cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
keurboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keurbooms
Etymology: From Afrikaans keur (“pick or choice”) + boom (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A species of tree, Virgilia oroboides, noted for its pretty lilac flowers.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: Virgilia capensis
sense: tree
word: Cape lilac
sense: tree
word: blossom tree
sense: tree
word: pink blossom tree
appenzeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for the Appenzell region of Switzerland
Senses: glosses: A hard, straw-colored cow's-milk cheese with a nutty flavor.
Amara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Amara? That's a beautiful name." He smiled, teasing. "And she was a wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep the First. - - - Amara, Amara, Amara. A guy can fall in love with a name like that.
ref: 2002, Richard Laymon, To Wake the Dead, Leisure Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for "eternal".
glosses: A port on the River Tigris in Iraq.
bleu d'Auvergne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for the Auvergne region of south-central France
Senses: glosses: A French blue cheese made from cow's milk.
brocciu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒt͡ʃuː/
enpr: brŏʹcho͞o
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Corsican brocciu, of pre-Roman origin.
Senses: glosses: A Corsican cheese produced from ewe's milk, containing no lactose.
cabécou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French cabécou.
Senses: glosses: A soft goat cheese from the Midi-Pyrénées in France.
leguaan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leguaans
Etymology: From French l'iguane, "the iguana", through Dutch and Afrikaans.
Senses: glosses: An iguana.
examples: 2001 : Finally, a help plea yesterday from Debbie Thompson of Gonubie -- what to do about a small leguaan that had taken up residence in her "somewhat wild" garden with big trees, dense shrubs and hedges? http://www.dispatch.co.za/2001/01/18/editoria/CHIEL.HTM
2006 : This is the view of Sazi Mhlongo, chair of the Traditional Healers's Association of SA (Thasa). It follows the recent court appearance of a sangoma and five others after police discovered the skins of various protected animals in the sangoma's house. The skins included that of a lion, leopard, puff adder and water leguaan. https://web.archive.org/web/20060926093033/http://www.pawtal.co.za/pages/article.asp?ID=337
glosses: Any of the monitor lizards
Carré de l'Est
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French Carré de l'Est (literally “square of the east”).
Senses: glosses: A French cheese made from cow milk with a smoky bacon flavour.
Blair's babes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The large number of female Labour Members of Parliament elected at the general election of 1997 in the UK.
bread crumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bread crumbs
Senses: examples: text: Before he died, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the hermit-like, socially maladjusted tech genius who created The Oasis, hid an Easter egg somewhere in the circuitry, scattering bread crumbs that lead to its location. Find the egg, and the mogul’s fortune—along with total control of his digital fiefdom—is yours. It’s the ultimate capitalist scavenger hunt!
ref: 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of breadcrumb.
roukoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Afrikaans rouw (“to regret, to rue”) + koop (“to buy”).
Senses: examples: text: The applicant was called upon, within 14 days, to make payment in full of all amounts owing, failing which, it was said, the deed of sale would be cancelled and all amounts paid would be retained by way of liquidated damages or "roukoop".
ref: 1971, ANDREWS v LIDAKS AND ANOTHER 1971 (1) SA 892 (W)
text: As applicant, however, still failed to pay his monthly instalments the respondent had, for this reason, cancelled the contract in terms of the cancellation clause of the deed of sale which provided that the seller was entitled to retain all payments as roukoop or as agreed pre-estimated damages sustained by the seller, and also to claim money in arrear.
ref: 1978, SHIRLEY v VIRGILIA TRUST (EDMS) BPK 1978 (2) SA 357 (T)
topics: law
glosses: Genuine pre-estimated damages on the cancellation of a sale or lease, usually relating to immovable property.
itemize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪtəmaɪz/
Forms: form: itemizes
form: itemizing
form: itemized
form: itemized
form: itemise
Etymology: From item + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: to itemize the cost of a railroad
glosses: To state in items, or by particulars
Derived terms: itemizable
itemizer
nonitemized
reitemize
fry up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fry ups
form: fry-up
Senses: examples: text: Though fattening, a fry up is without doubt my favourite way to start the day.
glosses: a breakfast made of tomatoes, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, bacon, sausages, hash browns, baked beans, black pudding, chips, toast and mushrooms (or any combination thereof); full English breakfast
fry up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fries up
form: frying up
form: fried up
form: fried up
form: fry-up
Senses: examples: text: I'll just fry up a couple of eggs.
glosses: To prepare by frying.
energumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛn.əˈɡjuː.mən/
Forms: form: energumens
Etymology: From Latin energumenus, from Ancient Greek ἐνεργούμενος (energoúmenos), from verb ἐνεργέω (energéō, “to influence”).
