cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
yuckety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yuckety
form: most yuckety
Etymology: From yuck + -ety.
Senses: examples: text: There follows a farcical motor chase to prevent the gal’s elopment with the other man and a crashing climax ushering in a yuckety hospital scene fadeout.
ref: 1947 June 5, E[llis] B[rownell] Radcliffe, “Show Mirror: Reverse Switch On Cinderella Formula Offered Again In 'Love And Learn' At Palace”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 107th year, number 57, Cincinnati, Oh., pages 5⁠—⁠C, column 2:
text: Lots of people are already getting back from vacation and there are lots of yuckety pictures coming back from the processing plant. […] Well, if it’s not too late for you to benefit, here’s what I would recommend not only for the beginner but for the advanced amateur. First of all, make certain your camera is in operating condition.
ref: 1972 July 20, Ray Streib, “‘Hold It’”, in Noblesville Daily Ledger, 85th year, number 171, Noblesville, Ind., page 12, column 1:
text: [H]e voted to raise the price of Pyfinkian crude to $23.50 a barrell^([sic])—or more than 10 times what he sold it for a scant six years ago. / “Believe me, it hurt me more than it will hurt you,” he said, suppressing a sob. “But it was the only way we could stop you from buying all that yuckety oil from us.” / “You don’t like oil?” I asked, surprised. / “By the beard of the prophet, all members of OPEC loathe oil,” he said. “Black, dirty, messy, smelly stuff.[…]”
ref: 1979 August 13, Russ Metz, “You can count on good friends . . . like this when the camel chips are down”, in Grayson County News-Gazette, volume 3, number 64, Leitchfield, Ky., →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
text: Again, the small, aluminum-framed, drafty windows were the focus of discontent in the bedroom. They were uncovered, for the first time since 1972, when the Wedgwood-blue drapery was taken down to be sent to the cleaner. And suddenly the room was enriched by scenic views of treetop foliage. […] The drapery was down for good and the small “yuckety” windows were doomed. “I said, look at the view, why cover it up,” Mrs. Spring recalled.
ref: 1983 September 6, Doris Herzig, “The joys of making changes”, in Newsday, volume 44, number 4, Melville, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., →ISSN, part III (At Home), page 3, columns 1–2:
text: Teamed with the added delight of having to give Oscar sponge baths since the shower was inexplicably terror zone for him. Not to mention, the yuckety bathroom was far too tiny a space to contain him while I sped through a shower, so I had to race through shampoo, shave, and suds at lightning speed while I could hear him putter around the flat doing a host of possibly dangerous activities.
ref: 2011 May, Kirsten Lobe, Paris, Baby! An American Girl’s Real-Life Adventures Having a Baby in the City of Lights, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 322:
glosses: Yucky.
Atmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæt.mɔː/
ipa: /ˈæt.moɹ/
ipa: [ˈæʔ.-]
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A hamlet in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada.
Rondebosch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape province, South Africa.
pseudaelurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudaelurine
pseudaelurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudaelurines
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any member of the Pseudaelurus genus of fossil cats.
blousey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The partially completed painting already included a vignette of the heads of Alice and her two siblings, from the photograph in Two Women, flatly painted in two colors, and the standing figure of Alice, in a blousey dress and a large hat, who with the faint modeling appears like a dimming memory.
ref: 1995, Patricia Hills, “May Stevens: Painting History as Lived Feminist Experience”, in Patricia M[ullan] Burnham, Lucretia Hoover Giese, editors, Redefining American History Painting, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part III (Didactic Intent), page 328:
text: She thinks of a child, an almost frail, very slender girl who wears lacey, blousey dresses, a wide bow around her waist, little white socks and white patent leather shoes.
ref: 1999 January, Richard Lyons, chapter 11, in The Edge of Things, Midlothian, Va.: Van Neste Books, →ISBN, page 75:
text: She wore taupe jodhpurs and a white blousey dress shirt with rolled sleeves, and even at this distance, buried in pillows and peering through the ropes of the hammock, I could see the glitter of a diamond tennis bracelet on her wrist, along with matching diamond pendants hanging from her ears.
ref: 2016, Blaize Clement, John Clement, The Cat Sitter and the Canary (A Dixie Hemingway Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of blousy.
nitrodiamantanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrodiamantane
nitrodiamantane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrodiamantanes
Etymology: From nitro + diamantane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitro derivative of diamantane.
