cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
RE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REs
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: computational complexity theory
glosses: Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.
glosses: Abbreviation of religious education.
glosses: Abbreviation of rare earth.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of response element.
glosses: Abbreviation of real estate.
glosses: Abbreviation of renewable energy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of run-time environment.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of reverse engineering.
Derived terms: sense: recursively enumerable
word: co-RE
sense: recursively enumerable
word: coRE
sense: recursively enumerable
word: co-RE-complete
sense: recursively enumerable
word: RE-complete
Related terms: R
SSN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSNs
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the requirement of the child’s SSN for purposes of claiming the credit is maintained and expanded upon to require the taxpayer’s SSN and, for joint filers, the spouse’s SSN in order to claim the credit. The SSNs provided must be considered work-eligible in order to claim the credit.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 7:
hypernyms: TIN
glosses: Initialism of social security number.
glosses: Initialism of sub-surface nuclear — a nuclear-powered attack submarine.
Related terms: sense: Social Security number
word: SIN
FLOTUS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊ.təs/
rhymes: -əʊtəs
Forms: form: FLOTUSes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of First Lady of the United States.
Synonyms: word: First Lady of the United States
word: Mrs. President
sense: Obsolete terms for FLOTUS
word: First Lady of the Land
sense: Obsolete terms for FLOTUS
word: First Lady of the Republic
sense: Obsolete terms for FLOTUS
word: Lady Presidentress
sense: Obsolete terms for FLOTUS
word: Presidentress
sense: Obsolete terms for FLOTUS
word: Republican Queen
Related terms: POTUS
a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: – Idle: Is your wife a… a goer… eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge. Nudge nudge. Know what I mean? Say no more. Know what I mean?
– Jones: I beg your pardon?
– Idle: Your wife… does she, er, does she ‘go’… eh? eh? eh? Know what I mean, know what I mean? Nudge nudge. Say no more.
– Jones: Well, she sometimes ‘goes’, yes.
– Idle: I bet she does. I bet she does. I bet she does. Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge.
– Jones: I’m sorry, I don’t quite follow you.
– Idle: Follow me. Follow me. And I like that. That’s good. A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?
ref: 1969, Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Nudge Nudge", a sketch from the third episode of the British comedy series, first broadcast on the BBC on 19th October 1969, featuring Eric Idle and Terry Jones as two strangers in a pub. Conversation
qualifier: simile
glosses: The idea/proposed action is inconsequential to the current situation.
bang up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He's doing a bang up job.
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: Good, superior, excellent.
bang up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs up
form: banging up
form: banged up
form: banged up
Senses: examples: text: He banged up his new car last night.
glosses: To damage.
examples: text: He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night.
text: A combination of having too many plates spinning, ill-health, being banged up for debt (1822-23) and bankruptcy all served to impede James' progress, although the Central Junction Railway - a 16-mile horse-drawn tramway between Stratford and Moreton (Gloucestershire) - did materialise in 1826.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
synonyms: dub up
glosses: To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell.
examples: text: I knew some fellows who banged up, I mean heroin, but I kind of stayed away from it.
ref: 1971, Army Digest, volume 26, page 31:
glosses: To inject a recreational drug.
bang-up cove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bang-up coves
Senses: glosses: a dashing fellow who spends his money freely
hand off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands off
form: handing off
form: handed off
form: handed off
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pass (the ball) to a teammate.
examples: text: Before we hand off the project to him, let's make sure to write some instructions.
coordinate_terms: drop off
hand over
glosses: To pass or transfer.
bang straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bang straws
form: bang-straw
Etymology: From bang + straw.
Senses: examples: text: Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard. With this he sprung onto the bulwark and roared out to Williams: 'I've not struck, sir! Tell your bloody bang-straws to try and hit my stick!'
ref: 1938 December 24, James Norman Hall, “The Cheerful Tortoise (Doctor Dogbody's Leg)”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 89, number 528, page 9:
glosses: A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.
bankrupt cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankrupt carts
Etymology: Said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shopkeepers and tradesmen.
