cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
semifunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Her servant is secretly selling gossip about her to a scandal sheet, and this angle provides some of the semifunny situations.
ref: 1953 November 25, “Heimlich, Still Und Leise (Secretly, Quietly & Softly) (German)”, in Variety, volume 192, number 12, New York, N.Y., page 24:
text: For forty years or more or less, / I’ve struggled to achieve success / And fill my ever-empty purse / By writing semifunny verse, / To advertise my unknown name / And niche it in the hall of fame.
ref: 1960, Jack Whiffen, “At Last”, in Too True: The Poems of Jack Whiffen, page 61:
text: On screen is, and there the film falls curiously flat, playing as a semifunny joke that goes on too long.
ref: 2011 April 15, “More movies: A sampling of new offerings on the big screen this weekend”, in Lansing State Journal, page 2C:
glosses: Alternative form of semi-funny.
gets a life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get a life
getting a life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get a life
got a life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get a life
glosses: past participle of get a life
gotten a life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get a life
handpull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handpulls
Etymology: From hand + pull.
Senses: examples: text: It's almost impossible to keep up with the range of beers – ten handpulls sit happily alongside long-hauled Brooklyn lager and Budweiser Budvar, plus a wide selection of ciders.
ref: 2016, The Daily Telegraph, Pint to Pint: A Crawl around Britain’s Best Pubs, London: Icon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A beer pull.
handpulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handpull
R'dg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Reading taking the first letters of both syllables and the final letter.
Senses: glosses: University of Reading, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
funny-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funny-ish
form: most funny-ish
form: funnyish
Etymology: From funny + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The relative success or failure of “Adult Beginners,” directed with a steady, nonjudgmental hand by Ross Katz, depends on how funny you find Kroll. I find him funny-ish.
ref: 2015 April 24, Michael Phillips, “Tale about grown-ups who are growing up doesn’t take risks”, in Lake County News-Sun, section 3, page 6:
text: He continued: “I read the script and I found it funny-ish. I also found it horrific at times and ultimately moving in a bizarre way,” a darkly comic allegorical comment about modern life and love in the age of Tinder.
ref: 2016 June 3, Colin Covert, “Colin Farrell feasts on ‘The Lobster’s’ surreal vision”, in The News & Observer, volume 152, number 155, page 3C:
text: “When audiences laugh at something that is funny, or funny-ish, they know it’s supposed to be a joke and it works pretty well, either way,” said Johnson.
ref: 2021 October 22, Chris Hewitt, “The many stages of fear, at a theater near you”, in Star Tribune, volume XL, number 201, page E8:
glosses: Somewhat funny.
funnyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more funnyish
form: most funnyish
Senses: examples: text: I felt funnyish at first; but gaining confidence, or impudence if you like the term, I soon got quit of all propriety qualms, and went through my tumblerbank business in prime order, and fairly electrified the crowd.
ref: 1849, J[oseph] P[hilip] Robson, chapter VII, in The Life and Adventures of the Far-Famed Billy Purvis, Newcastle upon Tyne: […] John Clarke, page 42:
text: But, to come to the subject in a somewhat graver manner, it is deeply important that we should consider the subject well; because if for a moment I can imagine that man is merely an advance on a first-rate monkey—that I am to consider my origin no higher than a respectable ape, who sprang from a funnyish monad, myriads of myriads of ages ago—the probability is, if I don’t take care, I may return to that condition, whatever it may be.
ref: 1867, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, volume II, London: […] Robert Hardwicke, page 88:
text: That night, a funnyish night if you like, when he had looked at Lone Brow through the landing window and thought such strange thoughts.
ref: 1924, Mrs. Henry Dudeney [i.e., Alice Dudeney], The Finger-Post, page 66:
text: The first funnyish thing about the book is the picture on the cover, a picture drawn by the author who has illustrated the entire volume most cleverly.