Senses: glosses: A person possessed by an evil ghost, spirit, or entity.
glosses: A frantic and hysterical person.
itemization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itemizations
Etymology: From item + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: His itemization of the inventory did seem accurate, however it omitted several crucial entries.
glosses: The act of making a list of items; an itemizing.
examples: text: The itemization in this game is terrible. All the good items are so rare, it gives players no desire to grind at all.
topics: video-games
glosses: The system of items available to players and their design and qualities.
itchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From itchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being itchy.
nonmetallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-metallic
Etymology: From non- + metallic.
Senses: examples: text: Boron is a nonmetallic element, and compounds of it, such as borax, have been used in products for decades, ranging from detergents to roach poison.
ref: 2018 November 20, Wayne Drash, “Consumer group warns of ‘dangerous’ slime products and other hazardous toys”, in CNN:
glosses: Not metallic.
nonmetallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-metallic
Etymology: From nonmetal + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or having the properties of a nonmetal.
italicized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Claire, however, sat looking profoundly unamused by her family’s spirited, italicized conversations.
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “It Can't Last”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 34:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Rendered in italics.
Derived terms: nonitalicized
unitalicized
italicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of italicize
Fryup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in North Yorkshire.
go down the tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the tubes
form: going down the tubes
form: went down the tubes
form: gone down the tubes
form: go down the tube
Senses: examples: text: The entire plan went down the tubes when they found they couldn't get strawberries in December.
text: Meanwhile, Susan's own workplace shut down, and she found herself "on the street with no job and a two-year-old kid. I was trying my damndest and I was going right down the tubes."
ref: 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, quoting Susan Moir, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 17:
glosses: Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
synonyms: word: go down the toilet
extra: to fail; to degenerate rapidly
to die for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She makes these chocolate-peanut butter candies that are just to die for.
text: Consider this a couple's costume that's to die for. There are so many ways you can go with this costume, but most importantly, make sure to go extremely over the top with the makeup.
ref: 2023 September 19, Chaise Sanders, “50 Best Halloween Costumes of All Time, From the Classics to the Truly Unique”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Very good; exquisite; particularly desirable.
Related terms: drop-dead
silicium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin silicium, from Latin silex (“flint”) + -ium. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808
Senses: glosses: The chemical element silicon.
silicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: silicon
Related terms: liquor silicum
barysphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæɹɪˌsfɪəɹ/
Forms: form: baryspheres
Etymology: From bary- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The central core of the Earth (or similar planets)
Synonyms: centrosphere
Cwm Silicon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Cwm Silicon (“Silicon Valley”), a calque of English Silicon Valley.
Senses: glosses: A technology-rich area of South Wales.
jonkmanskas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans jonk (“young”) + mans (“men('s)”) + kas (“cupboard”).
Senses: examples: text: He was standing beside the old Cape yellowwood jonkmanskas which I'd changed into a cocktail cabinet.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 160:
glosses: A cupboard with two drawers on top.
issuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: issuers
Etymology: From issue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A request for a nonreviewable ruling must be submitted by an issuer or holder.
ref: 1996, United States. Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Bulletin, page 47:
text: The token is the native cryptocurrency of Litecoin, an open-source blockchain project whose code is copied from Bitcoin’s. Though several non-native ETF issuers have launched crypto funds this year, this is the first filing for a fund tied to LTC.
ref: 2024 October 15, Helene Braun, “Ex-Valkyrie Founder’s Canary Capital Group Files for First Litecoin ETF”, in CoinDesk:
glosses: One who issues, emits, or publishes.
