cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cold-smoked salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lox.
synonyms: word: lox
water-tube boilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water-tube boiler
speed bridger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed bridgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speedbridger.
speed bridgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed bridger
Hawksbee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonisms
Etymology: From Latin bonus (“good”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Jowett's optimism verges on pessimism, or, let us say, his bonism verges on malism.
ref: 1895, Lionel Arthur Tollemache, Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, page 91:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: malism
glosses: The belief that the world, while not perfect, is fundamentally good.
Derived terms: bonist
bonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonism
hog farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog farmer
Tawnya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tawnyas
Senses: glosses: A female given name
Related terms: Antonia
Tania
Tanja
Tanya
Tawnia
Tawnja
Toni
Tonia
Tonja
Tony
Tonya
Tawnja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tawnjas
Senses: glosses: A female given name
Related terms: Antonia
Tania
Tanja
Tanya
Tawnia
Tawnya
Toni
Tonia
Tonja
Tony
Tonya
thinbladed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thinbladed
form: most thinbladed
Senses: examples: text: Place a frame on top of this card of comb, and with a thinbladed knife cut the comb all around the inside of the frame and it will exactly fit.
ref: 1877 April 24, “Transfering from box hives to gums”, in The Bee-Keepers' Magazine, volume V, number 4, page 70:
text: A little tact and persuasion will generally secure to each pupil the possession of a pocket magnifying glass, some fine cambric needles inserted in corks, and a sharp thinbladed pocket knife.
ref: 1896 October 24, S. F. Archer, “Botany in the High School”, in Northwest Journal of Education, volume VIII, number 2, page 6:
text: The remaining timber can be cut with a thinbladed small reciprocating gangsaw into smooth skid lumber of uniform thickness with a minimum amount of waste in the form of sawdust.
ref: 1959, Bulletin of the Wood Research Laboratory, numbers 36–60, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, page 30:
text: Fig. 2.6. Steps in preparing the side, or stub graft. A thinbladed chisel as illustrated here is ideal for making the cut.
ref: 2009, Shubhrata R. Mishra, Understanding Plant Reproduction, Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Limited, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Using an ultra-thin laminectomy rongeur, a gutter is created on the "open" side at the junction between the laminae and the facets. A thinbladed Kerrison rongeur is used to remove ligamentum flava at the cranial and caudal ends of the intended laminar expansion, usually at the C2/3 and C7/T1 interspaces.
ref: 2016 June 24, “Opendoor laminoplasty is good Surgical treatment for multilevel cervical spinal canal stenosis.”, in TAJ: Journal of Teachers Association, volume 29, number 1, Teachers Association of Rajshahi Medical College, page 34:
glosses: Alternative spelling of thin-bladed.
cutiepie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutiepies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cutie pie.
cutiepies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutiepie
horizontal categorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horizontal categorifications
Senses: examples: text: The horizontal categorification of a group is a groupoid.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: oidification
glosses: The process by which an algebraic structure is first categorified, realising it as a one-object category with certain properties, and then categories with those properties (and any number of objects) are studied; also, the result of this process.
Related terms: -oid
brain-fag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brain fag.
brainfag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brain fag.
monoidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoidoids
Etymology: monoid + -oid. A monoid can be viewed as a one-object category, so that a category can be viewed as the horizontal categorification of a monoid, but this almost-circular definition is mostly used as a joke, often associated with a view of category theory as overly abstract nonsense.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category.
bonus point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonus points
Senses: topics: athletics
education
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An additional point awarded to a student, player, or participant in recognition of an exceptional performance or by surpassing a standard.
bonus points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonus point
direct messages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of direct message
direct messages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of direct message
direct messaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of direct message
direct messaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of direct message
direct-message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct-messages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of direct message.
direct-message
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: direct-messages
form: direct-messaging
form: direct-messaged
form: direct-messaged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of direct message.
weaponisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weaponisable
form: most weaponisable
Etymology: From weaponise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Does Sunak know that deciding to oppose green initiatives, champion fossil fuels and rubbish those who attempt to address the climate crisis may be another weaponisable front in the culture war that is his increasingly enfeebled party’s only strategy for staying in power?
ref: 2023 August 6, Stewart Lee, “Rishi Sunak – a total investment banker”, in The Observer:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of weaponizable.
lost to time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Many early music fanzines are now lost to time.
glosses: No longer extant because it was not preserved or could not last, after a significant period of time.
