cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Great Lama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Great Lamas
Senses: examples: text: These scarves are of various descriptions. The longest and the best ones are presented to the great lamas, high officials, and to other personages; they carry respect according to their quality, colour and length.
ref: 1902, Sarat Chandra Das, “ཁ་བཏགས kha-ḇtags̠”, in A Tibetan-English Dictionary With Sanskrit Synonyms, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depôt, page 128:
text: Having forded the river, they passed under this town up a little cross-valley, when they reached Deshi-ribgyal where the great lama was residing. The date was November 8th, 1774.
ref: 1904, Graham Sandberg, The Exploration of Tibet, Its History and Particulars From 1623 to 1904, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, page 105:
text: Many Easterners persist in regarding Fuller's appointment to this high office as somewhat comparable to the selection of a Dalai Lama, the great religious ruler in Tibet. When the Great Lama dies, the Buddhist authorities select his successor from the children in the country born at the time of his death, into one of whom his spirit has supposedly entered.
ref: 1950, Willard L[eroy] King, Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice Of The United States 1888–1910, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 98:
text: Kircher, following Grueber, states that there were two kings of Tibet. One of these is called the 'Deva' — i.e. the then regent. The other is the 'Great Lama', who resides in a citadel where he is 'removed from the bother of all extraneous affairs and enjoys leisure in the secret solitudes of his palace'.
ref: 2008, Alexander Norman, Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama, London: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 246:
synonyms: Grand Lama
glosses: The Dalai Lama.
Great Lamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Great Lama
semifactorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semifactorials
Etymology: From semi- + factorial.
Senses: examples: text: With the symbol n#33;#33; we indicate the semifactorial of n, that is the product 1.3.5#92;dotsn if n is odd, and the product 2.4.6#92;dotsn if n is even.
ref: 1942 February, Giulio Racah, “Theory of Complex Spectra. I”, in Physical Review, volume 61, numbers 3–4, →DOI, page 188:
text: In the formulas above we use the Euler beta function, a Jacobi polynomial evaluated at three, and also the familiar double factorial (also known as the semifactorial) notation defined by n#33;#33;#61;#92;begin#123;cases#125;#92;displaystyle 1#92;times 3#92;times 5#92;times#92;dots#92;timesnamp;#92;text#123;if#125;n#92;text#123;isodd#125;,#92;#92;#91;5pt#93;#92;displaystyle 2#92;times 4#92;times 6#92;times#92;dots#92;timesnamp;#92;text#123;if#125;n#92;text#123;iseven#125;.#92;end#123;cases#125;By convention, 0#33;#33;#61;(-1)#33;#33;#61;1.
ref: 1994 January, Alan Edelman, Eric Kostlan, Michael Shub, “How many eigenvalues of a random matrix are real?”, in Journal of the American Mathematical Society, volume 7, number 1, →DOI, pages 250–251:
text: The double factorial or semifactorial function is defined byn#33;#33;#61;#92;begin#123;cases#125;#92;displaystyle 1amp;n#61;-1,0#92;#92;#91;5pt#93;#92;displaystylen#92;times(n-2)#92;times(n-4)#92;times#92;dots#92;times 5#92;times 3#92;times 1amp;n#61;1,3,5,#92;dots#92;#92;#91;5pt#93;#92;displaystylen#92;times(n-2)#92;times(n-4)#92;times#92;dots#92;times 6#92;times 4#92;times 2amp;n#61;2,4,6,#92;dots#92;end#123;cases#125;
ref: 2009, Keith B. Oldham, Jan C. Myland, Jerome Spanier, An Atlas of Functions, 2nd edition, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of double factorial.
synonyms: word: double factorial
semifactorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semifactorial
predrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predraft
predrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predraft
predrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predraft
fly baker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies baker
form: flying baker
form: flew baker
form: flown baker
Etymology: A reference to a red danger flag used in an early phonetic alphabet.
