cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
x-section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-sections
Etymology: From x- + section.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cross section.
x-sections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x-section
xenodocheum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenodochea
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xenodochium.
xenodochea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenodocheum
xiphium iris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphium irises
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Spanish iris.
synonyms: word: Spanish iris
xiphium irises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xiphium iris
X-ray fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray fishes
form: X-ray fish
Senses: glosses: Synonym of X-ray tetra.
synonyms: word: X-ray tetra
X-ray fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-ray fish
wu wei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwuː ˌweɪ/
Forms: form: wu-wei
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 無為 /无为 (wúwéi).
Senses: examples: text: These alternatives seem tepid, or even reactionary – take Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s invocation of a politics of exhaustion that would ‘become the beginning of a slow movement toward a “wu wei” civilization, based on withdrawal, and frugal expectations for life and consumption’.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Noys, quoting Franco Berardi, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Zero Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A state of effortless inaction, in Taoism or Chinese statecraft.
woubit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woubits
Senses: examples: text: People wouldn't make up something like that; besides everything in the world is connected, from woubits to butterflies.
ref: 1994, Michael Jay Katz, Buckeye Legends: Folktales and Lore from Ohio, page 53:
glosses: Alternative form of oobit.
woubits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woubit
stake one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stakes one's life
form: staking one's life
form: staked one's life
form: staked one's life
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bet one's bottom dollar.
synonyms: word: bet one's bottom dollar
chickified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chickify
chickifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chickify
chickifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chickify
wouldn't you say
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Don't you agree?
caucacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The thing about caucacity is that there are levels to it, and it is safe to say we are at an all-time high. Take, for example, everything about Elizabeth Holmes. The college admissions scandal. The desire to blame anything other than racism for the terror of the El Paso shooting.
ref: 2019 August 29, Jenna Wortham, “White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2023:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Caucasity.
Caucacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Caucasity.
work into the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works into the ground
form: working into the ground
form: worked into the ground
form: worked into the ground
Senses: glosses: To exhaust through heavy labour.
Related terms: drive into the ground
run into the ground
Marxistly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Marxistly
form: most Marxistly
Senses: glosses: In a Marxist way; In a way resembling a Marxist; In accordance with Marxism
Madelynne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
pin curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin curls
Etymology: From pin + curl.
Senses: examples: text: This invention relates to pin curl clips and it is primarily an object of the invention to provide a clip of this kind which will hold a pin curl in position during the drying process without mashing but in a manner to maintain the curl in its original form.
ref: 1946, Charles R. Cochran, PIN CURL CLIP, US Patent 2,400,488:
text: For daytime: Brush down into a page-boy. To set—five pin curls on top plus end curls all around.
ref: 1948, Hughes Hair Brushes, “You’re a lovely quick-change artist”, in Ladies Home Journal, page 25:
text: A pin curl set with water or setting lotion will never amount to anything (here today, gone tomorrow). But the Bobbi curl will last for 8 weeks.
ref: 1962, Bobbi pin curl wave, “Which curl is most likely to succeed?”, in Life, page 20:
glosses: A curl made by dampening a lock of hair, fashioning it into a coil, and securing with a hair pin or clip while it dries.
lavender ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavender ceilings
Senses: examples: text: Each day, thousands of employees throughout corporate California wrestle with whether to come out of the closet. Some fear that revealing their sexual orientation will bring down the "lavender ceiling," which they say can spell the difference between a promotion and stagnation.
ref: 1993 May 17, Denise Hamilton, “WORKPLACE DIVERSITY : Gays Confront 'Lavender Ceiling'”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2022:
text: Just as Hillary Rodham Clinton famously put "18 million cracks in the glass ceiling" for women in high office, so there are a number of corporate executives who are doing the same for the lavender ceiling faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees. It's just a matter of time before they are promoted to the top job.
ref: 2014 May 26, Selisse Berry, “Letter: Gay Chief Executives”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022:
text: The "lavender ceiling" has been shattered — after nearly a century in place. On Sunday at around midnight, "Moonlight" became the first LGBTQ film ever to take the Best Picture prize at the 89th annual Academy Awards.
