cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lang may your lum reek
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The B[ritish] P[rinter] is much appreciated in our office. It is regarded as indispensable, and is beyond doubt the best Trade Journal. Lang may your lum reek.
ref: 1895 March–April, Andrew Craighead, “‘Lang May Your Lum Reek’”, in The British Printer, volume VIII, number 44, London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co. […], →OCLC, page 117:
text: If he will only see that Protestantism is protected, my daily prayer shall be, "Lang may your lum reek," a prayer which warms and gladdens every Scottish heart.
ref: 1896, Joseph Parker, “Note XXIX. [Concerning ‘Bits’.]”, in Might Have Been: Some Life Notes, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, page 187:
text: Lang may your lum reek and your kalipot boil!
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 404:
text: ‘Lang may your lum reek,’ called Fingal as his guest drifted out of sight. […] ‘Lang may your lum what?’ Ben murmured to himself. Just catching the question, Alec whispered – ‘reek. Lang may your lum reek. Long may your chimney smoke. That’s what. Long may you live, you see.’
ref: 2012 May 2, Will Riding, chapter 9, in Flight of the Yellow Bowler, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lang may yer lum reek.
precelebration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precelebrations
Etymology: From pre- + celebration.
Senses: glosses: Celebration in advance.
precelebrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precelebration
anticriticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticriticism
precarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /pɹɪˈkɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to a precarium.
prechallenge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + challenge.
Senses: glosses: Prior to a drug challenge.
drug challenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug challenges
Senses: glosses: A medical test to ascertain whether the patient is allergic to a certain medicine.
Related terms: dechallenge
prechallenge
rechallenge
drug challenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug challenge
Preclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Designating a formative period in Mesoamerican history, from 2000 BCE to 250 CE, during which large-scale ceremonial architecture, writing, cities and states developed.
glosses: Designating a transformative period in Maya history from the beginning of permanent village life c. 1000 BC until the advent of the Classic Period c. 250 AD.
pickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pickly
form: most pickly
form: pickley
Etymology: From pickle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Boiling cauliflower in a vinegar-based brine infuses a ton of pickly flavor into the vegetable as it cooks.
ref: 2014, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food, page 82:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pickle.
praxiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to praxiography.
praxiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In terms of praxiography.
praxiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praxiographies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The study of social practices.
praxiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praxiography
autogynephilics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autogynephilic
CLGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CLG
hearts, not parts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: People's personalities as opposed to their biological sex.
chosen families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chosen family
Friendsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Friendster
maps of Tassie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of map of Tassie
precomprehend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precomprehends
form: precomprehending
form: precomprehended
form: precomprehended
Etymology: From pre- + comprehend.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, beyond Trakl's immediate experience of 'horror', we already precomprehend the profound sense of anguish that was ripping him apart.
ref: 2001, Ashok Kara, The Ghosts of Justice, page 263:
glosses: To comprehend in advance.
precomprehended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precomprehend
precomprehends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precomprehend
precomprehending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precomprehend
befriendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befriendable
form: most befriendable
Etymology: From befriend + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be befriended.
Derived terms: unbefriendable
unbefriendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbefriendable
form: most unbefriendable
Etymology: From un- + befriendable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be befriended.
edtwt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From ED (“eating disorder”) + -twt.
Senses: examples: text: The recent use of TikTok videos using fatspiration, and to a lesser extent thinspiration, on Twitter (@caloire, 2020) has brought a lot of negative attention to Eating Disorder Twitter (edtwt) and to a lesser extent other pro-ana and eating disorder communities on other platforms. There are those within edtwt who are arguing against TikTok users posting thinspiration and fatspiration content (@dietlix, 2020; @somehowatypical, 2020). However, this continues to be an issue across social media platforms.
ref: 2021 August, Kathrin S. Gibson, Thinspiration and Fatspiration on Body Dissatisfaction (thesis), Texas State University, page 7:
text: Christ, what a shitshow that place is. Full of bullies shamefully spouting harmful tips and this constant sense of superiority coming from all of them. I know we’re all sick but coming back to this sub feels like a breath of fresh air; everyone’s nice, encouraging and willing to call out any harmful toxicity that pops up, while edtwt seems to fester in it.
