cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fans are slans
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From slan and the novel Slan (1940) by A. E. Van Vogt. By analogy to the superior but persecuted mutants of Van Vogt's novel.
Senses: examples: text: Under the title "Stfans -- Race of the Future", Joquel dissects the "fans are slans" theme which back in 1941 was being considered with a surprising amount of seriousness, and comes up with the obvious conclusion of phooey.
ref: 1950 March, F. Towner Laney, “Fanzine Scope”, in Spacewarp, number 36, pages 10–17:
text: FANS ARE SLANS Literally understood, "fans are superman mutants" -- or, at least, "fans are smarter than most people" -- but actual semantic content is according to the mood and attitude of the user.
ref: 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II:
text: "Fans are slans" is a way of saying that we're smarter than other people. (Which is true, actually, but rather impolite to bring up in mixed company.)
ref: 2000 April 27, Pete McCutchen, “Re: Mr. Ordover, I disagree”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <4uvggsgbbt3gsqrobf2o1prj0offlhpuch@4ax.com>:
text: Fanish culture is very tribal in nature and overly concerned with superiority as fans are slans.
ref: 2003 November 8, Danny Low, “Re: Mundanes' secret weapon?”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <okbrqvghahmsaoc59jmjotlk60807s92i6@4ax.com>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Science fiction fans are more intelligent and more creative than other people.
Ġgantija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Ġgantija temple complex, from Maltese ġgantija, from ġgant (“giant”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A period of the Neolithic in Malta during which megalithic temples were built.
wikipedia: Ġgantija
moole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mooli.
mooles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moole
ass crack of dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ass crack jocularly replacing crack in the (preexisting) noun phrase crack of dawn (= "break of dawn"); although ass crack (cleft, gap) and crack (break) are cognate, the jocularity nonetheless rests on the disjunction that is cognitively close to (albeit by some standards not technically) a pun.
Senses: glosses: An intensifier, used in the same contexts as crack of dawn, but more intense.
Synonyms: butt crack of dawn
dawn
butt crack of dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By the same jocular replacement as examined at ass crack of dawn § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: An intensifier, used in the same contexts as crack of dawn, but more intense.
Synonyms: ass crack of dawn
dawn
fodder radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fodder radishes
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The daikon, particularly when grown for animal fodder rather than for human consumption.
fodder radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fodder radish
forage radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forage radishes
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of fodder radish.
synonyms: word: fodder radish
forage radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forage radish
radish ripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radish + ripper (“a tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction”).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The daikon, particularly when its large roots are left in a field through the winter to reduce soil compaction, rather than harvested for consumption.
tillage radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tillage radishes
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Daikon, particularly when its large roots are left in a field through the winter to reduce soil compaction, rather than harvested for consumption.
tillage radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tillage radish
best friends forever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of best friend forever
stfzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stfzines
Etymology: Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + zine (“magazine”).
Senses: examples: text: Will trade stfzines, or what have you ... might even pay cash.
ref: 1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Wanted”, in Spacewarp, number 37, page 29:
text: One of the few barbarisms I committed on the body of a stfzine was cutting out this chart to put in my high-school freshman science workbook.
ref: 1955, John Bristol Speer, “1934: The Making of a Fan”, in Fancestral Voices, page 110:
text: The average stfzine sold maybe 75,000 copies on a good day in the thirties when the population of the country was about 130 million. Today the population is rapidly approaching 239 million and the average stfzine still sells maybe 75,000 copies on a good day. If that many.
ref: 1968 March, Roy Tackett, “Section Eight [letter column]”, in Psychotic, number 24, page 28:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A science fiction magazine.
stfnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stfnists
form: stefnist
Etymology: Either abbreviation of scientifictionist, or stf (“scientifiction”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It follows that no stfnist should be considered for one of the top places until he has been active for at least two years; many may run thru the cycle of fanac and make a big noise for a moment, then fizzle out.
ref: 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan or creator of science fiction; one involved in some aspect of science fiction.
stfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stfields
Etymology: Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + field.
Senses: examples: text: One probably should not say there was a trufan, even in posse, until the stfield had been defined by Amazing Stories.
ref: 1955, John Bristol Speer, “The Phanerofanish Eon”, in Fancestral Voices, page 79:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The province or domain of science fiction; the area in which science fiction is active.
stfanzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stfanzines
Etymology: Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + fanzine (“fan magazine”).
