cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
casteist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more casteist
form: most casteist
Etymology: From caste + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The casteist slur of 'chamar' was hurled at a worker in a private housing colony and he was prevented from walking before certain residents because of the casteist fear of pollution.
ref: 2021, Samarika Lulz, Michael Riegner, “Freedom of expression and hate speech”, in Arun K. Thiruvengadam, Philipp Dann, editors, Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union, page 207:
text: Shining Jewel of Truth made an impassioned speech to his crowd and cameras about collective responsibility, and how these consequences demonstrated that the actions of the state are neither racist nor casteist. See, he said, the high are punished as surely as the low.
ref: 2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), pages 377-378:
text: "No, no, no. I don't even want you to touch this project because you're ill-fated. You, you're ill-fated," she told me, recollecting the incident and noting how instead of communicating in English, he had used a Hindi word, which is a widely recognized casteist slur in India: manhoos.
ref: 2024, Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit, →ISBN, page 198:
text: Of course, Dahal was rebuking his political rivals and not directly discriminating against Dalits. Yet, a top leader’s use of derogatory casteist slurs was deeply offensive. These terms have long been commonly used to dominate, humiliate, ridicule, exclude and demean Dalits in everyday life.
ref: 2024 November 8, Mitra Pariyar, “Dahal’s casteist slurs”, in The Kathmandu Post:
glosses: Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to casteism.
casteists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casteist
castist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of casteist.
castists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castist
ulnarmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ulnar + -most.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Furthest toward the ulna.
Nambudiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nambudiris
form: Nambudiri
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Namboothiri.
Nambudiris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nambudiri
nagapie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nagapies
Etymology: From Afrikaans nagapie (literally “night monkey”).
Senses: glosses: mohol bushbaby
nagapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nagapie
mohol bushbaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohol bushbabies
Senses: synonyms: word: nagapie
glosses: Galago moholi, a primate of Africa.
sarpanch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌɹpʌnt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: sarpanches
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सरपंच (sarpañc), from Hindi सर (sar, “head”) / Urdu سر (sar, “head; chief”) (from Persian سر (sar, “head; chief, leader”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head; top”)) + Hindi पंच (pañc, “five (number of people in a panchayat council)”) / Urdu پنچ (pañc); from Sanskrit पञ्चन् (pañcan, “five”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“five”).
Senses: examples: text: Recourse to arbitration is not an uncommon mode of setting a dispute. Generally the number of arbitrators appointed is three, but sometimes five is the number, and occasionally some one individual is made single arbitrator (hasar karna). If more than one arbitrator be appointed, an umpire (or sarpanch) is also usually fixed upon, who gives the ultimate decision if the other two cannot agree.
ref: [1874, “Banda District”, in Edwin T. Atkinson, editor, Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the North-western Provinces of India, volume I (BundelKhand), Allahabad: Printed at the North-western Provinces' Government Press, →OCLC, page 102:
text: The sarpanches were remunerated by the remission of part of the quota of labour which they were bound to supply.
ref: 1884, Government of Punjab, comp., Gazetteer of the Muzaffargarh District, 1883–84, Lahore: Arya Press, →OCLC, page 129:
text: Every gram panchayat has a sarpanch and an up-sarpanch elected from its members by the gram panchayat in the prescribed manner.
ref: 1973, Community Development and Panchayati Raj Digest, Hyderabad: National Institute of Community Development, →OCLC, page 191:
text: Except for the fact that some sort of political connection seems to be required in order to win a sarpanch election, there does not appear to exist many requirements, for instance in terms of wealth or education. Sarpanches are, in other words, common men and women. Second, the process through which sarpanches come into office is relatively similar across villages, including in "reserved villages." Being elected as sarpanch in contemporary rural India is the outcome of an arduous, intense, and surprisingly competitive process in which various candidates seek the support of complex political coalitions.
ref: 2017, Simon Chauchard, “Local Representation in Rural India: A View from the Ground”, in Why Representation Matters: The Meaning of Ethnic Quotas in Rural India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 65–66:
glosses: The elected head of a panchayat (village government) in Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan.
wikipedia: Chhavi Rajawat
sarpanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarpanch
nageire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 投入.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese style of flower arrangement, characterised by informality and spontaneity.
nannandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having nannandria.
nannandrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nannandria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos, “dwarf”) + ἀνδρός (andrós, “male”) + -ium.
