cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: ragers
Etymology: From Middle English rager, raiger, ragere, equivalent to rage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ragers are feared and detested by teachers for their potential to destroy a lesson.
ref: 2005, Paul Blum, Teacher's Guide to Anger Management, page 51:
glosses: One who rages.
examples: text: Clearly, the kernel of inspiration behind this whole out-of-control rager was nostalgia for less politically correct times.
ref: 2016 December 7, Peter Debruge, “Film Review: 'Office Christmas Party'”, in Variety (magazine), Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022:
text: Part of the Born X Raised story, almost unintentionally, has become their big — and growing only bigger — ragers.
ref: 2022 March 17, Julissa James, “Inside most legendary streetwear brand party in Los Angeles”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023:
text: Experts urged interventions to break the fever, but unlike the last mini-mania, in 2016-17, policy makers pretty much did nothing while the Bank of Canada, understandably concerned about the pandemic-beset economy, made sure money stayed cheap. The house party kept on partying. It was a rager, and no one called the cops.
ref: 2022 June 10, “Canada’s housing frenzy was the party of all parties. Get ready for a hangover”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2022:
text: The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.
ref: 2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2022:
synonyms: rage
glosses: A boisterous and out of control party.
glosses: A raging erection; a massive erection of the penis.
Derived terms: dayger
road rager
boaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boak
boaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boak
boaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boak
Elsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛlsə/
Forms: form: Elsas
Etymology: From German Elsa, contraction of Elisabeth, occasionally used in English after its appearance in Wagner's opera Lohengrin (1847).
Senses: examples: text: A friend that I envied — it was the same friend who had benefited from admiring Cosette's jewelry, a girl whose name was Elsa and whom naturally we called Lioness —
ref: 1988, Barbara Vine, The House of Stairs, Onyx, published 1990, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Do you remember the wave of Elsas that arrived shortly after the release of Frozen at the end of 2013? It became one the fastest-climbing names of the following year before dropping back, and then had another (smaller) spike in 2019 when Frozen II came out.
ref: 2022, Eleanor Turner, “On-screen inspo”, in Baby Names 2023, White Ladder, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, part one (Naming your baby):
glosses: A female given name from German or Hebrew.
Derived terms: Elsagate
Elsanna
geomancie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Bungay. Let it be this, whether the spirites of piromancie or Geomancie, be most predominant in magick.
Vander. I say of Piromancie.
Bungay. And I of Geomancie.
ref: 1594, Robert Greene, Frier Bacon & Frier Bongay:
text: Sometimes they answer to that they are called for, by divers figures Men or Women set in polisht Stone, Iton, Brasse, Steele, Glasse, or the Nayles of ones hand; and this is called by the generall Name of Geomancie: And most commonly to such as these, they chuse out Women and Children.
ref: 1620, J. Melton, Astrologaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of geomancy.
geomance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geomances
form: geomancing
form: geomanced
form: geomanced
Etymology: Back-formation from geomancy.
Senses: examples: text: In a broad sense, the Hero may be regarded as a shamanic figure with the capacity for geomancing. This idea can be compared with the concept of using a divining rod to find an underground water source.
ref: 1997, Ping-Chiu Yen, Proverbs, Songs, Epic Narratives, Folktales of East Asia, page 209:
text: It is possible that stone arrangements acted as crystal acupuncture needles used to geomance the living Earth.
ref: 2000, Brad Olsen, Sacred Places: 101 Spiritual Sites Around the World, page 15:
glosses: To divine by geomancy.
Mr. Right
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Leave the schlumps behind. You can't hope to find Mr. Right but continue to see Mr. Not-on-Your-Life.
ref: 2009, J. Courtney Sullivan, Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find a Quality Man, Hachette, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: Ms. Right
glosses: Alternative form of Mister Right.
Lise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the French, and possible also from Scandinavian, Lise. Variant of more common English Lisa.
