.
ref: 2011 September 23, “Eve Muirhead fit for Oslo Cup after wasp sting scare”, in BBC News:
text: Dealing with all the radioactive waste left on site is a slow-motion race against time, which will last so long that even the grandchildren of those working on site will not see its end. The process will cost at least £121bn.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A situation in which something must be done hurriedly, before a deadline.
Synonyms: race against the clock
spin out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spins out
form: spinning out
form: spun out
form: spun out
Senses: examples: text: After Ashby summit it was difficult to spin out the more than ample schedule allowance.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: L.N.E.R. Locomotive Performance in War Conditions”, in Railway Magazine, page 473:
text: Here we were nearly 8 min. early, and was now a matter of spinning out time, as indeed we did—losing 3 min. from Penrith to Carlisle!—in order not to run into Carlisle more than 5 min. early.
ref: 1957 August 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 568:
glosses: To prolong; to make longer (in time).
examples: text: Two cars spun out on the icy road and wound up in a ditch.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To rotate about the yaw axis while skidding, such that the vehicle's longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion.
raw_tags: of a vehicle
examples: text: The Formula One driver spun out on a tight curve.
text: Bob accidentally spun out his Mercedes when he hit a patch of black ice.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To cause one's vehicle to rotate about the yaw axis while skidding, such that the vehicle's longitudinal axis is no longer aligned with its direction of linear motion; or to experience such behavior from one's vehicle.
raw_tags: of a driver
topics: business
glosses: To form a subsidiary company which continues part of the prior operations of the parent company.
Synonyms: sense: to make longer
word: drag out
topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
business
word: spin off
in the blink of an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye.
ref: 2013 October 19, Ben Smith, BBC Sport:
glosses: Immediately, instantaneously.
Synonyms: in the twinkling of an eye
in the wink of an eye
now or never
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnaʊ‿ə ˈnɛvə/
ipa: /ˌnaʊ‿əɹ ˈnɛvəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: [A]s you tender the welfare of your country, I entreat you not to forget or delay so public-spirited a work. Now or never is the time.
ref: 1709 July 18 (Gregorian calendar), Jenny Distaff [pseudonym; Richard Steele], “Thursday, July 7, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 38; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 232:
text: "Come off, now or never," cried Amyas, clutching him by the arm, and dragging him away like a child.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “What Befel at La Guayra”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 309:
text: This was the moment when he must put his fortune to the test, to win or lose it all. Now or never must the balloon go up.
ref: 1932 August 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 13, in Hot Water, Woodstock; New York, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, published 2003, →ISBN, section 2, page 209:
text: It's now or never / Come hold me tight / Kiss me my darling / Be mine tonight / Tomorrow will be too late / It's now or never / My love won't wait
ref: 1960 April 3 (date recorded), Wally Gold, Aaron Schroeder, Eduardo di Capua, “It’s Now or Never”, performed by Elvis Presley, New York, N.Y.: RCA Victor, published 5 July 1960, →OCLC:
text: Mamma mia, even if I say / "Bye-bye", leave me now or never / Mamma mia, it's a game we play / Bye-bye doesn't mean forever
ref: 1975 March 12 (date recorded), Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson, “Mamma Mia”, in ABBA, performed by ABBA, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Records, published 21 April 1975, →OCLC:
text: There had been a sense of now or never about this semi-final for United. Another elimination would be a fifth last-four reverse under the manager and serious questions would be asked regarding their ability to break the psychological barrier that separates also-rans from winners.
ref: 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2023:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: At this sole opportunity or time, or not at all.
Derived terms: word: now-or-never
Related terms: last chance saloon
now and again
now and then
once-in-a-lifetime
infoshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infoshops
Etymology: From info + shop.
Senses: glosses: A storefront or social centre that serves as a node for the distribution of political information and resources for local activists.
infoshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infoshop
sketchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sketchable
form: most sketchable
Etymology: From sketch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being sketched.
antibomb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibomb
form: most antibomb
Etymology: From anti- + bomb.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the use of the atomic bomb.
antideportation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antideportation
form: most antideportation
Etymology: From anti- + deportation.
Senses: examples: an antideportation protest
glosses: Opposing deportation.
missized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missized
form: most missized
Etymology: From mis- + sized.
