cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gold leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But this Cobweb Lawn is too thin; a gold Leaf to cover the forgoing poison: For nothing is more plain, that he means, that the King is the Head Conspirator in all this slavery […]
ref: 1697, Remarks Upon a Scurrilous Libel:
text: The streets of Nankin are sometimes strewed with gold leaf; very different are those of London: in the midst of their pavements, a great lazy puddle moves muddily along […]
ref: 1712, The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, volume 4, page 11:
text: I cannot take a better illustration of this than that of gold leaf, because it brings before us the reason of this apparent difference in the time of the fall.
ref: 1860 January 7, The Chemical News, page 55:
text: After the gesso was quite smooth and even it was covered with thin layers of tempered bole, to form a colour ground under the gold leaf, and to provide a sleek, lustrous cushion for the under side of the gold to rest on while the burnisher was pressing on the top.
ref: 1956, Daniel Varney Thompson, The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting:
text: All passenger stock is lettered in shaded gold leaf transfers and has never been decorated with either a crest or monogram.
ref: 1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
text: Today, gold leaf can be machine-beaten to 0.1 micron and to 0.05 micron when beaten by a skilled craftsman.
ref: 2001, Milton Ohring, Materials Science of Thin Films, page xix:
glosses: Gold beaten into a thin sheet.
Derived terms: gold-leaf electrometer
gold-leaf electroscope
gold-leaf galvanoscope
vo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 2 marks land in Garth on the south side of the Vo
ref: c. 1600, John H. Ballantyne, Brian Smith, Shetland Documents, 1580-1611, published 1994, page 68:
glosses: Obsolete form of voe (“sea inlet”).
Related terms: vo-ag
vo-tech
facts of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fact of life
examples: text: “You and your books!” “How's a girl to learn the facts of life?”
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 72:
glosses: A knowledge of sexual reproduction, (almost always used with the).
Synonyms: the birds and the bees
trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of trip
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Three of a kind, especially if one of the three cards is in one's hand and the other two are on the board. Compare set (“three of a kind, especially with one card on the board and the other two in one's hand”).
Related terms: trips formation
trips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trip
upper-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpɚˌklæs/
Senses: glosses: Of high social position.
glosses: Aristocratic.
Related terms: upper class
middle-class
working-class
pannier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.ɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈpæn.i.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈpæn.jɚ/
Forms: form: panniers
Etymology: From Middle English panere, panȝere, panyere, from Old French panier, paniere, from Latin pānārium (“a bread basket”), from pānis (“bread”). Doublet of panary.
Senses: examples: text: Until 1785 the slates were conveyed from the quarries to the port in panniers on the backs of horses, but in that year Lord Penrhyn built a good road from the quarry to the village of Llandegai (on the Chester and Holyhead road) and also continued it in the opposite direction a further nine miles to Capel Curig; […].
ref: 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
text: Pannier literally means carrying bags slung over the back of a beast of burden — in other words, saddle bags. Front and rear bicycle touring panniers, after being attached to their carrying racks on the bicycle, become the bicycle tourist's packbags.
ref: 1984 July, Backpacker, page 46:
text: A donkey whose talent for burdens was wondrous, So much that you'd swear he rejoiced in a load, One day had to jog under panniers so ponderous, That — down the poor Donkey fell smack on the road! His owners and drivers stood round in[…]
ref: 2016 October 28, Thomas Moore, Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series), Delphi Classics, →ISBN, →OCLC:
synonyms: creelpop/soda or poke/sack/bag >
hypernyms: packbag
coordinate_terms: saddlebag
glosses: A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
synonyms: corbeil
glosses: A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
holonyms: hoop skirt
side hood
glosses: One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side.
glosses: A breadbasket.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A piece of basketwork for protecting archers, or, filled with gravel or sand, for forming and protecting embankments, etc.
Hyponyms: sense: paired saddlebags
english: on camels
translation: on camels
word: kajawah
Derived terms: panniered
pannierless
pannierlike
pannierman
pannier tank
pannierway
pannierwise
Related terms: cacolet
putz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: putzes
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָץ (pots, “penis, fool”). Compare similar semantic developments in futz.