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: To undergo menstruation.
flies baker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fly baker
flying baker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fly baker
have one's moons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's moons
form: having one's moons
form: had one's moons
form: had one's moons
Senses: examples: text: “Excuse me,” I yelled to the front seat. They ignored me. “Excuse me,” I increased the volume. “We have an emergency back here. […] We need to stop. My friend has her moons.
ref: 2017, Sarah Milledge Nelson, Jade Dragon:
text: I have wasted gallons of sperm on her, yet she still has her moons. She came to me today in that condition each time her body rejects me I will beat her until she misses her moon.
ref: 2013, “Cash”, in In Quest of the White Mandan, page 16:
glosses: To undergo menstruation.
aerolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aerolize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Both patient and health care workers may be exposed to health risks associated with aerolization. To minimize infection risks, the whirlpool tank must be thoroughly cleaned with an appropriate disinfectant after each use.
ref: 2004, Sharon Baranoski, Elizabeth A. Ayello, Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles, Philadelphia, P.A. […]: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Synonym of aerosolization.
synonyms: word: aerosolization
crimson wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimson waves
Senses: examples: text: All the girls are surfin’ the wave / Surfin’ the crimson wave today
ref: 2014, “Crimson Wave”, in NVM, performed by Tacocat:
glosses: Menstruation.
mooncup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooncups
Etymology: From moon + cup, originally a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: Highlights include: What it really feels like to use a mooncup, a leakage horror story you won't soon forget, and 1950s adverts performed before your very eyes!
ref: 2010, Chris Bobel, New Blood: Third-wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation, page 123:
text: Anyone who has ever owned a mooncup knows the clear celestial connection between women's menstrual cycles and the big space rock, though as a child I was none the wiser.
ref: 2023, Hanna Flint, Strong Female Character:
glosses: A menstrual cup.
mooncups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooncup
plural system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plural systems
Senses: examples: text: I am a headmate in a plural system.
glosses: A group of multiple identities, headmates, or alters sharing a body.
glosses: A person with dissociative identity disorder or another related dissociative disorder, such as P-DID, OSDD-1, or UDD, among others.
Related terms: multiplicity
plurality
dissociative identity disorder
tulpamancy
dronie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹəʊni/
ipa: /ˈdɹoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
homophone: drony
Forms: form: dronies
Etymology: Blend of drone + selfie
Senses: glosses: A photograph taken of oneself by means of a flying drone.
drainout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainouts
Etymology: Deverbal from drain out.
Senses: examples: text: The valves are removable from the surface without excavating the hydrants, and are provided with automatic drainouts with brass nipple, set below frost line, and are surrounded with a broken stone blind drain.
ref: 1911, Engineering Review, volume 21, page 28:
glosses: A channel for the purpose of draining liquid out of a system.
Related terms: drainpipe
drainplug
cleanout
drainouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainout
nepocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nepocides
Etymology: From Latin nepōs (“nephew”) + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Morvryn […was] reclaimed by the gentle care of his twin-sister, Gwendydd, the mother of the ill-fated youth whom he had deprived of life. […] Jeoffrey of Monmouth composed a Latin poem, dedicated to Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, in which he describes with considerable spirit, though in rugged verse, the insanity of the involuntary nepocide: […]
ref: 1876, “The Last of the British Bards”, in Calcutta Review, volume 63, number 126, page 357:
text: I could not but be comforted by his support, not alone for the sake of my grandfather, whom I'd long since forgiven his attempted nepocide and wished only well, but also because, as Bray's subsequent speech indicated, he had apparently more confidence in me than I'd had for the last quarter-hour in myself.
ref: 1966, John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, page 632:
text: In between royal hopefuls and the crown lay many hazards, including not only infant mortality but martial defeat and/or exile, as well as (sometimes suspicious and always deadly) accident, (probable) fratricide and nepocide, and even regicide: three of the four deposed and murdered English kings (Edward II, Richard II and Henry VI) belong to this period.
ref: 1998 Winter, Maureen Fries, “The Arthurian Moment: History and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie”, in Arthuriana, volume 8, number 4, →JSTOR, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of nepoticide (“killing of one's own nephew”).
Porphyrian tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Porphyrian trees
Etymology: Originally suggested by the Ancient Greek philosopher and logician Porphyry.
Senses: synonyms: tree of Porphyry
glosses: A tree-like hierarchical diagram illustrating a scale of being.
tree of Porphyry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trees of Porphyry
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Porphyrian tree.
synonyms: word: Porphyrian tree
trees of Porphyry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tree of Porphyry
Porphyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek neoplatonist philosopher and logician Porphyry.