ref: 1930 January 4, George Donald Billings, “Oliver Herford’s New Book, ‘Excuse It, Please’, Is Giddy Happy Collection of Verse: Magic of One of America’s Most Famous Humorists Fills Volume With Real Charm and Warmth—Funny From Cover to Cover”, in The Minneapolis Star, volume 17, number 120, Minneapolis, Minn.:
text: We had sauerkraut for dinner. It tasted funnyish.
ref: 1931, Ethel Moseley Damon, Koamalu: A Story of Pioneers on Kauai, and of What They Built in That Island Garden, page 678:
text: Whether these stories really meet the 97-percent benchmark or not, they’re a pleasure to read and funny. Or at least, funnyish.
ref: 2008 June 6, Malcolm Ritter, “David Sedaris offers ‘realish’ personal memoirs”, in The Oklahoman, volume 117, number 153, page 19D:
glosses: Alternative form of funny-ish.
lyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lye
lyinger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lying: more lying
ultra-pure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultra-pure
form: most ultra-pure
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ultrapure.
Afro-German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Germans
Etymology: From Afro- + German.
Senses: glosses: A German of African descent.
Afro-German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afro-German
form: most Afro-German
Etymology: From Afro- + German.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Germans of African descent.
button masher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button mashers
form: button-masher
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: button basher
glosses: A video game that is played by button mashing.
button mashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of button masher
tankhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tank + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The Napier has not yet disclosed its price for its de-luxiest specialty model; but the Daimler, reverting from its filibustering period of tankhood to gentility, has, and is much in accord in proportion with the Rolls-Royce assessment of increase.
ref: 1919, The Sketch - Volume 106, page 186:
text: "Yes, that's fine with me!" I bark, making sure to assert some authority now, before my lack of tankhood makes Seth step all over me.
ref: 2007, Iris Bahr, Dork Whore: My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin, page 99:
text: J.H. Everest describes the first tanks as 'ambitious youngsters' and 'precocious youngsters' and speaks of their early battles as infants whose 'digestion was much overtaxed' and who 'needed not only better parental control, but a severe warning not to take unnecessary risks' until they grew up to real 'tankhood'.
ref: 2018, Amanda Jones, Bringing Up War-Babies, page 59:
text: I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.
ref: 2020 September 18, Nate Crowley, “Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in games”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
glosses: The state of being fully tanklike.
silver-leaved ironbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver-leaved ironbarks
form: silver-leafed ironbark
form: silver-leaf ironbark
Senses: examples: text: Annabelle recognised the silver-leaved ironbarks, stunted and twisted in their growth, pale golden wattle in bloom, the dense scrub pressing to the verge of the road.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 270:
glosses: A small tree with blue-grey foliage, Eucalyptus melanophloia, of Queensland and northern New South Wales.
silver-leaved ironbarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver-leaved ironbark
Prairie Oyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prairie Oysters
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of prairie oyster (drink)
Afro-Arab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Arabs
Etymology: From Afro- + Arab.
Senses: glosses: An Arab of African descent.
Afro-Arab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afro-Arab
form: most Afro-Arab
Etymology: From Afro- + Arab.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Arabs of African descent.
misfitdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From misfit + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of being a misfit.
azmari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azmaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic አዝማሪ (ʾäzmari).
Senses: glosses: An entertainer who sings and plays traditional string instruments of the Ethiopian highlands.
Related terms: masenqo
old people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ‘You don't see them figs nowhere else up here. And it didn't get here by accident neither. Them old people planted her beside the springs in a sheltered place against the rocks hundreds of years back.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 273:
text: She breathed in the scent of the gum leaves and the wattle blossom washing across the narrow channel that separated them from the Old People.
ref: 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 289:
glosses: Aboriginal people of earlier generations, or living in a traditional manner, as regarded by their descendants as repositories of traditional knowledge.
masenqo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masenqos
form: masinko
form: mesenko
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ማሲንቆ (masinḳo).
