cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
police captains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police captain
police lieutenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police lieutenant
lung-digit syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition in cats in which a lung tumor metastasizes into the toe.
police sergeants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police sergeant
police juries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police jury
police vans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police van
chiefs of police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief of police
trollsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trollsuits
Etymology: Blend of troll + lawsuit.
Senses: examples: text: That would accord with the order denying Texas AG Ken Paxton relief in a 2020 trollsuit against Pennsylvania seeking to prevent its certification of Biden’s win.
ref: 2024 June 8, Liz Dye, “SCOTUS Dropkicks Missouri AG's Trollsuit In Support Of Trump”, in Above the Law:
glosses: A frivolous lawsuit.
trollsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trollsuit
Golubev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Голу́бев (Golúbev), from го́лубь (gólubʹ, “dove, pigeon”) + -ев (-ev)
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Голу́бев (Golúbev).
glosses: A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Golubeva.
excandidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excandidates
form: ex-candidate
Etymology: ex- + candidate
Senses: glosses: A former candidate; one who was formerly a candidate but no longer is.
buff-bellied pipits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buff-bellied pipit
Hsiuwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 修武 (Xiūwǔ) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiu¹-wu³.
Senses: examples: text: In Hsiuwu county, Honan, the party secretary was concerned whether or not, in the event of flood or famine, the state would pay wages after public ownership was declared and the free supply system instituted.
ref: 1960, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, volume I, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3470?:
text: Then the next morning after early breakfast, we were off again, going through industrial Chiaotso this time, on our way for a stop at the Tangyangyu Village of the Hsicheng Commune of Hsiuwu County.
ref: 1972, Rewi Alley, “A Journey to Chiyuan”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XI, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 2:
text: The area has stony soil and is short of water resources. The Fangchuang commune of Hsiuwu County, Honan Province, is located at the foot of the mountains. In order to develop farm production rapidly they began building a reservoir which would contain 10 million cubic metres of water.
ref: 1975, Hsin Chang, “Armymen and Civilians”, in China Pictorial, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Xiuwu.
Yushu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüʹsho͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 玉樹 /玉树 (Yùshù).
Senses: examples: text: Going among the masses, members of the meteorological station of Nangchien County in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, gathered 150 folk proverbs on weather changes and edited a meteorological chart of different seasons for agriculture and animal husbandry.
ref: 1975 April 4 [1975 April 4], “Tsinghai Province Makes Advances in Meteorological Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 66, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 5:
text: Tenzin Sherab (pictured) was the oldest of five siblings from a village in Chumarleb (Chinese: Qumarleb/Qumalai), Yushu (Kyegu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (the Tibetan area of Kham). According to exile Tibetan sources, his nomad family had been resettled to Chumarleb under the Chinese authorities’ policies of settlement, land confiscation, and fencing of pastoral areas inhabited by Tibetans, dramatically curtailing their livelihoods.
ref: 2013 May 29, “Tibetan nomad self-immolates and dies in Yushu”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2013:
glosses: A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
glosses: A county-level city of the Yushu autonomous region, Qinghai, China.
Nangqên
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Going among the masses, members of the meteorological station of Nangchien County in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, gathered 150 folk proverbs on weather changes and edited a meteorological chart of different seasons for agriculture and animal husbandry.
ref: [1975 April 4 [1975 April 4], “Tsinghai Province Makes Advances in Meteorological Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 66, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 5:
glosses: A county of Yushu, Qinghai, China.
Zadoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When hundreds of people gathered in August 2013 in Zadoi county in Qinghai province to protest against mining on what they considered to be a holy mountain, they flew Chinese flags to demonstrate their loyalty to the state and erected posters and placards quoting President Xi Jinping’s words on the need to balance economic growth and environmental protection.
ref: 2016 December 26, Simon Denyer, “Tibetans in anguish as Chinese mines pollute their sacred grasslands”, in The New York Times, sourced from JIAJIKA, CHINA, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2016, Asia & Pacific:
glosses: A county of Yushu, Qinghai, China.
Zhidoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Yushu, Qinghai, China.
Qumarlêb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Tenzin Sherab (pictured) was the oldest of five siblings from a village in Chumarleb (Chinese: Qumarleb/Qumalai), Yushu (Kyegu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (the Tibetan area of Kham). According to exile Tibetan sources, his nomad family had been resettled to Chumarleb under the Chinese authorities’ policies of settlement, land confiscation, and fencing of pastoral areas inhabited by Tibetans, dramatically curtailing their livelihoods.
ref: [2013 May 29, “Tibetan nomad self-immolates and dies in Yushu”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2013:
glosses: A county of Yushu, Qinghai, China.
Chindu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Yushu, Qinghai, China.
shipkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipkeepers
Etymology: From ship + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: … and when the ship is like the one now in question, not being navigated, but laid up in dock, there is the additional possibility that the shipkeeper may be the servant of the dock company, or the ship's broker, or any one else with whom the owners may have made an arrangement to keep his ship for him as a bailee of the ship.
ref: 1866, Max Robertson, editor, English Reports Annotated, volume 2, part 1, London: The Reports and Digest Syndicate, Ltd., pages 1986-1987:
text: In the sailing ship days practically every ship had a shipkeeper, usually some wheezy old pensioner who had at last been reluctantly driven to the admission that he was too old to go to sea.
ref: 1925, C. Fox Smith, Ship Alley: More Sailor Town Days, Houghton Mifflin, page 188:
text: The official was responsible for safeguarding the captured vessle by hiring a shipkeeper to oversee its maintenance and security.
ref: 2019 January 16, João José Reis, Flávio dos Santos Gomes, Marcus J. M. Carvalho, The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic, Oxford University Press, page 175:
glosses: A caretaker of a ship when its crew is away.
shipkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipkeeper
bastardisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bastardism
Minnesota Nice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Gibson called me in part because she knew I like to provoke, tickle, and prod. She knew I would respond yes, with Minnesota Nice, but what she really was after was my [...] New Yorker attitude...
ref: 1989, Helping Learners Learn at a Distance: Fifth Annual Conference on Teaching at a Distance, Madison, Wisconsin, August 8-10, 1989, The University, page 28:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Minnesota nice
Yamatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yamatologists
Etymology: Calque of Italian yamatologo (“Japanologist”) when used by Italian speakers, from Yamato + -logist otherwise.
Senses: examples: text: The most learned amongst the Yamatologists are still dependant^([sic]) upon Japanese for the information that furnishes the basis of all contributions; and why not have the authorities at the meetings, with interpreters for the benefit of those who have not acquired the necessary knowledge of Japanese?
ref: 1898 January 5, C[harles] Pfoundes, “The “Social Evil.”: To the Editor of the “Japan Mail.””, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume XXIX, number 2, Yokohama: Printed and published for […] , by Arthur Bellamy Brown, […] , published 8 January 1898, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:
text: [Epigraph:] Giuseppe Morichini, the late Italian Yamatologist, was preparing for publication in our East and West a long review on the work by Nakamura Hajime «Indo Tetsugaku Shisô» […]
ref: 1960 March, Giuseppe Morichini, “Review of Early Vedānta Philosophy”, in East and West, volume 11, number 1, page 33:
text: The division which provides services for non-Japanese specializes in providing support in the form of scholarships to scholars and researchers who plan to study in Japan for more than one month but less than one year, and also in inviting both Yamatologists and non-experts alike to attend international meetings or inspect various Japanese institutions for two or three weeks.
ref: 1974 November, “The Activities of the Japan Foundation”, in Morita Tohru, editor, The East, volume 10, number 9, Tokyo: The East Publications, Inc., →OCLC, page 17:
text: For an appropriate translation of this term [baka], I refer to one of the leading Yamatologists in Italy, Professor Adriana Boscaro of the University of Venice at Ca’ Foscari.