Senses: examples: text: “The excitement of our friendship made me overlook my vampire powers.” “Hi.” “My foreskin grew back very fast. Now he thinks I'm meshuggener, which means he thinks I'm a little bit of a putz.”
ref: 2023 July 27, Max Brockman & Shana Gohd, “The Campaign” (19:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 4, spoken by Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak):
glosses: A fool, an idiot.
examples: text: And, (4), we’re not really even seeing “characters” at all: it’s not Major Frank Burns, pathetic self-important putz from Fort Wayne, Indiana; it’s Larry Linville of Ojai, California, actor stoic enough to endure thousands of letters (still coming in, even in syndication) from pseudo-voyeurs berating him for being a putz from Indiana.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
synonyms: schmuck
glosses: A jerk.
synonyms: schmuck
glosses: The penis.
Derived terms: putzhead
putz-head
putz head
putz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: putzes
form: putzing
form: putzed
form: putzed
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָץ (pots, “penis, fool”). Compare similar semantic developments in futz.
Senses: examples: text: Stop putzing around.
synonyms: futz
putter
glosses: To waste time.
Derived terms: putz around
putz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
ipa: /pʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: putzes
form: Putz
Etymology: Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.
Senses: examples: text: The American custom of erecting a putz seems to have originated with the Moravians but the custom long ago spread to non-Moravian households. Essentially, the putz is a landscape, built on the floor or on a table or portable platform.
ref: 1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13:
glosses: A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.
putz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
ipa: /pʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: putzes
form: putzing
form: putzed
form: putzed
form: Putz
Etymology: Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.
Senses: examples: text: Once all good Moravians in Bethlehem went putzing between Christmas and Twelfth Night to take a look at their friends' cribs.
ref: 1947, Holiday - Volume 2, Issues 1-6, page 86:
text: Everyone in the Moravian settlements goes putzing, visiting others' works of art.
ref: 1978, Mildred Jordan, The Distelfink Country of the Pennsylvania Dutch, page 141:
text: One Christmas custom that was very much the rage in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, was the putzing party. In the days when there were many putzes built in Bethlehem private homes, it was the practice to organize groups to wander around and visit the families who had erected these wonderful Christmas displays.
ref: 1985, Richmond E. Myers, Christmas traditions: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.
Derived terms: putz round
concurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concur
Sint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sints
Senses: glosses: A surname.
post hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more post hoc
form: most post hoc
Etymology: From Latin post hoc.
Senses: examples: text: Our work on using research was post hoc rather than planned as an integral part of the original study.
ref: 1986, Ralph B. Taylor, Urban neighborhoods: research and policy, page 239:
text: The interpretations offered in this section are clearly much more post hoc than in my discussion of the informants' patterns.
ref: 2001, Penelope Eckert with John R. Rickford, Style and sociolinguistic variation, page 155:
text: But I knew that my reasoning was post hoc, and another voice came in, mocking me, reminding me that post hoc reasoning is the consolation of the psychotic
ref: 2008, Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric disturbances, page 40:
glosses: After the fact.
post hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more post hoc
form: most post hoc
Etymology: From Latin post hoc.
Senses: examples: text: Ultimately, the wisdom of preemption will be judged post hoc.
ref: 2005 Fall, David B. Rivkin Jr., “THE VIRTUES OF PREEMPTIVE DETERRENCE”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 29, number 1, page 85:
glosses: After the fact.
post hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post hocs
Etymology: From Latin post hoc ergō propter hoc.
Senses: examples: text: or that it is altogether fair to accumulate the post hocs with their inevitable suggestion of propter
ref: 1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French novel (to the close of the 19th century), page 422:
text: More grim were the post hocs of the ancient Aztecs. In their experience rain had followed the season of sacrificial rites, and they believed that ....
ref: 1958, Stuart Chase, Guides to straight thinking: with 13 common fallacies - Page 76:
text: ... or walking under a ladder brings bad luck; belief in astrology; fear of the number thirteen. Advertisers play upon our weakness for post hocs
ref: 1966, Lew Sarett with William Trufant Foster, Basic principles of speech, page 302:
text: Accordingly, most of the time it is sufficient to draw lines of post hocs and to make a distinction between causes and symptoms in an almost graphic way.
ref: 2006, Gerd Gigerenzer with Christoph Engel, Heuristics and the law, page 332:
text: But I knew that my reasoning was post hoc, and another voice came in, mocking me, reminding me that post hoc reasoning is the consolation of the psychotic
ref: 2008, Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric disturbances, page 40:
glosses: An instance of the post hoc ergō propter hoc fallacy, in which temporal order is confused with causation.