ref: 2022, Remington M. Valdivia, quoting a Redditor, Unmuted: An intersectional approach to Latinx women with eating disorders (thesis), University of Nevada, Reno, page 40:
text: More recently, thinspo has become a recurring theme on social media platforms. On edtwt, there are multiple accounts dedicated to frequent reblogging of thinspo content such as extreme weight loss progress pics, very thin people in poses that emphasise this like closing their fingers around their upper thighs, thematic groupings like #legs, and photo sets of recognisable thin celebrities such as KPop idols.
ref: 2022, Zoe Alderton, Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 65:
text: For this thesis, I followed one account that was a mixture of pro-ana and media fandom content, which caused my otherwise fandom-oriented timeline to become full of dieting tips, edtwt [Eating Disorder Twitter]^([sic]) memes, and even intra-community arguments.
ref: 2023, Taylor Drake, How We Haunt Ourselves: The Pro-Anorexia Fandom Around Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls (master's thesis), Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia, page 26:
text: Table 5 illustrates the top 10 keywords and hashtags associated with the classified categories. It enables comparisons between categories’ words and displays the most frequently used hashtags. […] The ED-user category has a significant relation with ED content such as proana, edtwt (twitter warning), body image, skinny, and fatspo.
ref: 2023 March, Mohammad Abuhassan, Tarique Anwar, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Hannah K. Jarman, Adrian Shatte, Chengfei Liu, Suku Sukunesan, “Classification of Twitter users with eating disorder engagement: Learning from the biographies”, in Computers in Human Behavior, volume 140, →DOI, article 107519, page 7:
glosses: A Twitter community for those with eating disorders.
Related terms: edblr
Edwardianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Edwardianism
unoutlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoutlandish
form: most unoutlandish
Etymology: From un- + outlandish.
Senses: glosses: Not outlandish.
Mirehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in south Whitehaven, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough, divided into East and West Mirehouse by a railway line (OS grid ref NX9815).
glosses: A surname.
pickley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pickley
form: most pickley
Senses: examples: text: […] besides beans there were celery, onion, tomato, cucumber, sliced broccoli stem, and grape leaves, the last perhaps contributing a faint pickley flavor.
ref: 1971, À la Vôtre, page 221:
text: My father’s white shirt and khaki trousers were soon covered with orange oil and a delicious pickley smell.
ref: 1973, Shankar’s Weekly, page 12:
text: If you’ve installed urea formaldehyde foam (UF) and haven’t detected its peculiar, pickley smell, you might still want to air your house out more frequently.
ref: 1980, Environmental Action, page 14:
text: Smells old before its time, with leathery, nutty aromas; weedy, pickley flavors.
ref: 1989, Wine Spectator, page 57:
text: We were the only girls who frequently brought money (25 cents) instead of a homemade lunch, and went off the schoolyard around the corner to stand in line, surrounded by delicious greasy, pickley smells, to buy hot hamburgers with shining moisture dots on the brown buns.
ref: 1998, Lyn Andrews, editor, Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Ah, the pickley smell of ditto ink; […]
ref: 2000, Martin J. Gidron, The Severed Wing, Livingston Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: It’s baby arugula leaves mixed with lightly grated smoked mozzarella, sourdough croutons from housemade bread, and red onions that have been roasted in olive oil and have a sweet pickley taste.
ref: 2002, Chef:
text: Sauerkraut and kimchi are both fermented vegetable dishes with a pickley taste; […]
ref: 2008, R. J. Ruppenthal, Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 97:
text: THERE'S A WEIRD SMELL IN THE HOUSE. It kind of smells like old funk juice. It kind of has a pickley smell to it too. —Vinny
ref: 2010, Wenonah Doret, editor, Gym, Tanning, Laundry: The Official Jersey Shore Quote Book, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 75:
text: Add a tablespoon of dill or mustard seeds for a more pickley flavor.
ref: 2015, Leanne Brown, Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day, Workman Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Quick pickles are a great way to use up veggies that are a little past their prime. It’s so satisfying to give a forgotten bit of produce new life with a sharp pickley taste.
ref: 2017, Leela Cyd, Tasting Hygge: Joyful Recipes for Cozy Days and Nights, The Countryman Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pickly.