ref: 1997, Antonio Marazzi, “If Japanese Are Samurai, Italians are Baka: The Multiple Play of Stereotypes”, in Beverly Allen, Mary Russo, editors, Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 277:
text: How can we interpret this attention to the “harmony between order and form” that shaped the lesson review in Japan? We have tried to reconstruct the “umbrella cultural themes” with the help of a yamatologist, who introduced us to the issue of kata or shikata.
ref: 2020, Maria G. Bartolini Bussi et al., “Mathematics Teachers’ Cultural Beliefs: The Case of Lesson Study” (chapter 5), in Despina Potari, Olive Chapman, editors, International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 140:
qualifier: chiefly Italian; non-native speakers' English; chiefly Italian; non-native speakers' English
glosses: Synonym of Japanologist (“one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”).
synonyms: word: Japanologist
extra: one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history
Yamatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yamatologist
edgeling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more edgeling
form: most edgeling
form: edgelings
form: edgelong
Etymology: From Middle English eggelyng, eghelynge (also eggelynges), from Old English eċġlinga (“on the edge”), equivalent to edge + -ling.
Senses: glosses: With the edge.
examples: text: Nay, on the contrary, I think it morally impossible for any Body, that is much broader than 'tis thick, if it casually gets edgewise between two Stakes, whose Distance will not let it lie flat, but it must continue more or less edgeling, 'till 'tis disintangled.
ref: 1778, Francis Hargrave, A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings for High-Treason and and other Crimes and Misdemeanours:
glosses: On, toward, or from the edge; edgeways.
Related terms: edgewise
service water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: water used for industrial purposes that is not for human consumption
glosses: water that is provided for free to customers in restaurants
blank on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blanks on
form: blanking on
form: blanked on
form: blanked on
Senses: examples: text: I’m blanking on her name right now.
synonyms: freeze on
freeze up on
glosses: To be temporarily unable to remember (a particular fact).
AI'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of AI
g@yer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of g@y: more g@y
g@yest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of g@y: most g@y
g@ys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of g@y
whyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of why
ra'ys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ra'y
U-y
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-ies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uey.
psychodectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He will find [America] too sane in its practical business views of life and its wanton lack of psychodectic perspective.
ref: 1904 June 2, “Music and Musicians”, in The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican, Fargo, North Dakota, page 13:
text: It is not necessary to agree with their viewpoint in everything; it is necessary to admit their sincerity; that they set out with no dire psychodectic intent.
ref: 1924, Francis Dickie, “A Plea for Tolerance”, in Findley I. Weaver, editor, The Canadian Bookman, volume VI, Toronto, Canada: Bookcraft Publishing Company Co. Limited, page 110:
text: Neither will young women who choose colorful print dresses, described as "psychedelic prints" […] and you can take your pick of where it came form "psyche" (meaning the soul or mind) and the Latin word "delici" (meaning pleasure or delight) or whether it came from a word that IS in the dictionary, "psychodectic", meaning soul-destroying.
ref: 1967 May 2, Nancy Bicknell, “Fashion: The World Is Too Much With It”, in Portland Press Herald, page 47:
glosses: Destructive to the soul; soul-destroying.
c@s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of c@
h@s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of h@
Mexican@s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mexican@
tw@ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tw@t
tw@
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tw@s
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of twat.
tw@s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tw@
d%s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d%
d100s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d100
Star Wars-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Star Wars-y
form: most Star Wars-y
Senses: examples: text: “I wanted a hospital room that was octagonal,” Lawrence Paull says, “one with drawers containing patients that could be slid out of the walls like coffins. Syd originally did a sketch of this, but Ridley and I decided that what he had done was too slick and Star Wars'''-y.”