Derived terms: nonissuer
go down the pan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the pan
form: going down the pan
form: went down the pan
form: gone down the pan
Senses: examples: text: The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.
glosses: Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail; to degenerate rapidly.
synonyms: word: go down the toilet
extra: to fail; to degenerate rapidly
South Wales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographic region of southern Wales, bordering the Bristol Channel.
issuance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)uəns/
Forms: form: issuances
Etymology: From issue + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: the issuance of an order
text: the issuance of rations
glosses: The act of issuing, or giving out.
examples: text: A cover of Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin" held down the number-96 slot for a week in 1964, but later issuances did not do as well.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Something issued.
Derived terms: misissuance
nonissuance
overissuance
reissuance
Bristol Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between South Wales and England; an extension of the estuary of the River Severn
straight and narrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strait and narrow
Etymology: Probably "strait and narrow," from Matthew 7:14.
Senses: examples: text: The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.
glosses: A path of honesty; a procedure according to rules and plans.
Related terms: walk in straight lines
tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːbz/
ipa: /tjuːbz/
rhymes: -uːbz
Senses: glosses: plural of tube
glosses: The Internet.
examples: text: 'Fust time Ah've cleared me tubes for a week,' croaked his friend, smiling wanly.
ref: 1987, Sid Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Rene Chaplin, In Blackberry Time, page 204:
glosses: The inner workings of one's body.
tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːbz/
ipa: /tjuːbz/
rhymes: -uːbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tube
at heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I’m a vegan at heart – the thought of the death of animals for my food is abhorrent.
text: My dad may be old on the outside, but he’s young at heart; he plays video games every now and then to improve his coordination.
text: One could argue, of course, that most comedies about the risqué misadventures of teenagers are actually pretty wholesome. Horny hits like American Pie and last year's Blockers are, at heart, sweet coming-of-age stories, secretly reassuring everyone that the kids are all right—that no matter how many f-bombs they drop, no matter how raunchy their MPAA-antagonizing hijinks get, they're really just fumbling their inexperienced way through normal rites of passage.
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
synonyms: at bottom
essentially
glosses: In spirit; according to one's beliefs, views or feelings; deep down, fundamentally, really.
examples: text: I always have your best interests at heart.
glosses: Wished earnestly for; held in high esteem.
deep down
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie.
glosses: Fundamentally; in essence; in reality
Synonyms: at heart
in the end
fundamentally
cross that bridge when one comes to it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses that bridge when one comes to it
form: crossing that bridge when one comes to it
form: crossed that bridge when one came to it
form: crossed that bridge when one came to it
form: cross that bridge when one gets there
form: cross that bridge when one gets to it
Etymology: A metaphor for an idea being like a train of thought and the problem being like the bridge.
Senses: examples: text: It's possible we'll eventually have more books than available space for them, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
text: They might be willing to admit, OK, yeah, if you invent superintelligence, things will probably be crazy. But I’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
ref: 2025 April 11, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama”, in The New York Times (Hard Fork podcast), →ISSN:
glosses: To deal with a problem or situation only if and when it arises.
Derived terms: burn that bridge when one comes to it
Related terms: all in good time
take something as it comes
feretory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feretories
form: feretry
Etymology: From Middle English feretory, fertre, feretre, et al., from Anglo-Norman fertre, from Latin feretrum (“bier, funeral litter”), from Ancient Greek φέρετρον (phéretron), from the verb φέρω (phérō, “I carry”). Doublet of feretrum.
Senses: examples: text: His remains were placed inside a new and rich feretory, on a platform behind the high altar.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 578:
synonyms: reliquary
glosses: A receptacle that houses relics of saints.
glosses: An area of a church where relics are kept.
hacky sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacky sacks
form: hackysack
form: hackeysack
form: hacky-sack
form: Hacky-Sack
Etymology: A trademark of Wham-O. First use appears c. 1977. It uses a reduplication of the word sack with the word hacky; a hack, in the game's terminology, is akin to a point, and happens when every player in a group successfully passes the footbag.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game or activity in which one or a group of players try to keep a footbag off the ground using only their feet.
examples: text: At the food court, I bought a turkey sandwich and another coffee. As I ate, an entourage caught my eye: four Buddhist monks, camped at the periphery of the food court seats, about thirty feet away. Shaved heads, maroon and pumpkin-colored robes. Each was smiling, even the one who slept. You'd think monks would be wearing sandals, wouldn't you? But these guys were wearing what I wear: Nike sneakers, Timberland boots. Two were horsing around with a Hacky Sack. Another was chatting quietly with a black woman in a Chicago Bulls sweatshirt.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.74
glosses: The footbag used for such a game.
nimiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈmaɪ ɪ ti/
Forms: form: nimieties
Etymology: Latin nimietās, from nimius (“excessive”) and nimis (“excessively”).
