cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rainbow mantis shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow mantis shrimp
clown mantis shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clown mantis shrimp
harlequin mantis shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harlequin mantis shrimp
EOYs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EOY
epichaperomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epichaperome
epiglottidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiglottidectomy
An Dương
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈænzʊəŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese An Dương.
Senses: glosses: A rural district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
glosses: A township, the capital of An Dương district, Haiphong, Vietnam.
glosses: A commune of Tân Yên district, Bắc Giang Province, Vietnam.
epikeratomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epikeratome
epileptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epileptor
epilancins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epilancin
epimerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimerisation
epimysiotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimysiotomy
An Lão
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈænlaʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese An Lão.
Senses: glosses: A rural district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
glosses: A district of Bình Định Province, Vietnam.
glosses: A township, the capital of An Lão district, Haiphong, Vietnam.
glosses: A township, the capital of An Lão district, Bình Định Province, Vietnam.
orthopaedic bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopaedic beds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orthopedic bed.
orthopaedic beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthopaedic bed
Kiến Thuỵ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kiến Thụy
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiến Thuỵ.
Senses: glosses: A rural district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
Kiến Thụy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Kiến Thuỵ.
reasons out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reason out
reasoning out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reason out
reasoned out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reason out
Master-Signifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Master-Signifiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of master signifier.
master-signifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master-signifiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of master signifier.
Ngô Quyền
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Ngô Quyền.
Senses: glosses: An urban district of Haiphong, Vietnam.
floating signifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floating signifiers
Etymology: Calque of French signifiant flottant as used by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Senses: examples: text: However, the elite as a target for populist resentments remains quite fuzzy and rather serves as a floating signifier oscillating between the ‘political establishment’, the ‘economic elite’, the ‘cultural elite’ and the ‘media elite’: in short, one homogenous corrupt group that works against the ‘general will’.
ref: 2020, Ina Kudde, Miranda Loli, “Corruption and populism: the linkage”, in Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Paul M. Heywood, editors, A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption, →ISBN, page 122:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A signifier—that is, a linguistic sign, a label or slogan—with a vague and variable meaning.
wikipedia: Claude Lévi-Strauss
floating signifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floating signifier
buggerlugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugalugs
Senses: examples: text: Also, “How's it goin', bugalugs.” And, “Take a shufti at the Brit kid, mate.”
ref: 2008 November 6, Allan Cole, Lucky in Cyprus: A True Story about a Teacher, a Boy, an Earthquake, Some Terrorists, and the CIA, Allan Cole, →ISBN, page 274:
text: 'Hey, bugalugs, I'm just doing my job.' I grinned back.
ref: 2010 May 7, Hayley Long, Lottie Biggs is (Not) Desperate, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: 'Come on, buggerlugs, let's get you by the fire.'
ref: 2020 December 10, Mary Wood, The Jam Factory Girls, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: 'Come here, buggerlugs.' The woman flung her arms out to her sides and wriggled her fingers. 'Give your Aunty Myra a cuddle.'
ref: 2022 February 24, Rebecca Griffiths, The Hidden Child: A completely unputdownable mystery thriller inspired by a true crime, Bookouture, →ISBN:
glosses: A term of address that can be rude or affectionate.
bugalugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Likely bowdlerisation removing the offensive term bugger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buggerlugs.
delegalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delegalises
form: delegalising
form: delegalised
form: delegalised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of delegalize.
delegalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delegalise
delegalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delegalise
delegalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delegalise
whip cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Coffee anyone?” Colonel Stanton asked. “A cappuccino with plenty of whip cream,” Captain Nishikawa kidded.