Senses: synonyms: dwarf male
glosses: A small male filament in certain green algae.
Related terms: nannandrous
nannandria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nannandrium
Namburi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Namburis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nambudiri.
Namburis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Namburi
loomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loom + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a loom.
masterweaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masterweavers
Etymology: From master + weaver.
Senses: glosses: An expert weaver.
masterweavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masterweaver
Nain rug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nain rugs
Etymology: From the name of a town in Iran.
Senses: glosses: A kind of rug constructed using the Persian knot, with flowing designs such as flowers and tendrils.
Nain rugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nain rug
Maratelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of rice from northern Italy.
murphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːfi/
ipa: /ˈmɝfi/
homophone: Murphy
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
Forms: form: murphies
Etymology: From the common Irish name Murphy. Compare Donovan (“a potato”).
Senses: examples: text: "[…
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes., chapter VI, in Tom Brown's School Days:
text: To the chimney nook, / Having found admittance, / There I watch a pup / Playing with two kittens / (Playing round the fire, / Which of blazing turf is, / Roaring to the pot / Which bubbles with the murphies) […]
ref: a. 1848, William Thackeray, "Peg of Limavaddy", in The Irish Sketch Book (1848), page 147
glosses: An Irish or white potato.
murphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murphy
Booghdee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Booghdees
Senses: glosses: A cross between a male Bactrian camel and a female dromedary.
Booghdees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Booghdee
beanflour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bean + flour.
Senses: synonyms: beanmeal#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#strict|precisely]] coordinate as coarser powder>
hypernyms: flour
meal
coordinate_terms: pea flour
peasemeal
peameal
;
cornflour
cornmeal
oatmeal
rice flour
ricemeal
wheat flour
wheatmeal
glosses: A flour made from pulverised beans.
Caspians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caspian
myxamoebal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myxamoeba + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a myxamoeba.
lectotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lectotype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a lectotype.
pseudoplasmodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + plasmodial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a pseudoplasmodium.
myxamoebae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myxamoeba
Narina trogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Narina trogons
Senses: glosses: Apaloderma narina, a medium-sized, largely green bird in the family Trogonidae of Afrotropical forests.
downcase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downcases
form: downcasing
form: downcased
form: downcased
Etymology: From down + case.
Senses: glosses: To convert (text) to lower case.
downcased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downcase
downcases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downcase
downcasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downcase
antifaith
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifaith
form: most antifaith
Etymology: From anti- + faith.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to or acting against religion.
blurter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurters
Etymology: From blurt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: At that point W. B. Crumpton, the regular blurter of truths, boasted about what many fellow Baptists might not have wanted to own up to and which they would have found embarrassing to admit.
ref: 1997, Martin E. Marty, Modern American Religion, volume 2:
glosses: One who blurts.
blurters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blurter
OHD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Old High Dutch.
Old High Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Old High German.
Synonyms: word: OHD
Related terms: High Dutch
High Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: High-Dutch
Senses: glosses: Pennsylvania Dutch, particularly the Fancy Dutch.
glosses: The standard Dutch language, especially the literary Dutch language of the Netherlands, as contrasted with Cape Dutch or Afrikaans.
examples: text: The Emperor Charles V, made almoſt the ſame Obſervation, when he ſaid, That if he were to ſpeak to his Horſe, it ſhould be in High-Dutch.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Studious to Learn the Language, the Houyhnhnm His Master Assists in Teaching Him. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 188:
text: [H]is impatience increased, he swore in high Dutch, the noise of the wheels on his pavement saluted his ears, his vexation redoubled […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: High German.
