cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
be that as it may
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Be that as it may, the duty of all communicants lies plain.
ref: 1732, Henry Grove, A Discourse concerning the Nature and Design of the Lord's Supper, 1753 Charles Wright edition, London, p. 37 (Google preview)
text: But be that as it may, the principle of it is founded in truth.
ref: 1776, William Combe, The Diaboliad: A Poem. Dedicated to the Worst Man in His Majesty's Dominions, London: G. Kearsly, page 14:
text: We English people, be that as it may, have among us the best nursing for love and the worst nursing for money that can be got in Europe.
ref: 1858 June 12, Charles Dickens, Household Words, number 429, page 602:
text: It has frequently been asserted in the Indian press that the United States does not understand India's position. . . . Be that as it may, it is certainly true that some sectors of Indian opinion likewise do not adequately understand the motives of the United States.
ref: 1953 May 24, “Mr Dulles Visits South Asia”, in New York Times, page E10:
text: "They seem to think I'm photogenic." Be that as it may, and Rollins surely is a striking figure, his music and only his music matters.
ref: 2005 June 23, Mark Miller, “No rest for this elder statesman of jazz”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, page R3:
glosses: Even if that is the case; whether that is true or not; nevertheless.
Synonyms: be it as it may
howbeit
nevertheless
Related terms: come what may
that's as may be
user-hostile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more user-hostile
form: most user-hostile
form: user hostile
Etymology: From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly.
Senses: examples: text: Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a thick layer of peanut butter, so a user-hostile interface does not get user-friendly even by the addition of a brilliant help system.
ref: 1994, Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering:
text: If you've had some experience using JavaScript and HTML, then you know that JavaScript can be used to make an interface much more user-friendly (even though it can also be used to create user-hostile features, even ones that crash the browser).
ref: 2002, Mark Pearrow, The Wireless Web Usability Handbook:
glosses: Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user.
telson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telsons
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέλσον (télson, “headland”).
Senses: examples: text: Although Crangonya evidently comes very close to Niphargus, it appears to be a good genus, and to differ constantly from Niphargus in the more robust body and in the telson, which is always entire and never cleft as in Niphargus.
ref: 1894, Charles Chilton, “The Subterranean Crustacea of New Zealand”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series, Volume VI: Zoology, Linnean Society of London, page 219:
text: The basic number of segments in the abdomen is eleven plus the postsegmental telson which bears the anus, although Matsuda (1976) regards the telson as a twelfth segment.
ref: 1998, R. F. Chapman, The Insects: Structure and Function, 4th edition, Cambridge University Press, page 259:
text: The two documented examples of telson abnormalities are on juvenile moults (Fig. 2a, b).
ref: 2022, Russell D. C. Bicknell et al., “Applying Records of Extant and Extinct Horseshoe Crab Abnormalities to Xiphosurid Conservation”, in John T. Tanacredi et al., editors, International Horseshoe Crab Conservation and Research Efforts: 2007-2020, Springer, page 88:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment, often resembling an armored tail or tip of the tail.
Derived terms: pretelson
telsonic
trochanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochanters
Etymology: From French trochanter, from Ancient Greek τροχαντήρ (trokhantḗr).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.
glosses: In some arthropods, the second segment of the leg, between the coxa and the femur.
Derived terms: antitrochanter
greater trochanter
lesser trochanter
trochanteral
trochanteric
Related terms: trochantinal
trochantine
let bygones be bygones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛt ˈbaɪɡɒnz biː ˈbaɪɡɒnz/
ipa: /lɛt ˈbaɪˌɡɑnz bi ˈbaɪˌɡɑnz/
Forms: form: lets bygones be bygones
form: letting bygones be bygones
form: let bygones be bygones
form: let bygones be bygones
Etymology: From bygone (“event that happened in the past”).
