cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lifestylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lifestyle + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At the heart of the SL's [Spartacist League] attitude is as simple but insidious notion: lesbians and gay men should not bother fighting for their own liberation because that is "lifestylism"; rather, we should become closeted members of a straight-dominated sect and hope we are not forgotten after the revolution.
ref: 1982 August 14, Ian Daniels, “Nazis In Chicago”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 5:
text: We went beyond squatting as lifestylism firstly by barricading our squats; secondly by taking over the street itself[…]
ref: 1998, George McKay, DIY Culture, page 108:
text: In the cult of commodified lifestylism, even religion has become one more box on the shelf—promising a personal benefit along with conditioning shampoo, long-lasting antiperspirant, breath-sweetening toothpaste[…]
ref: 2010, Leonard Sweet, The Three Hardest Words:
text: Instead, many fall victim to illusions of reformism, bourgeois democracy, technotopianism, lifestylism, and other bogus schemes.
ref: 2013, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Earth at Risk, page 192:
text: For if anarchism is just revolutionary workerism, then it loses its historical character as a libertarian critique or interpretation of socialism; yet if anarchism leaves its socialist roots completely in the past[…]then it arguably becomes something else, perhaps the supposedly aimless lifestylism derided famously by Murray Bookchin.
ref: 2020, Gary Chartier, Chad Van Schoelandt, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The appropriation of something as a lifestyle, without regard to its underlying tenets or meaning.
responsibilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: responsibilizes
form: responsibilizing
form: responsibilized
form: responsibilized
Etymology: From responsible + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make responsible; to imbue with a sense of responsibility.
Derived terms: responsibilization
responsibilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of responsibilize
responsibilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of responsibilize
responsibilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of responsibilize
responsibilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responsibilizations
form: responsibilisation
Etymology: From responsibilize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Responsibilization strategies involve a series of new techniques and methods "whereby the state seeks to bring about action on the part of private agencies and individuals - either by stimulating new forms of behaviour or by stopping established habits" (emphasis in the original).
ref: 2001, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Punishment in Disguise, →ISBN:
text: While responsibilization has become closely associated with neo-liberalism, with its inducement that individuals become entrepreneurs, it should be noted that responsibilization played a significant role in other historical periods.
ref: 2003, Richard Victor Ericson, Aaron Doyle, Risk and Morality, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Responsibilization is not an inherent entailment of devolution; there are decidedly more empowering and more democratic potentials for devolved decision making.
ref: 2015, Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution, →ISBN, page 134:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The transfer of responsibility from higher authorities to communities or individuals who are then called on to take an active role in resolving their own problems.
Related terms: responsibilize
responsibilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsibilization
shellackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shellacking
polishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polishing
A.L.J.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of administrative law judge.
Assemb.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of assemblyman.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of assemblywoman.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of assemblymember.
Att'y Gen.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of attorney general.
C.B.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Chief Baron.
glosses: Alternative form of CB.
C.J.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of chief judge.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of chief justice.
J.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JJ.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of J, abbreviation of judge or justice.
J.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jay (diminutive of given names)
JJ.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of JJ, abbreviation of judges or justices; plural of J.
L.J.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Lord Justice.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Law Journal.
Mag.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of magistrate.
Related terms: english: when referring to the name of a court
translation: when referring to the name of a court
word: Magis.
M.R.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Master of the Rolls.
V.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of vice chancellor.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of vi coactus (“forced by force”).
vice chancellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice chancellors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vice-chancellor.
vice chancellors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vice chancellor (alternative spelling of vice-chancellors).
assemblymember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblymembers
Etymology: From assembly + member.
Senses: examples: text: Another New Jersey assemblymember characterized the majority of his colleagues as follows: "It's like their life depends on it. It's their thing. It becomes an obsession, all the politics, the maneuvering, making deals".
ref: 1986, Gerald M. Pomper, The Political State of New Jersey, page 122:
text: Shortly before her May 1972 Denver press conference Maggie contacted Hope Bagger, eighty-one, who in March had convinced her assemblymember, Franz Leichter, to introduce a bill banning mandatory retirement in New York state.
ref: 2011, Roger Sanjek, Gray Panthers, page 94:
text: Louis Louaillier, a U.S. citizen, journalist, and assemblymember, wrote in his local newspaper, The Louisiana Courier, that detainees should go to a civil judge...
ref: 2013, Anthony Gregory, The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror, page 74:
glosses: A person who serves as a member of an assembly.
