cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sangley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sangleys
form: sangleyes
Senses: examples: text: The steersmen were killed on two of the bancas; the bancas, turning broadside to the current, were soon capsized, and the river became a mass of frenzied sangleys fighting for their lives in the treacherous waters.
ref: 1935, Percy A. Hill, Walter Johnson Robb, Romance and Adventure in Old Manila, page 49:
text: Moreover, the sangleys are setting up a small parian in this area. This is bound to grow in time as more and more sangleys will go there to sow the fields and plant sugarcane.
ref: 2001, José Eugenio Borao Mateo, Spaniards in Taiwan: 1582-1641, page 185:
text: As discussed in the Introduction, the sangley was intimately associated with the economic activity of trade: even though there were sangleyes who worked as artisans (and in some cases farmers and fishermen), sangley involvement in the China-Manila-Mexico galleon trade was a key element of the early Spanish colonial economy. The sangley was also characterized by his high level of mobility, that is, his "frequent coming" from somewhere not here but near.
ref: 2014, Caroline S. Hau, The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and Beyond the Philippines, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Sangley.
pirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirks
Senses: examples: text: The pirk or diamond jig is an equally basic lure which can be extremely good for cod and pollack, and when baited for ling and halibut. Pirk baits are an updated version of the scraped lead lures used by Grand Banks cod fishermen, though most commercially made pirk style baits now originate in Scandinavia. The pirk is basically a single piece of chromed metal fitted with a large treble hook.
ref: 1987, Keith Gardner, The Complete Book of Fishing: A Guide to Freshwater, Saltwater & Big-game Fishing:
text: If you fancy lure fishing, which is truly sporting and great fun, you'll need a variety of spoons, spinners, plugs, pirks and jelly lures.
ref: 2003, John Bailey, Where to Sea Fish in Britain and Ireland:
text: A pirk is basically a shiny metal bar with a treble hook attached. It is lowered to the bottom and worked by lifting the rod up and down in big sweeps as the boat drifts over a wreck. This movement, close to the bottom, looks and sounds like a small fish darting about.
ref: 2013, Jim Whippy, Sea Fishing: Expert Tips and Techniques for Yachtsmen, Motorboaters and Sea Anglers:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A type of fishing lure consisting of a metal bar with a treble hook attached.
sangleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sangley
Sanglay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sanglays
form: Sanglayes
Senses: examples: text: In 1639, on pretence of a concerted insurrection, twenty-three thousand Sanglayes (descendants of Chinese and natives) were put to the sword.
ref: 1833, Alick Osborne, Notes on the Present State and Prospects of Society in New South Wales:
text: All these constituents - Christians or pagans, Tagals, Vicols, Chinese and Sanglays, Whites and Creoles, the subjugated and the untamed -- form a nation of 3 1/2 million men, including the neighboring islands.
ref: 1892, Onésime Reclus, A Bird's-eye View of the World, page 869:
text: Take it to Sugbu, barter for it with the Sanglay, the Chinese. For metal implements. Knives, needles. Porcelain and celadon ware. The Sanglay come in their batwinged junks with the onset of the northeast monsoon, the amihan.
ref: 1998, Carlos Cortés, Lassitude and other stories, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Lim Pay went to the Parian — the pueblo of the Sanglays, where Father, Mother, and I often go after Sunday Mass to eat at the panciteria — to tell his friends that the gobernador was sending soldiers to take away their goods and close down their stores. Ah Beng said the Sanglays were very scared and some became angry.
ref: 2007, Gémino H. Abad, The Children's Hour: Stories on Childhood - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Alternative form of Sangley.
family Bible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family Bibles
Senses: examples: text: Family Bibles were common in Victorian Britain, and are often used as sources for genealogical research.
glosses: A Bible handed down through a family, with each successive generation recording information about the family's history inside it.
family Bibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family Bible
sangleyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sangleyes.
Senses: glosses: plural of sangley
Sangleyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Sangleyes.
