cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shadow account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow accounts
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A secondary representation of a financial account, especially one used to perform an independent verification.
Derived terms: shadow accounting
shadow accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadow account
occy strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occy straps
form: ocky strap
Senses: glosses: Clipped compound of octopus strap.
ocky strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocky straps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of occy strap.
occy straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occy strap
ocky straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocky strap
octopus strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octopus straps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bungee cord (“elastic fabric-bound strap for securing luggage”).
synonyms: word: bungee cord
extra: elastic fabric-bound strap for securing luggage
octopus straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octopus strap
scientific methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientific method
powerlevels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of powerlevel
powerleveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of powerlevel
powerlevelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of powerlevel
powerleveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of powerlevel
powerlevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of powerlevel
Palmer Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and lake in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after William Jackson Palmer.
glosses: A lake in Okanogan County, Washington, United States, named after James Palmer.
Beijing bikini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beijing bikinis
Senses: examples: text: A man near Beijing’s Forbidden City this month rolled up his shirt, a way to keep cool known as the Beijing bikini.
ref: 2016 September 1, Andrew Jacobs, “How Some Chinese Men Meet Summer’s Swelter: With Midriff Bare and Bulging”, in The New York Times:
text: China is no stranger to this garment as its steamy climate has created an idiosyncratic offshoot, known as Beijing bikini, where older men roll their tops up and expose their midriff in a bid to keep cool.
ref: 2019 July 5, Alan Weedon, “'Beijing bikini' ban leaves sweltering Chinese hot under the collar”, in ABC News:
glosses: A rolled-up T-shirt that bares the wearer's midriff, a means of cooling down in the sweltering heat of China's urban areas.
rape apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rape ape
Beijing bikinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beijing bikini
full ratchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full ratchets
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An antidilution approach by which, if a subsequent round of funding would decrease an investor's equity ownership percentage, the investor is given additional shares to maintain the former percentage.
full ratchets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full ratchet
discretive proposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discretive propositions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: discretive
glosses: A compound proposition in which contrasting judgments are made, connected by a word such as "but" or "though".
discretive propositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discretive proposition
haplogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haplogy
libries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libry
steyning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of steaning.
cop-caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cop-callers
Senses: glosses: An individual who frequently contacts the police or other authorities to harass those whom they are disenchanted with or at odds.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cop, caller.
Related terms: cop-call
cop-calling
cop-callers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cop-caller
Maltenglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Maltese + English
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Manglish (“mixture of Maltese and English”).
synonyms: word: Manglish
extra: mixture of Maltese and English
Minglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Maltese + English
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Manglish (“mixture of Maltese and English”).
synonyms: word: Manglish
extra: mixture of Maltese and English
St. Giles's Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A number of the phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatised in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established — […]
ref: 1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, page 52:
glosses: Slang or cant language.
cop wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cop wise
form: most cop wise
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copwise.
San Marcial
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Adapted from Saint Martial.
Senses: glosses: A ghost town in Socorro County, New Mexico, United States.
wikipedia: Saint Martial
deimperialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deimperializes
form: deimperializing
form: deimperialized
form: deimperialized
Etymology: From de- + imperialize.
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: To dismantle or formally end an empire.
Derived terms: deimperialization
deimperialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deimperialization.
de-imperialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deimperialization.
deimperializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deimperialize
deimperializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of deimperialize
deimperialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deimperialize
monkey-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monkey + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: As he reentered the IMF area, Anderson called him a monkey-ass nigger boy.
ref: 1975, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Arbitration Handbook:
text: Monkey-ass nigger, you must have a death wish, thinking you gonna help this clown.
ref: 2011, Aadil Luqman Jai, Trapped in Pandora's Last Box, page 34:
text: Nigger, you is pitiful. You say that your life is adequate. You also say that the white man ain’t never stopped you from gett’n nothing. You monkey-ass nigger, he stopped you from getting an education ‘cause he wouldn’t let your black ass go to school.
ref: 2016, Carl Crozier, Some of My Heroes Died in the Riots:
text: "Jay, you like this monkey-ass nigger?” “Yeah, boss. He’s made us a lotta money.”
ref: 2021, Anthony Harris, Jefferson-Davis Investigation Agency: Cold Case Investigators:
text: He goes and kills another monkey-ass nigger with a knife over fifty cents and get his monkey ass seven years in Attica.
ref: 2022, I AM Samuel, Touch the Throne:
glosses: Of or pertaining to black people.