binor-S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound with IUPAC name (2R,3S,4S,5R,9R,10S,11S)-heptacyclo[8.4.0.0^(2,12).0^(3,8).0^(4,6).0^(5,9).0^(11,13)]tetradecane
jokeyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jokey + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.’ He paused, having astonished himself by this intemperate excursion into jokeyness.
ref: 1968, Ngaio Marsh, “Ramsdyke”, in Clutch of Constables, London: The Companion Book Club, →OCLC, page 125:
text: Innumerable legends surround Louis [Armstrong]: some about his eating prowess in the old days, many about his unchallengeable strength as a player, some about his jokeyness and lack of respect for important occasions, others about his devotion to work.
ref: 1970, Max Jones, “Seventy Years on the Throne”, in Max Jones, John Chilton, Leonard Feather, Salute to Satchmo (A Melody Maker Publication), London: IPC Specialist and Professional Press, Ltd., →OCLC, page 87:
text: With confidence I had begun to see that the comedy that had become my writing tone, the ability to make two or three jokes to the page, the jokeyness that was my double inheritance from my Trinidad background, however good, however illuminating, was also a way of making peace with a hard world; was on the other side of hysteria.
ref: 1994, V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul, “Passenger: A Figure from the Thirties”, in A Way in the World: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Alternative form of jokiness.
scare the hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scares the hoes
form: scaring the hoes
form: scared the hoes
form: scared the hoes
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: To repel women.
examples: text: Every time Alexandra tries to convince the electorate to institute a modest reform, Roberta scares the hoes by suggesting a more ambitious, complicated version of that reform.
glosses: To act in a manner that alienates a valuable subsection of a group activity's participants who have less tolerance for aggressive, unusual, or extreme behavior.
ultrathinness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultrathin + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ultrathin.
Jeri curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jeri curls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jheri curl.
scares the hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scare the hoes
scaring the hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scare the hoes
scared the hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scare the hoes
Sud-Est
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the ten departments of Haiti.
Euro-English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euro-Englishes
Etymology: From Euro- + English.
Senses: related: word: Euro English
synonyms: European English
EU English
Brussels English//Brussels-English
Eurospeak//Euro-speak
EU-speak//EU speak//EU Speak
hypernyms: global English
international English
World English//world English
policy English
glosses: The sociolect of the English language, often NNSE, depending on the institutions of the European Union, and imitating the idioms and mannerisms of her member states and their vernaculars.
Euro-Englishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euro-English
Euro English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euro Englishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Euro-English.
Euro Englishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euro English
EU English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Euro-English.
synonyms: word: Euro-English
Brussels English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Euro-English.
synonyms: word: Euro-English
Brussels-English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Euro-English.
synonyms: word: Euro-English
EU-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Euro-English.
synonyms: word: Euro-English
EU Speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of EU-speak.
EU speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of EU-speak.
Euro-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Eurospeak.
overchoreographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overchoreograph
Cleopas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλεοπᾶς (Kleopâs), contracted form of Κλεόπᾰτρος (Kleópătros).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
reesed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reesed
form: most reesed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reezed (“rancid”).
Goldbach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Goldbach number
Goldbach partition
Goldbach's conjecture
Jheri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Gerald and Gerard.
Derived terms: Jheri curl
Jeri curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jeri curl
Mongoloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mongoloid
toad grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toad-grass.
toadgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toad-grass.
pithecophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pitheco- + phobia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The fear of apes and monkeys.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A distate for apes and monkeys, extending to discomfort with the notion that humans evolved from apes.
U.S.-ian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of US-ian.
bog gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of swamp gas (“gases emitted from a swamp”).
synonyms: word: swamp gas
extra: gases emitted from a swamp
rush goalie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A variation of association football where the goalkeeper's role is more flexible than usual.
pithecan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to apes.
pithecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pithecoid aspect or characteristic present in a human.
stat out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stats out
form: statting out
form: statted out
form: statted out
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Synonym of stat (“to assign statistics to a monster, etc. in a game”).
synonyms: word: stat
extra: (“to assign statistics to a monster, etc. in a game”).
oblique spaceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique spaceships
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: lightweight spaceship
middleweight spaceship
heavyweight spaceship
glosses: Any spaceship which moves neither orthogonally nor perfectly diagonally.