Senses: examples: text: By the way, I hate horror yarns. Tough, but there is nothing to be done about it. You might start your own zine, if you want horror stories. Or send your manuscripts to SHIVERS or one of the other fanzines specializing in that branch of fantasy. This is a stfanzine.
ref: 1950 April, Arthur H. Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 37, page 2:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An amateur magazine produced by and for fans of science fiction.
stfsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Either abbreviation of scientifantasy, or blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + fantasy.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The overall genre containing science fiction and fantasy; speculative fiction.
geeklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geeklets
Etymology: From geek + -let.
Senses: examples: text: […] And tell Mom to keep quiet, too. If she gets drunk and starts talking about me, I'm going to — "
"Relax, geeklet."
ref: 1994, Rudy Rucker, Live Robots: 2 in 1 Volume of Software/Wetware, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 196:
text: […] Tom Baker's Doctor Who Scarf, a Hogwarts Gryffindor Scarf, or anything else you and your geeklet's imagination can come up with.
ref: 2010, Ken Denmead, Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share, Gotham Books, →ISBN:
text: Though you don't have to think of a theme, having one can help you (or your younger, easily distracted geeklet) stay focused.
ref: 2012, Natania Barron, Kathy Ceceri, Corrina Lawson, & Jenny Williams, Geek Mom: Projects, Tips, and Adventures for Moms and Their 21st-Century Families, Potter Craft, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: A young or unimportant geek.
Synonyms: dweeblet
geekling
nerdlet
nerdling
dragonlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dragon + lore.
Senses: examples: text: […] speculations on astrology, astronomy, alchemy, unidentified flying objects, giantlore and dragonlore […]
ref: 1974, Paul Screeton, Quicksilver heritage: the mystic leys:
text: This form, which was inspired largely by Lord Dunsany in his "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" and similar writings, combined the ancient materials of The Arabian Nights with chivalric legend and dragonlore of the North.
ref: 1982, Roger C. Schlobin, The Aesthetics of fantasy literature and art:
text: Indeed, the Russian contribution to dragonlore is to be found in the clear connection made between the monster and the witch. The dragon appears to symbolize the winter and underworld nature of Yaga […]
ref: 1993, Joanna Hubbs, Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture:
glosses: The lore dealing with dragons.
horselore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horse + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Bakkus came steeped in horselore and confidently prophetic.
ref: 1926, William John Locke, The Mountebank, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
text: The younger mares torment the oldest and attempt to drive them from the mob for some inexplicable horse-lore instinct; perhaps they were separated to protect them.
ref: 2014, Clive Thomas, Thursday's Child : Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Topsell gives us some fine horselore, especially as to their love for their masters:— “Homer seemeth also to affirme that there are in Horsses divine qualityes, understanding things ...
ref: 2013, John Ashton, Curious Creatures in Zoology, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
text: This man knows horselore and loves the horse with that personal affection which begets understanding.
ref: 2010, William A. Owens, Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 117:
text: The Pattern Under the Plough and The Horse in the Furrow contain a treasure trove of horselore from East Anglia, and much of what is in the public domain today has been taken from these two books, even if the extracts have not been credited!
ref: 2013, Suzanne Ruthven, Melusine Draco, Shaman Pathways - Black Horse, White Horse, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The folklore of horses; the knowledge of the behaviour of horses; the traditions of managing horses.
lakelore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lake + lore.
Senses: examples: text: Many people today, with only a limited amount of time to go fishing each year, have little or no time to spend studying streamcraft or lakelore.
ref: 1953, The Wonderful World of Ohio:
text: 1973, Milner, Bruce, Lakelore : a History of the Fishing Industry Along the North Shore of Lake Erie, Simcoe, Ont. : Norfolk School of Agriculture
text: 1977, Harry B. Barrett, Port Dover Board of Trade, Lakelore: Produced by the Port Dover Board of Trade to Welcome the Great Lakes Fish Exposition to Port Dover, July 15, 16, 17, 1977
text: Therefore it is not surprising that little lakelore has developed and that most of the fertility ceremonies are connected with agriculture and almost none with fishing.
ref: 1978, Haryati Soebadio-Noto Soebagio, Carinne A. du Marchie Sarvaas, Dynamics of Indonesian history, North-Holland, page 45:
glosses: The knowledge of local conditions on a lake; the traditions and customs of life on a lake; the history of life on a lake.