Arctic blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arctic blue
Arctic blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Arctic, blues (sadness or depression due to being in the Arctic).
papyrocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From papyro- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, it had to change the organizational culture from papyrocentric to enabling people to use computerized systems.
ref: 2008, Ugochukwu N. Ugbor, Becoming Knowledge Focused, page 59:
glosses: Based around the use of paper rather than digital documents.
Athabasca County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipal district in north-central Alberta, Canada.
Damascus rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damascus roses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damask rose.
wilayet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilayets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vilayet.
transphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + -philia or trans + -philia.
Senses: glosses: Sexual attraction to transgender or transsexual people.
Related terms: transphile
transphilic
tengens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tengen
fundamentalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamentality
interdefinably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interdefinable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an interdefinable manner.
autoethnographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoethnographers
Etymology: From auto- + ethnographer.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out autoethnography.
autoethnographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoethnographer
hyperbolic colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbolic colours
Etymology: From hyperbolic + colour.
Senses: related: word: hyperbolic color
glosses: The type of colour perceived when a visual afterimage is viewed on a background of the same colour, resulting in a purer perception of that colour than is ordinarily possible to perceive; usually achieved by staring at a shape in one colour (e.g. cyan) for several seconds, and then immediately looking at a background in the opposite colour (e.g. orange), which is the same colour as the resultant afterimage.
hyperbolic colours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbolic colour
hyperbolic color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbolic colors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hyperbolic colour.
hyperbolic colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperbolic color
IMRAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of introduction, methods, results, and discussion, a convention for structuring scientific academic writing.
red apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red apple
snackification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The conversion of a type of food into snack form.
snackies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snackie
transphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transphiles
Etymology: From trans- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who has a positive attitude or an attraction towards transgender or transsexual people and/or transness.
Related terms: transphilia
transphilic
transphile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Transpersons might be androphile, gynecophile or transphile, i.e. might prefer men, women or other transpersons as partners.
ref: 1999, Heike Bödeker, Native Vs. White Sex Cosmologies: Sex and Gender Variability Vs. Variance in Inter- Vs. Intracultural Perspective:
glosses: Attracted to transgender people.
transphiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transphile
Batavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Batavisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French batavisme.https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/dictionnaire/definition/batavisme
Senses: examples: Oldenburg, Meyer, and De Vries naturally wrote, as scholars, in Latin (De Vries not without a touch of Batavism), and Spinoza replied to them in the same language, writing carefully, and even indulging in purisms.(F. Pollock, Spinoza, his life and philosophy. London. Kegan Paul (1880), chapter Spinoza's correspondence, p. 45)
to polder (English verb)
Go your gang, a literal translation of Dutch ga uw gang which means "please go ahead".
Pay the meat is a Scotticism, and a Batavism as well. Pay for the meat is the English equivalent. ("Scotticisms and Batavisms". in: Taalstudie, vols. 3-4 (1882), p. 343)
glosses: A word or idiom of the Dutch language (that has been borrowed by another language).
Coordinate terms: Dutchism
biphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: […] from the outset it does not exhibit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes biphilia', of which, as Doty notes, "It's never a matter of the woman choosing either men or each other, but of having both women and men available to them."
ref: 2012 December 17, Timothy Shary, Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 186:
text: Philia is the propensity to fall in love romantically with members of a particular sex or gender (or both, as in the case of biphilia). The three affectional orientations include opposite-sex, same-sex, and bidirectional.
ref: 2015 January 1, Ada L. Sinacore, Freda Ginsberg, Canadian Counselling and Counselling Psychology in the 21st Century, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 114:
coordinate_terms: homophilia
glosses: Bisexuality.
Derived terms: biphile
biphilic
warism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.
ref: 1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4),, page 185:
text: He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook.
ref: 2016, Michaeleen Kelly, "Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion," International Journal of Peace Studies 21(2):
glosses: Belief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.
Synonyms: bellicism
Argolid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀργολίς (Argolís).