Lennoxville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An arrondissement of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
exterminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The tendency toward the extermination of society, as by war, environmental damage, etc.
le$bean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of lesbian.
le$bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: le$beans
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of lesbian.
felled seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felled seams
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: flat-fell seam
flat-felled seam
glosses: A seam made by placing one edge inside a folded edge of fabric, then stitching the fold down. The fold encases the raw edges, which protects them from fraying, and may be secured with a topstitch or a whipstitch.
flat-fell seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat-fell seams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felled seam.
synonyms: word: felled seam
flat-felled seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat-felled seams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of felled seam.
synonyms: word: felled seam
deridedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of deride
deridest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of deride
not feeling it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Not feeling motivation or enjoyment with regard to something.
bookburning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookburnings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of book-burning.
slopsquatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slop (“junk output from generative artificial intelligence”) + squatting. Coined by developer Seth Larson in 2025. Compare cybersquatting, typosquatting, and AI slop.
Senses: examples: text: Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.
Credit to @sethmlarson for the name
ref: [2025 April 8, Andrew Nesbitt, Mastodon:
text: One such risk is slopsquatting, a new term for a surprisingly effective type of software supply chain attack that emerges when LLMs “hallucinate” package names that don’t actually exist. If you’ve ever seen an AI recommend a package and thought, “Wait, is that real?”—you’ve already encountered the foundation of the problem.
ref: 2025 April 9, Sarah Gooding, “The Rise of Slopsquatting”, in Socket, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2025:
text: The best way to mitigate slopsquatting is for developers to proactively monitor every dependency and use tools to vet dependencies before adding them to projects, the vendor concluded.
ref: 2025 April 14, Phil Muncaster, “AI Hallucinations Create “Slopsquatting” Supply Chain Threat”, in Infosecurity Magazine:
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A form of cybersquatting where a non-existent software package that has been hallucinated by a large language model is registered by a malicious actor.
Related terms: slopsquat
slopsquatted
slopsquatter
familon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæmɪlɒn/
Forms: form: familons
Etymology: From famille + -on, patterned after other particle names.
Senses: examples: text: It could be the axion associated with the Peccei-Quinn symmetry for strong CP invariance, or it could be the "familon'", a Goldstone boson that is associated with family symmetries and was discussed by Wilczek at the TSIMESS Workshop at Santa Cruz.
ref: 1983 November, S. P. Rosen, ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS AND BEYOND, in Proceedings of the Third LAMPF II Workshop, volume 2, page 1015:
text: For massive neutrinos that can decay by emission of a familon (f), a flavor-changing axion, the upper bound on the cosmic energy density of the decay products yields (1) an upper bound on the familon decay constant, and consequently (2) a lower bound on other f emission rates.
ref: 1984 April 30, Energy Research Abstracts, volume 9, number 8, Technical Information Center, U. S. Department of Energy, page 2045:
text: Below the EWSB scale, the leading coupling of the familon to fermions becomes marginal after replacing the Higgs in (4.13) with its vacuum expectation value.
ref: 2019, Benjamin Wallisch, Cosmological Probes of Light Relics (Springer Theses), Springer Nature, page 90:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical Nambu–Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a global family symmetry that distinguishes between generations of quarks and leptons.
familons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of familon
dick joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dick jokes
Senses: glosses: A dirty joke involving the penis.
glosses: A dirty joke in general.
shipcarving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipcarvings
Etymology: From ship + carving.
Senses: examples: text: The number of workshops working exclusively on shipcarving began to decline, but this did not immediately affect the quality of what they produced.
ref: 2006 February, Richard Hunter, “The carver's art at the ship's prow: a superbly illustrated new book rescues the figurehead sculptor's legacy from the misnomer of 'folk art'.”, in Apollo:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: The making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: An individual carving of this kind.
shipcarvings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipcarving
Cajun flamingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cajun flamingo
oversocialised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversocialised
form: most oversocialised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oversocialized.
undersocialised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersocialised
form: most undersocialised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undersocialized.
Camotes Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Camotes Sea
Senses: synonyms: Camotes
glosses: A small sea within the Philippine archipelago, situated between the Central Visayan and the Eastern Visayan regions.
