cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cheerfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəlnəs/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪəfəlnəs/
Forms: form: cheerfulnesses
form: chearfulness
Etymology: From Middle English cherefulnes; equivalent to cheerful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:8:
text: The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns - a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms - days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 16:
synonyms: word: glee
word: jollity
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state of being cheerful; joy.
calmness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑ(l)mnəs/
ipa: /ˈkɑːmnəs/
Forms: form: calmnesses
Etymology: From calm + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being calm; tranquillity; silence.
glosses: The product of being calm.
Synonyms: word: calmness
word: calm
word: even-mindedness
word: inner peace
word: peace
word: peace of mind
word: peacefulness
word: phlegm
word: quietness
word: tranquillity
word: equanimity
word: composure
word: repose
word: restfulness
word: roo
word: self-possession
word: serenity
word: stillness
metaphorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈfɒɹɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛtəˈfoɹɪkəl/
ipa: [ˌmɛɾ.əˈfoɹ.ɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /ˌmetəˈfɔɹɪkəl/
ipa: [ˌmeɾ.əˈfɔɹ.ɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /ˌmetəˈfɒɹəkəl/
ipa: [ˌmeɾ.əˈfɔ̟ɹ.ə.kɫ̩]
Forms: form: more metaphorical
form: most metaphorical
Etymology: From metaphoric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: metaphorical depiction
text: metaphorical description
text: metaphorical question
glosses: Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.
Synonyms: metaphoric
Derived terms: antimetaphorical
hypermetaphorical
metaphorically
metaphoricalness
multimetaphorical
nonmetaphorical
unmetaphorical
Related terms: figurative
mover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːvə/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: movers
Etymology: From move + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something that moves.
glosses: A dancer.
examples: text: I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.
synonyms: word: removalist
glosses: A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
glosses: Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
examples: text: "The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 389:
glosses: A product that sells well.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
Derived terms: earthmover
fast mover
first mover
household goods mover
house mover
mover and shaker
needle-mover
needle mover
nonmover
people mover
prime mover
side mover
trashmover
unmoved mover
gladness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædnəs/
rhymes: -ædnəs
Forms: form: gladnesses
Etymology: From glad + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: But as time, as time will, drew on, and Watt's period of service on the ground floor approached its term, then this wish and this fear, and so this sorrow and this gladness, like so many other wishes and fears, so many other sorrows and gladnesses, grew duller and duller and gradually ceased to be felt, at all.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state of being glad; joy.
craving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: cravings
Etymology: From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e contrived to satisfy the cravings of thirst by suffering the shirts to become saturated, and then wringing them so as to let the grateful fluid trickle into our mouths.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XIII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 122–123:
text: The craving for cuteness is a psychological phenomenon that originally had the purpose of increasing the chances of a baby to survive […]
ref: 2007, Christine Locher, The Cult of Cuteness in Japanese Youth Culture, page 13:
text: The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
ref: 2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever:
glosses: A strong desire; yearning.
Synonyms: word: ache
word: appetency
word: appetite
word: craving
word: hankering
word: hunger
word: impulse
word: itch
word: jones
word: letch
word: lickerish
word: longing
word: lust
word: pining
word: thirst
word: urge
word: yearning
word: yen
Hypernyms: word: desire
word: need
Hyponyms: word: itchy feet
word: wanderlust
word: feening
Related terms: word: addiction
word: compulsion
word: dependence
word: passion
word: eat one's heart out
word: set one's heart on
word: greedy
word: hungry
word: thirsty
craving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Etymology: From crave.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crave
continual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuəl/
ipa: /kənˈtɪnjəl/
Forms: form: continuall
Etymology: From Middle English continuel, from Old French continuel, formed from Latin continuus (“continuous”) with the suffix -el, equivalent to continue + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The history of this station is one of continual rebuilding.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
glosses: Recurring in steady, rapid succession.
glosses: Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
glosses: Forming a continuous series.
