cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
McCranies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCranie
tsk-tsks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tsk-tsk
tsk-tsking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tsk-tsk
tsk-tsked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tsk-tsk
Quirinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Quirino
Kushes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kush
Forbuses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Forbus
stand up on one's hind legs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands up on one's hind legs
form: standing up on one's hind legs
form: stood up on one's hind legs
form: stood up on one's hind legs
Senses: examples: text: I copied them out of an American Automobile Association report because I'm on the spot for a talk at the Kiwanis Club luncheon next week, and I've found that whenever you've got to stand up on your hind legs and expose your ignorance the best thing you can do is put down a nice thick smoke screen of figures between you and your audience.
ref: 1941, Popular Science, volume 138, number 3, page 140:
text: We became the nation we are on principles of individual initiative, to stand up on our hind legs and lick them if they needed it, and they called it jingoism at one time, […]
ref: 1957, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Building a World of Free Peoples: Hearings..., page 539:
text: Now we have got to stand up on our hind legs and fight harder than ever for the right to govern our domestic affairs without outside interference.
ref: 2015, Glenn Feldman, The Great Melding, page 124:
glosses: To act boldly; to take responsibility.
Kernahans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kernahan
wazukhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌzʊˈkɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: wazukhanas
form: vajukhana
form: vazukhana
Etymology: From Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā) / Urdu وضو خانہ (vazū-xānā, “washing room”), from वज़ू (vazū) / وضو (vazū, “washing, wudu”) + ख़ाना (xānā) / خانہ (xānā, “room”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a pool in a mosque where worshippers wash themselves as wudu before praying.
arties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arty
dago bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dago bombs
Senses: examples: text: Each had been given two dollars. Enough money to fill a good sized paper sack with a mix of sparklers, crackers, “dago bombs,” and “nigger chasers.”
ref: 2007, George C. Zidbeck, Kid Scorpion: The War Years, page 49:
glosses: A kind of firecracker.
dago bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dago bomb
nigger chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger chasers
Senses: examples: text: There's sure to be fireworks there. […] Rockets and Roman candles and torpedoes and whirligigs and nigger chasers and pinwheels.
ref: 1924 July, Boys' Life, page 5:
text: Each had been given two dollars. Enough money to fill a good sized paper sack with a mix of sparklers, crackers, “dago bombs,” and “nigger chasers.”
ref: 2007, George C. Zidbeck, Kid Scorpion: The War Years, page 49:
text: A “nigger chaser,” another name for a Texas Twister firework, would travel in all kinds of directions on the ground making a whistling noise and then finally popping with a loud bang.
ref: 2019, Dr. Rickey L. Harman, Happy Days in Happy, Texas:
glosses: A kind of bottle rocket firework without the stick.
nigger chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger chaser
nigger shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger shooters
Senses: examples: text: Any person who shall shoot an airgun, “nigger shooter,” catapult or such like device, […]
ref: 1943, The Code of the City of Houston, Texas, page 605:
text: A slingshot was commonly referred to as a nigger-shooter, for instance, during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. “Gee mister, will you show us how to use a nigger-shooter,” implored one Texas youth of a local expert marksman.
ref: 2022, Terry Anne Scott, Lynching and Leisure, page 161:
glosses: A catapult or slingshot.
nigger shooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nigger shooter
Grebo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grebos
form: Grebo
form: Glebo
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group or subgroup within the larger Kru group of Africa.
Grebos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Grebo
mahus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahu
ekecheiria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ekekheiria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐκεχειρία (ekekheiría, “armistice, truce”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “hold back”) and χείρ (kheír, “hand”), with kh > k by Grassmann's Law.
Senses: glosses: A truce around the time of the ancient Olympic Games to protect the hosts, competitors, and spectators.
ekekheiria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ekecheiria (“Olympic truce”).
madrilenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madrilene
macrocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocopies
Etymology: From macro- + copy.