Synonyms: english: even more common but sometimes male-specific
translation: even more common but sometimes male-specific
word: assemblyman
word: assemblyperson
word: assemblywoman
assemblymembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assemblymember
assemblyperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblypersons
form: assemblypeople
Etymology: From assembly + person.
Senses: glosses: An assemblymember; an assemblyman of any gender.
Related terms: assemblyman
assemblymember
assemblywoman
assemblypersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assemblyperson
assemblypeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assemblyperson
mumruffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumruffins
Senses: glosses: long-tailed tit
cupping glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupping glasses
form: cupping-glass
Etymology: From cupping + glass. Compare Middle English cuppinge cuppe (“cupping glass”, literally “cupping cup”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: scarificator
bleeding bowl
glosses: A glass vessel used in cupping.
Synonyms: cupping jar
bleeding-boist
cupping jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cupping jars
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of cupping glass.
synonyms: word: cupping glass
uprushings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uprushing
apple-mush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple mush
Etymology: From apple + mush, or perhaps representing, in altered form, Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”). Compare Middle High German apfelmuos (“stewed apples”).
Senses: examples: text: “I thought we would have sausage sandwiches and this apple mush. That way we won't have to start the stove. Okay? I think there is still some cake in the cupboard.”
ref: 2005, C. Jacob, Destiny Or Deceit:
text: Sally offered her mother a spoonful of apple mush. 'I can't eat, darling. Sister understands.'
ref: 2007, Joy Dettman, Goose Girl:
text: In the smell of apple-mortality which is sweet, there are tears like windfalls Dried on our cheeks; this apple-mush, these tears the real home of all, Fruit, dog, woman, lover, ceaseless waterfall and ancient house, vaporous stairs that Wait for our ascending.
ref: 2012, Peter Redgrove, Collected Poems:
text: We would send the boys out to pick up apples and they would almost always come back covered in apple mush after throwing the rotten ones at each other.
ref: 2012, Diana K. Perkins, Jenny's Way:
glosses: The mush or puree of apples; applesauce.
divulgeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: divulge + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of divulge
futurities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futurity
an all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ən ˈɔːl/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of and all.
topicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topick
minceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: mince + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mince
archbishopdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *archebischopdom, from Old English arċebisċopdōm (“archiepiscopal dignity; archbishopric”), equivalent to archbishop + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: … some call it the sacrament of priesthood, of bishopdom, or of archbishopdom, …
ref: 1855, A general index to the publications of the Parker Society - Page 567
text: In the not too distant past Salzburg had been an Archbishopdom ruled by her archbishops.
ref: 1982, Josefa Nina Lieberman, He came to Cambridge, Beaumont:
text: The fines of 120 Mark remained unpaid, as the principals were said to have refused. One can understand that the three agents fled into the adjacent archbishopdom where they could not be reached by the guardians of Riga's law.
ref: 1995, Erik Tiberg, Moscow, Livonia and the Hanseatic League: 1487-1550 - Page 191:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The realm, sphere, domain, office, or jurisdiction of an archbishop; archbishopric.
tuck-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuck-ins
Etymology: From tuck + in, from the phrasal verb.
Senses: glosses: A hearty meal.
glosses: The process of putting a child to bed and tucking the covers around them.
Related terms: tuck
tucker
tuck-out
mumruffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mumruffin
birddom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bird + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The parrot particularly, which may be considered the autocrat of the feathered tribes leads all birddom in the number and variety of diseases to which it is subject.
ref: 1895, Walter F. Webb, The Museum: A Journal Devoted to Research in Natural Science, volumes 1-3, page 337:
text: As March creeps into April, the panoply of summer birddom has begun to reassemble.
ref: 1996, Tom Horton, An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay, page 280:
text: I doubt there is a zoo in the world which doesn't have at least a few of these gorgeous creatures strutting through the grounds, from time to time deigning to show off the most extravagant plumage in all of birddom.
ref: 2006, David Moyle, Living With Peacocks, page 1:
glosses: The state of being a bird, or of belonging to the world of birds; birds collectively.
forfeiteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: forfeit + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forfeit
forgoeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: forgo + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forgo
suncatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suncatchers
Etymology: From sun + catcher.