Derived terms: continuality
continually
continualness
Related terms: continuance
continuation
continue
continuous
continuum
communal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuː.nəl/
ipa: /ˈkɒm.jə.nəl/
ipa: /kəˈmju.nəl/
ipa: /kəˈmjʉː.nəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔm.jə.nəl/
Forms: form: more communal
form: most communal
Etymology: Borrowed from French communal, from Late Latin commūnālis, from Latin commūnis. Doublet of cominal.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a community or a commune.
glosses: Shared by a community; public.
examples: text: communal violence
text: communal politics
antonyms: secular
glosses: Defined by religious ideas; based on religion.
Derived terms: bicommunal
communal bin
communalect
communalise
communalism
communalistic
communality
communalize
communally
communal shower
ecocommunal
intercommunal
intracommunal
multicommunal
noncommunal
pseudocommunal
uncommunal
Related terms: common
community
wrongfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋfəli/
Forms: form: more wrongfully
form: most wrongfully
Etymology: From Middle English wrongfully, wrongfullich; equivalent to wrongful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If you do wrongfully ſeize Herford's right, / call in his Letters Patents that he hath / By his Atturneyes generall, to ſue[…]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 29, column 2:
text: There is a clear line of distinction in this matter. An equity judge could not unhang a man who had been wrongfully hanged; but he could set aside a precedent which was manifestly contrary to law and justice.
ref: 1839, The Christian Observer, volume 38, page 585:
text: Wrongfully imprisoned action heroes rarely have the time to wait for an appeal.
ref: 2002, Joe Borgenicht, The Action Hero's Handbook, Quirk Books, page 36:
glosses: In a wrongful manner; unjustly.
scalpel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskælpəl/
Forms: form: scalpels
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum (“knife”), from scalpere (“to cut”). Doublet of scalpellum.
Senses: examples: text: He feels a tingling behind his ears, anticipating the scalpel and the drill.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 399:
glosses: A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
Related terms: bistoury
knife
unproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/
rhymes: -ʌktɪv
Forms: form: more unproductive
form: most unproductive
Etymology: From un- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.
glosses: Not productive; useless; fruitless.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: mechanisms of word formation; etc; mechanisms of word formation; etc
glosses: No longer used to produce new words (see examples).
raw_tags: of affixes
Synonyms: nonproductive
unyieldly
Derived terms: unproductive time
unproductively
adaption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈdæpʃən/
Forms: form: adaptions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adaptation.
Related terms: adaptional
suppression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹɛʃən/
ipa: /səˈpɹeʃən/
Forms: form: suppressions
Etymology: From Latin suppressiō.
Senses: examples: text: The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
ref: 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
glosses: The act or instance of suppressing.
glosses: The state of being suppressed.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
examples: text: In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.
ref: 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
glosses: A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
raw_tags: of an eye
Derived terms: sense: Prefixed forms
word: cardiosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: cosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: fibrosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: immunosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: inflammosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: lymphosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: myelosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: neurosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: nonsuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: oncosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: oversuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: postsuppressional
sense: Prefixed forms
word: radiosuppression
sense: Prefixed forms
word: resuppression
sense: Suffixed forms
word: suppressionism
sense: Suffixed forms
word: suppressionist
sense: Compound words
word: hood suppression system
sense: Compound words
word: phenotypic suppression
sense: Compound words
word: space suppression
sense: Compound words
word: suppression order
sense: Compound words
word: voter suppression
Related terms: suppress
repression
seasick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːsɪk/
rhymes: -iːsɪk
Forms: form: more seasick
form: most seasick
Etymology: From Middle English see seke, equivalent to sea + sick.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship at sea.
Derived terms: seasickness
Related terms: airsick
carsick
motion sickness
sea-sickening
footpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌpɑːθ/
ipa: /ˈfʊtˌpæθ/
Forms: form: footpaths
Etymology: From Middle English foot path, footpath; equivalent to foot + path. Compare Saterland Frisian Foutpaad (“footpath”), West Frisian fuotpaad (“footpath”), Dutch voetpad (“footpath”), German Low German Footpadd (“footpath”), German Fußpfad (“footpath”).