Senses: examples: text: The urge to tell Lise everything was almost overpowering.
ref: 2013, Allison Amend, A Nearly Perfect Copy:
text: Then I smelled something funny. “Do you guys smell that?” “No. What do you smell?” said Lise. “I think I smell smoke.”
ref: 2014, Paula Bomer, Inside Madeleine:
glosses: A female given name from French.
examples: text: Lisa said, “This is gonna be the best birthday breakfast Mom ever had.” And Bart earnestly replied, “Hey, Lise, you think that's enough for her?”
ref: 2001, J. Alison Bryant, Television and the American Family:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Lisa.
Elspeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a Scottish variant of Elizabeth.
hydromancie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If these apparitions appeare in the Water, then it is called Hydromancie. These I have heard are very incident to Catch-poles, Bum-baylies, and the like, when they are duckt under Water at high Tyde at one of the Temples.
ref: 1620, J. Melton Astrologaster, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Archaic form of hydromancy.
hydromantie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of this roote [astrology] last spoken of, springs innumerable branches; such as the knowledge of natiuities; the Chiromancie, Geomantie, Hydromantie, Arithmantie, Physiognomie: & a thousand others: which were much practiced, & holden in great reuerence by the Gentiles of olde.
ref: 1597, King James Daemonologie:
glosses: Archaic form of hydromancy.
hydromanty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: hydromancy
starscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starscapes
Etymology: From star + -scape.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A picture or view of a field of stars.
metatheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metathesis
sorbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorbites
Etymology: From Sorby (“a surname”) + -ite, after Henry Clifton Sorby.
Senses: examples: text: According to Boynton this constituent is sorbite in the case of steels containing more than ·8 per cent. carbon, for if troostite be β iron free from carbon it cannot exist in hyper-eutectoid steels.
ref: 1905, Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, volume 30, page 217:
text: After a very long period of annealing their morphology is very similar to the carbides precipitated in the sorbite and, as regards the amount of precipitate, the ferritic grains are almost indiscernible from the sorbitic (Fig.3).
ref: 1962, The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 200, page 940:
text: Some consider granular pearlite or granular cementite to be sorbite. Hence it is also called sorbitic pearlite, and when referring to the contained carbon, sorbitic carbide.
ref: 1962, J. W. Mellor, A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, volume 12, page 847:
glosses: Pearlite.
Derived terms: sorbitic
sorbitize
sorbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorbites
Etymology: From sorb + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Sorbite is isomeric with mannite and dulcite, and forms with oxalic acid at 75° sorbite-formamide, with evolution of carbonic anhydride. It is a colourless odourless syrup.
ref: 1881, “Abstracts of Chemical Papers: Sorbin and Sorbite”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 11, page 148:
glosses: Sorbitol.
sortita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian sortita. Doublet of sortie.
Senses: glosses: The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A closing voluntary; a postlude.
acaciae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acacia
tenanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenant
tenanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tenant
parodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parody
happenstantially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From happenstance (a blend of happening and circumstance), by analogy with circumstantially.
Senses: examples: 1975 January, Andrejs Plakans, "Peasant Farmsteads and Households in the Baltic Littoral, 1797", in Raymond Grew et al (eds.), Comparative Studies in Society and History: An International Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, volume 17, number 1, page 19,
The work force norm imposed on adults the need to join in a common effort aimed at survival, which was a condition qualitatively different from a group of coresident individuals having similar or identical occupations happenstantially.
glosses: By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
intrastate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + state.
Senses: examples: text: Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.
text: Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .
ref: 1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47:
glosses: Within a sovereign state or country.
examples: text: This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.
text: The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.
ref: 1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Within a state.
intrastate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrastates
Etymology: From intra- + state.
Senses: glosses: A highway completely within a state (not an interstate).
intrastates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrastate
inseam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsiːm/
ipa: /ɪnˈsiːm/
Forms: form: inseams
Etymology: From in- + seam.
Senses: glosses: The seam of a trouser up the inside of the leg.
inseam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsiːm/
ipa: /ɪnˈsiːm/
Forms: form: inseams
form: inseaming
form: inseamed
form: inseamed
Etymology: From in- + seam.