Senses: glosses: A small piece of reflective glass or nacre that is hung indoors at a window to "catch the light".
suncatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suncatcher
relegitimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relegitimizes
form: relegitimizing
form: relegitimized
form: relegitimized
Etymology: From re- + legitimize.
Senses: glosses: To make legitimate again.
Related terms: relegitimization
relegitimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relegitimize
relegitimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relegitimize
relegitimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relegitimize
relegitimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + legitimization.
Senses: glosses: The process of relegitimizing.
reirrigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + irrigation.
Senses: glosses: The process of reirrigating.
frogdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frog + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom.
ref: 1870, William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, page 240:
text: No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag.
ref: 2009, Frank H. Cheley, The Three Rivers Kids, page 87:
text: All four of the southern frogs present (all non-tropical native Australian frogs are either southern frogs, a homegrown contribution to world frogdom, or tree frogs) I have heard in my suburban backyard, but the sheer numbers here are thrilling.
ref: 2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 181:
glosses: The state of being a frog, or of belonging to the world of frogs; frogs, collectively.
crocodiledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crocodile + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: To the north his limit is not known, and most probably he has a continuous range, quite to the classic ground of crocodiledom, the waters of the Nile.
ref: 1876, Henry Brooks, Robert James Mann, Natal; a History and Description of the Colony, page 126:
glosses: The state of being a crocodile, or of belonging to the world of crocodiles; crocodiles, collectively.
Related terms: reptiledom
sharkdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shark + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Having once tasted blood, sharkdom, like despotism, kept a look-out for victims to devour by "right divine" in any unhappy waifs or strays of humanity daring enough to venture into the water.
ref: 1868, Isabelle Saxon, Five years within the Golden gate, page 215:
text: How strange to discover the only novel to be Peter Benchley's outrageous tale of demonic sharkdom, Jaws.
ref: 1998, Philip Z. Trupp, Sea of Dreamers: Travels with Famous Ocean Explorers, page 166:
text: McHenry had been pilloried as an enemy of sharkdom after he had caught four large great whites at the Farallons in a single day in 1982.
ref: 2001, Thomas B. Allen, Shark Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance, page 5:
glosses: The state of being a shark, or of belonging to the world of sharks; sharks, collectively.
Related terms: fishdom
blazeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blaze + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blaze
noiseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: noise + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noise
blazoneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blazon + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blazon
heraldeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: herald + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of herald
pecketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: peck + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peck
beggeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: beg + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beg
screecheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: screech + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of screech
shrinketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: shrink + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrink
squeaketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: squeak + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squeak
sneaketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sneak + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sneak
commemorateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: commemorate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commemorate
copieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: copy + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copy
slinketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: slink + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slink
Kulturwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kulturworts
form: kulturwort
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Kulturwort, from Kultur (“culture”) + Wort (“word”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word borrowed among many languages denoting a cross-cultural concept.
Coordinate terms: Wanderwort
Related terms: internationalism
turtledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turtle + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, "A Newly Hatched Turtle", in Bradford Torrey, ed, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal (1906), page 33
text: But for a display of agility almost unparalleled in turtledom, put a small mouse in this turtle's pen, then stand back and watch.
ref: 1996, Richard D. Bartlett, Patricia Pope Bartlett, Turtles and Tortoises: Everything About Selection, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, and Behavior, page 73:
text: Kids, collectors and the pet store business are threatening turtledom.
ref: 2004, Mary Blocksma, Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year, page 108:
glosses: The state of being a turtle, or of belonging to the world of turtles; turtles, collectively.