Senses: examples: text: The masenqo also accompanies, though played outside the church, the celebration of Epiphany (Temquat), which is the most important and holiest holiday of the Ethopian Orthodox Church.
ref: 2017, Siegbert Uhlig, David Appleyard, Alessandro Bausi, Wolfgang Hahn, Steven Kaplan, editors, Ethiopia: History, Culture and Challenges, Michigan State University Press, →ISBN, page 211:
text: His playing, full of clustered filigree and loosely rendered rhythms, nods toward Ethiopia’s tradition of solitary folk playing, typically on the krar or the masinko, both stringed instruments.
ref: 2018 February 20, Giovanni Russonello, “An African Funk Pioneer Gets a Second Chance on a Global Stage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A single-stringed bowed lute commonly used by Ethiopian azmaris.
Sindhi Bhil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪndi ˈbiːl/
Forms: form: Bhili
form: Hindu Sindhi
Etymology: From Sindhi ڀيل (Bhīl).
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sindh, Pakistan often counted as a dialect of Sindhi.
Related terms: Sindhi
Bolschevism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Bolschewismus.
Senses: examples: text: The "Frikorps" was one of the units raised to fight Bolschevism from the occupied countries - and it seems that only about 20% of the volunteers were Nazis.
ref: 1996 May 1, Carl Alex Friis Nielsen, “Resistance to German Onslaught 1939-40”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.
ref: 1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: W4NTI last week posted that Jews are communists and I tried to get through to the radical by explaining that, to Jews there, very early Bolschevism in Russia represented an escape from Tzarist persecutions and pogroms. Who knows if he caught on?
ref: 2001 August 7, radiosigs, “Praise be Jesus, it's the Catholics again!”, in alt.radio.scanner.flame_fest (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: I highly recommend Donna Kossy's "Strange Creations" for a very interesting summary of fringe views on the origins of human beings, including those which fed into Naziism and Bolschevism.
ref: 2004 July 1, EjP, “Darwin Contribute to Holocaust?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of Bolshevism.
blitz truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitz trucks
Senses: examples: text: There was a rusted blitz truck nosed into the bushes.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 287:
glosses: A blitzbuggy.
Hosho Nyorai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: On the left is Shaku Nyorai, the founder of Buddhism. Behind them is visible only a part of the halos of the other two: of Hosho Nyorai, controlling the life of all things with the power to bestow the enjoyment of life; and of Amida Nyorai, an ideal of boundless light.
ref: 1918 April, Harada Jiro, “The Koyasan Monastery and Its Art Treasures”, in The Open Court, volume 32, number 4 (743), →OCLC, page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of Hōshō Nyorai.
double moral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double morals
Etymology: Calque of German Doppelmoral or Spanish doble moral.
Senses: examples: text: Unless you are, of course, applying double morals: other people's beliefs are open to criticism; yours isn't. Other people's gods can be found faulty; yours can't.
This kind of double morals are, btw, one of the things I don't respect. YMMV.
ref: 2001 September 27, RLV, “[OT]: Prayer for America”, in rec.arts.books.tolkien (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: Yes, nothing special against you Robert, I don't like double moral and I see it permanently in this newsgroup.
ref: 2004 July 30, Juan Gomez, “SIA protocol”, in alt.security.alarms (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: It is about the double moral of the CMU and Dave Touretzky's obession with bomb instruction.
ref: 2005 April 8, Barbara Schwarz, “About the CMU and double moral”, in misc.education (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A double standard.
double morals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double moral
traumacore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trauma + core.