ref: 2005, Robert Proo Lopez, “First Test Flight”, in Red Moon Rising, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 60:
text: He opens the antique fifties turquoise fridge, scratches his head—also in need of a comb, cut, and shape—shoulders stooped, he searches for the whip cream. […] “I’ll go check it out before I leave,” Sam interrupts, holding the small carton of whip cream, […]
ref: 2006, Lisa Teasley, Heat Signature, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Sometimes my finger would have little crystals of sugar making their way to my mouth as she plopped my mug of cappuccino and whip cream in front of me. She’d kind of frown at me but then I’d give her a smile knowing it got her every time. I’d polish off my finger and put whip cream on my cappuccino as she set out the cheese and crackers that always came along with this snack.
ref: 2015, Xena Leycea-Bruno, “Taunting Little Jar of Sugar”, in Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices, Portland, Ore.; Brooklyn, N.Y.: Tin House Books, published 2018, →ISBN:
glosses: Whipped cream.
Derived terms: whip-creamed
whip-creamy
skong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Skong (Hollow Knight: Silksong, a fantasy video game)
Coordinate terms: silkpost
whip-creamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whip-creamed
form: most whip-creamed
Etymology: From whip cream + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He checks the desserts in advance, and while he is waiting for his steak to arrive he keeps a sharp eye on other tables to make certain that he will not be taken in by a small portion of lemon pie when the strawberry shortcake is large and lavishly whip-creamed.
ref: 1957 March, Shirley Jackson, “The pleasures and perils of dining out with children”, in McCall’s, volume LXXXIV, number 6, McCall Corporation, page 105, column 1:
text: The Kirsch Torte is a heavy, nutted, whip-creamed cake soaked in an excess of liqueur, an after-dinner drink that requires a fork.
ref: 1978, Seymour Britchky, The Restaurants of New York, 1978–1979 edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 36:
text: When one pie was left, Faith plunked down her money and stepped up to the line, the heavily whip-creamed pie in her hand.
ref: 2014, Cindi Madsen, Resisting the Hero, Parker, Colo.: Bliss, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
synonyms: whip-creamy
whipped-creamed
whipped-creamy
glosses: With whip cream.
maple-syruped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maple syrup + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Although the researcher put regional needs in logical order, New Englanders have long known on what side their toast is maple-syruped.
ref: 1953 July 15, “The Deflowering of New England”, in Forbes, volume 72, number 2, New York, N.Y.: C. Forbes & Sons Publishing Co., Inc., page 17, column 3:
text: Brunch was the time you could order maple-syruped pancakes with your sausages and eggs and swill it down with champagne without feeling guilty.
ref: 1995, Jill Gascoine, Lilian, Bath: Chivers Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 178:
text: Knowing there was no possibility of lunch, he’d got up in time for the maple-syruped waffles that never added weight to his skeletal frame, but he had hoped for coffee.
ref: 2004, Brian Freemantle, chapter 9, in Dead End, Severn House Publishers, published 2005, →ISBN, page 62:
text: The provenance of materials is proudly trumpeted, and the inventive impulse continues through to desserts such as maple-syruped waffles with an ice cream flavoured with both vanilla and Tag Lag beer, this last ingredient provided by the on-site Barngates brewery.
ref: 2005, “England”, in Andrew Turvil, editor, The Good Food Guide 2006, London: Which?, →ISBN, page 155, column 2:
text: In families everywhere flashes of brilliance burst forth from loving glances at morning light, from hugs served with orange juice and real maple-syruped pancakes, in the flutter of quick airborne kisses at the door on the way out, from cell phone midday checks to learn if all is well, and from nighttime visits to a child or a grandma, bedded down beneath a soft blanket.
ref: 2007, David M[ichael] Thomas, “Ordinary Families”, in A Community of Love: Spirituality of Family Life, Skokie, Ill.: ACTA Publications, →ISBN, page 42:
text: I’d settled in before the soothing lilt of TV, pain dulling with the heat of a hot water bottle, maple-syruped stack and liquid Tylenol taking effect, when my mother came in the room zipping up the brown leather rucksack, stuffed to fill its shape.
