cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
minac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minacs
Etymology: Blend of minimum + activity
Senses: examples: text: Some trad apas *don't* have minacs, some *are* for formal zines, many apazines *don't* consist largely of mailing comments, many apas *don't* have dues, some *don't* use the usage of "mailings" or "distributions," and so forth.
ref: 2000 March 28, Gary Farber, “Re: Personal Apa? (was Re: Boskone 37 Repo”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <8brcus$fhh$1@news.panix.com>:
text: John seems to think I will have enough to say of interest to the membership to fill my minimum number of pages. I understand that some waitlisters have contributed pages before becoming full members and this seems like a good idea to me. This way I can make a dry run at putting together my contributions each mailing without worrying about having to meet minac. If I can’t make minac while I’m waiting to join, I figure I can gracefully drop from the waitlist before causing any trouble.
ref: 2001 October, Warren Harris, “Just who is this guy anyway?”, in Back Numbers, number 1, page 1:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The minimum activity required of a member of an amateur press association; the regular contribution required to maintain membership.
minac
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minacs
form: minacking
form: minacked
form: minacked
Etymology: Blend of minimum + activity
Senses: examples: text: That would be more of an inducement if I hadn't minacked out of FAPA after realizing that I wasn't reading most of it.
ref: 1999 October 18, Vicki Rosenzweig, “Re: AKICIF New York History department”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <F6sLOMDeV7ku53YswkZZdubXcB=M@4ax.com>:
text: We few, we serconn’d few, we apa of brothers;¶ For he today that sheds his ink with me¶ Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so minacked,¶ This day shall excuse his reprint;
ref: 2006 July 25, Steve Tompkins, “Once More Unto the Post Office…”, in The Cimmerian, retrieved 10 Dec 2014:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To not meet the minimum activity level of an amateur press association.
minacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minac
minacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minac
minacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minac
minacs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minac
kypholordosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: lordokyphosis
glosses: The combination of kyphosis and lordosis.
Derived terms: kypholordotic
flexicurve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexicurves
Etymology: From flexible curve.
Senses: glosses: A strip of flexible material that can be used for drawing curves, measuring posture, etc.
flexicurves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexicurve
property ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of property ladder
gene transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gene transfers
Senses: glosses: Transfer of genes between organisms, either horizontally between organisms in a manner other than reproduction, or vertically from the parental generation to offspring via sexual or asexual reproduction.
Hyponyms: horizontal gene transfer
HGT
lateral gene transfer
LGT
kaffir lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffir lilies
Senses: glosses: The plant Clivia miniata in the Amaryllidaceae family.
glosses: The plant Hesperantha coccinea syn. Schizostylis coccinea in the Iridaceae family.
kaffir lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaffir lily
kaffir beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffir beers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tshwala.
synonyms: word: tshwala
malwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: beer made with millet, common in Africa
ikupasuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ikupasuy
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial carved wooden stick used by Ainu men when making offerings to spirits.
gene flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gene flows
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Transfer of alleles or genes from one population to another.
septology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septologies
Etymology: From sept- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: A series of seven works, especially books.
Synonyms: sense: series of seven works
word: heptalogy
septologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septology
mears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mear
Ulcinj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Montenegro.
barefooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barefooters
Etymology: From barefoot + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
glosses: A member of the barefoot movement; a person who chooses not to wear shoes or socks.
Related terms: barefooting
barefooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barefooter
Swamp Yankee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swamp Yankees
Senses: glosses: An American with English colonial ancestry from rural Rhode Island or nearby eastern Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts.
goffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goff
ifs, ands or buts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ifs, ands, or buts.
Dunbar's number
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dunbar number
Etymology: Proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.
Senses: examples: text: Dunbar's number might have remained a curiosity but for the fact that subsequent research found that this number has arisen repeatedly, across the planet, in terms of actual human social group sizes.
ref: 2020, Michael Wooldridge, The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. It has been proposed to lie between 100 and 250, with a commonly used value of 150.
wikipedia: Robin Dunbar
repottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repotting
Allen curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Allen curves
Etymology: Discovered by Professor Thomas J. Allen in the late 1970s.
Senses: qualifier: communication theory
glosses: A graphical representation that reveals the exponential drop in frequency of communication between engineers as the distance between them increases.
Mogadishan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mogadishan
form: most Mogadishan
Etymology: From Mogadishu + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Mogadishu.