Senses: examples: text: June 2, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk
There is a nimiety, - a too-muchness - in all Germans.
text: I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.
ref: 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Clips from a Life, →ISBN:
glosses: State of being in excess, more than is needed.
Synonyms: superfluity
surfeit
whole food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole foods
form: wholefood
Senses: examples: text: Unpolished grains that retained their outer coating were a major linchpin of his diet of whole foods.
glosses: Food that is unprocessed and unrefined, or processed or refined as little as possible.
Related terms: WFPB
revenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛvənənt/
Forms: form: revenants
Etymology: 19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.
Senses: examples: text: They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
ref: 1886, Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew viii, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595
text: The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
ref: 1895 August 31, Daily News 4/7, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595
text: From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant, who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him: […]
ref: 2008, Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature, Camden House, →ISBN, page 91:
synonyms: prodigal
returner
glosses: Someone who returns from a long absence.
examples: text: Sometimes […] semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
ref: 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 184:
synonyms: phoenix
glosses: A person or thing reborn.
examples: text: For granting even that Religion were dead; that it had died, half-centuries ago, with unutterable Dubois; or emigrated lately, to Alsace, with Necklace-Cardinal Rohan; or that it now walked as goblin revenant with Bishop Talleyrand of Autun; yet does not the Shadow of Religion, the Cant of Religion, still linger?
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.
ref: 1969, Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:
text: And to a revenant who had lived in body after body, died death after death, evanescence could seem like a dream of peace. But the chimaera could ill afford to let soldiers go.
ref: 2011, Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, →ISBN:
text: If reports from the time are to be believed, 17th-century Poland was awash in revenants—not vampires, exactly, but proto-zombies who harassed the living by drinking their blood or, less disagreeably, stirring up a ruckus in their homes.
ref: 2023 September 5, Franz Lidz, “Undying Dread: A 400-Year-Old Corpse, Locked to Its Grave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: apparition
spectre
glosses: A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
revenant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛvənənt/
Forms: form: more revenant
form: most revenant
Etymology: 19th century. From French revenant, the present participle of revenir (“to return”). Compare revenue.
Senses: examples: text: On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House, published 2008, page 134:
text: […]which, in turn, led to the first U.S. vessel to be lost that day, as an Avenger touched down near the destroyer USS Porter, which, shortly thereafter, took a torpedo hit, quite possibly from the Avenger's weapon deciding that, well, water immersion must surely mean that it should activate. USS Shaw, the revenant survivor of Pearl Harbor, was then forced to rescue the surviving crew of both the Porter and the aircraft before finishing off the stricken Porter with its guns.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 14:19 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: Returning.
plenilune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpliːnɪluːn/
Forms: form: plenilunes
Etymology: From Latin plēnilūnium, from plēnus (“full”) + lūna (“moon”).
Senses: examples: text: Whose glory (like a lasting Plenilune) Seems ignorant of what it is to wane
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
text: And white limbs glitter in the plenilune; / And where a voice more human, more divine, / Commends a brother dead to Proserpine.
ref: 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness:
glosses: The full moon.
Related terms: plenilunary
handbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From handbag + -s; in sense “fight”, clipping of handbags at dawn, handbags at ten paces (1980s).
Senses: glosses: plural of handbag
examples: 2011, Daniel Sperling, Ant McPartlin: 'Pub scuffle was just handbags', Digital Spy
"It was just a scuffle in a pub, a bit of… handbags. Nine times out of ten, people are nice to us."
glosses: An insignificant fight or argument.