Derived terms: Porphyrian tree
Porphyrian trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Porphyrian tree
revoltedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more revoltedly
form: most revoltedly
Etymology: From revolted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She felt, revoltedly, as though Mrs. Tottenham were stepping out of her clothes.
ref: 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Return”, in Encounters, page 45:
glosses: In a revolted manner; with shock or disgust.
Related terms: revoltingly
portyanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portyanki
form: portyankas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian портя́нка (portjánka) or (more commonly in the plural) портя́нки (portjánki).
Senses: hypernyms: footwrap
glosses: A cotton wrapping worn in place of a sock by the Russian military, to avoid chafing, absorb sweat and improve the foothold.
gringolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gringolée.
gringolé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gringolée.
flew baker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fly baker
flown baker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fly baker
Reddaway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
De Lacey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
didgeridooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of didgeridoo
didgeridooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of didgeridoo
dronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dronie
meat-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat-pies
Senses: examples: text: Now, my dears, let us see what we have here! First of all, meat-pie. Shall I give you a piece of meat-pie, dear Mademoiselle Natalie!—it is the same pie that you liked so much the night before last at Basle, and, fortunately, is not all gone yet!
ref: 1857, Amelia B[lanford] Edwards, The Ladder of Life: A Heart-History, London: Geo[rge] Routledge & Co., […]. New York: […], page 100:
text: You can use the potato crust, which is very wholesome and good, for any kind of meat-pie.
ref: 1874, Marion Harland [pseudonym; Mary Virginia Terhune], Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., […], page 105:
text: “Well, we’re to have meat-pie,” said Bettina, “and I must look up a good recipe for it now——” “Meat-pie? Delicious!” said Alice.
ref: 1922, Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron, A Thousand Ways to Please a Family with Bettina’s Best Recipes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 22:
text: LIZ LARSEN and Terrence Mann sing foul puns about human-infused meat-pies in “Sweeney Todd” at Connecticut Repertory Theatre through July 1.
ref: 2018 June 26, Christopher Arnott, “Terrence Mann Kills As Demon Barber”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXII, number 177, Hartford, Conn., page D1:
glosses: Alternative form of meat pie.
meat-pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat-pie
meatpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatpie
supracolloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supracolloids
Etymology: From supra- + colloid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of particle structure formed from two or more colloidal particles; a colloidal supramolecular assembly.
supracolloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supracolloid
Aspilcueta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aspilcuetas
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
cross-cutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-cut
psychicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psychic + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: psychicity
glosses: The quality or degree of being psychic.
psychicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psychic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of psychicness.
synonyms: word: psychicness
meatilicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meatilicious
form: most meatilicious
Etymology: From meat + -licious.
Senses: examples: text: Heart | Like the liver, the heart contains plenty of iron but it also has stacks of protein and vitamin B12. Tastes meatilicious and is very good kebabbed.
ref: 2008, Allegra McEvedy, “The Chicken: Breaking Down Your Bird”, in Leon: Ingredients & Recipes, Conran Octopus, →ISBN:
text: Not only do fruits, veggies, beans, nuts, and whole grains have more butt-busting fiber and fewer calories compared to meatilicious and creamy foods, their thermic effect is higher than that of non-plant foods.
ref: 2011, Jennifer K. Reilly, Cooking with Trader Joe’s Cookbook: Skinny Dish!, Brown Bag Publishers, →ISBN, page 17:
text: MUNCHING on a “meatilicious” Domino’s pizza involves consuming over 2000 calories.
ref: 2013 July 31, “Demand is slim for low-fat pizzas”, in Evening Standard, page 38:
text: ‘Authentic Kansas City Bar-B-Q’ is the promise at this Hoxton hangout, whose hickory-smoked meatilicious treats generally win the thumbs-up from reporters; […]
ref: 2014, Harden’s UK Restaurant Survey 2015, Harden’s, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Note that this salad can be made meatilicious with the addition of warm Bacon Lardons (page 281) or Duck Confit (page 111) on top, or made vegan by substituting crumbled walnuts for the chèvre.
ref: 2016, Evan Mallett, Black Trumpet: A Chef’s Journey Through Eight New England Seasons, White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Delicious in a way that involves meat.
supramolecular assembly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supramolecular assemblies
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex of molecules held together by noncovalent bonds.
supramolecular assemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supramolecular assembly
technicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technicisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of technicalism.
technicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technicism
DDJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDJs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of deputy district judge.
supracolloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supracolloidal
form: most supracolloidal
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a supracolloid.
erminee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: erminée
form: erminé
Etymology: Ultimately from Old French erminé. Either inherited from Middle English ermyne (adjective) or borrowed more recently from French erminé(e).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:erminee.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of a cross: made up of four ermine spots arranged in the shape of a cross.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:erminée.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Ermined.
erminée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erminee.
portyankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portyanka
lock pick gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock pick guns
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snap gun.
synonyms: word: snap gun
lock pick guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock pick gun
snap gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap guns
Senses: synonyms: electric lock pick
lock pick gun
pick gun
glosses: A tool for opening a mechanical pin tumbler lock without a key, by means of a rod that is inserted into the lock and briefly fired against all of the lock pins simultaneously, momentarily freeing the cylinder and enabling it to be turned using a tension wrench.
snap guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snap gun
electric lock pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric lock picks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snap gun.
synonyms: word: snap gun
electric lock picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric lock pick
erminé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɝmɪnˈeɪ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of erminee.
enigmatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enigmatologists
Etymology: From enigmatology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I went to a lecture by enigmatologist Will Shortz, and when I saw how he engaged an audience of […] 2,000 in a game of word puzzles, I pictured him as a teacher with a very large class.
ref: 2020, Sharon Kane, Integrating Literature in the Disciples, 2nd edition (ebook), Taylor & Francis:
hyponyms: cruciverbalist
puzzler
glosses: A person who creates or studies puzzles.
enigmatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enigmatologist
1v1ed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of 1v1
1v1ing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of 1v1
1v1s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 1v1
1v1s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of 1v1
upon the instant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 42:
text: Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Doctor Lanyon’s Narrative”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 103:
text: "That ball!" he cried, in a hoarse and raucous voice. "That ivory ball! Give it to me upon the instant!"
ref: 1908, Howard Pyle, “The Terrific Encounter With the One-eyed Little Gentleman in Black”, in The Ruby of Kishmoor, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, page 34:
synonyms: word: anoon
word: ASAP
word: at once
word: by and by
word: directly
word: forthwith
word: forthwithal
word: instanter
word: instantly
word: no sooner said than done
word: now
word: on the nail
word: on the spot
word: on the spur of the moment
word: pronto
word: right away
word: right now
word: right off
word: soon
word: stat
word: straightaway
word: this instant
word: toot sweet
word: tout de suite
word: yesterday
glosses: Immediately, right away.
on the instant
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of upon the instant.
twink death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋk ˌdɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Forms: form: twink deaths
Senses: topics: LGBT
glosses: The loss of a twink's androgyny as a result of aging.
examples: text: There was a point in time in which an archetypal Russell Tovey character would mean handsome Jack-the-lads, or cocky heterosexuals on the right side of loutish. […] But then, faster you could say “twink death”, Tovey bulked up, began to seek greater complexity in his work, and started playing gay.
ref: 2023 May 2, Adam White, “I’ve been thinking about dying from the age of 12”, in The Independent, London, page 28:
text: DiCaprio is notorious for his questionable dating habits, which apparently involve a hard cut-off at age 25. The pattern is the subject of analysis through such sophisticated lenses as the sociological causes for age gaps and the male attempt to escape so-called “twink death.”
ref: 2023 November 3, “The age-old question of separating art from the DiCaprio”, in Daily Illini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
text: M: Imagine Al Pacino and Zendaya on the same level of stardom that they could just present alone. Insane. — Al Pacino.
E: He looks really bad.
M: Number one example of twink death.
E: No, no! I don’t want to talk about it.
ref: 2024 April 17, Meylina Tran, “Mey & Em’s Post Oscars Breakdown”, in Quaker Campus, Whittier College, Whittier, California:
glosses: The loss of any man's physical attractiveness as a result of aging, regardless of his sexual orientation.
