cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bruteforcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bruteforcers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brute-forcer.
bruteforcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruteforcer
WOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WOBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of women-owned business.
stock pond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock ponds
Senses: examples: text: That's how you find the life out here, the coyote on a far ridge, the pronghorn moving toward the stock pond, the rattler, the small burrowing owl. The life that illuminates and gives meaning to spare ground.
ref: 1989 February 5, Kay Whitlock, “Letter from Colorado”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 11:
glosses: An artificial pond used for watering livestock.
glosses: A pond that is stocked with fish for food or recreation.
nematoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nematoid
deuterostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A process in embryology where the mouth forms subsequent to the anus.
Related terms: deuterostome
searchrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of searchroom
pharyngotremy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: pharyngo- + -tremy meaning holes in the pharynx
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The condition of an animal in which the pharynx is perforated by gill slits.
Basiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Badian, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Basey, Samar, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Catbalogan, Samar, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of President Carlos P. Garcia, Bohol, Philippines.
dicker-rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicker-rods
form: dickerod
Etymology: From inventor George Dicker + rod.
Senses: glosses: A device consisting of a three-yard-long rod with a marker at the end, used in gridiron football to determine first down.
dickerod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dickerods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dicker-rod.
dicker-rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicker-rod
dickerods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dickerod
triple-alpha process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple-alpha processes
form: triple-α process
Senses: topics: astrophysics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of fusion reactions by which stars are thought to convert helium to carbon.
triple-alpha processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple-alpha process
hippotaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpə.tɔː/
ipa: /ˈhɪpə.tɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈhɪpə.tɑɹ/
Forms: form: hippotaurs
Etymology: From Latin hippotaurus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόταυρος (hippótauros), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) (English hippo-) + ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”).
Senses: examples: text: Cnemon is surprised even by the shadow of a crocodile, while Nausicles smiles at a foolish bird-catcher sent to catch the phoenicopter; or the giraffe terrifies the Ethiopians at a point in the plot when surprise is least expected - before Theagenes improvises a hippotaur to deal with it. This is again the world of Herodotus-at-the-Zoo.
ref: 1982 May 1, Graham Anderson, Eros Sophistes: Ancient Novelists at Play, number 9, Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Theagenes was extolled to the skies for having welded the novel team into a hippotaur.
ref: 1999 January 29, Heliodorus (of Emesa.), edited by Moses Hadas, Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance, reprint edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 267:
text: Hence, we have a Thessalian doing battle not with a man-horse (centaur) but with a bull-horse (hippotaur), and although the analogy has its weaknesses, it is certainly suggestive of the earlier fight.
ref: 2014 July 14, Shadi Bartsch, “FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader”, in Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, reprint edition, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 148:
text: So precisely did he correlate the speed of the two racing animals animals that from a distance the two heads sprang from a single neck, and they acclaimed Theagenes as a hero who had brought so strange a team, a hippotaur, a creature half bull, half horse, beneath the yoke.
ref: 2019 May 7, B. P. Reardon, “Heliodorus AN ETHIOPIAN STORY”, in Collected Ancient Greek Novels, 2 edition, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 675:
text: The striking image of his horse in parallel to the bull so that they look like a hybrid animal, a hippotaur, governed by one man (29,5), makes true the image of the Lapiths defeating the hybrid Centaurs pictured on his mantle (3,3,5).
ref: 2023 May 4, Marília Futre Pinheiro, Massimo Fusillo, Stephen A. Nimis, “Animals as a Means of Characterisation in Heliodorus Aethiopica”, in Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics and Rhetoric, volume 30, Barkhuis, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: A creature that is half bull and half horse.