Senses: examples: text: They now feel adequate to handle the problems of macrocopies in their own institution.
ref: 1955, National Microfilm Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting and Convention, page 72:
text: Its reprographic service consists of providing both microcopies and macrocopies.
ref: 2013, Gurdev Singh, Information Sources, Services and Systems, page 407:
coordinate_terms: microcopy
glosses: A photocopy that is greatly enlarged in size.
macrocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocopy
macoya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macoyas
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Xanthosoma, yielding edible tubers.
macoyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macoya
maccocious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maccocious
form: most maccocious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macocious.
macrami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of macramé.
Georgeham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4639).
maelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maelids
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The nymph associated with an apple tree.
maelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maelid
mageship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mageships
Etymology: From mage + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or position of a mage.
qualifier: 'your'
glosses: A term of address to a mage.
raw_tags: with 'his'
mageships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mageship
mageocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mageocracy
sleeper hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeper hits
Senses: examples: text: It could be argued that there is no such thing as a 'sleeper' hit. It is industry terminology for a film which becomes a big success, despite having seemingly little promotion, and which plays successfully for a long time period, without having a record-breaking opening, or a run at the top of the box office chart.
ref: 2008, John Berra, Declarations of independence : american cinema and the partiality of independent production:
text: The record would be a minor hit in the U.S. (#49) but would, in time, become one of the most familiar songs of the decade. A 'sleeper' hit. It would not touch the UK charts at all.
ref: 2005, George Gimarc, Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide To Underground Rock, 1970-1982:
glosses: A work of entertainment that becomes successful only some time after its launch.
sleeper hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeper hit
mahsir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mahseer (“type of fish”).
maihems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maihem
mainboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainbooms
Etymology: From main + boom.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The boom (spar) of the mainsail.
mainbooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainboom
malaxage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of malaxating.
malleoluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malleolus
malmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malmy
form: most malmy
Etymology: From malm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It becomes what is here called a clay soil; in other counties, a malmy one.
ref: 1809, Arthur Young, View of the Agriculture of Oxfordshire, page 9:
text: The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here; […]
ref: 1836, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities, page xii:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of malm.
mammalogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammalogy
mandira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandiras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mandir (“Hindu temple”).
mandiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandira
marconi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marconis
form: marconiing
form: marconied
form: marconied
Etymology: From the name of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937).
Senses: glosses: To send (a message) via radio.
glosses: To contact (someone) via radio.
marconi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marconis
Etymology: From the name of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937).
Senses: glosses: A marconigram; a message sent via radio.
Related terms: marconi operator
marconis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marconi
marconis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marconi
marconiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marconi
marconied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marconi
Marengos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marengo
Goodleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5934).
glosses: A hamlet in Uffculme parish, Mid Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1110).
mar-sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mar-sports
Etymology: From mar + sport.
Senses: glosses: A killjoy.
mar-sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mar-sport
martensitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From martensitic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a martensitic manner.
marsupiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupium
mashiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mashy: most mashy
mashier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mashy: more mashy
mastitises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastitis
mastoidites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastoiditis
matachine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matachines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matachin.
eclectus parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclectus parrots
Senses: glosses: Any of species Eclectus roratus (Moluccan eclectus) of parrots of Oceania.
Tarkay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
de Staëlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more de Staëlian
form: most de Staëlian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), French woman of letters and political theorist.
mattedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mattedly
form: most mattedly
Etymology: From matted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And his egotism and conceit were not to be borne; and then he was both tawdry and dirty in his person; more greasily, mattedly unkempt than even a really successful pianist has any right to be, even in the best society.
ref: 1894, George du Maurier, Trilby:
glosses: In a matted manner.
Compton Bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The "Bishop" affix is from its early possession by the Bishop of Wells, in Somerset.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3955).
acousmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acousma
acouasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acouasm.
melanogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanogenesis
melikdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melikdoms
Etymology: From melik + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The territory of a melik.
melikdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melikdom
melik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meliks
Etymology: From Armenian մելիք (melikʻ).
Senses: glosses: A member of hereditary nobility in certain Armenian principalities, especially in Artsakh
Derived terms: melikdom
meliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melik
Narracott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mensurabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mensurability
merome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meromes
Etymology: From mero- + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A component of a metamere.
meromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merome
mescalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mescaline
baiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baizas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paisa.
baizas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baiza
Zay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch spoken in Ethiopia.