Senses: glosses: To fit (trousers) with an inseam.
examples: text: Deep o'er his knee inseam'd, remain'd the scar
ref: 1726, Homer, “Book XIX”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume IV, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.
Related terms: ankle
calf
thigh
inseams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inseam
inscriber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inscribers
Etymology: From inscribe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who inscribes.
glosses: A tool used to inscribe.
inscribers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inscriber
imbiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbibers
Etymology: From imbibe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]and yet, curiously enough, I am certain he will feel my question, “Where does the drinker get the means for his drinking?” more relevant in the case of the imbibers of port than in that of the imbibers of champagne.
ref: 1876, John Ruskin, “Letter LX”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume V, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 341:
text: “Demand is primarily coming from a mix of Gen Z consumers and imbibers who are looking for the ‘feel’ without the feel tomorrow,” says CEO Nick Bodkins. “But fully abstaining customers are a very small subset of our consumer base.”
ref: 2023 May 28, Alice Lascelles, quoting Nick Bodkins, “What's the buzz?”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 61:
synonyms: drinker
glosses: One who imbibes, who drinks, especially alcoholic beverages.
imbibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbiber
sirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sir
sirs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sir
menfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menfolks
Etymology: From men + folk.
Senses: examples: text: The old woman was surprised when the soldiers stopped to look at her camouflage quilts, since menfolk are rarely interested in needlework.
glosses: Male people in general.
examples: text: At our family reunion, the menfolk generally have a ball game, while the womenfolk gossip and trade snapshots.
text: […] when the pleasant time of night is come, and the stewardess is tucking up the ladies, and putting oranges and other goodies under their pillows, and the menfolk assemble in the capstan house to smoke their last cigar.
ref: 1877, Official Guide and Album of the Cunard Steamship Company, page 95:
text: “I don't suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and all our men-folk here are gilded convicts.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 14:
glosses: The male members of a group.
Coordinate terms: womenfolk
merrymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merrymakers
Etymology: From merry + maker.
Senses: examples: text: I'm not much of a holiday merrymaker, but I do appreciate a stiff glass of eggnog while the others sing carols.
glosses: One who makes merry; a reveler or celebrant.
merrymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merrymaker
mislabel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈleɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: mislabels
form: mislabeling
form: mislabelling
form: mislabeled
form: mislabeled
form: mislabelled
form: mislabelled
Etymology: From mis- + label.
Senses: examples: text: Be sure not to mislabel the files or you'll never find them again!
glosses: To label incorrectly.
Derived terms: mislabeler
mislabels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislabel
mislabelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislabel
mislabelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislabellings
Senses: glosses: An incorrect labelling.
mislabeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislabel
mislabeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislabelings
Senses: glosses: An incorrect labeling.
mislabelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislabel
mislabeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislabel
moper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mopers
Etymology: From mope + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was a moper and a complainer, and, as such, was quite unpopular at parties.
glosses: One who mopes or is inclined to do so.
mopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moper
motormouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motormouth
motormouths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of motormouth
mountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mount + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The hard disk was not mountable, so the operating system couldn't read it.
text: I bought a mountable picture frame so I could hang it on the wall.
glosses: Able to be mounted.
Derived terms: mountably
rack-mountable
unmountable
mutilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutilators
Etymology: From mutilate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: My little brother is a doll mutilator, so I make sure to lock my bedroom door to keep my dollies safe.
glosses: Agent noun of mutilate; one who mutilates.
Derived terms: male genital mutilator
mutilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutilator
moldiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouldiness
Etymology: From moldy + -ness. Compare Middle English mowldnes (“moldiness”).
Senses: examples: text: The moldiness of the bread meant that it was unpalatable, if not downright inedible.
glosses: The state or degree of being moldy.
noneffective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + effective.
Senses: examples: text: The game strategy he pursued was noneffective, and he was beaten soundly.
glosses: Not effective.
examples: text: After his injury, he was declared noneffective and given a medical discharge.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Not able to assume active duty.