Senses: glosses: Of the wrong size.
kytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyte
IFU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of instruction(s) for use.
doublestack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: double-stack
Etymology: From double + stack.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Involving intermodal containers stacked two units high.
narcissistic personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcissistic personality disorders
form: narcissistic-personality disorder
Senses: examples: text: People with narcissistic personality disorder usually have very low self-esteem and base all their self-worth on how much attention they receive.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
related: word: NPD
glosses: A personality disorder characterized by an overinflated sense of self-importance (incl. subordination of other people's needs), sensitivity to criticism and difference in opinion and the denigration of others that are deemed lesser.
Related terms: borderline personality disorder
antisocial personality disorder
histrionic personality disorder
schizoid personality disorder
personality disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personality disorder
iliac furrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iliac furrows
Senses: examples: text: Apollo's belt, the iliac furrow, is also known as an athlete's girdle or Adonis belt.
text: His physique is like a Roman god with very pronounced iliac furrows or Apollo's belt.
text: The inferolateral edge of the oblique muscles rolling over to the inguinal ligament produces a V-shaped taper running from the iliac crest to the pubis, known as the iliac furrow, Apollo’s or Adonis’s belt.
ref: 2021, Sergey Y. Turin, Sammy Sinno, “BodyBanking Six-Pack: Enhancing Abdominals with Lipocyte Extraction, Grafting, and Molding” (chapter 37), in Douglas S. Steinbrech, editor, Male Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag KG, →DOI, →ISBN, Part III: Body Surgery, pages 448–449:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The visible indentation above an iliac crest and beneath the navel, usually only visible on physically fit people.
Related terms: Adonis belt
Apollo's belt
athlete's girdle
cum gutters
devil's shoulders
iliac crest
pelvic lines
V-line
nonexcitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + excitatory.
Senses: glosses: Not excitatory.
nonrenormalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + renormalized.
Senses: glosses: Not renormalized.
nontorsional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + torsional.
Senses: glosses: Not torsional.
nonheterotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heterotic.
Senses: glosses: Not heterotic.
latrotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latrotoxin
putamens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putamen
pluricultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluricultural
form: most pluricultural
Etymology: From pluri- + cultural.
Senses: synonyms: multicultural
glosses: Of or pertaining to several cultures.
Related terms: pluriculturalism
plurilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Forms: form: more plurilingual
form: most plurilingual
Etymology: From pluri- + lingual.
Senses: synonyms: multilingual
antonyms: monolingual
unilingual
glosses: Of or pertaining to several languages.
Derived terms: plurilingualism
plurilingualist
plurilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Forms: form: plurilinguals
Etymology: From pluri- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks several languages.
balloon knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloon knots
Etymology: By analogy to the appearance of the knot in a balloon.
Senses: examples: text: The Bloodhound Gang said Pennsylvania's official song "sucks mad balloon knot . . . making the Keystone State look as lame as one of the Dakotas."
ref: 2005 July 28, “Do we need a new theme song?”, in York Daily Record:
text: I know what you're thinking, but there's nothing gay about getting naked, bending over in front of your guido buddy, and offering up your balloon knot to him for a healthy waxing. There's nothing gay about a smooth anus. Right?
ref: 2007 December 7, Craig P. Dixon, “Social Commentary 139”, in South Coast Today:
text: Vanilla Lies is full of Joss Whedon characters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly) all porned. See Spike’s balloon knot, Angel’s schlong and Zander’s wanton posing.
ref: 2009 January 15, John Webster, “Sexing up Whedon's characters”, in Xtra!:
glosses: The anus.
Synonyms: anus
balloon knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloon knot
glottophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French glottophagie, coined by Louis-Jean Calvet. By surface analysis, glotto- + -phagy.
Senses: examples: text: One scientist's language spread is another's glottophagy. There are a number of partly overlapping perspectives, which can be regarded as concerned primarily with progression or regression.
ref: 1993, Kenneth Hyltenstam, Åke Viberg, Progression and regression in language, page 28:
glosses: The absorption or replacement of minor languages or dialects by major ones.
housecare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From house + care.
Senses: examples: text: Service responses to the problems of old age couched in terms of housecare are clearly irrelevant to the needs of many older people.
ref: 1987, Christina R. Victor, Old age in modern society: a textbook of social gerontology, page 254:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Treatment of a patient at his or her own home.
examples: text: Pharmaceuticals and consumer chemicals: Includes cosmetics, housecare products, toiletries, veterinary products.
ref: 1983, John M. Stopford, The world directory of multinational enterprises, 1982-83: Volume 3:
glosses: Care and maintenance of one's home.