duck, duck, grey duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck, duck, gray duck
Senses: qualifier: Minnesota
glosses: Synonym of duck, duck, goose.
synonyms: word: duck
word: duck
word: goose
geniculo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Of the structure of a knee.
glosses: Of an abrupt bend.
give someone goss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone goss
form: giving someone goss
form: gave someone goss
form: given someone goss
Senses: examples: text: An assistant about the theatre grappled him, and they were soon upon the floor engaged in a regular rough-and-tumble fight. Two-thirds of the foot-lights were at once kicked over, while shouts of "Fair play," "Turn 'em out," "Give him goss," "No gouging," were heard on all sides.
ref: 1846, William Trotter Porter, A Quarter Race in Kentucky: And Other Sketches, page 115:
text: "Give the red man Goss!" she told him;
 "Drive him westward from the forest, […]
 Chase him west, with fire and fagot,
 Give him Goss! for he's no business,
 Business none, to be an Injun."
ref: 1856, Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Plu-ri-bus-tah, page 59:
glosses: To beat or thrash someone.
real and straight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more real and straight
form: most real and straight
Etymology: Inversion of fake and gay; used as a way to confirm a story's authenticity.
Senses: qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: True, authentic.
jagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jaggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being jaggy.
fish paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: barley paper
glosses: A vulcanized fiber used in electronics for insulation; for example, in wrapping batteries.
fog tsunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog tsunamis
form: fog tsunami
Senses: topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of advection fog, formed when condensation from warm air merges with cool seawater, creating the effect of a quick-moving blanket of clouds.
fog tsunamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fog tsunami
look on the dark side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks on the dark side
form: looking on the dark side
form: looked on the dark side
form: looked on the dark side
Senses: coordinate_terms: look on the bright side
glosses: To examine a situation, usually unfavorable, from a negative perspective; to be pessimistic or miserable.
Synonyms: look on the black side
look on the gloomy side
Related terms: look on the dark side of it
earth-scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth-scrapers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earthscraper.
earth scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth scrapers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earthscraper.
earth-scrapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth-scraper
earth scrapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth scraper
Mesilla Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.
valve of Kerckring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valves of Kerckring
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: valvula connivens
glosses: Any of the large valvular flaps projecting into the lumen of the small intestine.
unipyramidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: multipyramidal
glosses: Having a single renal pyramid.
multipyramidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: unipyramidal
glosses: Having more than one renal pyramid.
Bubbenmoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bubbenmoyers
Senses: glosses: A surname
pseudothumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudothumbs
Etymology: From pseudo- + thumb.
Senses: examples: text: But a panda's forepaws are specially adapted for manipulating bamboo stems, with a modified elongated wrist bone forming the pseudothmb covered by a fleshy pad.
ref: 2008, Heather Angel, Panda:
text: The extra digit is a "pseudothumb” containing a sheathed spine that can be pushed out.
ref: 2016, Tim Halliday, The Book of Frogs, page 542:
text: There are also at least two examples of more complex ectopic digits. The first is in the aye-aye, a Madagascan lemur, which has a distinct pseudothumb on its forelimb consisting of a bony part that is an expanded radial sesamoid and a dense cartilaginous extension (Hartstone-Rose et al., 2019). This pseudothumb receives attachments from muscles that facilitate abduction, adduction, and opposition, which together facilitate dexterity.
ref: 2021, Jonathan Bard, Evolution: The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity, page 257:
glosses: A digit on a vertebrate that resembles but is not a thumb.
pseudothumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudothumb
safetiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From safety + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I was anxious after Brother Jackson's safetiness.
ref: 1908, O. Henry, “Hostages to Momus”, in The Gentle Grafter, page 183:
text: And every union man should teach his children the safetiness of unionism. A non-union man is never safe or secure in any position which he holds because he has not the backing of his fellow employees or an organization to see that he gets a square deal.
ref: 1915 July, J.V.N., “Prize Contest Product”, in The Motorman and Conductor, volume 23, number 9, page 9:
text: However, regulation for health and safetiness of the completed construction is incorporated in the building regulation, in most of the modernized laws as guiding principle.
ref: 2008, Sidsel Jerkö, Increased Exchange in the Building Sector, page 114:
glosses: Safety; safeness.
safetyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From safety + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Well, the duties of a crane operator's helper is to look out for the safetyness of his operator, his crane, and safetyness in general, see —works towards safetyness; that's part of the duties.
ref: 1960, Wright v. Delray Connecting Railroad Company, 361 MICH 619, page 158:
text: However, lender's safetyness is properly maintained by the lending agencies by keeping the borrowers unsafe.
ref: 2003, V.B. Jugale, Towards Village Banking, page 16:
text: We first analyze in detail the dynamics of both investment strategies and afterwards test the safetyness of both products under a multivariate Lévy setting.
ref: 2010, Elisabeth Joossens, Wim Schoutens, “Portfolio Insurances, CPPI and CPDO, Truth or Illusion?”, in Rudiger Kiesel, Rudi Zagst, Matthias Scherer, editor, Alternative Investments And Strategies, page 259:
glosses: Alternative spelling of safetiness.
Maniwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: M'wood
Etymology: Blend of Manipur + Hollywood
Senses: glosses: The Meitei-language film industry located in Imphal.
qualifier: abroad
glosses: The cinema of Manipur in general, no matter the language.
Synonyms: Kangleiwood
Hyponyms: sense: cinema/film of India in general
word: Bollywood
sense: cinema/film of India in general
word: Kollywood
sense: cinema/film of India in general
word: Tollywood
Related terms: For a complete list of Hollywood
Kollywood
Nollywood
and similar
zeinoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carotenoid found in certain algae, plants and gastropods, C₄₀H₅₆O
Thiebaud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thiebauds
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
en garçon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from French en garçon.
Senses: examples: text: "Were Lady Shropshire and Lady Silverlake there?"
“Oh, no!—the husbands are doing Paris en garçon."
"How very horrid!" she decides. "You wouldn't care to go about en garçon, would you, my own?”
"Certainly not," he answers fervently. But he has made up his mind to go out en garçon all the same.
ref: 1887, Mrs. [wife of?] Alexander Fraser, “Drifting”, in Daughters of Belgravia, volume 3, London: F. V. White & Co., page 116:
text: “Of course, we talked over your delightful dinner-party of last night,” he said, “and agreed in the agreeableness of it. And she asked me to dine there, en garçon, on Tuesday next. Of course, I said I must consult you first; […] But if there was nothing going on, I promised to dine there en garçon.”
That phrase had evidently taken Major Ames’ fancy; there was a ring of youth about it, and he repeated it with gusto.
ref: 1912, E. F. Benson, chapter IV, in Mrs. Ames, Toronto; London: The Musson Book Company Limited; Hodder and Stoughton, pages 97-98:
glosses: As a bachelor, or as if one were a bachelor; without one's wife.
sea donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea donkeys
Senses: examples: text: The ectoparasitic isopod, Nerocila armata Dana, so common on the head of small Sea Donkey (Chaetodipterus faber) was also sometimes attached to Sea Trout fins or head.
ref: 1958, Review of the Fisheries of British Guiana, page 10:
text: Some of the fish commonly caught in the trawl off British Guiana were croaker, bangamary, sea trout, sea patwa, annafolk, sea donkey, pomfret, moonfish, mackerel, barracuda and blue fish
ref: 1960, World Fishing - Volume 9, page 27:
text: Other reports suggest a taste for marvels, at least in his audience: the peculiar anatomy of the “sea-donkey” or hake, which has its heart “in the middle of its gut” […]
ref: 2018, William Fortenbaugh, Eudemus of Rhodes, page 211:
text: The sea-donkey is allowed, but not the sea-ox; and you remember this by the following mark: the unclean (on earth?) is clean, while the clean is unclean.
ref: 2023, Talmud:
glosses: The common name for various fish, especially the hake or the spadefish.
examples: text: There was an odd look of confusion aloft, or rather let me describe it as a want of that sort of precision which a sailor's eye would seek for and instantly miss, even in the commonest old sea-donkey of a collier.
ref: 1895, William Clark Russell, The Honour of the Flag, page 88:
text: Looking at me you would think that I am just an old 'sea donkey'; you would never have thought that I have shaken hands with the very Emperor of Great Britain!
ref: 1947, K. H. C. Lo, Forgotten Wave, page 96:
text: ON316446 arrived at Somes in 1948 to her proud new launchmaster Ken Weir, his wife bestowing the island's original name Matiu on the vessel. Matiu had 44 years to go as sea donkey for the quarantine station and its islanders.
ref: 2001, David McGill, Island of Secrets: Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, page 131:
text: The dolphin is struggling, trudging as if it were a burro trying to go up a rocky incline—a sea donkey.
ref: 2010, T. M. Shine, Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You, page 57:
glosses: Someone or something that lives or works at sea and is similar in some way to a donkey, especially by performing humble tasks.