Related terms: the handbags come out
handbags at dawn
handbags
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From handbag + -s; in sense “fight”, clipping of handbags at dawn, handbags at ten paces (1980s).
Senses: examples: Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?
Person B: What's it to you?
Person A: Well, you're fat enough as it is.
Person B: You can talk!
Person C: Ooh - handbags ladies!
glosses: Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
Synonyms: meow!
ratamacue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratamacues
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussion rudiment consisting of a diddled grace note followed by a triplet and downbeat, with right and left as (LL)RLRL or (RR)LRLR.
Luis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luˈiːs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Luis and Portuguese Luís. Doublet of Louis and Luigi.
Senses: examples: text: In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN.
ref: 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Spanish.
Derived terms: San Luis
puggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɡl̩/
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: puggles
form: puggling
form: puggled
form: puggled
Etymology: British dialect (Hertfordshire, Essex), from pug (“to poke”) + -le (“frequentative suffix”).
Senses: examples: 1833, "Javelin," Two Days with the East Sussex, in Sporting Magazine, 2nd Series, Volume 6, page 236,
In concluding my remarks on the East Sussex Hounds, I must observe, that perhaps they have the worst and most difficult country in the world to hunt through, intersected with immense woods, and slotted with some thousands of sheep, besides being naturally a very cold-scenting soil; consequently the hounds puggle more than is pleasing to the eye, have little or no dash, but are very patient and very perfect in working up to their fox, and are probably much surer killers than any other hounds […] .
glosses: To coax (a rabbit) from a burrow by poking a stick down the hole and moving it about; to delve into a hole in order to locate an animal.
examples: text: 1828, "Philip Fidget," The Confessions of Philip Fidget, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, New Series, Volume 1, page 417,
I am no sooner seated by a fire, but my hand instinctively fumbles after the poker, and I proceed to puggle the glowing embers, until (except timely warning prevent) I have displaced the whole into the fender.
text: He puggled around in the oil cavity with his little lead pencil until it slipped out of his fingers and went down into the oil cavity.
ref: 1919, James Francis Hobart, Millwrighting, McGraw-Hill, page 222:
glosses: To poke around a hole with a stick, as to explore, remove obstacles, etc.
puggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɡl̩/
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: puggles
Etymology: Transferal of trademarked name of a range of soft toys from the mid-1970s which superficially resemble baby echidnas.
Senses: examples: text: Larger furred/spined puggles can be held in a wooden box with shredded paper.
ref: 2003, Stephen Jackson, Australian Mammals: Biology and Captive Management, unnumbered page:
text: 2003, Robert Burton, The International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, Volume 18: SOL-SWA, page 2488,
The puggle, which grows rapidly, remains in the pouch until its spines are sufficiently developed that the mother must eject it.
text: Hatching takes 10 days; the young echidna, called a puggle, then sucks milk from the pores of two milk patches and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days, at which time the spines develop. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every 5 days to suckle it until it is weaned at 7 months.
ref: 2012, Joseph Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology, page 498:
glosses: A baby monotreme (echidna or platypus).
puggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɡl̩/
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: puggles
Etymology: Blend of pug + beagle
Senses: examples: text: 2007 May, Vicki Constantine Croke, The Problem With Puggles, Prevention, page 208,
Jake Gyllenhaal and Sylvester Stallone are among the puggle lovers, but so are a slew of regular people who want in on the tawny, fawny, puppy-faced action and will pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for the pleasure.
text: Puggle proponents say these dogs have the very best qualities of both Beagles and Pugs: the Beagle′s cheerful friendliness, and the Pug′s lower activity level and laid-back attitude.
ref: 2009, Eve Adamson, Beagles, page 12:
text: 2009, Milwaukee Magazine, Volume 34, Issues 1-6, page 67,
The menagerie for sale at this auction included two black puggles with hernias, a French bulldog with one ear, a 3-month old Yorkshire terrier with only one testicle and a badly bow-legged bulldog.
glosses: A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a pug and beagle.
wiggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wiggle
wiggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wigglings
Senses: examples: the wigglings of a lively worm
glosses: The motion of something that wiggles.
equipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of équipe (“a team”).