Senses: examples: text: In an immobilization taken up in Kafka's story by the literal fixation of the victim to the bed, the traumacore fixates the victim of trauma to a specific temporal slot in its development (the traumatime and the traumasite), to which it returns, against its conscious will, freezing again and again into a traumatized tableau vivant.
ref: 1999, Pynchon Notes - Issues 42-43, page 246:
text: According to Berressem, the ultimate 'traumacore' in Pynchon's poetics is the fall into language, subjectivity and culture, a fall that entails the realization of death, not face to face but rather in the face of the letter.
ref: 2001, American Studies in Scandinavia - Volumes 33-34, page 134:
text: The traumacore functions, therefore, as an always already excluded, crossed out origin, such as the event of my own birth.
ref: 2003, Wolfram Mauser, Joachim Pfeiffer, Trauer, page 91:
text: While the infinitely "small" time of the clinamen designates for Lacan the time of the "traumacore," it designates for Lucretius the birth of complexity.
ref: 2005, Niran Abbas, Mapping Michel Serres, page 63:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A repressed memory of an event that when triggered becomes the primary reason for feeling traumatized.
hypernyms: ventcore
glosses: A genre of Internet art where cutesy, childish visuals are juxtaposed with the anguish of trauma and abuse.
2faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You, and others think I'm 2faced. Why is that? Lots of others could be defined more easily as 2faced than me.
ref: 1995 January 5, Nikkicraft, “Bare in Mind runs Pedophile Ads”, in rec.nude (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: >My old Mum also taught me to be polite in the face of ignorance,
Than your mother is really double-moralic and 2faced and an idiot, sorry, but teaching children to lie or to be polite when they see ignorance is not what I want to teach my children.
You are the best example of a motherson-. Always acting friendly, but having a knife backhands !
ref: 1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: But that certainly does not make volcanoes dissipate for him and his foul mouth new crap doctrine of the devil himself. Lets see him put out those flames with his sick water pistol cock he carrys between his legs on the way down. Lousy 2faced antichrist liar. You can bet, his ass will be down there shortly in the midst of the fire of those volcanic flames beneath the surface. And also anyone that is liking to him with him in the same, pissing like crazy.... And no one, is going to change that fact. Especially him. Screaming ouch ouch ouch ouch poof
ref: 2018 April 8, tesla sTinker, “Pope Francis did not tell journalist that there is no hell”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
glosses: Abbreviation of two-faced.
NEETbux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From NEET + bucks.
Senses: examples: text: 4Chan posters have admiringly started to call Yang’s Freedom Dividend proposal “NEETbux.”
ref: 2019 March 6, Sam Stein, Will Sommer, “How Little Known Andrew Yang May End Up on the 2020 Debate Stage by Gaming the System”, in Daily Beast:
text: One user argues for why someone could be both blackpilled and socialists with the argument “Maybe because of NEETbux? [Unemployment payments] Or the principle of redistributing resources to those who have least, pussy being just another resource?”
ref: 2021, Hugo Engholm, The lack of looks, Uppsala University:
glosses: Money paid to NEETs through welfare schemes.
paperbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperbags
Etymology: From paper + bag.
Senses: examples: text: A paperbag maker named Colclough, of Manchester, is claiming the earldom of Newburgh, and estates worth £6,000,000.
ref: 1912 August 19, The Telegraph, Brisbane, page 4:
text: Annoyed they weren't catching the mouse they were all so concerned about, Dulce got a paperbag and tried, one-footed, to scoop up the agitated critter[.]
ref: 2008, Margaret Moore Blanchard, This Land: A Novel Memoir, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of paper bag.
paper-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper-bags
Etymology: From paper + bag.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paper bag.
paper-bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper-bag
paper bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper bag
close enough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of good enough: acceptable, imperfect but adequate for the purpose.
synonyms: word: good enough
extra: acceptable, imperfect but adequate for the purpose
Derived terms: close enough for government work
Karman Limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Karman limit; Synonym of Kármán line.
Armstrong Limit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Armstrong limit.
Gdynians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gdynian
gother
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of goth: more goth
high-lying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Higher than nearby areas.
Hypernyms: lying
Fahrvergnugen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fahrvergnügen.
fahrvergnügen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fahrvergnügen.
fahrvergnuegen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fahrvergnügen.