examples: text: You've more brass than a highwayman, you fat-headed sea-donkey!
ref: 1876, Theresa West, All for an Ideal: a Girl's Dream of a Past Period, page 139:
text: You fat-headed son of a sea donkey! You portentous prig! You are a nice trainer for hopeful ingenuous youth!
ref: 1884, Theresa Cornwallis J. West, The doom of Doolandour - Volume 3, page 67:
text: I mean, there she was on the radio this morning – you heard her – finally admitting what a bet-down, gin-soaked, sea-donkey of a mother she was to me growing up.
ref: 2013, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Downturn Abbey:
text: You with a cat's eye and baboon's hair, you white-assed sea donkey from across seven rivers!
ref: 2015, James De Lorenzi, Guardians of the Tradition, page 88:
glosses: A term of opprobrium.
sea donkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea donkey
Kemener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kemeners
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
launchmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launchmasters
Etymology: From launch + master.
Senses: examples: text: But this time the copilot depressed the cyclic weapon release button on the third launch call, just as the launchmaster pulled his handle.
ref: 1989 December, Rod Kagy, “Launch, Launch, Launch...Oops!”, in Approach, volume 35, number 6:
text: ON316446 arrived at Somes in 1948 to her proud new launchmaster Ken Weir, his wife bestowing the islands original name Matiu on the vessel.
ref: 2001, David McGill, Island of Secrets: Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, page 131:
text: The launchmaster turned to Lon then, saluted, and said, "All shuttles aboard, sir. No problems."
ref: 2011, Rick Shelley, Lieutenant Colonel:
glosses: An officer in charge of launching a vehicle.
launchmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of launchmaster
von Deventer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: von Deventers
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
D'Orleans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: D'Orleanses
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Clarkdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Yavapai County, Arizona, founded by William A. Clark.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cobb County, Georgia.
Related terms: Clarksdale
schuhplattler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schuhplattlers
Senses: examples: text: We entertained each other with exhibitions of schuhplattlers and big apples!
ref: 1938 October, The Ski Bulletin, volume 9, Boston, Mass., →OCLC, page 8, columns 1–2:
text: In the evenings the younger guides gave exhibitions of schuhplattler, slapping their hairy thighs and chamois-leather shorts with fearful cries.
ref: 1965, John Gale, “Part One”, in Clean Young Englishman, London: Hodder & Stoughton, published 2015, →ISBN:
text: And, an added feature will be a schuhplattler group from Utica doing the famous schuhplattle.
ref: 1978 September 13, Joe Ganley, “Oktoberfest”, in Syracuse Herald-Journal, volume 102, number 30,456, Syracuse, N.Y., →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
text: The people of Tirol are also noted for their cheerful good humour, and their songs, their yodelling and their schuhplattler dances are world-famed.
ref: 1983, James Hogarth, transl., “Tirol”, in Austria (Baedeker’s), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Spectrum, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, “Austria from A to Z” section, page 192, column 1:
text: On an extended visit to Brazil, Wolfgang Netzer, the leader of the band, came across a sound that sounded strangely familiar to him and touched childhood memories of when he used to be a member of a schuhplattler dance group slapping thighs and lederhosen.
ref: 1994 October, Christoph Wagner, “Nowt So Queer As Volk! Alpine and the Phenomenon That Is Alpunk”, in Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, David Muddyman, Richard Trillo, Kim Burton, editors, World Music: The Rough Guide, London: Rough Guides, chapter 2 (From the Baltic to the Balkans), page 54, column 1:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Schuhplattler.
schuhplattler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schuhplattlers
form: schuhplattlering
form: schuhplattlered
form: schuhplattlered
Senses: examples: text: A new long-playing selection (Nixa WLPY6709), including the Archduke Johann Yodel, old Vienna favourites and a bit of Bavarian schuhplattlering should be attractive, too; […]
ref: 1955 August, Lilian Duff, “Continental Records”, in Compton Mackenzie, editor, The Gramophone, volume XXXIII, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, Supplement, page 108, column 2:
text: Today’s windup gets underway at 11 a.m. and festivities will continue until 12 midnight with oompah pah and polka bands, yodeling, bellringing, schuhplattlering, alpine horn blowing and, of course, plenty of the sudsy stuff.
ref: 1975 July 13, “Closing Day of Purling Festival”, in The Sunday Freeman, volume CIV, number 224, Kingston, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Tempo” section, page 15:
text: Teenagers will have a chance to disco dance — Pennsylvania Dutch style! Instead of “boogying” in the ‘70s style, teens will be “schuhplattlering.”
ref: 1979 July 22, “Lancaster County brews a German Bier Festival”, in Sunday Star-Ledger, volume 66, number 145, Newark, N.J., →OCLC, section 9, page 2, column 1:
glosses: Rare form of schuhplattle.