Hyponyms: sense: Any spaceship which moves neither orthogonally nor perfectly diagonally.
alt: (2
word: knightship spaceship)
sense: Any spaceship which moves neither orthogonally nor perfectly diagonally.
alt: (3
word: camelship spaceship)
alt: (3
word: zebraship spaceship)
sense: Any spaceship which moves neither orthogonally nor perfectly diagonally.
alt: (4
word: giraffeship spaceship)
alt: (4
word: antelopeship spaceship)
sense: Any spaceship which moves neither orthogonally nor perfectly diagonally.
alt: (5
word: ibisship spaceship)
sense: Any spaceship which moves neither orthogonally nor perfectly diagonally.
alt: (6
word: flamingoship spaceship)
oblique spaceships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblique spaceship
stat holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stat holidays
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stat (“a statutory public holiday in Canada”).
synonyms: word: stat
extra: a statutory public holiday in Canada
stat holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stat holiday
woke Olympics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the woke Olympics
Senses: glosses: Real or perceived competition between people or groups to be considered the most "woke" (socially conscious).
Related terms: Oppression Olympics
forepromising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forepromise
I shit you not
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Earliest known use is from 1949 in Dan Levin's Mask of Glory.
Senses: examples: text: “What’sa matter?” Mudgen asked. “Ain’t you ever seen snow before?” But he couldn't keep himself from going over to the door. “Well I shit you not it is snowing!”
ref: 1954, Robert James Collas Lowry, “Casualty”, in Happy New Year, Kamerades!, Doubleday & Company, page 106:
glosses: Synonym of I kid you not (Used to insist that one is telling the truth)
synonyms: word: I kid you not
extra: Used to insist that one is telling the truth
I fuck you not
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘My God, Steve – are you fucking with me?’
‘I fuck you not, my friend. You guys are gonna be on Friends.’
ref: 2002 [1999], Kevin Sampson, Powder, Canongate Books, page 55:
glosses: Synonym of I kid you not (Used to insist that one is telling the truth)
synonyms: word: I kid you not
extra: Used to insist that one is telling the truth
triarylpyridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triarylpyridine
triazacyclononanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triazacyclononane
housebot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housebots
Senses: glosses: A domestic robot
triazols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triazol
tribenzoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribenzoate
trichloroacetyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichloroacetyl
trichloroethanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichloroethanol
trichloropropanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichloropropane
tricitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricitrate
tridecaoxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridecaoxide
trideoxyriboses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trideoxyribose
tridepsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridepside
tricosadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricosadiene
pedophilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -philism.
Senses: glosses: Pedophilia.
trifluoropropyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trifluoropropyl
trifluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triflux
triglucuronides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triglucuronide
triglucosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triglucoside
tricosahydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricosahydrate
triglycosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triglycoside
trihydroxylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trihydroxylation
incesty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incesty
form: most incesty
Etymology: From incest + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The emotional abuse includes all sorts of psychological rape stuff by my father. He did some very incesty things when I was a teenager like looking at my crotch and introducing me as his wife at a party once.
ref: 1994 June 5, Helki, “ow.”, in alt.sexual.abuse.recovery (Usenet):
text: It was clear she was the only human being his grandfather had ever loved; nothing incesty about it, Tull knew that in his bones — only that rarest of rare things, an unconditional affection for her mind, her body, her blithe broken spirit.
ref: 2003, Bruce Wagner, “Saint-Cloud Road” (chapter 3), in I'll Let You Go, New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, page 17:
glosses: Incestuous.
Elwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in South Wheatland Township, Macon County, Illinois, United States; the name is from the founders Daniel Elwood and William Martin.
hawk-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fly of the family Asilidae.
stats out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stat out
statting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of stat out
statted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stat out
blow-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-flies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blowfly.
blow-flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow-fly
South Wheatland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Macon County, Illinois, United States.
GNUtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GNUtards
Etymology: From GNU + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: Best Buy Co., Inc. on the other hand is still pressing its suit against moronic GNUtard plaintiffs: […]
ref: 2010 October 13, Alexander Terekhov, “Sharing the GPL source code, with value addition by vendor specific to his hardware?”, in gnu.misc.discuss (Usenet):
text: QWERTY keyboards are the best because that's what I use and if I use them, they must be awesome (GNUtard logic).
ref: 2014 January 29, Silver Slimer, “Snit's the victor”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: I'm not even going to talk about the ego controversies between Linux users when it comes to being superior by using an editor over another, or even if it's about distros. Linus Torvalds flipped his middle finger and said "Fuck You" to NVIDIA, well I guess you know why... NVIDIA doesn't really like GNUtards sucking on their balls for decent drivers, specially if they don't know how to suck balls.
ref: 2020 January 2, Tig Welder, “Why Linux Sucks- 2020 Version”, in alt.os.linux (Usenet):
glosses: A passionate advocate of GNU software and the GNU philosophy.