Fahrvergnuegen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fahrvergnügen.
gets a line on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get a line on
getting a line on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get a line on
got a line on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get a line on
gotten a line on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get a line on
Damps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Damp
Lizano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lizanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Lizano; this surname is predominantly found in Costa Rica.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Lowndeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lowndes
Lizanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lizano
Kors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kor
Kurihara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kuriharas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 栗原 (Kurihara).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Kisamore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kisamores
Etymology: Americanized form of German Geismar, a habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kisamores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kisamore
Kuriharas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurihara
hit one's marks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits one's marks
form: hitting one's marks
form: hit one's marks
form: hit one's marks
Senses: glosses: To be in the correct position, for instance setting up for a turn in racing, or the right distance from the camera in filming.
Kilzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kilzers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kilzer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Keasling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keaslings
Etymology: Variant of Kiessling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Keaslings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keasling
Kilzers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kilzer
Kenoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kenoyers
Etymology: Respelling of German Kneuer, a variant of Knauer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Jons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jon
Kenoyers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kenoyer
Kaid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kaids
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَائِد (qāʔid); this surname is predominantly found in Algeria.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Kaids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaid
Karpens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Karpen
Ramus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ramuses
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from French Ramus, from Old French ramu (“branch”), a topographic surname for someone who lived in a wooded place.
* Borrowed from Dutch Ramus, from a personal name composed of the Proto-Germanic elements *hrabnaz (“raven”) and *waldą (“might, power, force”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Petrak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Petraks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Petrák.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Petraks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Petrak
Ramuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramus
McCreery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCreerys
Etymology: Variant of McCreary.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
McCreerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCreery
penny-gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny-gaffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penny gaff.
penny gaffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny gaffes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of penny gaff.
penny gaffes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny gaffe
Yamashitas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yamashita
Ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fern
Veits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Veit
cork tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cork tips
Etymology: Descriptive: Cigarettes filters were originally made of cork and used to prevent tobacco flakes from getting on the smoker's tongue. Many tips are still patterned to look like cork.
Senses: glosses: an early type of cigarette tip
Related terms: cork tipped
Longsdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9654).
Sholing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An eastern suburb of Southampton, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4511).
Portswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Southampton, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4214).
sozialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from German sozialistisch, equivalent to German sozial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As for germany becoming a sozialist state, there is no such danger.
ref: 1996 November 6, Student, “Questions about Battletech”, in rec.games.mecha (Usenet), retrieved 02 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of socialist.
sozialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sozialist, equivalent to German sozial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If I get a logical answer to this question, I have others to enable you to articulate your position that the NAZIonal SOZIALISTS were not SOZIALISTS at all but were just pretending so the German people would only think they were.
ref: 1994 November 21, biznet, “REPUBLICAN HOUSE AND SENATE”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 02 May 2022:
text: If he would have been a sozialist, he would have been a good friend of Stalin :-)
ref: 1998 September 26, Mosl Roland, “REPUBLICAN HOUSE AND SENATE”, in alt.politics.usa.newt-gingrich (Usenet), retrieved 02 May 2022:
text: I am not a Nazi or a Communist or a Sozialist,
I am only a poor old man and use linux.
ref: 2000 March 16, Hans Arremann, “how to disable hlt-instruction”, in comp.os.linux.hardware (Usenet), retrieved 02 May 2022:
text: You Sozialists are so much preaching on about accepting everybody, but when it really comes onto it, You are the first to exclude others from being included.
ref: 2005 May 3, Rolf-Andreas Trinkwasser, “The Sign gifts.. Did they cease or are they still active?”, in alt.religion.christian.pentecostal (Usenet), retrieved 02 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of socialist.