Mogadishan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mogadishans
Etymology: From Mogadishu + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mogadishu.
Mogadishans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mogadishan
surry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: surries
form: surrie
Etymology: From sirrah.
Senses: qualifier: Potteries dialect
glosses: Friend
Synonyms: friend
surrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surries
Senses: qualifier: Potteries dialect
glosses: Alternative form of surry.
interventionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interventional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, intervention.
Derived terms: preinterventionally
axiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axiniform
form: most axiniform
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like the head of an axe.
avalement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avalements
Etymology: From French avalement, from avaler.
Senses: examples: text: On the same slope, choose a steeper traverse track on a short mogul field that passes over a series of small moguls, and repeat the avalement movements.
ref: 1995, Martin Heckelman, The New Guide to Skiing, page 109:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A technique of flexing the knees while skiing.
gonest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ellington telegraphed to Breen, “Your Porgy and Bess the superbest, singing the gonest, acting the craziest, Gershwin the greatest.”
ref: 2000, James M. Hutchisson, quoting Duke Ellington, Dubose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: superlative form of gone: most gone
autosoterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The belief that salvation is attained through oneself and not an external agency.
Related terms: autosoteric
carousel voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fraudulent election tactic in which voters are transported from one place to another in order to cast multiple votes.
missing trader fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missing trader frauds
Etymology: So called because it involves one of the traders absconding without paying the due tax.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carousel fraud.
synonyms: word: carousel fraud
Baker's cyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baker's cysts
Etymology: Named after the surgeon who first described it, William Morrant Baker (1838–1896).
Senses: glosses: A benign swelling of the semimembranosus or more rarely some other synovial bursa found behind the knee joint.
periodic comets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodical comets
Senses: glosses: plural of periodic comet
periodical comets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodic comets
Senses: glosses: plural of periodical comet
credit unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit union
Hirschy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hirschys
Etymology: From Swiss German Hirschi, a diminutive of Hirsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
stablize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of stabilize.
Indyref
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.di.ɹɛf/
Etymology: Abbreviation of independence referendum.
Senses: examples: text: In the first foreign policy initiative launched in Edinburgh since 1707, senior SNP figures have begun an intense round of behind-the-scenes meetings with foreign dignitaries as they prepare the ground for next year's indyref.
ref: 2013 October 23, David Leask, “SNP’s mission to woo the world”, in The Herald, Glasgow, archived from the original on 17 May 2017:
text: Experienced politicians were surprised by the astounding vitality that the indyref unleashed.
ref: 2014 September 23, Peter Jones, “Referendum shows the power of people”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 17 May 2017:
text: Coming exactly a year after the same “impossible” moment when the Yes vote hit 51 per cent before the indyref, this concerted and hysterical attack will have stirred memories and prompted sympathy among fellow Trident and austerity-opposing Yes voters.
ref: 2015 September 13, Lesley Riddoch, “Corbyn could play well with Scots”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2016:
text: My only regrets are thatbrad T2 failed to get to grips with the new era of #indyref and Scottish national identity – for which Renton's famous "shite" speech helped plant a tiny seed in 1996 – and that the second film didn't give the women characters much to do, especially the excellent Kelly Macdonald and Shirley Henderson.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn’t disappoint”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2017:
glosses: The Scottish independence referendum held on 18 September 2014.
wikipedia: Scottish independence referendum, 2014
Related terms: Indyref2
stix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sticks (plural of stick) with -x replacing the /ks/ sound.
Senses: examples: text: How many of you folks out in the stix, who supply the very life's blood of the organization, would favor selection of convention cities in the same carefree manner that a millionaire chooses his annual destination to the sunny climes of the southland?
ref: 1924, Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America, Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, volumes 2-3, page 92:
text: She'd carry a bottle of nail glue with her and the dope that goes over — gold in this case. They're transparent, you put the gold over or any other color. It's a Hollywood prop being copied in the stix, like false eyelashes.
ref: 1942, Gladys Adelina Lewis, Serge G. Wolsey, "Call House Madam,": The Story of the Career of Beverly Davis:
text: The Commercial Hotel, incidentally, wasn't in Reno or Las Vegas, but way out in the stix in Elko.
ref: 1999, Don W. Martin, Betty Woo Martin, Nevada in your future: the complete relocation guide for job-seekers, businesses, retirees and winter "snowbirds", page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sticks (“rural area”).
examples: text: Citrus juice, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, cheese stix — 2 one ounce stix, plums, milk.
ref: 1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs: Hearings..., page 3711:
glosses: Plural of stick (“baton”).