Senses: synonyms: Argolis
Argolida
glosses: A regional unit in eastern Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Nafplio. Its original capital was at Argos.
Gayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Gayan, itself from Occitan Gajan.
Senses: glosses: A village in Hautes-Pyrénées department, France.
glosses: A surname from Occitan.
point-of-view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points-of-view
Senses: examples: text: This is where a shot is taken from the point-of-view of a character, so what the camera records is what the character would see.
ref: 2003, Darren Brooker, Essential CG Lighting Techniques, Focal Press, →ISBN, page 301:
text: To further facilitate identification with the characters in the story, the point-of-view (POV) of a fic is important.
ref: 2019, Christopher E. Bell, editor, Transmedia Harry Potter: Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms, McFarland & Company, →ISBN:
text: In the scene when Cady is assaulted, we see his headbutt from the point-of-view of the headbutted character.
ref: 2021, Rob Daniel, Cape Fear, Auteur, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of point of view.
PoV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PoVs
Senses: examples: text: We are going to define the notion of temporal points of view (TPoV). But we need the help of a conception of points of view (PoV) according to which any point of view can be seen as having the following canonical structure: […] Temporal Points of View (TPoV) are PoV with explicit contents EC*, either non-CC or CC, identifying certain differences in some explicit non-CC, let us call them EC, as changes in time, or permanencies in time, with respect to distinct positions in an A-series (past, present and future).
ref: 2015, Antonio Manuel Liz Gutiérrez, Margarita Vázquez Campos, “Temporal Aspects of Points of View”, in Temporal Points of View: Subjective and Objective Aspects, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →ISBN, pages 131–132:
text: Unfortunately from their PoV, the bottom line was Mags’s and hers alone.
ref: 2016, Ian Wood, Seasoning:
text: On the other hand, as Hautamäki points out, “a PoV selects a set of possible worlds, namely, those worlds which have a structure or features presupposed by the PoV. In these worlds, the PoV is satisfied” (Hautamäki 1983b: 226).
ref: 2018, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives: Points of View as Access, Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 53:
text: It shows us the power of thinking from their PoV in an informed manner, and tackling the divide with empathy, curiosity and a good faith belief that these kids must have some reason for acting the way they do.
ref: 2020, Neerja Singh, quoting Aqseer Sodhi, No Time to Be Young: 30 Insights into Generational Empathy from the Seenager, Senior Teenager, Notion Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of POV (“point of view”).
Arbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arbas
Etymology: * (river in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas.
* (surname): From Spanish Arbas/Arbás.
* (village in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas, itself from Occitan Arbast.
Senses: glosses: A left tributary of the Salat in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.
Arbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * (river in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas.
* (surname): From Spanish Arbas/Arbás.
* (village in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas, itself from Occitan Arbast.
Senses: holonyms: Comminges
glosses: A village in Haute-Garonne department, Occitania, France.
Arbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arbases
Etymology: * (river in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas.
* (surname): From Spanish Arbas/Arbás.
* (village in Haute-Garonne): From French Arbas, itself from Occitan Arbast.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
fleshed-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fleshed-out
form: most fleshed-out
Senses: examples: text: The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
ref: 2022 December 31, Matteo Wong, “Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fleshed out.
Scoma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scomas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Minworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1592).
Latowsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Latowskys
Senses: glosses: A surname.
loathedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Did he love thee an Enemy? thee a ſinner? thee who even loathedſt thy ſelf?
ref: 1654, Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest, or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 5th edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill, and Francis Tyton, […], page 40:
text: Did not all Things grow uneaſy and painful; inſomuch that thou loathedſt Life, yet dreadedſt Death?
ref: 1763, John Brandon, Sermons on Different Subjects; with Devout Meditations and Spiritual Exercises, Bristol: […] William Pine, page 154:
text: […] For the frailty of man, which thou loathedst not to take willingly for our sins, […]
ref: 1850, The Golden Manual: Being a Guide to Catholic Devotion, Public and Private, Collected from Approved Sources, London: Burns and Lambert, […], page 694:
text: Thou proclaimedst God, and didst not seek Him; thou loathedst demons, and didst adore them; thou calledst on the judgment of God, and didst not believe that it existed; thou foresawest the punishments of hell, and didst not shun them; thou hadst a savour of Christianity, and didst persecute the Christian.
ref: 1889, Frederic W[illiam] Farrar, Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 124:
text: Thou thwartedst those thou saidst thou never loathedst, / But laudedst those that thou distrustedst more!
ref: 1957, Punch, page 273:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of loathe
Youshock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Youshocks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Burdsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hooligan firms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooligan firm
phænomenons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phænomenon
hardstuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardstuck
form: most hardstuck
Etymology: From hard + stuck.