GNUtards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GNUtard
objectum-sexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectum-sexuals
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Eiffel is an objectum-sexual, one of a small group of people who love and are attracted to things.
ref: 2014, Amram Shapiro, Louise Firth Campbell, Rosalind Wright, The Book of Odds: From Lightning Strikes to Love at First Sight, the Odds of Everyday Life, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 40:
synonyms: objectum
pygmaliosexual
glosses: Someone who is sexually attracted to inanimate objects or things.
Related terms: objectum-sexuality
objectum-sexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objectum-sexual
Gwinear-Gwithian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in west Cornwall, England, which includes the named places.
Payonks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Payonk
Pajonks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pajonk
nonplussingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonplussingly
form: most nonplussingly
Etymology: From nonplussing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonplussing manner; confusingly.
thermochronologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermochronologists
Senses: glosses: An expert in thermochronology.
sorry-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorry-ass
form: most sorry-ass
Etymology: From sorry + -ass.
Senses: qualifier: sometimes considered
glosses: Pitiful, worthless; utterly terrible or dire.
diazoalkyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + azo + alkyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical group derived from a diazoalkane
kick to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks to
form: kicking to
form: kicked to
form: kicked to
Senses: examples: text: I didn't know how to do it, so I kicked it to the other team.
glosses: To give or transfer; to pawn off to.
kick on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks on
form: kicking on
form: kicked on
form: kicked on
Senses: glosses: To continue; to struggle on, especially to continue drinking or partying.
underconstrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underconstrain
underconstraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underconstrain
Tagalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tagalists
Etymology: From Tagalog + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Tagalog specialist or enthusiast
real-estate agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real-estate agents
Senses: examples: text: The splendid suburbian RESIDENCE of the late Robert Gilmore is offered for sale, with two Acres of Ground attached, bounded by Mount, Saratoga, Fulton and Mulberry streets. Also, a Lot of Ground on Mount Vernon place, adjoining the mansion of Dr. Thomas. Apply to A. D. CLEMENS, Real-Estate Agent, 22 Fayette street, adjoining Chesapeake Bank.
ref: 1851 June 16, “District of Columbia Advertisements”, in The Sun, volume XXIX, number 24, Baltimore, Md.: A[runah] S[hepherdson] Abell & Co., →ISSN, page [4], column 5:
text: Most real-estate agents who would like to sell your house don’t give up easily. No one can blame them, either. They’re simply trying to earn a living.
ref: 1990, Lynn Larabie, “The Real Estate Game”, in Sold! by Owner: How to Sell Your Own Home by Someone Who Did, Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada, Inc., →ISBN, page 13:
text: They were ready to sign a short-term lease on an apartment when their real-estate agent called. A condo in her building in the Central West End was coming on the market.
ref: 2024 May 19, Pat Eby, “Design-loving duo fills condo with personal pieces”, in Sunday Post-Dispatch, volume 146, number 140, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, page B3:
glosses: Alternative form of real estate agent.
real-estate agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of real-estate agent
diazocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazocarbons
Etymology: From diazo + carbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The divalent group consisting of a carbon atom joined to a diazo group. >C=N=N
zombie mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombie mortgages
Senses: examples: text: In other words, more than 500 zombie mortgages in a single state that are now coming back to life as companies file a form with the state indicating they intend to foreclose on the property.
ref: 2023 May 10, Chris Arnold, et al., “Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes”, in NPR, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
topics: business
finance
real-estate
glosses: A second mortgage which a debtor falsely believes to be forgiven or paid off, typically arising from a mortgage lender selling the debt to another servicer without notifying the borrower.
diaphonisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diaphanization.
kokutai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊkuːˈtaɪ/
ipa: /ˌkoʊkuˈtaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 国体(こくたい) (kokutai, literally “national character”).