Stix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Styx.
blind with science
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blinds with science
form: blinding with science
form: blinded with science
form: blinded with science
Senses: examples: text: He had no doubt that they would all have highly convincing stories, and would try to blind him with science if he attempted to pin them down.
ref: 1955, Arthur C. Clarke, Earthlight, page 8:
text: If you give him the full printed accounts of his company, he will react by saying that you are blinding him with science, and will pick on figures with many noughts after them and ask where all that money has gone.
ref: 1957, Herbert Morrison, Vitality in Administration, page 51:
text: My Hon. Friend the Member for the City of Chester has explained what could happen if he comes up against a really hot surveyor who blinds him with science and produces all sorts of cases of which the valuation officer has not heard.
ref: 1970 January 20, James Allason, “Ascertainment of Gross Value of Dwelling-House”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), volume 794, column 443:
text: He'd blinded him with science. He'd tied him up with references and precedents. He'd cited Rabbi This from Cracow and Rabbi That from Vilna, till apparently the Great Developer looked like nothing so much as a bull quilled with banotilleros.
ref: 1972, Brian Glanville, The Financiers, page 128:
text: Betting was how most of the money Bill earned from helping Fred ended up back in Fred's pocket and not in his. Fred blinded him with science and it always turned out to be to Fred's advantage, Bill thought ruefully.
ref: 2014, Rosie Harris, A Dream of Love, page 150:
glosses: To overwhelm someone with details in order to influence or mislead them.
Related terms: buzzword
blinds with science
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blind with science
blinding with science
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blind with science
blinded with science
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blind with science
Szechuan peppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Szechuan pepper
systempunkts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systempunkt
Syrophenician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syrophenicians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Syrophoenician.
Syrophenician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Syrophenician
form: most Syrophenician
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Syrophoenician.
Syrophenicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syrophenician
Beatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Beatus + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Beatus of Liébana, a Spanish monk of the 8th century.
Related terms: Beatine map
Beatus map
Beatus page
macrographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From macrographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, macrography.
macrographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macrography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to macrography.
Derived terms: macrographically
macrographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to macrography.
preambivalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preambivalent + -ly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: During the preambivalent phase.
preambivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ambivalent.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an early oral stage, prior to recognition of external objects and the development of ambivalent feelings toward them.
aparigraha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अपरिग्रह (aparigraha).
Senses: glosses: The Jainist principle of greedlessness, or not having unnecessary possessions.
greedlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From greedless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of greed.
mucky muck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucky mucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muckamuck (“person in authority”).
maleficiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maleficiaries
Senses: examples: text: To learn whether we as a nation may be either the beneficiary or maleficiary of this princely private interest we must ask what happens as the result of such interest
ref: 1912, William Harvey Allen, Modern philanthropy; a Study of Efficient Appealing and Giving, Dodd. Mead and Company, page 148:
text: Literary criticism is not only the beneficiary of this continuity of medium but the maleficiary. For every occasion on which literary criticism is thereby enabled to be more precisely applicable and substantiable than, say, criticism of music (which does not manifest itself for most purposes in the medium of music), there will be at least the danger of an occasion on which literary criticism will succumb to the incitements endemic to such continuity.
ref: 1996, Christopher B. Ricks, Essays in Appreciation, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 348:
text: Just as gratitude is structured by three major terms, the beneficiary, the benefice, and the benefactor, resentment is structured by three major terms that we might call the maleficiary, the malefice, and the malefactor.
ref: 2004, Robert C. Roberts, The Psychology of Gratitude, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66:
antonyms: beneficiary
glosses: One who suffers harm from something.
maleficiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maleficiary
keyboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keyboy
hear the end of it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hears the end of it
form: hearing the end of it
form: heard the end of it
form: heard the end of it
Senses: examples: text: If I spilled wine on their new carpet, I'd never hear the end of it.
text: The Right Hon[orable] Sir J. G. Ward. — Mr. Symes did not know it. They published this private and confidential letter without either Mr. Symes's or Mr. McCluggage's knowledge or consent. Why, if any of us were to do that sort of thing we would never hear the end of it, nor would any one else hear the end of the improper use of a letter which was beyond all question private and confidential.