Senses: glosses: plural of Sangley
ovulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovular
sanglay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanglays
form: sanglayes
Senses: examples: text: 'Kitchen Spanish' as spoken by Chinese sanglays as they were known in the Philippines is typified by the following example ..."
ref: 2001, Mauro Fernández, Shedding Light on the Chabacano Language, page 132:
text: Scions of old chanters like National Living Treasure for Epic Literature, Federico “Tuohan” Caballero, mentions a sanglay as gong bearer. As such, a gong must have gotten to the interior through trade or leisure sea travel.
ref: 2013, Alice P. Magos, “Chants, Gongs and Ancestral Memories of the Panay Bukidnon, Philippine Islands”, in Musika Jornal, volume 9:
text: Different spaces and times crossed and confronted each other. In Manila, for instance, the district of the Chinese merchants, or sanglays, was organised according to the Chinese calendar.
ref: 2014, José Antonio Martínez Torres, “'There is but one world': Globalisation and connections in the overseas territories of the Spanish Habsburgs (1581-1640)”, in Culture & History Digital Journal, volume 3, number 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Sangley.
sanglays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanglay
water battery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water batteries
Senses: glosses: A voltaic battery in which the electrolyte is water.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A battery nearly on a level with the water.
water batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water battery
sanglayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanglay
Sanglays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanglay
supramaxillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supramaxillary
Sanglayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanglay
name the day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: names the day
form: naming the day
form: named the day
form: named the day
Senses: glosses: To fix the date of an event, especially one's marriage.
glift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gliff.
glifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glift
fustoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fustic.
tersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of wiping.
Related terms: terse
dwindleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dwindle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dwindle
thinken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English thinken, thenchen, equivalent to think + -en.
Senses: examples: text: And when the ſhining ſunne laugheth once,
You deemen, the Spꝛing is come attonce.
Tho gynne you, fond flyes, the cold to ſcoꝛne,
And, crowing in pypes made of greene coꝛne,
You thinken to be Loꝛds of the yeare.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC, folio 4, recto:
text: […] but other guides have gi'en them ſeck* fine neames, we do naw recollect um; but we mun naw contract um, as they thinken umſelves cleverer folks than we are."
ref: 1795, Joseph Palmer, “XXIX: Buttermere”, in A Fortnight's Ramble to the Lakes in Westmorland, Lancashire, and Cumberland, second edition, London: J. Nichols, page 209:
text: So lung as they dunno' know ut they could scrat th' top o' their stable wi' their ears they thinken they're hosses, an' worken like 'em.
ref: 1885, Benjamin Brierly, Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland: The Results of Two Trips to America, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 148:
glosses: plural simple present of think
dwindlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dwindle + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The process of dwindling; gradual reduction to nothing.
dwindlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwindling
opinants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opinant
Greater Britain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The whole colonial empire of Great Britain.
Great Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Sea
Senses: glosses: The Mediterranean Sea.
decurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decurrence.
entheastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more entheastically
form: most entheastically
Etymology: From entheastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an entheastic manner.
interpersonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interpersonal.
crystalline arthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gout.
synonyms: word: gout
nebulé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of nebuly.
beard-second
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beard-seconds
Etymology: From beard + second.
Senses: glosses: A unit of length about the distance beard hair grows in one second: defined as five nanometers, or 10 nm according to some.
beard-seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beard-second
finger-post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger-posts
Senses: glosses: A signpost
examples: 18th century Francis Grose, quoted in “Twenty-six words we don’t want to lose”
“A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself.”
glosses: A derogatory name for a clergyman
finger-posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger-post
gobble-pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobble-pipes
Senses: examples: 1937, liner notes to the album The Camel Caravan by Benny Goodman
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A saxophone
gobble-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobble-pipe
grunt-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grunt-horns
Senses: qualifier: jazz
glosses: A tuba.
grunt-horns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grunt-horn
agony-pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agony-pipes
Senses: examples: text: This was that same agony-pipe, which, in the German rhapsody, wails its way into the most exciting of all symphonic expressions of the jazz idiom...
ref: 1957, Metronome, volume 74, page 17:
qualifier: jazz slang
glosses: A clarinet.
agony-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agony-pipe
iddy-umpty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Nonsensical “iddy” + umpty (“Morse code dash”)
Senses: glosses: Morse code.
antishinto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈʃɪn.təʊ/
ipa: /ˌæntaɪˈʃɪn.təʊ/
ipa: /ˌæntiˈʃɪn.toʊ/
ipa: /ˌæntaɪˈʃɪn.toʊ/
Forms: form: more antishinto
form: most antishinto
form: anti-Shinto
Etymology: From anti- + Shinto.