ref: 2017 February 27, Mary Emily O'Hara, “'Moonlight' Makes Oscars History as 1st LGBTQ Best Picture Winner”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 30 May 2023:
text: During a time when the Trump administration seems to be working hard to strengthen the lavender ceiling that prohibits the LGBTQ community from functioning equally in American society—whether by claiming that LGBTQ employees can be fired from their workplace for their sexual orientation or by attempting to ban transgender people from serving in the military—Jenkins's and Roem's victories strike a hopeful note for the country at large.
ref: 2017 November 8, Mary Wang, “Two Newly Elected Transgender Women Just Smashed the "Lavender Ceiling," and Here's Why That Matters”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2023:
text: "For Sarah to shatter a lavender ceiling in such a polarising year is a powerful reminder that voters are increasingly rejecting the politics of bigotry in favour of candidates who stand for fairness and equality," said Annise Parker of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which trains and supports out candidates.
ref: 2020 November 4, Jon Henley, “US elects first trans state senator and first black gay congressman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023:
coordinate_terms: bamboo ceiling
cotton ceiling
glass ceiling
glosses: An unwritten barrier preventing the advancement of LGBT people in society.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lavender, ceiling.
lavender ceilings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavender ceiling
pin curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin curl
hawock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hawok.
decloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: declouds
form: declouding
form: declouded
form: declouded
Etymology: From de- + cloud.
Senses: glosses: To reduce clouding in a liquid, glass, etc.
glosses: To eliminate uncertainty or vagueness.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transfer data off of the cloud and onto local storage.
declouds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decloud
declouding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decloud
declouded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decloud
recloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclouds
form: reclouding
form: reclouded
form: reclouded
Etymology: From re- + cloud.
Senses: examples: text: However, these samples reclouded in 75 to 100 days. Samples containing added gelatin and tannin were somewhat darker than with equal amounts of gelatin alone, and remained unclouded for as much as 30 to 45 days longer.
ref: 1934, American Vinegar Industry and Fruit Products Journal, page 22:
glosses: To make or become cloudy again.
reclouded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recloud
reclouds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recloud
reclouding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recloud
clovenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloven + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being cloven.
hark backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hark back
skill up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skills up
form: skilling up
form: skilled up
form: skilled up
Senses: synonyms: upskill#Verb
glosses: To increase the skills of (typically a worker); to train.
Related terms: english: someone
translation: someone
word: bring up to speed
hardie hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardie holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardy hole.
hardie holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardie hole
hard-drinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-drinking
form: most hard-drinking
Senses: glosses: Habitually drinking a large amount of alcohol.
hapa haole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A person whose ancestry is part Hawaiian and part white European.
Hansenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hansen + -osis; see Hansen's disease.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease leprosy.
Hansenotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hansenotics
Etymology: From Hansen + -otic; see Hansen's disease.
Senses: glosses: A person who has leprosy.
Hansenotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hansenotic
hapchance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Happenstance; coincidence.
Related terms: happenchance
hand alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand alphabets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of manual alphabet.
synonyms: word: manual alphabet
hand alphabets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand alphabet
hamelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamelias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Hamelia.
hamelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamelia
semi-evergreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-evergreen
half-evergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semievergreen.
synonyms: word: semievergreen
half-evergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-evergreens
Senses: glosses: Synonym of semievergreen.
synonyms: word: semievergreen
half-evergreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-evergreen
semievergreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semievergreen
half a chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of half-chance.
synonyms: word: half-chance
hairworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairworkers
Etymology: From hair + worker.
Senses: examples: text: Professional hairworkers had always practised their craft, despite the activities of lady amateurs.
ref: 1985, Shirley Bury, An Introduction to Sentimental Jewellery, page 41:
glosses: One who makes jewellery from human hair.
Related terms: hairwork
hairworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairworker
hairworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hair + working.
Senses: glosses: The process of making jewellery from human hair.