ref: 1910, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 153, page 1156:
text: […] What happens at the end of July? Seems like those dates ring a bell. I know, it's our state bandmaster's convention. This is the year they are having all those great clinicians. I helped set up the program from our region. No choice: if I don't attend and go to our annual breakfast, I'll never hear the end of it. That's not too bad, it will be fun and there is still all of August to jump in the boat and do some serious fishing.
ref: 1992, Tim Lautzenheiser, “The Proverbial Summer Vacation” (chapter 47), in The Art of Successful Teaching: A Blend of Content & Context, page 198:
text: Kill your dreams if male validation is all that you need / Being a man ain't all that it seems / Yeah, by all means, bro, say what you need / I'll never hear the end of it […]
ref: 2023, torr, “drywall”, in molecule ft. patchymate:
text: berdly if your friends were homestuck characters who would they be. //sorry autism wants me dead, berdlys my fav character and hs is my spin. you will never heard the end of it from me
ref: 2024 April 15, @XxKilla_KrisxX, Twitter:
glosses: To cease to be told about, or nagged because of, something.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: Here Scheherazade, perceiving day, left off her story, which did so much whet the sultan's curiosity, that he was absolutely resolved to hear the end of it, and put off the sultaness's execution till the next day.
ref: 1812, Arabian Nights, page 11:
text: The experience of the beginning of the word when I hear the end of it must conform in some measure to what I heard a moment ago.
ref: 1991, Sheila Greeve Davaney, Theology at the End of Modernity: Essays in Honor of Gordon D. Kaufman, page 188:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, the, end, of, it.
nonsarcastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑnsɑɹˈkæstɪkli/
Etymology: From non- + sarcastically.
Senses: glosses: Without the use of sarcasm.
new-build
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new-builds
Senses: examples: text: The 2.8 mile extension uses the existing London, Tilbury and Southend line for the first 1.8 miles, before the one-mile new-build branch diverges south, using a viaduct to cross the main line, Ripple Lane container terminal, and HS1 tunnels.
ref: 2022 June 29, Mel Holley, “Summer start for Barking Riverside extension”, in RAIL, number 960, pages 16–17:
glosses: Alternative form of newbuild.
Lobstein syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Jean Lobstein dealt with it in adults in 1833.
Senses: glosses: osteogenesis imperfecta
brittle bone disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːz
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of osteogenesis imperfecta.
synonyms: word: osteogenesis imperfecta
gliogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glio- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: The "indifferent cell" described by Schaper was an apolar element occurring ubiquitously in the growing central nervous system and capable of the dual function of neurogenesis and gliogenesis.
ref: 1938 November 24, John Kershman, “The medulloblast and the medulloblastoma: a study of human embryos”, in Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, volume 40, number 5, page 937:
text: Specifically, growing evidence indicates that there are several astroglial lineages, that there are regional differences in the patterns of gliogenesis within the CNS, that astrocytes from different brain regions have distinct properties (see Chapter 4), and that glial progenitors remain in the adult mammalian CNS.
ref: 2012, Gerard Meurant, Astrocytes: Pharmacology and Function, page 1:
glosses: The generation of non-neuronal glia populations derived from multipotent neural stem cells.
Derived terms: neurogliogenesis
Related terms: gliogenic
microgliogenesis
paper cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper cups
Senses: examples: text: A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
ref: 1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:
text: My coach was air-conditioned, of course, and there was an iced drinking water fountain with a supply of paper cups in a recess by the rest-rooms and toilets.
ref: 1961 June, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States”, in Trains Illustrated, page 356:
text: Messy trains are horrible, but you can sort of understand passengers leaving their sandwich wrappers and paper cups if there is nowhere to dispose of them.
ref: 2023 April 5, Pip Dunn, “'196s' giving commuters a smoother ride”, in RAIL, number 980, page 55:
glosses: A disposable cup made out of paper and often lined with plastic or wax to prevent liquid from leaking out or soaking through the paper.
paper cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper cup
embrittlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embrittlement
dangit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Contraction.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dang it.
crottled greep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crottled greeps
Etymology: Coined as nonce words by Dean Grennell in 1953 in a one-shot fanzine called Filler.