Senses: examples: text: "Never mind, I'll give you a hundred dollars for it," said the king; "you did me out of horse and saddle the other day, and the bridle too, but I'll let bygones be bygones, if I get the pot."
ref: 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “Peik”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 196:
text: To intrude as little of his personality as possible upon a gay event with which that personality could show nothing in keeping, he decided not to make his appearance till evening—when stiffness would have worn off, and a gentle wish to let bygones be bygones would exercise its say in all hearts.
ref: 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter 44, in The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: The Story of a Man of Character, London: The Folio Society, published 1968 (1996 printing), →OCLC, page 323:
text: You'll find, when you come back, I promise you, Kit, that everyone is willing to let bygones be bygones, and that you can make a fresh start.
ref: 1958, Elizabeth George Speare, chapter 20, in The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 228–229:
text: But I ain't got no quarrel witcha. Just let bygones be bygones.
ref: 1992, Ethel Footman Smothers, “Let Bygones Be Bygones”, in Down in the Piney Woods (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN, page 145:
synonyms: forgive and forget
glosses: To disregard or ignore a past difficulty in a relationship or an offence (when dealing with another individual).
Related terms: let sleeping dogs lie
water under the bridge
overfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfish
overfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overfishings
Senses: examples: text: Most of the overfishings in the international sense are a product of misuse.
ref: 1975, Northwest Mariculture Laws: Papers and Presentations..., page 22:
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
glosses: Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
Related terms: overhunting
overexploitation
diagnosticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diagnosticates
form: diagnosticating
form: diagnosticated
form: diagnosticated
Etymology: From diagnostic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Paracyesis and interstitial or cornuate fetation are purposely omitted, as such accidents can scarcely be diagnosticated […]
ref: 1895, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Transactions, volume 7, page 98:
glosses: To make a diagnosis of; to recognise (a disease or similar) by its symptoms.
Related terms: diagnostication
revocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revocates
form: revocating
form: revocated
form: revocated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin revoco, revocatus. Doublet of revoke.
Senses: glosses: To recall (troops, objects, etc)
glosses: To revoke (a person's probation / extended supervision / parole status in the criminal justice context) ex. "My P.O. wants to revocate me" meaning "My probation officer wants to revoke my probation/extended supervision/parole"
Related terms: revoke
revocation
regio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regiones
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin regiō. Doublet of region.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: planetary geology
glosses: Any large area of a planet or moon that is strongly differentiated from neighbouring areas by colour or albedo.
examples: text: The British School has unearthed a city of continuous houses, more than 400 feet long by 350 broad, whose many blocks or "insul[ae]" might seem almost to need the more elaborate grouping of the "regiones" of Pompeii.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 27:
glosses: A district of a city.
Rachabattuni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rachabattunis
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu రచబత్తుని (racabattuni).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Telugu.
rag bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rag baggers
Etymology: From rag referring to the sails, and bagger referring to the storage of many items.
Senses: examples: text: The rag bagger offloaded his vessel in the rain.
qualifier: disrespectful
glosses: A sailor who tends to sail on messy cruising vessels.
examples: text: The rag bagger has a deck lined with gas cans and bicycles.
qualifier: disrespectful
glosses: A sailboat, usually a cruising sailboat tending to carry and store lots of supplies along the deck, or any sailboat that looks neglected or messy.
oppresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oppress
Kristine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Christine.
Leona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːˈəʊnə/
ipa: /liˈoʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a feminine form of Leo through Leon.
Leonie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Léonie, from Latin Leonia, feminine of Leonius, derived from leo (“lion”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Lottie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒti/
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.
In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.
ref: 1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 117:
glosses: A pet form of the female given name Charlotte.
Loretta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌləˈɹɛtə/
ipa: /ˌlɔ-/
rhymes: -ɛtə
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Lauretta, Italian diminutive of Laura; or a form of Loreto.
Lola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊlə/
ipa: /ˈloʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology: From Spanish Lola.
Senses: examples: text: What lovely names for girls there are!
There's Stella like the Evening Star,
And Sylvia like a rustling tree,
And Lola like a melody,
ref: 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91:
glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
Related terms: Lolita
forsaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɔɹˈseɪkɚ/
Forms: form: forsakers
Etymology: From forsake + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who forsakes.
Lynda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Linda.
Lynette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: Lynnette
Etymology: Anglicized form of Welsh Eluned, first used by Tennyson in the Idylls of the King(1859-85), altered by folk etymology to be Lynn + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: 'My name?' she said -
'Lynette, my name; noble; my need, a knight,
ref: 1872, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette:
glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Lynnette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Lynette.
Mable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mables
Etymology: Variant of Mabel.