Related terms: hairwork
hairworker
LCSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCSWs
Senses: qualifier: professional title
glosses: Initialism of licensed clinical social worker.
gyroscopics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gyroscopy.
synonyms: word: gyroscopy
gynaecandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynandrous.
gumdroppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gumdroppy
form: most gumdroppy
Etymology: From gumdrop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I courted her with chocolate balls that changed hue as you sucked away layer after layer; licorice whips and shoelaces a yard long; red raspberries of a hard gumdroppy consistency, […]
ref: 1945, The Reader's Digest, volume 47, page 102:
text: Raindrops are raindroppy, not gumdroppy—more's the pity.
ref: 2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities, page 364:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gumdrop.
grieveship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grieveships
Etymology: From grieve + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The estate managed by a grieve.
grieveships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grieveship
griffinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From griffin + -age.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a griffin, newly arrived from Europe and unfamiliar with India.
greycing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪsɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of greyhound + racing
Senses: examples: text: Shorter working hours, the modern semi-detached house, cinema, television, motor-coach tours, greycing, the pools, all these he desires.
ref: 1955, Federation News - General Federation of Trade Unions (page N-10)
text: The greyhound was formerly used in the chase, but is now mainly associated with greyhound racing, or 'greycing'.
ref: 2006, Dictionary of Pub Names, page 174:
glosses: Greyhound racing.
Kōtō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Koto.
Sofronio Española
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Abo-abo, Iraray, Isumbo, Labog, Panitian, Pulot Center, Pulot Interior, Pulot Shore, Punang — barangays of Sofronio Española
glosses: A municipality of Palawan, Philippines.
body doubling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of body double
body doubled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of body double
ADDer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ADDers
Etymology: From ADD + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many ADDers become targets for bullies and are routinely harassed at school.
ref: 1996, David Sosin, Attention Deficit Disorder, page 54:
glosses: A person who has attention deficit disorder.
ADDers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ADDer
gecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geckers
form: gekker
Etymology: Coined by 1962, likely derived from Low German geck (“to mock, cackle”) from related terms such as German gackern (“to cackle”) and German keckern (“to make angry noises [of an animal]”). The same call types had previously been referred to as types of keckern in German publications. Possibly also onomatopoeic from “ik, ik, ik.”
Senses: glosses: The series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.
gecker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geckers
form: geckering
form: geckered
form: geckered
form: gekker
Etymology: Coined by 1962, likely derived from Low German geck (“to mock, cackle”) from related terms such as German gackern (“to cackle”) and German keckern (“to make angry noises [of an animal]”). The same call types had previously been referred to as types of keckern in German publications. Possibly also onomatopoeic from “ik, ik, ik.”
Senses: glosses: To make a series of stuttering throaty vocalizations (usually described as: chattering, chittering, cackling, squeaking, or yakking) in the manner of some primates, jackals, mongooses, and foxes.
LeBlanc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Leblanc.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, a camel case spelling variant of Leblanc
Egloskerry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish west of Launceston, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2786).
Boscastle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Forrabury and Minster parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0990).
choofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choofers
Etymology: From choof (“to smoke marijuana”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The good news for north coast choofers is that those believing using cannabis should be a criminal offence stands at 32 per cent, while support for it being legalised or decriminalised has risen to 43 per cent in 2016 from 32 per cent in 1990.
ref: 2016 December 28, Michael McDonald, “Electorate takes softer line than pollies”, in The Byron Shire Echo, volume 31, number 29, Mullumbimby: Echo Publications Pty Ltd, page 5:
synonyms: pothead
stoner
weedhead
glosses: A person who habitually smokes marijuana.
Forrabury and Minster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in north Cornwall, England.
Forrabury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Boscastle, Forrabury and Minster parish, Cornwall, England, formerly the name of a civil parish (OS grid ref SX0990).
cool center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool centers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cooling center.
synonyms: word: cooling center
cool centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cool center
parfait spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parfait spoon
steps on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of step on
stepping on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of step on
Slaughterbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Camelford parish and Forrabury and Minster parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX1085).
ZTA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZTAs
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of zero trust architecture.
ZTAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ZTA
pommie bashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pommie basher
deperimeterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + perimeter + -ization.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: The removal of a boundary between an organization and the outside world, allowing (suitably authenticated) access from any location.
deperimeterized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Having undergone deperimeterization.
subdrupaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + drupaceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Almost or somewhat drupaceous.
go faster stripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go faster stripes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go-faster stripe.
glass teletype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass teletypes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A rudimentary videoterminal.
glass teletypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass teletype
Port Isaac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized form of Cornish Porthysek, a toponym composed of the elements porth (“port”) + ysek (“abounding in corn”); first recorded as Portusek in 1338.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in St Endellion parish, on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9980).
Gold Coaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gold Coasters
Etymology: From Gold Coast + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Gold Coast region, now the country of Ghana, West Africa.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
A steel rollercoaster at Dreamworld, Gold Coast.
Gold Coasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gold Coaster
sexadecimally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sexadecimal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sexadecimal manner; in sixteen parts, or in hexadecimal.
hiccuper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiccupers
Etymology: From hiccup + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who hiccups.
hiccupper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiccuppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hiccuper.
hiccupers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiccuper
hiccuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiccupper
hiccougher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hiccoughers
Etymology: From hiccough + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who hiccoughs.
hiccoughers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiccougher
iconicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iconicizes
form: iconicizing
form: iconicized
form: iconicized
Etymology: From iconic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make iconic.
Related terms: iconize
iconicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of iconicize
iconicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of iconicize
iconicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iconicize
St Endellion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Saint Endelienta.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9978).
wikipedia: Saint Endelienta
St Kew Highway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in St Kew parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0375).
wikipedia: A39 road
velmanase alfa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medication for the treatment of alpha-mannosidosis.
freezerware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freezer + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Utensils for the storage of food in a freezer.
Brushaski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Burushaski.
GBFN
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: TTFN
glosses: Initialism of goodbye for now.
Monsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Munsee people, who formerly lived in the region.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in New York, United States.
autobesity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɔː.təʊˈbiː.sə.ti/
/ˌɑː.t̬oʊˈbiː.sə.t̬i/
Etymology: Blend of auto- + obesity.
Senses: examples: text: He said the aim was "to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity ... the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities, and particularly in Paris".
ref: 2023 July 11, Kim Willsher, quoting Frédéric Badina-Serpette, “Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle 'auto-besity'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023:
text: Health authorities have waged a war on obesity for years. Now, in an effort to curtail the rise of big cars such as S.U.V.s and cut down on pollution, Paris has declared a war on "auto-besity." Its first step is to charge drivers more to park the vehicles — a move that could eventually hit car companies.
ref: 2023 July 15, Ephrat Livni, Bernhard Warner, Ravi Mattu, Michael J. de la Merced, “Why Deep-Sea Mining Is the Next Battleground in the Energy Transition”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:
text: I fear we are not as smart as the French. Do not be surprised if the next trend in autobesity coming from the USA is people buying tanks. A mammoth machine equipped with a big gun, just what monster SUV owners dream of.
ref: 2023 July 21, David Lovejoy, “Editorial: Tackling autobesity”, in Byron Shire Echo, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023:
glosses: The situation of cars being too big and heavy, taking too much space and causing road safety and pollution problems.
Related terms: carcentrism
St Kew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Welsh saint named Cywa or Kew; recorded as Sanctus Cheus in 1086 (DB).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish north-east of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0276).
Derived terms: St Kew Highway
Welshries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welshry
Englishries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Englishry
Trelill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in St Kew parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0478).
Irishries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irishry
Trevose Head
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A headland in St Merryn parish, on the north coast of Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8576).
Trevose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Bensalem Township and Lower Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: Trevose Head
Bensalem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lower Southampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: english: township
translation: township
word: Upper Southampton
Young Nick's Head
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the British cabin boy Nicholas Young by James Cook, captain of HMS Endeavour, as a reward for sighting the headland on 6 October 1769. It is unclear whether Young refers to Nicholas's young age or to his surname, or is a combination of both.