ref: 2017, Paul M[ichael] Sammon, “Holden and the Hospital”, in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, revised & updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Dey Street, →ISBN, section VIII (The Shoot), page 139:
text: When you’ve got a bet secured, clear your throat and loudly ask to no one in particular, “So uh, what makes something look Star Wars'''-y?” Pencils will drop. Pencils will drop. Opinions will be expressed about pill lights and coffin-shaped doors, gack lines and kitbashing, World War II and Flash Gordon, and then someone who worked on the prequels might say something about domes, and a chorus will rise in response and the game will be on. […] The only real answer (besides “Ralph McQuarrie”) is that something feels Star Wars'''-y because it feels Star Wars'''-y. It’s something elusive that everyone has their own instinct for, and when you find designers whose instinct lines up with yours, you latch on and don’t let go.
ref: 2017, Rian Johnson, “Foreword”, in The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, New York, N.Y.: Abrams, →ISBN:
text: The joke has worn thin in the intervening 14 years, and this incomprehensible odyssey to find Poseidon’s mythical trident and break “all the curses of the sea” is little more than a hodgepodge of poorly penned quippery attached to a pair of hoary Star Wars'''-y subplots involving pirates and their long-separated offspring.
ref: 2017 May 26, Marc Savlov, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 36, number 39, Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, page 45, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Star Warsy.
d1000s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d1000
d20s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d20
d12s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d12
d10s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d10
D8s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D8
identity policing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or habit of a person or other entity attempting to convince another person, usually one with a marginalized identity, that their identity is invalid or that they do not belong to a group with whom they claim to identify.
Related terms: identity police
cristopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cristopathies
Etymology: Clipping of neurocristopathy.
Senses: examples: text: In an attempt to test the hypothesis that arterial dissection arises from a "cristopathy". or abnormality in neural crest development, we have looked for an association between cervical arterial dissection and aortic root dilation.
ref: 1998, Journal Canadien Des Sciences Neurologiques, page 8:
text: Because the neural crest contributes to the formation of the ear and these other systems, the entire malformation complex may be regarded as a cristopathy.
ref: 2006, Isabelle Rapin, “Hearing Impairment”, in Kenneth F. Swaiman, Stephen Ashwal, Donna M. Ferriero, editor, Pediatric Neurology: Principles & Practice, page 106:
text: These and other data allow us to propose that MS is a developmental neural crest disorder, i.e. a cristopathy, implicating glial cell dysfunction with diffuse blood-brain barrier breakdown.
ref: 2012, Q. Ashton Acton, Encephalomyelitis:
glosses: Synonym of neurocristopathy.
synonyms: word: neurocristopathy
crystallized fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallized fruits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of candied fruit.
synonyms: word: candied fruit
glacé fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacé fruits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of candied fruit.
synonyms: word: candied fruit
glacé fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacé fruit
crystallized fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystallized fruit
identicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: identity + -cide
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The deliberate, systematic and targeted demoralization and destruction of the cultural elements representing the identity of a people, with the intent to erase the cultural narrative and memory of that people.
identity property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity properties
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property where if any arithmetic operation is used to combine an identity with a number n, the end result will be n.
identity properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identity property
Westoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Westoid
beigier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of beigey: more beigey
beigiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of beigey: most beigey
Yuanshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yüǎnʹshänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 員山 /员山 (Yuánshān).
Senses: glosses: A rural township in Yilan County, Taiwan.
styey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪi/
rhymes: -aɪi
Forms: form: more styey
form: most styey
Etymology: From sty + -ey.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a sty.
BuCor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bureau of Corrections.
Communications Group
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Communications Group
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Presidential Communications Group.
bsf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bsfs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of best friend.
Related terms: bf
bff
gf
bsfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bsf
bff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of BFF.
bffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bff
🦴r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.nə/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.nəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
homophone: boner
Forms: form: 🦴rs
Etymology: From boner, with bone replaced with 🦴, an emoji depicting a bone, based on their similar pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: why i keep getting an instant 🦴r whenever i see a pretty 🕳️
ref: 2023 February 20, @rhoebrubit, Twitter:
glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of boner.
🦴rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 🦴r
black-diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cormorant
blob-wore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from Middle English wor.