Zay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The people who speak this language.
bandalore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandalores
Senses: examples: text: Wealthy children flaunted expensive bandalores made of glass and ivory.
ref: 2009, Sharon M. Scott, Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia, page 345:
glosses: A yo-yo.
bandalores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandalore
yo-yo reflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The reflux of urine from one moiety of the kidney down the ureter and up into the other moiety, instead of draining into the bladder.
bassly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bassly
form: most bassly
Etymology: From bass + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He bellowed as bassly as his youthful voice would allow.
ref: 1993, R. C. House, Spindrift Ridge, page 215:
glosses: In a bass tone.
Baudrillardesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Baudrillardesque
form: most Baudrillardesque
Etymology: From Baudrillard + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works or ideas of Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French sociologist and philosopher.
bawdric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawdrics
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of baldric.
bawdrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawdric
baywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay wood
form: bay-wood
Etymology: From bay + wood.
Senses: examples: text: CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
text: We have an inquiry at hand in which a party wishes to be advised where he can buy baywood lumber...
ref: 1929, American Lumberman, Pt. 3, p. 34:
glosses: The wood of the bay tree.
beamishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beamishly
form: most beamishly
Etymology: From beamish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The mayor smiled beamishly at the resultant cheers, and repeated, “The city welcomes you!”
ref: 2019, Zachary Michael Jack, March of the Suffragettes, page 33:
glosses: In a beamish manner.
HPA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Numerous other reports have shown that stress experience alters the sleep-wake cycle […], pointing to a tight relationship between HPA axis activity and the sleep-wakefulness cycle […].
ref: 2008, Helmut Vedder, edited by Adriana del Rey, George Chrousos, and Hugo Besedovsky, The Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis (NeuroImmune Biology), volume 7, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 25:
glosses: Initialism of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal.
HPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Health Protection Agency.
faggotish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faggotish
form: most faggotish
Etymology: From faggot + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of faggoty (“homosexual, especially effeminate”).
synonyms: word: faggoty
extra: homosexual, especially effeminate
reputty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reputties
form: reputtying
form: reputtied
form: reputtied
Etymology: From re- + putty.
Senses: glosses: To putty again.
reputtied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reputty
reputties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reputty
reputtying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reputty
garden pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden pizzas
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A pizza topped with various vegetables.
garden pizzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden pizza
cybernet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybernets
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Clipping of cybernetwork.
cybernets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybernet
cyberneticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberneticizations
Senses: glosses: The process of cyberneticizing.
cyberneticizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberneticization
cyberneticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cyberneticizes
form: cyberneticizing
form: cyberneticized
form: cyberneticized
Etymology: From cybernetic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (something) cybernetic.
cyberneticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cyberneticize
cyberneticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cyberneticize
cyberneticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cyberneticize
Weston-under-Redcastle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Shropshire, England, to the east of Wem; the largest settlement is Weston (OS grid ref SJ5628).
oxy-hydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oxyhydrogen.
worret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worrets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worrit.
worret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: worrets
form: worreting
form: worreted
form: worreted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worrit.
worrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worret
worrets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of worret
worreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worret
worreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worret
starrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starrises
form: star rise
form: star-rise
Etymology: From star + rise, by analogy with sunrise and moonrise.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The time of day or night when a given star appears above the horizon.
starset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starsets
Etymology: From star + set, by analogy with sunset and moonset.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The time of day or night when a given star disappears below the horizon.
starrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starrise
starsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starset
phenylethylamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenylethylamide
tryptamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amide derived from tryptamine.
scissor lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissor lifts
Etymology: From scissor + lift.
Senses: synonyms: skyjack
hypernyms: aerial work platform
glosses: A platform that can be raised using a hydraulic pantograph.
Zraick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zraicks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gunag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A village in Azuay, Ecuador.
yarblockos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː(ɹ)blɒkəʊs/
Forms: form: yarbles
Etymology: From Russian яблоко (jabloko, “apple”); coined by Anthony Burgess in 1962, when he introduced it within the invented slang Nadsat found in his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange.