Senses: glosses: Opposing Shinto or Shintoism
Related terms: shinto directive
comfort letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfort letters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of letter of comfort.
synonyms: word: of comfort
comfort letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfort letter
oaf-rocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oaf-rocked
form: most oaf-rocked
Etymology: Oaf is possibly a corruption of half or elf.
Senses: glosses: Weak of intellect from infancy.
glosses: Badly brought up; spoiled.
proditomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin prodo + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The greedy public policy of colonizing whole continents abroad, the egotistic private practice of limiting families at home to two or three children, the prevalent politico-ritual theology, the apotheosis of the army and the infallibility of its chiefs, the defilement of literature, the prostitution of the drama and of pictorial art to the passions of the human beast, the total negation of science, the universal conviction that the nation is invincible by land and by sea, and the concomitant proditomania, combined with the cheerful certitude that France is still the light and life of the world, are inevitable consequences of the four conditions enumerated above and unerring symptoms of the dire disease which has eaten into the vitals of the citizens of the third republic.
ref: 1897, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, The Zola Trial, page 470:
glosses: A phobia that others are conspiring against one.
quinie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinies
Etymology: From quoin.
Senses: glosses: A cornerstone.
quinies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinie
raven-messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raven-messengers
Etymology: From raven + messenger. From the Biblical story of Noah, who released a raven after a flood to see if it had receded, but the bird did not return in a timely fashion.
Senses: synonyms: corbie-messenger
glosses: A messenger or news-bringer who takes too long to arrive.
wikipedia: Noah
raven-messengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raven-messenger
twankle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twankles
form: twankling
form: twankled
form: twankled
Senses: glosses: To twang with the fingers on a music instrument.
twankles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twankle
twankling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twankle
twankled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twankle
vespering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin vesper.
Senses: examples: text: “O vespering bird, how do you know”
ref: 1910, Thomas Hardy, The Year’s Awakening:
glosses: westward; moving toward the setting sun.
vesperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vesperates
form: vesperating
form: vesperated
form: vesperated
Etymology: From Latin vesper.
Senses: glosses: To darken as at the beginning of night
vesperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vesperate
wantum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Eye dialect for want 'em.
Senses: examples: text: Then he have wongie along Sargint in office feller. White blackfeller wantum know 'bout old Sarah, an' Sargint he tellum she goodoh.
ref: 1998, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Oh, ah — er — me wantum Chinkie just come in.
ref: 2003, Thomas Burke, More Limehouse Nights, →ISBN, page 126:
text: “You wantum eat? You wantum sleep? If you wantum eat you wakum up.”
ref: 2009, Richard M. Dixon, Choosing Sides, →ISBN, page 166:
qualifier: imitating broken English
glosses: To want.
wantum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wantums
Etymology: Blend of want + quantum, coined by Irish writer Samuel Beckett.
Senses: examples: text: Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.
ref: 1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy:
text: A projection of “Wantum” requires, in the Couple, a reciprocal agreement on the part of the other to allow more than his own portion of Wantum to be discovered in him or herself.
ref: 1993, Harold N. Boris, Passions of the Mind: Unheard Melodies, →ISBN:
text: To use Wylie's phraseology: the quantum of this particular discursive wantum cannot vary.
ref: 2004, Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clément, After Beckett, →ISBN, page 249:
text: The desire to find something could provoke what she called 'wantum mechanics,' fishing a result out of nothing but noise.
ref: 2014, Gregory Benford, Gregory Benford SF Gateway Omnibus: Artifact, Cosm, Eater, →ISBN:
glosses: A quantifiable deficiency or desire
wantums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wantum
hepatofugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + fugal.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Flowing outwards from the liver (along the portal vein).
yogibogeybox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yogibogeyboxes
Etymology: Compound of yogi + bogey + box. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses.
Senses: examples: text: Yeats, like AE, though not so fatuously, stood for the whirlpool, Madame Blavatsky and the yogibogeybox.
ref: 1968, John Anthony Burgess Wilson, Urgent Copy, page 63:
text: For him the yogibogeybox could offer nothing so good as the vegetable world.
ref: 1972, Richard Ellmann Goldsmith, Ulysses on the Liffey, →ISBN, page 16:
text: "They are saying" — it was Prof. Fewstone, of course, sidling up to Miss Thisbite with his overfilled shirt and yogibogeybox-shaped head, the strange hairdressing of which gave him a big roach in front and a curled effect at the rear which he tucked under in a roll.