Synonyms: jumart
Related terms: hippogriff
minotaur
centaur
hippotaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippotaur
dittle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diddle.
dittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of diddle.
industrial-organizational psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The scientific study of human behavior in organizations and the workplace.
dozenful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dozenfuls
Etymology: From dozen + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: On their hands there were golden bracelets by the dozenfuls.
ref: 1934–1935, “Conflict?”, in [Paul Radin Papers: Jon Lee - China No. 1], →OCLC, page 2:
text: A Dozenful of Gifts in One! Men’s ^$3.95 Fitted LEATHER CASES
ref: 1939 December 6, “Make It a Gift from Quackenbush’s, Your Christmas Store”, in The Morning Call, volume CXV, number 136, Paterson, N.J., →OCLC, page 15:
text: And think of choosing from a dozenful of brand new, early-Spring styles, one lovelier than the other, in monotone florals, dots, floral dots.
ref: 1940 February 7, “Quackenbush’s brings you an extra special purchase!”, in The Morning Call, volume CXVI, number 33, Paterson, N.J., →OCLC, page 5:
text: A DOZENFUL OF WONDERFUL THINGS THAT CITROBELLE DOES TO YOUR COMPLEXION: […]
ref: 1968, Liwayway, Manila, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Chocolate chip, raisin spice, oatmeal, peanut butter and “big softy” cookies are sold by the dozenful in plastic bags to young and old alike who come knocking at her door.
ref: 1983 June 26, Diane Lund, “Cookie shop not half-baked idea”, in The Sunday Oregonian, volume 102, number 30, Portland, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2M, column 1:
text: They each held their sway over a dozenful harems of white chickens.
ref: 1990, Karen King-Aribisala, “Untailored Time”, in Our Wife & Other Stories, Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited, →ISBN, page 154:
text: ngodwe’aangizwin (ngod/we’/aan/giz/win) One dozenful(an.)
ref: 2002, Shirley Ida Williams, Gdi-nweninaa: Our Sound, Our Voice, Peterborough, Ont.: Neganigwane Company, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Synonym of dozen.
synonyms: word: dozen
dozenfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dozenful
halichondramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halichondramides
Senses: glosses: A macrolide isolated from marine sponges, particularly Chondrosia corticata.
griseoviridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A streptogramin produced by Streptomyces griseoviridis.
isavuconazonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A systemic antifungal medication of the triazole class which is used to treat invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis.
methylbenzotriazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylbenzotriazoles
Senses: glosses: A methyl derivative of benzotriazole.
pyridocarbazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyridocarbazoles
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of organic heterotetracyclic compounds derived from pyridine.
heterotetracyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Constisting of four interconnected rings with at least one of them containing a heteroatom.
Ellesmere Urban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Ellesmere Town Council) for the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England.
Related terms: Ellesmere Rural
Tehrân
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after my arrival at Sheerauz, four regiments of infantry arrived from Tehrân; two of which are to remain here, while the other two proceed to Bushire.
ref: 1857, Robert B[lair] M[unro] Binning, “Sheerauz continued.—[…]”, in A Journal of Two Years’ Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc. […], volume I, London: W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen and Co., […], →OCLC, page 315:
text: In any case, it is certain that the action takes place in and near the cities of Tehrân and Rayy, the latter a place of great antiquity and historical importance and now an urban center just south of Tehrân.
ref: 1990, Michael C[raig] Hillmann, “The Modernist Iranian Writer’s Almost Inevitable Nightmare”, in Iranian Culture: A Persianist View, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 108:
text: In October of 1979, when the U.S. allowed the exiled Shah to come to New York for medical treatment, student supporters of the Ayatollah captured the American Embassy in Tehrân and took ninety hostages, sixty-three of them American.
ref: 2002, Robert P. Pearson, Leon E. Clark, “The Islamic Backlash”, in Through Middle Eastern Eyes, 4th revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Center for International Training and Education, →ISBN, part 1 (Tradition and Change), page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of Tehran.
Pistolvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪstəlˈveɪnjə/
ipa: /ˈpɪstəlˈveɪni.ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: Blend of pistol (“handgun”) + Pennsylvania, a reference to the state's high gun violence statistics.
Senses: glosses: Derogatory name for Pennsylvania: a state of the United States.
Daasanach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daasanach
form: Dasenech
form: Daasanech
form: Dathanaik
form: Dathanaic
form: Dathanik
form: Dhaasanac
Senses: glosses: An agropastoral people group inhabiting southern Ethiopia, or a member of it.
glosses: The Omotic language spoken by that group.