Synonyms: sense: not effective
word: impotent
sense: not effective
word: ineffective
sense: not effective
word: lacking
sense: not effective
word: powerless
noneffective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noneffectives
Etymology: From non- + effective.
Senses: glosses: A member of the military who is unable to assume active duty.
nonabrasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + abrasive.
Senses: examples: text: I used a nonabrasive cleanser to clean the porcelain fixtures because I didn't want to scratch them.
glosses: Not abrasive.
Synonyms: sense: not abrasive
word: gentle
sense: not abrasive
word: mild
sense: not abrasive
word: smooth
sense: not abrasive
word: soft
nonabrasive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonabrasives
Etymology: From non- + abrasive.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is not abrasive.
neutrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neutrally
form: most neutrally
Etymology: From neutral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The terms of the contract were arbitrated neutrally by a third party.
glosses: In a neutral manner; evenhandedly or fairly.
Derived terms: electroneutrally
double-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-dips
form: double dip
Senses: examples: text: We each got double-dips with chocolate on top and strawberry on the bottom.
glosses: An ice cream cone with two scoops of ice cream.
qualifier: roller coasters
glosses: A hill that levels off for a while about halfway down.
examples: text: The UK is currently experiencing a double-dip.
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: W-shaped recession
glosses: Ellipsis of double-dip recession (“return to recession after a short period of growth”).
glosses: The drawing of a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or of two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
double-dip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-dips
form: double-dipping
form: double-dipped
form: double-dipped
form: double dip
Senses: examples: text: I don't mind double-dipping when eating with my family, but I'd be embarrassed to do it when out with friends.
glosses: To dip a piece of food (e.g. a chip) into a communal sauce container after already having taken a bite of the food.
examples: text: He got caught double-dipping by billing the government directly as well as the primary contractor.
text: They worried about the possibility that some forced laborers, in particular Jewish survivors, might be double-dipping, that is, that they might be collecting compensation for their work as forced laborers while continuing to receive payments as Holocaust survivors and thus absorbing funds that should be directed toward other groups of victims […]
ref: 2006, Wulf Kansteiner, In pursuit of German memory: history, television, and politics after Auschwitz:
glosses: To be illegitimately compensated a second time for the same activity.
glosses: To draw a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or to draw two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To re-release a movie or TV series, sometimes as a compilation or with additional features.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To use a single debt instrument to obtain interest tax expense (and therefore a lower tax base) in two or more tax jurisdictions.
examples: text: SPC Ladies double-dipped the Sudbury Storm in the NSA Canadian World Series.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: To defeat a team twice in the finals.
topics: education
higher-education
glosses: To enroll in a single class which will fulfill two different requirements of a course of study.
examples: text: I usually don't double-dip, but this port convinced me to with its additional content and improved graphics.
topics: video-games
glosses: To buy the same game twice, especially on different platforms.
Related terms: butter one's bread on both sides
sycophantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sycophantically
form: most sycophantically
Etymology: From sycophantic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a sycophantic manner.
discounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discounters
Etymology: From discount + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I shop at online discounters instead of paying retail at department stores.
glosses: A vendor of discount goods.
examples: text: I was a discounter of UFOs until I saw a flying saucer myself.
glosses: One who discounts or disregards.
Derived terms: bill discounter
discounters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discounter
hard wired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard wired
form: most hard wired
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hardwired.
hard-wired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-wired
form: most hard-wired
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hardwired.
hard-wired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hard-wire
sponsorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponsorship
instil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: instils
form: instilling
form: instilled
form: instilled
Senses: examples: text: her only real object in this call had been to instil a general uneasiness into Diva’s mind about the coal strike
ref: 1922, Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp, page 70:
text: "If we do not instil public confidence in the system, I fear the public will lose confidence and even fewer people will travel by rail."
ref: 2020 October 21, “Network News: Labour reiterates demand for full public ownership”, in Rail, page 7:
glosses: Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill.
Derived terms: instilment
reinstil
lionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lionises
form: lionising
form: lionised
form: lionised
Etymology: From lion + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of lionize.