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's cat, page 199:
text: There is a period during which the children hear their mother denouncing "that woman" through closed doors, but the rival turns out to be only Mary Baker Eddy, in whose Boston yogibogeybox Walter had at last found a spiritual home.
ref: 1990, Benjamin Lawrence Reid, Necessary lives: biographical reflections, page 109:
text: Ellmann reports a more elaborate and nastier prank that Joyce and Gogarty actually perpetrated in the 'yogibogeybox' rooms of the Hermetic Society on Dawson Street, and he attributes to this prank the historical A.E.'s refusal to include Joyce in his 1904 collection titled New Songs, a Lyric Selection; Made by AE from Poems by Padraic Colum, Eva Gore-Booth, thomas Koehler, Alice Milligan, Susant Mitchell, Seamus O'Sullivan, George Roberts, and Ella Young (Gifford 212).
ref: 2011, M. Norris, Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses, →ISBN:
text: In a word, the 1898 Literary Ideals in Ireland discussion of French Symbolism exposed Yeats's Magic in Ireland, where it was as suspect as Russell's yogibogeybox Mysticism was harmless.
ref: 2012, Fran Brearton, Alan Gillis, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: A container for a spiritualist’s accessories.
yogibogeyboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yogibogeybox
smile-smirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smile-smirks
form: smile-smirking
form: smile-smirked
form: smile-smirked
Etymology: Compound of smile + smirk. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren’t men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 256:
text: Having inarticulately “rung the bell,” Douce “smilesmirks,” but nothing comes from her lips until the show is over and she teases Blazes Boylan (flirting with him, not Lenehan) that he is “the essence of vulgarity?' Never mind that her surname is French for “sweet,” she goes sour when Boylan leaves the pub immediately thereafter, for an assignation with Bloom's wife Molly.
ref: 2013, Jeffrey Miller, The Structures of Law and Literature:
text: He clanged open the register, still smile-smirking—Holy moly, it was really happening, what an adventure, wait'll he told the guys!
ref: 2014, John Nichols, American Blood:
glosses: To smile while smirking.
smile-smirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smile-smirks
Etymology: Compound of smile + smirk. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: […] and he'd quickly pull out and jettison a storm, turbospewing her back and hair and sheets and face and ears and sly, conniving little smile-smirk.
ref: 2012, Jim Marquez, A Moveable Beast:
text: Not because it made his scar disappear, but because it eased it for a few moments. His cocky smile-smirk was a close second favorite.
ref: 2014, Nicole Williams, The Crash Trilogy:
text: He wiped his own face as an indicator, that same smile-smirk painted on his stupid face.
ref: 2014, Zoe Foster Blake, The Wrong Girl:
text: I'm so not gonna tell him I was giggling because he is in my laps, but honestly, I think he knows. His lips do that smile-smirk thing again and he sits up.
ref: 2014, Lisanne Koster, Happily Ever After, Yes Please:
glosses: An instance of smile-smirking; a combined smile and smirk.
zalabiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zalabiyas
form: zulbiya
Senses: glosses: A form of jalebi, using made of eggs, flour, and milk, cooked in oil.
zalabiyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zalabiya
vesperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vesperate
vesperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vesperate
hepatopetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + -petal.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Towards the interior of the liver (along the portal vein).
Bobek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bobeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish, Czech or Slovene Bobek.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
NQE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NQEs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of nuclear quantum effect.
double free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The situation where a program attempts to free a previously allocated resource more than once, potentially resulting in undefined behaviour that may be exploited by an attacker.
gay plague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From being an epidemic spreading through the gay community.