Senses: examples: text: I felt refreshed after the short rest, and bade the old man farewell and started for town in company with the scared lad, following the footpath below the Grefsen hill.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 160:
synonyms: footpad
footway
walkway
glosses: Any set path or trail to be used by people walking.
synonyms: word: trottoir
word: pavement
word: sidewalk
glosses: A paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians.
Derived terms: footpathed
supervision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/
ipa: /ˌsupəɹˈvɪʒən/
ipa: [ˌsupɚˈvɪʒən]
ipa: /ˌsʉːpəˈvɪʒən/
Forms: form: supervisions
Etymology: From Latin supervisiō.
Senses: examples: text: Under his parents' supervision he drilled the holes in the wood.
glosses: The act or instance of supervising.
examples: text: Do not attempt this without adequate supervision.
glosses: Responsible oversight.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: A tutorial session for an individual student or a small group.
Related terms: supervise
septic tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septic tanks
Senses: glosses: A small-scale watertight treatment system for domestic sewage in which the flow is slowed to allow sedimentation and sludge digestion by bacteria to take place.
glosses: Yank (American person).
Synonyms: sense: rhyming slang for Yank
word: Seppo
sense: rhyming slang for Yank
word: seppo
Coordinate terms: sense: domestic sewage system
word: cesspit
sense: domestic sewage system
word: cesspool
Derived terms: Seppo
seppo
stealthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛlθɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsteld̪i/
note: happy-tensing
ipa: /-iː/
homophone: stealthie
rhymes: -ɛlθɪ
Forms: form: stealthier
form: stealthiest
Etymology: From stealth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: stealthy military manoeuvres
glosses: Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.
Synonyms: sneaking
undercover
concealed
Derived terms: stealthily
stealthiness
solicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌlɪsɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: solicitations
Etymology: From Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.
Senses: examples: text: "The instances you have quoted," replied the other, "are certainly very encouraging! Homer past a life in blindness and beggary; Columbus, in vain solicitation and feverish disappointment; and Luther's was spent in struggle, imprisonment, and danger...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Secretaryship”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 127:
synonyms: petition
appeal
glosses: the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
topics: law
glosses: an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime
Related terms: applicant
Shinto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪn.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɪntəʊ
rhymes: (US) -ɪntoʊ
Forms: form: Shintō
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 神道 (Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC zyin dawX, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]”).
Senses: examples: text: The number of Shinto deities is very great. The Yengishiki enumerates 3,132 officially recognized shrines, and although the same Gods are reckoned more than once, as being worshipped in different places, still their name is legion.
ref: 1905, W.G. Aston, Shinto: The Way of the Gods, page 66:
glosses: Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
Derived terms: Shintoism
Shintoist
Shintoistic
Shinto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪn.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃɪn.toʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɪntəʊ
rhymes: (US) -ɪntoʊ
Forms: form: Shintō
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 神道 (Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC zyin dawX, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.
sedative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛdətɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: sedatives
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sedatif, from Anglo-Norman sedatif, from Medieval Latin sēdātīvus, which itself likely influenced the modern spelling.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.
Synonyms: sense: agents that cause sleep
word: sleeping pill
sense: agents that cause sleep
word: soporific
sense: agents that cause sleep
word: tranquilizer
sense: other agents that sedate
word: anxiolytic
sense: other agents that sedate
word: depressant
sense: other agents that sedate
word: downer
sedative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛdətɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: more sedative
form: most sedative
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sedatif, from Anglo-Norman sedatif, from Medieval Latin sēdātīvus, which itself likely influenced the modern spelling.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing
Synonyms: ataractic
ataraxic
Derived terms: salt sedative
sedative salt
deglove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɡlʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: degloves
form: degloving
form: degloved
form: degloved
Etymology: From de- + glove.