Related terms: gay death
lesbian bed death
twink deaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twink death
best parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: best parlours
form: best-parlour
form: best parlor
form: best-parlor
Senses: examples: text: He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 55:
text: He furnished it beautiful, every room like a best parlor, — carpets and sofys and lace curt'ins, — there was nothing too good.
ref: 1891, Laura E[lizabeth Howe] Richards, “The House in the Wood”, in Hildegarde's Holiday: A Sequel to Queen Hildegarde, Boston, M.A.: Estes and Lauriat Publishers, page 215:
text: For it was not by any means every farmhouse that had a best parlour at all, and none possessed one as pretty as that of Madame Marcel, the farmer's wife.
ref: 1916, Mrs. [Mary Louisa] Molesworth, “Chapter I”, in Edmeé: a Tale of the French Revolution, Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 8:
text: The room was reminiscent of a seaside best parlour—red plush everywhere, and antimacassars and boxes made of shell, and innumerable mugs and lurid vases, and pots of artificial flowers of every conceivable colour which could possibly swear at the plush.
ref: 1925, Stanley Scott, “Greater Love”, in Tales of Bohemia, Taverns, and the Underworld, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 226:
glosses: A parlour or drawing room that is furnished especially well and often reserved for entertaining guests.
best parlours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of best parlour
sofys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofy
Star Trek Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Star Trek + day
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of First Contact Day (“5th of April, an annual day for Trekkies to celebrate Star Trek”).
synonyms: word: First Contact Day
extra: 5th of April, an annual day for Trekkies to celebrate Star Trek
topics: lifestyle
glosses: 8th of September, an annual day for Trekkies to celebrate Star Trek; representing the anniversary of the day that the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, “The Man Trap”, aired in 1966.
Coordinate terms: sense: fandom celebration days
word: Alien Day
sense: fandom celebration days
word: Aliens Day
sense: fandom celebration days
word: Back to the Future Day
sense: fandom celebration days
word: Star Wars Day
Related terms: Star Trek
trek
Trek
trekker
Trekker
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Anian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of an area in southern China mentioned by Marco Polo (as Anin, Ania or Anian depending on the text copy), later put by cartographers into area between Asia and America.
Before or after the Anian Strait was (probably falsely) reported found by L. Maldonado, the Anian-name was moved by the cartographers to the eastern side of this strait, becoming a location in America (together with Bergi and Tholm, also from Marco Polo, and sometimes also Arsarot, derived from Arzareth found on old maps of northern China).
Senses: glosses: A toponym used on old maps, located in Alaska-area
Derived terms: Strait of Anian
Related terms: Conibas
Cibola
Fusang
Pagul
Quivira
Zubaira
Zubgara
fair fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Fair enough.
examples: text: "I got the job!"
"Fair fucks to ya."
glosses: Well done; congrats; nice one.
scraggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæɡəl/
Forms: form: scraggles
form: scraggling
form: scraggled
form: scraggled
Senses: glosses: To make scraggly; to make rough, scruffy, or unkempt; to tousle.
scraggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæɡəl/
Forms: form: scraggles
Senses: examples: text: The best, and most impressive, thing about A Man Like Eva is the central performance of Eva Mattes — in alarmingly convincing male drag — as the Fassbinder character. With a scraggle of beard pasted on her face, a battered fedora on her head, and a swarm of contempt on her lips, Mattes — who has appeared in five Fassbinder films — could almost pass for the real thing.
ref: 1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:
glosses: A small scraggly bit.
Derived terms: scraggle-bearded
scraggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scraggle
scraggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scraggle
scraggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scraggle
Tholm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tholman
form: Tholoman
Etymology: From the name of an area in southern China mentioned by Marco Polo, later put by cartographers in area between Asia and America.
Before or after the Anian Strait was (most probably falsely) reported found by L. Maldonado, the Tholm-name was moved by the cartographers to the eastern side of this strait, becoming a location in America (together with Bergi and Anian, also from Marco Polo, and sometimes also Arsarot, derived from Arzareth found on old maps of northern China).
In later maps the toponym is moved further, into south-eastern side of Sierra Nevada.
Senses: glosses: A toponym used on old maps, located some place between Alaska and Sierra Nevada
Related terms: Conibas
Conibasset
Acaanibas
Cicuye
Cicvic
Cibola
Cevela
Fusang
Island of California
Quivira
Bergi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of Bargu tribe (Barga Mongols), mentioned by Marco Polo, later put further northwards by cartographers into the area between Asia and America. Ultimately from Classical Mongolian ᠪᠠᠷᠭ᠋ᠤ (barɣu).
Before or after the Anian Strait was (most probably falsely) reported found by L. Maldonado, the Bergi-name was moved by the cartographers to the eastern side of this strait, becoming a location in America (together with Anian and Tholm, also from Marco Polo, and sometimes also Arsarot, derived from Arzareth found on old maps of northern China).