Senses: examples: text: And it aims to launch upon this task in an era of superlative need and supreme difficulty, the frightening era of ‘the gay plague,’ AIDS.
ref: 1989, Marshall Kirk, Hunter Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s, Doubleday Books, page xiii:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
synonyms: word: AIDS
extra: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Synonyms: word: gay cancer
english: gay-related immune deficiency or gay-related immunodeficiency
translation: gay-related immune deficiency or gay-related immunodeficiency
word: GRID
gay cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gay (“homosexual”) + cancer (“disease”). From the fact that HIV/AIDS was in its beginnings very disproportionately found in homosexual men. The word “cancer” from the analogy with a suddenly emerging, highly feared and highly lethal disease.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
synonyms: word: AIDS
extra: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Synonyms: word: gay plague
english: gay-related immune deficiency or gay-related immunodeficiency
translation: gay-related immune deficiency or gay-related immunodeficiency
word: GRID
gay-related immunodeficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay-related immune deficiency
Senses: examples: text: The cause of the disorder is unknown. Researchers call it A.I.D., for acquired immunodeficiency disease, or GRID, for gay-related immunodeficiency. It has been reported in 20 states and seven countries.
ref: 1982 May 11, Lawrence K. Altman, “New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: GRID
word: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
extra: AIDS
glosses: Synonym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
gay-related immune deficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay-related immunodeficiency
Etymology: From gay + immune + deficiency.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: GRID; Synonym of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
Synonyms: word: GRID
word: gay cancer
word: gay plague
Derived terms: word: GRID
muonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muonides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Salt-like compound formed from muonium, a short-lived exotic molecule, and metal or hydrogen.
muonides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muonide
Rorschach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality on Lake Constance in St. Gallen canton, Switzerland.
Rorschach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rorschachs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A Rorschach test.
dodipole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodipoles
form: dotipole
Etymology: Possibly from dote (“to be senile”) + poll (“head”)
Senses: examples: text: But some will say, our curate is naught, an asshead, a dodipole, a lack-latin, and can do nothing: Shall I pay him my tithes, that doth us no good or none will do? Yea, I say, thou must pay him his due; and if he be such a one, complain to the bishop.
ref: 1550 October 9, Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon preached at Stamford”, in John Watkins, editor, The Sermons and Life of Hugh Latimer, volume 1, London: Aylott & Son, published 1858, page 288:
text: No remedy; you must be dieted, and let blood in the Cephalica vein of asses, fools, dolts, ideots, dunces, dodipolles, and so forth infinitely; and never trust me, if you be not as tame-tongued, and barren-witted, as other honest men of Lombardy and the Low Countries.
ref: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, page 59:
glosses: An old person with impaired intellect; a dotard, idiot or lunatic.
Synonyms: dotard
mimmerkin
lack-latin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lack-latins
form: lacklatin
Etymology: From lack + Latin. Literally someone who does not understand the Latin language.
Senses: examples: text: But some will say, our curate is naught, an asshead, a dodipole, a lack-latin, and can do nothing: Shall I pay him my tithes, that doth us no good or none will do? Yea, I say, thou must pay him his due; and if he be such a one, complain to the bishop.
ref: 1550 October 9, Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon preached at Stamford”, in John Watkins, editor, The Sermons and Life of Hugh Latimer, volume 1, London: Aylott & Son, published 1858, page 288:
glosses: An uneducated, ignorant person.
Synonyms: ignoramus
Parthyaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Further west, between Bactria and the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, Parthyaea, a vast region corresponding to the northeast of Iran, was invaded by a nomadic population under a chief named Arsaces.
ref: 2008, Francois Chamoux, Hellenistic Civilization, →ISBN, page 80:
text: He was replaced by Phrataphernes in Parthyaea before 329 (3. 28. 2); and Hyrcania could then have been annexed and associated as a separate satrapy with the Elburz peoples, all under Autophradates.
ref: 1980, A. B. Bosworth, A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander: Commentary on books 4-5, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 122:
qualifier: Hellenistic period
glosses: the region Parthia
eggplanty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eggplanty
form: most eggplanty
Etymology: From eggplant + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of eggplant.
Synonyms: auberginey
smile-smirks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smile-smirk
smile-smirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smile-smirk
smile-smirking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smile-smirk
smile-smirked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smile-smirk
picnic site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picnic sites
Senses: glosses: A place, typically in the countryside, in which people have picnics; especially one equipped with benches, tables, waste-bins etc
Pictones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Pictavi
glosses: A Celtic tribe of Aquitania, whose capital was Limonum.
susp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of suspended.
glosses: Abbreviation of suspicious.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of suspected.
susp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: susps
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Abbreviation of suspect.
lickery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lickery
form: most lickery
Etymology: From lick + -ery, modelled after slippery.