Senses: examples: text: And "Mable"'s a name that ever sounds sweetly / And charms and enchants a mortal completely
ref: 1892, Walter Malone, “Mary”, in Narcissus: and Other Poems, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 133:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Mabel.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
Derived terms: Mableton
Marlene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marleen
Etymology: From German Marlene.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew borrowed from German in early 20th century.
Related terms: Marla
Tilda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, short form of Matilda.
Nannie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Ann or Annie.
Patsy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Patsie
Etymology: From the clipping of Patricia or Patrick + -sy (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Martha.
Paulette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed in the twentieth century from French Paulette, a diminutive feminine form of Paul.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
aberuncates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aberuncate
aberuncating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aberuncate
aberuncated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aberuncate
abjudges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abjudge
abjudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abjudge
abjudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abjudge
Sallie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A less common spelling of Sally; see -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sarah.
abjudicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abjudicate
abjudicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abjudicate
abjudicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abjudicate
ablactates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ablactate
ablactating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ablactate
ablactated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ablactate
Synonyms: weaned
abligates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abligate
abligated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abligate
abligating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abligate
concatenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concatenate
concatenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concatenate
concatenated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concatenated
form: most concatenated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Connected together like the links of a chain.
concatenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concatenate
Tiare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tahitian Tiare, from tiare, a small white gardenia (Gardenia tahitiensis ), the national flower of Tahiti.
Senses: examples: text: Tiare — her father had called her by the name of the white, scented flower which, they tell you, if you have once smelt, will always draw you back to Tahiti in the end, however far you may have roamed — Tiare remembered Strickland very well.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name. Used in Hawaii since the 1980s.
Valeria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪəɹi.ə/
Etymology: Feminine form of Roman family name Valerius, from Latin valere (“to be healthy, to be strong”). Doublet of Valerie.
Senses: examples: text: Valeria Marquez was addressing her TikTok followers in a livestream from her beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico, when someone arrived at her door to deliver a small parcel.
ref: 2025 May 14, Hira Humayun, Avery Schmitz and Veronica Calderon, “TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream in Mexico”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Valerie
endorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Flanked by endorses.
endorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endorse
predestined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predestine
duped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dupe
dusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dust
nomenclatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomenclaturas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nomenklatura.
calcate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calcates
form: calcating
form: calcated
form: calcated
Etymology: From Latin calcātus, the past participle of calcāre (“to trample”), parsed via English -ate (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of calque.
Senses: examples: text: It should be calcated with ones feet.
ref: 1657, Richard Tomlinson, translating Jean de Renou as A Medicinal Dispensatory, sig. Yyy4v
glosses: Synonym of trample: to crush or stomp underfoot.
synonyms: word: trample
extra: to crush or stomp underfoot
Derived terms: calcation
calcatory
calcificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calcificates
form: calcificating
form: calcificated
form: calcificated
Etymology: Back-formation from calcification.
Senses: examples: text: That which applies to calcificating coral-line, might also apply to sceleractinian corals.
ref: 1993 April 21, Steve Tyree, “Algae Scrubbers [M]”, in alt.aquaria (Usenet), retrieved 09 May 2022:
text: I would like to know if there is anyone who know of a drug called, Clodronate? This drug calcificates bone, it hinders bone from leaving bone and going into ther bloodstream. If there is a drug that is sold here in the States or Mexico with another name I would really like to know about it.
ref: 1996 July 15, Ruben H. Lujan, “Bone calcification medicine?”, in sci.med.diseases.als (Usenet), retrieved 09 May 2022:
text: An echocardiography showed a dilated left ventricle with global contractility conserved; mitral valve with mild fibrosis and a dilated mitral ring; aortic valve not calcificated, with plail; an eyection fraction of 65% was found.
ref: 1997 February 27, Chih Hao Chen Ku, “Aortic insuficiency”, in sci.med.cardiology (Usenet), retrieved 09 May 2022:
text: What is the basal ganglia? (use of, purpose of, benefit to the quality of life, etc.) What happens when the left globus pallidus, which I gather is a part of the basal ganglia, begins calcificating? Any and all information is appreciated!
ref: 1998 September 21, Imani Robinson, “Basal ganglia and its calcification...”, in alt.health (Usenet), retrieved 09 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: To calcify.
applicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applicates
Senses: glosses: An applied material; an application
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line at right angles to the axis of a conic section that extends from the axis to the curve
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: applicant
coordinate_terms: abscissa
ordinate
glosses: The z-coordinate (the last of the three terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of Cartesian coordinates for a three-dimensional space)
applicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: applicates
form: applicating
form: applicated
form: applicated
Senses: glosses: To apply (a material to a surface).
applicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:
glosses: Applied or put to some use.
immunologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunologists
Etymology: From immunology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies or practices medicine in the area of immunology.