Senses: examples: text: But if you don't like crottled greeps, what did you order them for?
ref: 1953, Dean Grennell, Filler, Filler #378:
text: Lee Hoffman wrote a story for GRUE 27 portraying Crottled Greeps as a seductive but lethal viand and imagination took over from there.
ref: 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Crottled Greeps:
text: Really, Diefenbaker would write to anybody. Just let someone in Nowhere-in-Particular, New Jersey. write in a comment to Diefenbaker's fan magazine, and Dief would fire back a friendly five-page letter, making the poor crottled greep feel liked.
ref: 1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9:
text: In this book, Crottled Greeps is the name of a wide range of completely unrelated foods from different cultures.
ref: 1990, Greg Costikyan, Cups and Sorcery, →ISBN, page ?:
text: I won't touch crottled greeps. Why is it everyone who's seen a crottled greep wants to watch someone else coping?
ref: 1994, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Gripping Hand, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Though many have whined about blog, and indeed about crottled greeps, this won't quite do. For one thing, most places that deign to serve crottled greeps aren't classy enough to serve blog, and those that are charge an enormous corkage fee. For another, blog is too strong (in both flavor and alcohol) and covers up the delicate nuances of crottled greeps. Some people consider this a plus.
ref: 1995 October 6, David E Romm, “Re: parking ghods (was Re: NYC Fandom)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <romm-0610951335260001@ppp-66-114.dialup.winternet.com>:
text: They actually had crottled greeps on the menu here.
ref: 1996, James Doohan, S. M. Stirling, The Rising, →ISBN, page 281:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fictional foodstuff.
Coordinate terms: Blog
crottled greeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crottled greep
Bergland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berglands
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Bergland.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
for the Gipper
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: See win one for the Gipper.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:for the Gipper.
glosses: In dedication to someone held in high regard.
raw_tags: in win one for the Gipper
of the efforts of a team
sub-national
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subnational.
sub-national
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-nationals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subnational.
commited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of committed.
commited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of committed.
ahierarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + hierarchical.
Senses: glosses: Not hierarchical.
pressure suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressure suit
glitzkrieg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitzkriegs
Etymology: Blend of glitz + blitzkrieg.
Senses: examples: text: Because he parlayed the Brooklyn apartments built by his father into a metropolitan real-estate kingdom exemplified by the extraordinary Trump Tower, a glitzkrieg of marble, glass, and brass where millions shop and millionaires live, […]
ref: 1984, Vanity Fair, volume 47, page 62:
text: "Supermodels" were launched during the glitzkrieg of the '80s, when brand-name girls like Linda, Christy, Naomi, and Cindy were promoted as special commodities with individual identities.
ref: 1996 March, Rhonda Lieberman, “I, Fabulous”, in Spin, page 76:
text: The Bollywood Saga, by Dinesh Raheja and Jitendra Kothari, documents the journey of Hindi films, analysing changes that marked each passing era — from the early silent years to the post-millennial "glitzkrieg" of mega-budget films.
ref: 2004, India Today International, volume 3, numbers 39-52, unnumbered page:
glosses: An assault of luxuriousness, extravagance, or ostentation.
zero g
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zero G.
zero-g
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zero G.
zero-G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zero G.
zero gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zero G.
zero-gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zero G.
genital herpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A genital infection caused by herpes simplex viruses (mostly HHV2 but also HHV1).
Synonyms: herpes genitalis
binoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binoscopes
Etymology: Blend of binocular + telescope
Senses: glosses: A type of binary telescope or long-distance binoculars, typically used for amateur astronomy or artillery sighting.
binoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binoscope
hard disc drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard disc drive
optical drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optical drive
geoinformatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + informatics.
Senses: glosses: A science and technology which develops and uses information science to address problems of geography, geosciences and related branches of engineering
Related terms: geoinformatic
ninja sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninja swords
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ninjato.
synonyms: word: ninjato
EVE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EVEs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of endogenous viral element.
EVEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EVE
endogenous viral element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endogenous viral elements
Senses: glosses: Viral DNA embedded within the genome of a non-virus organism which is left over from an ancestral infection which integrated viral DNA into the genomic heritage of the organism's ancestry.
Synonyms: word: EVE
Related terms: viral element
endogenous viral elements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endogenous viral element
blood flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodflow
Senses: glosses: The continuous circulation of blood in the cardiovascular system; bloodstream.
Derived terms: cerebral blood flow
cardiovascular system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiovascular systems
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The circulatory system.