Senses: examples: text: I've been hardstuck at diamond 4 for like 6 months.
text: You're not hardstuck, don't worry about how many games you've played, just keep going. You'll get there
ref: 2018 January 9, @MeteosLoL, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023:
text: im playing Overwatch for the first time in more than a year and im hardstuck low masters at best, im so bad it's awful
ref: 2019 November 12, @Slasher, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
text: Imagine being single on Valentine's Day AND hardstuck in Valorant
ref: 2022 February 4, @starriebun, Twitter, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023:
text: if u are hardstuck gold or lower in a video game my best advice is just start drawing or playing an instrument just find a new hobby this gaming shit isn't for you
ref: 2022 July 7, @funnysmartguy12, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022:
text: I don't know who needs to hear this but your teammates aren't the reason you're hardstuck
ref: 2022 July 28, @HisWattson, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2022:
topics: video-games
glosses: Firmly stuck at a particular rank or Elo level; unable to progress in skill.
Related terms: skill issue
git gud
pisslow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pisslow
form: most pisslow
Etymology: From piss + low.
Senses: examples: text: If anyone wants any idea how pisslow my MMR is in Valorant, I just had a teammate say over voice comms "Finally my kid is asleep so I can play more"
ref: 2020 April 26, @IWDominate, Twitter, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023:
text: "Can I please stop getting hardstuck pisslow teammates!?"
ref: 2020 July 20, @NickichLoL, Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2020:
text: ok 6 digit pisslow hivemind repeat after me: the pp changes suck
ref: 2021 January 16, @aetrna, Twitter, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021:
text: after losing 10 games in a row on PC league I decided to play wild rift and won 8 games in a row. I feel better about myself now. nothing like beating up a bunch of 12 year old pisslow zoomers while laying on my bed. nice.
ref: 2021 March 31, @IKeepItTaco, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2021:
text: this is the girl who flames you in your pisslow immortal valorant ranked games
ref: 2022 January 6, @cloudyerin_, Twitter, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2022:
text: epic pisslow gaming moments
ref: 2022 April 10, @sarah_frags, Twitter, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023:
topics: video-games
synonyms: dogwater
qualifier: chiefly League of Legends
glosses: Having a low rank or Elo level; lacking in skill.
Related terms: skill issue
hardstuck
black-coated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From black + coated, from the black coats traditionally worn by clergy, lawyers, and other professional and clerical workers.
Senses: examples: text: Morrison, son of a policeman and a housemaid, is a born politician. He controls the city administration of London. Says he, “Labor must attract the black-coated worker” (i.e., white-collar worker).
ref: 1945 June 25, “The British Begin Election Battle”, in Life, page 22:
text: Briefly, it limited the number of persons of Jewish religion to be admitted to the professions of the Press, the Theatre (including Films), the Law, Medicine and Engineering, and to black-coated employments both in these professions and in financial, commercial or industrial enterprises employing more than ten persons to 20 per cent.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 219:
text: Although the largest segment of the membership, category III, included other skilled workers, the vast majority in this segment—about 90 percent—came from the expanding ranks of the black-coated workers.
ref: 2008, Timothy G. McMahon, Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893–1910, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: White-collar, relating to office workers or office work.