Senses: topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: The national essence and character of Japan viewed as conforming to Shinto-Confucian ideals, with the emperor as its ethical, spiritual, cultural and political center.
topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: kokutai-ism
kokutairon
glosses: The ideology centered on the principle of kokutai.
Derived terms: kokutai-ism
Related terms: kokutairon
kip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kips out
form: kipping out
form: kipped out
form: kipped out
Senses: glosses: To sleep outside; to camp; to sleep rough.
kip in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kips in
form: kipping in
form: kipped in
form: kipped in
Senses: examples: text: Kip in and get to sleep!
glosses: To quiet down, such as to get ready for bed; to go to bed.
kip up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kips up
form: kipping up
form: kipped up
form: kipped up
Senses: topics: acrobatics
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: To perform a kip-up manoeuvre.
kiss out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses out
form: kissing out
form: kissed out
form: kissed out
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To err resulting in the interaction between the cue ball and another ball(s) causing the shot to miss.
Kadyivka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈdɪjɪvkə/
/kəˈdjɪvkə/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Кади́ївка (Kadýjivka). Compare Kadiivka.
Senses: glosses: A village in Yarmolyntsi settlement hromada, Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1692.
kite around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kites around
form: kiting around
form: kited around
form: kited around
Senses: examples: text: The candidates will have to kite around the whole state.
glosses: To go around and throughout an area; to visit around; to stop at all the locations in an area.
trend piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trend pieces
Senses: examples: text: By the time J. made the List, another variety had been identified and sanctioned by the junketeers. The trend piece.
ref: 2001, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days:
text: Instead of complaining that the author didn’t take into account that every individual is his or her own special flower, why not enjoy this lively, charming sketch of a workplace for what it is? An impressionistic and lighthearted rendering of a clever, mildly provocative idea. In other words, a trend piece.
ref: 2016 March 24, Leon Neyfakh, “In Defense of the Trend Piece”, in Slate, →ISSN:
text: The 31-year-old singer has generated countless headlines and trend pieces after the release of her sixth studio album in June, but she’s been working in the industry for more than 15 years now.
ref: 2024 July 26, Nadia Khomami, Lanre Bakare, “Charli xcx: from slow burn pop star to ‘brat’ US election influencer”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “I’m sure there are parts of those trend pieces that are true … that gen Z is having less sex and they’re drinking less, blah, blah, blah,” she said.
ref: 2025 September 30, Suzy Exposito, quoting Hayley Byrnes, “I don’t like dating apps – I went to a ‘flirting party’ instead”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: journalism
media
coordinate_terms: opinion piece
think piece
glosses: An article explaining a trend or topical issue, often illustrated with anecdotes, statistics, and expert opinions.
trend pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trend piece
Crosshaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7961).
Carrigaline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Carraig Uí Leighin (literally “Ó Leighin's Rock”).
Senses: glosses: A town south-east of Cork, County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7362).
war of religion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wars of religion
Senses: synonyms: religious war
glosses: A war which is primarily caused or justified by differences in religion and beliefs.
Related terms: holy war
war of faith
crusade
jihad
war of succession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wars of succession
Senses: glosses: A war prompted by a succession crisis in which two or more individuals claim the right of successor to a deceased or deposed monarch.
out of wack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of wack
form: most out of wack
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of out of whack.
Adank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
benizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benizons
Senses: examples: text: Like God's own benizon this sunshine falls
ref: 1913, Julia Caroline Dorr, Poems, page 300:
glosses: Alternative spelling of benison.
human flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human flags
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: calisthenics
glosses: A feat of strength where the body is parallel to the ground supported by a vertical bar.
retinitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinitis
white-lipped peccary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-lipped peccaries
Senses: glosses: Tayassu pecari, widespread in much of tropical South America, less so in Central America.
napellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Poisonous, but feeble compared to the napellus.
ref: 1852, Edward Hamilton, The Flora Homoeopathica:
glosses: The monkshood or wolfsbane (Aconitum napellus).
Georgiaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Georgia + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The intraregional distribution of a new Georgian diaspora in countries of immigration becomes more diversified. Due to ruptures in diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation and “Georgiaphobia” the flow of emigrants to Russia has decreased, while the flow of emigrants to the EU member states has increased.
ref: 2012, Mirian Tukhashvili, Mzia Shelia, “Conclusions”, in The impact of labor emigration on the demographic and economic development of Georgia in the post-Soviet period (CARIM-East Research Report; 2012/29), San Domenico di Fiesole: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, page 18:
glosses: Synonym of Georgiophobia.
synonyms: word: Georgiophobia
Aleppo Gambit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In the 18th century, this opening was recommended by Philipp Stamma of Aleppo.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Queen's Gambit.
synonyms: word: Queen's Gambit
wikipedia: Philipp Stamma
prickly chaff flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly chaff flowers
Senses: synonyms: chaff-flower
devil's horsewhip
glosses: A plant of species Achyranthes aspera within the family Amaranthaceae, native to the Old World, but found throughout the tropics, with medicinal and other uses.
creeping cinquefoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creeping cinquefoils
Senses: synonyms: European cinquefoil
creeping tormentil
glosses: A plant of species Potentilla reptans within the family Rosaceae
changing-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changing-rooms
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll the scholars will be provided with […] a complete suit of clean clothing, to be taken with them to a changing-room (an appurtenance of the school), where tepid water will be supplied to them each workday morning, about ten o’clock, and all of them be required to give their whole persons a complete washing, and then to go the schoolroom in their clean clothes, […]
ref: 1841 February 11, “Church of England Education Society for the Young Chimney Sweeps of Bath”, in The Bath Chronicle, volume 84, number 4102, Bath, Somerset: […] Henry E[dmund] Carrington, →OCLC, page [3], column 4:
text: Gooderson tells me you were not unadjacent to mobbing up R.B.-J. and Sargent in the changing-rooms, Healey.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 18:
text: He [Emmanuel Macron] was filmed this year downing a bottle of beer in 17 seconds in a rugby changing-room.
ref: 2023 December 30, Angelique Chrisafis, “Défi de janvier: French doctors urge politicians to defy alcohol lobby and back dry January”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of changing room.
changing-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changing-room
tighty-whitey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tighty-whiteys
Senses: examples: text: tighty-whitey style underwear
text: tighty-whitey-clad
text: I actually came downstairs in my tighty-whitey briefs once, but by the time they got the camera, I was already back in my clothes.
ref: 2008, The Creators of Top Chef, Brett Martin, Top Chef:The Cookbook, page 63:
text: A pair of white socks were shoved into my hands along with tighty-whitey underpants. On top of that was a pair of size-ten white sneakers. Finally, I was given clean orange coveralls ... with the number 0311 in bold letters on the back.
ref: 2015, D.J. MacHale, Strike: The SYLO Chronicles #3, page 45:
text: He was still a tighty-whitey guy, I saw, unable to keep my eyes from straying. Doctors could use Labeck as a living anatomy chart.
ref: 2013, Juliet Rosetti, Crazy for You: Life and Love on the Lam:
glosses: Attributive form of tighty whities.
Staré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɹeɪ/
homophone: Stare (Polish toponyms)
Etymology: From Slovak Staré.
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality in okres Michalovce, Košice kraj, eastern Slovakia, first mentioned in 1273.
line someone's pockets
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: lines someone's pockets
form: lining someone's pockets
form: lined someone's pockets
form: lined someone's pockets
Senses: examples: text: I refuse to line the pockets of fat-cat bankers.
glosses: to make someone objectionable even more wealthy
Staroye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstaɹəjə/
Etymology: From Russian Ста́рое (Stároje), neuter substantive of ста́рый (stáryj, “old”), ultimately descending from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. Compare Stare.
Senses: glosses: The name of numerous settlements in Russia, including:
A hamlet in Akatovskoye Rural Settlement, Gagarinsky Raion, Smolensk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
glosses: The name of numerous settlements in Russia, including:
A hamlet in Baskakovskoye Rural Settlement, Gagarinsky Raion, Smolensk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia.
glosses: The name of numerous settlements in Russia, including:
A village, the administrative centre of Staroselskoye Rural Settlement, Mezhdurechensky Raion, Vologda Oblast, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.
crossableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crossable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The crossableness of its bar at all times, enabling the city to keep a constant and certain communication with the metropolis, has greatly aided its growth and progress.
ref: 1894 December 15, M. A. C., “Notes about Grafton and the Synod”, in Geo[rge] Martin, J[ames] E[dward] Carruthers, editors, The Methodist, volume III, number 50, Sydney, N.S.W.: Wesleyan Methodist Church, page 4, column 1:
text: With the Main street crossing blocked for wagon traffic, and with the River street crossing in a most uncertain state of crossableness, already there are beginning to be surmises and speculations afloat in regard to the circus parades.