Derived terms: posthockery
antirust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + rust.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-rust.
antirust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirusts
Etymology: From anti- + rust.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-rust.
anti-establishment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-establishment
form: most anti-establishment
form: antiestablishment
Etymology: From anti- + establishment.
Senses: examples: text: The hippies were noted for their anti-establishment ways, firmly opposed to the order their parents so revered.
text: Almost one-third of Europeans now vote for populist, far-right or far-left parties, research shows, with wide support for anti-establishment politics surging across the continent in an increasingly problematic challenge to the mainstream.
ref: 2023 September 21, Jon Henley, “Revealed: one in three Europeans now votes anti-establishment”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Opposed to the existing sociopolitical system (the establishment).
anti-fade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fade.
Senses: examples: text: The chemical additives in the anti-fade paint meant the color stayed vibrant year after year.
glosses: Resistant to the dimming (fading) of color.
anti-g
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Only the constriction of his anti-g suit forcing blood to his brain kept the pilot from blacking out during the spin.
glosses: Counteracting the g-force of acceleration.
marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.
glosses: Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
examples: text: Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.
text: Granny's still got all her marbles.
text: His lack of marbles is becoming ever more apparent.
text: “A nice imbroglio you've landed me in. Thanks to you ...”
“Yes, sir.”
“Don't say ‘Yes, sir.’ Thanks to you I have been widely publicized as off my rocker.”
“Not widely, sir. Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court.”
“You have held me up at the bar of world opinion as a man who has not got all his marbles.”
“It was not easy to think of an alternative scheme, sir.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: There are times when you are certain that the person speaking to you has completely misplaced his marbles. As I leaned away in reaction I felt confident […] Ed had lost his.
ref: 2005, Sue Henry, The Serpents Trail, page 86:
text: —Her daddy's crazy. […] Think she's looking for something?
—Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles.
ref: 2012, J. T. Petty, Bloody Chester, First Second, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: word: buttons
word: buttons
word: lucidity
word: lucidness
word: marbles
word: mind
word: saneness
word: sanity
qualifier: usually in a limited number of expressions
glosses: Sanity.
examples: text: Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.
ref: 2014, Amen Zwa, Going Nowhere Fast In Assetto Corsa (2015-05-01), →ISBN, page 395:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
Derived terms: lose one's marbles
mouthful of marbles
marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Marbles were among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.
glosses: plural of marble
marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marble
gaudiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaudinesses
Etymology: From gaudy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nearby residents don't want any gaudiness in the building's renovation: they want it to be tasteful and understated.
glosses: Pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.
Related terms: gaudy
osmole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osmoles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A unit of measurement, a mole of an osmotically active compound
Derived terms: milliosmole
blue jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue jays
form: bluejay
Senses: glosses: Any of species Cyanocitta cristata of North American jays with blue feathering from the top of its head to midway down its back.
synonyms: roller
glosses: One of the blue-marked species of the Old World bird genus Coracias.
Related terms: taxonomic: Perisoreus spp.
word: gray jay
taxonomic: Podoces spp.
word: ground jay
word: jay
word: jaybird
Chautauqua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈtɔːkwə/
ipa: /ʃəˈtækwə/
Etymology: From Erie [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A town and lake resort community in Chautauqua County, New York.
Chautauqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈtɔːkwə/
ipa: /ʃəˈtækwə/
Forms: form: Chautauquas
form: chautauqua
Etymology: From Erie [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua—that's the only name I can think of for it—like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.
ref: 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 1, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part I, page 15:
glosses: A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.
Derived terms: Chautauqua County
Chautauqua system
insectivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛktəˌvɔː/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɛktəˌvɔɹ/
Forms: form: insectivores
Etymology: From French insectivore. In the zoological sense, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French insectivore. The French terms reflect scientific New Latin origins. By surface analysis, insect + -i- + -vore.