Related terms: Not to be confused with black-collar
Dhanraj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dhanrajs
Etymology: From a Hindi personal name composed of the elements धन (dhan, “wealth, riches”) and राज (rāj, “kingdom, rule, royalty”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Coias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coia
Cestaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cestaro
Dhanrajs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dhanraj
Crnkovich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crnkoviches
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Crnković and Slovene Črnkovič, patronymic from the hypocoristic nickname Crnko, Črnko (“black-haired one”), from črn (“black”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
standing-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Each floor of the ark contained five thousand six hundred and one square yards, and the three floors sixteen thousand eight hundred and three square yards, the total standing-room of the ark. […] Let us not crowd Noah, but take the six thousand two hundred and sixty-six species of Lesson. Seven of each of these would give us forty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-two birds, from the humming-bird, the little flying jewel, to the ostrich that fans the heated air of the desert, nearly three for every yard of standing-room in the ark.
ref: 1869, William Denton, The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science. A Discourse., Boston, Mass.: […] William Denton, page 6:
text: But also the time must be at hand when, if the population maintains its present rate of increase, standing-room on the globe will become a pressing problem.
ref: 1891 April, Herbert Maxwell, “Civilisation”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCVI, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], page 558:
text: The detached gate leaning against the door in the picture shows how compactly it folds, and is the size usually used when mounted on the platform step, to increase standing-room on the platform.
ref: 1905, Modern Types of City and Interurban Cars and Trucks, page 84:
glosses: Alternative form of standing room.
Cyrans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cyran
Crnkoviches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Crnkovich
Doboszes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dobosz
Crescis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cresci
Doleman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dolemans
Etymology: Variant of Dolman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Eastmond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eastmonds
Etymology: Variant of Eastman.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Eastmonds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eastmond
Dolemans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Doleman
Eckrich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eckrichs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eckrich.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Elem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elems
Etymology: Altered form of Elam.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Deep Elem
Elems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Elem
Eckrichs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eckrich
Comunale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Comunales
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Comunale.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Comunales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Comunale
Ernes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Erne
Coughtrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coughtreys
Etymology: Reduced form of McAughtrie.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McAughtrie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McAughtries
form: Coughtrey
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Uchtraigh (“son of Uchtragh”), probably a Gaelicized form of Anglo-Scandinavian Uchtred.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McAughtries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McAughtrie
Coleshills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coleshill
Coughtreys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coughtrey
Aksaray Malaklisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aksaray Malaklisis
Senses: glosses: A Turkish breed of large livestock guardian dog, from the Aksaray Province in Central Anatolia
Alano Español
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alano Españols
Senses: glosses: A Spanish breed of medium to large sized dog of alaunt-bulldog type.
Tonya Finosu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tonya Finosus
Senses: glosses: A very rare dog breed that is a white spitz dog indigenous to Trabzon, Turkey, especially the city of Tonya.
Alpine Dachsbracke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alpine Dachsbrackes
Senses: glosses: A small breed of dog of the scent hound type originated in Austria.
bluntishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bluntishly
form: most bluntishly
Etymology: From bluntish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bluntish, or somewhat blunt, manner.
Kawakami Ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kawakami Kens
Senses: glosses: A very rare dog of a breed that originated in Japan, said to have been descended from wolves.
Schweizerischer Niederlaufhund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schweizerischer Niederlaufhunds
Senses: glosses: A breed of dog of the scenthound type from Switzerland.
Pastore della Lessinia e del Lagorai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pastore della Lessinia e del Lagorais
Senses: glosses: An old and rare Italian dog breed from the northeastern region called Triveneto.
catch and kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kiss chase (“children's game”).
synonyms: word: kiss chase
extra: children's game
kiss chasey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kiss chase (“children's game”).
synonyms: word: kiss chase
extra: children's game
Navassa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nəˈvæsə/
Senses: glosses: Navassa Island
biofouls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biofoul
protochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In protochemical terms.
doorsteppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doorsteppy
form: most doorsteppy
Etymology: From doorstep + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In my experience, the more doorsteppy the sandwiches, the better.
ref: 2017, Kerry Fisher, The Silent Wife:
text: My porridge was followed by toast, thick, doorsteppy chunks of it, and I tried to be polite with the amount of butter I slathered on them.
ref: 2021, Vivienne Bennett, The Meanderings of a Serial Goat Keeper:
glosses: Of bread: sliced very thick.
airtist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəˌtɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛˌ-/
ipa: /ˈɛɚˌtɪst/
ipa: /ˈɛɹˌ-/
Forms: form: airtists
Etymology: Blend of airbrush + artist.