Related terms: Middle High Dutch
Old High Dutch
High Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: High-Dutch
Senses: glosses: Double Dutch; nonsense.
Logos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From logos.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Word of God, which itself has creative power; a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Word of God as incarnate in Jesus Christ, or as identified with the second person of the Trinity; Jesus; God the Son; Word of God.
Coordinate terms: rhema
chutney ferret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chutney ferrets
Etymology: From chutney (as a euphemism for excrement) + ferret (“diligent searcher”), a reference to anal sex.
Senses: examples: text: 'They warned me off you and Lawrence because they reckoned you were a couple of chutney ferrets after my arse. […]
ref: 1997, Minette Walters, The Echo, Pan Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 163:
text: "A chutney ferret. No one likes one of those and you shouldn't either. You ever find yourself with an arse-bandit like that you get your back to the wall and if he gives you any trouble you break his nose."
ref: 2000, Patrick Gale, Rough Music, Ballantine Book, published 2002, →ISBN, page 138:
text: “Jeremy? Hardly my friend. As you said yourself, an overbearing lackey, not to mention a flaming chutney ferret.”
ref: 2010, Joseph Alexander, Faded Acts of Love, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: A homosexual man.
Synonyms: male homosexual
chutney ferrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chutney ferret
polychoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -choric.
Senses: examples: text: The polychoric motets of the Venetian school (Willaert, the Gabrielis, etc., some of whose motets are found in CW vol. 10 and IM vols. 1-2) furnish striking possibilities for multiple brass choirs.
ref: 1962, Brass Quarterly, volumes 5-6, page 116:
text: The brilliant polychoric canzona has contrasting sections of imitation and homophony; this evolved into the Baroque sonata.
ref: 1988, Harold Gleason, Warren Becker, Catherine Gleason, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, page 142:
text: Here, a spatial polychoric effect is attained in an acoustical polarity between the deaconesses and missionaries in the "hallelujah corner" and the deacons in the "amen corner," or in churches where the seating arrangement is segregated by gender.
ref: 1990, Jon Michael Spencer, Protest & Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion, page 235:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to the use of more than one chorus; that uses or is intended to use more than one chorus.
polychoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pol-y + Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra, “field”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: 2007, Bruno D. Zumbo, 3: Validity: Foundation Issues and Statistical Methodology, C. R. Rao, S. Sinharay (editors), Handbook of Statistics, Volume 26: Psychometrics, page 66,
Because the CES-D items are ordinal in nature (i.e., in our case a four-point response scale, and hence not continuous), a polychoric covariance matrix was used as input for the analyses.
text: Socioeconomic status (SES) was represented by a factor score derived using the polychoric method, which is a variation on the principle component analysis procedure designed for use with dichotomous and categorical variables (Kolenikov S, 2004).
ref: 2008, Emily Anton Bobrow, Factors that influence disclosure and program participation among pregnant HIV-positive women, page 57:
text: The polychoric correlation coefficient is an estimator of the correlation coefficient in the underlying bivariate normal distribution.
ref: 2010, William H. Greene, David A. Hensher, Modeling Ordered Choices: A Primer, page 294:
text: The authors propose using polychoric correlations in order to estimate the correlation matrix before using PCA.^([Principal Component Analysis]) Polychoric PCA assumes that the observed ordinal variable has an underlying continuous variable and uses maximum likelihood to calculate how that continuous value would have to be split up in order to produce the observed data.
ref: 2010, Adriana Rocío Cardozo Silva, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Colombia, page 49:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of or pertaining to the relationship between two latent variables, each assumed to have a normal distribution and associated with an ordinal variable.
Derived terms: polychoric correlation
Related terms: word: polychoron
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
english: a special case
translation: a special case
word: tetrachoric
polychoric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychorics
Etymology: From pol-y + Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra, “field”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A polychoric correlation
Related terms: word: polyserial
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: polychoron
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: polychorionic
dryshod
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dry-shod.
kioea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kioeas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any of the species †Chaetoptila angustipluma of extinct Hawaiian birds.
aerophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerophanes
Etymology: From aero- + -phane, or from French aérophane.