ref: 1910 September 24, “Another Problem. Circus Parades May Have to Change Their Accustomed Routes Through Streets.”, in Greenville Daily News […], Greenville, S.C., page 5, column 3:
text: The crossableness of a road in front of oncoming traffic is also an affordance in which one must cover a certain distance (the width of the road) in less than a certain time (the interval until the next vehicle arrives). It was hypothesized that, as in the fly ball situation, perception of crossableness would be more accurate given perceptual information about walking abilities (e.g., walking speed).
ref: 1999, Raôul R.D. Oudejans, Frank C. Bakker, “The Role of Movement in Perception”, in Václav Hošek, Pavel Tilinger, Luboš Bílek, editors, Psychology of Sport and Exercise: Enhancing the Quality of Life (Proceedings of the 10ᵗʰ European Congress of Sport Psychology - FEPSAC; part 2), Prague: Charles University, →ISBN, page 76:
synonyms: crossability
antonyms: uncrossability
uncrossableness
glosses: The quality of being crossable.
uncrossableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncrossable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To think that the main northern road should be blocked to vehicular traffic by the uncrossableness of the Hunter for six months is simply scandalous, and doesn’t redound much to the credit of the vaunted energy of the Roads and Bridges Department.
ref: 1890 August 14, “Aberdeen”, in Second Sheet to The Maitland Mercury, Maitland, N.S.W., published 16 August 1890, page [7], column 1:
text: The sharpness of the contrasts in the story reflects the depth of the gulf between rich and poor in the present life. Its uncrossableness and the extreme opposition between rich and poor explain the future torment of the rich.
ref: 1986, Luise Schottroff, Wolfgang Stegemann, translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, “‘The Poor Have Good News Preached to Them’: The Earliest Tradition about Jesus of Nazareth”, in Jesus and the Hope of the Poor, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, published 1 July 2009, →ISBN, section III (Jesus, Hope of the Poor), subsection 6 (The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus), page 28:
text: He reached out a hand to stop the storm. And when he did, he touched the veil; he felt its uncrossableness.
ref: 2007 August, Gregory Spencer, “Veils Unveiled”, in Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale, New York, N.Y.: Howard Books, →ISBN, part 1 (Taken, the Father), page 4:
text: these reasons that run like a river between us give a certain poignancy and ache to the distance and irremediable uncrossableness of it
ref: 2013, Chuck Miller, “for John”, in Parsecs to Go, Poems of Protest, Muscatine, Ia.: Prairie Rose Press, →ISBN, page 51:
synonyms: uncrossability
antonyms: crossability
crossableness
glosses: The quality of being uncrossable.
Green Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Crowhurst parish, Rother district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ7611).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Ingatestone and Fryerning parish, Brentwood district, Essex (OS grid ref TQ6299).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Cam parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO7600).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Brockworth parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8915).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Little Hadham parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL4522).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A suburban area in Elstree and Borehamwood parish and Shenley parish, Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TQ1998).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Shipley parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1422).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Kempsey parish, Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8649).
glosses: A number of settlements in England:
A hamlet in Ripple parish, Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8740).
Related terms: Green Street Green
full cream milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whole milk.
synonyms: word: whole milk
mousy browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousy brown
hot boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of warm boot.
synonyms: word: warm boot
master boot record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master boot records
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A type of boot sector in the first few blocks of partitioned computer mass storage devices.
master boot records
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master boot record
bootsector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootsectors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boot sector.
bootsectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootsector
Jewphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jew + -phobia. First use appears c. 1905. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: writing to the newspapers and in other ways splattering us with the froth of their Jewphobia.
ref: 1905, Michael Monahan (contributor), Papyrus, Volumes 5-6, page 23:
text: It is probably responsible for more conversions to Jewphobia than any other factor.
ref: 1936, John Bradshaw Holt, Under the Swastika, page 207:
text: That said, Pound also griped: 'too bad he [Leese] isn't exact with his facts. just jewphobia. amusing, lively but NOT practical.
ref: 2020, Graham Macklin, Failed Führers - A History of Britain’s Extreme Right:
text: Thus, long ago tends to be the Exodus where liberation is less significant, while near becomes hatred of Jews, Jewphobia, the importance of twentieth-century atrocity, and the achievement of the State of Israel.
ref: 2023, Lewis R. Gordon, Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge, page 189:
glosses: Judeophobia, anti-Semitism.
upsetti spaghetti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈsɛtispəˌɡɛti/
ipa: /ʌpˈsɛtispəˌɡɛti/
ipa: [ʌpˈsɛɾispəˌɡɛɾi]
Forms: form: more upsetti spaghetti
form: most upsetti spaghetti
Etymology: From upset + Italian -etto + Italian -i + spaghetti.
