cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sum of best
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sums of best
Senses: examples: text: The runner's final time in the record-breaking speedrun was even faster than her previous sum of best.
glosses: The total combined time of the fastest segments or splits achieved in a speedrun of a video game, representing the theoretical fastest time that a speedrunner could achieve at their current level of skill.
Related terms: personal best
segment
speedrun
sums of best
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sum of best
Riviera di Levante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Directly from Italian riviera di levante
Senses: examples: text: The next 54 miles to [La] Spezia are along the Riviera di Levante, past a series of enchanting seaside resorts and fishing villages, vineyards and olive groves alternating with cliff scenery, tunnels, and viaducts.
ref: 1950 February, “The "Rome Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
glosses: The eastern section of the Italian Riviera, otherwise known as the Levante Riviera, east of Genoa in Liguria, Italy.
wikipedia: Italian Riviera
Haapamäki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Keuruu municipality, Central Finland.
milk before meat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From 1 Corinthians 3:2, in Koine Greek ἐπότισα γάλα οὐ βρῶμα (epótisa gála ou brôma, “I gave you milk, not meat [or solid food]”), and in a Mormon context Doctrine and Covenants 19:22: “For they cannot bear meat now, but milk they must receive”. In the form milk before meat, first attested in the early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Under the pretext of giving the world “milk before meat,” the Utah Mormons have tried to justify themselves in the living of an open lie—they were actually practicing polygamy secretly and denying it publicly.
ref: 1919, William Earl La Rue, The Foundations of Mormonism: A Study of the Fundamental Facts in the History and Doctrines of the Mormons from Original Sources, page 195:
text: They are not to present lessons in calculus to students who must first learn arithmetic; they are not to reveal the mysteries of the kingdom until people believe the first principles: they are to give milk before meat.
ref: 1980, Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah: From Bethlehem to Calvary, volume 2; republished as Rulon T. Burton, editor, We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1994, D-667, page 853:
text: Paul said we should give milk before meat; systematic teaching is effective as long as we are careful to give both the milk and the meat honestly and correctly.
ref: 1986, Dennis L. Lythgoe, The Sensitive Leader, page 121:
text: So why is it that some people feel that they must know everything right away concerning religion, and yet in daily life they well understand and accept that it’s milk before meat?
ref: 2006, Jayne P. Bowers, Musings of a Missionary Mom, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Ideas or doctrines that are simpler or easier to accept (should be taught) before more difficult ones.
wikipedia: 1 Corinthians
Doctrine and Covenants
Huhta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huhtas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Huhta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Priestly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Priestlys
Etymology: Variant of Priestley.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Priestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Priestly
form: most Priestly
Etymology: Semantic loan from German priesterlich and Priesterschrift (“Priestly source”, literally “priest document”), so called because of the reconstructed source’s emphasis on cultic issues. See priestly.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” […]
ref: 1971, Norman Habel, Literary Criticism of the Old Testament, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary.
ref: 2004, Steven L. McKenzie, Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: I & II Chronicles, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Noth made the necessary objections to that view and demonstrated that these are additions in the Priestly style which presuppose the bringing together of P and the non-Priestly text in Genesis–Numbers and the combination of Genesis–Joshua.
ref: 2005 [2000], Reinhard G. Kratz, translated by John Bowden, The Composition of the Narrative Books of the Old Testament, →ISBN, page 110:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the Priestly source (“P”), one of the sources of the Torah or Pentateuch according to the documentary hypothesis.
partyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtiˌmæn/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtiˌmæn/
Forms: form: partymen
Etymology: From party + -man.
Senses: examples: text: It was even rumored, that he had confessed; and the zealous partymen, who, no doubt, had secretly, notwithstanding their credulity, entertained some scruple with regard to the popish conspiracy, expressed great triumph on this occasion.
ref: 1757, David Hume, “[Charles II.] Chapter VI.”, in The History of Great Britain, under the House of Stuart, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 327:
text: England has partymen in profusion; in court-livery and sans-culottes: if a solitary, sedate republican should rise up in that country, they would unite and tear him to pieces […]
ref: 1826, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, 2nd edition, volume 2, page 360:
text: Conventions, of course, were composed mostly of the most active partymen.
ref: 2000, Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics, →ISBN, page 43:
text: [See title]
ref: 2023 July 11, “Expelled partymen may join us again if they apologise: AIADMK”, in Deccan Herald:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: dated outside India
glosses: A partisan; a member of a political party or faction.
partymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partyman
Old Bourbon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: old+Bourbon. From being the territory of the former county of Bourbon, in the Province of Virginia
Senses: glosses: A region of Kentucky, United States.