TASes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TAS
TASes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of TAS
TASing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of TAS
TASed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of TAS
geekling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geeklings
Etymology: From geek + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: As Seattle author, überblogger, and social media guru Ariel Meadow Stallings says, “You'll get a better-looking site, at way better rates, and you'll be helping a young geekling build their portfolio.”
ref: 2008, Michelle Goodman, My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire, Seal Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Your geeky passions may differ slightly, and so the variations you teach your geeklings should as well.
ref: 2010, Ken Denmead, Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share, Gotham Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: But more than just a how-to, we wrote the Geek Mom book to encourage mothers and geeklings to be proud of their true selves.
ref: 2012, Natania Barron, Kathy Ceceri, Corrina Lawson, & Jenny Williams, Geek Mom: Projects, Tips, and Adventures for Moms and Their 21st-Century Families, Potter Craft, published 2012, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A young or unimportant geek.
Synonyms: dweeblet
geeklet
nerdlet
nerdling
nerdlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerdlets
Etymology: From nerd + -let.
Senses: examples: text: It would be nice to have a little nerdlet in the house who absolutely adores me ... which, if it is a girl, I can teach to accessorize.
ref: 2000, Paula Danziger, Snail Mail No More, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 67:
text: She and her hubby go to the high school football games every Friday night, and every week she calls to tell me about a little high school nerdlet that sits near them.
ref: 2010, Molly Price, White Trash Princess, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 71:
text: It was looking to be a stunning occasion, my coming-out party as a dirty debutante, and a family affair where my brother and his two besties from high school got to see this nerdlet all growds up on a national stage kicking MAC-smothered ass.
ref: 2013, Lisa Montgomery Kennedy, The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 146:
text: JESIKAH SUNDIN is a multi-award winning Dystopian Punk Lit, Fairy Tale, and Historical Fantasy writer, a mom of three nerdlets, a faeriecore and elfpunk geek, tree hugger, nature photographer, and a helpless romantic who married her high school sweetheart.
ref: 2020, Jesikah Sundin, Æroreh (The Ealdspell Cycle; 1), Forest Tales Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A young or unimportant nerd.
Synonyms: dweeblet
geeklet
geekling
nerdling
nerdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerdlings
Etymology: From nerd + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: I have merely scratched the surface of life with your nerdling.
ref: 2010, Ken Denmead, Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share, Gotham Books, →ISBN:
text: To a nerdling it was appealing for obvious reasons — ghosts, time travel and moderate violence - but I think there were probably deeper emotions at work within me.
ref: 2010, Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 54:
text: When I was a young nerdling, I loved the video game “Ultima” – not because of the raping and the pillaging, but because you spent most of your time exploring a huge map of the world.
ref: 2011, Christopher Schwarz, The Workbench Design Book: The Art & Philosophy of Building Better Benches, F+W Media, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: A young or unimportant nerd.
Synonyms: dweeblet
geeklet
geekling
nerdlet
Michas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Michās unaltered.
Senses: examples: text: There was at that time a certaine man of mount Ephraim named Michas, […]
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Ivdges 17:1, page 553:
glosses: Synonym of Micah (Ephraimite featured in Judg. 17–18)
synonyms: word: Micah
extra: Ephraimite featured in Judg. 17–18
wikipedia: Douay–Rheims Bible
dweeblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dweeblets
Etymology: From dweeb + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Dear Margie: While I thought most of your article on intelligence ["You're Smarter than You Think," May] was very enlightening, I was rather insulted by your closing statement that people who do well in school are "uncreative dweeblets."
ref: 1992, Sassy, page 188:
text: Pseudo-droid braindead dweeblets bore them.
ref: 1994, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 137, unknown page
text: "I've wanted to do something like this since seventh grade," he admits, remembering hours spent in the company of fellow dweeblets at the keyboard of a clunky old PDP-11 mainframe, navigating the virtual dungeons of the text-based game Adventure […]
ref: 2003, Business 2.0, volume 4, page 73:
glosses: A young or unimportant dweeb.
Synonyms: geeklet
geekling
nerdlet
nerdling
bespy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: bespies
form: bespying
form: bespied
form: bespied
Etymology: From be- + spy. Compare Middle Dutch bespien.
Senses: glosses: To send spies to; beset with espionage.
uberblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uberbloggers
form: überblogger
Etymology: From uber- + blogger.