Senses: glosses: Testicles; bollocks.
examples: text: The police, only barely adept at directing automated traffic, need an action hero to contain Snipes. But the only one around with yarblockos of sufficient mettle—Sly, of course, as former tough-guy cop Sgt. John Spartan—has himself been on ice for the last 25 or 30 years.
ref: 1993 December, Sheli Teitelbaum, “Stallone Demolition Man”, in Cinefantastique, volume 24, number 5, Forest Park, Illinois: Algol Press, →ISSN, page 16:
synonyms: word: balls
word: bollocks
word: cojones
word: guts
word: nerve
word: chutzpah
word: audacity
word: balls
word: bield
word: boldhead
word: boldness
word: bravehood
word: braveness
word: bravery
word: courage
word: courageousness
word: daring
word: fearlessness
word: grit
word: guts
word: heart
word: intrepidity
word: intrepidness
word: mood
word: nerve
word: ovaries
raw_tags: for women
word: pecker
word: pluck
word: spunk
word: steel
word: undauntedness
word: valour
glosses: Courage, fortitude, or machismo.
Paute
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A town in Azuay, Ecuador.
threat actors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threat actor
badione A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after translingual Xerocomus badius + -one.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ketone pigment produced by Xerocomus badius with SMILES C1=CC(=CC=C1/C(=C\2/C(=C(C(=O)O2)C3=CC4=C5C(=C3)C(=O)C(=O)OC5=C(C=C4C6=C(/C(=C(/C7=CC=C(C=C7)O)\C(=O)O)/OC6=O)O)O)O)/C(=O)O)O
Related terms: norbadione
SMILES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Simplified molecular-input line-entry system.
whack shacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whack shack
Cancún Cruz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cancun Cruz
Etymology: Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.
Senses: examples: text: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.
ref: 2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:
text: You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G
ref: 2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):
text: Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."
ref: 2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.
ref: 2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:
topics: government
politics
glosses: U.S. senator Ted Cruz.
wikipedia: 2021 Texas power crisis
Cancún
Mexico
hardfisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardfisted
form: most hardfisted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-fisted.
heathcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heathcocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heath cock.
heathcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heathcock
contrafreeloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contra- + freeloading.
Senses: examples: text: There is also a free treat option in the puzzle box, a way for the researchers here to measure something called “contrafreeloading.” This term describes a behavior animals demonstrate when they choose to work for a reward rather than just freeloading from readily available food.
ref: 2024 November 22, Stephanie Hanes, Melanie Stetson Freeman, “Moody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A behaviour, where, when given a choice, an individual animal will choose a food source which requires effort to obtain instead of that which requires little to no effort.
Related terms: contrafreeload
contrafreeloader
freeload
freeloader
freeloading
contrafreeloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From contrafreeload + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contrafreeload
contrafreeload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contrafreeloads
form: contrafreeloading
form: contrafreeloaded
form: contrafreeloaded
Etymology: Back-formation from contrafreeloading.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists are still debating why most animals contrafreeload.
ref: 2024 November 22, Stephanie Hanes, Melanie Stetson Freeman, “Moody chickens? Playful bumblebees? Science decodes the rich inner lives of animals.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To engage in contrafreeloading.
Related terms: contrafreeloader
contrafreeloading
freeload
freeloader
freeloading
contrafreeloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contrafreeload
contrafreeloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contrafreeload
intersucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intersuck
intersucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intersuck
no matter how you slice it, it's still the same old baloney
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
kerneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kernel
kernelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kernel
relentfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more relentfully
form: most relentfully
Etymology: From relentful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a relentful manner.
relettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reletting
quadrifilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + filar.
Senses: glosses: Having four wires, threads or filaments.
trifilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + filar.
Senses: glosses: Having three wires, threads or filaments.