ref: 2014, Katie Chase, “The Hut”, in Katya Apekina, Brian Joseph Davis, Kara Levy, Kathryn Mockler, Anna Prushinskaya, Emily Schultz, editors, Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Joyland, →ISBN, page 83:
text: “She does, but she always chokes,” Darius said, fighting to remove a paper napkin from his sticky, maple-syruped fingers.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Snow, The Mistletoe Melody, Harlequin Heartwarming, →ISBN, page 98:
synonyms: maple-syrupy
glosses: With maple syrup.
knows shit from Shinola
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know shit from Shinola
knowing shit from Shinola
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of know shit from Shinola
knew shit from Shinola
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of know shit from Shinola
known shit from Shinola
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of know shit from Shinola
tough sell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tough sells
Senses: examples: text: But if you can't come up with any recent hits within the same genre, and with a similar tone, style, key plot element, and/or marketing demographic to your own idea, you should know your concept is going to be a very tough sell.
ref: 2013 April 30, Michael Hauge, Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Complete Guide to Turning Story Concepts into Movie and Television Deals, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of hard sell.
tough sells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tough sell
Old East Low Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Old Low Franconian has come down to us in an eastern and a western variety. The most important surviving text in Old East Low Franconian is a translation of Latin psalms, the so-called Wachtendonckse psalmen, written in the tenth century by a monk who lived in the region between Venlo and Krefeld.
ref: 2013, Ann Marynissen, Guy Janssens, A regional history of Dutch, in: Frans Hinskens, Johan Taeldeman (eds.), Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation: Volume 3: Dutch (= HSK 30.3), here p. 84
text: The surviving texts are dated mainly to the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries and are usually divided into two major dialects: Old West Low Franconian, spoken in Flanders, Brabant, and Holland, and Old East Low Franconian, spoken in Limburg and the Rhineland.
ref: 2015, Oliver M. Traxel, Languages, in: Albrecht Classen (ed.), Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages: Volume 2, here p. 810
glosses: The variety of Old Low Franconian that was spoken in Limburg and the Rhineland
examples: text: In the Netherlands, Low Franconian was spoken along with Frisian and Saxon. A division can be made between Old East and Old West Low Franconian (of which almost nothing is left).
ref: 2011, Robert S.P. Beekes, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd ed., p. 29
text: If we went to Liège around the year 750, we would hear Old East Low Franconian in the city, north and northwest; Old Ripuarian Franconian to the east and in Aachen; …
ref: 2011, Dominique T. Hoche, Charlemagne, in: Lister M. Matheson (ed.), Icons of the Middle Ages: Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints, here p. 146
glosses: Old Low Franconian (as distinguished from Old West Low Franconian or Westfränkisch)
Coordinate terms: Old West Low Franconian
has one's way with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have one's way with
having one's way with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have one's way with
had one's way with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have one's way with
has one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have one's way
having one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have one's way
had one's way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have one's way
Ning-hsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 寧夏 (Níngxià), Wade–Giles romanization: Ning²-hsia⁴.
Senses: examples: text: Bounded to the north and west by mountains and river, to the east by river alone, and to the south by high bluffs that mark the beginning of the loess country, it is a compact and easily defended territory hospitable only to nomads. Today these lands are divided between the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and the Ning-hsia Hui Autonomous Region. Under the Republic the Ho-t’ao and Pao-t’ou plains were included in Sui-yuan province, and the Ning-hsia area in Ning-hsia province.
ref: 1990, Arthur Waldron, “The second debate over the Ordos”, in The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of Ningxia.
Broster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
spoil the market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spoils the market
form: spoiling the market
form: spoiled the market
form: spoiled the market
form: spoil market
Senses: examples: text: Instead of working with each other, they bicker and say things like, if you do that, you’ll spoil the market.
ref: 2006 September 22, Lydia Lim, Keith Lin, Ken Kwek, quoting Alvin Tan, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited:
glosses: To set higher standards by overachieving, so others look inferior or unmotivated in comparison.
spoiled the market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoil the market
spoils the market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spoil the market
spoiling the market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoil the market
spoil market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoil the market.