Derived terms: lionisation
lioniser
fascio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæʃoʊ/
Forms: form: fascios
form: fasci
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fascio.
Senses: examples: text: The surfaces contain two fasci of curves — first, a fascio of elliptic curves, trajectories of the group, not necessarily a linear fascio; second, an elliptic fascio of curves of any genus; […]
ref: 1913, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, page 38:
glosses: A bundle or sheaf.
examples: text: Crispi, who became prime minister for the second time at the end of 1893, saw the fasci as promoters of revolution.
ref: 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 250:
glosses: An organised Italian political group, typically one resisting state government and advocating radical change; (specifically) any of a number of groups formed around the period of the First World War.
Camorra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɒɹə/
ipa: /kəˈmɔɹə/
rhymes: -ɒɹə
Forms: form: the Camorra
Etymology: From Italian camorra, from a Neapolitan word supposedly from Spanish camorra (“dispute, quarrel”).
Senses: glosses: A secret crime organization from Naples, Italy, equivalent to the Mafia of Sicily.
Derived terms: Camorrism
Camorrist
Camorrista
doppleganger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of doppelganger.
diarrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dīərhēʹĭk
ipa: /daɪəˈɹiːɪk/
Forms: form: diarrhoeic
form: diarrhœic
Etymology: From diarrhea + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having diarrhea; diarrheal.
Derived terms: antidiarrheic
antidiarrhœic
deis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dais.
kyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of kye
hattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hatter
speeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speeder
staps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stap
leverages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leverage
leverages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leverage
leveraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leverage
leveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leverage
capul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capuls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caple (“a horse”).
cheque card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheque cards
Senses: examples: text: Banks have decided to end cheque guarantee card payments from July 2011. / The 24 members of the current cheque card system said that they had made the move in order to reflect consumer trends, with the popularity of the payment method in "terminal decline".
ref: 2009 September 25, “Industry to close cheque card system”, in CompareAndSave.com:
topics: banking
business
glosses: A small plastic card issued by a bank or similar which is a guarantee of payment of cheques written by the cardholder (up to a specified maximum amount).
topics: banking
business
glosses: A card issued by a bank or similar which behaves like a credit card but is in fact a type of debit card.
Related terms: debit card
droppeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: drop + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop
hip and shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip and shoulders
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A bump of an opponent, using the side of the body, i.e. roughly the hip through to the upper arm and shoulder; the upper arm is held close against the body. Such a bump is considered fair play unless it is a push in the back or hits the opponent's head (a high contact).
service set identifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service set identifiers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a code that identifies the network to which packets on a wireless network belong
Synonyms: SSID
SSID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSIDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of service set identifier.
sweeten the pot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sweetens the pot
form: sweetening the pot
form: sweetened the pot
form: sweetened the pot
Senses: examples: text: He sweetened the pot since there were no takers in the office pool.
glosses: To increase a wager.
examples: text: Beginning next year the museum will sweeten the pot for season pass members by offering them a 10% discount in the gift shop in addition to unlimited free admission.
glosses: To make something more desirable.
Synonyms: up the ante
raise the stakes
Related terms: sugarcoat the pill
worth one's weight in gold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Because gold is expensive even in small amounts.
Senses: examples: text: I find my dog is worth her weight in gold on those long snowy weekends when I can't get out.
text: This book is worth its weight in gold to the housewife who wishes to feed her family for health—and economically.
ref: 1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280:
text: 2011, "Summer (Where Do We Begin?)" (song), Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Summer, every single moment is worth its weight in gold
Summer, it's like the world's best story and it's waiting to be told
glosses: Very valuable.
Related terms: worth one's weight in salt
hobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We made it and we hobbled up the stairs. Or I hobbled. My sons didn't hobble, I hobbled.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 37, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: simple past and past participle of hobble
monkey's fists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey's fist
folk tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk tales
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of folktale.
braved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brave
Derived terms: unbraved
worthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of worthy: more worthy
advects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advect
advecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advect
advected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advect
any-and-all
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of any and all.
nostrificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nostrificate
nostrificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nostrificate
nostrificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nostrificate
paraformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraformer
speakerphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːkəˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈspikɚˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: speakerphones
Etymology: From speaker + phone.