Entro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former rail junction and small settlement in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
KNe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: plural of KN (kilonovae)
Rodeses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rodes
quasirobotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasirobotic
form: most quasirobotic
Etymology: From quasi- + robotic.
Senses: examples: text: Any list of the qualities that have netted all this talent and money should include Mr. Priebatsch’s quasirobotic work ethic. He does not socialize. He no longer reads books, nor does he watch TV or movies. He works from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m., seven days a week.
ref: 2010 September 18, David Segal, “Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs”, in The New York Times:
text: What happens when players disconnect from this virtual world? Researchers have found that they continue to exhibit quasirobotic conduct: specifically, desensitization to physical and emotional pain, both in themselves and in others.
ref: 2013 April 12, Josie Glausiusz, “More Game, Less Pain”, in The American Scholar:
glosses: Somewhat robotic; robotlike.
Hastinapura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit हस्तिनापुर (hastināpura).
Senses: glosses: A city in Uttar Pradesh, India.
looks on the dark side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look on the dark side
looking on the dark side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of look on the dark side
looked on the dark side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look on the dark side
semirobotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + robotic.
Senses: examples: text: Coral, another company trying to upend the salon industry, obtained $4.3 million in venture funding around the same time. But Bradley Leong, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said that because they could not get the device’s price as low as they had hoped in its current iteration, they were making it semirobotic to decrease the cost.
ref: 2021 January 6, Ellen Rosen, “Want Your Nails Done? Let a Robot Do It.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Partially robotic.
Ballghazi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From ball + -ghazi.
Senses: examples: ref: 2015 January 21, Drew Magary, “The Ballghazi Takes Are Here, And They Are Fucking Insane”, in Deadspin:
text: But along the way, some people and websites started calling it "Ballghazi," which isn't a laughing matter.
ref: 2015 January 22, Michael Luciano, “Stop Calling the New England Patriots Scandal 'Ballghazi'”, in The Daily Banter:
glosses: Synonym of Deflategate.
synonyms: word: Deflategate
Iron Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The springs probably have a content of iron in the water.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Lethbridge County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A locality in Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Hamiltonban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Hamiltonsbawn in Northern Ireland.
Senses: glosses: A township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Aspergirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aspergirls
Etymology: Blend of Asperger + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference
ref: 2004 August, Stephanie C. Fox, Elephant’s Kitchen – An Aspergirl’s Study in Difference, Bloomfield, Conn.: QueenBeeBooks, →ISBN, page 1:
text: This book is needed because of the subtle difference between the genders on the spectrum, but also to address the differences between an Aspergirl and a non-spectrum female, otherwise known as an NT or neurotypical girl.
ref: 2010, Rudy Simone, “Introduction”, in Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Like many Aspergirls in particular, I was (and am) hyperlexic: that is, I read vastly more quickly than others, absorb what I am reading, and learned to read overnight without tutelage.
ref: 2012, Jennifer Cook O’Toole, “All Aspies are from Missouri: Concrete Minds”, in Asperkids: An Insider’s Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Girls are usually much more socially conscious than boys are, and, when in groups, an “Aspergirl” (as girls with Asperger’s are sometimes known) is much more likely to be protected or disguised by the other members of their group.
ref: 2014, Simon Cambridge, “Asperger’s Syndrome or Higher Functioning Autism”, in Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court; Book One: The Cankered Rose and Esther’s Revenge, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 183:
text: My (Martine) personal experiences as a high-functioning Aspergirl, in teaching the piano to autistic children and in researching autism, have ignited in me a wish to critique current views of autism as a condition that renders the autistic as being more or less than human - the first in the case of extraordinary rational and musical abilities, the second in the case of a seemingly defective intelligence and supposedly impaired social abilities.
ref: 2017, Martine Mussies, Emiel Maliepaard, “The Cyborg Mermaid (or: How Technè Can Help the Misfits Fit in)”, in Adrian David Cheok, Kate Devlin, David Levy, editors, Love and Sex with Robots: Second International Conference, LSR 2016, London, UK, December 19–20, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 10237), Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A girl with Asperger's syndrome.
Aspergirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aspergirl
Hamiltonsbawn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hamilton + -s- + bawn.
Senses: glosses: A village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref H9444).
Skull Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community and valley in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A valley and Indian reservation of Tooele County, Utah, United States.
Wickenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Maricopa County and Yavapai County, Arizona, United States, named after Henry Wickenburg.
Derived terms: wickenburgite
bigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪɡɹənt/
Forms: form: bigrants
Etymology: Blend of Biden + migrant; a Trumpism.
Senses: examples: text: “We will call it from now on Biden migrant crime. … Let’s call it ‘Bigrant,’” he said.
ref: [2024 February 18, Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump returns to Michigan with eyes on a Biden rematch, but legal woes loom over campaign”, in CNN Politics:
glosses: A migrant to the United States during the presidency of Joe Biden.
Castle Hot Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A resort in Yavapai County, or Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: Synonym of Castle Rock Springs, California.
synonyms: word: Castle Rock Springs
word: California
three-name
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: three-names
form: three-naming
form: three-named
form: three-named
Senses: examples: text: Mom got super mad: she three-named my little brother as he made eye contact and dumped his noodles on the floor. "John Paul Smith, don't you dare dump those noodles on the floor!"
glosses: The act of vocatively referring to someone (usually a child in one's family) using their full legal name (first, middle, and last) in order to emphasize a scolding.
pablumese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpæb.ləˈmiːz/
Etymology: From pablum + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Lantos: [...] I don't want to characterize all IG reports as putting us to sleep, but most IG reports are a combination of accountese and pablumese and, in fact, give one the impression that instead of deliberately highlighting problems, many IG reports attempt to camouflage problems, to play down problems.
ref: 1990, United States House Committee on Government Operations, Employment and Housing Subcommittee, Abuses, Favoritism, and Mismanagement in HUD Programs: Hearings Before the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, page 722:
text: […] reports are written in a combination of pablumese and accountese. They rely too heavily on auditor's terms which sometimes have the effect of downplaying the nature and extent of the problem.
ref: 1992, United States House Committee on Government Operations, Taking a Byte Out of History: The Archival Preservation of Federal Computer Records : Twenty-fifth Report, page 8:
text: [Conal Boyce responded:] "Here's one of the problems with ChatGPT and its brethren: Not only does it spew what Victor calls 'pablumese' but for technical questions it then mixes its pablumese with quantitative nonsense, creating a truly creepy kind of output."
ref: 2023 March 22, Victor Mair, Language Log:
text: , Zhengyuan Wang [University of Pennsylvania], Pablumese: Emerging AI Writing as an Alternative Approach to Chinese Poetics
glosses: A style of writing characterized by pablum, used for example by commercial large language models (LLMs).
Related terms: large language model
automation bias
Kikoin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kikoins
Etymology: Borrowed from Belarusian Кікоін (Kikóin) or Russian Кикоин (Kikoin).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Belarusian or Russian.
pawjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawjobs
form: paw job
Etymology: From paw + job, by analogy with terms like footjob and handjob.
Senses: examples: text: Noop whimpered and humped up into the empty air, his tip drooled more precum as he was massaged by the mist surrounding him. He was so lost in the pleasure of the best pawjob he'd ever received that at first, he didn't notice that his legs were slowly being parted.
ref: 2004 February 28, FuzzWolf, “[Fur] New Story: "Whisp" [M/M, Fox, ghost, anal]”, in fur.stories.erotica, Google Groups:
text: Or at the very least mutual pawjobs... cause that doesn't make ya gay!
ref: 2009 July 31, @HyperX60, Twitter:
text: there's still time to catch a bus, register, and give me a pawjob
ref: 2014 September 26, @CaptainErsatz, Twitter:
text: Any artist that draws Yoshi pawjobs are a favorite of mine. Amazing work!
ref: 2019 January 25, @NootYoshi, Twitter:
text: Damn, imagine what those beans would feel like....
I need a pawjob so bad rn
ref: 2024 February 1, u/Klee_In_A_Jar, “waifu everywhere”, in r/japanpeopletwitter, Reddit:
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
lifestyle
media
television
glosses: A foot job performed by a furry or humanoid (such as a catgirl/catboy or other animal-human hybrid) using their paws, i.e. fictionally or as part of their fursuit/costume.
Related terms: tailjob
pawjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pawjob
tailjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailjobs
form: tail job
Etymology: From tail + job, by analogy with terms like handjob.