Derived terms: bourbon
bourbon whiskey
bourbon whisky
Related terms: Bourbon
Bourbon County
canaloliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canalolith
Irish hospitality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Irish hospitality
Senses: examples: text: Lord Thomond is laid up with the Gout: The Irish Hospitality has broke out in his Feet, and pins him down to a great Chair and a slender Meal.
ref: 1736 December 23, John Boyle Orrery, “To Thomas Southerne”, in Emily Charlotte de Burgh, Countess of Cork, editor, The Orrery Papers, volume I, London: Duckworth, published 1903, page 183:
glosses: Gout.
Ososo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But Ososo is much cooler, the sun less vile, because of the hills and rocks on which the town stands.
ref: 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 273:
glosses: A town in Edo State, Nigeria.
lamentacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæmɛnˈteɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more lamentacious
form: most lamentacious
Etymology: From lament + -acious.
Senses: examples: text: Your lamentacious conduct has put this whole case in jeopardy.
ref: 1998, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Shallow Grave, page 361:
glosses: Characterized by lamentation (sorrow, distress or regret).
Synonyms: lamentable
milk-maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-maids
Senses: examples: text: […] my accuſing him of carterly deriſions and milk-maids girds, as, Good beare bite not, A man’s a man thogh he hath but a hoſe on his head.
ref: 1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 139:
text: Do you remember old Izaak Walton’s account of the milk-maid with her merry songs? How he asked her to sing to him. “What song was it?” she inquired. “I pray—was it ‘Come, shepherds, deck your heads’; or ‘As at noon Dulcina rested’; or ‘Philida flouts me’; or ‘Chevy Chace’; or ‘Johnny Armstrong’; or ‘Troy Town’?” The memories of the ancient milk-maids were storehouses of delightful old English ballads; now the only persons who know any are ancient silver-headed topers in taverns.
ref: 1900, S[abine] Baring Gould, “Milk-maids”, in In a Quiet Village, London: Isbister and Company Limited […], page 151:
text: But the pretty milk-maid was much too vexed to make any answer. She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs. As she left them the milk-maid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Dainty China Country”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, pages 230–231:
glosses: Archaic form of milkmaid.
milk-maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk-maid
HIQA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪkwæ/
Forms: form: Hiqa
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Health Information and Quality Authority, a healthcare watchdog in Ireland.
COCSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of child-on-child sexual abuse.
reaches out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reach out
reaching out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reach out
reached out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reach out
Phnom Laang bent-toed geckoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko
Phnom Laang bent-toed geckos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko
noise-cancel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: noise-cancels
form: noise-canceling
form: noise-cancelling
form: noise-canceled
form: noise-canceled
form: noise-cancelled
form: noise-cancelled
Senses: examples: text: My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.
ref: 2019 May 15, Olga Khazan, “What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To reduce ambient noise with noise cancellation.
noise-cancelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noise-cancel
noise-canceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noise-cancel
tobruk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobruks
Senses: glosses: a type of defensive fighting position originally employed by the Axis forces during their North African campaign.
verfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verf
verge escapements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verge escapement
vermicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermicle
verrillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verrillon
Versaces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Versace
Versaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Versace
versiproses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versiprose
vertaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertax
vertebral arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertebral artery
vertebral canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertebral canal
vertical apostrophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical apostrophe
verticalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticalisation
verticulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticulation
vesiculomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesiculome
vessonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vessonite
vesikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesike
vestigializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestigialization
case presentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case presentations
Senses: glosses: A formal communication between health care professionals such as doctors and nurses regarding a patient's clinical information
frame number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frame numbers
Senses: glosses: A serial number attached to the frame of a bicycle.
truffade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truffades
Etymology: Borrowed from French truffade, from Occitan trufada.