Senses: glosses: A telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker separate from those in the handset.
glosses: A loudspeaker on a telephone that broadcasts the sound, in order to use it handsfree.
Related terms: earpiece
bit-count integrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of a copy of a message having the same number of bits as the source message.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of a data stream having a consistent, fixed bitrate.
Synonyms: word: BCI
horned owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horned owls
Senses: glosses: An owl of the genus Bubo native to the Americas, among the largest types of owl, having two horn-like tufts of feathers on its head.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Bubo virginianus
word: great horned owl
taxonomic: Bubo magellanicus
word: lesser horned owl
taxonomic: Bubo magellanicus
word: Magellanic horned owl
presto change-o
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "It doesn't just go one, two, three, presto, change-o, you're cured."
ref: 1975, Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson, Consenting Adult, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 85:
ref: 1984, Audrey Wood, Presto Change-O, Child's Play, →ISBN:
text: Then tell them to read the sentence on the front of each flap, open the flap, and read the sentence inside. Presto Change-o! Common nouns are transformed into proper nouns, right before nouns, right before their eyes!
ref: 2001, Karen Kellaher, Writing Skills Made Fun: Parts of Speech, →ISBN, page 13:
text: But then that little psychopath Willie Bosket murdered a couple of subway riders for the hell of it when he was fifteen and -- presto change-o! -- a new law was born.
ref: 2006, Peter Blauner, Slipping Into Darkness: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of presto chango.
presto chango
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛs.təʊ ˈtʃeɪn.dʒəʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɹɛs.toʊ ˈtʃeɪn.dʒoʊ/
Forms: form: presto changeo
form: presto change-o
Etymology: From presto + rhyming variation of change.
Senses: examples: text: 1929, Business Week, advertisement,
Just one touch lets you go from black to a second color. Presto. Chango. Or back to black. Presto. Chango. Color copies have never been easier.
text: PRESTO CHANGO! From a dreary, commonplace piece to a smart colorful chair shining with personality.
ref: 1937 April 24, Washington Post, page 12:
text: "...An' presto-chango, you got yourself a twenty-eight-by-sixty-foot house."
ref: 1978, Richard Rhodes, Holy Secrets, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Tom nodded solemnly. "Presto Chango," he said. Then he looked at the policeman again. "My name is Joshua Cameron," he announced, and the policeman wrote that down.
ref: 1983, Lois Lowry, Taking Care of Terrific, Houghton Mifflin Children's Books, →ISBN, page 158:
text: Watch and before your eyes, presto chango, a capital crime of the most hideous sort will be turned into a superstition,....
ref: 2000, Candace Sherk Savage, Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca, Sterling Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Jesus is the ultimate stain lifter. He removes the stain of our sin, and presto, chango!
ref: 2014, Mike Lutz, God Every Day: 365 Life Application Devotions:
glosses: Indicates the suddenness of a change or transformation, as a magic trick in which one object appears to be suddenly transformed into another.
Theo.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Theodore.
Thos.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Starley’s frame connected the two wheels by forks, but there was no tube connecting the saddle and the bottom bracket as was afterwards done by Thos. Humber, at Beeston, Notts.
ref: 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 14:
glosses: Abbreviation of Thomas.
Wm.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of William.
glosses: Abbreviation of Westmorland.
show-stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show-stoppers
Senses: examples: text: From budget-friendly stocking-fillers to main present show-stoppers, put these on your list…
ref: 2021 December 9, Lily Pearson, “Great gifts for kids”, in Evening Standard, page 20:
glosses: Alternative spelling of showstopper.
show stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show stoppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of showstopper.
show-stoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of show-stopper
show stoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of show stopper
jerry can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerry cans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jerrycan.
purty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: purtier
form: purtiest
form: purdy
Senses: examples: text: Seen a purty girl down the road. Give her a big wink, too. Purty as hell, too.