Quatsino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Native American group of British Columbia, Canada.
on and popping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on and poppin'
Senses: examples: text: Tammy suggested, "The peeps from the play are hanging out at the Hollywood Athletic Club. That's on and popping."
ref: 2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, page 244:
text: The dining room was empty, but we had a living room to entertain and cool bedrooms. It was on and popping.
ref: 2012, Remo Kareem, I Am That Man..., page 32:
text: "Me too," Pokey said. "So when the time comes, we'll set everything up, and afterwards it's on and popping.
ref: 2013, Tyler Gore, G.A.B.O.S. - Game Ain't Based on Sympathy, page 103:
text: I had things on and popping, and my life was moving in the best direction possible.
ref: 2017, M.T. Pope, Hustling on the Down Low:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Lively and full of action or excitement.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Ready and willing.
on and poppin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When it's really on and poppin, the entire team plays with one mind.
ref: 2008, Vietnamesence Rogers, Vince Rogers, Wax Vainglorious: the Collected Works of li’l boy and Josephine’s baby boy Volume 1; Envisioned by Vince Vanguard Vainglorious:
text: He said sure and it was on and poppin.
ref: 2009, Winston D. Holmes, WALK ON:The long and winding road, page 3:
text: "Tell Donovan it's on and poppin when I get up there," Bigz told Shitty.
ref: 2017, Simmeon Anderson, Queen Cartel Gangster Blooded:
glosses: Alternative spelling of on and popping.
pumpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpy
accruings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accruing
WinVNC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Windows + VNC
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A VNC server that allows the user to view the Windows desktop from any VNC viewer.
ventral nerve cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventral nerve cords
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A major structure of the invertebrate central nervous system; the functional equivalent of the vertebrate spinal cord.
ventral nerve cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventral nerve cord
VNCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VNC
MyKad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mīkärd
ipa: /maɪkɑːd/
ipa: [maɪkʰɑːd]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology: My + Malay kad, in turn from card.
Senses: glosses: an identity card carried by all Malaysian citizens, that is also used for electronic payments for public transport.
southpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southpoles
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: northpole
glosses: Dated form of south pole (“one of the two poles of a magnet”).
southpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Attributive form of south pole.
Southpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southpoles
Senses: coordinate_terms: Northpole
glosses: Obsolete form of southpole (“pole of a magnet”).
graphoglyptids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphoglyptid
graphoglyptid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphoglyptids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A trace fossil in the form of a horizontal wriggly burrow found in deep water.
enteronephry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entero- + -nephry.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of certain invertebrates, the opening of nephridial ducts directly into the digestive tract.
Related terms: enteronephric
-nephry
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”) + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or connected with a kidney.
noctuine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctuines
Etymology: From translingual Noctuinae.
Senses: glosses: Any moth in the subfamily Noctuinae
lophate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a surface morphology of ridges surrounding depressions. Applied to seeds, pollen, spores, teeth.
stannomids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stannomid
stannomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stannomids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the Stannomida order.
psamminids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psamminid
psamminid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psamminids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the order Psamminida.
stercomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stercome
stercome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stercomes
form: stercomata
Etymology: Derived from the German Sterkom coined by Fritz Schaudinn in 1899 in "Untersuchungen über den Generationswechsel von Trichosphaerium sieboldii Schn". Abhandlungen der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1898: 44https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96964#page/462/mode/1up. Corresponds to Latin stercus (“dung”) + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An extracellular pellet of waste material produced by some groups of foraminiferans.
stercomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stercome
stercomare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stercomares
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of stercomata in an organic tube
marqueteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marqueteurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marqueter.
pottersfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pottersfields
Etymology: From potter + -s- + field.
Senses: examples: text: In every town in America, there is what is called the Pottersfield, in which the bodies of strangers and the very poorest class of society are buried, and the supply for the dissecting rooms is obtained almost wholly from those pottersfields.
ref: 1828, Reports from Committees: Five Volumes.—(4.)—Anatomy; Scotch Entails; Civil Government of Canada. Session 29 January—28 July 1828., volume VII, page 68:
text: The health of this section of country is no less remarkable than its fertility, owing to its favorable climate, and the absence of those exciting causes of disease which have and must for many years render life miserable in the lowlands of the Far West, (Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri,) and which have rendered the majority of the towns on the lower Mississippi almost literally pottersfields.
ref: 1843, 27th Congress, 3d Session: Doc. No. 133; Site for a Western Armory, pages 294–295:
text: But our nabobs are buried at public expense; their widows are supported in royal style at the public treasury; our tax[-]payers are buried in pottersfield, and we are traveling kingward.