Senses: glosses: truffade (Occitan potato dish)
PBing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PB
PBed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of PB
vexils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vexil
vftables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vftable
vibrostimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrostimulation
trap-doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trap-door
heart-ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart-aches
Senses: examples: text: So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 23–24:
text: It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.
ref: 1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:
text: Every day brought more disappointment and heart-ache.
ref: 1931, Emma Goldman, Living My Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1934, page 316:
glosses: Archaic form of heartache.
heart-aches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart-ache
melt ponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melt pond
flightling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flightlings
Etymology: From flight (“fleeing”) + -ling. Cognate with West Frisian flechtling (“refugee”), Dutch vluchteling (“refugee”), German Low German Flüchtling (“refugee”), German Flüchtling (“refugee”). Compare also Danish flygtning (“refugee”), Swedish flykting (“refugee”), Norwegian flyktning (“refugee”).
Senses: examples: text: We were the witnesses not of a few handsful of casual flightlings, but of the general exodus of the inhabitants of a whole territory.
ref: 1878, Archibald Forbes, The War Correspondence of the "Daily News," 1877:
text: Refugees, flightlings, black things, whose dissident passage through understanding is often taken for a kind of lawless freedom.
ref: 2018, Fred Moten, Stolen Life:
text: Her mother, the flightling, fighting her way across an inky sea, washing up on a foreign shore with empty pockets, building a new life in a strange land, with nothing to pass on to her daughter from her home but the sounds of her mother tongue.
ref: 2018, Kate McNaughton, How I Lose You:
glosses: One who flees or takes flight; an escapee, fugitive, or refugee.
flightling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flightlings
Etymology: From flight (“flying”) + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: In that country style place with an abundant garden the lady of the house would put special toast slices, a nutty high-grain variety dried to an ideal texture for birds, out for the collection of flightlings that attended the daily garden feast.
ref: 2013, Sereena Nightshade, Sweetie-Baby, page 316:
text: “Very good, flightlings,” Tanta said as she passed them. “Soon you'll be flying. Then you won't be in the baby glade any more.” The flightlings smiled proudly at each other. “Why haven't you got wings?” Tam asked Tanta shyly.
ref: 2013, Berlie Doherty, The Starburster Stories, page 84:
glosses: A young or little flyer (person or creature that flies).
flightlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flightling
teletrophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletrophone
door phones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of door phone
trumpophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpophone
T-shirt bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-shirt bra
LGBTphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more LGBTphobic
form: most LGBTphobic
form: LGBT-phobic
Etymology: From LGBT + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: A lot of the LGBTphobic acts are easily misunderstood with everyday actions, so that the spaces where it happens are the most diversified: it can begin within the family atmosphere, on a private scale, in the professional relationships, on student, in trade, services, extending itself to a social and urban scale, leading to a city that reveals extremely oppressive.
ref: 2019, Heitor Henrique Lopes Prucoli, Monique Sanches Marques, “A cidade heteronormativa: o urbanismo hegemônico enquanto dispositivo de manutenção da LGBTfobia”, in Maíra Cristina Corrêa Fernandes, Gabriella de Morais, Marcelo Maciel Ramos, editors, Críticas feministas, LGBTs e queers (Anais do III Congresso de Diversidade Sexual e de Gênero; 4), Initia Via Editora Ltda., →ISBN, page 265:
text: Has this prompted the kind of LGBTphobic backlash we sadly see in the real world?
ref: 2020 February, “Queer Gaming Stories”, in Bi Community News, number 159:
text: The presumably self-evident meaning and political correctness implied in terms such as advocacy, engagement, application, collaboration, and others often blur the politically deplorable antisocial, classist, racist, sexist, LGBTphobic, colonialist, and exploitative ends to which such terms may be put, a point made several times in the social sciences (Hale 2007) and by a few of us in the field of ethnomusicology (e.g., Seeger 2008, Araujo 2008, Dirksen 2012).