Synonyms: sense: treatment of a patient at home
word: homecare
hundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hundies
Etymology: Diminutive form of hundred with -y.
Senses: examples: text: That's nine-hundy for just one class. Even state schools can't beat the rate your community college offers.
ref: 2003, Jason Boyett, Josh Hatcher, Cheap Ways To..., page 109:
text: It's a shame she'll end up losing both her lunch and five hundy.
ref: 2003, Michael Goodwin, Junk, page 77:
text: […]learning to never have less than a hundy in my wallet[…]
ref: 2004, Esquire, volume 141:
text: Grady was sloshed and kept wanting to hire the affable men away (he kept slipping them hundies) to be personal bodyguards.
ref: 2013, Bruce Wagner, Still Holding:
glosses: hundred, especially 100 dollars
magnetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnetick
form: most magnetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of magnetic.
macaronick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macaronick
form: most macaronick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of macaronic.
macaronick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaronicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of macaronic.
magnifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magnifick
form: most magnifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of magnific.
a.l.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of autograph letter.
athlete's girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Apollo's belt, the iliac furrow, also known as an athlete's girdle, Apollo's Belt or an Adonis belt
ref: 2005, Henry Gray, Susan Standring, Harold Ellis, "Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice", Page 22
text: My goal is to be as ripped as those juiceheads with the deep-ass athlete's girdles at the gym
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The iliac furrows.
Adonis belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adonis belts
Senses: examples: text: I have been working hard on my cardio routine to develop a very pronounced Adonis belt.
text: aficionados (or at least the more aesthetically minded among them) sometimes refer to this as an 'Apollo's belt' or 'Adonis girdle' – a classic case of reality mirroring art, rather than the other way round.
ref: 2011, Michael Squire, The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy, page 61:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The iliac furrows.
Adonis belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adonis belt
athlete's girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athlete's girdle
juice-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juice-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of juicehead.
juice head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juice heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of juicehead.
juice-heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juice-head
juice heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juice head
transf.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of transfer.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of transferred sense.
examples: text: Banks of pot transfs.
ref: 1922, Electric Railway Journal, volume 59, page 864:
glosses: Abbreviation of transformer (“electrical device”).
West German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to West Germany.
West German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Germans
Senses: glosses: Person who comes from or lives in West Germany.
unvirtuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvirtuous
form: most unvirtuous
Etymology: From un- + virtuous.
Senses: glosses: Not virtuous; having no virtue.
West Germans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of West German
Locrian mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Starting on the note C, a Locrian mode produces a scale with the notes C, D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C
{c'des'es'f'ges'aes'bes'c}
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale except with the second and fifth scale degrees lowered by one half step each, yielding the interval pattern (semitone - tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone).
Coordinate terms: Aeolian mode
Dorian mode
Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode
Phrygian mode
protein shake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protein shakes
Etymology: From protein + shake.
Senses: examples: text: We have (...) a soy-based protein shake that comes in vanilla and chocolate flavors
ref: 2004. Gary Heavin, Carol Colman, "Curves: permanent results without permanent dieting" Page 59
text: 2005. David Perlmutter, Carol Colman, "The better brain book"
You can drink one protein shake daily as a snack or meal substitute.
text: When you make a protein shake (...), mix them in a hand-held tumbler.
ref: 2010, Sam Graci, The Food Connection: The Right Food at the Right Time:
glosses: A beverage containing protein mixed with milk or water for the purposes of improved nutrition, especially in bodybuilding.
if it's not one thing it's another
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Many problems are happening simultaneously or in close succession; there is always another problem arising, continually (in life; in one's life; in this place; etc).
Related terms: one after another
one thing after another
protein shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protein shake
if you ask me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
ref: 1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
text: Some damned fool made him an American officer; but if you ask me, I think he's neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring. He changed sides once so he wouldn't lose his property, and if you ask me, he's ready to do it again.
ref: 1996, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms:
glosses: Used to introduce one's opinion, without being asked for it.
Related terms: for my money
transferred sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferred senses
form: transf.