Derived terms: word: CVS
microchromosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microchromosome
rien ne va plus
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈã nə vɑː ˈpluː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: rien n'va plus
Etymology: Borrowed from French rien ne va plus (literally “nothing goes any more”). In use since mid 19th century.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
synonyms: les jeux sont faits
no more bets
the stakes are set
glosses: In roulette, an announcement made by the croupier while the wheel is spinning and no more bets can be placed.
digital weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital weapons
Senses: glosses: A malicious software program used in cyberwarfare.
Hypernyms: malware
Hyponyms: logic bomb
trojan
virus
worm
digital weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital weapon
grassy arse
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: grassy ass
Senses: examples: text: 'Then what are we waiting for? Waiter, the bill?' 'Gracias, senor.' 'And grassy arse to you. Come on, let's go.'
ref: 1955, The London Magazine, volume 2, page 63:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of gracias.
Related terms: mercy bucket
silver plate
part-finance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: part-finances
form: part-financing
form: part-financed
form: part-financed
form: part finance
Etymology: From part + finance.
Senses: glosses: To finance in part; partly finance or subsidise the cost of something.
Synonyms: part-fund
beforesaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From before + said.
Senses: examples: text: Ten perches of land extending themselves from the beforesaid Bull oke as far as the northern porch of the said church of Manchester lying between the said Bull oke and the beforesaid place of Ralph of Staneley …
ref: 1848, "The Ancient Parish Church of Manchester, and Why it was Collegiated", Manchester, Samuel Hibbert-Ware, p. 172
glosses: Previously said.
Synonyms: aforesaid
aforementioned
abovementioned
complete game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complete games
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game during which the starting pitcher pitches for the entirety of the game, without a relief pitcher.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see complete, game.
Related terms: go the route
befetter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befetters
form: befettering
form: befettered
form: befettered
Etymology: From be- + fetter.
Senses: examples: text: They are the mute representatives of their tongue-tied, befettered, heavy-laden Nations; who from out of that dark bewilderment gaze wistful, amazed, with half-incredulous hope, towards you, and this your bright light of a French Federation[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 52:
glosses: To confine with fetters; restrain as if by fetters.
befetters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befetter
befettering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befetter
befettered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befetter
befreeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befreezes
form: befreezing
form: befroze
form: befrozen
Etymology: From be- + freeze.
Senses: glosses: To freeze thoroughly or completely.
befreezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befreeze
befreezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befreeze
befroze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of befreeze
befrozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of befreeze
befraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befraught
form: most befraught
Etymology: From be- + fraught.
Senses: glosses: fraught
swaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swain + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Lovemaking; courtship.
befur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befurs
form: befurring
form: befurred
form: befurred
Etymology: From Middle English *befurren (suggested by Middle English befurred), equivalent to be- (“on, all over”) + fur.
Senses: glosses: To cover or clothe with fur.
befurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befur
befurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befur
begall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begalls
form: begalling
form: begalled
form: begalled
Etymology: From be- + gall.
Senses: glosses: To gall.
begalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begall
begalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begall
begalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begall
lights into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light into
lighting into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of light into
lit into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of light into
newses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: news + -es
Senses: examples: text: There was no poor-law in the Isle of Man fifty years ago ... He was welcomed in a spirit of charity that had not a particle of pride in it, but he earned his board by bringing the "newses" from other places.
ref: 1909, Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), Our Paper, volume 25, page 286:
text: There were two smithies; the smithy was the meeting place for the "newses."
ref: 1959, Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society, volume 6, page 178:
text: A great stone 'bink' outside the present Kerrowkeil Chapel - 270 yards south fof the keeill-site - was remembered by the late Mr. Quayle as have been brought from the keeill ; it was for long a favoured seat for the exchange of "newses" among the farming community.
ref: 1966, Manx Archaeological Survey, Report of the Manx Archaeological Survey, volume 6, page 7:
qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: gossip.
examples: text: On a typical day, customers will stream out with 125 USA Todays, 250 to 300 Wall Street Journals, 300 to 350 Daily Newses, 550 to 600 New York Timeses, and 4,500 to 5,000 New York Posts.
ref: 1985, New York Magazine, page 19:
text: The press conference was called just in time to make the six o'clock newses, not in time for the reporters to gather any dissenting opinion. In the public areas of Parliament House, the last tourists are leaving. The sun sets. The lights come on.
ref: 1998, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1998, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 84:
text: I told her of the things what was happening in our country on the TV newses what she was not allowed to watch.
ref: 2012, Rajesh Parameswaran, I Am An Executioner: Love Stories, A&C Black, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of news
geomedicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + medicine.