Related terms: reptiledom
squirreldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squirrel + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The dwarf looked hard and earnestly at the plant in his hand; it gave forth a sweet scent that unconsciously took him back to his days of slavery and squirreldom.
ref: 1881, Wilhelm Hauff, Longnose the dwarf, and other fairy tales:
text: These trees are seemingly ordained to lose their leaves earlier than most, thus revealing nuts hanging from bare branches — for the benefit of mankind and squirreldom alike.
ref: 2000, Frank Furlong Mathias, The GI Generation: A Memoir, page 83:
glosses: The condition or state of being a squirrel, or of belonging to the world of squirrels; squirrels collectively.
packeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pack + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pack
picketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: pick + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick
highjackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highjacking
copydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copy + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: The contrast between parts which he chose to retouch for his own gratification and parts which he left in their feeble state of copydom is sufficiently exhibited by the section where the procession reaches the corner of the room with the figure of [...]
ref: 1977, Michael Jaffé, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens and Italy - Page 44:
text: It is only the second phase of the three stages of copydom.
ref: 2004, Alison Alexander, Jarice Hanson, Taking sides:
glosses: The state or condition of being copied, or of being a copy.
examples: text: The trouble is that in these days the Goliaths of copydom are all tricked out and cumbered with armor of various kinds, from layouts to ten finished proofs in as many colors, for an advertisement.
ref: 1927, Printers' Ink, volume 139, number 2, page 18:
text: Initially, enthusiasts like Kelly (2006) celebrated this as a “clever solution”, potentially helping to “unravel the Gordian knot of copydom” in the digital age.
ref: 2012, Michael Nentwich, René König, Cyberscience 2.0: Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks - Page 135:
glosses: The sphere, influence, or world of copying.
Kauaian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kauaian
form: most Kauaian
Etymology: From Kauai + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the island of Kauai.
Kauaian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kauaians
Etymology: From Kauai + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kauai.
Kauaians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kauaian
recollecteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: recollect + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recollect
collecteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: collect + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of collect
squandereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: squander + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squander
reptilehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reptile + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And so, though you, or Dr. Bellows, or an Archangel, should convince a Christian that the theatre, or the card-table, or a fancy ball, or a racecourse, were quite proper as religious amusements, still you must, moreover, unregenerate the man's taste, enveloping his spiritual wings back again into reptilehood, ere you can persuade him to rejoice in them.
ref: 1859, Charles Wadsworth, The Joy in Harvest: A Thanksgiving Sermon, page 8:
text: At some point in the long evolutionary voyage from reptilehood, it developed a double voice-box, the syrinx...
ref: 1986, Jeffery Boswall, Birds for All Seasons, page 14:
text: If, say, you think that a whole lot of related lineages were all independently evolving in parallel from amphibianhood through reptilehood towards mammalhood, you could speak of passing through the reptile grade on the way to the mammal grade.
ref: 2005, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, page 250:
glosses: The state or essence of being a reptile.
Synonyms: reptiledom
buttonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From button + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being fastened with a button or buttons.
Derived terms: unbuttonable
unbuttonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unbutton + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being unbuttoned.
unbuttonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + buttonable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being buttoned.
swarmeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: swarm + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swarm
defeateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: defeat + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defeat
Stanislavskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stanislavskian
form: most Stanislavskian
Etymology: From Stanislavski + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Constantin Stanislavski (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Станисла́вский; 1863–1938), Russian actor and theatre director, usually credited with introducing method acting.
pieceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: piece + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piece
priceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: price + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of price
walk on the wild side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walks on the wild side
Senses: examples: text: [S]he is drawn inexorably into the shady, but dangerously exciting world of one of her patients, a compulsive gambler. Her walk on the wild side leads her to a low-life gambling den, The House of Games.
ref: 1988 March 4, Alasdair Marshall, “World of Films: High Stakes and Low Life”, in Evening Times, UK, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
text: Thanks to the likes of James Bond, the trappings of spy-dom have long attracted jealous eyes and vivid imaginations of many who long for a walk on the wild side of espionage.
ref: 2011 December 9, “Shhh...Spy-Worthy Homes for Sale”, in Forbes, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
glosses: An occasion or incident involving adventurous, risky, or morally questionable behavior.
walk on the wild side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks on the wild side
form: walking on the wild side
form: walked on the wild side
form: walked on the wild side
Senses: examples: text: L.A. Confidential . . . walks on the wild side with brief and startling violence, fleeting nudity, sexual situations and redolent seamy details.
ref: 1997 September 19, Janet Maslin, “Film Review: The Dark Underbelly of a Sunny Town”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
text: GM rolled the dice on a lifestyle vehicle that promised only modest sales. . . . That's the risk GM took when it decided to walk on the wild side.
ref: 2000 December 17, “GM's Aztek: Born To Be A Little Too Wild”, in Businessweek, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
glosses: To behave in an adventurous, risky, or morally questionable manner.