Mottisfont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3226).
sapientization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapientisation
Senses: examples: text: But about 300,000 years ago, during the European Second Interglacial period, "the first evidence of sapientisation occurred," and the fossil remains begin to express the stages toward the emergence of modern humanity.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118:
glosses: The process of evolving into Homo sapiens.
sapientisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sapientization.
stakeholder capitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Emmanuel Faber will enter history as one of the leading executives promoting stakeholder capitalism and centering core business units around ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) objectives. Yet his footprint and departure reveal a pervasive rift between staunch supporters of sustainable capitalism and hard-rugged corporate activists.
ref: 2021 March 20, Frank Van Gansbeke, “Sustainability And The Downfall Of Danone CEO Faber (1/2)”, in Forbes:
glosses: Synonym of stakeholderism.
synonyms: word: stakeholderism
sports pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports page
shorelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From shoreless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shoreless manner.
man camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man camps
Senses: glosses: a temporary settlement created to house workers in resource extraction projects
Old Sarum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The site of a former settlement in Wiltshire, England, which was superseded by Salisbury to the south (OS grid ref SU1332).
Joans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Joan
Dabry's sturgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dabry's sturgeons
Senses: glosses: Any of the now extinct species †Acipenser dabryanus of sturgeon fish found in China.
Synonyms: Yangtze sturgeon
Chiangjiang sturgeon
river sturgeon
Peters' platanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peter's platanna
form: Peters' platannas
Senses: glosses: Xenopus petersii, a species of central African frog.
southeastern blueberry bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southeastern blueberry bees
Senses: glosses: Habropoda laboriosa, a species of bee found in the southeastern United States.
forked riceflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forked riceflowers
Senses: glosses: Pimelea hewardiana, a species of Australian flowering shrub.
fervid plagodis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fervid plagodises
Senses: glosses: Plagodis fervidaria, a species of geometrid moth.
Great Wishford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Wicheford in 1086 (DB), from Old English wice + ford, the ford where wych-elms grow. Great Wishford was also known as Wishford Magna.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, north-west of Salisbury (OS grid ref SU0735).
Related terms: Little Wishford
Alouette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æluˈɛt/
Forms: form: Alouettes
Senses: topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player for Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes.
Solomon Island spiny monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Solomon Island spiny monitors
Senses: glosses: A monitor lizard of species Varanus spinulosus.
Synonyms: Isabel monitor
spiny-neck monitor
bodilessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bodiless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bodiless manner.
sun anemone shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun anemone shrimp
Senses: glosses: Periclimenes rathbunae, a species of shrimp found in the Gulf of Mexico.
webside manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webside manner
Galician goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galician goats
Senses: glosses: Capra aegagrus hircus, a breed of goat originating from Galicia.
goldfish plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldfish plants
Senses: glosses: Columnea microcalyx, a species of plant named after its flowers' visual similarity to goldfish.
traytoresse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traytoresses
Senses: examples: text: My selfe disherited for loue of your persone, / Called in my countrey a false traytoresse:[…]First Amazias complayned on fortune / Causing his grcuous great aduersities, / The traytoresse called in commune, / These kinges twayne castyng frō their sees:[…]
ref: [1554?], Ihon Bochas, translated by Iohn Lidgate, The Tragedies, Gathered by Ihon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell from Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune since the Creacion of Adam, vntil His Time Wherin May Be Seen What Vices Bring Menne to Destruccion, wyth Notable Warninges Howe the Like May Be Auoyded, London: […] Iohn Wayland:
text: So that now both by Gods Lawes and mās, she oght to be punished with death, as an opē idolatres in the sight of God, ād a cruel murtherer of his Saīts before mē, ād merciles traytoresse to her owne natiue coūtrie.