Senses: examples: text: It DOES have a powerful scripting language, but seriously... what are the chances of someone giving you a lame script which makes you join #dragonrealm and then ask for a tailjob when you're working on your term paper?
ref: 1997 August 23, Ryan Tucker, “Crypt Keeper....”, in alt.irc.ircii (Usenet):
text: wait wat... Miyuri is giving Hisaya a tailjob?!...
ref: 2012 November 3, @lesslighter, Twitter:
text: Imagine licking her soft smooth tummy 🤤🤤🤤 and rubbing her fluffy ears 🥵🥵🥵 while this hot cutie is giving you a tailjob uoooooohhhhhhh 😭🥵💦😭😭🥵💦😭 I wouldn't last long 😭😭😭💦💦💦
ref: 2024 January 14, u/SexWithElysia, “Shun wearing a cat costume”, in r/BlueArchive, Reddit:
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
lifestyle
media
television
glosses: A sexual act wherein the genitalia are stimulated by a tail.
Coordinate terms: pawjob
tailjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailjob
look on the bright side of it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks on the bright side of it
form: looking on the bright side of it
form: looked on the bright side of it
form: looked on the bright side of it
Senses: glosses: To examine an aspect or facet of something in a positive view.
look on the dark side of it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks on the dark side of it
form: looking on the dark side of it
form: looked on the dark side of it
form: looked on the dark side of it
Senses: glosses: To examine an aspect or facet of something in a negative view.
Turkey blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkey blues
Etymology: From the manner of preparing indigo practiced in the Ottoman Empire ("Turkey"). Doublet of turquoise blue.
Senses: examples: text: Silk is dyed blue with indigo alone, without any proportion of woad... with ſix pounds of bran, and about twelve ounces of madder... half a pound of madder for each pound of potaſh, renders the vat greener, and produces a more fixed colour in the ſilk... it is wrung out, and expoſed to the air, that the green colour may change to a blue... Some addition is required to be made to the indigo, to give ſilk a deep blue... For the Turkey blue, which is the deepeſt, a ſtrong bath of archil is firſt prepared. Conchineal is alſo ſometimes uſed, inftead of archil, for the ground, to render the colour more permanent.
ref: 1810, "Dyeing", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 4th ed., Vol. VII, §§300–302
text: The blues are divided by dyers into five, light blue, sky blue, middle blue, king's blue, Turkey''' blue. The two last require a previous ground of archil.
ref: 1815, Thomas Cooper, Practical Treatise on Dyeing and Callicoe Printing..., page 252:
glosses: A deep blue obtained by careful application of indigo dye to silk.
examples: text: The bales for the Tunis market should be assorted as under... 9 pieces Turkey blues [per] 50 pieces...
ref: 1818, C.W. Rőrdansz, European Commerce..., page 683:
glosses: An item dyed Turkey blue.
Synonyms: Turkey
Turkey color
Related terms: Turkey red
Turkey blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Turkey blue
form: most Turkey blue
Etymology: From the manner of preparing indigo practiced in the Ottoman Empire ("Turkey"). Doublet of turquoise blue.
Senses: glosses: Dyed Turkey blue.
glosses: Colored Turkey blue or (inexact) a similarly deep blue.
Synonyms: Turkey
Turkey color
Related terms: Turkey red
Turkey blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkey blue
collective mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A weakly damped and lasting coherent motion of a large fraction of the particles in a system.
raw_tags: of a linear dynamic system
soft mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft modes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A collective excitation whose frequency decreases anomalously as the transition point is reached.
Mode A
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: navigation; radar; navigation; radar
glosses: A broadcast as an identifying code only, from the transponder after receiving an interrogation request.
Related terms: Mode C
Mode S
Daro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Jaro, Leyte, Philippines.
Mode C
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: navigation; radar; navigation; radar
glosses: A Mode A transponder code response that is augmented by a pressure altitude response, which is obtained from an altitude encoder.
Related terms: Mode S
Mode S
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: navigation; radar; navigation; radar
glosses: A Secondary surveillance radar process allowing a selective interrogation of an aircraft according to a unique 24-bit address assigned to each.
Related terms: Mode A
Mode C
Revson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
small hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small hats
Etymology: From small + hat. In reference to the yarmulkes worn by Jews.