Senses: glosses: A seaweed with egg-shaped floats.
echoier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of echoey: more echoey
echoiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of echoey: most echoey
treeier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of treey: more treey
treeiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of treey: most treey
no 🧢
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no cap.
bluier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bluey: more bluey
bluiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bluey: most bluey
sea cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea cats
Senses: glosses: An octopus (Octopoda spp.).
glosses: Any marine catfish.
glosses: A wolffish (Anarhichadidae spp.).
glosses: A chimaera (type of fish (Holocephali spp.)).
glosses: A common or harbor seal (Phoca vitulina).
sea cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea cats
Etymology: Calque of Spanish gato marino.
Senses: glosses: A marine otter (Lontra felina).
gafftop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gafftops
Senses: glosses: Bagre marinus, a catfish of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Southeastern US Atlantic.
marine otter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine otters
Senses: synonyms: sea cat
glosses: Lontra felina, an otter of the South American Pacific.
snake-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake-killers
Senses: glosses: The roadrunner
ground cuckoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground cuckoos
Senses: glosses: A Neotropical cuckoo of the genus Neomorphus.
glosses: A Southeast Asian cuckoo of the genus Carpococcyx.
glosses: A roadrunner.
bnuuies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bnuuy
heads of states
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head of state
heads of governments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head of government
Antigonisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antigonishers
Etymology: From Antigonish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "We brought with us the skills and experiences and everything we got from our past,” he says. "That made the start easier with the support from the Antigonishers."
ref: 2017 November 1, Lidia Jean Kott, “A Syrian family finds sweet success in Canada”, in GBH:
text: Although I am a proud Antigonisher, prior to this I hadn’t taken the opportunity to really immerse myself into my community- getting to know my fellow community members and putting time towards something meaningful, something to be proud of.
ref: 2019 February 3, Jaime Smith, “Community Connects Us All”, in The Xaverian Weekly:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Antigonish.
Antigonishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antigonisher
Arnpriorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arnpriorites
Etymology: From Arnprior + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Arnprior.
Arnpriorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arnpriorite
two-state solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The advocates of binationalism typically distinguish it from the more familiar two-state solution, according to which two states, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, are imagined to coexist next to each other.
ref: 2001 December 1, Lama Abu-Odeh, “The Case for Binationalism”, in Boston Review:
coordinate_terms: one-state solution
glosses: A proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, by creating two states on the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine.
smegmatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smegmatick
form: most smegmatick
Senses: examples: text: I sent the Embassadours of my Fansie through every part of the World for Vegetables, Mineralls, Semimineralls, Fukes, Belletti, Smegmatick Secrets, Vnctions, Pomadoes, Waters, any thing that had or might be practized in that nature.
ref: 1652, A Hermeticall banquet, drest by a spagiricall cook for the better preservation of the microcosme, page 71:
text: This will extinguish fire of prurient lust,
And be smegmatick to our scabtous rust.
ref: 1666, William Austin, Epiloimia epē, or, The anatomy of the pestilence: a poem in three parts, page 90:
text: This smegmatick or oily Matter that is left by the Fire, in a moderate proportion applyed to any Earth highly enricheth it[…]
ref: 1688, John Worlidge, Systema horti-culturæ, or, The art of gardening in three books, book 9, chapter 3, section 2, pages 202-203:
glosses: Having a soapy or oily consistency.
smegmatick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smegmaticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smegmatic.
Prairiedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural municipality in west Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Prairiedale No. 321.
glosses: A ghost town in Hill County, Texas, United States.
smegmaticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smegmatick
Flowton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0846).
smegmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smegmatic
Mexican mud turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican mud turtles
Etymology: Mexican + mud turtle, named after its range.
Senses: glosses: Kinosternon integrum, a species of mud turtle endemic to Mexico.
West Deeping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1108).