ref: 2021, Samuel Araújo, “Reengaging Sound Praxis in the Real World: Politico-Epistemological Dimensions of Dialogue and Participation in Knowledge Production”, in Beverley Diamond, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, editors, Transforming Ethnomusicology, volume II (Political, Social & Ecological Issues), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
text: A commission of only women was recently created to address and take action against all kinds of violence (physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, sexist, racial or LGBTphobic); […]
ref: 2021, Tércio Ambrizzi, Tamara Maria Gomes, Fernanda da Rocha Brando, Flávio Pinheiro Martins, Tadeu Malheiros, Denise Crocce Romano Espinosa, Paulo Santos de Almeida, “USP’s Environmental Policy in the SDGs Approach”, in Walter Leal Filho, Amanda Lange Salvia, Luciana Brandli, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Rudi Pretorius, editors, Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (World Sustainability Series), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 427:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to LGBTphobia.
Synonyms: queerphobic
get in the sea
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: get in the sea !
Senses: examples: text: I pushed it away – I'd often muttered, 'Oh, get in the sea,' to myself in annoyance at him, but that was definitely not what I'd meant.
ref: 2023, Sophie Ranald, Not in a Million Years:
synonyms: word: amscray
word: away with you
word: be off with you
word: beat it
word: begone
word: bite me
word: bog off
word: bug off
word: bugger off
word: buzz off
word: clear off
word: do one
word: don't let the door hit you on the way out
word: forget you
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get to fuck
word: get bent
word: get fucked
word: get knotted
word: get lost
word: get out of here
word: get outta here
word: get out of my face
word: get screwed
word: get stuffed
word: get you gone
word: git
word: go and boil your head
word: go and eat coke
word: go away
word: go chase yourself
word: go climb a tree
word: go fly a kite
word: go fuck your mother
word: go fuck yourself sideways
word: go fuck yourself
word: go jump in the lake
word: go play in the traffic
word: go play with yourself
word: go shit yourself
word: go suck an egg
word: go tell your mother she wants you
word: go to hell
word: go to Halifax
word: go to the devil
word: hadaway and shite
word: hence
word: hit the road
word: hop it
word: kick rocks
word: jog on
word: leave
word: leave me alone
word: make like a banana and split
word: make like a tree and leave
word: make yourself scarce
word: naff off
word: nick off
word: now go away
word: off you fuck
word: on with you
word: on yer bike
word: on your bike
word: piss off
word: pound sand
word: push off
word: rack off
word: scram
word: screw off
word: screw you
word: shoo
word: shove off
word: shit off
word: skedaddle
word: sling one's hook
word: sod off
word: split
word: spread out
word: take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
word: take a flying fuck
word: take a hike
word: take a long walk on a short pier
word: up yours
word: Entries in Thesaurus:leave
word: used as imperative verbs.
word: Entries in :Category:English dismissals.
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Used to tell somebody to go away or express contempt.
words of institution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the words of institution
form: Words of Institution
Etymology: Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin verba īnstitūtiōnis, i.e. the words by which Jesus instituted, or established, the sacrament.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The pronouncements “This is my body” and “This is my blood”, said by the celebrants at the climax of most eucharistic liturgies and held by many churches to be essential to the performance of the rite.
Northleach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Northleach with Eastington parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1114).
Northleach with Eastington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the named places.
snootle around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snootles around
form: snootling around
form: snootled around
form: snootled around
Senses: glosses: To search by digging with the snout; root about.
Eastington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Lapford parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7409).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7705).
glosses: A hamlet in Northleach with Eastington parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP1213).
sexwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sex + -wise.
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He came up & asked what I did. Taking it sex-wise I answered "Just about anything."
glosses: In terms of sex; sexually.
Wiknic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wiknics
form: Wikinic
Etymology: Blend of wiki + picnic.