Senses: examples: text: An anteater is an insectivore with a long sticky tongue to catch its prey.
glosses: Insect-eating animal or plant.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: insectivoran
glosses: mammal of the now abandoned order Insectivora.
Related terms: Insectivora
insectivorous
continuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/
Etymology: From continuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
text: In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
text: "We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly. Ultimately, however, it is for the student to make a proper declaration to SLC [Student Loans Company]^([sic]) to draw down funding," LSST said in a statement.
ref: 2014 May 21, Andrew McGettigan, Shiv Malik, John Domokos, “Private sector and students profit at the college they call 'the ATM'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Without pause.
Synonyms: word: ceaselessly
word: incessantly
word: nonstop
word: consecutively
word: constantly
word: continually
word: continuously
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: everlastingly
word: extendedly
word: infinitely
word: neverendingly
word: ongoingly
word: perpetually
word: persistently
word: relentlessly
word: steadily
word: successively
word: unbrokenly
word: unceasingly
word: unendingly
word: unintermittedly
word: uninterruptedly
word: unrelentingly
word: unrelievedly
word: unremittingly
word: unstoppingly
Derived terms: continuously habitable zone
continuously variable transmission
semicontinuously
mammalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈmeɪl.jən/
ipa: /məˈmeɪ.li.ən/
Forms: form: more mammalian
form: most mammalian
Etymology: From mammal + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, mammals.
glosses: Like a mammal.
Hypernyms: animalian
Hyponyms: human
Derived terms: antimammalian
macromammalian
mammalian meat allergy
mammaliferous
micromammalian
neomammalian
nonmammalian
paleomammalian
premammalian
submammalian
mammalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈmeɪl.jən/
ipa: /məˈmeɪ.li.ən/
Forms: form: mammalians
Etymology: From mammal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Any mammal.
decongestant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈdʒɛstənt/
Forms: form: decongestants
Senses: glosses: A drug that relieves congestion, e.g. pseudoephedrine.
conformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.fɚmɚ/
Forms: form: conformers
Etymology: Blend of conformational + isomer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a set of stereoisomers characterized by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular folded state or conformation of a protein, especially an abnormal conformation of a prion
Derived terms: conformeric
interconformer
multiconformer
nonconformer
osmoconformer
oxyconformer
thermoconformer
conformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.fɚmɚ/
ipa: /kənˈfɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.fɚmɚ/
Forms: form: conformers
Etymology: From conform + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who conforms; a conformist.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Conformist.
demodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌmɒdʃəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demodulations
Etymology: From de- + modulation.
Senses: examples: text: A radio transmitter applies modulation to a carrier wave and the receiver applies demodulation to it to recover the message.
glosses: The inverse of the effect of modulation, or applying a signal to a carrier.
demodulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒdʃəleɪt/
Forms: form: demodulates
form: demodulating
form: demodulated
form: demodulated
Etymology: From de- + modulate.
Senses: examples: text: In a radio transmitter you modulate the carrier wave; in the receiver you demodulate it.
glosses: To reverse modulate, undo the effects of modulation.
Derived terms: demodulation
demodulator
prion protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prion proteins
Senses: glosses: A protein found on the surface of many mammalian cell types, especially neurons. The normal function of the prion protein is not known.
egghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡˌhɛd/
Forms: form: eggheads
Etymology: From egg + head.
Senses: examples: text: Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual.
ref: 1993, Richard Sandomir, The Joy of Baldness: Men with less hair — and the women who love them, page 164:
text: His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception.
ref: 2005, Clare O'Farrell, Michel Foucault, page 1:
text: Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."
ref: 2018, Balázs Apor, The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956, page 52:
glosses: A bald person, especially a man.
examples: text: But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.
ref: 1962, The Pakistan Review - Volume 10, page Page 43:
text: At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.
ref: 2002, Robert Ross, The Complete Terry Thomas, page 87:
text: Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.
ref: 2010, Jena Pincott, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?:, page 81:
text: His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.
ref: 2015, Christopher Rush, Penelope's Web:
glosses: A bald head.
examples: text: Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense.
ref: 1963, Guy McCord [pseudonym; Mack Reynolds], The Common Man:
glosses: An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.