Camotes Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Camotes Islands
Senses: synonyms: Camotes
glosses: A group of islands in the Camotes Sea, Philippines.
Haniel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hananel
form: Anael
form: Hanael
form: Aniel
Etymology: Hebrew חַנִּיאֵל (literally “God is my grace”)
Senses: glosses: An angel in Jewish lore and angelology, generally associated with the planet Venus.
Hananel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haniel (“angel in Jewish lore”).
Anael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haniel (“angel in Jewish lore”).
Hanael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haniel (“angel in Jewish lore”).
Aniel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haniel (“angel in Jewish lore”).
don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
form: don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining
form: don't pee in the wind and tell me it's raining
Senses: glosses: Don't tell me obvious lies.
electrographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + graphics.
Senses: examples: text: Hal Thurman exemplifies the collage possibilities of electrographics in his "brecht und weill werks." He shows both the completed book and outtakes from his visual encapsulizations of these German geniuses of alienation. Using moderate values and high intensity hues he gives his palette of secondaries the sheen of neon, complimenting the authors' depiction of decadance ^([sic])
ref: 1983 February 12, F. W. Leupold, “Lesbirotic Electrographics”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 7:
glosses: Xerox art
electrocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrocopies
form: electrocopying
form: electrocopied
form: electrocopied
Etymology: From electro- + copy.
Senses: examples: text: George Fifield Presents the documentation possibility of electrocopying through his "Elvis, Sam Cooke, Jim Morrison: a rock 'n' roll tabloid." Affordable xerox printing makes alternative cultural histories now a reality.
ref: 1983 February 12, F. W. Leupold, “Lesbirotic Electrographics”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 7:
glosses: To scan electronically.
electrocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocopies
Etymology: From electro- + copy.
Senses: glosses: A copy produced by this means.
electrocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrocopy
electrocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocopy
electrocopying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electrocopy
electrocopied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrocopy
DHVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of de Haas-Van Alphen effect.
de Haas-Van Alphen effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Discovered in 1930 by W. J. de Haas and P. M. van Alphen.
Senses: synonyms: word: DHVA
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A quantum mechanical effect by which the magnetic susceptibility of a pure metal crystal oscillates as the intensity of the magnetic field is increased.
friends in higher places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The fact that they have waited to leave messages and have left hand-written evidence indicates to me that they don't believe they are going to be apprehended, that they have friends in 'higher places.' This is a small town. Everybody knows everybody. That 'ol boy' chuminess ^([sic]).
ref: 1983 February 12, Jil Clark, quoting Kiriyo Spooner, “Northampton Lesbians Fight Hate Campaign”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 3:
text: California farmworkers may struggle with clout in our state Capitol, but they definitely have friends in higher places.
ref: 2022 September 7, Anita Chabria, “Dark Brandon turns the tables on Newsom; Governor, who has called out moderates, gets schooled by Biden in union fight”, in Los Angeles Times, page B1:
glosses: Alternative form of friends in high places.
Landau diamagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Soviet physicist Lev Landau.
Senses: glosses: Diamagnetism in a free electron gas.
wikipedia: Lev Landau
bruzz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /brʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Etymology: Blend of bro + huzz as a masculine version.
Senses: glosses: A mate or friend.
undeport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɪˈpɔːt/
ipa: /ʌndɪˈpɔɹt/
Forms: form: undeports
form: undeporting
form: undeported
form: undeported
Etymology: From un- + deport.
Senses: examples: text: "I believe they have decided to undeport themselves," said Cigny."
ref: 2004, Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls' Rising, page 479:
text: "Maybe someone had a plan to undeport," McCarter replied.
ref: 2014, Don Pendleton, Extreme Arsenal:
glosses: To return (someone previously deported).
chuzz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Etymology: Blend of chopped + huzz; see huzz (“"hoes", women, whores”).