Senses: examples: text: " No, no, I was too prudent when I was young to risk the expenses of a bankrupt cart, and now I am old I am too wise to attempt the difficult art of driving one."
ref: 1813, Harriet Corp, Cottage Sketches; Or, Active Retirement:
glosses: A one-horse chaise.
bantling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bantlings
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) + -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: And I even question whether any tender virgin, who was accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling, would save her character at parlour fire-sides and evening tea-parties, by ascribing the phenomenon to a swan, a shower of gold, or a river god.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty:
text: "You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..."
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:
text: "As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered.
"Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"
ref: 1999, The Wedding Gamble, page 104:
glosses: An infant or young child.
glosses: A bastard-child.
glosses: A brat.
Synonyms: babe
infant
raya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rayas
form: raia
Senses: glosses: A former territory of the mediaeval principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia held under the direct administration of the Ottoman Empire, as opposed to the principalities.
raya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rayas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rayah.
barber's sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbers' signs
Senses: glosses: A standing pole and two wash-balls, historically used outside barber's shops.
barker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)kɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɚ
Forms: form: barkers
Etymology: From Middle English berkere; equivalent to bark (“dog noise”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.
text: Edmund was barker on sight, like foolish stay-at-home dogs.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 42:
synonyms: word: latrant
glosses: Someone or something who barks.
examples: text: Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
text: […
ref: 1893, James Otis, The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair:
text: For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
synonyms: word: tout
word: spruiker
hyponyms: doorsman
glosses: A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
glosses: A shelf-talker.
examples: text: The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull.
topics: video-games
glosses: A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
examples: text: Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
“Barkers for me, Barney," said Toby Crackit.
“Here they are,” replied Barney, producing a pair of pistols.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: Parkin, the Oxford Street gunmaker, sent me a brace of barkers in silver mountings, with my initials engraved—good for trade, I imagine.
ref: 1969, George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman, page 45:
synonyms: barking iron
glosses: A pistol.
glosses: The spotted redshank.
Derived terms: barker channel
barker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)kɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɚ
Forms: form: barkers
Etymology: From Middle English barker; equivalent to bark (“surface of tree”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably.
glosses: A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation.
examples: text: The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
glosses: A tanner.
examples: text: Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
glosses: A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood.
member for Barkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: members for Barkshire
Etymology: A pun on member for Berkshire, i.e. a Member of Parliament for that district.
Senses: glosses: A person who has a cough which causes them to sound as if they are barking.
Armageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː(ɹ).məˈɡɛ.dn̩/
ipa: /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.məˈɡɛ.dn̩/
ipa: /-ˈɡɛ.dən/
rhymes: -ɛdən
Etymology: From Middle English Hermagedon, from Old English Ermagedon, from Latin Hermagedon, from Ancient Greek Ἁρμαγεδών (Harmagedṓn), used in Revelation 16:16, referring to Mount Megiddo, the place of the last battle at the Last Judgment; from Hebrew הר מגידו / הַר מְגִדּוֹ (har megiddo).
Senses: examples: text: And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.
ref: 1941 October, F. S. Bond, “The Railways of China”, in Railway Magazine, page 440:
topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Mount Megiddo, the site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.
glosses: The battle itself.
examples: text: Some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this ...
ref: 1996, “Ænema”, performed by Tool:
glosses: Any end of the world, especially by way of a cataclysmic battle or something analogous to one.
Synonyms: Apocalypse
Final Judgment
Coordinate terms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Ragnarok
word: day of reckoning
word: doomsday
word: judgement day
word: end times
word: end of the world
hand over fist
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Related to earlier hand over hand, this phrase originally referred to a speedy method of climbing up or hauling on a rope.