Daasanach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Dasenech
form: Daasanech
form: Dathanaik
form: Dathanaic
form: Dathanik
form: Dhaasanac
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Daasanach.
Synonyms: Geleba
Marille
Reshiat
Dasenech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dasenech
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dasenech
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Daasanech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daasanech
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Daasanech
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dathanaik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dathanaik
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dathanaik
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dathanaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dathanaic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dathanaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dathanik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dathanik
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dathanik
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dhaasanac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dhaasanac
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
Dhaasanac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daasanach.
runningwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From running + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing designed to be worn while running.
Podimore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Yeovilton and District parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5425).
Yeovilton and District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district.
Limington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and former civil parish, now in Yeovilton and District parish, Somerset, England, and previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5422).
glosses: A town in York County, Maine, United States.
Ehardt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He and Ehardt acknowledge that rural leaders in multiple states, many of them battleground states like Michigan and Georgia, have inquired about the political path Greater Idaho is taking.
ref: 2023 March 15, Kyung Lah and Jack Hannah, “Partisan rancor in Oregon spills over into Idaho effort to absorb its rural neighbors”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Faceberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Facebook + Zuckerberg or face + Berg.
Senses: glosses: The social media website Facebook.
verneshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verneshots
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Verneshot.
verneshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verneshot
hoish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoish
form: most hoish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hoeish.
cinchona bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinchona barks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cinchona (“the bark of these plants”).
synonyms: word: cinchona
extra: the bark of these plants
Kodiak Archipelago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago south of the main land mass of the state of Alaska.
science facts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of science fact
desuggestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + suggestive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rejection of suggestions that are likely to cause insecurity or a lack of confidence.
Related terms: desuggestion
desuggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + suggestion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The unloading of a reserve of unwanted memories.
Related terms: desuggestive
ended in tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of end in tears
ending in tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of end in tears
ends in tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of end in tears
Darlinghurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Darlinghursts
Etymology: Taken from the surname Darling + the toponymic suffix hurst (“grove”).
Named in honor of Eliza Darling, the wife of local governor Ralph Darling.
Senses: glosses: An inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Jewlywood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Jew + Hollywood, due to the prevalence of Jews in the film industry.
Senses: examples: text: This is a perfect example of how Jewlywood has twisted the minds of our people.
ref: 1997 October 28, Fragano Ledgister, “The sickness of "nigger lovers"”, in alt.nswpp (Usenet):
text: Jewlywood has done it's job well since the beginning to show how evil the Arabs and the Jew haters are.
ref: 2006 August 6, CoverUp, “Jews can murder with impunity because of the "Holocaust"”, in alt.thebird (Usenet):
text: Indeed, individual observers see the films as typical of "Jewlywood," containing at best "Jewish undertones,” or constituting at worst "a Judeo-Multicultural sewer."
ref: 2014, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Beyond Hate, White Power and Popular Culture, page 80:
glosses: Hollywood.
Blue Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Blue Revolution
Etymology: In the policing sense, possibly coined by Michael Massing in the New York Review.
Senses: glosses: The large-scale proliferation of aquaculture in the late 20th century.
examples: text: The order-maintenance approach has not been limited to scholarly books, law review articlees, and academic conferences. A number of the policy proposals have been implemented in large cities […] and in smaller cities and rural areas. In many cases, in fact, it is new policing strategies that have triggered social norm theorizing, not the other way around. And the combination of theorizing and practice has been truly combustible. It has ignited what has been dubbed the "Blue Revolution."
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
text: In contemplating the “Blue Revolution,” scholars of all stripes have generally proceeded on the assumption that no big-city police force in the postwar period offered an example of community policing worth investigating.
ref: 2011, Gregory Holcomb Umbach, The Last Neighborhood Cops, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A shift in law enforcement strategies and practices aimed at enhancing community management and improving public trust.
Woolloomooloo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woolloomooloos
Etymology: From the name of the first homestead in the area. The origin of that name itself is uncertain. Either from the aboriginal term Wallamullah, meaning "place of plenty", or from Wallabahmullah, meaning a "young black kangaroo".