Senses: examples: text: Greetings, annoucing^([sic]) a new airtist site.
ref: 1998 July 12, Wayne Bisso, “Gina G”, in alt.airbrush.art (Usenet):
text: One of the lastest^([sic]) issues of FINE SCALE MODELER has a long article on cleaning airbrushes. […] I guess they are great for T-Shirt airtists, but not for me ;-P
ref: 2002 March 23, C. Baltrinic, “Newbie airbrush woes”, in rec.models.scale (Usenet):
text: I've been a photographer (both in cinematography and still photgraphy)^([sic]) and airbrush airtist (surfboards and paintings) since 1971.
ref: 2003 May 20, victor maldonado, “Career Challenges...”, in adobe.photoshop.macintosh (Usenet):
glosses: An artist who uses airbrushes.
applicationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From application + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to view situations as problems to be solved by applying a certain theory or technique.
Related terms: applicationist
faggotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He protests the "faggotization and feminization" of America.
ref: 2001, Robert Young Pelton, The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places, page 225:
text: Then came a 'pro-family group' of about twenty people with banners reading 'Serbian Home Never Sodom' and 'Stop Faggotization'.
ref: 2019, Amelia Abraham, Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture:
text: The faggotization and/or hypermasculinization of the Muslim and/or Arab Other are required because their “connective selves” (Joseph 1993a, 1994, 1999b) expose the limits of one of the ideals most cherished by political modernity, liberal feminism, and certain LGBTIQ movements: freedom from norms.
ref: 2022, Gustavo Barbosa, The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon, page 175:
glosses: The process of faggotizing, or making homosexual.
freeze-ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Serve fruit sorbets on their own, or alongside a freeze-ahead tart made with the same fruit.
ref: 2009, Heather Whinney, Cook Express, page 479:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Prepared in advance and then frozen until required.
Garha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaud
form: Gaur
form: Gauri
form: Gour
Senses: glosses: A Muslim community or caste found in the Indian states of Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and Uttarakhand.
quincidences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quincidence
quinche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quinches
form: quinching
form: quinched
form: quinched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quinch.
rampagiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rampagious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rampageousness.
ranced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rance
rancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rance
vibe checking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vibe check
vibe checked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vibe check
functional linguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: functionalism
glosses: An approach to the study of language characterized by systematically taking into account the speaker's and the hearer's sides, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community.
paper launch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper launches
Etymology: From on paper.
Senses: glosses: A product launch with extremely limited or non-existent availability.
Cave of Adullam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caves of Adullam
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew מְעָרַת־עֲדֻלָּם (məʿāraṯ-ʿĂḏullām, “cave of Adullam”), referring to a redoubt near the town of Adullam where David fled from his enemy King Saul of Israel.
Senses: examples: text: […] but what shall we say of the sects which, coming late with forces weak in number and intellect, feed upon the refuse of the Church? They form caves of Adullam and call them churches.
ref: 1890, George William Knox, “The Lull in Japan”, in The Church at Home and Abroad, volume 8, page 219:
text: […] Grub Street was a Cave of Adullam for broken men, ruined in trade or political troubles, who could just keep body and soul together by these productions.
ref: 1896, Leslie Stephen, “The Evolution of Editors”, in The National Review, volume 26, number 156, page 773:
text: The order was largely copied by private firms, with the result, as Szálasi complained, of “completely excluding the middle classes from the Hungarist Movement”—which in fact was by it both reduced in volume and changed in character, becoming more than ever a Cave of Adullam for more or less desperate elements.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 226:
text: The marathon open hearing held in Fresno in May 1961 to debate the measure turned out to be a Cave of Adullam where everyone with a complaint or a grievance, exacerbated through the long years of market instability, craved to be heard.
ref: 2005, Thomas Pinney, A History of Wine in America, volume 2, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: A place or group in which people who have met failure or defeat in some way are said to congregate.