Senses: glosses: A thin fabric resembling crape
Synonyms: areophane
aerophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerophane
Ameritard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪˌtɑːd/
ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪˌtɑɹd/
Forms: form: Ameritards
Etymology: Blend of American + retard
Senses: examples: text: Basic logic has gone out the window for video-game addicted Ameritards.
ref: 2003 February 7, Gad Fly [username], “brainwashed illiterates justify war”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: The alternative is getting rid of Mr. Bush and the brainless jingoism's^([sic]) of Ameritards like yourself.
ref: 2003 February 13, raph [username], “Re: What Happens if the US backs down now?”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet):
text: I can't wait for all the Koran burning levels to be unleashed by irate Ameritards.
ref: 2008 October 27, Kullrad [username], “Re: Wrong froup”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):
text: […] incels often feel misrepresented in the media, being framed as white conservatives: “I’m sick of these Ameritards trying to label us all as white and right wingers. […]”
ref: 2019 November, Sylvia Jaki et al., “Online Hatred of Women in the Incels.me Forum: Linguistic Analysis and Automatic Detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: A stupid or ignorant American.
Ameritards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ameritard
bullyproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bullyproofs
form: bullyproofing
form: bullyproofed
form: bullyproofed
Etymology: From bully + -proof.
Senses: examples: to bullyproof a child or a classroom
glosses: To make resistant to bullying.
bullyproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bullyproof
bullyproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bullyproof
bullyproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bullyproof
Bath chaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the city of Bath in England.
Senses: glosses: The salted smoked cheek and jawbones of a pig, used as food.
cake plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake plates
form: cakeplate
form: cake-plate
Senses: glosses: A dish designed to serve cake.
cotton ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton balls
Senses: glosses: A ball of cotton wool.
Synonyms: cotton wool ball
Related terms: cotton boll
coventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coventures
Etymology: From co- + venture.
Senses: glosses: An international coproduction set up in the absence of any official treaty between the countries.
coventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coventure
coventurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coventurers
Etymology: From co- + venturer.
Senses: glosses: Any of the parties involved in producing a coventure.
coventurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coventurer
crowd manipulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The deliberate use of psychological techniques to direct the behavior of a crowd.
consanguineously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From consanguineous + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: consanguineally
glosses: In a consanguineous fashion; by blood relationship.
consanguinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From consanguinous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of consanguineously.
cut-and-try
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Done by trial and error, without precise calculation in advance.
enarmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enarme
reigne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reignes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of reign.
reigne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reignes
form: reigning
form: reigned
form: reigned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of reign.
reignes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reigne
evilutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evilutionists
Etymology: Blend of evil + evolutionist
Senses: examples: text: In several large cities I was asked to address secret midnight meetings of high school teachers who feared to lose their jobs if seen consorting with an "evilutionist."
ref: 1951, Charles Francis Potter, The Preacher and I: An Autobiography, page 319:
text: Originally seen as a great opportunity to do irreparable damage to religious modernists and "evilutionists," the fundamentalists found, instead, that it was they who were injured by the Scopes trial.
ref: 1978, James Edward Sayer, Clarence Darrow: public advocate, page 64:
text: I is^([sic]) suspicious that many contemporary evilutionists cling to their theory with such tenacity because they don't want to deal with the Ultimate Reality or Truth.
ref: 2000, Ron Carlson, Common Sense, Nonsense, Or Church Sense, page 112:
text: The Christian Right too must have felt quizzical gratitude for this 'evilutionist' who, as they did, said man did not come from monkeys.
ref: 2002, Brian Regal, Henry Fairfield Osborn, page 173:
glosses: A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.