Senses: glosses: To peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident.
danceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more danceable
form: most danceable
Etymology: From dance + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for dancing.
raw_tags: of music
examples: text: “Assignment time! Hatchi machi! (gasps) I got conference room cleanup duty. In your face!” “Last time I checked, that was very lame.” (humming) “Why would you dance? That's not a danceable job.”
ref: 2020 August 27, Ann Kim, “Moist Vessel” (3:53 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome):
glosses: Danceworthy.
Derived terms: undanceable
Related terms: danceability
danceable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danceables
Etymology: From dance + -able.
Senses: examples: text: During the months that followed the bazaar, Rhett called whenever he was in town, taking Scarlett riding in his carriage, escorting her to danceables and bazaars and waiting outside the hospital to drive her home.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
text: The Netherwood was billed as "a city hotel in the country." For two decades after its 1878 opening, people arrived from New York by parlor car to spend their vacation on the Netherwood Heights. Croquet, danceables, masquerades, tennis, bowling, midnight suppers, and fancy dress balls were the order of the day for the vacationer.
ref: 2001, John A. Grady, Dorothe M. Pollard, Plainfield, page 62:
text: In the street the rattle of carriages could still be heard, women's voices calling farewells and invitations to future dinners and danceables.
ref: 2007, Barbara Hambly, Die Upon a Kiss:
text: We children were introduced to these musical ensembles very early, and as we grew up, we merely tolerated them in part because their performances were usually sit-down events rather than danceables, and they weren't as hip as the American music.
ref: 2012, Carlos B. Gil, We Became Mexican American:
glosses: A social event with dancing; a ball.
examples: text: The Dynatones' approach is a three-way mix: familiar danceables from the likes of Junior Walker, Sam & Dave and the Rascals; scrupulously selected obscurities from such artists as Z.Z. Hill and Rodger Collins, which underscore the depth of their commitment to the genre; and smart, well crafted originals written by vocalist Chip "C.C" Miller and guitarist Larry Dunn.
ref: 1985, Billboard, volume 97, number 17:
text: A five-piece band playing modern Top 40 danceables, Hot Pursuit is after Tucsonans not content with toe tapping.
ref: 2015, Robert E. Zucker, Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades: Volume 2: 1986-1989:
glosses: A song suitable for dancing to.
dubonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubonnets
Etymology: From French dubonnet.
Senses: examples: text: […] greens, and blues through deep-toned dubonnets, grays, and greens.
ref: 1948, Interiors, volume 107, page 128:
glosses: The reddish purple colour of the apéritif Dubonnet.
OOPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of object-oriented programming system.
rushed behind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushed behinds
Senses: examples: text: In another Friday-night match, in Round 15, the Western Bulldogs crushed us by sixty-four points; we managed just two rushed behinds in the last half-hour, while the Dogs piled on six goals.
ref: 2012, Jim Stynes, My Journey:
text: Every one of those rushed behinds was either kicked, handballed, walked through or deliberately pushed across the line by a Hawthorn player.
ref: 2016, Martin Blake, Mighty Fighting Hawks:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A behind (one-point score) made when the ball passes through the goal posts or behind posts not from the foot of the attacking team, i.e. either spilled off hands or deliberately carried through by the defenders.
dasheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæˈʃiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: dasheens
Etymology: From a language of the West Indies. Probably from Antillean Creole dachine or another French creole, from French (chou) de Chine (literally “(cabbage) of China”), as the species originated in China.
Senses: examples: text: He say tell your people [...] to boil more banana, and roast more yam, fry more potato and dig up more dasheen.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 151:
glosses: Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.
dot-commer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒtˈkɒmə/
Forms: form: dot-commers
form: dotcomer
form: dotcommer
Etymology: From dot-com + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.
dooky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dookie.
beaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbinɚ/
Forms: form: beaners
Etymology: From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans".
Beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine.