Senses: examples: text: The people who run disney are not white, they are small hats.
ref: 2021 January 10, The Teacher, “Disney BANS White Male Leads From Movies..”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: A legitimate and uncorrupted American government would have long ago started asking questions and pursued investigations via the SEC, but if you look at the SEC's own data, prosecutions of white collar (small hat) crime have dropped to near zero during the Obama admin and has continued through Trump and Biden.
ref: 2023 March 15, D. Ray, “It’s not Morning in America”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: For example, one asked: ‘Why are Jews censoring free speech?’ Another said ‘Small hats, big problems’, with an image of a kippah.
ref: 2024 March 4, Brendan O'Neill, “The tyrannical jailing of Sam Melia”, in Spiked:
glosses: A Jewish person, particularly one with a noticeable influence in the media or politics.
small hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small hat
Revlon duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Revlon duties
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: A legal principle stating that an action that promotes the value of an auction process is allowable, whereas one that thwarts its value is unallowable.
Revlon duties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Revlon duty
angryable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angry + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of anger; irascible.
angry white man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angry white men
Senses: synonyms: angry white male
glosses: A white man harboring right-wing or reactionary views.
angry white male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angry white males
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angry white man.
synonyms: word: angry white man
angry white men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angry white man
angry white males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angry white male
sea duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea-duty.
fail up the ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fails up the ladder
form: failing up the ladder
form: failed up the ladder
form: failed up the ladder
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fail upwards.
synonyms: word: fail upwards
fails upwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fail upwards
failing upwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fail upwards
failed upwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fail upwards
failed up the ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fail up the ladder
synthetic theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: modern synthesis
failing up the ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fail up the ladder
fails up the ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fail up the ladder
fails upward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fail upward
failing upward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fail upward
failed upward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fail upward
loses one's marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lose one's marbles
losing one's marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of lose one's marbles
lost one's marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose one's marbles
Reedley Hallows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Pendle borough, Lancashire, England.
SFHEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
qualifier: professional title
glosses: Initialism of Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Related terms: HEA
bastard speedwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard speedwells
Senses: glosses: Veronica spuria, a flower of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
florists'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florist's
Poképhiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poképhiliacs
form: Pokephiliac
Etymology: From Poké- (pertaining to the Pokémon media franchise) + -philiac (pertaining to, or someone with, intense or abnormal love of something).
Senses: examples: text: Misty wants Ash, so she uses her bike as an excuse to follow him around. Brock wants Misty because...Well, he's Brock. And to be quite honest, I think Ash is becoming, if he isn't already, a Poképhiliac.
ref: 1999 January 12, Joe Bessey, “Misty & Brock”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):
text: Okay, crazy. If you think so. ^^ Just remember, I'm a Poképhiliac, and you ain't. XD
ref: 2008 July 24, Sadistic Typhlosion, “The One Above”, in PokéCommunity:
text: Said the Poképhiliac. ಠ_ಠ
ref: 2011 April 12, u/KabelGuy, “Erika... has strange tastes.”, in r/pokemon, Reddit:
text: The biggest problem with being a Poképhiliac is I can look at some random Pokémon content and internally react "How did they release this? It's so lewd," and it's just something like SWSH Promo Hydreigon.
ref: 2021 May 29, @a_vittata, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of Poképhile.
synonyms: word: Poképhile
Poképhiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Poképhiliac
form: most Poképhiliac
form: Pokephiliac
Etymology: From Poké- (pertaining to the Pokémon media franchise) + -philiac (pertaining to, or someone with, intense or abnormal love of something).
Senses: examples: text: I do enjoy the other aspects of Pokémon sexually, even into Poképhiliac sex.
ref: 2017 August 28, justinrpg, “Why do YOU like Pokémon preds?”, in Eka's Portal:
text: Before long, you're downstairs again. Only a few short minutes had passed since your incredible, mind-blowing, furtive Poképhiliac tryst with the hot Lucario upstairs. Now, you were at the bottom of those stairs, standing in the entryway near the front door again.
ref: 2019 July 15, NightStalkerNS, “Lucariophilia”, in SoFurry:
text: Then it's a date. Whenever she's ready, send her to the zone. Or come with her. Always bring your friends for some pokephiliac fun
ref: 2023 December 19, @BreedingZne, Twitter:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Relating to Poképhilia or to a Poképhile.
Poképhiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Poképhiliac
Classical Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A chronolect of the New Persian language beginning from Islamization and Arabization around 650 CE or 850 CE if Early New Persian is not included till at least the 16th century and likely early 19th century including 15th—19th century post-classical Persian.
Coordinate terms: Early New Persian
Middle Persian
Modern Persian
Contemporary Persian
post-classical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postclassical.
cross-bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-bows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crossbow.
cross-bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-bow