Senses: glosses: A (usually looser) meaning of a word or phrase developed from a metaphoric application of its original signification.
if you don't mind me saying
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: He addressed him politely: 'If you don't mind me saying so, you look a bit worried.' Salman answered him frankly: 'Well if I wasn't worried, do you think I'd come here to sell a thermos flask?'
ref: 1991, Shaukat Ṣiddīqī, God's own land: a novel of Pakistan:
glosses: Used to introduce one's opinion about something to which offence could be taken
Related terms: if you don't mind me asking
what's the difference
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Genies, fairies, whatever, what's the difference, bring them here I want to talk to them,”
ref: 2010, Patricia O'Grady, Tales of the Whosawhachits: Key Holder of the Realms:Book 1:
glosses: (rhetorical question) The difference does not matter; so what?
examples: text: "I don't see why it's any more ridiculous to wear flowers on your hat than on your dress," protested Anne. "Lots of little girls there had bouquets pinned on their dresses. What's the difference?"
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter XII, in Anne of Green Gables:
text: What's the difference between new Windows programs and old ones? If you're paying close attention, you'll notice subtle differences in the way new 32-bit Windows programs look. Dialog boxes, for example, are likely to have tabbed pages ...
ref: 1997, Ed Bott, Using Windows:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see what, is, the, difference.
feinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪn.təɹ/
Forms: form: feinters
Etymology: From feint + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who feints.
shide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: shied
Forms: form: shides
Etymology: From Middle English schyd, schide, schyde (“plank, board, beam, splinter, chip”), from Old English sċīd (“thin slip of wood, shingle, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *skīd, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, plank, tile”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-, *skey- (“to cut; divide; separate; split”).
Cognate with North Frisian skeid (“billet of wood”), German Scheit (“log, piece of wood”), Swedish skid (“wooden shoe, sole, skate”), Icelandic skíð (“a billet of wood”). Doublet of ski.
Senses: examples: text: For a tall shyde and nayle for the same house, jd,
ref: 1566, Accounts of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury:
text: And [although] by the true intente of the said Statue everie Bende of Faggot should be Three Foote, […] the said evill disposed people doe [make] the saide Bendes or Faggots stickes much shorter, […] And that everie Tall Shide marked Two, beinge rounde bodied, shall conteine in compasse Three and twentie Inches of Assise aboute, […]
ref: 1601, An Acte concerninge the Assise of Fewell (Chapter XIV, 43* Eliz. c. 14,15.), in The Statutes of the Realm ... From Original Records (1819), page 982
text: A quantity of pollard trees to make 1200 shides of cleft wood, computed to contain half a foot of wood or timber in each.
ref: 1791, “Parl. Commission on Royal Forests”, in Reports, published 1863, VI., page 339:
glosses: A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and between 16 and 38 inches in circumference.
broad strokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide brush strokes
Etymology: An allusion to a manner of painting.
Senses: examples: text: The President made his proposals in broad strokes, and the details remain to be worked out.
ref: 1989 July 7, Serge Schmemann, “Vienna Talks: Complex Array of Arms Issues Plus an East of Many Voices”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Oct 2011:
text: His plan, in broad strokes, was to outfit a small fleet of cars with a number of miniature directional microphones.
ref: 2002, Howard Blum, Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob, →ISBN, page 12:
text: A bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill.
ref: 2009 March 13, Jay Newton-Small, “Bipartisan Senate Group Makes Health-Care Progress”, in Time:
glosses: Major features or key points; outline.
examples: text: Maurice hastily climbed the fence, and while he was thus occupied Mr. Samuel Williams received a great enlightenment. With startling rapidity Penrod, standing just outside the storeroom door, extended his arm within the room, deposited the licorice water upon the counter of the drug store, seized in its stead the bottle of smallpox medicine, and extended it cordially toward the advancing Maurice.
Genius is like that—great, simple, broad strokes!
ref: 1914, Booth Tarkington, chapter 14, in Penrod:
text: While the movie unfolds in broad strokes, Ms. MacLaine treats this character with exquisite sensitivity and without condescension.
ref: 2000 December 1, Julie Salamon, “Television Review: On a New Limb With Shirley MacLaine”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Oct 2011:
text: So sketch with broad strokes, dial up the imagery on a few main points, and leave room for a reader to play a part in your novel.
ref: 2010, James V. Smith, You Can Write a Novel, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Developments, movements, or descriptions presented in a bold or sweeping manner, without intricacy, adornment, or subtlety.
raw_tags: of a narrative or artistic work
Related terms: short strokes
dickface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickfaces
Etymology: From dick + face.