Senses: examples: text: But then an uberblogger, Mickey Kaus of slate.com, commented on my comment, and his comments were responded to and picked up by others.
ref: 2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blog Wars, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Roberts is referring to the time constraints on his ability to write a media column for Westword's print edition as well as being the "uberblogger" for Westword's news blog, called The Latest Word.
ref: 2008 November 22, “Mr. Roberts at new helm”, in Rocky Mountain News:
text: But conservative uberblogger Instapundit — aka Glenn Reynolds — had another reaction.
ref: 2009 October 27, Victor Morton, “Inside Blogotics”, in The Washington Times:
glosses: A prominent and/or prolific blogger.
green fallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green fallow
überblogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: überbloggers
Etymology: From über- + blogger.
Senses: examples: text: As überblogger Glenn Reynolds likes to say, blogs have given the people a chance to stop yelling at their TV and have a say in the process.
ref: 2005, Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Picador, published 2007, →ISBN, page 47:
text: As Seattle author, überblogger, and social media guru Ariel Meadow Stallings says, […]
ref: 2008, Michelle Goodman, My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: It left physics überblogger Sabine Hossenfelder uncharacteristically lost for words.
ref: 2012, George Musser Jr., “Free Will and Quantum Clones”, in Bora Zivkovic, Jennifer Ouellette, editors, The Best Science Writing Online 2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: Alternative spelling of uberblogger.
geeklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geeklet
geeklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geekling
nerdlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerdlet
dweeblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dweeblet
nerdlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerdling
uberbloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uberblogger
überbloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of überblogger
besteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besteers
form: besteering
form: besteered
form: besteered
Etymology: From be- + steer. Compare Old English ġestēoran, ġestȳran (“to steer, guide, rule, direct, control, correct, constrain”).
Senses: glosses: To guide; pilot; direct.
glosses: To steer; govern; control.
bestock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestocks
form: bestocking
form: bestocked
form: bestocked
Etymology: From be- + stock.
Senses: glosses: to stock; furnish
lymphadenomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: lymphadenoma + (t)-ous
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to lymphadenoma
Related terms: adenomatous
badly packed kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badly packed kebabs
Etymology: From a likening of the appearance of the external female genitalia to that of a messy doner kebab (with the pita representing the labia majora and the meat representing the labia minora).
Senses: examples: text: > What was the url for that webpage you found, with the naked woman called
> Tinkerbell? She was big!
>
>
LOL, she had a badly packed kebab too. I can't find it, she was on blueyonder though if anyone wants to google for it.
ref: 2005 August 28, PMD [username], “Re: Has anybody seen”, in alt.talk.bollocks (Usenet):
text: Babs? Urgh no! Mebee^([sic]) 25 years ago, but she'd have a 'badly packed kebab' by now!
ref: 2006 January 12, bobby [username], “Re: Can I just make a public service announcement here”, in alt.sports.soccer.sunderland (Usenet):
text: In brief, with the expletives deleted (which also served to make the story considerably shorter), it involved various quantities of cider, alcho-pops and shots, going to the kebab shop, getting said kebab, walking home, stopping to answer the call of nature on the grass and falling asleep mid-pee. Her badly packed kebab had been on view for all to see.
ref: 2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999: The True Story of a Front Line Officer, Matador, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: The vulva, especially one with wrinkly, protruding labia.
cunt lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to make her come before she did it herself, and slid down the bed until my mouth was on her tender cunt lips.
ref: 1992, Letters to Penthouse III: Hot, Bothered, and Ready, Warner Books, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: Hold your cunt lips apart with two fingers of one hand. Insert the speculum sideways, longest handle facing your body.
ref: 2002, Inga Musico, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 70:
text: I drop my head back again, close my eyes and, wrapping my arms under my legs just behind my ankles, I pull my cunt lips apart as wide as I can.
ref: 2008, Mitzi Szereto, editor, The New Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies, Black Lace, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: The labia majora.
filthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: filthens
form: filthening
form: filthened
form: filthened
Etymology: From filth + -en, modelled after healthen, strengthen, lengthen, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Rock oil was considered, then, a local nuisance, a malodorous black gunk that floated like a rumor down the creek, filthening whatever it touched: a farmer's overalls, a cow's hide, a child's shoes.
ref: 2016, Jennifer Haigh, Heat and Light:
glosses: To cover with filth; besmut; besmirch; make filthy.
koinëisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɔɪneɪaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: koinëisations
form: koinëization
form: koinéisation
form: koinéization
form: koineisation
form: koineization
form: koinêisation
form: koinêization
Etymology: From koine + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: This is a reasonable interpretation of Hull (1968, 1974). This author later made it clear that the koinêization process may have continued during the early period of colonization (Hull 1994).