Senses: glosses: A branch of medicine concerned with the effect of geographic factors on health.
Related terms: geomedical
Soar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: sô
ipa: /sɔː(ɹ)/
homophone: sore
homophone: saw (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, run”), similar to the Latin river name Saravus and Sar in Spain.
Senses: glosses: A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
Derived terms: Barrow upon Soar
Kingston on Soar
Ratcliffe-on-Soar
liverock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live rock
Etymology: From live + rock.
Senses: qualifier: aquarium
glosses: A rocky material made of calcium carbonate or other calcareous materials, usually derived from the skeletons of dead coral. It is home to various marine animals, algae and bacteria and is used as an important part of the aquascaping and biological filtration in marine aquaria.
drag through the mud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drags through the mud
form: dragging through the mud
form: dragged through the mud
form: dragged through the mud
Senses: examples: text: Red Moon Monster: Ever since that cheesy movie dragged our names through the mud, life hasn't been the same!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Red Moon Monsters" (season 1, episode 6b)
glosses: To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable.
phoning in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phone in
phones in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phone in
phoned in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phone in
VSV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VSVs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of variable stator vane.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of vesicular stomatitis virus.
Synonyms: sense: vesicular stomatitis virus
english: vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus
translation: vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus
word: VSIV
Hypernyms: sense: vesicular stomatitis virus
alt: non-segmented negative-strand RNA virus
word: NNS RNA virus
Derived terms: rVSV-ZEBOV
rVSV-ZEBOV-GP
VSVΔG-ZEBOV
VSV-EBOV
rVSV-MARV
rVSV-MARV-GP
VSV-MARV
VSIV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus.
Synonyms: sense: vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus
english: vesicular stomatitis virus
translation: vesicular stomatitis virus
word: VSV
Hypernyms: sense: vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus
alt: non-segmented negative-strand RNA virus
word: NNS RNA virus
Latakians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latakian
hypercar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercars
Etymology: From hyper- + car.
Senses: examples: text: It’s one of fastest accelerating vehicles on the market today — at about $130,000, it is said to have the acceleration normally found in multimillion-dollar hypercars.
ref: 2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An extremely high-performance sports car, ranking above a supercar.
Hypernyms: supercar
hypercars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypercar
arsenicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arsenicate
arsenicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arsenicate
octocopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octocopters
Etymology: From octo- (“eight”) + -copter (“helicopter-like”).
Senses: glosses: An unmanned rotorcraft having eight rotors.
Related terms: quadcopter
hexacopter
tiltrotor
helicopter
UAV
drone
octocopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octocopter
hexacopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexacopters
Etymology: By surface analysis, hexa- (“six”) + -copter (“helicopter”).
Senses: glosses: An unmanned multirotor rotorcraft having six rotors.
Related terms: quadcopter
octocopter
tiltrotor
helicopter
hexacopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexacopter
passing place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passing places
Senses: glosses: A place on a single-track road or bridge, only wide enough for one vehicle, where two vehicles travelling in opposite directions can pass each other.
mobile device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobile devices
Senses: synonyms: handheld computer
coordinate_terms: personal computer
desktop computer
glosses: An item of hand-held electronic equipment, especially a smartphone or tablet computer.
mobile devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobile device
police protection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛkʃən
Senses: glosses: Law enforcement agency tasked to safeguard a community or a person from crime.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senses: glosses: The domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as its primary federal law enforcement organization.
Coordinate terms: National Bureau of Investigation
Brown Betty teapot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brown Betty teapots
Senses: glosses: A teapot made from red terracotta clay and covered in Rockingham brown glaze, originally made in Stoke-on-Trent by the Elder Brothers circa 1695.
golden fruit doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden fruit dove
White Hun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: White Huns
Senses: glosses: A Hephthalite.
White Huns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of White Hun
somnophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnophiliacs
Senses: glosses: One who has somnophilia.
somnophiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somnophiliac
sumptuary law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumptuary laws
Senses: examples: text: The Sumptuary Laws have fallen into such a state of desuetude as was never before seen. Our fashionable coat is an amphibium between barn-sack and drayman’s doublet.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XIII, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: In past societies based on ascribed status, formal rules and proclamations regulated lifestyle conventions. Sumptuary laws codified which classes could wear which garments. […] With the development of achieved status, we've abandoned sumptuary laws and given Lady Justice a blindfold.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.
sumptuary laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumptuary law
epanaleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to epanalepsis.