Senses: glosses: A headland on the south side of Poverty Bay, Gisborne district, on the east coast of the North Island, New Zealand.
wikipedia: HMS Endeavour
James Cook
Nicholas Young (sailor)
geckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gecker
geckers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gecker
geckering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gecker
geckered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gecker
screencapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screencap
screencapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screencap
turtle bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle beans
Senses: synonyms: black bean
black turtle bean
glosses: A variety of species Phaseolus vulgaris, common in Latin America and the bean it produces.
black turtle bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black turtle beans
Senses: glosses: A turtle bean, a black bean (Phaseolus vulgaris vars.).
Dundonald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large settlement in County Down, Northern Ireland, just east of Belfast.
glosses: A village near Cardenden, Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2194).
glosses: A large village in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS 3634).
glosses: A community in Cramahe township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood in north-west Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A village in Gert Sibande District Municipality, Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
Cramahe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Hector Theophilus de Cramahé.
Senses: glosses: A rural township in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
wikipedia: Hector Theophilus de Cramahé
Bolita bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bolita beans
Senses: glosses: A variety of the common bean.
rest one's soul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rests one's soul
form: resting one's soul
form: rested one's soul
form: rested one's soul
Senses: glosses: To wish that a person might find peace in the afterlife.
Related terms: God rest his soul
God rest her soul
God rest their soul
God rest their souls
Himamaylan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Shortzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shortzian
form: most Shortzian
Etymology: From Shortz + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: And yet the Shortzian spiral below is a far more recent example. Letters are arranged concentrically, with answers reading on inward and outward paths and no clear demarcation between answers in either direction.
ref: 2013 May 1, T. Campbell, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:
text: Or, maybe it was a crossword puzzle with some mis-numbered clues, some Shortzian red herrings.
ref: 2015 June 27, BJ Creighton, No Sanctuary, Scribl, →ISBN:
text: The grandmaster has only appeared once in the Shortzian era in the debut puzzle of the now prolific David J. Kahn (no relation).
ref: 2021 December 31, Hayley Gold, Letters to Margaret, Lone Shark Games, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz, featuring wordplay and colloquial vocabulary, especially in contrast to previous editors such as Eugene Maleska
Related terms: Maleskan
Maleskan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maleskan
form: most Maleskan
Etymology: From Maleska + -n.
Senses: examples: text: I was lulled into a false sense of confidence in the northeast, continued my way down the grid, and found that I kept stopping to marvel at the Things That Seemed Eerily Maleskan.
ref: 2012 October 25, Deb Amlen, “Truncated Parlor Piece”, in The New York Times:
text: It launched at exactly the right time to capture the younger generation of puzzlemakers and solvers, the ones who felt that the clue for OREO should be "Kind of cookie" rather than the Maleskan “Mountain: prefix" (as in the "famous" oreortyx, the mountain quail).
ref: 2013 May 1, T. Campbell, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:
text: A typical Maleskan stepquote's theme answer might read: THEFA/ASHIO/ONWEAR/RSOUTMOREAPPA/ARELTH/HANTH/HEMAN: " The fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
ref: 2020 March 17, Adrienne Raphel, Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.
Related terms: Shortzian
eats one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat one's own
eating one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat one's own
ate one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat one's own
eaten one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat one's own
Old North Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ancient North Arabian.
synonyms: word: Ancient North Arabian
Old North Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ancient North Arabian.
synonyms: word: Ancient North Arabian
Marinettian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Marinettian
form: most Marinettian
Etymology: From Marinetti + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian art theorist and founder of the futurist movement.
elf and safety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A form with h-dropping and th-fronting, with humorous reference to elf (“mythical being”).
Senses: glosses: Health and safety.
Don Juan fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Don Juan fractures
Etymology: From the idea that a secret lover might need to escape quickly and generate such a fracture.
Senses: glosses: A calcaneal fracture.