Senses: glosses: Unattractive women.
undeports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undeport
undeporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undeport
Pimlingai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tribe of the Caroline Islands.
epigallocatechingallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrophilic bioactive organic compound in green tea.
gyalectiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gyalectiform
form: most gyalectiform
Senses: synonyms: gyalectoid
glosses: Resembling the genus Gyalecta.
whipee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipees
Senses: examples: text: After a few more snaps, the whipee stood up, he'd had enough and I remember thinking that I could probably have taken more.
ref: 1989 February 12, Christopher Wittke, “A Leather Belt Is The Perfect Accessory...”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of whippee.
whipees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipee
rhodogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: rhodo- + -gen, modelled on earlier chromogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in beets that turns red on exposure to oxygen.
rimiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rimiform
form: most rimiform
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rimose.
synonyms: word: rimose
sorediiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sorediiferous
form: most sorediiferous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sorediferous.
stigmatiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stigmatiform
form: most stigmatiform
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: stigmatoid
glosses: Resembling a stigma.
stigmatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stigmatoid
form: most stigmatoid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of stigmatiform.
synonyms: word: stigmatiform
stipuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stipuliform
form: most stipuliform
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a stipule.
stromatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stromatoid
form: most stromatoid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a stroma.
homoecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος- (hómoios-, “of like kind, similar”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”),
equivalent to homoe- + -oecious.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the same host during the entire life cycle.
examples: text: Further, we use homoecious to describe angiosperms with only bisexual flowers. This is an alternative state to heteroecious and complements monoecious and dioecious.
ref: 1995, R. W. Cruden, R. M. Lloyd, “Embriophytes have equivalent sexual phenotypes and breeding systems: why not a common terminology to describe them?”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 82, number 6, page 816:
text: Cryptanthus has been divided into two subgenera: (1) Cryptanthus, comprising andromonoecious plants, i.e. plants which harbour both hermaphroditic and male flowers on the same plant, and (2) Hoplocryptanthus Mez with homoecious plants (i.e. with hermaphroditic flowers only)
ref: 2017, G. A. S. Cruz et al, “M olecular phylogeny, character evolution and historical biogeography of Cryptanthus Otto & A. Dietr. (Bromeliaceae)”, in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, volume 107, page 153:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers (also known as bisexual or perfect flowers), that is those with both carpels (female) and stamens (male).
Coordinate terms: cladautoicous
dioecious
monoecious
synoecious
trimonoecious
strumulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strumulose
form: most strumulose
Senses: glosses: Somewhat strumose, or having a small struma.
acrotonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an orchid: having the tissue of the pollen sac prolonged to the upper end of the anther.
homoecy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος- (hómoios-, “of like kind, similar”) + οἰκία (oikía, “house, family, tribe”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being homoecious, namely a plant species having only hermaphroditic flowers.
Related terms: dioecy
monoecy
dead-tree editions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-tree edition
PSPACE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: First, the hierarchy theorems tell us that a Turing machine can decide more languages in EXPSPACE than it can in PSPACE.
ref: 1997, Michael Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Boston, M.A.: PWS Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 313:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of all decision problems that can be solved by a Turing machine using an amount of memory which is a polynomial function of the input size.
EXPSPACE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: First, the hierarchy theorems tell us that a Turing machine can decide more languages in EXPSPACE than it can in PSPACE.
ref: 1997, Michael Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Boston, M.A.: PWS Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 313:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of all decision problems that can be solved by a Turing machine using O(2ᵖ⁽ⁿ⁾) units of memory, where p(n) is a polynomial function of the input size.
tear-pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear-pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tearpit.
tear pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tear pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tearpit.
pig-farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig-farms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pig farm.
pig-farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig-farm
pigfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigfarms
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of pig farm.
pigfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigfarm
telial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: telial development
glosses: Of or relating to telia
back-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-pads
Senses: glosses: A cushion or padding placed on the back to protect again not a load
pull the football
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls the football
form: pulling the football
form: pulled the football
form: pulled the football
form: pull the football away
form: yank the football
Etymology: From a running gag in the American comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Typically, Lucy Van Pelt holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick, only to pull it away and cause him to fall over. The gag first appeared in the November 14, 1951 comic.