XC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cross country.
XC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: XC skiing
text: As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Abbreviation of cross-country.
fatigued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈtiːɡd/
Forms: form: more fatigued
form: most fatigued
form: fatig'd
form: fatigu'd
Senses: glosses: Tired; weary.
Synonyms: word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
topics: climbing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
Hyponyms: word: drawn
word: haggard
Derived terms: postfatigued
prefatigued
unfatigued
Related terms: word: fatiguing
word: depleted
fatigued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈtiːɡd/
Forms: form: fatig'd
form: fatigu'd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fatigue
hood rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hood rich
form: most hood rich
Senses: examples: 2005, Malcolm D Carter, $7 an Hour Ain't No Job: The Second Emancipation of the Black Race, Sundog, Limited, →ISBN, page 43,
Finally, we must change the “Hood Rich” mentality. The rap group Cash Money described this mentality perfectly when they sung about not being able to pay rent or bills but driving in a new E-class Mercedes and dressing “fly”.
2005, anonymous, in Kiki Swinson, I'm Still Wifey, Melodrama Publishing, 0-9717021-5-2, front cover,
In the mix of all the drama, Kira unintentionally falls for a new hood rich cat who has it all. Money, good looks, and a girl back home in Jersey!
glosses: Exhibiting flamboyant spending habits, while doing nothing to improve one’s living conditions.
Related terms: nigger rich
ghetto fabulous
GOOG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of Google; compare GOOGL.
Senses: examples: text: Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.
ref: 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Alphabet Inc.
Father's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Father's Days
form: Fathers Day
form: Fathers' Day
Senses: glosses: A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.
Synonyms: word: Dad's Day
seethes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seethe
seethes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seethe
make a splash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a splash
form: making a splash
form: made a splash
form: made a splash
Senses: glosses: To do something that attracts attention.
attracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attract
unflinchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unflinchingly
form: most unflinchingly
Etymology: From unflinching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ursula, raising her head, looked unflinchingly into Mina's shifty eyes.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 278:
text: I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: Without showing fear or indecision; resolutely.
unqualified hostname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unqualified hostnames
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: fully qualified hostname
glosses: The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period, and so is sufficient to uniquely identify the computer within a domain.
fully qualified hostname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fully qualified hostnames
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An Internet domain name that identifies a computer.
Related terms: fully qualified domain name
hostname
unqualified hostname
hermeneutical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hûr′-mə-n(y)o͞o′-tĭ-kəl
ipa: /ˌhɜː.məˈn(j)uː.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌhɜɹ.məˈn(j)u.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌhɜː.məˈn(j)ʉː.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌhøː.məˈn(j)ʉː.tə.kəl/
ipa: /ˌhɛɹ.məˈn(j)ʉ.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌhɜːʳ.meˈn(j)uː.ʈi.kal/
rhymes: -uːtɪkəl
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτῐκός (hermēneutĭkós, “of or for interpreting”), from ἑρμηνευτής (hermēneutḗs, “an interpreter”), from ἑρμηνεύω (hermēneúō, “translate, interpret”); see hermeneutics.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hermeneutics (the study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts).
Derived terms: hermeneutically
nonhermeneutical
Related terms: hermeneut
hermeneutic
hermeneutician
hermeneuticist
hermeneuticize
hermeneutics
bugger up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡə(ɹ)ʌp/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹ ʌp/
Forms: form: buggers up
form: buggering up
form: buggered up
form: buggered up
Senses: examples: text: I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.
text: Well, he only buggers up one sentence, and that's the first one. He says, 'Shut up, blek.' But from that point on, it was OK because I helped him with it. If I'd been there, I would have told him to say, 'Shut up, black', exactly the same as an American accent.
ref: 2016 March 15, David Dale, “John Jarratt talks new show Territory Cops and a murderous return in Wolf Creek”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
synonyms: word: booger up
glosses: To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
glosses: To injure or harm (someone).
buggering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bugger up
bedspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdˌspɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: bedsprings
Etymology: From bed + spring.
Senses: examples: text: This morning not even the cry of a bedspring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):
glosses: A springy surface that supports the mattress of a bed.