On the Blaeu's map both Bargu and Bergi are depicted each on opposite sites of the Anian Strait. It can be explained as the result of copying from two different maps, similarly to Zeno map depicting Iceland and Greenland together with their "twins" Grolandia and Frisland, and probably having two Shetlands.
Senses: glosses: A toponym used on old maps, located in the general area of Alaska.
wikipedia: Barga Mongols
Related terms: Barguzin
SCPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCPOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of senior chief petty officer.
SCPOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCPO
Second Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The second in a series of republic governments of a country or nation:
Ellipsis of French Second Republic (1848–1852), established after the February Revolution of 1848.
coordinate_terms: Second Empire
glosses: The second in a series of republic governments of a country or nation:
Ellipsis of Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939).
glosses: The second in a series of republic governments of a country or nation:
Ellipsis of Second Republic of Korea (1960–1961).
Coordinate terms: First Republic
Third Republic
Fourth Republic
Fifth Republic
Sixth Republic
Fourth Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of French Fourth Republic (“1946–1958, from the adoption of the constitution to the Algerian crisis of 1958”).
glosses: Ellipsis of Fourth Republic of Korea (“political regime of South Korea under the authoritarian Yushin Constitution from 1972 to 1981”).
Coordinate terms: First Republic
Second Republic
Third Republic
Fifth Republic
Sixth Republic
First Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of French First Republic, from the French Revolution to the First Empire, 1792–1804.
glosses: Ellipsis of First Republic of Korea (“political regime under Syngman Rhee of South Korea from 1948 to 1960”).
topics: banking
business
glosses: Ellipsis of First Republic Bank (1985–2023).
Coordinate terms: Second Republic
Third Republic
Fourth Republic
Fifth Republic
Sixth Republic
pseudo-random number generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-random number generators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudorandom number generator.
powder flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder flasks
Senses: glosses: A small flask for carrying gunpowder.
naphthoylindole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthoylindoles
Etymology: From naphthalene + -yl + indole, because the structure of the drug contains a naphthalene system connected to an indole system by a carbonyl group.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A class of synthetic psychoactive drugs with cannabinoidergic effects.
naphthoylindoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Plural of naphthoylindole.
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthoylindole
CZCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Coastal zone color scanner.
Pietzsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pietzschs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pietzsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
health and fitness ages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of health and fitness age
Orosz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oroszes
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Orosz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
foot-stalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-stalks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of footstalk.
foot-stalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot-stalk
autotrepanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + trepanation.
Senses: glosses: Trepanation of oneself.
endies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endie
Silicon Roundabout
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From silicon + Old Street Roundabout.
Senses: examples: text: Before long, Silicon Roundabout had indeed been adopted by estate agents, local councillors and even No 10. Silicon Roundabout became the cornerstone of the government's new Tech City strategy, whose idea was to nurture our little homegrown tech district to see if it couldn't be fanned into full flame.
ref: 2014 March 10, Cory Doctorow, “The slow death of Silicon Roundabout”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Even advocates of creative transition don't have long to enjoy its fruits. It’s almost forgotten now that, before it became Silicon Roundabout, the tech hub around London's Shoreditch was known briefly as an artists' stronghold.
ref: 2014 June 24, Feargus O'Sullivan, “The Pernicious Realities of 'Artwashing'”, in Bloomberg:
text: Silicon Roundabout started as a very British joke. When the now-defunct travel social networking company Dopplr moved from above a pub in Hoxton to 100 City Road beside Old Street Roundabout in March 2008, they found not only more space but a burgeoning social scene.
ref: 2020, Chris McMillan, “Producing Cool”, in The London Dream: Migration and the Mythology of the City, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Less than a year earlier, Tech Hub, London’s first tech-focused co-working space, had also closed down, citing falling demand and rising rents. Insiders say London’s tech sector is now as strong as it has ever been, but is the closure of these spaces evidence that Cameron’s Silicon Roundabout vision failed, or that it succeeded?
ref: 2021 September 16, Oscar Williams, “The last days of Silicon Roundabout”, in The New Statesman:
glosses: East London Tech City, a technology cluster in Shoreditch, East London.
Blessed Virgin Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Latin Beāta Virgō Marīa.