Senses: glosses: An inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
slums it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slum it
slumming it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slum it
slummed it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slum it
do a perish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does a perish
form: doing a perish
form: did a perish
form: done a perish
Senses: examples: text: "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:
glosses: To suffer privation or hardship of any kind.
glosses: To die, especially to die of thirst; to perish.
does a perish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do a perish
doing a perish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do a perish
did a perish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do a perish
done a perish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do a perish
xenusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenusians
Etymology: From translingual Xenusia + -n
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any lobopodian in the class †Xenusia.
xenusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenusian
Dniprianyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dniprianyns
Etymology: Calque of Ukrainian дніпря́нин (dniprjányn)
Senses: glosses: native male resident of Dnipro
glosses: native male resident of Dnipriany
Dniprianka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dnipriankas
Etymology: Calque of Ukrainian дніпря́нка (dniprjánka)
Senses: glosses: native female resident of Dnipro
glosses: native female resident of Dnipriany
glamour girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glamour girls
Senses: examples: text: Who wouldn’t be a glamor girl, a certain-to-enamor girl?
ref: 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
text: "I'd sooner be on the stage than anywhere else." "You mean you like being cocked up in front of an audience with nothing much on and getting a thrill out of being what those idiotic newspapers call a Lovely or a Glamour Girl. With all the damned glamour on the stage and none off it."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6:
glosses: A voluptuous woman; a woman who is very attractive and stylish, and often associated with elegance, charm, or a sense of allure.
glamour girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glamour girl
lesboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlezboɪ/
Forms: form: lesboys
Etymology: Blend of lesbian + boy.
Senses: glosses: A person who identifies as male and as a lesbian.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A boydyke.
aplatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aplatonic
form: most aplatonic
Etymology: From a- + platonic. Compare asocial and aromantic.
Senses: glosses: That feels little or no platonic attraction to others and/or desire for queerplatonic relationships.
aplatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplatonics
Etymology: From a- + platonic. Compare asocial and aromantic.
Senses: glosses: One who does not experience platonic attraction to others.
Synonyms: word: apl
Michigosling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Michigoslings
Etymology: Blend of Michigander + gosling, because the young offspring of a gander (“male goose”) is a gosling.
Senses: examples: text: The chief objection to Michigander is that it inspires idiots to call a Michigan woman a Michigoose and a child a Michigosling, but the people of the State have got used to this
ref: 1947, H. L. Mencken, “Names for Americans”, in American Speech, volume 22, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, pages 241–256:
text: From Dale E. Pasco of Owosso: "My parents were both one room school teachers and they taught it this way: I'm a Michigander, my wife is a Michigoose, our kids are Michigoslins, so what is the use."
ref: 1982, Michigan Natural Resources Magazine, volumes 51-52, page 77:
text: Gander is male goose. If you use “Michigander,” you should also include “Michigoose” (female) and “Michigosling” (child) in your title.
ref: 2014 May 3, Jane Wallin Holt, “Would prefer you called section ‘Michiganian’”, in Lansing State Journal, Lansing, Michigan, Opinion, page A4:
glosses: A child from Michigan, contrasted with a Michigander (“man from Michigan”).
Hypernyms: alt: unisex
word: Michigander
word: Michigoose
word: Michiganer
word: Michiganian
word: American
floptastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of flop + fantastic, equivalent to flop + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: She had more luck with soppy flick The Delinquents and comedy Bio-Dome, but we assume Hayride To Hell was also floptastic - has anyone ever heard of it?
ref: 2002 June 24, Lili2, “Kylie's voice not good enough for Baz Luhrman opera remake”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
text: Now that Ashanti's career runs three albums deep, not including 2003's floptastic Ashanti's Christmas, it's high time Inc head Irv Gotti put the Mary J. Blige comparisons to rest.
ref: 2004, Andy Kellman, “Concrete Rose Review”, in AllMusic Review:
text: So, the better to be an asshole, I decided to write a blog post about my floptastic endeavors to get laid.
ref: 2016, Lucy Woodhull, 667 Ways to F*ck Up My Life, page 117:
glosses: Of an attempt or endeavor, spectacularly unsuccessful.
wash-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash-overs
Senses: examples: text: "It's bloody, having a wash-over at a basin, and half the time that's choked up and has to be poked out with a bit of wire. And look at the towels that old bitch hands us out - worn to threads. I'd like to soak for an hour in bath-salts to get the sweat and greasepaint off me."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6:
glosses: An act of washing which encompasses the entire surface.
wash-overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wash-over
Chinamaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinamaniacs
Etymology: From China + maniac.