Synonyms: boffin
brain
Derived terms: eggheadery
Related terms: wonk
Tooele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈɛlə/
ipa: [tʰʊˈwɪ.ɫə]
Etymology: From Shoshone tuuwɨɨta (“black bear; the name of a Gosiute chief”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Tooele County, Utah, United States.
Derived terms: Tooele County
tooeleite
sea mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea miles
form: sea-mile
form: seamile
Etymology: As a former Scandinavian unit of distance, a calque of Danish sømil, Norwegian Bokmål sjømil, and Swedish sjömil, from Danish sø (“sea, nautical, maritime”) + mil (“Danish mile or league”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nautical mile, a unit of distance now equal to exactly 1852 meters
synonyms: word: nautical mile
extra: a unit of distance now equal to exactly 1852 meters
synonyms: nautical mile
glosses: A former version of the nautical mile in Scandinavia equal to 4 minutes of arc or about 4 nmi.
air mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air miles
Senses: glosses: A unit of distance for air transport; equal to a nautical mile.
Related terms: airline mile
pentaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Renaissance Latin documents.
Senses: glosses: pentacle
astigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astigmatic
form: most astigmatic
Etymology: From astigmatism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: anastigmatic
glosses: Suffering from astigmatism.
Derived terms: astigmatically
nonastigmatic
astigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astigmatics
Etymology: From astigmatism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who has astigmatism.
sapiential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /seɪ.piˈɛnt͡ʃəl/
Forms: form: more sapiential
form: most sapiential
Etymology: From Middle English sapyencyall, from Old French or Late Latin/Ecclesiastical Latin sapientiālis, from Latin sapientia (“wisdom”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Senses: glosses: Possessing or conferring wisdom, especially religious wisdom.
Derived terms: sapientially
ogive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊɡaɪv/
ipa: /ˈəʊd͡ʒaɪv/
ipa: /ˈoʊɡaɪv/
ipa: /ˈoʊd͡ʒaɪv/
Forms: form: ogives
Etymology: From late Middle English ogif, egeve, egeove, from Old French ogive, œgive, augive. Doublet of ogee.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
topics: architecture
glosses: A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
examples: text: However, Ordnance tests revealed that the existing metal ogive (nose cone) tended to telescope on impact, cushioning the impact shock, and resulting in the failure of the impact fuze. In addition, the ogive tended to shear off from the rest of the body at impact angles of 20 degrees or more, […]
ref: 2016, Steven J. Zaloga, Bazooka vs Panzer: Battle of the Bulge 1944, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:
text: Nose: The forward end of a warhead. May have a fuze-well, be solid, or be defined by the shape of the ogive.
Ogive: Is aft of the nose, and forward of the bourrelet. May house a fuze adapter with a shape consistent with the contour of the ogive.
ref: 2019, Thomas Gersbeck, Practical Military Ordnance Identification, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 111:
topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
coordinate_terms: bourrelet
glosses: The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.
Derived terms: ogived
Related terms: ogee
ogival
pick up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick ups
Senses: glosses: Rare form of pickup.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up artist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up joint
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up line
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up on
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up one's crumbs
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up speed
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up stitches
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up the pieces
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up truck
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pick up
word: pick up what someone is putting down
dreich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹiːk/
ipa: /dɹiːx/
ipa: /dɹik/
ipa: /drix/
ipa: /ðreː/
ipa: /driːx/
rhymes: -iːk
rhymes: -iːx
Forms: form: dreiches
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Scots dreich (“hard to bear, dreary, tedious, wearisome; interminable, long-winded; dull, uninteresting; slow, tardy; doleful, gloomy; baffling, difficult; difficult to reach, inaccessible”), from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”) [and other forms], from Old English *drēog, drēoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:
* shortened from Old English ġedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective), from ġe- (prefix forming adjectives of association or similarity) + Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (“enduring, lasting”) (from *dreuganą (“to serve, be a retainer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to serve one’s tribe; loyal”)); and
* influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).