Related terms: evilution
evilutionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evilutionist
resistant materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is clear, for example, in the case of GCSE D&T, where students have to follow a core course in resistant materials but can gain a GCSE by combining this with another course in food technology or textiles technology
ref: 2000, Carrie Paechter, Changing School Subjects, →ISBN, page 43:
text: We heard of a school that distributed timetables one week before the end of term; a boy who had been studying resistant materials throughout year 10 had food technology on his timetable.
ref: 2004, Adrian Percival, Susan Tranter, How to Run Your School Successfully, →ISBN, page 112:
text: There is some evidence that this may be the case with girls taking electronics, and systems and controls, and this is also the case in the advanced-level examinations but it does not hold for those girls choosing to study resistant materials or for those boys choosing to study textiles and food technology.
ref: 2013, Patricia Murphy, “Gender and Technology”, in Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, →ISBN, page 224:
topics: education
glosses: A school subject combining elements of woodwork, metalwork and plastic-work, sometimes a module of a larger design and technology syllabus.
Synonyms: word: shop class
midbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + beat.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of a beat (of a heart, of music etc.)
midbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + beat.
Senses: glosses: The middle of a beat (of a heart, music etc.)
face cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face creams
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic cream used to moisturize the face.
Related terms: hand cream
face creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face cream
filecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filecards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of file card.
filecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filecard
midtest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midtests
Etymology: From mid- + test.
Senses: glosses: A test administered partway through a course of instruction.
Related terms: posttest
pretest
midtests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midtest
backstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsteps
Etymology: From back + step.
Senses: examples: text: There are also times when a player needs to enlist the aid of the backstep while on the baseline.
ref: 1985, Rick Elstein, Mary Carillo Bowden, Rick Elstein's Tennis Kinetics: With Martina Navratilova, page 130:
text: The attacker steps across his body and places his right foot on the mat. As he does this, the attacker uses his left hand to pull on his opponent's right sleeve and uses his left hand to start his backstep.
ref: 2012, Steve Scott, Winning on the Mat:
glosses: A step backwards
examples: text: Up until now Almodovar has presented us with characters who are past the edge and flying over the abyss; for better or worse they have liberated themselves from the social structures and repressions of everyday life. […] Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown may feel as though it is a bit of a backstep for its director […] because it is examining the lives of the characters who have not broken very far from the everyday reality of accepted life.
ref: 1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 11:
glosses: A regression.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
qualifier: fluid mechanics
glosses: Flow over a backward-facing step.
examples: text: With care it is possible to combine a median-of-three mechanism with partitioning that avoids backstep initialization.
ref: 1989, R. G. Dromey, Program derivation, →ISBN, page 562:
glosses: The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
examples: text: Then, when I was a backstep firefighter in the early 1960s, a fire occurred in an old vacant movie theater on my day off.
ref: 2010, Vincent Dunn, Collapse of Burning Buildings, 2nd Edition, →ISBN, page 303:
text: Note the mirror next to the rear warning lights that allows the driver to view the backstep area of the apparatus.
ref: 2013, Federal emergency Management Agency, U.S. Fire Administration, Safe Operation of Fire Tankers, page 92:
glosses: A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
backstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backsteps
form: backstepping
form: backstepped
form: backstepped
Etymology: From back + step.
Senses: glosses: To take a step backwards
glosses: To return to a previous place or time.
examples: text: Tony's smile departed his face and sadness became him. Pete began to backstep his words. He was filled with remorse over what he had asked the Corporal and was quick to reassure Tony that she was there, waiting.
ref: 2013, Dennis Baker, Restless Hearts:
glosses: To retract or take back.
examples: text: Le Vau is responsible for the jutting central core, while the wings that backstep so elegantly were designed Hardouin-Mansart.
ref: 2001, Giovanna Magi, All Paris, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: To be arranged in steps going backwards.
examples: text: As seen elsewhere in the North Sea, transgression continued in the Late Jurassic, causing shorelines to backstep, with coeval deposition of the Heno Formation clastics and Lola Formation claystones.
ref: 2009, Kw Glennie, Petroleum Geology of the North Sea: Basic Concepts and Recent Advances:
text: In some localities the bank margins of several cycles are stacked above each other^([sic]), in other places they backstep or prograde relative to each other.
ref: 1992, R.H Workum, A.S. Hedinger, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2509, page 41:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
raw_tags: of a shoreline
examples: text: Robust adaptive backstepping control algorithms are developed for state feedback tracking of a class of uncertain dynamic nonlinear systems preceded by unknown dead-zone nonlinearities, in the presence of bounded external disturbances.
ref: 2008, Jing Zhou, Changyun Wen, Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
one-upwomanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From one-up + woman + -ship, by analogy with one-upmanship.