Don Juan fractures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Don Juan fracture
Ugong Norte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Bagong Ilog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
data poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data poisonings
Senses: examples: text: While data sanitization shows promise to defend against data poisoning, it is often impossible to validate every data source [14].
ref: 2019, Simon N. Foley, editor, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIII […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Similarly, the Tay chatbot suffered from data poisoning. To mitigate data poisoning, it is important not to let any one group contribute too much data to a model.
ref: 2022, Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette M. Wing, Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Data poisoning is one type of adversarial attack—where a user or group of users submit false data to influence the model toward a particular or incorrect prediction.
ref: 2023, Katharine Jarmul, Practical Data Privacy, O'Reilly, →ISBN:
text: Some forms of data poisoning are undetectable. Attackers can insert adversarial noise into the training data, altering the training data in a way that is hidden to human observers.
ref: 2023, Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
synonyms: poisoning attack
qualifier: machine learning; computer security; machine learning; computer security
glosses: The deliberate use of a training dataset with data designed to increase errors in the output of a machine learning model.
poisoning attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poisoning attacks
Senses: examples: text: Just like how you can poison a village by poisoning its water source, poisoning attacks corrupt the AI system from functioning by poisoning the input data.
ref: 2023, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Hyrum Anderson, Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
qualifier: machine learning; computer security; machine learning; computer security
glosses: Synonym of data poisoning.
synonyms: word: data poisoning
poisoning attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poisoning attack
SSPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
copyright
engineering
intellectual-property
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Server Side Public License.
SSPL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSPLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of saturated sound pressure level.
Tangutan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The adjective, by the way, seems to have come after the noun in Tangutan, like it usually does in Tibetan.
ref: 1897, S. W. Bushell, “The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script”, in Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 30, number 1, page 155:
glosses: The language or script of the Tangut people.
Tangutan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tangutan
form: most Tangutan
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Tangut people, language or script.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Tangut
kynological
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In kynological circles there prevails the erroneous idea that the so-called St. Bernard breed of dogs died out in 1815.
ref: 1880, The St. Bernard : its history, points, breeding, and rearing, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of cynological.
Mongoloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mongoloids
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mongoloid.
two-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
synonyms: bi-level
glosses: Arranged on two different levels.
besyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Contraction of benzenesulphonyl.
Derived terms: besylic
Byzantine attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Byzantine attacks
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the Byzantine attack raises the problem of reaching a consensus among nodes when an unknown number of them maybe traitors.
ref: 2005, Jie Wu, Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 835:
text: Four main Byzantine attacks include “Black Holes,” “Flood Rushing,” “Wormholes,” and “Overlay Network Wormholes” [10].
ref: 2010, Yang Xiao, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 125:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A type of attack involving multiple nodes collaborating to disrupt the network.
Byzantine attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Byzantine attack
chuuni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of chuunibyou.
benzenesulphonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besyl
form: Bs
form: benzenesulfonyl
Etymology: From benzene (“aromatic hydrocarbon of the formula C₆H₆”) + sulphonyl (“univalent radical derived from a sulphonic acid”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sulphonyl of benzene (chemical formula: C₆H₅SO₂).
Derived terms: english: C₆H₅SO₂Cl
translation: C₆H₅SO₂Cl
word: benzenesulphonyl chloride
benzenesulfonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of benzenesulphonyl.
Helmstedt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
besylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bɛsˈɪlɪk/
Etymology: From besyl (“benzenesulphonyl”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Denoting the aromatic sulfonic acid of the chemical formula C₆H₆O₃S; benzenesulfonic.
Derived terms: besylate
OPCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OPCAs
Etymology: Term and abbreviation coined by Justice John D. Rooke of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Meads v. Meads 2012 ABQB 571 (2012).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of organized pseudolegal commercial argument (“a legal classification of widespread pseudolegal arguments and practices; pseudolaw”).
wikipedia: Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta
Related terms: freeman on the land
sovereign citizen
geomycology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the role of fungi in biogeochemical transformations of rocks and minerals.
Liḥyān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lihyan.
commentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From comment + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The female attendant, face like a headman's axe, walking down between the tall brown doors, carrying a yellow duster, landlady of all she surveyed, commentless, unseeing and disapproving.
ref: 1968, Keith Claire, Duringwitch, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →ISBN, pages 19–20:
text: I am not advocating commentless code. I am simply pointing out that if you define such a standard, you may have problems later with new hires who don't agree that is the way to solve the problem.
ref: 2006 May 3, H. S. Lahman, “Coding Standards”, in comp.software-eng (Usenet):
glosses: Without comment or comments.