Synonyms: take a walk on the wild side
take a walk on the wild side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a walk on the wild side
form: taking a walk on the wild side
form: took a walk on the wild side
form: taken a walk on the wild side
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of walk on the wild side (verb)
international relations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: IR
word: global affairs
glosses: The study of political and trade relationships among countries.
examples: text: While they deny the logic of history and geography, neither Gibraltar nor the Falklands will ever be truly "safe". One day these hangovers will somehow merge into their hinterlands and cease to be grit in the shoe of international relations. This day will be hastened if world governments take action to end tax havens.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: The relationships themselves.
excess baggage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Watch your weight: Excess baggage is damaging to the wallet. Airlines charge typically from $20 to $30 a kilogram.
ref: 2003 August 29, Roger Collis, “Frequent Traveler: Send blues packing”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Luggage which exceeds the allowable size or weight (as for an airline flight or train trip), and for which an extra fee must therefore be paid.
examples: text: Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed four flushers, false alarms and excess baggage!
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Exiles and refugees . . . are likely to find the old ways and old language excess baggage, especially if their adopted homeland is the U.S., where the race is to the swift and the adaptable.
ref: 1976 Dec. 6, Paul Gray, "Books: Book of Changes" (review of The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston), Time
glosses: Something or someone not needed or not wanted; something or someone of little use or importance; something or someone considered burdensome.
examples: text: A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying a line of hope as excess baggage, had grubstaked us.
ref: c. 1905, O. Henry, The Handbook of Hymen:
text: The Pirates entered the season lugging no one's expectations as excess baggage.
ref: 1996 April 8, Murray Chass, “On Baseball: An Early Lesson on Expectation vs. Reality”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
text: Every candidate for public office probably has some excess baggage to carry around that he'd rather not have. With Sen. John Kerry, it's undoubtedly his anti-Vietnam War activism.
ref: 2004 March 24, J. F. Kelly Jr., “Living with his anti-war past”, in San Diego Source, retrieved 20 Jun 2013:
glosses: A dubious or unhelpful mental outlook, emotional disposition, or personal history.
Related terms: sense: something not needed or not wanted
word: dead weight
word: travel light
Little Russians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Little Russian
Great Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of Muscovy and, later, Russia.
Coordinate terms: Little Russia
White Russia
Derived terms: Great Russian
Numa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Iowa.
glosses: the praenomen of the legendary second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius
spectabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spectabulous
form: most spectabulous
Etymology: Blend of spectacular + fabulous
Senses: examples: text: And that means that rehearsals have started for the most spectabulous Barristers' Club show in history.
ref: 1974, Barristers' Bailiwick, volume 3, Bar Association of San Francisco, page 165:
text: It's good. No, it's great. No, it's spectabulous!
ref: 2003, Jordana Arkin, "The Vampire Strikes Back", What's New, Scooby-Doo?, season 2, episode 5, 0:37 (DVD subtitles)
glosses: Extremely spectacular.
doctordom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doctor + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Given all her responsibilities of motherhood and doctordom, Karen relishes her free time.
ref: 2000, Marc Jaffe, Sleeping With Your Gynecologist: Tales from My Marriage to an Ob\gyn, page 35:
text: As I continued down the educational path to doctordom, I became frustrated with all the red tape I encountered.
ref: 2002, Jared Lee Hanson, Control Freak: Harness the Power, page 199:
text: This is what separates surgeons from the rest of doctordom.
ref: 2007, Elinor Lipman, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, page 98:
glosses: The realm or sphere of doctors; doctors, collectively.
almadraba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almadrabas
Etymology: From Spanish almadraba.
Senses: glosses: A Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
glosses: An arrangement of nets for this purpose.
almadrabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almadraba
flobbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flobber
flobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The flobbering of the balloon was rather undignified.
glosses: The action of the verb flobber.
flobbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flobber
flobbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flobber
grasshopper pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasshopper pies
Senses: glosses: A kind of mint and chocolate pie, served chilled.
examples: text: They lived chiefly on fish and roots, with now and then a delicacy such as grasshopper pie.
ref: 1964, Robert Edgar Riegel, Robert G. Athearn, America Moves West, page 299:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grasshopper, pie.
grasshopper pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grasshopper pie
ebbeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: ebb + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ebb
Feynmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Feynmanian
form: most Feynmanian
Etymology: From Feynman + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Richard Feynman (1918–1988), American theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and particle physics.
mismail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismails
form: mismailing
form: mismailed
form: mismailed
Etymology: From mis- + mail.