Senses: examples: text: Just do what you were sent in there to do, dickface!
ref: 2005, South Park episode, Marjorine:
glosses: Term of abuse
dickfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dickface
piñones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piñon
buttbuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttbuddies
form: butt buddy
Etymology: From butt + buddy.
Senses: examples: text: Bill and Matthew have been buttbuddies for years now.
glosses: A man's male sex partner, especially for anal sex.
Related terms: blowbuddy
keep the change
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: And she handed me twenty dollars / For a two fifty fare, she said / "Harry, keep the change."
ref: 1972, Harry Chapin, “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales:
glosses: An instruction to a taxi driver, waiter etc. to keep the change from the amount handed over as a tip.
plastic bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic bags
Senses: glosses: A type of packaging made of thin, flexible, plastic film, starch, or plastic textile, used for containing and transporting food, waste, and consumer goods. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Judaick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Judaic.
Pinot Noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːnəʊ ˈnwɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Pinots Noirs
form: Pinot Noirs
form: Pinot noir
form: pinot noir
Etymology: From French pinot noir (literally “black pine [cone]”); see pinot.
Senses: examples: text: That's 100% pinot noir. Single vineyard. They don't even make it any more.
ref: 2004, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Sideways, spoken by Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti):
glosses: A black grape used to make red wine, associated with the Burgundy region in France.
examples: text: Vine-growers concentrate on wines which can be sold at high prices—such as Pinot Noir.
ref: 1992, Andrew Barr, Pinot Noir: Guides to Grape Varieties, Viking, page 50:
glosses: A light and fruity wine made from these grapes.
acousticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of acoustics.
tonicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonick
buffet car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffet cars
Senses: examples: text: A small ornamental panel displayed the Great Central's slogan, "Each Express is Vestibuled and has a Buffet Car attached." The buffet car is now being successfully exploited again by the L.N.E.R., but it is only last May that this facility returned to its parent line after a long absence.
ref: 1934 February, B. K. Cooper, “Some Great Central Reflections”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway carriage in which food and drink can be bought at a counter, and either taken to another carriage or consumed at the seating provided.
Related terms: dining car
refreshment car
restaurant car
restaurant car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restaurant cars
Senses: examples: text: One result of this latest increase is the odd situation that a restaurant car dinner costs 6d. more than a Pullman dinner (boat trains excluded).
ref: 1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Fewer meals on wheels?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121:
text: TfW's [Transport for Wales] Mk 4s [Mk 4 coaches] are due to operate three pairs of workings between Holyhead and Cardiff, with First Class passengers offered complimentary breakfast, lunch or dinner cooked in the restaurant car.
ref: 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
text: Yes, Great Western Railway has a handful of restaurant cars on Mon-Fri, but on most services you'll be lucky to get a sandwich.
ref: 2022 November 30, Barry Doe, “Eurostar award demonstrates value of catering”, in RAIL, number 971, page 71:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A dining car.
Related terms: buffet car
refreshment car
wellrested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wellrested
form: most wellrested
Senses: examples: text: Don't let them interrupt your naps! It's important to be wellrested when that big moment arrives!
ref: 2001 March 26, “*really* annoying people! ;p”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):
text: Compared to photographs of wellfed, wellrested, happy GI's, the GI wouldn't trade his lot for anyones.^([sic])
ref: 2001 August 10, “Best fed troopers?”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet):
text: The women had slept on the last part of the ride to Dunbar so that they would be wellrested when they arrived and could slip off again while the men recovered from the journey.
ref: 2004, Lynsay Sands, The chase, page 194:
text: As we understand that these limitations can significantly affect our cognitive abilities, the present study expands on the literature by examining the effect of 22 ± 2 hours of total sleep deprivation on the capacity and resolution components of visual short-term memory compared to a wellrested state.
ref: 2015, Nabeer Kahn, The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Visual Short-Term Memory Capacity and Resolution (Undergraduate Senior Thesis: Princeton University):
glosses: Rare spelling of well-rested.
water landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water landings
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An emergency landing in water, especially by aircraft not designed to land on water.
transshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transshifts
form: transshifting
form: transshifted
form: transshifted
Etymology: From trans- + shift.
Senses: glosses: To interchange or transpose.
emergency landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency landings
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sudden landing of an aircraft, made in case of an on-board emergency or another reason requiring an immediate landing.
final approach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final approaches
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The last part of a landing before touchdown, involving a descending flight path directly in the direction of the runway.