Romanian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used by deaf people in Romania
almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you're the runner-up but the first one to lose the race
Almost only really counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
ref: 2009, “Horseshoes and Hand Grenades”, in 21st Century Breakdown, performed by Green Day:
glosses: Alternative form of close only counts in horseshoes.
RAAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete or reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete.
RAAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Regional Assessment Appeal Court.
glosses: Initialism of Rowing Association of American Colleges.
glosses: Initialism of Royal Australian Armoured Corps.
A2P
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of application-to-person, as used for SMS messages sent by an application to a person.
peroxide blond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxide blonds
Senses: coordinate_terms: peroxide blonde
glosses: A person, especially a man, who bleaches their hair extremely white-blond.
Middle Low Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, there was another cultural movement which also changed the map: that of Middle Low Saxon (the language of the Hanseatic League) which brought zik-forms into north-eastern Dutch dialects in Twente and Groningen during the period of the Hanseatic League, the 13th and 15th centuries, after the Middle High German sich had been adapted to sik (cf. …).
ref: 1989, P. Sture Ureland, Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change, in: Leiv Egil Breivik, Ernst Håkon Jahr (eds.), Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes (= Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 43), p. 267
text: Their linguistic profile [= the linguistic profile of the later sources of Old Frisian] corresponds rather to that found in contemporaneous languages from the surrounding areas, namely, Middle Dutch, Middle Low Saxon, or Middle English, which attest a more advanced stage of phonological, morphological and, more generally, typological development.
ref: 2018, Elżbieta Adamczyk, Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic, page 252:
glosses: A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low Saxon, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
gone case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gone cases
Senses: examples: text: gone case – something that cannot be saved (eg. he’s a gone case).
ref: 1991 August 9, Valerie Tan, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3, page 19:
text: That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.
ref: 2006, DanielS, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: don't worry, it is already a gone case, and nothing u can do about it but just watch.
ref: 2006, Kantian [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
synonyms: lost cause
glosses: Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing.
gone cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gone case
Lakefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A community in Selwyn township, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A community in Gore township municipality, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A township in Luce County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A township in Saginaw County, Michigan.
glosses: A city in Jackson County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A townland near Bawnboy, County Cavan, Ireland.
e. gr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The Figure of the Pupil in various Animals, is wonderfully adapted to their various Circumſtances and Occaſions. In ſome, e. gr. in Man, ’tis round; […]
ref: 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “PUPILLA”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 912, column 1:
text: According to the police regulation, Moſco is partitioned into twenty chief diviſions, denominated from the principal ſtreets they ſeverally comprehend, e. gr. the Boſmanſkoi, the Verſkoi, &c.
ref: 1800, W[illiam] Tooke, “Sketch of Mosco”, in History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second, volume II, London: […] A. Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 367–368:
text: Hence said of a ligament by which the use of some member of the body is impeded, e. gr. the tongue, Mk. vii. 35; […]
ref: 1840, S[amuel] T[homas] Bloomfield, A Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament: […], London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], page 77, column 2:
glosses: Archaic form of e.g..
graps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ɡɹæps/
Forms: form: grapses
form: grapsing
form: grapsed
form: grapsed
Etymology: From Middle English grapsen, re-unmetathesised version of graspen (“to grasp”), from Old English *grǣpsian.
Compare to its equally unmetathesised cognates German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen, Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular and UK
glosses: Alternative form of grasp.
count 'em
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: count them
Senses: examples: text: Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Once I went to Greece with a man who had left his wife and six—count 'em, six—children.
ref: 2001, Suzanne Ostro, “Antisocial Baby Notes”, in Rochelle Ratner, editor, Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness, page 66:
glosses: Emphasizes a number; literally, check the number yourself.
scared green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scared green
form: most scared green
Senses: examples: text: "It's damn decent. I'm sorry I was so suspicious. I was scared green when I first saw you."
ref: 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, page 385:
text: By this time I realized what the real difficulty was: the company was scared green that we were going to blame the accident on their instrument.