The noun is probably partly derived:
* from the adjective; and
* borrowed from Scots dreich (“dreariness, gloom”) (rare), probably from Middle English dri, drie (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”) [and other forms], possibly from dri, drie (adjective) (see above).
(Compare Old English ġedrēog (“seemliness; seriousness, sobriety; something appropriate or required”, noun), which did not survive into Middle English.)
Cognates
* German Low German drēg, drēge
* Icelandic drjúgur (“ample; heavy, substantial; long”)
* North Frisian drech
* Old Danish drygh (modern Danish drøj (“heavy; solid, tough”))
* Old Swedish drygher (modern Swedish dryg (“ample, liberal; hard; large; lasting”))
* Saterland Frisian drjooch
* Scots dreich
* West Frisian dreech, drege (“extensive; long-lasting”)
Senses: glosses: A tedious or troublesome task; also, the most tedious or troublesome part of a task.
glosses: Bleakness, gloom; specifically, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.) weather.
goodo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊdəʊ
Etymology: From good + -o.
Senses: examples: text: To Knowles he said: “Quick! Give her tucker!. She hungry. She eat. She sleep. Bimeby she goodo.”
ref: 1937, Arthur William Upfield, Wings Above the Diamantina, published 1985, page 287:
glosses: Good (used after the noun)
goodo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ʊdəʊ
Etymology: From good + -o.
Senses: examples: text: “Now we′re cooking! It works!” crowed Bob. “And now before it grows dark let′s pour it off into our storage tanks.”
“Goodo, Bob. We rich now!” Ebony gloated.
ref: 1957, Horace Sawyer Mazet, Shark Fishing off the Great Barrier Reef, page 61:
text: “Goodo,” Picnic said, blinking. “Man, look at the quail.”
ref: 1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner: Early Stories, published 1995, page 40:
text: Some bantering responses joked about whether David May was connected to Brian May, and the rock group Queen, but most expressed a sense of relief that anyone was willing to come to the small-town, economically struggling club. Jo Tomlinson: ‘Goodo, a signing! Even though we did boo him last year...’
ref: 2004, David L. Andrews, Manchester United: A Thematic Study, page 203:
text: John held both my hands tightly, looking straight into my eyes for several moments. His eyes moistened, “I don′t know how to thank you – it′s been quite a spell since my Janeie has been happy.” Bob gleefully joined in, “Goodo Sport!...Goodo!”
ref: 2009, George W. Adams, Under the Southern Cross, page 111:
text: ‘I have a sore elbow...’ I fib in a small whine, as I know she worries sometimes when I have too many nightmares.
‘Goodo. Well, let me “tiss” it better,’ she whispers back, so as not to wake Dad from his heavy, snoring slumber, and with her eyes still closed—as the surrounding bush continues to coo its soft night noises through her open bedroom window—she reaches out, finds my proffered elbow, and applies a kiss.
ref: 2010, Peter FitzSimons, A Simpler Time, unnumbered page:
glosses: Good; used to show approval or satisfaction.
Synonyms: righto
Lapith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowing of Ancient Greek Λαπίθης (Lapíthēs).
Senses: examples: 1978, Peter Porter, from 'Piero di Cosimo on the Shoalhaven' in The Cost of Seriousness
On a rock orchid, the roundness and gloze / Of a lapith's bum!
glosses: One of a semi-legendary, semi-historical race of Thessaly.
Davo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪvəʊ
Etymology: From Dave + -o.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name David.
say-so
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪˌsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈseɪˌsoʊ/
Forms: form: say-sos
form: sayso
Etymology: From say + so.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't buy anything that expensive just on the say-so of a saleman.
text: You are not to go into that room without my say-so.
text: On whose say-so?
text: At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker".
ref: 1973, New Scientist, volume 58, number 852, page 822:
text: the answer is that we just 'think' ourselves to Be Goodness Itself, we confer that Goodness upon ourselves by say-so, […]
ref: 1988, Boris Aldanov, The human predicament, volume 1, page 134:
text: We could only know the authors are eye witnesses by taking it on their say-so, that is, by believing them, or by believing a string of say-sos.
ref: 2007, Francesca Aran Murphy, God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited:
text: "I guess I have gotten fed up with the government. You're only helped if you're on the good side. If you're on the bad side, then you can't have help, you've got no say-so, and you've got no rights, […]"
ref: 1999, Jack C. Doppelt, Ellen Shearer, Nonvoters: America's no-shows, page 162:
text: Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
glosses: Authority, as backing some statement, injunction, or command.