Senses: examples: text: "Basically, we tried to encourage people in each local area to do their own thing," says Richard Knipel, who has been heavily involved with New York area Wiknics on which the national effort, planned for 18 cities around the United States, is based.
ref: 2011 June 24, Monica Hesse, “A Wiki-Picnic for online encyclopedia editors”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2021:
text: I find it regrettable that these events are only in the U.S. There are plenty of excellent Wikipedia contributors all around the world, and there are provisions for "Start[ing] an event for your city" (see the main Wiknic article), so I hope people from other countries will schedule local Wiknics soon.
ref: 2013 June 20, Berkeley Brett, “Wikipedia's own Manual of Style”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
text: On a recent Sunday, some members of the Wikimedia D.C. chapter — an eclectic mix of 50 or so area academics, professionals and all-around geeks — met up in Meridian Hill Park, not far from the White House, as part of the nationwide "Great American Wiknic." The group picnic, like the encyclopedia itself, was potluck.
ref: 2013 July 16, “The Great American Wiknic [edit]”, in NPR:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A picnic organized by Wikimedians.
anal-erotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anal-erotics
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
J & I had beautiful sex. He stayed last nite & we were all over each other almost the entire time. […] He's wearing these these wonderful bikini underpants that are so full. He's really gotten to be an anal-erotic too which I just love.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
psychology
sciences
sexology
sexuality
glosses: One who experiences or focuses their eroticism on the anus.
examples: text: The social behavior of anal-erotics is strongly bound up with money and pedantic behavior.
ref: 1924, Isador Coriat, “A Note On The Anal Character Traits Of The Capitalistic Instinct”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 11, page 436:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
psychology
sciences
sexology
sexuality
glosses: One who exhibits personality traits associated with the anal stage of psychosexual development.
Sopwith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒpwɪθ/
Forms: form: Sopwiths
Etymology: Variant of Soppitt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
insider baseball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of inside baseball.
convinient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The aggregation component of FriendFeed is a convinient feature and a component of that openness, but not as central as the discussions.
ref: 2009 May 1, Marshall Kirkpatrick, quoting Paul Buchheit, “The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2023:
glosses: Misspelling of convenient.
spank it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spanks it
form: spanking it
form: spanked it
form: spanked it
Senses: examples: text: "Yeah, this guy got caught spanking it and then stood naked except for his socks on a customer's porch. He got fired and it's my job to get him rehired."
ref: 2007, Saxon Bennett, Date Night Club, Talllahassee, F.L.: Bella Books, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Someone in my school got caught spanking it in class too, although I did not witness it.
ref: 2014 July 21, u/reddrambler, “What was the most embarrassing thing you ever witnessed while in high school?”, in Reddit, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2023:
text: Never been caught spanking it, but I did forget to put away a printout of some lesbian 3-way action once and my mom found it in the bathroom. She was not happy.
ref: 2015 April 1, u/SpehlingAirer, “How many times have you been caught spanking the monkey?”, in Reddit, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2023:
text: No fap is the polar opposite of the wild hardcore hentai gangbang shit people spank it to.
ref: 2023 January 9, u/BIGassbass8151, “Why do so many people swear by nofap?”, in Reddit, r/moreplatesmoredates, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2023:
synonyms: word: spank the monkey
word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
spanks it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spank it
spanked it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spank it
spanking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spank it
Bedok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈdəʊk/
ipa: [bəˈdoʔ(k)]
Etymology: Possibly derived from the traditional Malay word for a kind of large ceremonial drum used in mosques in the past.
Senses: glosses: A planning area and new town in the eastern part of Singapore.
quit the oxygen habit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quits the oxygen habit
form: quitting the oxygen habit
form: quit the oxygen habit
form: quit the oxygen habit
Etymology: From no longer requiring oxygen to survive once someone has passed away.
Senses: synonyms: pass away
glosses: To die.
nail-polish-remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Black Magic—Grease spots on wallpaper and even crayon marks will wipe way easily by the use of nail-polish-remover, leaving no ring. Get the non-oily kind if possible and apply with a small cloth.
ref: 1957 August 6, Pennine Chain [pseudonym], “Helpful Hints For Homemakers”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume CLXXII, number 37, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., page twenty-two, column 7:
text: A few old fruit jars on the back porch were handy when the boys saw a bee they wanted to catch, or a moth or a butterfly. Sometimes they would just observe it through the glass and let it go before it “smuvvered.” Other times they made collections, using cotton soaked in nail-polish-remover to assure a painless demise.