Senses: examples: text: to make money hand over fist
text: Are you coming over again to see me some day soon? I keep returning, and now hand over fist, from the realms of Hades: I saw that gentleman between the eyes, and fear him less after each visit.
ref: 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 4”, in The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, volume I:
text: Now, since cattle had risen and meat and all to such a price, he was making money hand over fist.
ref: 1888, Rolf Boldrewood, “chapter 39”, in Robbery Under Arms:
text: He was a live man and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, and was doing a raging business. In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:
text: Why, those Dalmatians are showing Pajaro apples on the South African market right now, and coining money out of it hand over fist.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: Now we are in the War and our business is booming, we are making money hand over fist.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
text: Still it’s the same fish perhaps old Micky Hanlon of Moore street ripped the guts out of making money hand over fist finger in fishes’ gills can’t write his name on a cheque think he was painting the landscape with his mouth twisted.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: And while pulling in dollars hand over fist might have some educational value, I doubt it's what Congress had in mind.
ref: 2009 June 3, Conor Clarke, “It's Time to Tax College Sports”, in The Atlantic:
text: England made metres hand over fist and, that intensity, combined with set-piece dominance, made a breakthrough inevitable.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: hand over hand
glosses: Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money.
heebie-jeebies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiː.biːˈdʒiː.biːz/
Forms: form: heebee-geebees
form: heebee geebees
form: heebeegeebees
form: heebygeebies
form: heebee-jeebees
form: heebee jeebees
form: heebeejeebees
form: heebie jeebies
form: heebiejeebies
form: heeby-jeebies
form: heeby jeebies
form: heebyjeebies
form: heeby-jeebys
form: heeby jeebys
Etymology: The earliest found occurrences of spelling variants (it is not established whether the first one coined the term or committed to print an earlier oral expression):
* In 1923, the spelling "heeby jeebys" was used by U.S. cartoonist Billy De Beck in his comic strip Barney Google (New York American, 26 October 1923).
* In 1925, the spelling "heebee-jeebees" was used in U.S. magazine Ladies' Home Journal (Vol. 42, Part 2, p. 44).
* In 1926, the spelling "heebie jeebies" was used by U.S. singer Louis Armstrong for his single "Heebie Jeebies" (written by Boyd Atkins).
* In 1928, the spelling "heebee-geebees" was used in U.S. article "We All Have the Heebee-Geebees" by G. M. Keller of Swift & Company (Modern School Store, Vol. 11, p. 269 via Google Books).
* In 1956, the spelling "heeby jeebies" was used by U.S. singer Little Richard on the cover of his homonymous SP record (and the hyphenated spelling "heeby-jeebies" on its vinyl disc itself).
Senses: examples: text: I don't mind worms, but spiders give me the heebie-jeebies.
text: When I see that weird house, I get the heebie-jeebies.
glosses: A general feeling of anxiety, fear, uneasiness, or nausea.
wikipedia: Barney Google
Billy De Beck
Boyd Atkins
Heebie Jeebies (composition)
Ladies' Home Journal
Little Richard
Louis Armstrong
New York American
Swift & Company
Synonyms: creeps
willies
collywobbles
fear
Related terms: give someone the creeps
give someone the willies
texas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛk.səs/
note: locally also
ipa: /ˈtɛk.sɪs/
note: locally also
ipa: /ˈtɛk.sɪz/
homophone: Texas
rhymes: -ɛksəs
rhymes: -ɛksɪs
Forms: form: texases
Etymology: From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.