ref: 1994?, Yves-Charles Morin, “The Origin and Development of the Pronunciation of French in Québec” in The Origins and Development of Emigrant Languages: Proceedings from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium, Odense University, November 1994, eds. Hans Frede Nielsen and Lene Schøsler, Odense University Press (1996), page 266, endnote 4
text: What one sees here is the cumulative effect of repeated koineizations.
ref: 1998, Donald N. Tuten, Koineization in Medieval Spanish, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 340
ref: 2002, Paul Kerswill, “Koinëization and accommodation”, in Jack K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Blackwell, editors, Handbook of Language Variation and Change, pages 669–702:
text: The central argument is that the language contact situations in which early forms of English were involved represent koinëisation and new dialect (or variety) formation rather than creole formation.
ref: 2011, Richard J. Watts, Language Myths and the History of English, Oxford Scholarship Online, chapter 4: “The construction of a modern myth: Middle English as a creole”, chapter abstract
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process whereby a lect develops into a koine, or an instance of this.
healthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: healthens
form: healthening
form: healthened
form: healthened
Etymology: From health + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […] bartenders made useful citizens, and young men prepared to meet their responsibilities as men educated, healthened and rightened through it.
ref: 1912, Association Men, volume 38, page 171:
glosses: To add health to; make whole or healthy; strengthen.
beef flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of course I couldn't help myself and I had to take a quick peek at her squating^([sic]) in the bushes her beef flaps hanging down like the undercarriage on a 747.
ref: 1991 October 19, John N. Young, “Change of mind by Youngie - Controversial”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):
text: If you listen very closely, you can hear her beef flaps slap together everytime^([sic]) she walks into a scene.
ref: 2003 March 24, RJ, “Re: Brady Girl Question”, in alt.tv.brady-bunch (Usenet):
text: Naiive female, dost thy believe the world revolves around thy wrinkled, overly droopy beef flaps?
ref: 2005 June 27, Roy. Just Roy., “Re: Musings on the future”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
glosses: The labia majora.
skinny-malinky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinny-malinkies
Senses: glosses: A very thin person.
fanny flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ewwwww, just hope to God she had plastic surgery on her fanny flaps.
ref: 2002 March 8, Wobblemetits [username], “Re: Party Party Party”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united.scum-haters (Usenet):
text: 'This is where Lady Luck parts her fanny flaps and lets you dip your fingers in her pudding, if you get my drift. […]
ref: 2013, Chris Ryan, Most Wanted Mission 2, Coronet, →ISBN:
text: On the train there, it was dark because at one point I saw her fanny flaps in full view. I swear she wasn't wearing no knickers.
ref: 2014, Robb Peters, D. A. Diary, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: The labia minora.
meat flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I bet her meat flaps are^([sic]) smell like rancid dumpster swill.
ref: 2001 November 6, Jake778899 [username], “oh Robin”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):
text: A little clitoral resurfacing here, an aesthetic snip of the meat flaps there, and you're ready to spread for Playboy.
ref: 2007, Jonathan Selwood, The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 22:
text: And I haven't bought a cup from McDonald's since that old lady spilled some on her crotch, burned her meat flaps, and sued for $2 million.
ref: 2008, Jim Norton, I Hate Your Guts, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: The labia majora.
piss clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss clams
Senses: examples: text: Some years we dug for piss clams. Small holes showed up here and there in the wet sand at low tide. When you stepped next to one a stream of water shot up your leg and you knew a steamer was underneath.
ref: 1998, Charles Simmons, Salt Water, Chronicle Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 157:
text: When we saw a piss clam piss up through the mud, we would dig him up with the pitchfork.
ref: 2012, Bob Vargovcik, Bayonne Boy, AuthorHouse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Me, happy as a piss clam at high tide, workin' as a busboy in a deli afternoons and nights, other odd jobs during the day.
ref: 2013, James Kirkwood, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, St. Martin's Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 142:
synonyms: pisser
glosses: A clam which squirts water, such as a geoduck (Panopea generosa) or a long-neck clam (Mya arenaria).
vertical lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I moved her vertical lips aside to allow for easy access.
ref: 2007, Marissa Monteilh, Dr. Feelgood, Dafina Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Her moist vertical lips part as she lowers her knee and therefore her pelvis, down around me.
ref: 2008, Robert L. Dark, Ruthless, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Chelsea squealed as Shady pressed his tongue against her vertical lips getting a good taste of her clit.
ref: 2014, S. K. Collins, Wide Open, Strebor Books, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: The labia majora.