Senses: examples: text: You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.
ref: 1999, Gregory Alan Norton, There Ain't no Justice, Just Us, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?
ref: 2003, Roy Yelverton, “chapter 2”, in Shovelhead Red – The Drifter's Way, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2007:
text: I'm a beaner, and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!
ref: 2005, Carlos Mencia, Mind of Mencia:
glosses: A Mexican.
glosses: Any Hispanic or Latino person.
glosses: A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.
Related terms: bean-eater
beaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbinɚ/
Forms: form: beaners
Etymology: From bean + -er; see bean (“(slang) head”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch deliberately thrown at the head (the bean) of the batter.
examples: text: Any ideas on how I could solve this problem? This seems to be beyond what my beaner can solve right now....I hope all this work wasn't for nothing!
ref: 2001 October 2, William, “Capturing Group Therapy Hours?”, in microsoft.public.access.forms (Usenet):
text: I know what picture yer referring to, but I didn't have a problem with that because the fundamentals of reactance have been in my beaner since I was a teen.
ref: 2004 April 30, Active8 [username], “Re: Smith Chart question”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):
text: Before Chester could compose himself, the Bombshell leaned over and planted a ruby red smackaroo right on top of his bald spot. Chester Cranepool had had a few things hit him on top of his head before, but nothing that felt that good. Looking like a Franciscan monk with a bullseye on his beaner, Chester simply said, “Bless you, my child.”
ref: 2011, Mike Griffin, Tales of the Lost Flamingo, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Head.
examples: text: Gee, that would be a beaner of a sign for education
ref: 1942, Forrest Edwin Long, Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox, The Clearing House, page 527:
text: Pride, indeed, Esther thought — that was a beaner! There was more purse than pride in Mayme's repentant heart
ref: 1949, Martha Ostenso, The Sunset Tree, Dodd, Mead, page 106:
glosses: A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
Synonyms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: beanball
Related terms: topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: beamer
cozzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cozzers
Etymology: Blend of copper + rozzer, both slang for British police.
Senses: glosses: A policeman, especially a detective; a rozzer.
femocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femocrats
Etymology: Blend of female + bureaucrat.
Senses: examples: text: Despite working in a difficult environment, femocrats have made an important contribution to Australian politics over the past two decades.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth Van Acker, Different Voices: Gender and Politics in Australia, page 120:
text: 2000, Jan Jindy Pettman, “Femocrats,” entry in Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender (editors) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 847,
Femocrats also carry the burden of representation, if they are expected to speak for all women; or, alternatively, they are dismissed as “unrepresentative” of ordinary women and so not entitled to speak for them.
text: These moves were made by femocrats in part to avoid marginalization in women′s units, but in moving to new positions, old ones came up for grabs.
ref: 2006, Louise A. Chappell, Lisa Hill, The Politics of Women's Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, page 166:
glosses: A female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.
Grecophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grecophones
Etymology: From Greco- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A speaker of the Greek language.
Grecophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Greco- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Greek-speaking.
flatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætɪŋ
Forms: form: flattings
Etymology: From flat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
examples: text: Bankart is of opinion that “an important point as regards painters on board ship is to recognize the fact that there is danger of poisoning, whenever quick-drying paints and flattings are being used in inclosed spaces,[…].”
ref: 1915, United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, United States Naval Medical Bulletin, page 694:
glosses: A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
glosses: The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
examples: text: I have been informed, that there are some tribes in whom the posterior part of the head is flattened instead of the front part, and that these depressions and flattings of the head are produced by such artificial pressure.
ref: 1825, The Lancet, volume 7, page 73:
glosses: A flat part of something, a flattening.
glosses: The process of becoming flat.
examples: text: flatting-mill
text: Flatting agents reduces gloss by scattering reflected light. The more flatting agent added, the duller the appearance and the greater the loss of film clarity.
ref: 1998, Bob Flexner, Understanding Wood Finishing: How to Select and Apply the Right Finish, page 132:
text: Recent chemical advances allow significantly increased control of flatting behavior through the utilization of special acidic-functionality copolymeric additives.