Senses: examples: text: She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.
ref: 1866, New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)
text: Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.
ref: 1991, Norman A. Fox, The Rawhide Years:
glosses: The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat.
bass-ackwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæs ækwəɹdz/
ipa: /bæs ˈækwəɹdz/
Forms: form: more bass-ackwards
form: most bass-ackwards
form: bass-ackward
form: bassackward
form: bassackwards
Senses: examples: text: Their whole approach is bass-ackwards.
glosses: Spoonerism of ass-backwards
bass-ackwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæs ækwəɹdz/
ipa: /bæs ˈækwəɹdz/
Forms: form: more bass-ackwards
form: most bass-ackwards
form: bass-ackward
form: bassackward
form: bassackwards
Senses: examples: text: What do you expect? They did the job bass-ackwards.
text: It’s certainly not helped by the bass-ackwards direction of team director Walter Godefroot. The man never met talent he couldn’t squander.
ref: 2005, Joe Lindsey, “What's with T-Mobile”, in Tour de France News:
glosses: Spoonerism of ass-backwards
blob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
ipa: /blɑb/
homophone: BLOB
Forms: form: blobs
Etymology: From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Senses: examples: text: Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
ref: 1869, Norman Lockyer et al., Nature:
text: It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
ref: 1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens:
text: But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:
glosses: A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large cloud of gas.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large cloud of gas.
Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
glosses: A bubble; a bleb.
glosses: A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
glosses: The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
examples: text: A gentleman named W. Shakespeare scored a blob in the Worcestershire v. Lancashire match. We understand that he got out because the ball pitched on a "damned spot."
ref: 1925, Punch, volume 168, page 561:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A score of zero.
glosses: Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
raw_tags: as the blob
Derived terms: binary blob
blobby
blobfish
blobitecture
blobject
blob-like
bloblike
blobocracy
blob of death
blobplot
blobular
blob-wore
cold blob
glob
horse blob
mareblob
moeblob
on the blob
water-blob
Related terms: cluster
blob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
ipa: /blɑb/
homophone: BLOB
Forms: form: blobs
form: blobbing
form: blobbed
form: blobbed
Etymology: From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Senses: examples: text: Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.
ref: 1917, Edgar Wallace, chapter 6, in The Keepers of the King's Peace:
text: […] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
ref: 1957 October 7, “War of Nerves”, in Time:
glosses: To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
examples: text: She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck:
text: Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […]
ref: 1959 December 7, “The Big Appel”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013:
glosses: To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
examples: text: Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin.
ref: 1964, A. S. Byatt, chapter 3, in The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., published 1991, page 47:
text: 2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2400118/Blood-gore-real-dunnits-SILENT-WITNESSES-BY-NIGEL-MCCRERY.html
[…] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.
glosses: To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
glosses: To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
glosses: To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
examples: text: […] where he had surreptitiously tickled small trout, or openly "blobbed" for eels with worms threaded on to darning wool when the rains came, […]
ref: 1937, The Argosy, volume 21, numbers 129-133, page 21:
synonyms: bob
glosses: To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.
Derived terms: blob off
blob out
blob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
ipa: /blɑb/
homophone: BLOB
Forms: form: blobs
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of BLOB.
region free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of region-free.
pissed as a fart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
vinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more vinaceous
form: most vinaceous
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin vinaceus, from Latin vinum.
Senses: synonyms: vinous
glosses: Containing wine.
examples: text: Near-synonym: winelike
text: Caudal femora of the lighter general color inclined to vinaceous pink on the ventral portion of the lateral face, dorsal and bounding carinae of the paginae sparsely beaded, face of the paginae suffused with the dark color, […]
ref: 1917, Peter Walter Claassen, Raymond Hill Beamer, Studies in Kansas Insects, page 116:
synonyms: vinous
glosses: Of the colour of red wine.
synonyms: vinous
glosses: Of the colour of red wine.
Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.
coordinate_terms: wine-dark
wine-blue
Derived terms: vinaceous dove
vinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin vinaceus, from Latin vinum.