Senses: examples: text: [see title]
ref: 2013 February 10, Shea-Taylor, quotee, “Pulling the football on the push for gay rights”, in The Sun Chronicle:
text: Instead, they took the deportation and pulled the football away on doing anything to keep immigrants in this nation.
ref: 2022, Erik Loomis, “Review: Latin America and the Radical Left: Reconsidering Transnational Solidarity”, in New Labor Forum, volume 29, number 2, pages 109-112:
text: But in several instances, in several places, I think we kind of pulled the football away, to use an analogy, from groups such as Southeast Asians in Queens
ref: 2023 April 24, Ross Brady, quotee, “New Assembly maps head to state legislature with few changes to current lines”, in Queens Daily Eagle:
text: “If you keep on pulling the football from when I’m kicking, eventually you’re going to get a little wary,” McCormick told CNN of his hesitation to get in line again.
ref: 2025 April 9, Rich McCormick, quotee, “Johnson punts on key budget blueprint vote as GOP holdouts seek concessions on spending cuts”, in CNN:
glosses: To appear to make someone a promising offer, only to withdraw it to the detriment of the other party.
wikipedia: Charles Schulz
Charlie Brown
Lucy Van Pelt
Peanuts
pulls the football
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pull the football
pulling the football
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pull the football
pulled the football
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pull the football
akind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more akind
form: most akind
Etymology: An alteration of akin, influenced by kind.
Senses: examples: text: Oh villaine intolerable! whereby, as by their perſecuting the Goſpell, they moſt liuely ſhew themſelues to bee vtter aduerſaries to Chriſt, and to bee moſt neare akind to them who commit the ſinne againſt which we ſhould not pray, that cannot bee forgiuen.
ref: 1615, Richard Rogers, “The One and Twentieth Sermon Which is the Fifth of the Third Chapter of the booke of Jvdges”, in A Commentary Vpon the Whole Booke of Jvdges, London: […] Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, page 176:
text: […] And the Reaſon why the Lutherans inclined to the humour of the Papiſts; was partly to get the upper-hand of the Calviniſts, and partly becauſe their Ceremonies were ſo near akind to the Popiſh Ceremonies: […]
ref: 1681, D. N., A letter from an Old Common-Council-Man to one of the New Common-Council […], London: […] W. Inghall, page 2:
text: If the creature which took a body by the incarnation were the firſt and greateſt creature that was ever created, he was no more a man, no more like and akind to the human race, or the nature of man, than the angels; but was more diſtant from than they, as he was much greater nd higher than they.
ref: 1793, Samuel Hopkins, “Concerning the Perſon and Character of the Redeemer” (chapter II), in The System of Doctrines, Contained in Divine Revelation, Explained and Defended, volume I, Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, Part II, page 417:
glosses: Obsolete form of akin .
Kamchatka Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kamchatka Peninsula
Senses: synonyms: Kamchatka
glosses: A peninsula in the Russian Far East, bordering the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Okhotsk.
flexcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexcations
Etymology: Blend of flex + vacation
Senses: glosses: A holiday where work and play is mixed to extend the vacation, without using up additional paid time off.
psychomotrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychomotricians
Senses: synonyms: psychomotrist
glosses: A practitioner of psychomotricity or psychomotor therapy.
psychomotricians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychomotrician
revolver flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolver flowers
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flower exhibiting within its outer portals a number of fine tubes resembling the barrels of a revolver.
psychomotrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychomotrists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of psychomotrician.
synonyms: word: psychomotrician
psychomotrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychomotrist
timefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more timefully
form: most timefully
Etymology: From timeful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a timeful manner; seasonably.
segment cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segment cells
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The basal portion that is successively cut off from the apical cell in growth.
beplague
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈpleɪɡ/
rhymes: -eɪɡ
Forms: form: beplagues
form: beplaguing
form: beplagued
form: beplagued
Etymology: From be- + plague. First attested in 1734 (see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: And there with laughter to beplague you,
'Till it has ſhaken off your ague.
ref: July 20, 1734 (date written), “To the Same”, in Part of the Poetical Works of the Late Rev. Samuel Shepherd, A. M., Dublin: […] W. Sleater, published 1790, page 56:
text: “ If not, I aſk what other evil
“ Can ſo beplague us but the devil?
ref: 1790, Thomas Rodd, The Theriad, London: […] W. Lowndes, page 14:
text: It has its inconveniences, being distant from that source of all comfort, the well, and beplagued with ants.
ref: 1858 February 24, Burton, “Zanzibar; and Two Months in East Africa”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume LXXXIII, number DVIII, Edinburgh, Chapter III.–Mombas, page 219, column 1:
text: True, my father was buried at sea, but only because he was a soldier of the 45th Highlanders who went overseas to St Lucia in the 1793 expedition and there died of one of those bloody fluxes that so beplague men unused to the climate of the West Indies.
ref: 1950 [1949], Stanley D. Porteus, chapter I, in The Restless Voyage, London; Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co.; The Australian Publishing Co., page 11:
glosses: To plague.
recareer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recareers
form: recareering
form: recareered
form: recareered
form: re-career
Etymology: From re- + career.