Synonyms: finals
beweigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beweighs
form: beweighing
form: beweighed
form: beweighed
Etymology: From be- + weigh. Compare Dutch bewegen (“to move”) and German bewegen, rare German bewägen.
Senses: examples: text: But the governour is sufficiently warned thereof by the common bruit of the people; and also, I shall not fail, on your lordships behalf, to advise him to beweigh the same, in such sort as ye require me by your said letters.
ref: 1809, Sir Ralph Sadler, The state papers and letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, knight-banneret: Volume 1:
glosses: To determine the weight of; weigh; consider.
tailstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailstrikes
Etymology: From tail + strike.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Unintended contact of the rear of an aircraft's fuselage with the ground during a takeoff or landing.
gravity drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity drops
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The deployment of an aircraft's landing gear by the use of gravity.
belly landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belly landings
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A landing of an aircraft without the landing gear being deployed.
Related terms: pancake landing
floatstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floatsticks
Etymology: From float + stick.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device used to measure the fuel level on modern aircraft.
iliac furrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iliac furrow
spun out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spun out
form: most spun out
Senses: examples: text: This old lady we picked up was spun out because she didn't manage her insulin properly.
glosses: In a mentally altered state due to narcotics, poison, or psychiatric condition
Derived terms: spunion
active powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active power
reactive power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactive powers
Senses: glosses: The imaginary component of the power of an alternating current circuit; the product of the voltage and that part of the current that is out of phase with the voltage.
reactive powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reactive power
buttbuddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttbuddy
man-pussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-pussies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man pussy.
boycunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boycunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boy cunt.
boy-cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy-cunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boy cunt.
man-pussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-pussy
boycunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boycunt
boy-cunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy-cunt
man-milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of man milk.
blow one's load
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows one's load
form: blowing one's load
form: blew one's load
form: blown one's load
Senses: examples: text: “I want your big cock up my ass so bad, I'm jacking off, and if I don't stop soon, I'm gonna blow my load."
ref: 2009, John Butler, Wanderlust, page 182:
glosses: To ejaculate, to cum.
examples: text: He blew his load in the first round and went home early.
glosses: Synonym of blow one's chance.
synonyms: word: blow one's chance
Synonyms: sense: to ejaculate
word: ejaculate
sense: to expend one's resources or opportunity
word: shoot one's bolt
sense: to expend one's resources or opportunity
word: shoot one's load
sense: to expend one's resources or opportunity
word: shoot one's wad
nukeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nukeable
form: most nukeable
Etymology: From nuke + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being attacked with nuclear weapons.
glosses: Microwavable.
pushable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pushable
form: most pushable
Etymology: From push + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being pushed.
pushable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushables
Etymology: From push + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Looked at a LAWN-BOY lately? You’re in for a surprise. The same features and quality are there, but prices are lower… That’s why today’s LAWN-BOY mowers are the value leaders. So see those easy-to-handle “pushables,” the self-propellers you just walk behind.
ref: 1972 May 5, Diamond M Mower Service, “LAWN-BOY”, in Dixon Evening Telegraph, 122nd year, number 5, Dixon, Ill., →OCLC, page 11, column 6:
text: On a hall just off the clinic’s main corridor are two small rooms; one is nearly filled with a child-sized round table and chairs and packed with crayons, paints, and miscellaneous arts and craft supplies. The other has trucks, dolls, puzzles, games, and various rollables and pushables on an open floor.
ref: 1990, Karen Brodkin Sacks, “Does It Pay to Care?”, in Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson, editors, Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women’s Lives (SUNY Series on Women and Work), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part III (Formal Organizations), page 196:
text: Visualize and try all of this with your eyes closed. Pushing disk or ball on the floor using the “whisker” demands constant focus beyond the usual nearpoint of focus into less set depth judgment of intermediate space. Smaller, less color contrast or ball pushables on less smooth surfaces increase the demand; bottle caps, coins, marbles, or superballs make good pushables.
ref: 1999, “Cat’s Whisker”, in Anne Barber, editor, Visual Demands of the Workplace (Behavior Aspects of Vision Care; volume 40, number 1), Santa Ana, Calif.: Optometric Extension Program, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Something that is pushable.
unflighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flighted.