Related terms: vertical smile
thought leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought leaders
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Beecher retains his position as the most eminent preacher and one of the great thought leaders in America, while his principal accuser, who at one time occupied a foremost position in journalism and literature, has almost disappeared from public recognition.
ref: 1887, Lyman Abbot et al., Henry Ward Beecher: A sketch of His Career, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co., page 56:
text: Referring illustratively to the debate on industrial policy between "thought leaders," . . . Yankelovitch says that below the level of media rhetoric, "one can detect a core of agreement emerging because the different parties are influencing one another."
ref: 1990, Manfred Stanley, “The Rhetoric of the Commons”, in The Rhetorical Turn, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Google, Yahoo, and eBay are the leaders in the online world. Apple is the thought leader in music.
ref: 2004 Sept. 6, "‘Not Your Father's Silicon Valley’," Businessweek (retrieved 23 June 2014)
text: In seeking readers and advertisers, publications like The Atlantic and The Economist, known as thought-leader magazines, have long tried to make up in cleverness what they lack in wallet power.
ref: 2008 October 3, Stuart Elliott, “Brainy Brand Names Where They’re Least Expected”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jun 2014:
text: The UK needs to be a thought leader on road safety, added Oldham, "so we can influence Europe."
ref: 2013 January 9, Jessica Shankleman, “Public transport gets smart”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 23 Jun 2014:
glosses: A person, organization, publication, etc. regarded as an authoritative source of new ideas or intellectual trends.
Related terms: catalyst
followee
influencer
inspiration
trendsetter
thought-leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought-leaders
Etymology: From thought + leader.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thought leader.
Zener diodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zener diode
toggle switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toggle switch
reliquaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reliquaire
wichtje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wichtjes
Etymology: From Dutch wichtje, diminutive of wicht (“weight”).
Senses: glosses: A unit of weight, equivalent to 50 kilograms, used for certain kinds of fish.
wichtjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wichtje
succedents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succedent
shift register
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shift registers
Senses: examples: text: Shift registers, as Leibniz had demonstrated 260 years earlier, could perform binary arithmetic simply by shifting an entire row of binary digits one position to the right or left.
ref: 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 137:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A register designed to subject data to a shift.
stfanzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfanzine
stfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfield
stfnists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfnist
stfzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfzine
conchoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conchoid
oil radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil radishes
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of oilseed radish.
synonyms: word: oilseed radish
oil radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil radish
oilseed radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilseed radishes
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of daikon, particularly when grown for its oil-bearing seeds or as a fallow crop, rather than for human consumption.
synonyms: word: daikon
word: particularly when grown for its oil-bearing seeds or as a fallow crop
word: rather than for human consumption
oilseed radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oilseed radish
collar bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collar bone
collar-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collar-bone
IIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Two years ago, when he’d started high school, Ma and Papa had launched a campaign to get him into IIT, hunting down private tutors who guaranteed success on billboards in Hazratganj city centre, finding question papers from previous years, notes from illustrious seniors, advice from inspirational students.
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 79:
glosses: Initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology.
examples: text: My uncle dreamed of getting into an IIT and becoming an engineer.
text: There, working alongside graduates of elite institutions, [Ravi Kumar] discovered his potential. "I didn't go to an IIT [Indian Institute of Technology], but I felt like, 'Wait a minute, I'm able to compete with these guys," he says. Today, he runs Cognizant, a $36 billion global technology company with nearly 350,000 employees.
ref: 2025 June 20, Gabriel Snyder, “Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty: How Ravi Kumar is transforming IT firm Cognizant for the AI era. Periscope column”, in Newsweek, volume 184, number 20, page 22:
glosses: Initialism of Indian Institutes of Technology.
Any particular one of those various institutes.
synonyms: MSU-IIT
glosses: Ellipsis of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.
Derived terms: IITian
IITs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IIT
feedingstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedingstuffs
form: feeding stuff
Etymology: From feeding + stuff.
Senses: glosses: Any foodstuff used to feed livestock.
Synonyms: feedstuff
feedingstuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedingstuff
shodans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shodan
groundhopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ground + hopping.
Senses: glosses: The hobby of attending sports matches at as many different stadiums or grounds as possible.
SMOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒf/
enpr: smôf
ipa: /smɔf/
ipa: /smɑf/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: SMOFs
form: smof
Etymology: Abbreviation of Secret Master Of Fandom. Coined by American science fiction author Jack Chalker.
Senses: examples: text: He is also, in case he is willing... no, not in case he is willing; anyway, whether he likes it or not... an Honorary Member of SMOF.
ref: 1963, Hal Clement, Proceedings of Discon, page 162:
text: Secret Masters of Fandom (SMOFs), people who consider themselves to be the real ‘rulers’ of fandom, making decisions by running fan politics. Actually, these poor fellows are suffering from delusions of grandeur. (Also, verb form: to smof.)
ref: 1978, Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker, The Neo-Fan's Guide to Science Fiction Fandom, page 10:
text: I know a lot of briefcase-carrying SMOF types that live to run cons.
ref: 1993 November 6, Jim Rittenhouse, “Re: Will some REAL fans please move to Chicago?”, in alt.fandom.cons (Usenet), message-ID <2bh88t$1ip@genesis.MCS.COM>:
text: Mary Manchester deserves special mention at this point. She appeared in few publications, yet she had such an influence on Star Trek fanzines that many considered her a SMOF, or Secret Master of Fandom.
ref: 2003, J. M. Verba, Boldly Writing, page 27:
text: Cabal Sometimes assumed to be a secretive organization responsible for the development of Wikipedia [...] The term is comparable to the use of the term SMOF in science fiction fandom.
ref: 2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, “Appendix B: Glossary of Wikipedia Slang”, in Common Knowledge?, →ISBN, page 205:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: One influential in science fiction fandom; one who organises a convention, publishes a fanzine or performs a similar activity.
Derived terms: word: smof
smof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒf/
enpr: smôf
ipa: /smɔf/
ipa: /smɑf/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: smofs
Etymology: From SMOF (“Secret Master of Fandom”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of SMOF.
smof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒf/
enpr: smôf
ipa: /smɔf/
ipa: /smɑf/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: smofs
form: smoffing
form: smoffed
form: smoffed
Etymology: From SMOF (“Secret Master of Fandom”).
Senses: examples: text: Smoffing is a Way of Life.
ref: 1968 November, The Proper Boskonian:
text: the fen of science fiction fandom for whom fiawol descended on Boston this weekend for their annual worldcon to smof and to buy old fanzines.
ref: 1971 September 6, New York Times, page 17:
text: Then there's the semantic argument of smofdom. Ailsa, by discussing the nature of fandom, is smoffing. By smoffing, she risks becoming a smof. In fact, the more she discusses the nature of fandom, and who is or isn't a smof, the more likely she is to become one.
ref: 1998 October 21, Doug Wickstrom, “Re: Do Fans Beget Fans?”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <363a2926.8124211@netnews.worldnet.att.net>:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To discuss fandom; to organise or direct fandom; to act in the manner of a SMOF.
SMOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SMOF
smoffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smof
smofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smof
smofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smof
smoffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smof
Glos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: postal
glosses: Abbreviation of Gloucestershire.
monotube
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + tube.
Senses: examples: a monotube steam generator
glosses: Having a single tube.
monotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monotubes
Etymology: From mono- + tube.
Senses: glosses: Anything that has a single tube or filament.
headcam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headcams
Etymology: From head + cam.
Senses: examples: text: Its twenty-four-hour, live-action footage was generated by a small army of news hounds wired with headcams, creeping around the black belly of the City like human weasels with a nose for tragedy and violence.
ref: 2007, Frank Rich, Twist of Cain, page 126:
glosses: A head-mounted camera.
monotubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monotube
headcams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headcam
antiactivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiactivist
form: most antiactivist
Etymology: From anti- + activist.
Senses: glosses: Opposing activism.
antiactivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiactivists
Etymology: From anti- + activist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes activism.
antiactivists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiactivist
wuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wuffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woof (“dog's bark”).
glosses: A wolf.
wuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wuffs
form: wuffing
form: wuffed
form: wuffed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woof (“to bark”).
wild-card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild-cards
Senses: topics: card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of wild card.
unkissably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unkissable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety.
ref: 1982, Craig Strete, Dreams That Burn in the Night, page 52:
text: In any case, the unkissably shrewish Kate seems to be offering a bit of conspiratorial advice, "Slip around [the back]," as if to get away with something.
ref: 2002, Morton Levitt, Joyce and the Joyceans, page 173:
text: Traquair watched Miss Trenton walk slowly back up the path to the house, where he saw Miss Grant standing with her hands covering her mouth, which he imagined was in its usual, unkissably open pose.
ref: 2003, Louis Edwards, Oscar Wilde Discovers America, page 95:
glosses: So as to preclude kissing.
unlanguaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + languaged.