ref: 1558, Christopher Goodman, How Superior Powers Oght to Be Obeyd of Their Subiects and Wherin They May Lawfully by Gods Worde be Disobeyed and Resisted. Wherin Also Is Declared the Cause of All This Present Miserie in England, and the Onely Way to Remedy the Same., Geneva: […] Iohn Crispin, page 99:
text: Away with her to prison presently, / Traytoresse too keend and cursed Sorceresse.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage Played by the Children of Her Maiesties Chappell, London: […] the widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke:
text: Fourthly, that in order to the said end, the Lady Margaret (sister to K. Edw. 4.) was appointed and predestinate of God to be a Traytoresse to England, and to imploy all her wits, forces and power;
ref: 1660, Peter Heylyn, Historia Quinqu-Articularis: or, A Declaration of the Judgement of the Western Churches, and More Particularly of the Church of England, in the Five Controverted Points, Reproched in These Last Times by the Name of Arminianism. Collected in the Way of an Historicall narration, out of the Publick Acts and Monuments, and Most Approved Authors of Those Severall Churches., London: […] E.C. for Thomas Johnson, page 80:
text: Ah wicked Whores and Traytoreſſes, if onely with talk of the Spaniards you are ſo pleaſed, what would you doe and act with them, if they were preſent?
ref: 1688, Inca Garcilasso de la Vega, translated by Paul Rycaut, The Royal Commentaries of Peru, in Two Parts […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Samuel Heyrick, page 496:
text: Theſe Traytoreſſes, after they had wrecked the Veſſels, pretended to wail over them.
ref: 1739, The History of the Works of the Learned, for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-eight: […], volume II, London: […] Jacob Robinson, page 288:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of traitoress.
eyed ladybug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyed ladybugs
Senses: glosses: Anatis ocellata, a species of ladybug with a pattern resembling eyes.
contains multitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contain multitudes
containing multitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contain multitudes
contained multitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contain multitudes
computates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of computate
computating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of computate
Agassiz's anole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Agassiz's anoles
Senses: glosses: Anolis agassizi, a species of Colombian anole.
Codford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Wiltshire, England, south-east of Warminster (OS grid ref ST9739).
Samuelsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Samuelsonian
form: most Samuelsonian
Etymology: From Samuelson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Samuelsonian economics
text: Our usual ploy to be used in the face of ambiguity, the Samuelsonian correspondence principle […], does not help to resolve this issue because the model is stable for all parameter values.
ref: 2017, Ben J. Heidra, Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, third edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 378:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the economist Paul Samuelson (1915–2009)
Related terms: Samuelsonianism
Samuelsonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Samuelsonian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs or policies of the economist Paul Samuelson (1915–2009)
painted bristly mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: painted bristly mice
Senses: glosses: Neacomys pictus, a species of Panamanian bristly mouse.
Heytesbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Heytesbury, Imber and Knook Parish Council) in Wiltshire, England, east of Warminster; the parish includes part of the Salisbury Plain (OS grid ref ST9242).
Lorestan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Loristan
form: Lurestan
form: Luristan
Etymology: Diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian لرستان (lorestân), from Classical Persian لرستان (luristān).
Senses: glosses: A province of Iran, mostly inhabited by the Lur people
Qirghiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qirghiz
Senses: examples: text: The Qirghiz also have a consciousness of belonging to a homogeneous racial unit, but owing to their difficult mountain country, into which they have for some centuries withdrawn, they have not the same ease of intercommunication.
ref: 1930, Owen Lattimore, High Tartary, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 259:
glosses: Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
Qirghiz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
Qirghiz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
Knook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
homophone: nook
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Heytesbury, Imber and Knook Parish Council) in Wiltshire, England, east of Warminster (OS grid ref ST9341).
free base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free bases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freebase.
free base
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: free bases
form: free basing
form: free based
form: free based
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freebase.
free bases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free base
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of free base
Vannas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vanna
sporogone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporogones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sporogonium.
synonyms: word: sporogonium
Dilton Marsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, west of Westbury (OS grid ref ST8449).
relawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relawns
form: relawning
form: relawned
form: relawned
Etymology: From re- + lawn.