Senses: examples: text: This breed of canary is unflighted for the first six months of its life.
antonyms: flighted
glosses: Lacking flight feathers, typically due to immaturity (compare flightless)
raw_tags: of birds
examples: text: Unflighted darts have a tendency to tumble.
glosses: Lacking flights (arrows, a screw thread, etc.).
Related terms: flightless
multiflighted
unflightworthy
unflyable
cautionary tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cautionary tales
Senses: examples: text: This tone has slowly given way to a realization that the country’s experience might be less a curiosity than a cautionary tale.
ref: 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic:
text: And Harford’s book, of course, has more than a decade of fresh cautionary tales from our troubled era of social media, big data, algorithmic mayhem, and “alternative facts” on which to draw.
ref: 2020 November 17, Ben Chu, “Review: How to Make the World Add Up, by Tim Harford”, in The Independent, retrieved 13 Jan 2021:
glosses: A story, originally told in folklore, to warn its audience of a certain danger.
Hypernyms: story
tale
twirlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twirlable
form: most twirlable
Etymology: From twirl + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Our policemen, of course, will be fitted out with large, twirlable moustaches and small, twirlable rolling-pins, and will be taught to turn their backs on traffic jams, but to blow whistles violently at solitary bicyclists.
ref: 1945, The Motor, volume 86, page 275:
glosses: Capable of being twirled.
gropeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gropeable
form: most gropeable
form: gropable
Etymology: From grope + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be groped.
glosses: Of a person or body part, sexually attractive such that it causes others to desire groping.
gropable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gropable
form: most gropable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gropeable.
Derived terms: gropability
synciput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sinciput.
WPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of white people shit.
WPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Wireless Priority Service.
glosses: Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Setup.
glosses: Initialism of West Philippine Sea.
unclassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclassy
form: most unclassy
Etymology: From un- + classy.
Senses: glosses: Not classy.
joyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joynes
form: joyning
form: joyned
form: joyned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of join.
joyning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joyn
glosses: present participle and gerund of joyne
joyned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of joyn
glosses: simple past and past participle of joyne
Ruskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rusky
glosses: plural of Ruskie
SLS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
transport
glosses: Initialism of Space Launch System.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
transport
glosses: Initialism of Space Launcher System.
SLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of second-level support.
glosses: Initialism of sodium lauryl sulphate.
glosses: Initialism of single-leg squat.
doctourship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doctour + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of doctorship.
mathematick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mathematick
form: most mathematick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mathematic.
mathematicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mathematics.
mediatour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediatours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mediator.
melancholick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melancholick
form: most melancholick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of melancholic.
melancholick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melancholicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of melancholic.
melancholicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melancholick
mesenterick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesenteric.
genealogick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of genealogic.
metallick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metallick
form: most metallick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of metallic.
metaphysick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of metaphysic.
metaphysick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphysicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of metaphysic.
metaphysicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphysick
metaphysicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of metaphysics.
mimick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mimic.
mimick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mimicks
form: mimicking
form: mimicked
form: mimicked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mimic.
Derived terms: mimickee
unmimicked
mimicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimick
mimicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mimick
mnemonicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mnemonics.
morbifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morbifick
form: most morbifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of morbific.
mosaick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosaicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mosaic.
mundick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mundicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mundic.
narcotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narcotick
form: most narcotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of narcotic.
narcotick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcoticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of narcotic.
necromantick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of necromantic.
nephritick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephritick
form: most nephritick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nephritic.
nephritick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephriticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nephritic.
vergeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəːdʒəɹɪs/
Forms: form: vergeresses
Etymology: From verger + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: I will appear in a vision to the vergeress who sweeps the floors.
ref: 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Saint and the Goblin”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: A female verger.
vergeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vergeress
obstetrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There all the learn'd shall at the labour stand, And Douglas lend his soft obstetrick hand.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of obstetric.
obstetricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obstetrics.
omnifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more omnifick
form: most omnifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of omnific.
ophthalmick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ophthalmic.
optick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of optic.
optick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of optic.
opticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have now given in Axioms and their Explications the ſumm of what hath hitherto been treated of in Opticks.
ref: 1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, page 12:
glosses: Obsolete form of optics.
organick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organick
form: most organick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of organic.
arsenick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arsenic.
unsmelted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smelted.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not smelted; not having been subjected to a smelting process; still in the state of being an unrefined ore.
pacifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pacifick
form: most pacifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pacific.
panegyrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panegyricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panegyric.