ref: 1998, Edward W. Orr, Performance Enhancement in Coatings, page 274:
glosses: The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
examples: text: The bell ropes hang from the outside of the tower, the resultant friction of the ropes over the brick sides producing irresolute sharpings or flattings of the notes.
ref: 1982, Clark Coolidge, Mine: The One that Enters the Stories, page 27:
text: Leland Smith goes so far as to say, “in tonal music the minor mode has no separate existence, but represents merely a fairly consistently applied group of alterations — flattings — of certain parts of the major mode.”
ref: 2004, Michael R. Rogers, Teaching Approaches in Music Theory: An Overview of Pedagogical Philosophies, 2nd edition, page 37:
glosses: An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
examples: text: The Nottingham white-lead is the most esteemed for what is called flatting, or dead white.
ref: 1823, Peter Nicholson, The New Practical Builder and Workman's Companion:
glosses: A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
glosses: The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.
flatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætɪŋ
Etymology: From flat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flat
crowd catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowd catches
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A catch of a ball which was played into the ground near the batsman and bounced up to a fielder. Spectators who could not see from a distance that it was played into the ground may incorrectly think that the batsman is out.
Moreton Bay bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moreton Bay bugs
Etymology: Named after Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia (by way of distinguishing it from the distantly-related Balmain bug (Ibacus peronii), but also found in many parts of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
Senses: examples: text: We settled on cumin-spiced lamb buns, Moreton Bay bug crystal dumplings and the char siu Ōra King salmon fillet.
ref: 2021 February 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 37, column 1:
glosses: The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family; a common seafood item.
wikipedia: Moreton Bay
Synonyms: word: crayfish
Related terms: taxonomic: Ibacus peronii
word: Balmain bug
english: family Scyllaridae
translation: family Scyllaridae
word: shovelnose lobster
have truck with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has truck with
form: having truck with
form: had truck with
form: had truck with
Etymology: From truck (“dealings”).
Senses: examples: text: You shouldn't have any truck with them. They cheat.
text: I've had no truck with them for some time.
text: "How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome."
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Strange Story of Jonathan Small”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 240:
text: Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding.
ref: 2000 August 10, The Economist, Central Europe’s sulky conscripts:
text: Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
ref: 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446:
text: 2020 December 8, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a mythhttps://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201207-how-john-lennon-was-made-into-a-myth" in BBC Online
Malik eventually tracks down Lennon, living a simple life – in a hut, with a fishing boat called Imagine – away from the spotlight he never had shone upon him, and dispensing nuggets of homespun wisdom. Which is not a portrayal Sheffield has much truck with.
synonyms: have truck and trade with
glosses: To have dealings with; to truck with.
raw_tags: in the negative
stum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: stums
Etymology: From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.
Senses: examples: text: 1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales
Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
text: And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
ref: 1682, John Dryden, The Medal:
glosses: Unfermented grape juice; must.
examples: text: Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum,
And make it brisk champaign become.
ref: 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, volume 1, published 1835, Part II, Canto 1, page 265:
text: To each hogshead of genuine Bordeaux wine, there are four gallons of Benicarlo, half a gallon of stum wine, and a small quantity of Hermitage added, which mixture undergoes a slight fermentation, and is then exported under the name of claret.
ref: 1859, The family manual and servants' guide, 9th edition:
text: But stum wine was not intended for drinking.
ref: 1987, André Bustanoby, The Wrath of Grapes: Drinking and the Church Divided, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
stum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: stums
form: stumming
form: stummed
form: stummed
Etymology: From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.
Senses: glosses: To ferment.
examples: text: We stum our crude wines […]to renew their spirits.
ref: 1696, John Floyer, The praeternatural State of animal Hurnours described by their sensible Qualities:
glosses: To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
examples: text: Since I have taken this method with cyder, it has proved more like wine than common drink, but then I racked it off a second and a third time, as soon as it appeared fine, and then stummed the cask that received it the lasttime […]
ref: 1789, “Cultivation of the Vine”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 1:
glosses: To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.
death mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death masks
Senses: coordinate_terms: life mask
glosses: A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death.
wikipedia: L'Inconnue de la Seine
blackfella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackfellas
Etymology: From black + fella.