Senses: examples: text: "And some of the old china in the kitchen is Chelsea and Dresden and I noticed a Spode dinner-set there and some Crown Derby cups." "All that doesn't mean a thing to me. Does it mean that the stuff's valuable?" "Goodness, yes! Chinamaniacs pay all sorts of fancy prices for good examples of old china."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 12:
glosses: A person obsessed with collecting porcelain; an avid china collector.
Chinamaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinamaniac
distinctivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distinctive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: distinctiveness
conductiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conductive + -ness
Senses: glosses: conductivity
Dnipriany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dnepriany
Etymology: From Ukrainian Дніпряни (Dniprjany), comonym meaning "the Dnieper’s people". By surface analysis, Дніпро́ (Dnipró) + -яни (-jany, “suffix”):
Dnipr + -ian + -y
Senses: glosses: A settlement in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, in southern Ukraine.
wikipedia: Toponymy#Toponymic typology
that'sn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: that + is + not
Senses: examples: 2021, Hilanna Oliveira, ', ppgecb.
I think among the many built-in hazards that’sn’t spoken of nearly enough in long-distance affairs
glosses: Contraction of that is not.
Outlane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Kirklees borough and Stainland and District parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0817).
Lettowe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lettow.
grease pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grease pots
form: grease-pot
Senses: glosses: A pot formerly used to hold greasepaint.
examples: text: This was crude, but effective, and while Mr McIntyre Rosenbaum was struggling to get his stigmatized breath Rita turned to the chorus and said, "You know, girls, this old grease-pot is running the show on his wife's money."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38:
glosses: A theatre owner.
grease pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grease pot
Lettow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lettowe
form: Littowe
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Lettowe, Lettow, from Middle Low German Lettouwen (compare Middle High German Lettowen, Littowen), from Old East Slavic Литъва (Litŭva) or its etymon Old Lithuanian Lietuva.
Senses: examples: text: The Citie alſo which is called Wil or Vilna, into the caſtle whereof the king of Lettow named Skirgalle fled foꝛ his ſauegard, was, by the valour of the ſayd Earle especially and of his followers, ſurpꝛiſed and taken.
ref: 1599, Thomas of Walſingham, “The voyage of Henry Earle of Derbie, after Duke of Hereford, and laſtly king of England […] ”, in Richard Hakluyt, transl., The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC, page 123:
text: […] and finally in the South parts thereof (Livonia) they vſe the Letticke speech, or of the countrey of Lettow, which the people Eureles likewise vſe, the which is as it were a hodge-podge of many ſeverall languages mingled together.
ref: 1632, A Short Survey or Hiſtory of the Kingdome of Sveden […] , London: Michael Sparke, page 26:
text: Shuſky who ſucceeded him reports in a Letter to King James otherwiſe of him; that his right name was Gryſhca the Son of Boughdan; that to eſcape puniſhment for Villanies done, he turn'd Fryar, and fell at last to the Black art; and fearing that the Metropolitan intended therefore to impriſon him, fled into Lettow; where by counſel of Sigiſmund the Poland King, he began to call himſelf Demetry of Ouglitts.
ref: 1682, John Milton, “CHAP. IV. The Succeſſion of Moſcovia Dukes and Emperours taken out of their Chronicles by a Polack with ſome later Additions”, in A Brief Hiſtory of Moſcovia […] , London: M. Fleſher for Brabazon Aylmer, pages 60-61:
glosses: Lithuania (a country in northeastern Europe).
grease-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grease-pots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grease pot.
grease-pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grease-pot
wall table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall tables
form: wall-table
Senses: examples: text: "Of course, it's a bit battered, but it would do up quite nicely. And that wall-table - is that the one the woman wanted, that one with the ball and claw legs? She had good taste; it's a really good thing. Only they've ruined it with coats of varnish."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 49:
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: A type of table designed to be placed against or mounted on a wall.