Senses: coordinate_terms: wine-dark
wine-blue
glosses: A specific color among several that represent red wine.
ass-backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ass-backwards
form: most ass-backwards
form: ass backwards
form: ass-backward
form: ass backward
form: back-asswards
form: backasswards
form: bass-ackwards
form: bassackwards
Etymology: Recorded in the US in the 1930s. From ass + backwards
Senses: examples: text: The car spun out of control and I ended up ass-backwards in a ditch.
glosses: Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap.
examples: text: No wonder it doesn't work. The whole design is ass-backwards.
glosses: Hopelessly misguided; contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical; having taken the utterly wrong choice.
ass-backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: ass backwards
form: ass-backward
form: ass backward
form: back-asswards
form: backasswards
form: bass-ackwards
form: bassackwards
Etymology: Recorded in the US in the 1930s. From ass + backwards
Senses: glosses: Moving backwards, that is, rear end first.
examples: text: They did the whole design ass-backwards. No wonder it doesn't work.
glosses: In a hopelessly misguided manner; in a manner contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical.
Related terms: put the cart before the horse
preposterous
viridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: viridians
Etymology: From Latin viridis, from the verb vireō (“be verdant, sprout”).
Senses: examples: text: It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this addition to the artist’s palette. The colour of viridian is a very deep bluish green of great purity and transparency. It furnishes, with aureolin on the one hand and with ultramarine on the other, an immense number of beautiful hues, adapted to represent the colours of vegetation and of water.
ref: 1890, Arthur Herbert Church, chapter 16, in The Chemistry of Paints and Painting, 3rd edition, London: Seeley & Co., published 1901, page 195:
text: Then Miss Sloviak emerged from the ladies' room, hair reestablished, cheeks rouged, eyelids freshly painted a soft viridian, smelling of what I recognised as Cristalle, the fragrance worn both by my wife, Emily, and also by my lover, Sara Gaskell.
ref: 1995, Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys, Ch.1, at p.16
glosses: A bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide.
glosses: A bluish-green color.
viridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: more viridian
form: most viridian
Etymology: From Latin viridis, from the verb vireō (“be verdant, sprout”).
Senses: examples: text: spring sweeps the wood’s cathedral nave
with the green fury of a wave,
till oak and elm and beech and ash
in one viridian comber crash,
while at their feet red vetches shine,
sharp, and cold, and coralline.
ref: 1928, Humbert Wolfe, “Spring”, in This Blind Rose, London: Victor Gollancz, page 47:
text: We walked out on to a balcony, looking down on the bright green fields, the grey-blue river lined with viridian poplars, and the red earth paths where the peasants were driving their animals […]
ref: 1937, Robert Byron, “Bamian”, in The Road to Oxiana:
glosses: Of a bluish green colour.
Wedgwood blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wedgwood blues
Etymology: Named for Josiah Wedgwood, who used this colour for pottery.
Senses: glosses: A pale grey-blue colour.
Wedgwood blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Named for Josiah Wedgwood, who used this colour for pottery.
Senses: glosses: Of a pale grey-blue colour.
Related terms: Wedgwood green
ass-backward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ass-backward
form: most ass-backward
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ass-backwards.
ass backwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ass backwards
form: most ass backwards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ass-backwards.
ass backward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ass backward
form: most ass backward
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ass-backwards.
bass-ackward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bass-ackward
form: most bass-ackward
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bass-ackwards.
tweeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwitɚ/
ipa: /ˈtwiːtə/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tweeters
form: Tweeter
Etymology: From to tweet + -er.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
examples: text: The little tweeter birds that had kept her company this morning were now absent, leaving nothing but the whisper of the trees as a light breeze gently wandered by.
ref: 2017, Melody Styles, Heart of the Messenger (part 1)
glosses: One who or that which makes a tweeting noise.
examples: text: The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.
ref: 2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: twitterer
word: tweep
qualifier: social media
glosses: One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.
qualifier: social media
glosses: A poster on a microblogging social networking service.