wikipedia: Adullam
David
King Saul
Derived terms: Adullamite
Caves of Adullam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cave of Adullam
paper launches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper launch
hog-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog-faces
Senses: examples: text: "Glad old hog-face is sent about his business."
ref: 1925 February 28, The Australasian, Melbourne, page 61, column 2:
text: "Does fear me, hog-face?" mumbled Catweazle through a mouthful of meat.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 9:
synonyms: hog's face
glosses: A person having a hoglike or otherwise ugly face.
hog-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog-face
runecastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runecasting
raillies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of railly
raillied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of railly
raillying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of railly
dog daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog daisies
Senses: examples: text: Pickle stopped suddenly and stared at the dog daisy in Cedric's buttonhole.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 38:
glosses: oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
dog daisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog daisy
move the dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves the dial
form: moving the dial
form: moved the dial
form: moved the dial
form: turn the dial
Senses: examples: text: The results in Table 5.2 show that changing the size of the firm in the vignette from small, regional, national, or global does not move the dial for trust, therefore not supporting Hypothesis 2a that public trust in business will be affected by the firm's size.
ref: 2014, Jared D. Harris, Brian Moriarty, Andrew C. Wicks, Public Trust in Business, page 140:
topics: business
glosses: To make a measurable difference.
rancherie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rancheries
Etymology: From French rancherie, from Spanish ranchería. Doublet of rancheria.
Senses: glosses: A First Nations residential area within an Indian reserve in British Columbia.
rancheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rancherie
rascailles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rascaille
crabcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab-core
Etymology: From crab + -core.
Senses: examples: text: But, unlike all the other genres covered in this column, crabcore isn't defined by sonics or BPMs or lyrical content, or tied to a geographic location. Crabcore is defined by the body contortions of the band's guitarists when they perform.
ref: 2009 June 23, John McDonnell, “Scene and heard: Crabcore”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: In photos that seem straight out of an American Apparel billboard, a young woman poses in the T-shirt, which asks, “What kind of music do u listen 2?” and offers, in a matrix of small type, more than 200 underground musical styles, both real (shoegaze, crab-core) and fake (Sufjan-house, crab-gaze).
ref: 2009 December 31, Ben Sisario, “When Indie-Rock Genres Outnumber the Bands”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The supposed musical genre of metalcore (especially electronicore) guitarists who adopt a low squatting pose with spread legs.
mukti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मुक्ति (mukti).
Senses: synonyms: word: moksha
word: masculine substantive noun मोक्ष
extra: mokṣa, “liberation”
glosses: Feminine synonym of masculine substantive noun मोक्ष (mokṣa, “liberation”).
Related terms: jivanmukti
endocrinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of endocrine.
synonyms: word: endocrine
Southborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From south + -borough. Doublet of Southbury and Sudbury.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4367).
glosses: A suburb of Surbiton, borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1766).
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5842).
glosses: A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
FWICT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of from what I can tell.
mukt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मुक्त (mukt).
Senses: examples: text: corruption-mukt
glosses: free, unconstrained
glosses: not bound by the cycle of transmigration
Striped Raphael catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Striped Raphael catfishes
Senses: glosses: A catfish of the family Doradidae.
hip dips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip dip
congealation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congealations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of congelation.
congealations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congealation
clothing moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothing moth
clothes horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes horse
clymenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clymenid
CMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CM
Mormony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mormonier
form: more Mormony
form: Mormoniest
form: most Mormony
Etymology: From Mormon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Wait till we go to the grocery store. It's totally Mormony.
ref: 2011, Chrisy Ross, To Mormons With Love:
text: You know that is the Mormoniest thing you have ever said to me?
ref: 2021, Cate Quinn, Black Widows, page 231:
text: However, the name was much too Mormony for the higher-ups in Washington, D.C.
ref: 2022, David Ellingson Eddington, Utahisms: Unique Expressions, Inventions, Place Names & More, page 17:
glosses: Characteristic of Mormonism.
Mormonier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of Mormony: more Mormony
Mormoniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of Mormony: most Mormony
unmoralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmoralistic
form: most unmoralistic
Etymology: From un- + moralistic.
Senses: glosses: Not moralistic.