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 22, in The Grapes of Wrath:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pretty.
purty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: purdy
Senses: examples: text: They treated us purty good but we had to work hard.
ref: 2004, Randall Williams, Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama, John F. Blair, Publisher, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.
ref: 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pretty.
Ferris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪs
Etymology: English surname, from Norman Ferrers, from the toponymic Ferrières, from French fer (“iron”).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Fergus and/or from the Norman surname Ferrers.
glosses: A village in Illinois.
glosses: A city in Texas.
Related terms: Ferris wheel
oppugnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpʌɡnən(t)si/
Forms: form: oppugnancies
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin oppugnantia or formed anew from oppugnant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy […]
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
qualifier: higher register
glosses: The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance
Related terms: oppugnant
unrivalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rivalled.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'
ref: 1907, John Galsworthy, “The Happy Hunting-ground”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 33:
glosses: British standard spelling of unrivaled.
Confucian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kənfyo͞oshən
ipa: /kənˈfjuʃən/
ipa: /kənˈfjuːʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: more Confucian
form: most Confucian
Etymology: From Confucius + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In the stereotyped cycle of peace and turmoil of a feudalistic society in Chinese history, Confucian culture has always been considered the basic stabilizing force. Dynasties might alter, circumstances might change, but democracy has never taken root and grown in Chinese society as it has long done in Western countries. Even after the success of the 1911 revolution, restoration of emperorship alternated with warlord strife. For quite a long time, the Republic of China had remained just in name. The Chinese communists seized power on the mainland, but their rule has run counter to democracy, creating a new form of feudalistic dictatorship. Intellectuals on the mainland still doubt and quarrel whether democracy can be carried out in Chinese society. Obviously, Chinese on the mainland are watching the tide of democracy that has been sweeping the whole world in the ending years of the 20th century with a deep sense of frustration and resignation. But, the Republic of China despite a similar Confucian background has succeeded in peacefully carrying out democratic reforms in Taiwan, freeing itself from the traditional bondage of the traditional Chinese society and breaking the cycle of dynastic changes. Our success has proved that the Taiwan society based on Confucian culture is able to develop the traditional humanism and combine it with Western rule of law into a new system of democratic government. This achievement has transcendental consequence. For a long time, Western academics have doubted that democracy can develop in a society with Confucian culture. After seeing the obvious difference between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, they have to adjust their views and make a new construct for their theories of political democracy.
ref: 1996 May, Lee Teng-hui, “Political Reforms”, in Peace Through Democratic Reforms, Taipei: Wen Ying Tang Press Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 15–16:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or conforming to the teachings of Confucius.
Synonyms: Kongzian
Related terms: Hanfeizian
Laozian
Mencian
Mengzian
Sunzian
Xunzian
Zengzian
Zhuangzian
Confucian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kənfyo͞oshən
ipa: /kənˈfjuʃən/
ipa: /kənˈfjuːʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: Confucians
Etymology: From Confucius + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who follows the teachings of Confucius.
Synonyms: Confucianist
Ruist
mender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menders
Etymology: From mend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The face of the old umbrella mender lighted up with a kindly smile as he commented on the strange conduct of my umbrella in slipping a cog just as he happened to come along. I asked him by what evil magic he did the trick and he laughed in a half-hearted way just to be polite, but it was plain that he had long since forgotten how to laugh.
ref: 1916 [1913 March 1], Eugene V. Debs, “The Old Umbrella Mender”, in Labor and Freedom, St. Louis: Phil Wagner, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: A person who mends.
Derived terms: gender mender
roadmender
shoemender
in medias res
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ˌmiːdiəs ˈɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˌmiːdiæs/
ipa: /ˈrɛz/
ipa: /ɪn ˌmiːdiə ˈɹeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in mediās rēs (literally “into the middle of things”).