Senses: examples: text: “I want some waltzin',” Rose said. “And a long, lickery good-night kiss!”
ref: 2010, Marcia Lynn McClure, The Touch of Sage, page 73:
text: “You know, a big lickery kiss, like the one we seen Roy Gribbs lay to Ethel McCormick the other day when we was peekin' at them from the branches of that ol' cottonwood tree.”
ref: 2011, Marcia Lynn McClure, The Light of the Lovers' Moon:
text: As insults, rips and profanes unsettled the tree tops, the dogs of demonism concluded licking up Thump's plasma, secured glares back up. Thump merely gave them appetizers. Their hungers teased, their eyeballs bristled with deep craving. “Hounds've finished their lickery...” observed Zeth.
ref: 2012, Khalid Patel, Hollow Shotguns:
text: And all I could think of was: Come on, Stevie, give me a great big lickery kiss.
ref: 2013, Ray Banks, Dead Money, page 89:
glosses: Marked by licking, often involving copious amounts of saliva; sloppy; (by extension) salacious
glisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glisks
form: glisking
form: glisked
form: glisked
Senses: examples: text: […] to watch the young fish go by glisking, and I thought to look a fish in the eye for the expression there and see if a wild fish were stupid or not. But no fish stopped and I thought of the pie again, in my mind seeing the brown peaks rising up where they would be[…]
ref: 2013 October 17, Josephine Johnson, Winter Orchard and Other Stories, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: […] the tinge of firelight glisking in her hair.
ref: 2021 November 23, Diana Gabaldon, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel, Dell, →ISBN:
glosses: To glisten or glitter, sparkle or shine.
examples: text: As the piercing e'en o' Sir David Grame; / She glisked wi' her e'e where these e'en should be, / But the raven had been there afore she came. / There's a cloud that fa's darker than the night, / An' darkly on that lady it came; […]
ref: 1836, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 429:
text: ... like a secret. As he stood lone as a lighthouse, Sherman's eyes glisked through the toff junta he'd seen before only in the society pages of the Bombay Chronicle: the Mandalays; Eric Claude Fromm, the inventor of the world's first[…]
ref: 2004, i, The Last Song of Dusk, Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: To glance.
surmountableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surmountable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being surmountable.
multiplying glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplying glasses
Senses: examples: text: 1694, N.H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p. 95,
[…] ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover—who is generally so unreasonable an Animal, that he does not consider, One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man; whereas if a Fam’d Beauty, or Fortune, she can never content all Pretenders—unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass.
text: It may have one side, which must be convex, ground into little facets, like those of some jewels, while the other side is plain. Children know it by the name of a multiplying glass […]
ref: 1776, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 5, in A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, volume 2, London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery, page 284:
text: When I look at a candle through a multiplying glass, I seem to see a dozen candles instead of one […]
ref: 1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, New York: Harper & Brothers, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 384:
synonyms: polyscope
glosses: A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.
examples: text: Will he forgive that dim sight which I have of sin now, when sins scarce appeare to be sins unto me, and will he forgive that over-quick sight, when I shall see my sins through Satans multiplying glasse of desperation, when I shall thinke them greater then his mercy, upon my death bed?
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, “Sermon preached upon Whitsunday”, in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, published 1640, page 343:
text: 1631, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, London: Thomas Alchorne, Act I, Scene 1,
poring through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle
text: For all men are by nature provided of notable multiplying glasses, (that is their Passions and Selfe-love,) through which, every little payment appeareth a great grievance; but are destitute of those prospective glasses, (namely Morall and Civill Science,) to see a farre off the miseries that hang over them, and cannot without such payments be avoyded.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 18, in Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, page 94:
glosses: A magnifying glass.
Related terms: multiplying lens
multiplying lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplying lenses
Senses: synonyms: polyscope
glosses: A lens with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.