ref: 1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →OCLC, page 165:
synonyms: scared red
scared pink
scared white
glosses: Extremely scared; terrified.
fogged out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fogged out
form: most fogged out
Senses: examples: text: When I finally saw Arlene, she was very weak, and a bit fogged out. She didn't seem to know what was happening. She stared straight ahead most of the time, looking around a little bit from time to time, and was trying to breathe.
ref: 1988, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →OCLC, pages 50-51:
text: He couldn't think straight. His mind was totally fogged out, and he wanted to pee more than anything else. But still, the fact that she'd offered to suck his dick...
ref: 1999, Jackie Collins, Dangerous Kiss, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 90:
text: The first question Smith addressed was why he didn't use his Academy Award for Best Actor acceptance speech to apologize to Rock, who he slapped minutes earlier after the comedian made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. ¶ "I was fogged out at that point," Smith said. "It's all fuzzy.["]
ref: 2022 July 29, Daniel Kreps, quoting Will Smith, “Will Smith Says He's 'Deeply Remorseful' for Chris Rock Oscars Slap: 'My Behavior Was Unacceptable'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023:
glosses: In a confused and unaware mental state.
fogged out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fog out
smart mob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smart mobs
Etymology: Coined by American journalist Howard Rheingold in his 2002 book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.
ref: 2002, Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Cambridge, M.A.: Perseus Publishing, →ISBN, page xii:
text: This impulse for participation has upended the economy and is steadily turning the sphere of social networking – smart mobs, hive minds, and collaborative action – into the main event.
ref: 2005 August 1, Kevin Kelly, “We Are the Web”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2023:
text: Calling up a smart-mob was tricky. People might already be too scattered and distracted by the rumor storm. The number to respond might not reach critical mass—in which case all you'd get is a smattering of critics, kibitzers, and loudmouths, doing more harm than good.
ref: 2012, David Brin, Existence, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: A group whose members do not know each other but are able to coordinate their actions through digital communication.
wikipedia: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Related terms: flash mob
smart mobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smart mob
lawclerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawclerks
Etymology: From law + clerk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of law clerk.
lawclerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawclerk
micromapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromappings
Etymology: From micro- + mapping.
Senses: examples: text: Merzenich was an expert in a technique called "micromapping", a precise but time-consuming way of finding which parts of the brain responded to external stimuli, using extremely small electrodes that measure the electrical activity of a single neuron. Merzenich used macaque monkeys, measuring neuronal activity as he tapped different parts of the monkey's hand, in order to see which areas of it stimulated electrical activity in the monitored part of the brain. Mapping a whole hand using this method could take between 20 and 40 hours.
ref: 2017 April 10, João Medeiros, “How to ’game your brain’: the benefits of neuroplasticity”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
text: This study is the first report on a micromapping survey of thalassemias and hemoglobinopathies among the Laos, Khmer, Suay and Yer ethnic groups inhabiting the lower northeastern region of Thailand.
ref: 2020 June 26, Roongnalin Bunthupanich, Rossarin Karnpean, Anuwat Pinyachat, Nawinda Jiambunsri, Nattapol Prakobkaew, Naruwat Pakdee, Supan Fucharoen, Suthat Fucharoen, “Micromapping of Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies Among Laos, Khmer, Suay and Yer Ethnic Groups Residing in Lower Northeastern Thailand”, in Hemoglobin, volume 44, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 165, column 2:
glosses: The act of creating (various types of) extremely detailed maps of a small area.
micromappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromapping
Ustaoset
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Hol municipality, Buskerud, Norway.
dacryomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacryoma
dacryomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacryoma
ride passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ride pass
olive ridley sea turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olive ridley sea turtle
unspalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spalled.
Senses: glosses: Not spalled.
intermagazine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + magazine.
Senses: glosses: Between magazines.
Nilofer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Indian usage.
air sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air sandwiches
Etymology: (business strategy): Coined by Nilofer Merchant.