Senses: examples: text: In the afternoons, she watches TV, endless cycles of serials in which mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law engage in one-upwomanship.
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 28:
glosses: One-upmanship among women.
uterosacral ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uterosacral ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the major ligaments travelling from the uterus to the anterior aspect of the sacrum.
spearshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪə̯ˌʃɑːft/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹˌʃæft/
ipa: /ˈspiəˌʃɐːft/
Forms: form: spearshafts
Etymology: From Middle English spere schaft; equivalent to spear + shaft.
Senses: glosses: The shaft of a spear
spearshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearshaft
backstepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backstep
backsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backstep
backsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backstep
darkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darkey
criolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A genre of Cuban music.
spear closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spear closets
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A small irregular space left by the building of other rooms in a structure.
spear closets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spear closet
shortline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortlines
form: short line
Etymology: From short + line.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An independent railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance.
brown pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: MUCH has been said about the value of the pink pound, the grey pound and the brown pound'.
ref: 27 September 2004, Sunday Times
text: It's only a matter of time before marketers collide in the scrabble for the pink grey brown pound.
ref: 2004, Sunday Times:
glosses: the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
smartsizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smart + sizing.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: downsizing
shortlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortline
criollos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criollo
smack bang
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: And then Tulloch ran smack-bang into Todman[.]
ref: 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 264:
glosses: Alternative form of smack-dab.
relatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relatches
form: relatching
form: relatched
form: relatched
Etymology: From re- + latch.
Senses: examples: text: They descended the precipitous path, they relatched the rusty gate, and set off at a stamping, ringing walk down the frozen forest road.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: To latch again
relatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relatch
sonsie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sonsie
form: most sonsie
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sonsy.
relatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relatch
relatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relatch
sonopuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sono- + puncture.
Senses: glosses: A form of acupuncture using sound instead of needles.
nutcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutcakes
Etymology: From nut + cake.
Senses: glosses: A cake made with nuts
synonyms: fruitcake
nutter
glosses: A crazy person
nutcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutcake
photogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photog
survivor guilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: survivor syndrome
glosses: A mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event while others did not.
spitoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spitoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spittoon.
spitoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitoon
survivor syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of survivor guilt.
synonyms: word: survivor guilt
slender loris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slender lorises
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Loris of lorises native to India and Sri Lanka.
Derived terms: red slender loris
slender lorises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slender loris
stomick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomicks
Senses: glosses: stomach
stomicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stomick
neuronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: neuronal
psychoanalysable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychoanalysable
form: most psychoanalysable
Etymology: From psychoanalyse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for psychoanalysis.
telepolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + politics.
Senses: glosses: The use of telecommunications or television broadcasts as a tool in politics.
out back
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: My car is parked out back.
glosses: Outside at the back.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in 1994 after the West German Baader-Meinhof Group of the 1970s, when a commentator unexpectedly heard two references to the group within 24 hours.
Senses: synonyms: Baader-Meinhof effect
glosses: A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency.
wikipedia: Red Army Faction
impostor syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɒstə ˈsɪndɹəʊm/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɑstɚ ˈsɪndɹoʊm/
ipa: /-dɹəm/
Forms: form: impostor syndromes
Etymology: First observed as impostor phenomenon by Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978.