Synonyms: leave
permission
Related terms: blessing
clearance
go-ahead
imprimatur
placet
sanction
warrant
what someone says goes
matinée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matinées
Etymology: Borrowed from French matinée.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of matinee.
roadmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadmaps
Etymology: From road + map.
Senses: examples: text: And our semiconductor industry, I think, is showing the way as to how roadmaps can be used for very general, very generic and very energizing programs of a very broad nature.
ref: 1997, George Mulholland, John Fassett, Charles Ehrlich, Global Growth of Technology: Is America Prepared?, page 76:
text: In 1966, I could not have imagined my life playing out as it has. That I would do the work I do. Or love the women I loved. My life and work seemed laid out for me, the future a detailed roadmap. The map was wrong.
ref: 2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of road map.
roadmap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roadmaps
form: roadmapping
form: roadmapped
form: roadmapped
Etymology: From road + map.
Senses: examples: text: More specifically, we believe that such an approach should be: […] Opportunistic in using available software but also planned when developing new software, with the latter carefully roadmapped.
ref: 2002, Gary J. Chastek, editor, Software Product Lines: Second International Conference, SPLC 2, San Diego, CA, USA, August 19–22, 2002. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 335:
glosses: To construct a plan of action regarding (something).
road map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road maps
form: roadmap
Etymology: From road + map.
Senses: coordinate_terms: street map
glosses: A map with a visual representation of roads used for automobile travel and navigation. A road map may contain other relevant data, such as terrain or railway lines.
examples: text: road map for peace
text: On the agenda: a “work-athon” to discuss the road map for improving the main Facebook app, including a revamp that would change how users browse the service.
ref: 2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times:
text: Through her characters’ personal growth and interpersonal relationships, Hoover offers readers an emotional road map to recovery from imposter syndrome, domestic abuse, betrayal, victimization.
ref: 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A plan of action, laying out the future actions of participants.
examples: text: CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.
ref: 1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236:
text: In the software business, a product roadmap gives an overview how a product is going to develop over the strategic timeframe of up to 5 years in terms of new releases or versions, their schedules and major themes.
ref: 2008, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Peter N. Clough, Software Product Management and Pricing, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 77:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, used in business for strategic planning and communications.
hangnail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋneɪl/
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [heɪŋneɪ̯ɫ]
Forms: form: hangnails
Etymology: A corruption of agnail (literally “painful (anguished) nail”), by folk-etymological reanalysis as hang + nail; from Middle English agnail, from Old English angnæġl, from ang- (“tight/painful”) + næġl (“nail”). The first part is from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus (“narrow, tight”), while the second is from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-. The first component, ang- is also the origin of anguish, anger, and angst, while næġl is the origin of nail. Compare more "pure" Scots angernail, and similarly folk-influenced dialectal variants wrangnail and ragnail, all meaning "hangnail" and from Middle English. Cognate with Old High German ungnagel and Old Frisian angneil, o(n)gneil.
Original sense of “loose strip of tissue”; the sense of “pointed corner of nail” is modern, and is connected with the reanalysis, due to stockings catching or “hanging” on the nail.
Senses: synonyms: agnail
backfriend
coordinate_terms: whitlow
glosses: A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
glosses: A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
Derived terms: hangnailed
pervasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈveɪ.sɪv/
ipa: /pɚˈveɪ.sɪv/
Forms: form: more pervasive
form: most pervasive
Etymology: From Latin pervāsus, from pervādō (“spread through, pervade”), from per (“through”) + vādō (“go, walk”).