Senses: examples: text: When it came to blackfellas the [Aborigines Protection] Board had the final say. It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit.
ref: 2000, Daryl Tonkin, Carolyn Landon, Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place, page 256:
text: A blackfella and a whitefella are sitting at the bar. The whitefella says to the blackfella eh boss, whadya reckon?
The blackfella says since you ask, I consider it a metaphor of the historic case of the Coorong massacre of 1840.
ref: 2002, James Roberts, “At the Bar”, in Rebekah Clarkson, editor, Forked Tongues: A Delicious Anthology of Poetry and Prose, page 29:
text: Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town. They had two police aides, blackfellas, whose job it was to liaise between the blackfellas and police.
ref: 2007, Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob, page 212:
text: “So nothing’s really changed for blackfellas in Brisbane,” I thought as I continued along Boundary Street, named for the city’s racist 19th-century policies of urban segregation.
ref: 2018 April 9, Jack Latimore, “Indigenous people are being displaced again – by gentrification”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of blackfellow.
Coordinate terms: whitefella
wearied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɹid/
ipa: /ˈwɪəɹid/
Senses: examples: text: Wearied from the night of struggle and wreck, all hands were yet asleep, I thought.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of weary
Derived terms: unwearied
weariedly
Coney Island whitefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A used condom on Coney Island beach; now used interchangeably with whitefish as a generic term for any used condom found in public.
ascent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛnt/
ipa: /əˈsent/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: assent
Forms: form: ascents
Etymology: Formed from ascend on the model of descend/descent.
Senses: examples: text: He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
glosses: The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
examples: text: There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
glosses: The way or means by which one ascends.
glosses: An eminence, hill, or high place.
examples: text: The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
glosses: The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The ascender height in a typeface.
examples: text: That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
ref: 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in The AV Club:
glosses: An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
Derived terms: ascent vehicle
reascent
reffo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛfəʊ
Forms: form: reffos
form: reffoes
Etymology: From refugee + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘It may be like this,’ he said ‘Australians are too bloody scared to be frankly unpleasant: Most of them hate the guts of reffos and other alien intruders, especially Jews and Dagos. But they like being liked and cannot resist giving help if it is needed, except, of course, if it′s the boss who needs it.[…]’
ref: 1980, Emery Barcs, Backyard of Mars: Memoirs of the “Reffo” Period in Australia, page 73:
text: On the top floor behind the gabled windows, it was rumored, the reffo family slept. Mishka did not know, until he began attending the regional school in Mossman at the age of six, that he was a reffo. He was born in the Daintree. His mother before him was born in Daintree. But his grandparents had arrived as refugees from a concentration camp in 1946 and the Bartoks were still a reffo family.
ref: 2007, Janette Turner Hospital, Orpheus Lost, HarperCollins, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: ‘There are the reffoes,’ he said loudly. ‘Been here for over a week now and hardly been out at all.[…]’
ref: 2010, Alison Booth, Stillwater Creek, published 2011, page 56:
glosses: A refugee who has settled in Australia.
couth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːθ/
ipa: /kuθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: more couth
form: most couth
Etymology: From Middle English couth (“familiar, known; evident, true; famous, respected, well-known; genteel, having good manners”), from Old English cūþ (“familiar, intimate, known, usual; certain, plain, manifest; famous, noted, well-known; excellent; friendly; related”), past participle of cunnan (“to be familiar with, know; can, to be able, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to be familiar with, know, recognize; to be able, know how”) (compare *kunþaz (“known”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). The word is cognate with Dutch kond (“known”), Saterland Frisian cut (“known”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (kunþs, “known”), Icelandic kuður, kunnur (“known”), Latin gnosco (“to know”), Old High German kund, chund, chunt, Middle High German kunt (modern German kund (“known”)), Old Saxon kūth, cûth, cuð (“known; famous, renowned”), Scots couth (“familiar, known”); and is a doublet of could.