ref: 1891 October 17, “What Fools These These Mortals Be”, in Caldwell Tribune, number 94, Caldwell, Ida.:
text: “In a paper in the Forum of December, 1892, by Mr. Jacob Riis, on the special needs of the poor in New York, he says: ‘For many years it has been true of New York that one-tenth of all who die in this great and wealthy city are buried in the pottersfield. Of the 382, 530 interments recorded in the past decade, 37,966 were in the pottersfield,’ and Mr. Riis proceeds to hint at the fact known to all students of social conditions who personally investigate poverty in the great cities, that this pottersfield gauge, terribly significant though it be, is no adequate measure by which to estimate the poverty problem of a great city.
ref: 1897, Charles T[aze] Russell, Millennial Dawn, volume IV, page 288:
glosses: Alternative form of potter's field.
pottersfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pottersfield
shoelaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoelace
kingward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English Kyng ward; equivalent to king + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: All ye that scruple to believe, untill / Your sight convince your Reason ’gainst your will, / Go see your King do things all sence above, / And tell me then if that your hearts don’t move / Kingward, and whether you not think that He / Participates much of Divinity.
ref: 1660, Henry Oxinden, Charls Triumphant, &c., London, page 28:
text: The K-K-koon shaft in their wrestle with a cranky pump and weak-kneed engine won the last fall, giving them two best in three, and they are again heading jack king[-]ward at a 2.40 gait.
ref: 1885 April 25, “Town Talk”, in Short Creek Republican, volume IV, number 20, Galena, Kan.:
text: It is not literature that speaks kingward, priestward, nobleward, systemward, formward; but it is literature which throws off all these things and issues as a winged creature from the shell of the past.
ref: 1891 July 7, “Literature Makes for Human Brotherhood”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XXII, Indianapolis, Ind., page 5:
text: But our nabobs are buried at public expense; their widows are supported in royal style at the public treasury; our tax[-]payers are buried in pottersfield, and we are traveling kingward.
ref: 1891 October 17, “What Fools These These Mortals Be”, in Caldwell Tribune, number 94, Caldwell, Ida.:
glosses: Alternative form of kingwards.
Sidley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English sīd (“wide”) + lēah (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban village on the northern outskirts of Bexhill, Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ7309).
rufous bush robins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous bush robin
rufous-tailed scrub robins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous-tailed scrub robin
queenward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From queen + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to the queenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”
ref: 1527?, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere, published 1965, page 1443:
text: It is a letter in which, courtward and Queenward, Sir Robert uses very strong language, calling the statement of Vanity Fair “a very impudent expression of the latest development of the ridiculous imperialism of the present day;” “a clear breach of privilege, recalling the most stupid exhibitions of royal misconduct.”
ref: 1879 June 28, “Beaconsfield and Peel”, in The Evening Star, volume 53, number 8,186, Washington, D.C.:
text: What had been the comrades’ talk? The Queen. Whither had all their hopes winged? Queenward.
ref: 1963, Norah Lofts, Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, page 228:
text: At spring’s bright urging, they left aseptic hive and clovered field to play the game bees must play once; surging queenward, they balled the fast warming air, reeled once, then dropped.
ref: 1987, Appalachian Heritage, page 17:
text: In case A, O-O-O is pretty much ironclad safe for Black; the c-file is full open, but a single line does not a successful attack make (unless defensive forces are congested, but Black's strength points Queenward), and there is no way, if Black's a and b pawns are unmoved, for White to force open any additional lines (3v3 can open a file by force, but 2v2 cannot).
ref: 2005 October 9, Amarande, “Oppsite-side castling”, in rec.games.chess.analysis (Usenet):
text: The conjoined pawns, an impenetrable knot, begin to roll queenward, leaving Black hopelessly uncoordinated.
ref: 2012, Cyrus Lakdawala, “Kramnik on Defence”, in Kramnik: Move by Move, Everyman Chess, game 20 (V.Kramnik-L.Aronian, Zürich Chess Challenge 2012, Four Knights Game):
text: He turned his attention back to the radio he'd confiscated from Tatiana Morozova’s flat. Right now it was plugged into the mains under his desk, its back cover laid carefully on the desk, a screwdriver and four screws sitting queenward of a forlorn king’s bishop.
ref: 2016, Ian Tregillis, Radio Free Tresmigistus (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, season one, episode 07)), Serial Box, →ISBN:
text: Begin walking ant queenward people.
ref: 2017, Tom Kennedy, Sapphire the Dragon, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Towards a queen.
subalpine warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subalpine warblers
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the species Curruca cantillans (eastern subalpine warbler) or Curruca iberiae (western subalpine warbler), both species formerly part of Sylvia cantillans.
jfc
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of JFC.
Drybridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3536).
glosses: A hamlet south of Buckie, Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ4362).
emu berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emu berries
Senses: glosses: Any of various Australian plants:
Grewia latifolia.
glosses: Any of various Australian plants:
Podocarpus drouynianus.
emu berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emu berry
mokurruree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of hereditary tenure at a fixed rent.
hyperrecruitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + recruitment.
Senses: examples: text: The right ear has a 40 dB hearing loss with hyperrecruitment.
ref: 1991, Frederick N. Martin, Introduction to Audiology, page 159:
text: On occasions, hyperrecruitment occurs, in which the defective ear perceives loudness greater than the normal ear to the higher intensity levels.
ref: 2013, R. W. Rieber, Communication Disorders, page 68:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An extreme form of recruitment (reduced tolerance of loudness by the inner ear).
retrocochlearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retrocochlear + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Behind or beyond the cochlea.
Dreghorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village east of Irvine, North Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3538).
antimedieval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antimediaeval
Etymology: From anti- + medieval.
Senses: examples: text: This antimedieval attitude began during the Renaissance. The people of this period, in a kind of adolescent spirit of rebellion, tended to denigrate their “parent age” as old-fashioned, primitive, and embarrassing.
ref: 1991, Norman A. Bert, Theatre Alive!: An Introductory Anthology of World Drama, page 73:
glosses: Opposed to the Middle Ages.
Bogolub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bogolubs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Springside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in North Ayrshire council area, Scotland, on the border with East Ayrshire (OS grid ref NS3738).
glosses: A town in the Rural Municipality of Orkney No. 244, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
antialienism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + alien + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to aliens or foreigners.
overdeviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdeviations
Etymology: From over- + deviation.
Senses: antonyms: underdeviation
glosses: A deviation from a target that results in more of something than was desired.
underdeviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underdeviations
Etymology: From under- + deviation.
Senses: antonyms: overdeviation
glosses: A deviation from a target that results in less of something than was desired.
mis-housed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mis-housed
form: most mis-housed
Etymology: From mis- + housed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mishoused.
overdeviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdeviation
underdeviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underdeviation
Kyren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kyrens
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
antehuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + human.
Senses: examples: text: I am sure that all will join in the wish that Professor Huxley would give an outline of what is known of the antehuman history of the globe.
ref: Quoted in 1892, Charles Bartlett Warring, Genesis 1 and Modern Science (page 11)
synonyms: prehuman
glosses: Preceding the advent of modern humanity, Homo sapiens.
anti-humans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-human
antihumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihuman
faggoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faggoters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fagoter.
faggoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faggoter
fagoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fagoter
jolly D
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Short for jolly decent.
Senses: examples: text: 'Jolly D of you, Doctor, to grace the girls' end-of-term carol service.'
ref: 2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor Gordon's Casebook, page 155:
text: Thanks for paying for my drink. Jolly D of you. I think you ought to be in bed.
ref: 2020, Nancy Spain, Death Goes on Skis:
glosses: Thoroughly decent.
calquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calquer
borrowed days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of borrowing days.
faraways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faraway
High Harrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village inland from Harrington, Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England, and in the Harrington ward of Workington (OS grid ref NY0025).
desiloization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + siloization.
Senses: glosses: The process of desiloing.
siloism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silo + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Practitioners and academics from all fields have recognized the problems inherent in siloism.
ref: 2017, Janette Hartz-Karp, Dora Marinova, Methods for Sustainability Research, page 100:
topics: computing
engineering
informatics
management
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tendency toward the siloization of information.
feather edged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feather edge
feather edging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feather edge