Related terms: Deeping St James
Deeping St Nicholas
Market Deeping
standstill agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standstill agreements
Senses: glosses: A form of agreement which may be entered into in order to delay action which might otherwise take place.
glosses: An agreement between two nations in which a debt that is owed by one to the other is held in abeyance for a specified time period.
cattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of cattle
tschat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khat.
tabula lusoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A table used as a gameboard.
religious police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religious police
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Sharia police
Syariah police
morality police
glosses: A police force responsible for the enforcement of religious norms and associated religious laws.
cestuies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestui
glosses: plural of cestuy
cestuies que trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestui que trust
glosses: plural of cestuy que trust
redskin onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redskin onions
form: red skinned onion
form: red-skinned onion
Etymology: red + skin + onion, a calque of taxonomic name Allium haematochiton, named as such due to the bulb's red hue.
Senses: examples: text: redskin onion needs 0.8 cups of water every 9 days when it doesn't get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5.0" pot.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “redskin onion”, in Greg, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2024:
glosses: Allium haematochiton, a species of allium found in Baja California, Sonora and California.
Related terms: Allium haematochiton
do the washing-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the washing-up
form: doing the washing-up
form: did the washing-up
form: done the washing-up
Senses: glosses: Synonym of do the dishes.
synonyms: word: do the dishes
MacColl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lonwolwol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Raljago
West Ambrym
glosses: An Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu.
glosses: A village in central Vanuatu that was destroyed by a volcanic eruption.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Lonwolwol terms
Raljago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lonwolwol.
synonyms: word: Lonwolwol
West Ambrym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lonwolwol.
synonyms: word: Lonwolwol
Ambrym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A volcanic island in central Vanuatu.
Derived terms: West Ambrym
standstill agreements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standstill agreement
iyashikei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 癒(いや)し系(けい) (iyashikei).
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A genre of slice of life fiction, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, intended to have a healing effect on the audience.
Tahiti petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tahiti petrels
Etymology: Tahiti + petrel, so called because they are numerous on the island of Tahiti.
Senses: examples: text: The Tahiti petrel is the largest of the four Pseudobulweria petrels, the others being Beck's, Fiji and Mascarene petrel.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Tahiti petrel”, in Colin Miskelly, editor, New Zealand Birds Online: The digital encyclopaedia of New Zealand birds, archived from the original on 21 May 2024:
glosses: Pseudobulweria rostrata, a species of seafaring petrel found throughout Oceania.
Related terms: Pseudobulweria rostrata
nature's toothbrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nature's toothbrush
Sharia patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sharia patrols
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An unsanctioned and unauthorized group of people who enforce Islamic law, by patrolling the streets and requiring Islamic behavior from its residents.
Related terms: moral police
religious police
Sharia police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sharia police
Senses: glosses: Synonym of religious police.
synonyms: word: religious police
Syariah police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syariah police
Senses: glosses: Synonym of religious police.
synonyms: word: religious police
Sharia patrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sharia patrol
tuluma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A wooden box used by Tokelauan fishermen.
tepuies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tepui
leave on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves on the table
form: leaving on the table
form: left on the table
form: left on the table
Senses: examples: text: It seems odd that the union left the tuition assistance program on the table when they negotiated this latest contract.
glosses: To not accept (something on offer).
examples: text: They really left a lot on the table when they designed this hampered user interface.
glosses: To fail to seize (an opportunity that is apparent).
Related terms: on the table
arylurea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylureas
Etymology: aryl + urea
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound in which urea has one of its hydrogen atoms replaced by an aryl group.
roguey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: roguier
form: roguiest
form: roguy
Etymology: From rogue + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rogue.
glosses: Synonym of roguish (“mischievous and playful”).
synonyms: word: roguish
extra: mischievous and playful
roguier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of roguey: more roguey
glosses: comparative form of roguy: more roguy
roguiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of roguey: most roguey
glosses: superlative form of roguy: most roguy
manufriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Stimulation of one's own genitals by the hand; masturbation.
cockwarming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkˌwɔː.mɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑkˌwoɹ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkwɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Forms: form: cock warming
Etymology: From cock + warming.
Senses: glosses: The act of keeping a partner's penis in one's mouth, anus, or vagina, typically for a prolonged period, without moving to create friction.