Senses: antonyms: word: uncouth
glosses: Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
glosses: Variant of couthie.
Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
examples: text: Squad leaders were responsible for doing periodic checks to make sure soldiers were living a couth lifestyle, as Joes would compete regularly to see whose room was nicer.
ref: 2012, La’Vez Robinson Sr., “Deutschland”, in On My Own: Putting the Past behind Me, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Variant of couthie.
Comfortable; cosy, snug.
couth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːθ/
ipa: /kuθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: more couth
form: most couth
Etymology: Back-formation from uncouth.
Senses: examples: text: So Dennis May thrilled me in a recent issue when he described Raymond Mays' 1939 E.R.A. racer as a "couth" little Merc-like model.
ref: 1943, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage, volume 88, London: Iliffe, Sons & Sturney, →OCLC, page 632, column 3:
text: Yet the dancers are beautiful, their cool movement has a couth simplicity, and there are moments when a gesture of almost absolute beauty stands transfixed in some transom of sublime comprehension.
ref: 1991, John Percival, editor, Dance and Dancers, London: Dance & Dancers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37:
text: [John] Dankworth's care over the shaping and presentation of his music led occasionally to complaints that it was clever, lightweight stuff, lacking the rough passion which many regarded as the mark of authentic jazz, a view summed up by the critic Kitty Grime in the much-quoted phrase "couth, kempt and shevelled".
ref: 2010 February 7, “Sir John Dankworth [obituary]”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2019:
antonyms: uncouth
glosses: Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined.
couth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːθ/
ipa: /kuθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: couths
Etymology: Back-formation from uncouth.
Senses: examples: text: That man has no couth.
text: There is an aspect of the cultural conservative argument that sometimes drifts dangerously close to tha view, elitist to the core, as elitist as the New Class, as elitist as limousine liberalism: The public ain't got no couth. You can hear those old-fashioned elitist wheels spinning: Maybe we need a few government regulations to deal with the couth shortage.
ref: 1995, Ben[jamin] J[oseph] Wattenberg, “Those Darn Cultural Issues”, in Values Matter Most: How Democrats or Republicans or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, part 2 (What It’s Not), page 107:
text: My daughters have long and inappropriately been members of the Committee to Reform Dad's Hygiene, taking me to task for my supposed lack of couth.
ref: 2004, W[illiam] Bruce Cameron, “How to Increase a Man’s Couth”, in How to Remodel a Man: Tips and Techniques on Accomplishing Something You Know Is Impossible but Want to Try Anyway, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN; republished as How to Remodel a Man: You Know It’s Impossible but You Want to Try Anyway, London: HarperCollins, 2005, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Couth and manners are intensely subjective concepts. Each culture has its own standards of acceptable table manners, for instance.
ref: 2005, Heidi Munan, Culture Shock!: Malaysia: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock!), Portland, Or.: Graphics Art Center Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 86:
text: You got no couth, Ed. You was raised no-count is what you were. No count and you ain't got a lick of couth.
ref: 2006, Mark Powell, Blood Kin: A Novel, Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.
examples: text: We transformed the uncouths into couths, the unkempts into kempts, the inerts into erts! We did it all by speaking to teen-agers on their own terms and in their own language.
ref: [1967, Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, Macy’s, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 91:
text: I'm going to hit that "Gulf of Texas" beach with a bundle of couths and suaves because those Texas gals that hang around the big shrimp boats are used to good living.
ref: 1968 November, “C. R. Terror”, in Richard L. Anderson, editor, The MAC Flyer (USAF Recurring Publication; 62-5), volume XV, number 11, Scott Air Force Base, Ill.: Directorate of Safety, Headquarters Military Airlift Command, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:
glosses: A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.