Senses: examples: text: To […] the late Dr. Jose Gallardo, commissioner of education, Puerto Rico, who recareered into law at the age of seventy; […] to the late Roby Kidd, who recareered from being a YMCA director to being the world president of International Adult Education; […]
ref: 1983, Roger W. Axford, Successful Recareering: How to Shift Gears Before You're Over the Hill, →ISBN, page iv:
text: People will literally stop working for a year or more, perhaps at age forty or fifty or even later, not so much to refresh and renew themselves for their current careers or jobs but to begin the process of re-careering, choosing to enter completely new lines of work.
ref: 2017, Michael G. Zey, Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Although there is modern career theory to support this cohort of workers, it is not being used in an effective way for older workers who recareer from an organisational role.
ref: 2022, Clare Mulligan-Foster, Contextual influences on the decision to recareer from an occupational role to a contemporary career for workers aged over 50, Birkbeck, University of London, page 3:
glosses: To change career, especially to something unrelated to one's previous profession.
R-CPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction.
bakes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bake in
baking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bake in
baked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bake in
DGFI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.
oberhefe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
antonyms: unterhefe
glosses: The yeast that forms at the top surface of the vat.
zenotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of apogeotropism.
synonyms: word: apogeotropism
Related terms: zenith
coenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caenogenesis.
kainogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caenogenesis.
collective species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collective species
Senses: glosses: Synonym of superspecies.
synonyms: word: superspecies
cytohydrolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: cyto- + hydrolysis
Senses: glosses: The breaking down of a cell wall by hydrolysis.
exraphidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Without raphides.
glebulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glebulose
form: most glebulose
Senses: glosses: Having or resembling a gleba.
holochlamydeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an ovule: having the integument practically complete.
hydromegatherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromegatherms
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant whose development requires a lot of heat and moisture.
hydromegatherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydromegatherm
leptodermatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptodermatous
form: most leptodermatous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leptodermous.
microsporophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsporophores
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An organ that bears microspores.
microsporophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsporophore
nostochaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nostochaceous
form: most nostochaceous
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to the cyanobacteria genus Nostoc.
octanucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: octinucleate
form: octonucleate
Senses: glosses: Having eight nuclei.
octinucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octanucleate.
octonucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octanucleate.
palmid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A palm, or a cycad or tree fern with a palm-like appearance.
palmids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmid
beplagues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beplague
beplagued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beplague
beplaguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beplague
recareering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recareer
Dahl's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of German Dahlsche Gesetz, coined by Carl Meinhof.
Senses: examples: text: Bantu has been the object of appeal by adherents of Holtzmann's law (q.v.). As to Dahl's law in that group of languages, it has indeed affinities with several IE laws, but seems not unlike Grassmann's to most who quote it.
ref: 1985 January 1, N. E. Collinge, The Laws of Indo-European, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 279:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A voicing dissimilation rule in some Northeast Bantu languages.
wikipedia: Carl Meinhof
recareers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recareer
recareered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recareer
phytomorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any change induced by plants.
pleophyletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pleo- + phyletic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Synonym of polyphyletic.
synonyms: word: polyphyletic
agaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of agaricin.
synonyms: word: agaricin
fence viewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fence viewers
Senses: glosses: A town or city official who administers fence laws by inspecting new fences and settles disputes arising from trespass by livestock that had escaped enclosure.
fence-viewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fence-viewers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fence viewer.
amylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amylum (“starch”).
gilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of gold + silver.
Senses: examples: text: Somebody at Marvel jokingly said it was a combination of gold and silver, and they decided to say it was 'gilver'. Suddenly, we had to try and work out what the hell gilver was!
ref: 2018, Jonathan Wilkins, Ant-Man and the Wasp, page 86:
glosses: A colour resulting from the mixing of gold and silver.
landcrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of building material made by mixing laterite, cement and water.
southern grasshopper mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern grasshopper mouse
scorpion mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpion mouse
antennaeform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antennaeform
form: most antennaeform
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antenniform.
facism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fascism.