Senses: examples: text: The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.
text: Mr Xi is also struggling with issues within his carefully-constructed power structure. The unexplained disappearances of key members of his leadership team and military top brass could be seen as either signs of pervasive corruption or political purges.
ref: 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:
glosses: Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
Synonyms: sense: manifested throughout
word: penetrating
sense: manifested throughout
word: permeating
sense: manifested throughout
word: pervading
Derived terms: nonpervasive
panvasive
pervasive arousal withdrawal syndrome
pervasive developmental disorder
pervasive game
pervasively
pervasiveness
pervasive refusal syndrome
Guido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gwē'dō
ipa: /ˈɡwidoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡwiːdəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: Guidos
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Guy.
Guido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gwē'dō
ipa: /ˈɡwidoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡwiːdəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: Guidos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of guido.
paedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pē'dō
ipa: /ˈpiː.dəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: paedos
form: pedo
Etymology: Clipping of paedophile.
Senses: examples: text: "When I went round he was like ... trying to tell me about the paedo and how he was a great man, like it wasn't national news that the fucker was a paedo."
ref: 2023, Eliza Clark, “Christmas”, in Penance, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, HarperCollins:
synonyms: nonce
glosses: A paedophile.
glosses: paedophilia.
paedo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pē'dō
ipa: /ˈpiː.dəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: pedo
Etymology: Clipping of paedophile.
Senses: glosses: Paedophile, paedophiliac.
Derived terms: pedobait
pedo-stache
pedo van
reverse pedo
FFS
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Swisher then looked back at a number of tech CEOs booked for the conference in the past — from Steve Jobs to Elon Musk — and relayed that “we never promised anything or gave them any heads up. We’re journalists FFS.”
ref: 2023 September 28, Benjamin Lindsay, quoting Kara Swisher, “Kara Swisher Defends Ex-Twitter Exec Upstaging CEO Linda Yaccarino”, in TheWrap:
related: word: ffs
glosses: Initialism of for fuck's sake.
FFS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of free for shipping.
FFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: FMS
VFS
glosses: Initialism of facial feminization surgery.
glosses: Initialism of Free French Ship.
glosses: Initialism of fee-for-service.
FFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Fast File System, developed as part of 4.2BSD.
moving the deckchairs on the Titanic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move the deckchairs on the Titanic
robustness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robustnesses
Etymology: From robust + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Robustness was considered to be an essential feature because of the comparatively high starting effort and the generally rough work for which the locomotives are to be used.
ref: 1950 November, “Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 780:
text: The Inspecting Officer draws attention to the remarkable way in which the train held together after the final derailment; this was due in no small measure to the robustness of the buckeye couplings fitted to the coaches.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:
glosses: The quality of being robust.
Derived terms: bias-robustness
bone-eating snot flower worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊn iːtɪŋ ˈsnɒt flaʊə wɜːm/
ipa: /boʊn itɪŋ ˈsnɑt flaʊɚ wɝm/
Forms: form: bone-eating snot flower worms
Etymology: A slight misunderstanding of the taxonomic name Osedax mucofloris, which actually means "snot-flower bone-eater", with mucofloris modifying Osedax rather than the other way around.
Senses: examples: text: Bone-eating snot flower (Osedax mucofloris) is the unglamorous name given to a species of worm discovered feeding off minke whale carcasses in the North Sea
ref: 2005 October 19, “Bone-eating snot flower worm hitches a ride on whales”, in The Guardian:
text: Once all the meat has been stripped away, even the bones provide food for a creature called the "bone-eating snot flower worm" (Osedax mucofloris).
ref: 2010 May 27, “Creatures of the deep surface at new exhibition”, in CNN:
text: Known informally as the bone-eating snot-flower worm, it looks like a frilly pink plume growing up out of sheer bone
ref: 2010 October 21, “Los Angeles News - Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology Column”, in LA Weekly:
text: Such a range of habitats along with a wide range of feeding strategies, including predation, deposit feeding, filter feeding, parasitism and symbiosis, as well as the unusual strategy adopted by the bone-eating snot-flower worm
ref: 2012, DEK Ferrier, “Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: annelids”, in Development:
synonyms: bone-eating snot flower
glosses: A worm-like creature, Osedax mucofloris, that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea.
Related terms: Osedax
minke whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minke whales
Senses: glosses: Either of two baleen whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis, found in coastal waters.
Synonyms: minke
piked whale
lesser rorqual
Derived terms: taxonomic: Balaenoptera bonaerensis
word: Antarctic minke whale