Hyponyms: box spring
pompon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompons
form: pompom
Etymology: From French pompon (“ornamental tuft”).
Senses: glosses: A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading.
glosses: A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads.
glosses: Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
Derived terms: pomponed
pompon flower
Christmasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christmasy
form: most Christmasy
Etymology: From Christmas + -y.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of Christmassy.
Transmission Control Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Transmission Control Protocol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: TCP
glosses: A networking protocol, almost always layered on top of the Internet Protocol, that provides reliable, connection based communications.
Related terms: TCP/IP
UDP
Christmassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Christmassier
form: Christmassiest
form: Christmasy
Etymology: From Christmas + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to guard against any hint of a generalisation here that 'less Christmassy music' always accompanies a 'less Christmassy sentiment', and indeed Greg Lake's 'I Believe In Father Christmas' (1974) is proof that the converse is not […]
ref: 2008, Sheila Whiteley, Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Mark: That looks like a lovely turkey. I'm sorry I flew off the handle a bit.
Jeremy: That wasn't very Christmassy.
Mark: No, it wasn't. I apologise.
ref: 2010, Jesse Armstrong & Sam Bain, "Seasonal Beatings", Peep Show Series 7, Episode 5, Channel 4
text: They [Asian pears] are unquestionably Christmassy and festive, with their golden speckled skin.
ref: 2015 September 5, Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015, page 1:
antonyms: un-Christmassy
glosses: Resembling or having feelings of Christmas; festive.
clerical collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clerical collars
Senses: synonyms: word: clergy collar
word: Roman collar
word: dog collar
coordinate_terms: preaching band
glosses: A stiff white collar, having no opening at the front, fastened at the back, worn by members of the Christian clergy.
dog collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog collars
Senses: glosses: A collar for a dog.
examples: text: I'm very pleased to have found a way of joining in which does not consist of three chaplains wearing dog collars sitting behind a desk looking intimidating.
ref: 2003 December 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Labyrinth Day”, in Thurible.net:
text: My mother taught me to make prayer a daily part of life, and she taught me to challenge authority when it was wrong — even if it wore a dog collar.
ref: 2015 October 16, Terence Handley MacMath, “Interview: Bob Bowie, director of business and academic development, Canterbury Christ Church University”, in Church Times:
glosses: A clerical collar.
synonyms: choker
glosses: A close-fitting woman's necklace.
classicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klăsĭsĭst
ipa: /ˈklæsɪsɪst/
Forms: form: classicists
Etymology: From classic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A classical scholar, especially one who studies ancient Greek and Latin language and culture.
glosses: A follower of classicism.
Derived terms: classicistic
clockface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockfaces
Senses: examples: text: In particular, the timings of Matlock trains will be tweaked with a view to achieving clockface timings a year later.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
text: There has also been a drive to introduce clockface timetables with a higher frequency, with the dual aim of creating passenger familiarity with departure times at individual stations and of simplifying traincrew diagrams to produce better productivity.
ref: 2019 December 18, “Industry Insider: Timetable troubles”, in Rail, page 76:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clock face.
clock face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock faces
Senses: examples: Meronyms: dial; hour hand, little hand; minute hand, big hand; second hand
related: word: clockface
glosses: The surface of a clock that contains the dial and hands (via the traditional design of clocks); such an arrangement on either a clock or a watch.
coordinate_terms: watch face
watchface
glosses: Any face of any clock, either with dial and hands or digital.
Derived terms: clock-face timetable
choirmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choirmasters
Etymology: From choir + master, a calque of German Chormeister.