Related terms: midrange
squawker
subwoofer
woofer
subwoofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭb′wo͝of′ər
ipa: /ˈsʌbˌwʊf.ə/
ipa: /ˈsʌbˌwʊf.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɐbˌwʊf.ə/
ipa: /ˈsɐbˌwʊf.ɐ/
ipa: /ˈsʌbˌwʉf.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈsabˌwuf.ɜʳ/
rhymes: -ʌbwʊfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: subwoofers
Etymology: From sub- + woofer.
Senses: examples: text: Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.
ref: 2004, Ed Gaskell, Make Your Own Music Video, CMP, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Even economy vehicles offer multispeaker audio upgrades, including a subwoofer.
ref: 2007 October 24, Roy Furchgott, “The Audiophile’s Goal Is to Rev Up the Music”, in The New York Times:
text: Subwoofers are typically placed not only near the floor, but also close to one of the walls.
ref: 2019, Vincent Verdult, Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home: Improving the Listening and Viewing Experience, Routledge, →ISBN, page 258:
synonyms: sub
hypernyms: loudspeaker
glosses: A loudspeaker designed to produce low-frequency sound, especially subbass.
Related terms: midrange
squawker
tweeter
woofer
continuo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of basso continuo.
continuo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuos
form: contino
Etymology: From Spanish continuo, ellipsis of hombre continuo (“constant and steadfast man”), from Latin continuus (“constant, continuous”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the personal guard of the medieval and early modern Spanish or Portuguese kings.
pop the cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops the cherry
form: popping the cherry
form: popped the cherry
form: popped the cherry
form: pop one's cherry
Senses: glosses: To break the hymen.
glosses: To lose one's virginity.
Related terms: pop someone's cherry
the other day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I was in San Francisco just the other day.
text: Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.
ref: 2024 August 21, Philip Haigh, “Stranded trains: problems for passengers and operators”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 52:
glosses: recently; lately; a few days ago.
glosses: the day before yesterday.
the other day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the day before yesterday.
dove gray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dove grays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dove grey.
dove gray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a dove gray color
glosses: Alternative form of dove grey.
caesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesareans
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Caesarean.
wikipedia: Caesarean_section#Etymology
Mafia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑfi.ə/
ipa: /ˈmæfi.ə/
Forms: form: the Mafia
form: Maffia
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mafia, of uncertain origin. In the first instance, it is not clear whether the lemma in question is a Sicilian exonym or endonym, since written and oral sources on this term are scarce, the etymology remains uncertain and it's worthy of further investigation. It is possibly a regional term of the then recently established Kingdom of Italy; thus the meaning "spirit of hostility to the law" could be just derivative. The hypotheses put forward have been varied, but not very convincing from a reconstructive point of view. See Sicilian mafia for more. See, also, the Wikipedia article for more discussion of the origin of the word. Doublet of mafiya.
Senses: synonyms: Mob
Cosa Nostra
glosses: The Mob: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian-Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.
examples: text: Somehow he managed to upset the Russian Mafia.
synonyms: Mob
glosses: The Mob: any particular mafia, mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian-Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.
Mafia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑfi.ə/
ipa: /ˈmæfi.ə/
Forms: form: Maffia
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mafia, of uncertain origin. In the first instance, it is not clear whether the lemma in question is a Sicilian exonym or endonym, since written and oral sources on this term are scarce, the etymology remains uncertain and it's worthy of further investigation. It is possibly a regional term of the then recently established Kingdom of Italy; thus the meaning "spirit of hostility to the law" could be just derivative. The hypotheses put forward have been varied, but not very convincing from a reconstructive point of view. See Sicilian mafia for more. See, also, the Wikipedia article for more discussion of the origin of the word. Doublet of mafiya.
Senses: related: word: mafia
glosses: A social deduction party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
Derived terms: mafia
mafia state
Related terms: word: Mafiosa
word: Mafioso
english: mafias; used to describe Russian
translation: mafias; used to describe Russian
word: mafiya
sense: party game
word: Werewolf
word: Camorra
word: capo
word: godfather
word: goodfella
word: 'Ndrangheta
word: omertà
word: thuggee
word: triad
word: yakuza
goodfella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodfellas
form: goodfellow
Etymology: From good + fella. Popularized by the American crime film Goodfellas (1990).