Ujjwal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi उज्ज्वल (ujjval)
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
oligocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having only a few cysts.
ovoid-cylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ovocylindrical.
synonyms: word: ovocylindrical
parascutellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Near the scutellum.
trimethylcyclohexanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimethylcyclohexanols
Senses: glosses: A precursor of cyclandelate.
aggregativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being aggregative.
Rudd's mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rudd's mouse
brush-furred mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush-furred mice
Senses: glosses: plural of brush-furred mouse
Japanese dormice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese dormouse
clinicophysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Clinical and physiological.
deoxyephedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of desoxyephedrine.
slow rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slow roll
endonasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an endonasal manner.
slow rolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slow roll
skinoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinoe
skinoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skinoe
skinoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiˌnuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: skinoes
Etymology: Blend of ski + canoe
Senses: examples: text: In skinoe (ski + canoe), the word canoe functions as the semantic head, since skinoe is a type of canoe.
ref: 2005 November 24, Keith Brown, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2 edition, volumes 1-14, Elsevier, →ISBN:
text: For example, a dogbrella ‘an umbrella for a dog’ is a type of umbrella or a skinoe (based on ski and canoe) is a type of canoe. It is worth noting that some adjectives may also belong to this category, e.g. funtastic (fun + fantastic) ‘very enjoyable’.
ref: 2015 October 28, Ewa Wałaszewska, “Chapter Six”, in Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics: Theory and Applications, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 187:
text: For instance, the endocentric blend skinoe, which results from the fusion of ski and canoe, is a hyponym of the second base word and the rightmost member functions as the head.
ref: 2022 November 15, Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov, Nelly Tincheva, “Lexical blending in terms of cognitive modeling”, in Figurativity and Human Ecology, volume 17, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: A small boat that is a cross between a jetski and a canoe.
ilmenohematite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilmenohematites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solid solution between ilmenite and hematite.
ilmenohaematite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilmenohaematites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ilmenohematite.
rule-breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule-breakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rulebreaker.
rule breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rule breakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rulebreaker.
cuelure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of synthetic chemical attractant used to lure male fruit flies.
Sockbridge and Tirril
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, that includes the named places.
ceralure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic chemical lure used to attract certain species of fruit flies.
vampicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vampire + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: “You have committed premeditated vampicide.” “Pass the judgement, Tilda.” “I pronounce these three guilty. Raise your fangs, all who agree.”
ref: 2019 May 8, Jemaine Clement, “The Trial” (18:29 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Tilda (Tilda Swinton):
glosses: The act of killing a vampire.
large tupelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large tupelos
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Nyssa aquatica.
tupelo-gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of large tupelo.
synonyms: word: large tupelo
water-gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of large tupelo.
synonyms: word: large tupelo
cottongum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of large tupelo.
synonyms: word: large tupelo
disparlure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic sex pheromone used to attract male gypsy moths.
water gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water gum
kanooka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water gum.
synonyms: word: water gum
gossyplure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic sex pheromone used to attract male pink bollworms.
hexalure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular synthetic sex pheromone.
bigate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigate
form: most bigate
Etymology: From Latin bīgātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Bearing the figure of a bigae (pair of horses).
raw_tags: of a coin
punch-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punch-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punch hole.
trimedlure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A synthetic chemical attractant used to attract male oriental fruit flies.
large tupelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large tupelo
leaf truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf trucks
form: leaftruck
Senses: examples: text: The dogs were barking over at the pigfarm,
the leaftruck was crawling through autumn,
lovers were unbuttoning in cellars
and what was I up to in that badlit attic?
ref: 1977, David Young, “The Names of a Hare in English: Les noms de un levre en englais”, in Poetry, volume 131, number 2, page 84 of 78-87:
glosses: A specialized vehicle, often a truck equipped with a vacuum system, used for collecting loose leaves from streets, sidewalks, and other areas.
leaftruck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaftrucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leaf truck.
leaf trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf truck
leaftrucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaftruck
billful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billfuls
form: billsful
Etymology: From bill + -ful
Senses: glosses: The amount that a bill can hold; a beakful.
dussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: dost
dust
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of duss
brain tiredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brain fag.
synonyms: word: brain fag
punch-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punch-hole
ergotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ergo- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to occupational therapy.
Sockbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sockbridge and Tirril parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5026).
Tirril
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Sockbridge and Tirril parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5026).