Senses: examples: text: As the disbursing clerk, through his employees, mailed the check in accordance with the address furnished him by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, it seems that no blame can be attached to him for its mismailing.
ref: 1936, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, volume 15, page 980:
text: If the secretary of state mismails it, you are not relieved of liability for filing the report, and, incidentally, there's a $250 fine for not filing it.
ref: 1976, Transcripts of Developments Tapes, The Regents of the University of California, page 8:
glosses: To mail incorrectly; to send (a letter etc.) to the wrong place.
mismailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismail
mismails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mismail
mismailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismail
proppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propper
coursepack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coursepacks
Etymology: From course + pack.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A set of photocopied documents or other materials to be given to students as part of a course of study.
coursepacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coursepack
professordom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From professor + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: He thinks that by nursing this gigantic reverence for the idea of professordom, such reverence will, somehow, be extended all over society, till the professor becomes a creature of power, of public notoriety, of independent reputation as he is in Germany.
ref: 1913, James McKeen Cattell, University control, page 457:
text: Another, the fifth, year of professordom is expiring this week.
ref: 1989, Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams, page 107:
text: For this reason, I would like to focus on a chink in the armour of professordom: on one of the facets of literary art to which academics pay insufficient attention.
ref: 2002, Stephen Henighan, When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing, page 109:
glosses: The realm or sphere of professors; professors, collectively.
tendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tend + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tend
Adirondack lean-to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adirondack lean-tos
Senses: synonyms: word: Adirondack
word: Adirondack shelter
glosses: A type of log structure with a single sloping roof, used in the Adirondacks as a camping shelter.
acathistus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκάθιστος (akáthistos, “not sitting, standing”).
Senses: glosses: A Greek liturgical hymn in honour of Mary.
glosses: A series of doxological prayers.
Related terms: akathist
acathist
tradeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: trade + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trade
trafficketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: traffic + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traffic
grubhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grubhouses
Etymology: From grub (“food”) + house.
Senses: glosses: A separate building or tent in a camp or other complex set aside for preparing and/or eating food.
glosses: A restaurant.
grubhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grubhouses
Etymology: From German Grubenhaus.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: pithouse.
Synonyms: sunken featured building
SFB
Lancashire peeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lancashire peelers
Senses: glosses: A style of vegetable peeler, consisting of a straight handle and blade, with twine around the handle for a non-slip grip.
Aaron's confession
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A confession (somewhat similar to a denomination) of Russian Old Believers, which split from the Filippians in the second half of the 18th century.
telephonograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephonographs
Etymology: From tele- + phonograph.
Senses: glosses: A device for the recording and transmission of sound.
Related terms: telegraphone
telephonographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephonograph
duddering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dudder
duddered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dudder
renewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renewing
Lakotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lakota
borderlineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From borderline + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
ref: 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:
glosses: The quality of being borderline.
noncase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncases
Etymology: From non- + case.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Buckey's attorney, Danny Davis, said, "The case has dragged on because it was a noncase whipped up by people who had differing ambitions that were not in the interest of this institution or the children."
ref: 1989 April 23, AP, “Jurors Mark 2 Years on California Abuse Case”, in The New York Times:
text: We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
ref: 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:
glosses: One who or that which is not a case (of a disease, a type of thing being explained, etc.).
noncases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncase
midnightish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more midnightish
form: most midnightish
Etymology: From midnight + -ish.
Senses: examples: a midnightish sky
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of midnight.
examples: a midnightish flight to New York
glosses: Taking place around midnight.
bipolarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipolarity
precisification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precisifications
Etymology: From precise + -ification.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The process of making a statement more precise.
precisifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precisification
antidynastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidynastic
form: most antidynastic
Etymology: From anti- + dynastic.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing a dynasty.
nondynastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dynastic.