Derived terms: neuroimmunologist
immunologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunologist
celebutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celebutants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of celebutante.
monocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -carpic. Analyzable as monocarp + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A nire accurate division of plants, as connected with flowering and fructification, is into monocarpic, or those which flower but once, and perish; and into polycarpic, or those which flower and ripen seeds several times before the entire plant, root and branch, perish.
ref: 1839 July 27, Robert Dickson, “Contributions to the Natural Theology of the Vegetable Kingdom”, in The Church of England Magazine, volume 7, number 175, page 52:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying.
Synonyms: monocarpian
monocarpous
Coordinate terms: monocarp
polycarp
polycarpic
donkey work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkey-work
form: donkeywork
Senses: examples: text: Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work, and even the company's dirty work?
text: Labi said she did not need to carry planks of wood on her head any more, it was donkey work for idiots
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 161:
text: But what looks like donkeywork is a necessary step in a formulaic approach, a set of prescribed practices that have their own embedded wisdom.
ref: 2022, The Atlantic:
glosses: Work that is difficult, boring, and routine.
Related terms: collar-work
God's work
grunt work
brick up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bricks up
form: bricking up
form: bricked up
form: bricked up
Senses: examples: text: I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass.
text: The tunnel's mouth was bricked up because it was unsafe.
text: Or it may be that the trains continue to pass but never more will stop, and the platforms are stripped and laid bare, the doorways bricked up, the overbridges dismantled, and the empty buildings stare out upon the passing trains with the reproachful melancholy of an old tombstone in a city churchyard overlooking a city street.
ref: 1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
glosses: To block or cover using bricks.
examples: text: The chest was bricked up into the wall.
text: We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.
ref: 2020 December 11, Richard Speed, “Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, in The Register, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022:
synonyms: brick in
glosses: To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.
examples: text: She’s got a little meat along her lats and femur muscles that bricks me up more.
ref: 2023, Lula White, Drink You (Explore Men of the Hamptons; 3), Lula White Books, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: To cause (someone) to have an erection.
Related terms: bricked up
bricked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bricked up
form: most bricked up
Etymology: * (slang sense) According to Know Your Meme, coined by American rapper Jack Harlow in a 2020 interview with Genius (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: Man, this chick got me bricked up.
text: The female reindeer from the Rudolph claymation series? When I was in preschool, I used to be bricked up watching that shit.
ref: 2020 February 11, “Jack Harlow "WHATS POPPIN" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified”, in YouTube, posted by Genius, spoken by Jack Harlow:
text: Remember when we would see her on the screen and get bricked up instantly?!?? Hahaha we were some crazy kids!!!
ref: 2021 February 5, @Ronnichu_, Twitter:
text: bell pepper (bricked up)
ref: 2022 October 18, @fuckedupfoods, Twitter:
text: if i was a guy I'd be bricked up 24/7
ref: 2023 January 28, @ilov3spiderman, Twitter:
text: the guy at the tattoo place when i was getting my knuckle tats said i had tiny delicate fingers and i got bricked up
ref: 2023 March 20, @WIFEMODER, Twitter:
synonyms: erect
glosses: Having an erection that fails to go down.
bricked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: * (slang sense) According to Know Your Meme, coined by American rapper Jack Harlow in a 2020 interview with Genius (see quotation).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brick up
daughters-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daughter-in-law
omentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəm
Forms: form: omentums
form: omenta
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōmentum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera.
Derived terms: greater omentum
lesser omentum
omental
omentin
definable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈfaɪnəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more definable
form: most definable
Etymology: From define + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Many words are definable by using other words.
text: He speaks to an audience definable not by its size nor even by its color but by its intellectual jazzhead zeal, and if he sometimes appears to be speaking only to himself, so be it; few people I know have the fervor for anything to match Mackey’s for jazz.
ref: 2008 February 24, David Hajdu, “Jazz Man”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be defined.