Senses: examples: text: An area of about 4 acres was relawned with grass in Safdarjang.
ref: 1954, Indian Archaeology, a Review, page 51:
text: Many years ago, we decided to relawn and replant the garden.
ref: 2011, Jackie Ellis, The Funny Farm, page 143:
glosses: To provide with a new lawn.
free basing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free base
free based
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of free base
in loco parentum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Assuming the role of a parent.
Related terms: in loco parentis
Indonesianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Indonesianizes
form: Indonesianizing
form: Indonesianized
form: Indonesianized
Etymology: From Indonesian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to make Indonesian.
glosses: to become Indonesian.
dataflow programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: programming paradigm
glosses: programming paradigm that models a program as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations, implementing architecture and dataflow principles.
Hypernyms: computer programming
Honey Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
A large number of streams in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
A township in Adams County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Henry County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
A township in Vigo County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
Two townships, in Delaware County and Iowa County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
A town in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places and streams in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Spring Prairie, Walworth County and Rochester, Racine County, Wisconsin.
POCSO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pocso
Senses: examples: text: It is argued that the petitioner and the victim were good friends and the petitioner who is a minor had no intention to kidnap the minor victim or commit any sexual offence envisaged under the POCSO Act. Further, it is said the POCSO act is not intended to bring within its ambit the romantic relationship between adolescents or teenagers.
ref: 2022 April 25, Mustafa Plumber, “Can POCSO Case Against Minor Be Quashed On Parties Arriving At A Mutual Settlement? Karnataka High Court To Consider”, in LiveLaw.in:
topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences, an Act.
wikipedia: POCSO
Pocso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Besides tracing the girl, the court also expressed concern, saying there should be no sympathy shown towards the accused booked under the Pocso Act.
ref: 2022 April 24, “Find the minor who eloped, implement Pocso strictly: Gujarat HC”, in The Times of India:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of POCSO.
squirrel-cage motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirrel-cage motors
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of induction motor that harnesses electromagnetism in order to generate motion.
squirrel-cage motors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirrel-cage motor
fissure needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissure needles
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A spiral needle designed for catching together the gaping lips of a wound.
fissure vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissure veins
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A crack in the surface of the Earth which contains mineral matter.
fissure veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissure vein
fissure needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissure needle
social station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social stations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Synonym of social status: one's position with a social hierarchy, one's value relative to society.
synonyms: word: social status
extra: one's position with a social hierarchy, one's value relative to society
social stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social station
Spring Prairie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Clay County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A town and unincorporated community therein, in Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States.
bookstagrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookstagrammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bookstagrammer.
bookstagram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bookstagram.
hammerhead turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerhead turns
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: stall turn
glosses: A turnaround maneuver in aerobatics.
glosses: A kind of banked turn on a rollercoaster.
stall turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stall turns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hammerhead turn.
synonyms: word: hammerhead turn
hammerhead turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerhead turn
stall turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stall turn
hammers home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hammer home
hammering home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hammer home
hammered home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hammer home
Mi'ilya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Israel.
Sderot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שדרות.
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Israel.
Malingre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malingres
Etymology: Borrowed from French Malingre.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Malinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Malingers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Rachana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit रचना (racanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
orchestra stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestra stall
Senses: glosses: Synonym of orchestra pit.
synonyms: word: orchestra pit
matground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matgrounds
Etymology: From mat + ground.
Senses: glosses: The hard bacterial seafloor of the Proterozoic era.
elephant skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: matground
crack someone's egg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cracks someone's egg
form: cracking someone's egg
form: cracked someone's egg
form: cracked someone's egg
Senses: examples: text: I almost had the same experience, but I chickened out, afraid that someone else (nebulous, extremely unlikely) would find out that I'd picked "girl".
ref: 2022 December 22, mrsedgewick, “Comment on 'when did your egg crack (what age)?'”, in r/MtF, Reddit, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: To cause (someone) to realize that they are transgender.
Related terms: one's egg cracks
cracked someone's egg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crack someone's egg
cracks someone's egg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crack someone's egg
cracking someone's egg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crack someone's egg