Related terms: cockwarm
cockwarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkˌwɔː.mɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑkˌwoɹ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkwɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Forms: form: cock warming
Etymology: From cock + warming.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cockwarm
Related terms: strapwarming
strapwarm
planishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planishing
foreglories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreglory
Winterson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
clockrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockrates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clock rate.
clockrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clockrate
nontuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In groups of nine
nontuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontuples
Senses: glosses: A group of nine
Synonyms: nonuple
centerplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerplanes
Etymology: center + plane
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A central plane.
anyhowly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anyhow + -ly. First attested in 1949.
Senses: examples: text: Nabumbo Promise spoke, her voice low, almost a whisper. You're all grown now, huh? Youre going to talk to me just anyhowly now, huh?
ref: 2022, Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost, New York, N.Y. […]: Scribner, →ISBN, page 353:
glosses: In any which way; haphazardly, arbitrarily.
top-selling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-selling
form: most top-selling
form: top selling
Senses: examples: text: a top-selling brand/product/model
text: They manufacture three of the world's ten top-selling drugs.
text: She has her own TV show and two top-selling albums.
glosses: Extremely popular and selling in larger quantities than other brands.
examples: text: She's one of our top-selling authors.
glosses: Producing books, songs, etc. that are extremely popular and sell in larger quanitites than others.
top selling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top selling
form: most top selling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top-selling
rearrangeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rearrangeably
form: most rearrangeably
Etymology: From rearrangeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: … a first countershaft gear drivingly and axially rearrangeably mounted on said countershaft, …
ref: 1952 January 1, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 654, number 1, page 289:
text: The nonblocking cross-connects may be subdivided into two categories: rearrangeably nonblocking (RNB) and strictly nonblocking (SSNB).
ref: 2002, Ivan P. Kaminow, Tingye Li, Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV, volume 1, page 361:
glosses: Able to be rearranged.
belnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belna
claimholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claimholders
Etymology: From claim + holder.
Senses: examples: text: In cases where the gutter or lead changes its course from the supposed one the position of the original claims shall be changed accordingly taking precedence according to their numbers, it is not competent for a claimholder in a proceeding before the Warden under No. 32, sec. 77, to eject another occupying claimholder, on the basis that the lead has changed its direction, and that a measurement along its sinuosities will give the occupying claimholder more than his proper length of the lead.
ref: 1863, Alfred Wyatt, George H. F. Webb, REPORTS OF OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA, volume II, Sands and McDougall, page 231:
text: It assumes instead that the claimholder has no right to a patent until the claim has reached the clearlist.
ref: 1991 June 11, Mining Law Reform Act of 1991 and the Minerals Policy Review Commission Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, volume 4, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 277:
text: In and extreme model, the original claimholder would be paid the entire agreed sum at the time of the assignment, so that the claimholder would be disinterested in the dispute, although this may create issues of adverse selection.
ref: 2019 September 26, Gian Marco Solas, Third Party Funding, Cambridge University Press, page 153:
glosses: Someone who has a claim on a piece of real or intellectual property.
Related terms: claimholding
maison dieu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A poorhouse.
dagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From daggy (“uncool, unfashionable”) + -ness. First attested in 1985.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to my anxieties and obsessions about my appearance, I also suffered terribly from unrequited love. Strangely enough, despite my dagginess and poor self-esteem, I still received my fair share of attention from boys. Unfortunately, however, this attention was all from boys who didn't interest me in the slightest.
ref: 2012, Kerri Sackville, The Little Book of Anxiety: Confessions From a Worried Life, London: The Robson Press, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: The quality of being daggy (uncool, unfashionable).
claimholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claimholder
self-advertise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-advertises
form: self-advertising
form: self-advertised
form: self-advertised
Etymology: From self- + advertise.
Senses: examples: text: Many identify themselves primarily as libertarians or conservatives. Others self-advertise as white nationalists.
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society:
glosses: To advertise or portray oneself as.
self-branding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + branding.
Senses: examples: text: They engage in self-branding techniques that present traditional, white, male-dominated values as desirable and aspirational.