Senses: examples: text: Was Anthony Mirra a wiseguy then? […] If Mirra wasn't a good fellow at the time you was there, his argument is no good.
ref: 1987, Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley, chapter 17, in Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, New American Library, published 1988, page 310:
text: […] according to law enforcement, the boss of the largest crime family in the country, some 300 wise guys, good fellows, good guys, button men, made guys—sworn members of the family—and 1,000 and 1,500 associated members.
ref: 1992, Marshall Blonsky, chapter 13, in American Mythologies, New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 313–314:
text: As grounds for opposition [to the mark GOODFELLA], opposer [the Order Sons of Italy in America] alleges […] that “Goodfellas” is a code word used by organized criminals to refer to each other; that a synonym for “goodfellas” is “mafioso”[…]; that the term “Goodfellas” became generally known throughout the United States and Canada for its criminal meaning when the movie of the same name was released in 1990; that opposer and the CSJ object to use of the term “Goodfellas” beyond its meaning and description of a small group of organized criminals both in Italy and America […]
ref: 1999 June 29, Order Sons of Italy in America v. Richard Callisi, Opposition No. 99,992, U.S. Department of Commerce: Patent and Trademark Office, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2006:
text: Faced with damning disclosures from wiretaps and the prospect of life in prison, top goodfellas have ‘flipped’ to the prosecution's side.
ref: 2001 June 18, U.S. News & World Report, page 20, column 3:
text: Alite […] could never become a “made” member of the Mafia because he is […] not of Italian origin. […] he agreed to split the profits from his $1 million-a-month cocaine ring in the New York borough of Queens. / […] / He described the good life of a “goodfella” [i.e. life of him as a gangster].
ref: 2009 October 8, James Bone, “Turncoat John Alite tells John Gotti Jr trial of ‘spoiled heir’”, in The Times:
glosses: A gangster, especially one in the Mafia.
wikipedia: Goodfellas
Derived terms: Redfella
cartesian distance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartesian distances
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cartesian distance.
catch-22
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch-22s
Senses: examples: text: Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime.
ref: 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Catch-22.
fankle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæŋkəl/
rhymes: -æŋkəl
Forms: form: fankles
form: fankling
form: fankled
form: fankled
Etymology: From Scots fankle, (compare English fangle), equivalent to fank (“coil, noose, vang”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Doublet of fangle.
Senses: glosses: To tangle or entangle.
fankle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæŋkəl/
rhymes: -æŋkəl
Forms: form: fankles
Etymology: From Scots fankle, (compare English fangle), equivalent to fank (“coil, noose, vang”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Doublet of fangle.
Senses: examples: text: But sometimes they didn't go the way they should - and jammed, and each one behind it started to jam too, and I had to work like a madman to catch up, before the anchor-chain fouled into a fankle […]
ref: 1954, The Nautical Magazine, volumes 171-172, page 31:
glosses: A tangled condition.
christian name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: christian names
Senses: examples: text: —Now you ſee, brother Toby, he would ſay, looking up, “that chriſtian names are not ſuch indifferent things;”—had Luther here been called by any other name but Martin, he would have been damned to all eternity—Not that I look upon Martin, he would add, as a good name—far from it—’tis ſomething better than a neutral, and but a little—yet little as it is, you ſee it was of ſome ſervice to him.
ref: 1761, [Laurence Sterne], “Slawkenbergius’s Tale”, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume IV, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, pages 47–48:
text: This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:
text: Shirley Keeldar (she had no christian name but Shirley: her parents, who had wished to have a son, finding that, after eight years of marriage, Providence had granted them only a daughter, bestowed on her the same masculine family cognomen they would have bestowed on a boy, if with a boy they had been blessed)—[…]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Fieldhead”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 294–295:
text: My father’s family name being Philip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of Christian name.
sais
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
ipa: /seɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
ipa: /saɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Etymology: Nonstandard spelling of says.