Related terms: multiplying glass
multiplying glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplying glass
multiplying lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplying lens
revealed preferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This paper documents the revealed preferences of U.S. open-end mutual funds for various stock characteristics.
ref: 1996, Eric G. Falkenstein (March 1996), "Preferences for stock characteristics as revealed by mutual fund portfolio holdings", Journal of Finance, 51(1):111–135, doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1996.tb05204.x, page 111
text: We show that if psychological preferences are incomplete then revealed preferences can be intransitive without exposing agents to manipulations or violating outcome rationality.
ref: 2005, Michael Mandler (February 2005), "Incomplete preferences and rational intransitivity of choice", Games and Economic Behavior, 50(2):255–277, doi:10.1016/j.geb.2004.02.007, page 255
text: This paper examines revealed preferences of parents for their children's education, using parent requests for individual elementary school teachers and information on teacher attributes, including principal reports of teacher characteristics that are typically unobservable.
ref: 2007, Brian A. Jacob and Lars Lefgren (1 November 2007), "What do parents value in education? An empirical investigation of parents’ revealed preferences for teachers", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4):1603–1637, doi:10.1162/qjec.2007.122.4.1603, page 1603
glosses: plural of revealed preference
Land camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Land cameras
Etymology: After its inventor Edwin H. Land
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An early form of polaroid camera
wikipedia: Edwin H. Land
McGuirl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGuirls
Etymology: Possibly a variant of McGirl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
tequila slammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tequila slammers
Etymology: Named for the primary ingredient (tequila) and the act of slamming the glass to make the drink fizz.
Senses: examples: text: The tequila slammer will forever be associated with the most reckless style of drinking.
ref: 2007, Corby Kummer, 1001 Foods To Die For, →ISBN, page 940:
text: 'Tell me more . . . it sounds worthy of a tequila slammer so far,' said Bill.
ref: 2013, Anna Bromley, Wild Animals and Wedding Outfits, →ISBN:
text: Because tequila slammers are consumed rapidly, like a shot, this ingestion provides further risk for a bartender looking to enter the field; the sudden spike of alcohol in the bloodstream means that, if improperly prepared, a tequila slammer will render the drinker incapable of metabolizing magic for as long as an hour.
ref: 2016, Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge: A Novel, →ISBN, page 249:
glosses: A cocktail consisting of tequila, possibly with a mixer, that is slammed down on a surface so as to quickly mix ingredients and expel gasses to concentrate the alcohol.
tequila slammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tequila slammer
school day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school days
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schoolday.
Austric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin auster (“south wind; south”) + -ic, where the root is also the first part of the terms Austronesian and Austroasiatic.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a proposed macrofamily of languages, including the Austroasiatic, Daic, and Austronesian language families among others
malkying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of malky
malkied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of malky
Daic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ultimately from the name of the Dai language.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to the Tai-Kadai language family
Synonyms: Tai–Kadai
Derived terms: Dené-Daic
LEOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LEO
exculpator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exculpators
Senses: glosses: One who exculpates, or frees from blame.
exculpators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exculpator
Proto-Austric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Austric.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical protolanguage (common ancestor language) of the Austric languages
troll job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troll jobs
Senses: examples: text: "Well, it looks like I really stirred up a shit storm with this thread." Yep, nice troll job, ray
ref: 2003 May 27, Jack Schidt®v, “Eat to live vs Live to eat”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
text: Believe me, if I DID decide to do a troll job on this place, "PHAMM" or whatever his name is - ON HIS BEST DAY couldn't out-do me ON MY WORST.
ref: 2003 July 12, The Space Boss, “VICTOR "THE VICTIM" VELEZ”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):
text: Myself, I believe it's a troll job because the people in the tower are bored to death. They have no one to fight with. They figure, let's stir up some action.
ref: 2006 July 10, -cat-, “Is it a troll job or is it a tower mongrel?”, in alt.online-service.webtv (Usenet):
text: Political troll job dressed up as a Red Sox post. Do explain how this is a classy way to troll.
ref: 2010 January 23, Dano, “Good job Red Sox fans!”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet):
text: Twenty minutes later, he let his eyelids split a quarter open and noticed a staircase going up to the third floor. This was the only house in the row that had an extra level, and the path had led him here. Of course, this had all been a massive cosmic troll job. Ben fully expected to walk up those stairs and find a giant papier-mâché middle finger waiting for him.
ref: 2016, Drew Magary, The Hike: A Novel, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: A prank played in order to upset people.
examples: text: Leaning over his back, she glanced past his shoulder and recognized the receipts and paperwork from the troll job. Bittersweet nostalgia swept over her as she recalled the night she and Rosa had transformed a desperately lonely troll into a confident kickass female.
ref: 2014, Camille Anthony, Werewulf Journals, →ISBN:
text: It's common knowledge that trolls aren't the sharpest swords in the arsenal, so mog diving is a pretty common troll job.
ref: 2016, Rob Harrell, Life of Zarf: Troll Overboard, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A job suitable for or focused on a troll.
parameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paramere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Apices of male parameres evidently swollen (when compared with the narrowest width); when closed, inner parameric margins strongly arcuate, giving a decided bowed appearance; […]
ref: 1950, The Wasmann Journal of Biology, volume 8, page 103:
glosses: Relating to a paramere.
troll jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troll job
noxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Relating to wrongful injury.