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society:
glosses: The process of developing one's brand.
self-betterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + betterment.
Senses: examples: text: Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure.
ref: 2010, Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, Temple University Press, page 88:
text: Specifically, they recount ideological testimonials that frame ideology in terms of personal growth and self-betterment.
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society:
glosses: The act of making oneself better.
fegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feg
self-advertises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-advertise
self-advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of self-advertise
self-advertised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-advertise
frustrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frustrator
self-defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + defined.
Senses: examples: text: He is a self-defined “classical liberal” who values individual liberty and small government.
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society:
glosses: Based on one's personal definition; self-described.
ketcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A pronunciation spelling of catcher.
Senses: examples: text: Go outside with your children if you have space and do some simple stretching exercises early in the morning. Playing 'ketcha', or kicking or throwing a ball around helps your blood circulate.
ref: 2021 February 1, “Teach your child today”, in The Guyana Chronicle, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A game similar to tag and hide and seek, in which one player is chosen to chase the others and a player who is caught becomes the new chaser.
self-segregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-segregates
form: self-segregating
form: self-segregated
form: self-segregated
Etymology: From self- + segregate.
Senses: examples: text: In her case, she began getting “redpilled” because she felt the black students at her high school “self-segregated” and had different “demeanors” than the white students.
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society, page 27:
glosses: To separate oneself from others.
self-segregates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-segregate
self-segregating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of self-segregate
self-segregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-segregate
pagalee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pagalee
form: most pagalee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पगला (paglā, “crazy person, madman”) and Hindi पागल (pāgal, “mad, crazy”).
Senses: examples: text: My cousin is in 8th grade and he has 163 Instagram followers. How does a pagalee coolie boy like him have that many?
ref: 2015 March 14, @TreezyG, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024:
glosses: Extremely stupid or foolish; mentally retarded.
self-advertisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-advertisements
Etymology: From self- + advertisement.
Senses: examples: text: When these lesser things count more than the greater, bragging and self-advertisement come to the fore because they pay, as they have throughout our history.
ref: 1997 November 2, “In America, Boasting Has Proud History”, in The New York Times:
text: A great believer in karma, and nearly as frank in his confessions as he was exuberant in his self-advertisements, Norman Mailer was surely convinced that he would get the biography he deserved.
ref: 2013 October 20, Adam Begley, “Norman Mailer: A Life Lived Loud”, in The Daily Beast:
glosses: self-promotion
self-advertisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-advertisement
prags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mostly-obsolete prog (“provisions, food, supplies”), reflecting a Caribbean pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: "When the bullet hit Charlie, he spin like a leaf in the wind. Charlie turn a leaf spinning in the wind. Charlie boy, rustling was not for you, old man! Should've stick to pragging. Prags, boy, prags! The whole country livin' by prags."
ref: 1985 Summer, Jan Carew, “Tilson Ezekiel Alias Ti-Zek”, in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, volume VII, number 4, Lyme, N.H.: Kenyon Hill Publications Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 618:
glosses: Handouts, financial aid (sometimes with the implication of having been acquired dishonestly).
examples: text: Hosts take pride in offering their guests the best of what they have and try to laden them with choice goods as "prags" (gifts) to carry away.
ref: 1991, Brackette F. Williams, Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
glosses: Small gifts customarily given to guests.
sglods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh sglods, an alternative plural to Welsh sglodion (“chips”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Is it time for sglods yet?'
ref: 2020, Laura Kemp, Under a Starry Sky, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 325:
text: Chips are the bedrock of any chippy, and the generous portion of 'sglods I got were perfectly cooked, and delicious. The battered sausage was top notch, and not all greasy like you find in some lesser establishments; the mushy peas were peasy and mushy, and the Irish curry with its little kick of spice was cracking.
ref: 2021 April 10, Alison Sanders, Jason Evans, Ffion Lewis, “Fry Awards 2021: We try out three of the Welsh fish and chip shops named among the best in the UK”, in WalesOnline, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024:
glosses: French fries (chips).