Derived terms: definably
interdefinable
nondefinable
user-definable
Related terms: definability
negata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negatum
doubtlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doubtlessly
form: most doubtlessly
Etymology: From Middle English doutelesly, dowtelesly, equivalent to doubtless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are doubtlessly more insects than mammals.
glosses: Without question; indubitably.
examples: text: Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt
Their angry ſeedes at his conception:
For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race,
Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride,
He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
glosses: Without feeling doubt, without misgivings.
Derived terms: undoubtlessly
adelphogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adelpho- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: A form of polyandry where a woman is married to two or more brothers.
glosses: Marriage between a brother and a sister.
driest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dry: most dry
frostbitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frost + bitten.
Senses: examples: text: His frostbitten toes would not recover.
coordinate_terms: frosted#Adjective
glosses: Affected by frostbite.
nerdiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nerdy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...
ref: 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:
glosses: the quality of being nerdy
phiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪz
Forms: form: phizzes
form: phizes
Etymology: Clipping of physiognomy, late 17th c.
Senses: examples: text: The emphatic speaker dearly loves to oppose,
In contact inconvenient, nose to nose.
As if the gnomon on his neighbour's phiz,
Touched with the magnet had attracted his.
ref: 1818, William Cowper, “Conversation”, in Poems, volume 1, page 163:
text: […] and whatever the feelings which now agitate our secret hearts, — you see we are resolved at least to put on a cheerful phiz, and not to die either of the dumps or the mumps, or any other of the dismals.
ref: 1831 June, “The Lord Advocate on Reform”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 29, number 181, page 980:
text: "As for thee, thou givest me good-morrow with thy one eye and thy lameness and thy ill-omened phiz and I become poor and bankrupt and hungry!"
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 8:
text: Flores stood in a corner with a melancholy expression on his phiz.
ref: 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural:
text: Sulley Muntari gets fresh and funky on social media disgrace Twitter after claims were made that he introduced his open palm to the phiz of a referee...
ref: 2017, Michael Butler, “Zizou is a rock. Zizou is an island”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The face.
Synonyms: fizzog
phizog
fusspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusspots
Etymology: From fuss + pot.
Senses: examples: text: My teacher is such a fusspot, he marks us down for handwriting!
glosses: A person who makes a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
Synonyms: fussbudget
Derived terms: fusspottery
fusspot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fusspots
form: fusspotting
form: fusspotted
form: fusspotted
Etymology: From fuss + pot.
Senses: examples: text: I hadn't realised then that fusspotting about small details of social disorder was an Australian obsession.
ref: 1999, Annie Caulfield, The Winners' Enclosure, page 67:
glosses: To make a fuss, particularly about trivial things.
sphygmomanometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphygmomanometer
misunderstands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misunderstand
shotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒtən/
ipa: /-n̩/
ipa: /ˈʃɑtən/
ipa: /-n̩/
rhymes: -ɒtən
Senses: glosses: past participle of shoot
shotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒtən/
ipa: /-n̩/
ipa: /ˈʃɑtən/
ipa: /-n̩/
rhymes: -ɒtən
Senses: examples: text: Falstaff (to Francis): If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: Having ejected the spawn.
glosses: Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
Related terms: cup-shotten
nook-shotten
slitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slit
slitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slittings
Senses: examples: text: […] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings.
ref: 2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94:
glosses: The act by which something is slit.
Derived terms: english: mill
translation: mill
word: slitting mill
english: village
translation: village
word: Slitting Mill
gelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛleɪt
Forms: form: gelates
form: gelating
form: gelated
form: gelated
Senses: glosses: To form a gel.
genderqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gender + queer. First known uses were in queer zines of the 1980s. Popularized in the 1990s including by Riki Wilchins.
Senses: synonyms: non-binary
glosses: Not exclusively male or female; having or pertaining to a gender identity which is not represented by the gender binary.
Hyponyms: genderfluid
bigender
ambigender
trigender
pangender
third-gender
agender
genderless
genderfree
gender-free
neutrois
Derived terms: genderqueerness
tenderqueer
Related terms: genderfuck
cisgender
transgender
genderqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genderqueers
Etymology: From gender + queer. First known uses were in queer zines of the 1980s. Popularized in the 1990s including by Riki Wilchins.