wall tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall table
wall-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall-tables
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wall table.
wall-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wall-table
Stainland and District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, that includes the village of Stainland and the surrounding settlements. Created in 2017-2018.
ear range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear-range
Senses: examples: text: But when it came to talking prices, Rita always lowered her voice confidentially, leading the customers well out of Mrs Dibble's ear-range, which exasperated curiosity to a frenzy in the old woman.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 73:
glosses: The distance within which one, or something, can be heard; hearing range.
fire-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But it would be within this 'wrapping' that the hotel would burn beyond repair in September 2023 - a sad end, with three teenagers charged with wilful fire-raising.
ref: 2025 January 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage on the 'at risk' radar”, in RAIL, number 1027, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of fireraising.
ear-range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ear range.
dedup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of deduplication.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Deduplication; elimination of redundant duplicate data.
Waipa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A territorial authority in Waikato region, New Zealand, with its main towns being Cambridge and Te Awamutu; in full, Waipa District.
glosses: A river in Waikato region, New Zealand, which joins the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia; in full, Waipa River.
Dniprian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Dnipr + -ian via Ukrainian Дніпро́ (Dnipró, “Dnipro city”).
Senses: glosses: Of or associated with Dnipro (a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine).
Derived terms: word: Dniprianka
word: Dniprianyn
downsprue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downsprues
Etymology: From down- + sprue.
Senses: examples: text: • Flask tie bars located too close to risers and downsprues
ref: 2008, George Goodrich, “Warped Castings”, in Casting Defects Handbook: Iron & Steel, Schaumburg, I.L.: American Foundry Society, →ISBN, page 224:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of sprue (“a channel through which molten metal is poured into the mold during the casting process”).
synonyms: word: sprue
extra: a channel through which molten metal is poured into the mold during the casting process
downsprues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downsprue
Lesbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish next to Alnmouth, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2311).
Dnipriankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dniprianka
Dniprianyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dniprianyn
infraordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infraordinary
form: most infraordinary
Etymology: From infra- + ordinary. Now mainly used as an allusion to the writings of French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist Georges Perec, who used the term l'infra-ordinaire in his 1973 essay "Approaches to What?" (Approches de quoi ?). First attested in 1827.
Senses: examples: text: There is richness in every verse, with ever now and then a bit of imagery that must inevitably stamp itself upon even an infraordinary intelligence.
ref: 1904 February, “Books and Writers”, in Sunset, volume XII, number 4, San Francisco, C.A.: Southern Pacific, page 368, column 2:
text: More generally, the historical idea of Little Italy weans its authority from the worlding effects of the colony's infraordinary everyday life, which appears as a fully visualized morphology.
ref: 2010, William Boelhower, “Figuring Out Little Italy: Down Mott Street and into the City”, in Dennis Barone, Stefano Luconi, editors, Small Towns, Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans, New York, N.Y.: American Italian Historical Association, →ISBN, page 22:
text: "On the Calculation of Volume," structured as a numbered diary (we begin on Tara's 121st Nov. 18), plunges us into what Georges Perec called the infraordinary, the perplexities of the habitual and the banal: a stirring confrontation with reality that feels genuinely new. These books might brim with repetitions, but they are hardly recapitulations.
ref: 2025 January 25, Hilary Leichter, “A 'Groundhog Day' Time Loop So Long It Spans 7 Enthralling Books”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025:
glosses: Existing at a level below that which is considered ordinary.
endotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endotic
form: most endotic
Etymology: A variant of exotic, replacing the prefix with endo-. Now mainly used as an allusion to the writings of French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist Georges Perec, who used the term endotique in his 1973 essay "Approaches to What?" (Approches de quoi ?).
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, then, we have the exotic, the logical opposite of which we may therefore describe as endotic. ¶ How many and what civilizations are there? Where do the endotic and the exotic begin and end?
ref: 1959, Fosco Maraini, translated by Eric Mosbacher, Meeting With Japan., New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published 1960, page 432:
glosses: Not exotic; familiar, ordinary.
subwoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from subwoofer. Equivalent to sub- + woof.