Senses: examples: text: The office family is not the only phenomenon to watch out for at work. Another common psychological pitfall is something called the "impostor syndrome."
ref: 1984, Gay Bryant, The Working Woman Report: Succeeding in Business in the 80s, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 177:
text: The Myth of Growth and the surfacing of the Authentic Voice, with a dash of the Impostor Syndrome thrown in for good measure, combine to deprive women from deriving satisfaction out of the boring details of technical mastery.
ref: 1987, Sarah Hardesty, Nehama Jacobs, “Seeds of Disenchantment”, in Success and Betrayal: The Crisis of Women in Corporate America, 1st Touchstone edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 185:
text: We believe that this study suggests an important refinement in the study of women's career aspirations, one that moves us away from stereotypes about the women or the field, and certainly from any categorical ideas about women's fear of success, impostor syndromes, or self-sabotaging behavior.
ref: 1987, Cheryl R. Bailey, Martha T. Mednick, “Career Aspiration in Black College Women: An Examination of Performance and Social Self-esteem”, in Esther D. Rosenbaum, Ellen Cole, editors, Treating Women’s Fear of Failure, New York, N.Y.: Harrington Park Press, →ISBN; republished as Treating Women’s Fear of Failure: From Worry to Enlightenment, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2013, →ISBN, page 74:
text: My client, Sylvia, not her real name of course, combined fear of failure with the impostor syndrome.
ref: 1987, Julia A. Sherman, “Achievement Related Fears: Gender Roles and Individual Dynamics”, in Women & Therapy, volume 6, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, page 97:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A psychological phenomenon in which a person is unable to internalize their accomplishments, remaining convinced that they do not deserve any accompanying success.
Related terms: Capgras delusion
Dunning-Kruger effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dunning-Kruger effects
Etymology: Coined on everything2 in 2002 by user uucp, who in 2005 copied the same entry to Wikipedia under the title Dunning-Kruger syndrome, named for David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, who studied the phenomenon.
Senses: examples: text: Though it grants them the advantage of higher levels of optimism, the Dunning-Kruger effect also hamstrings low performers with an even greater disadvantage: being less aware of their failings, they remain less likely to see the need, and thus make the effort, to improve themselves.
ref: 2012, Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: word: DKE
word: Dunning-Kruger
word: Dunning-Kruger bias
glosses: A cognitive bias by which an unskilled individual suffers from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability as much higher than it actually is.
wikipedia: David Dunning
Justin Kruger
Related terms: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Downing effect
Lake Wobegon effect
aisleway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪlˌweɪ/
Forms: form: aisleways
Etymology: From aisle + way.
Senses: glosses: Aisle (clear path between seats, shelves, etc).
insteada
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of instead of.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of instead of.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
springcleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spring cleaning.
mock-heroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mock-heroic
form: most mock-heroic
Etymology: From mock + heroic.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Pertaining to a literary mode in which trivial subjects or characters are treated using the elaborate language devices of the heroic style.
mock-heroic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock-heroics
Etymology: From mock + heroic.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A work in the mockheroic style.
velcros
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of velcro
velcroing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of velcro
velcroed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of velcro
floorboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From floorboard + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Southeastern Commercial Restoration Award: Appledore”, in RAIL, number 946, pages 56–57:
glosses: The floorboards in a building or part thereof.
floorboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of floorboard
floorboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Covered or furnished with floorboards.
floorboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of floorboard
floursack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floursacks
Etymology: From flour + sack.
Senses: examples: text: She brought us her quilting scraps in an old floursack, ready to be used in our crafting project.
synonyms: mealbag#Noun
meal-poke#Noun
hypernyms: sack#Noun
bag#Noun
poke#Noun
<
packaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: feedsack#Noun
glosses: A sack for flour.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: hessian, burlap
text: Let's be honest: the outfit hardly matters — you could put her in a dress made of floursack and she'd still look fabulous.
hypernyms: cloth#Noun
fabric#Noun
<
textile#Noun
<
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: feedsack#Noun
glosses: Sackcloth. (In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, floursack cloth was often reused for making clothing, quilts, or rags, and this tradition continues to some extent today.)
floursacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floursack
millowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millowners
Etymology: From mill + owner.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a mill
millowners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millowner
tobaccer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobaccers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of tobacco.
tobaccers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobaccer
mischiefe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mischiefes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mischief.
forrader
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forwarder.
hitchrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitchracks
form: hitch rack
Etymology: From hitch + rack.