Derived terms: noxally
Related terms: noxious
nocuous
eau Créole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French eau Créole.
Senses: glosses: A fine Martinique liqueur, made by distilling the flowers of the mammee apple with spirit of wine.
oodlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oodles (“lots; a great number or amount”).
Trinity Sundays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trinity Sunday
Verulamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Verulamium (“an ancient British city near the site of St Albans”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the English city of St Albans.
glosses: Of or relating to Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans (1561-1626).
tryp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All large neutral amino acids, including tryp, showed significant postprandial increases. The ratio of total tryp to the sum of these neutral amino acids did not change in response to eating.
ref: 1975, Andrea Phyllis Boyar, The effect of undernutrition on brain serotonin and 5HIAA in the neonatal and weanling rat:
text: Through biochemical analysis of the tryp A protein, it was shown that each of the 16 mutants resulted in an amino acid substitution at a different position in the protein.
ref: 2002, Anthony J.F. Griffiths, Modern Genetic Analysis: Integrating Genes and Genomes, volume 1:
text: Removal of arg, pro, thre or tryp reduced specific binding of bGH to cultured pig hepatocytes.
ref: 2003, Wolfgang-Bernhard Souffrant, Cornelia C. Metges, Progress in Research on Energy and Protein Metabolism, page 761:
glosses: Abbreviation of tryptophan.
tocologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocologists
Etymology: From tocology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies tocology; an obstetrician.
tocologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tocologist
tocodynamometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to tocodynamometry.
perpetual curate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpetual curates
Senses: glosses: A resident parish priest or incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland, supported by a cash stipend, usually maintained by an endowment fund, and having no ancient right to income from tithe or glebe.
perpetual curates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetual curate
ronins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ronin
get one's fairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's fairing
form: getting one's fairing
form: got one's fairing
form: got one's fairing
Senses: examples: text: Ah, Tam! ah, Tam! thou’ll get thy fairin’!
In hell they’ll roast thee like a herrin’!
ref: 1791, Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter, New York: K. Tompkins, published 1874:
synonyms: get what's coming to one
coordinate_terms: have it coming
glosses: To get what one deserves.
Related terms: just deserts
Heracleian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heracleian
form: most Heracleian
Senses: glosses: Relating to Hercules.
glosses: Relating to the island of Heraclea.
Heraclean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Heraclean
form: most Heraclean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Heracleian (“relating to Hercules”).
glosses: Alternative form of Heracleian (“relating to the island of Heraclea”).
centrifugeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centrifugable.
centrifugable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centrifuge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be centrifuged.
horse mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse mushrooms
Senses: glosses: Agaricus arvensis (species of fungi in the family Agaricaceae).
horse mushrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse mushroom
renvoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renvoy
renvoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renvoy
eradicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eradication + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to eradication.
wireworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wire + working.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of wirework.
wireworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wire + working.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wirework
overfineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + fineness.
Senses: glosses: excessive fineness
overfinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overfinely
form: most overfinely
Etymology: From over- + finely.
Senses: glosses: Too finely.
cover the buckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers the buckle
form: covering the buckle
form: covered the buckle
form: covered the buckle
Senses: glosses: To execute a difficult step in dancing.
cannon metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy of about 90% copper and 10% tin, from which cannon were manufactured.
Lemnian earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cimolite.
Louis-Quatorze
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Louis XIV. Essentially French Louis - quatorze (“fourteen”).
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715) in architecture and decoration.
wikipedia: Louis XIV
Louis-Quinze
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French.
Senses: examples: text: In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Characteristic of the reign of Louis XV of France (1710-74) in architecture and decoration.
Louis-Seize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Louis XVI. Essentially French Louis - seize (“sixteen”).
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the reign of Louis XVI (1774-92) in architecture and decoration.
wikipedia: Louis XVI