Senses: glosses: Not dynastic.
antichimpanzee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + chimpanzee.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Reacting with the immunoglobins found in chimpanzees.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antiliterary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiliterary
form: most antiliterary
Etymology: From anti- + literary.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Relating to antiliterature; defying the conventions of literature.
antibook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibook
form: most antibook
Etymology: From anti- + book.
Senses: examples: text: […]there is a distinct preference for direct-experience learning, which gives rise to an antibook attitude.
ref: 1986, Clarence J. Karier, The Individual, Society, and Education, page 223:
text: To be antibook is, of course, to be anti-intellectual, but in the light of Jesus' First Command, to be antibook is to be anti-Christian, too.
ref: 2004, Frederick Dale Bruner, Matthew: The Christbook, Matthew 1-12, page 198:
glosses: Opposing or disliking books.
antijury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antijury
form: most antijury
Etymology: From anti- + jury.
Senses: examples: text: Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias.
ref: 1961, Harvard Law Review, volume 74, page 457:
glosses: Opposing a jury or juries.
spin up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spins up
form: spinning up
form: spun up
form: spun up
Senses: examples: text: Plated hard disk surfaces are actually harder and more scratch resistant than read-write heads are. The hard magnetic medium effectively protects itself from head crashes caused by contaminants and the drive's spinning up or down.
ref: 1987, PC: The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers, volume 6, page 222:
text: The hard drive spun up. The gray screen flickered. The smiley Mac face appeared and soon I was ready to dazzle the world with The Journals Book II.
ref: 2005, R. T. Stone, The Journals Book II: Into the Gulf, page 28:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.
raw_tags: of a disk drive
examples: text: Near-synonyms: spool up; gin up
text: We spun up a virtual server in the cloud to handle the additional load.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To power up, launch, or instantiate.
examples: text: The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away. Sure, he thinks. I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity; to spool up.
examples: text: For the better part of a decade, Donald J. Trump and his allies at Fox News have beguiled some Americans and enraged others as they spun up an alternative world where elections turned on fraud, one political party oppressed another, and one man stood against his detractors to carry his version of truth to an adoring electorate.
ref: 2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To fabricate.
Coordinate terms: spin off
Derived terms: word: spin-up
word: spinup
spinup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinups
Etymology: Deverbal from spin up.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of a disk drive spinning up.
glosses: The act or process of building or creating something, such as a business or product line.
Coordinate terms: spin-off
spinups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinup
spindowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindown
estimateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: estimate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of estimate
estrangeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: estrange + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of estrange
neurotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotypes
Etymology: From neuro- + type.
Senses: examples: text: And the neurotypes aren't random. They align with their symptom clusters along two major axes: anxiety and anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure).
ref: 2018, Steve Bloem, The Pastoral Handbook of Mental Illness, page 56:
glosses: A type of brain, in terms of how a person interprets and responds to social cues, etc.
Derived terms: neurophenotyping
neurotypicity
Related terms: neurotypical
personality
neurotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotype
neuroethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + ethical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuroethics.
Derived terms: neuroethically
pullcord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullcords
Etymology: From pull + cord.
Senses: examples: text: The switch is operated by a rope pullcord at the level and a plastic-coated wire pullcord anywhere between levels.
ref: 1964, Ontario. Dept, “Bulletin”, in Mines, numbers 163-167, page 15:
glosses: A cord that can be pulled to activate a light or other mechanism.
pullcords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pullcord
captivateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: captivate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of captivate
wetteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wet + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wet
whiteneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: whiten + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whiten
conserveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: conserve + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conserve
subserveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: subserve + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subserve
neverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From never + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He felt a lump in his throat and a hotness in his eyes as he thought of the neverness of her.
ref: 1974, The Honest Ulsterman, numbers 42-47, page 14:
text: Reader and writer come together to accomplish the negative, to occupy an alternative to the present. In this threshold instant called reading, we bridge the gap of now and never. The neverness of fiction, what never happened, happens now.
ref: 2009, A. A. Attanasio, Arrival: Key Speeches, Reflections and Historical Context, page 10:
glosses: The quality of being never, of not ever being extant or present.
mismappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mismapping
antihooligan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihooligan
form: most antihooligan
Etymology: From anti- + hooligan.
Senses: glosses: Opposing hooligans or hooliganism.