Senses: examples: text: Pelayo leaned forward and picked up the menu in front of him. The subwoof bass from the speakers kicked at his eardrums, heavy as steel-toed boots.
ref: 2006, Mark Budz, Idolon, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 77:
text: It's essentially roots reggae, but with the bass and the subwoof extrapolated and intensified at a particular hertz that is supposed to be a healing frequency. And it's played on these really massive sound systems.
ref: 2025 January 25, Kathryn Shattuck, “Tamara Lawrance Wants Another Season of 'The Traitors,' but for Actors”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025:
synonyms: sub-bass
glosses: The very low-pitched sound produced by a subwoofer.
subwoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subwoofs
form: subwoofing
form: subwoofed
form: subwoofed
Etymology: Back-formation from subwoofer. Equivalent to sub- + woof.
Senses: examples: text: "El, this is fucking rad," Oksana subwoofed.
ref: 2015, Robert J. Peterson, Odds: A Post-Apocalyptic Action Comedy, Los Angeles, C.A.: Rare Bird Books, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: To produce a very low-pitched sound.
subwoofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subwoof
subwoofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subwoof
subwoofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subwoof
Scarfe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Moxham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A neighbourhood and historic district in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Felisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: With this, the red necklace finally took complete control of Felisha’s mind and body. “I’m free. I’m out of that stupid necklace and I have a new body to control, […] And I hate the name Felisha,” she yelled, “I’m going to call myself Fire Goddess.”
ref: 2012, Michael Stone, “Wednesday, January 11th”, in The Tale of Two Necklaces, Chino Valley, Ariz.: One World Press, →ISBN, chapter 2, page 46:
text: Like everyone else, Papa called Mama Todd, “Sis,” because she hated “Cleva Felisha,” her name.
ref: 2014 April 18, Billie H. Wilson, “Before Me, 1931”, in Bug Swamp’s Gold, Bloomigton, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: “I’m Dominick…… what’s your name?” “Felisha.” “That’s a pretty name.[…]”
ref: 2017 June 22, Tamara Barnett, “My Life Is Your Life”, in Religion, Romance and Real Life, Ishpeming, Mich.: BookVenture Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name, variant of Felicia.
Derived terms: bye, Felisha
Hartheim am Rhein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, renamed from Hartheim in 2012.
Lulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lula + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Lulism is one of the most important political phenomena of 21st-century Brazil.¹ Some have compared it to Varguism, which dominated Brazilian politics between 1930 and 1964.
ref: 2021 December 13, Armando Boito, Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism, BRILL, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The philosophy and politics of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Related terms: Lulist
Varguism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Vargas + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Lulism is one of the most important political phenomena of 21st-century Brazil.¹ Some have compared it to Varguism, which dominated Brazilian politics between 1930 and 1964.
ref: 2021 December 13, Armando Boito, Reform and Political Crisis in Brazil: Class Conflicts in Workers' Party Governments and the Rise of Bolsonaro Neo-fascism, BRILL, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The philosophy and politics of Getúlio Vargas.
forethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forethroats
Etymology: From fore- + throat.
Senses: glosses: The forward part of the throat or throat area.
Polsloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An eastern suburb of the city of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9393).
bureaucratic centralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bureaucratic centralism of German Social-Democracy, which re-echoed the “national” traditions of the Prussian barrack square, has been a damper on the labour movement of Germany to this very day.
ref: 1935, Соломон Лозовский [Solomon Lozovsky], “III. The Struggle against Lassalleanism and all other forms of German Opportunism”, in Marx and the Trade Unions, New York: International Publishers, page 43:
english: Solomon Lozovsky
translation: Solomon Lozovsky
antonyms: democratic centralism
glosses: A set of principles of organization whereby power is centralized and subordinate bureaucrats must follow decisions and carry out orders made by their superiors.
Lulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lulists
Etymology: From Lula + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Advocate for the political ideology of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Related terms: Lulism
Natoma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small lake located along the American River in Sacramento County, California, United States.
symphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭm-fôr′-ē-ə
ipa: /sɪmˈfɔːɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῠμφέρω (sŭmphérō, “bring together”). The chemistry sense was coined by Robert Thornton Morrison and Robert Neilson Boyd in the 5th (1987) edition of Organic Chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: Empathy signifies exploring, reconnoitering, contemplating, estimating, judging, “feeling into,” but not “feeling with” the other person. Symphoria implies “feeling into” and “feeling and swing with” the other person.
ref: 1939 November 24, Eugen Kahn, Helen G. Richter, “Sensitivity”, in The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 96:
glosses: Bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
examples: text: It is proposed that [BbIm]OH along with a water molecule is able to catalyse the reaction due to symphoria.
ref: 2019 January 25, Dr. Riyaj S. Tamboli, Dr. Mahesh M. Shidore, Dr. Radha Charan Dash, Dr. Ashish M. Kanhed, Nirav R. Patel, Dr. Shailesh R. Shah, Prof. Mangeram Ram Yadav, “Improved Rapid and Green Synthesis of N-Aryl Piperazine Hydrochlorides Using Synergistic Coupling of Hydrated Task Specific Ionic Liquid ([BbIm]OH) and Microwave Irradiation”, in ChemistrySelect, volume 4, number 4:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.
Specifically, the bringing together of reactants into the exact relative spatial arrangement and proximity most formative of chemical reactions. The term encompasses both neighboring group effects and catalysis by transition metal complexes, enzymes, or other molecules.
Hyponyms: anchimeric assistance
Derived terms: symphoric
Related terms: Symphorian
Symphorianus
symphory
Symphoricarpos
stereochemistry
Trenchtown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Trench Town.
hearing range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearing ranges
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The frequency range that can be heard by humans or other animals.
glosses: The distance within which something can be heard.
hearing ranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearing range
Sputnik star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sputnik stars
Senses: glosses: A star-shaped ornament that was popular in the 1960s.
Sputnik stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sputnik star
workingmen's hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workingmen's hotels
form: workingman's hotel
Senses: glosses: A cheap or inexpensive hotel where itinerant laborers reside.
workingman's hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workingman's hotels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of workingmen's hotel.
workingmen's hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workingmen's hotel
workingman's hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workingman's hotel
sailing yacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailing yachts
Senses: glosses: A leisure craft that uses sails as its primary means of propulsion.
steam yacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam yachts
Senses: glosses: A class of luxury or commercial yacht with primary or secondary steam propulsion in addition to the sails usually carried by yachts.
sailing yachts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailing yacht
steam yachts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam yacht
cat hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat hotels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cattery (“a place where cats board when their owners are on holiday”).
synonyms: word: cattery
extra: a place where cats board when their owners are on holiday
Upper Largo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Kirkton of Largo
glosses: A village in Largo parish, south-east Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4203).
Related terms: Lower Largo
cat hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat hotel
fliptastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of flip + fantastic, equivalent to flip + -tastic.
Senses: glosses: Amazing, spectacular.
cinchonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cinchonal
form: most cinchonal
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cinchona.
cinchona red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinchona reds
Senses: glosses: A dark-colored phlobaphene that is produced when cinchotannic acid oxidizes.
cinchotannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinchotannic acids
Senses: glosses: A tannin contained in many cinchona barks.
cinchona reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinchona red
cinchotannic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinchotannic acid
cinchonic red
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinchonic reds
Senses: glosses: A resiniform matter found in cinchona bark that is used as a coloring substance.
cinchonic reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinchonic red
apartel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apartels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apartelle.
apartele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aparteles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apartelle.
aparteles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apartele
apartels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apartel
two-sidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From two-sided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being two-sided.
Amazon river dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amazon river dolphin
both-sided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: one-sided
glosses: Seeing or supporting both sides of an argument or debate.
glosses: Synonym of two-sided.
synonyms: word: two-sided
Derived terms: both-sidedness
both-sidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From both-sided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being both-sided.
mule fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: seepwillow
glosses: Baccharis salicifolia, a white-flowered shrub native from South America to the southwest US.
willow ragwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Barkleyanthus salicifolius, a yellow-flowered bush native to Central America, Mexico, and the southwest US.