Derived terms: commentlessness
click off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clicks off
form: clicking off
form: clicked off
form: clicked off
Senses: glosses: To tick off on a list.
glosses: To list or enumerate quickly.
glosses: To get done, to get out of the way swiftly.
glosses: To click outside or next to an element, for instance a window in a graphical user interface.
Hetlor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of het (“heterosexual”) + Taylor.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, all these hidden messages could be nothing but the overactive imagination of a group of largely queer Swift fans that want to claim the singer as their own. The Gaylors refer to this as the "Hetlor" thesis (Hetlor being a deeply unfortunate portmanteau of heterosexual and Taylor). Just because people see hidden messages does not mean they are there.
ref: [2022 October 31, Joe Packer, “How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2023:
text: Dr McCann raises the Taylor Swift fandom as an example, where the "Gaylor" faction (fans dedicated to queer readings of her songs) would butt heads with the straight "Hetlor" faction.
ref: 2022 November 4, Patrick Lenton, “How 'Queerbaiting' Became Weaponised Against Real People”, in VICE, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:
topics: lifestyle
antonyms: Gaylor
glosses: Opposition to the Gaylor theory; belief that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is not secretly gay.
Hetlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hetlors
Etymology: Blend of het (“heterosexual”) + Taylor.
Senses: examples: text: If you know anything about Swiftdom, it may not surprise you that there are two camps that are having it out over this particular song currently. These are the Hetlors ("het" as in heterosexual), who are fans that affirm Taylor Swift's straightness and frown upon queer interpretations of her lyrics, and the Gaylors, who are, well, the opposite.
ref: 2021 November 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit Hole”, in Slate, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
text: Several Gaylors used TikTok and Reddit to express their disappointment, triggering backlash from Hetlors and others who argued a celebrity's sexuality shouldn't be a topic for public debate.
ref: 2022 October 17, Nell Geraets, “Queer as Folklore: Why are fans arguing over Taylor Swift's sexuality?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2023:
text: One video in the dataset features a masculine presenting bisexual creator of color defending his position as a Hetlor.
ref: 2024, Yvonne M. Eadon, “'You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop': Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory”, in Social Media + Society:
topics: lifestyle
antonyms: Gaylor
glosses: Someone who opposes the Gaylor theory.
Hetlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hetlor
Rendsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: There is one feature of interest: at Rendsburg after a not too-easily graded ascent from the plain by means of an embankment, the train crosses the Kiel Canal by a double-track steel bridge 138 ft. above water-level, with, on a clear day, magnificent views over the countryside, and then loops round right, descending to canal level and, parallel with the canal, crossing under the bridge over which it passed a few minutes previously.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 337:
glosses: A town, the administrative seat of Rendsburg-Eckernförde district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Kapitolyo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
rags on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rag on
ragged on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rag on
ragging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rag on
black woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black women
form: blackwoman
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: black man
synonyms: word: sister
glosses: A female adult member of an ethnic group having dark pigmentation of the skin, typically of sub-Saharan African descent.
black women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black woman
Sagay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Hinoba-an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Binalbagan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Negros Occidental, Philippines.
Hinigaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Negros Occidental, Philippines.
slicksta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slickstas
Senses: examples: text: She looked at me like the slicksta she was. "Damn right. Me and my baby can do much better with him than we can do with you."
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of slickster, representing African-American Vernacular English.
slickstas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slicksta
Dumangas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Iloilo, Philippines.
Koronadal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of South Cotabato, Soccsksargen, Mindanao, Philippines.
high-post
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-post
form: most high-post
form: high post
Senses: examples: text: I had actually lived the life I rapped about. Fought, stole, hustled, and came up on those grimy-ass streets, and that's what made my lyrics so powerful and high-post.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 250–251:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Stylish, sophisticated.
examples: text: "Word to mother, I don't trust that high-post bitch, God! She was there when I told Don about KG, and then, next thing we know, she in the club with 'em?!" Gutta huffed venomously.
ref: 2012, Dutch [pseudonym; Kwame Teague], ? [Question mark], Washington, D.C.: DC Bookdiva Publications, →ISBN, page 137:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Arrogant.