Senses: examples: text: “Rust” has elements of Tara Westover’s “Educated,” but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme. She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun.
ref: 2020 March 3, Mary Norris, “Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill”, in The New York Times:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: Blessed Virgin
word: Virgin Mary
extra: Mary, mother of Jesus
glosses: Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).
euphorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphorious
form: most euphorious
Etymology: From euphoria + -ous. According to The Century Dictionary, erroneously for *euphorous, from Ancient Greek εὔφορος (eúphoros) (whence euphoria via εὐφορίᾱ (euphoríā) – εὔφορος (eúphoros) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)).
Senses: examples: text: […] the conviction is borne in upon the soul, consciously, and perhaps more unconsciously, that there is something like good-will or beneficence at the root of things; that man is a favored, protected, and chosen being, whose supremacy in nature is not an accident; that there is a power that makes for his unfoldment and welfare as if it were interested in or friendly to him; and thus he feels more at home in the place nature has prepared for him and more disposed to trust that all that is beyond his ken is well; that real evil can not befall the good men, living or dead; and that he can afford to be glad and euphorious that he is alive.
ref: 1904, G[ranville] Stanley Hall, “Intellectual Development and Education”, in Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume II, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 547:
text: butt (maomant scoffin, but apoxyomenously deturbaned but thems bleachin banes will be after making a bashman’s haloday out of the euphorious hagiohygiecynicism of his die and be diademmed).
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 353:
text: How had it felt, at 28, to be the hottest young actor in town? He [Richard Gere] grinned. “It was great having the attention,” he said. “I thought: ‘This is it! I’ve done it! I’m going to retire my father. I’m putting money away for college for my sisters,’ the whole thing. It’s incredibly euphorious. All of a sudden the rehearsal period of your life is over, and your future has arrived. It’s liberating.”
ref: 1988 November 27, “How Richard Gere Learned To Reach Out”, in Parade (The Spokesman-Review), page 10, column 3:
text: Writing it as I went through a devastating divorce and a simultaneously terrifying and euphorious life-reboot, I found it to be both trial and triumph, and now what’s left is this, a story about a woman whose life turned her upside down and shook her until her courage came out.
ref: 2012, Lucy March, “Acknowledgments”, in A Little Night Magic, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, published 2014, →ISBN, page 289:
text: Once back home, in the euphorious state of liberation from the Nazi nightmare, of knowing myself free and safe, our house still standing even though much of Berlin was in ruins, and my immediate family having survived the horrors by luck, fate, and precaution, something resembling normal life was in the offing, and that, of course, meant school.
ref: 2012, Cornelia Cotton, Stepping Stones: Stories, Hessian Hills Press, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Synonym of euphoric.
synonyms: word: euphoric
sudden oak death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: More recently, sudden oak death, oak decline, beech wilt, sweet chestnut blight and horse chestnut canker have infested Europe’s forests.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296:
glosses: A disease that kills oak and other forest trees, caused by the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum.
counsel of despair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counsels of despair
Senses: examples: text: Without holding any particular brief for a diet of Shelley, I would think it only a counsel of despair to say that the majority, or any sizable minority, of average intelligence can't be reached with the values of education, with some of the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of the race, but must be shoved into "attractive" courses devoid of any real educational meat so they will be kept off the labor market or the streets.
ref: 1956, Mortimer Brewster Smith, The Public Schools in Crisis: Some Critical Essays, page 8:
text: But it is a counsel of despair. You say somebody else might do something to make themselves stronger, therefore we should not bother to look to our own security.
ref: 1986, George Shultz, Proposed Arms Sales to the Kingdom of Jordan:
text: And so we might think that the dialogue offers little more politically than a counsel of despair. There seem to be only two options: either a wholesale reconstitution of the political, so that those with a true understanding of the good would replace the ignorant as wielders of political power (the ostensible solution of the Republic), or if that proves impossible or undesirable, a retreat from politics and an embrace of political quietism on the part of the philosopher.
ref: 2019, Matthew Landauer, Dangerous Counsel: Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece, page 176:
glosses: A proposal or piece of advice that indicates one has given up on trying to fix a given obstacle or problem.
examples: text: Again, Agnosticism is “right” if it be a "counsel of honesty” ; wrong if it be a “counsel of despair.”