Senses: examples: text: This novel begins in medias res.
text: As in a good epic, Ulysses begins in medias res and fills us in on Stephen's life since the end of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by flashback; and by the flashback of memory we are given the story of Molly's and Bloom's lives.
ref: 2008, Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman, Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Homer begins in medias res. Then, well into the poem, he takes us back to tell us about the events that make up the beginning of the story. The Odyssey, for example, begins in the tenth year of Odysseus's wanderings; […]
ref: 2012, H. David Brumble, Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance […] , Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: in-between
coordinate_terms: ab ovo
glosses: In the middle of a storyline.
in medias res
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ˌmiːdiəs ˈɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˌmiːdiæs/
ipa: /ˈrɛz/
ipa: /ɪn ˌmiːdiə ˈɹeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in mediās rēs (literally “into the middle of things”).
Senses: examples: text: Although not strictly in medias res, the film uses flashbacks extensively.
glosses: Beginning in the middle of its storyline: said of a work of literature or a film.
in medias res
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ˌmiːdiəs ˈɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˌmiːdiæs/
ipa: /ˈrɛz/
ipa: /ɪn ˌmiːdiə ˈɹeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in mediās rēs (literally “into the middle of things”).
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, the characters have been introduced but by no means established. I know Final Fantasy’s always been big on in medias res, but even the most basic questions about the plot remain unanswered. Who the fuck are these people? What is going on? Why should I care? Can I stop playing now? Please?
ref: 2010 (March 31ˢᵗ, 5:00pm): Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, “Final Fantasy XIII” reviewed by Zero Punctuation, 2:03–2:16
glosses: Narrative presented in medias res.
depants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depantses
form: depantsing
form: depantsed
form: depantsed
Etymology: From de- + pants.
Senses: examples: text: "'First off we depants's you. Then we take and bounce you. You'll be pulling oyster shells out of your backside—
ref: 1954, Edith Pope, River in the Wind, Scribner, page 100:
text: "For moronic fun we liked to sneak up behind a buddy and depants him, particularly if he was trying to sweet-talk a young college-bound girl."
ref: 1998, Bruce Clayton, Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood, University of Missouri Press,, →ISBN, page 195:
text: "Harry had been about eight when three burly high school kids had followed him home, threatening to 'depants that little nerd.'"
ref: 2004, Vicki Lewis Thompson, The Nerd Who Loved Me, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: To remove the trousers from (someone), often by force or surprise as a prank.
Derived terms: depantsing
departs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depart
maidenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪd(ə)nhʊd/
Forms: form: maidenhoods
Etymology: From Middle English maydenhode, meidenhod, maȝdenhad, from Old English mæġdenhād (“maidenhood”). By surface analysis, maiden + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne she said my lord sir launcelot I biseche yow see me as soone as ye may / for I haue obeyed me vnto the prophecy that my fader teld me / And by his commaūdement to fulfille this prophecy I haue gyuen the grettest rychesse and the fayrest floure that euer I had / and that is my maydenhode that I shalle neuer haue ageyne / and therfore gentyl knyȝt owe me youre good wille
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
english: Then she said, My Lord, Sir Lancelot, I beseech you see me as soon as you may / For I have obeyed unto the prophecy that my father told me / And by his commandment to fulfill this prophecy I have given the greatest riches and the fairest flower that ever I had / And that is my maidenhood that I shall never have again / And therefor gentle knight, owe me your goodwill
translation: Then she said, My Lord, Sir Lancelot, I beseech you see me as soon as you may / For I have obeyed unto the prophecy that my father told me / And by his commandment to fulfill this prophecy I have given the greatest riches and the fairest flower that ever I had / And that is my maidenhood that I shall never have again / And therefor gentle knight, owe me your goodwill
glosses: The condition of being a maiden; the time when one is a maiden or young girl.
glosses: A woman's virginity or maidenhead.
glosses: Freshness; newness.
Synonyms: maidhood
Related terms: maidenhead
maidenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maidenly
form: most maidenly
Etymology: From Middle English maidenly, equivalent to maiden + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a maiden.
examples: text: “I’ll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn’t think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie,” replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
ref: 1868-69, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 21, in Little Women:
glosses: Suitable for, or befitting a maiden; gentle; modest; pure; shy.
Related terms: maidenliness