ref: 1962 August 8, Eileen Ronan, “Here’s One Mother’s Answer to ‘Dog Days’: Can’t Wait Until School Opens?”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 132, number 96, Detroit, Mich., page C-1, column 3:
text: Reg. 29ᶜ WALGREEN’S 6 Ounce OILY NAIL-POLISH-REMOVER 17ᶜ
ref: 1968 February 28, Times-Democrat, Davenport, Ia. – Bettendorf, Ia., page 6:
text: 8-oz. Bottle NAIL-POLISH-REMOVER 37ᶜ
ref: 1972 July 20, The Atlanta Constitution, volume 105, number 29, Atlanta, Ga., page 23-B:
text: The mother, who is addicted to glue, paint-thinner and nail-polish-remover, has three other children, all in the care of child-welfare authorities.
ref: 1996 September 13, Stephen Bindman, “Court says it can’t protect addict’s fetus”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page A2, column 4:
text: You don’t often, by the way, spot nail-polish-remover in college football locker rooms.
ref: 1999 November 10, Chuck Culpepper, “Even BCS giving Irish too much respect”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 17, number 311, Lexington, Ky., page D5, column 4:
glosses: Rare form of nail polish remover.
fashionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashionizations
Etymology: From fashionize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: But that was then! Between the explosion of sneaker culture, the “fashionization” of Birkenstocks and the general rise of comfort clothing, those old lines have started to blur.
ref: 2023 August 7, Vanessa Friedman, “Do These Shoes Make Me Look Like a Tourist?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The process of becoming fashionable.
grid squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grid square
gridlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gridler
grincamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grincamycin
grotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grote
ground control points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground control point
ground tyrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground tyrant
ground wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground wire
grounded narrative inquiries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grounded narrative inquiry
grub-stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grub-stake
grub-stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grub-stake
Growleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Growlery
Gts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gt
guajilotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guajilote
guanolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guanolide
guards of vambrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guard of vambrace
guazils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guazil
guemals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guemal
guerrilla diplomats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guerrilla diplomat
guffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guffin
guided tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guided tour
makeup-remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeup-removers
Senses: examples: text: One batch of the makeup-remover was not mineral oil, at all, but milk of magnesia.
ref: 1959 March 27, Joe Coyle, “Easter Pageant Problems Involve Cowboy Boots”, in The Lexington Leader, volume 71, number 73, Lexington, Ky., page 14, column 2:
text: Cleansing Cream, the gentle, thorough makeup-remover.
ref: 1968 October 21, Chicago Tribune, 122d year, number 295, Chicago, Ill., section 2, page 9:
text: Extremely Gentle Cleansing Cream, lightweight makeup-remover.
ref: 1978 September 10, The Shreveport Times, Shreveport, La. – Bossier City, La., page 4-E:
text: Towels, makeup-remover and moisturizers are available to clients, although Heli herself has found no need for the latter.
ref: 1982 December 9, Nancy Dorrance, “Sunseekers soak up rays: Artificial tan’s a hot seller”, in The Sault Star, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., page B2, columns 3–4:
text: YOUR GIFT contains Extremely Gentle Cleansing Cream, pre-soap cleanerser^([sic]) and makeup-remover; […]
ref: 1985 April 18, The Victoria Advocate, 139th year, number 345, Victoria, Tex., page 1D:
text: Ebullient and normally sparkly-eyed, Lockwood glistens today with the added stimulus of the makeup-remover that, still drying on her cheeks, brings up an occasional tear.
ref: 1986 December 14, Calvin Ahlgren, “Mime Trouper Masters Berkeley’s ‘Servant’”, in Datebook (San Francisco Chronicle), page 29, columns 1–2:
text: A product that has many uses, including that of lip gloss, under-eye moisturizer and makeup-remover, also comes in handy as a stain-preventer.
ref: 2001 June 7, Jean Patteson, “Prevention is the best cure for dye stains”, in Orlando Sentinel, page E4, column 1:
text: Try Swabplus, the new cotton swabs filled with makeup-remover.
ref: 2002 December 15, Lifeline (Daily News), page 8:
text: By that time, the spider effect has set in and you want nothing more than a good makeup-remover and some tissues.
ref: 2003 October 14, Misty Harris, “Worth a second look”, in Edmonton Journal, page E2, columns 1–2:
glosses: Rare form of makeup remover.
vivax malaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax.
falciparum malaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
knowlesi malaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi.