Senses: examples: text: I am a FAAB (female-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer, and I have a good friend who is a MAAB (male-assigned-at-birth) genderqueer.
ref: 2013, Joe MacDonald, An Autoethnography of Queer Transmasculine Femme Incoherence and The Ethics of Trans Research, Emerald Group, page 145:
qualifier: sometimes considered offensive
glosses: Someone who is genderqueer.
Synonyms: enby
genderqueer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genderqueers
form: genderqueering
form: genderqueered
form: genderqueered
Etymology: From gender + queer. First known uses were in queer zines of the 1980s. Popularized in the 1990s including by Riki Wilchins.
Senses: glosses: (sometimes considered offensive) To make genderqueer.
Related terms: androgyne
trans*
hermaphrodite
intersex
two-spirit
sworn virgin
full-bore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: full bore
Etymology: From full + bore (“barrel of a gun”).
Senses: examples: text: The problem had grown into a full-bore crisis.
text: He is full-bore environmental activist.
glosses: Thoroughgoing; complete; total.
examples: text: Mounted on the wall was a full-bore elephant gun.
glosses: Having a relatively large caliber.
raw_tags: of a firearm
Synonyms: full-blown
full-fledged
full-bore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: full bore
Etymology: From full + bore (“barrel of a gun”).
Senses: examples: text: The car raced full-bore into oncoming traffic.
glosses: At top speed; with full power.
Synonyms: full tilt boogie
full bore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of full-bore.
full bore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of full-bore.
gender binary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender binaries
Etymology: gender + binary
Senses: glosses: A gender system in which people are categorized, in terms of gender and often also sex, exclusively as either male or female.
Related terms: sex binary
non-binary
dices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dice
dices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪsɪz/
Senses: qualifier: proscribed by some
glosses: plural of dice, when "dice" is used as a singular.
possessive pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessive pronoun
right-hand man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-hand men
Senses: examples: text: This guy is the real thing [...] and he's plucked my girl up to be his right-hand man because he knows she's the real deal, too.
ref: 2014, Christina Lauren, Dirty Rowdy Thing, pages 303–304:
synonyms: man Friday
right hand
glosses: A trusted assistant.
Coordinate terms: right-hand woman
right-hand woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-hand women
Senses: examples: text: Magnussen is as cartoonish as his character while there are small, sparky opportunities for Patti Harrison as Hazel’s old friend and Noma Dumezweni as Byron’s right-hand woman, that are hopefully expanded in future episodes.
ref: 2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A trusted female assistant.
Synonyms: girl Friday
Coordinate terms: right-hand man
man Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæn ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/
ipa: /-di/
ipa: /ˌmæn ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/
ipa: /-di/
rhymes: -aɪdeɪ
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: man Fridays
form: men Friday
form: men Fridays
Etymology: From man (“adult male servant”) + Friday, coined by the English writer Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 – 1731) in his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) as the name of the protagonist Crusoe’s companion and servant; he is rescued by Crusoe from cannibal captives on a Friday. Crusoe frequently refers to him as “my man Friday”.
Senses: examples: text: This man—our lackey, our servant, our unquestioning slave though he was, was still a gentleman— […] We asked our man Friday’s name.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 119:
text: Nothing is less true, as far as intellectual initiative is concerned, than the idea that those who are good in obeying will also be good in commanding. Very similar difficulties arise in political parties: the ‘Man Friday’ of the party leader is seldom a capable successor.
ref: 1945, K[arl] R[aimund] Popper, “The Principle of Leadership”, in The Open Society and Its Enemies, 4th edition, volume I (The Spell of Plato), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1962, section V, page 135:
coordinate_terms: girl Friday
glosses: A trusted man whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks; a personal assistant, a right-hand man; also, a trusted male companion.
examples: text: Unfortunately along with the Birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays whose origins are obscure, and who are being hopefully wished on to Mauritius etc.
ref: 1966 August 24, D[enis] A[rthur] Greenhill, British Indian Ocean Territory [handwritten note on a confidential diplomatic cable relating to the depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago]:
english: handwritten note on a confidential diplomatic cable relating to the depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago
translation: handwritten note on a confidential diplomatic cable relating to the depopulation of the Chagos Archipelago
glosses: An aborigine or native, especially one who inhabits an island.