ref: 1897, Metropolitan Pulpit and Homiletic Monthly - Volume 33, page 491:
text: If a man adopts an exceptional measure in a state of absolute extremity, that does not make it a fundamental article of his faith. It is a doctrine of despair, and he merely adopted it on that occasion as a counsel of despair, and when a Liberal and a democrat adopts an exceptional measure as a counsel of despar that does not constitute that measure in harmony either with Liberalism or democracy.
ref: 1917, Richard Cornthwaite Lambert, The Parliamentary History of Conscription in Great Britain, page 311:
text: To take up the way of force was no doubt a counsel of despair.
ref: 2013, Theodor Mommsen, Dero A. Saunders, John H. Collins, The History of Rome, page 122:
glosses: An action or decision that reflects the attitude behind such advice.
Related terms: counsel of perfection
oak decline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: More recently, sudden oak death, oak decline, beech wilt, sweet chestnut blight and horse chestnut canker have infested Europe’s forests.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296:
glosses: A disease of uncertain origin affecting mature pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea) trees in Britain.
Synonyms: acute oak decline
myrtle beech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrtle beeches
Senses: synonyms: Tasmanian myrtle
glosses: A species of tree, Nothofagus cunninghamii, family Nothofagaceae, native to Tasmania and southeastern mainland Australia.
myrtle beeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrtle beech
eider goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eider geese
Senses: examples: text: And that will mean farewell to the edelweiss, adieu the eider goose.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 297:
glosses: The common eider (Somateria mollissima).
eider geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eider goose
Presidentresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Presidentress
dying back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die back
bouterolle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouterolles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boterol.
bouterolles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouterolle
boterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boterols
form: boteroll
form: bouterolle
Etymology: From French bouterolle (or a Middle French predecessor thereof).
Senses: glosses: The chape, crampet or tag of a scabbard, or a representation thereof in heraldry.
boteroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boterolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boterol.
boterolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boteroll
boterols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boterol
Nevadaplano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˌvædəˈplænoʊ/
Etymology: Blend of Nevada + altiplano. Coined by American geoscientist Peter G. DeCelles in a 2004 paper in the American Journal of Science.
Senses: examples: text: At the peak of its development, the retroarc side of the Cordillera was divided into five tectonomorphic zones, including from west to east the Luning-Fencemaker thrust belt; the central Nevada (or Eureka) thrust belt; a high-elevation plateau (the “Nevadaplano”); the topographically rugged Sevier fold-thrust belt; and the Laramide zone of intraforeland basement uplifts and basins.
ref: 2004, Peter G. DeCelles, “Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A.”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 304, number 2, →DOI, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2022, page 105:
text: Terming this now-exhumed Late Cretaceous–Eocene hinterland metamorphic belt the Nevadaplano, he estimated that its average elevation probably exceeded 3 km.
ref: 2009, W. Gary Ernst, “Rise and Fall of the Nevadaplano”, in International Geology Review, volume 51, numbers 7-8, →DOI, page 583:
text: During the Late Cretaceous, central Nevada may have been a high elevation plateau, the Nevadaplano; some geodynamic models of the western US require thickened crust and high elevations during the Mesozoic to drive the subsequent tectonic events of the Cenozoic while other models do not.
ref: 2014, Kathryn E. Snell et al., “High elevation of the ‘Nevadaplano’ during the Late Cretaceous”, in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, volume 386, →DOI, page 52:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A high-elevation orogenic plateau that once existed during the Tertiary period in what is modern North America’s Great Basin, analogous to today’s high-elevation South American altiplano.
wikipedia: American Journal of Science
Related terms: altiplano
Altiplano Armenio
Minns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fil-Chi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfil ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯/
Forms: form: more Fil-Chi
form: most Fil-Chi
form: FilChi
form: Filchi
form: filchi
form: Fil-chi
form: fil-chi
Senses: glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of Filipino-Chinese.
Related terms: Fil-
Fil-Am
Chinese Filipino
Chinese mestizo
Chinoy
Mestizo de Sangley
Sangley
TDK
rgr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
glosses: Abbreviation of roger.
Regii Professores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin regii professores.
Senses: glosses: plural of Regius Professor
mound royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mounds royal
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: orb (surmonted by a cross), mound, globus cruciger
asilomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asilomorph
subornedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of suborn
subornest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of suborn
Sheikhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sheikh