Senses: examples: text: […] we cannot often indulge in pure unlanguaged ecstasy, just as we cannot often employ pure unlanguaged thought. Both thought and feeling shape themselves into words […]
ref: 1856, The Church of England quarterly review, page 259:
text: Some narrative theorists try to meet the issue of unlanguaged experience by extending the very concept of narrative to include forms of narrative outside languaged narrative.
ref: 2003, Carmel Flaskas, Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism:
glosses: Not expressed with language.
nincompoopish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nincompoopish
form: most nincompoopish
Etymology: From nincompoop + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a nincompoop; foolish; silly.
soap-dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soap-dodgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soap dodger.
easts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of east
scumbaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scumbaggy
form: most scumbaggy
Etymology: From scumbag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a scumbag.
Derived terms: scumbagginess
superoptimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superoptimistic
form: most superoptimistic
Etymology: From super- + optimistic.
Senses: glosses: Extremely optimistic.
hyperoptimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperoptimistic
form: most hyperoptimistic
Etymology: From hyper- + optimistic.
Senses: glosses: Extremely optimistic.
anagenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anagenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, anagenesis.
halloysitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halloysitic
form: most halloysitic
Etymology: From halloysite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing, halloysite.
halloysites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halloysite
illegibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illegible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: illegibility
ineligibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ineligible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: ineligibility
ussies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ussie
labour law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labor law
Senses: glosses: The body of statute law that regulates the relationship between employer, employee, labour union and government.
Related terms: child labour
braggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braggie
cambelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambelt
cambelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambelts
form: cam belt
Etymology: From cam + belt.
Senses: glosses: The part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
Synonyms: timing belt
alkylresorcinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylresorcinols
Etymology: From alkyl + resorcinol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenolic lipid composed of long aliphatic chains and resorcinol-type phenolic rings.
alkylresorcinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkylresorcinol
xenognosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenognosin
sorgoleone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hydrophobic root exudate of Sorghum bicolor.
ononin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavone, the 7-O-glucoside of formononetin, found in various plants and herbs, including the soybean.
xenognosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenognosins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek roots.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound that stimulates the formation of a haustorium.
prehaustoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prehaustorium
sialolithotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialolithotomies
Etymology: From sialolith + -otomy.
Senses: glosses: Excision of a sialolith.
Synonyms: sialolithectomy
Related terms: lithotomy
lithectomy
lithectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Etymology: From lith- + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: Excision of a calculus.
Synonyms: lithotomy
Derived terms: hepatolithectomy
sialolithectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Etymology: From sialolith + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: Lithectomy for a sialolith; Excision of a sialolith.
Synonyms: sialolithotomy
Related terms: lithotomy
lithectomy
Legionnaires'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Legionnaires' disease.
Legionnaires' disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Legionnaires, members of the American Legion, who were the first described victims of the disease.
Senses: examples: text: Legionnairesʼ disease has become more common than most people suppose.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 374:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: a form of severe pneumonia caused by legionella (bacteria of the genus Legionella).
Synonyms: word: legionellosis
word: Legionnaires'
Related terms: sick building syndrome
Lou Gehrig's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lou Gehrig's disease.
demophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “common people”) + -phobia, equivalent to demo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Those who suffer enochlophobia, demophobia or ochlophobia–the fear of crowds–are not being entirely irrational.
ref: 2003 January 31, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney:
glosses: A phobia, or fear, of crowds, masses, or people.
Related terms: ochlophobia
rat-tail radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat-tail radishes
form: rattail radish
Etymology: A calque of the Mandarin Chinese name 鼠尾蘿蔔 (shǔwěi luóbó, "rat-tail radish").
Senses: glosses: A radish species or variety characterized by prominent trailing edible seedpods.
Synonyms: Raphanus caudatus L
Raphanus sativus var. caudatus H. Vilm.
Raphanus sativus var. mougri H.W.J. Helm
serpent radish
tail-pod radish
rat-tail radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat-tail radish
serpent radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpent radishes
Senses: glosses: The rat-tail radish.