Senses: examples: text: the live action movie just honestly ruined the image of light i'm upsetti spaghetti
ref: 2013 December 2, @gendrya, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
text: A HUGE thank you to my loving husband who has been there for mé every step of the way. Through the insane music choices, the upsetti spaghetti scenes when I couldn’t just kill one of my characters like I wanted. I love you!
ref: 2022, Whitnay Edes, “Author Note”, in Engulfed In Her Words:
text: Everything was fine as long as I said yes to whatever he wanted to do. Now he’s upsetti spaghetti?
ref: 2023, Kianna Alexander, After Hours Agenda, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN:
text: Do you have asp-rations of taking a snake on a plane? Don't get upsetti spaghetti by not understanding your airline's rules.
ref: 2023 January 9, “4-foot boa constrictor snake found in carry-on luggage at Florida airport”, in ABC 7 Chicago, archived from the original on 2024-07-212:
glosses: Upset; furious.
Jewphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jew + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: The Dianna troll was a left-wing Jewphile posing as the Xtian right, a cowardly passive-aggressive attack on nonwhites by a leftie, pinned on the right. The right needs no help in maintaining a racist image.
ref: 1996 February 23, Ahti Eric Rovainen, “Wright-Burke -- Dead Again”, in alt.aol-sucks (Usenet):
text: Weishaupt died in 1830 and Clinton Roosevelt simply picked up the torch and passed it on to Marx. In 1849, Horace Greeley, the Jewphile, Jewite owner of the New York Tribune, the country's first national newspaper, and Clinton Roosevelt gave monetary support to the Communist League in London to assist the publication of Marx's Manifest der Kommunistichen Partei or Communist Manifesto (1848).
ref: 2002 May 27, National Front, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: Communist Dictator III”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):
text: He hates football, which makes him a fine Englishman. He is a Jewphile or Jew, or some such Jewed thing.
ref: 2004 October 21, The Abstraction of Justice, “Boris Johnson”, in alt.politics.british (Usenet):
glosses: A Judeophile, a lover of Jews.
throws spaghetti at the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw spaghetti at the wall
throwing spaghetti at the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of throw spaghetti at the wall
threw spaghetti at the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw spaghetti at the wall
thrown spaghetti at the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw spaghetti at the wall
Little Hadham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4422).
Related terms: Hadham Cross
Hadham Ford
Much Hadham
Olympianesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Olympianesque
form: most Olympianesque
Etymology: From Olympian + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Among those bypassing Seattle were athletes of Olympianesque stature such as Steve Prefontaine, Jim Ryun, George Woods, Al Feuerbach, Dr. Delano Meriwether, Bob Seagren, John Smith, Larry Burton, Wayne Collett, George Frenn. They’ll add to the heat in the kitchen at Eugene.
ref: 1972 June 20, Jerry Nason, “Fredericks shows kick, must in Olympic 10,000”, Tuesday Track Talk, in The Boston Evening Globe, volume 201, number 172, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., page 30:
text: “Most of us,” Schultz rightly notes, “are much more acquainted with losing than we are with winning” (Jubilee 12). And so the Olympianesque message encoded in Charlie Brown’s athletic tribulations is that while life may well be futile and defeat inevitable […]
ref: 2004 Spring, Jeffrey O. Segrave, “Sport and the Development of Character In Charles Schultz’s Peanuts”, in Aethlon, volume 21, number 2, page 41:
text: For instance, the protruding marquee marking the entrance to the Disney store serves as the stage for this odd pastiche: an Olympianesque torch of gigantic proportions, a Pegasus with wings ready for flight, seeming to draw behind it in a little chariot Minnie and Mickey, who wave out to the mall, like touring royalty.
ref: 2012, Maurya Wickstrom, “Robots, gods and greed: The theatrum mundi in the Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace” (chapter 2), in Performing Consumers: Global Capital and its Theatrical Seductions, London: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: Characteristic of the Olympic Games or Olympians.