Senses: glosses: the musical director of a choir, who conducts performances and supervises rehearsal
Synonyms: word: chorusmaster
english: second meaning
translation: second meaning
word: chorister
word: choir conductor
word: choir leader
word: leader of the choir
hocus pocus
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
day boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day boys
Senses: glosses: A male day pupil.
day pupil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day pupils
Senses: glosses: A student who attends a boarding school but does not board there, continuing to live at home
Synonyms: day boy
boarding school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːdɪŋ ˌskuːl/
ipa: /ˈboɹdɪŋ ˌskul/
Forms: form: boarding schools
Senses: examples: text: […] a pan-Indian movement based on the successes of the Black Power Movement […] had its roots [in] the 1870-1933 Native American boarding school experiences of their parents and grandparents. It was in these boarding schools where Native language, culture and ceremony would be beaten out of the Native children in order to 'Kill the Indian and Save the Child'.
ref: 2007, Joy Porter, Place and Native American Indian History and Culture, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 86:
text: […] he looked like the housemaster [Shaun] had so hated during his time at boarding school.
ref: 2012 August 16, Will Hill, The Rising: A Department 19 Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: My brother loved his boarding school, and the few months I spent there were some of the happiest times of my life.
ref: 2017 October 1, Nina Milne, Claiming His Secret Royal Heir, Harlequin, →ISBN:
synonyms: residential school
glosses: A residential school, where the students are housed on-site (the school provides board and lodging as well as education), sometimes involuntarily, typically at a pre-collegiate level.
Derived terms: boarding school syndrome
Related terms: flexi-boarding
hexabromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexabromides
Etymology: From hexa- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any bromide containing six bromine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: dialuminium hexabromide
tungsten hexabromide
monobromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monobromides
Etymology: From mono- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any bromide containing a single bromine atom in each molecule
Derived terms: aluminium monobromide
copper monobromide
indium monobromide
iodine monobromide
mercury monobromide
thallium monobromide
derrickman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derrickmen
Etymology: From derrick + man.
Senses: examples: text: There was a movement high in the derrick; the derrickman had come off the monkey board; he was half jumping, half sliding down the ladder.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 346:
glosses: A member of an oil drilling rig who works on a derrick suspended above the rig floor, manhandling the drillpipe.
Related terms: roughneck
roughneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfˌnɛk/
Forms: form: roughnecks
Etymology: From rough + neck, originally "someone who works a manual labour job".
Senses: examples: text: LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend.
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 202:
coordinate_terms: redneck
glosses: Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.
synonyms: roustabout
glosses: An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.
examples: text: This first ship had a small geophysical-type drilling rig mounted over the side of the ship with a steel grid runround for the roughnecks, who stood in knee-deep water while making connections or pulling the drill string.
ref: 1992, Elmer P. Wheaton, “William Bradford Whitehill Rand”, in Memorial Tributes: Volume 5, page 234:
text: As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 286:
synonyms: roustabout
glosses: A labourer on an oil rig.
Related terms: leatherneck
oil trash
roughneck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfˌnɛk/
Forms: form: roughnecks
form: roughnecking
form: roughnecked
form: roughnecked
Etymology: From rough + neck, originally "someone who works a manual labour job".
Senses: examples: text: There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope […]
ref: 2009 January 13, Michael Brick, “Racing's Last Frontier”, in New York Times:
glosses: To work as a laborer on an oil rig.
dogsledding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dogsled
dogsled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogsleds
Etymology: From dog + sled.
Senses: synonyms: dog sledge
glosses: A sled, pulled by dogs over ice and snow.
dogsled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogsleds
form: dogsledding
form: dogsledded
form: dogsledded
Etymology: From dog + sled.
Senses: glosses: To ride on a dogsled.
glosses: To race dogsleds.
Derived terms: dogsledder
dogsled mail
dirgeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdɜːd͡ʒfəɫ]
Forms: form: more dirgeful
form: most dirgeful
Etymology: From dirge + -ful.
Senses: glosses: having the qualities of a dirge; moaning
glosses: funereal
oxycarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxycarbonates
Etymology: From oxy- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance which is both an oxide and a carbonate
Derived terms: bismuth oxycarbonate
oxycarbonate superconductor
hoplophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplophobes
Etymology: First attested in 1977: hoplo- (“weapon, arms”) + -phobe (“one who fears”).
Senses: examples: text: To return to guns, one of the most avid hoplophobe senators issued a list of nations which did not lose too many of its citizens through villainous saltpeter. England featured, and so did other lands like Japan, where murder is rare except with cold steel.
ref: 1977, John Wood Campbell, editor, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 83, number 4, Davis Publications, page 171:
glosses: Someone who has an irrational fear of guns.
Derived terms: hoplophobic