Derived terms: girl Friday
girl Friday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girl Fridays
form: girls Friday
form: Girl Friday
form: girl friday
Etymology: By extension from man Friday, from the character Friday in Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe.
Senses: glosses: A right-hand woman.
wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
Robinson Crusoe
Related terms: man Friday
sardoodledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈduːdəldəm/
Forms: form: Sardoodledom
Etymology: Named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou + doodle + -dom, coined by Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist George Bernard Shaw who first used it on the 1 June, 1895 in the Saturday Review when criticising Sardou's well-made plays.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally this critic loses no chance to express his contempt for what he calls “Sardoodledom:” the cult of the “wellmade” play. He gives M. Sardou no bail, and barely allows Mr. Pinero to go at large on good behavior.
ref: [1907 April, H. W. Boynton, “Mr. Shaw as Critic”, in The Atlantic:
text: What is new is that we have in movies an art form so exclusively given over to Sardoodledom that a Yale professor thinks that Sardoodledom is ingrained in the celluloid.
ref: 2010 [1946], Eric Bentley, The Playwright as a Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times, 4th edition, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or melodramatic plots.
wikipedia: Saturday Review (London newspaper)
on good terms
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Being friendly; having good relations.
mouth breather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouth breathers
form: mouth-breather
form: mouthbreather
Senses: examples: text: Respirations cannot be recorded by this method, if the subject is a mouth breather (as no air flows by the thermistor in the nose).
ref: 1967, Nancy J. Barron, “A Ride in the Human Centrifuge”, in American Journal of Nursing, volume 67, number 8, page 1654:
glosses: A person who routinely inhales and exhales through the mouth, instead of through the nose.
examples: text: She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a "mouth breather" of a boss.
ref: 2004 March 12, Tim Goodman, “Trinkets are spirit guides in Fox's brilliant 'Wonderfalls'”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
glosses: A person who is boorish, stupid, or otherwise unattractive.
Related terms: mouth-breathe
mouthbreathing
mata mata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mata matas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matamata.
adaptogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adaptogen
fishfinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishfinders
Etymology: From fish + finder.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: An electronic device that uses sonar to measure water depth and shows outlines of fish and bottom features on a LCD or CRT screen
biotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotope
bricks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brick up
bricking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brick up
committers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of committer
co-citations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-citation
cocitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocitations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-citation.
cocitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocitation
deckchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deckchair
deck chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deck chair
ecotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotope
effractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effraction
fauchards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauchard
geotopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geotope
incardinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incardinate
incardinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incardinate
incardinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incardinate
karyotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karyotype
karyotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of karyotype
karyotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of karyotype
karyotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The separation and identification of karyotypes
Derived terms: electrokaryotyping
karyotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of karyotype
liplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipline
lorgnons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorgnon
Turkish delights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkish delight
locoums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locoum
macrofiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macro-fiction.
misappropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misappropriate
misappropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misappropriate
misappropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misappropriate
reassuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reassure
reassuring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more reassuring
form: most reassuring
Senses: examples: text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 95:
text: The manifesto talks of safeguards to ensure that freight operators receive fair access to the network. These may be reassuring words for the likes of DB Cargo, but the devil will be in the detail and freight operators will no doubt be pressing for that detail to include cheaper electricity and access charges.
ref: 2024 October 30, Andy Comfort, “Can the Royal Mail trains keep on running?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 61:
glosses: That reassures; causing or restoring comfort or confidence.
reassuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: reassurings
Senses: examples: text: Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings.
ref: 1900, Mark Twain, The Belated Russian Passport:
glosses: reassurance
erecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The workers are erecting the new building right now.
glosses: present participle and gerund of erect
laced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: more laced
form: most laced
Senses: glosses: Fastened with lace or laces (light cordage).
glosses: Adorned with lace (delicate fabric).
examples: text: I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.
synonyms: adulterated
glosses: Intentionally tainted with something, especially a drug.
Derived terms: laced day-moth
laced moray
laced mutton
laced-up
ladder-laced
spunlaced
straight-laced
strait-laced
tight-laced
Related terms: word: lacing
laced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lace
metallogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metallogenic
form: most metallogenic
Etymology: From metallo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metallogeny.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring in an ore as a native metal rather than as a compound such as silicate, carbonate etc.