Senses: glosses: A post or railing to which horses are tied
Synonyms: hitchrail
bowwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊwʊmən/
Forms: form: bowwomen
form: bowswoman
Etymology: From bow + woman.
Senses: examples: text: And if we may compare modern with ancient archery the performances of some of our bowmen and bowwomen may be said to fairly rival the historic and partly fabulous exploits of famous mediaeval archers […]
ref: 1874, The Gentleman's Magazine (part 2, page 164)
glosses: A female archer.
bowwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowwoman
hitch rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitch racks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hitchrack (post for tying a horse)
glosses: A rack attached to the back of a car, used to transport bicycles or skis.
hitchracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitchrack
hitchrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitchrails
form: hitch rail
Etymology: From hitch + rail.
Senses: glosses: A post or railing to which horses are tied
Synonyms: hitchrack
hitchrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitchrail
proddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proddies
Etymology: From Protestant.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Proddy.
proddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prod + -y.
Senses: qualifier: rug making
glosses: A technique for achieving three-dimensional effects or deep pile by using cut wide strips rather than continuous loops, bringing both tails of the strips forward through the backing.
proddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proddy
niminy-piminy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niminy-piminy
form: most niminy-piminy
form: nimini-pimini
form: miminy-piminy
form: niminy-priminy
Senses: examples: text: "I detest rude, unlady-like girls." "I hate affected, niminy piminy chits."
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
text: Inside were many fine pictures, not in the niminy-piminy manner, but strong, full-coloured, and just.
ref: 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path To Rome:
text: You pinheaded, pretentious, pompous, egotistical, niminy-piminy-
ref: 1919, Arthur Train, By Advice of Counsel:
text: We should be less niminy-piminy and say what we think.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
text: We began challenging each other to drink a whole tumblerful of wine at a single draught and at high speed. The girls hang back from the ordeal, and returned the glass after spluttering, niminy-piminy sips;
ref: 2013, Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road:
text: That is what my eating abroad had been: fearful, niminy-piminy slivers of prosciutto and single olives.
ref: 2018, Laura Freeman, The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite:
glosses: overtly or excessively prim
niminy-piminy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimini-pimini
form: miminy-piminy
form: niminy-priminy
Senses: glosses: excessive primness; affected delicacy; mincingness
examples: text: "I was," she said, "but I didn’t stay." Her nose was shiny and her hair was bedraggled. "If I had been penned in with that niminy-piminy any longer I'd have broken down the door to get out."
ref: 1976, Isaac Asimov, Murder at the ABA:
glosses: one who acts in an excessively prim manner
overstarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstarches
form: overstarching
form: overstarched
form: overstarched
Etymology: From over- + starch.
Senses: glosses: To starch excessively
overstarched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstarch
overstarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstarch
overstarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstarch
flibberty-gibbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flibberty-gibbet
chickory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickories
Senses: examples: text: The eating is beautiful; that must be allowed. Two soups, three fishes, five roast chickens, and a piece of veal, stewed with cherries; a dish of chops with chickory, and a meat-pie garnished with cockscombs— […]
ref: 1854, Charles Lever, “Letter II. Mrs. Dodd to Mistress Mary Gallagher, at Dodsborough.”, in The Dodd Family Abroad, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: Chickory and radicchio (Cichorium intybus), which is a red-leafed chickory, can add a slightly bitter tang to a salad. Green chickories can be sown in early spring.
ref: 2012, Claire Splan, “Fruits, Herbs, Nuts & Vegetables [Lettuce]”, in California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Eat the Best Edibles for California Gardens, Brentwood, Tenn.: Cool Springs Press, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chicory.
sheriffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sheriff
sheriffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sheriff