Senses: examples: text: 'Yes,' sais I, 'what's left of me; but, good gracious,' sais I, 'you have got the 'heaves.' I hope it ain't catchin'.
ref: 1855 August, “Editor's Drawer”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XI, number LXIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 425:
text: Well, he tak some young man un he go off to Alsaroke to steal horse, un I seet roun' un watch dat woman. She watch me. Pretty soon camp was hunt de buffalo, un I was hunt Snow-Owl's woman. Every one was excite, un dey don' tak no 'count of me. I see de woman go up leetle coulie for stray horse, un I follar her. I sais, 'How do? You come be my woman. We run off to Meestar MacDonnail's tradehouse.' […] She sais she afraid.
ref: 2000, Frederic Remington, “Sun-Down Leflare's Warm Spot”, in John D. Seelye, editor, Stories of the Old West: Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry Troop, & Cattle Ranch, Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says.
peridot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪ.dɒt/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪ.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪ.dɑt/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ɪ.doʊ/
Forms: form: peridots
Etymology: From Middle English peritot, from Anglo-Norman peridou, peridout, Middle French perido, peridon, of uncertain origin; later reborrowed from modern French péridot.
Senses: examples: text: Gem-quality olivine is known as peridot, which has a subtle green light all its own.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 51:
text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
glosses: A transparent olive green form of olivine, used as a gem.
glosses: A yellow-green color, like that of the peridot.
Derived terms: Hawaiian peridot
peridotic
peridotite
bf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bfs
Senses: examples: text: This bf style is sooo comfy; it's super oversized and the waffle material is ideal for all the chill days around the corner. PS: get the shorts, too.
ref: 2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Initialism of boyfriend.
glosses: Initialism of best friend.
qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Initialism of boldface.
Hypernyms: sense: boyfriend
word: SO
Related terms: sense: boyfriend
word: GF
sense: boyfriend
word: SO
sense: best friend
word: BFF
sense: best friend
word: BFFL
rhyming slang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhyming slangs
Senses: glosses: Any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it; the rhyming word often being dropped.
Derived terms: Cockney rhyming slang
Australian rhyming slang
tannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannic acids
Etymology: Calque of French acide tannique, introduced 1834 by the French chemist Théophile-Jules Pelouze.
Senses: examples: text: Its salts resemble those of caffeina. The tannate is soluble in an excess of tannic acid, in alcohol and boiling water.
ref: 1864, Edward Parrish, A Treatise on Pharmacy, page 640:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various complex phenols extracted from the bark or galls of trees; used in tanning.
Related terms: tannin
tannogallic acid
counterclockwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: counter-clockwise
Etymology: From counter- + clock + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
Synonyms: sense: opposite of clockwise
word: anticlockwise
sense: opposite of clockwise
word: contraclockwise
counterclockwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-clockwise
Etymology: From counter- + clock + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
Derived terms: counterclockwisely
counterclockwiseness
strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of string
strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Collectively, the stringed instruments in an orchestra.
examples: text: It looks like a good offer, but there are strings attached.
glosses: Conditions, especially undesirable ones.
strings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of string
attached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attach
attached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Forms: form: more attached
form: most attached
Senses: glosses: Connected; joined.
examples: text: I'm very attached to my pets.
glosses: Fond of (used with to).
examples: text: Please see the attached file in my previous email.
glosses: Included as an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
examples: text: As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
text: I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.
glosses: In a romantic or sexual relationship.
examples: text: In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
glosses: Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
Coordinate terms: sense: sharing two walls
word: detached
sense: sharing two walls
word: semiattached
Derived terms: attachedly
attachedness
misattached
nonattached
no strings attached
no-strings-attached
overattached
please find attached
preattached
superattached
unattached