West Francia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A successor state of Charlemagne's empire.
soccer-player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccer-players
Senses: examples: text: The other boy was a full-blooded lad, tall and wiry, a cross-country runner, soccer-player and horseman of considerable ability, and was one of the best known and most popular men in the company.
ref: 1919 April 24, Ray Tucker, “Life of a Doughboy”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXXXIII, Hartord, Conn., chapter XI, page 14, column 7:
text: At his first appearance the coach was received with cheers from the enthusiastic soccer-players, who quickly learned the fine points of the game.
ref: 1919 October 25, “Professionals Offer Services. Men From MacWhyte Soccer Team Offer To Coach Teams In Schools. Frank J. H. Accepts. John Bruns Engaged To Teach Students Important Points In Game — Many Students Grasp Offer.”, in Kenosha Evening News, volume XXVI, number 4, Kenosha, Wis., page two (The Junior News, volume I, number 4), column 6:
text: Inductees will be […] former soccer-player and four-sport athlete Laurie Schwoy (McDonogh); […]
ref: 2016 October 11, “Ex-Terp Toliver scores 19 to help Sparks win Game 1”, in The Baltimore Sun, 179th year, number 285, sports section, page 2, column 4:
glosses: Rare form of soccer player.
soccer-players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccer-player
tank-destroyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tank-destroyers
Senses: examples: text: I have no doubt that they will try to provide tank-destroyers.
ref: 1917 January 7, James Douglas, “Greatest Battle the World Will Ever See: Only Two Ways in Which the War Can End”, in Sunday Pictorial, number 96, page 5, column 2:
text: Belgium’s newest article of warfare is the “tank-destroyer.” It is a small tank, run by a continuous drive, and pulls a powerful field gun.
ref: 1936 May 11, Wise County Messenger, 56th year, number 24, Decatur, Tex., page four, column 1:
text: “Balloon” aprons for air defence; bigger and better artillery of the clouds, firing 1lb. shells at 100 a minute; machine-guns to excel the Czecho-Slovak “Bren” type (worked by gas and firing 600 shots a minute); tank-destroyers of flat trajectory great range and high power of penetration; above all, the “torpedo-proof” warship—here are but a few of the elaborate “killers” and “saviours” to which the ablest human talents are at this moment turned.
ref: 1937 January 31, Ignatius Phayre, “Menace of Sabotage”, in The Sunday Sun, number 914, page 4, column 4:
text: The tank-destroyer was a kind of armored car with a 76mm cannon.
ref: 2008 May 24, David Mehegan, “Sixty years of silence”, in The Boston Globe, volume 273, number 145, page C8, column 1:
glosses: Rare form of tank destroyer.
tank-destroyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tank-destroyer
Dilf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dilfs
Senses: examples: text: It’s more useful as a gender neutral term, saving the hassle of constant translation – Milf to Dilf, cougar to silver fox, mutton dressed up as lamb to beef dressed up as veal.
ref: 2023 August 10, Zoe Williams, “Ripped, hot and in your 50s? You are now, officially, ‘beekeeping age’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of DILF.
Dilfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dilf
Milf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Milfs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of MILF.
Milfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Milf
sixtly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sixt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sixtly, In the same Declaration, June 14. pag. 6. it is declared that the Army took up Armes, in judgement and conscience, for the peoples just rights and liberties, and not as mercenary Souldiers [...]
ref: 1647, John Wildman, The Case of the Armie Truly Stated:
glosses: Obsolete form of sixthly.
mutton dressed up as lamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It’s more useful as a gender neutral term, saving the hassle of constant translation – Milf to Dilf, cougar to silver fox, mutton dressed up as lamb to beef dressed up as veal.
ref: 2023 August 10, Zoe Williams, “Ripped, hot and in your 50s? You are now, officially, ‘beekeeping age’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of mutton dressed as lamb.
Branscombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY1988).
inverse agonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverse agonists
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that binds to the same receptor as an agonist but induces a pharmacological response opposite to that of the agonist.
whom've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: “Whom’ve you been in touch with since you got here?”
ref: 1939, Louis Golding, Mr. Emmanuel, New York, N.Y.: The Literary Guild of America, Inc., page 291:
text: “Whom’ve you heard from?”
ref: 1958, Stanley Baron, Matters of Concern, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 5:
text: “Whom’ve you been out with, Olivier?”
ref: 1970, Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart, November, New York, N.Y.: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, page 132:
synonyms: who've
glosses: Contraction of whom have.
Related terms: whom're
whom's
F-M
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'm sick of hearing of all these F-M TSs that have the mastectomy & the hormones but still have all their genitals in-tact & still use them.
glosses: Alternative form of FTM (female-to-male)
Makadon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Makadons
Senses: glosses: A surname
Corrib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: It is connected with the legend of Manannán mac Lir whose distinguishing feature was the corrbolg (crane bag), the most likely source of Corrib.
Senses: examples: text: Students were balancing a kayak down by the back of the Science Building.
Ambitious, Jamie said.
Why?
That’s the fastest-flowing river in Europe, the Corrib, Jamie said.
ref: 2023, Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat, Vintage (2024), page 230:
glosses: A river and lough in County Galway, Ireland.
kelp goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelp geese
Senses: glosses: A goose (Chloephaga hybrida), native to southern South America.
thumotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of thymotic.
Misny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Misnys
Senses: glosses: A surname
Pasila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Pasila.
Senses: examples: text: This is actually a Soviet train, running from the Porkkala area to Leningrad, and it has to reverse at Pasila (Frederiksberg) in the outskirts of Helsinki.
ref: 1953 September, Norman N. Forbes, “Through Porkkala by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 631:
glosses: A district of Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.
Pessi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛsi
Etymology: Blend of penalty + Messi.
Senses: examples: text: All they need is one crumb of ammunition and they'll go for miles. Such is how the nickname "Pessi" was born. As fans on Twitter look for any possible way to reduce Messi's incredible career to a punchline, they've come up with a reductive way to pretend that he's not one of the best players to ever step on a football pitch.
ref: [2022 December 19, Kyle Bonn, “Why Lionel Messi is called Pessi”, in The Sporting News:
glosses: Lionel Messi.
pattern interrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern interrupts
Senses: examples: text: Because our states constantly get interrupted and altered, having access to several good pattern interrupts enables us to not let some states become too powerful or overwhelming.
ref: 2003, L. Michael Hall, The Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns, 2nd edition, Crown House Publishing, →ISBN:
qualifier: neuro-linguistic programming
glosses: A way of changing a person's mental, emotional, or behavioral state or strategy.
examples: text: When pattern interrupts are used strategically, they can pay out huge dividends. One of most intriguing examples of the empowerment is the queen of shock herself: Lady Gaga.
ref: 2012, Douglas Van Praet, Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: Coming at things from a different angle is an extremely effective way to achieve pattern interrupt because your message can stand out within the muddle of an inbox.
ref: 2020 July 17, Patricia Duchene, “The Science Behind Pattern Interrupt”, in Forbes:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Such a technique used strategically for marketing or sales purposes.
pattern interrupts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattern interrupt
philosophical sin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophical sins
Etymology: Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin peccātum philosophicum, coined around 1600.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: theological sin
text: For, as incompletely wrong acts, such as philosophical sins, or even theological venial sins,—say, of irreligion or disobedience to God,—render one liable to be punished, but not with the eternal loss of the last end; so it may be that there is a sufficient reward for imperfectly good acts, which, whether it is eternal or only temporary, is something different from the eternal enjoyment of the Infinite Good.
ref: 1910, Walter McDonald, The Principles of Moral Science, page 145:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Sin that is said to contravene the natural moral order rather than offending God directly, for example because the sinner is ignorant of divine law or does not think of God in the act.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see philosophical, sin.
philosophical sins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philosophical sin