Senses: examples: text: Glancing into his wallet, he had just enough to cover it and a tad left to make it through the day's expenses, providing he had an air sandwich and glass of water for lunch.
ref: 2005, Stephen Lissberger, The Conscious Hours, page 91:
glosses: A sandwich consisting only of bread and optionally a spread, but no filling.
topics: business
glosses: A strategy that has high-level direction and low-level operations, but little in the middle.
air sandwiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air sandwich
hunderts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hundert
fantasywear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fantasy + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: […] and in the show he goes through enough gowns and female fantasywear to outfit a road company of Sweet Charity.
ref: 1993, The Advocate, numbers 626-632:
text: What are the nuns for, decoration? Well, if so, I say you should look for some hotter uniforms. And by the way, the Catholic schoolgirl's uniform is the most haunting of all fantasywear I have come across in my lifetime.
ref: 2008, Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith:
glosses: Clothing that appeals to a sexual fantasy.
riot police officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riot police officer
heatronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Heatronics gives much greater plasticity to the material in the mold and at the same time reduces the amount of pressure required.
ref: 1946, Radio News, volumes 35-36, page 83:
glosses: The use of the heatronic moulding technique.
shitsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From shit + sticks.
Senses: examples: text: She muttered every swear word she could think of, followed by her favorite, shitsticks, and then limped to the bed, feeling drunk and more alone than ever.
ref: 2021, Liza Street, Filthy Thief:
text: Well, shitsticks. That was so not how I'd expected Nik's and my first kiss to go.
ref: 2021, Charlie Soul, Shadow Rising:
glosses: Expressing frustration or disappointment.
Related terms: shit stick
shitty stick
OPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one-person operation.
SPTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single-person train operation.
OPTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of one-person train operation.
blue tang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue tangs
Senses: glosses: Any of various surgeonfishes, including Acanthurus coeruleus, Acanthurus leucosternon, and Paracanthurus spp.
looped in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loop in
loops in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loop in
looping in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loop in
loop de loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loop de loop
loop-de-looped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loop-de-loop
loop-de-looping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loop-de-loop
loop-de-loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loop-de-loop
loop-de-loops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loop-de-loop
non-rivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-rivalry
Sokna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway.
Gulsvik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Flå municipality, Buskerud, Norway.
sudomotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Stimulation of the sweat glands.
Related terms: sudomotor
off the top of one's dome
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of off the top of one's head.
takes the veil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the veil
taking the veil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the veil
took the veil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the veil
taken the veil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the veil
Celebes crested macaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celebes crested macaques
Senses: synonyms: crested black macaque
Sulawesi crested macaque
black ape
glosses: Macaca nigra, an Old World monkey found on Sulawesi and neighbouring islands.
Celebes crested macaques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celebes crested macaque
Cyprianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cyprianic
form: most Cyprianic
Etymology: From Cyprian + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Cyprian (c. 200–258), bishop of Carthage and a notable Early Christian writer and saint.
Cyprolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eneolithic.
synonyms: word: Eneolithic
Related terms: cupro-
emperor rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emperor rats
Senses: glosses: Uromys imperator, a large rodent endemic to the island of Guadalcanal.
emperor rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emperor rat
Czapek medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Devised by Czech botanist Friedrich Czapek.
Senses: synonyms: Czapek-Dox medium
Czapek's agar
Czapek's medium
glosses: A growth medium for propagating fungi and other organisms in a laboratory, originally consisting of distilled water, cane sugar, dipotassium phosphate, magnesium sulfate, potassium chloride, and iron sulfate.
Czapek-Dox medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Devised by Czech botanist Friedrich Czapek and American chemist Arthur Wayland Dox.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Czapek medium.
synonyms: word: Czapek medium
Dox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Czapek-Dox medium
boxing time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Boxing Day.
daur.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daurs.
Senses: examples: text: […] his widow Elizabeth, daur. of . . . Downes […]
ref: quoted in 1922, Aleyn Lyell Reade, The doctor's boyhood (page 135)
glosses: Abbreviation of daughter.
daurs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daur.
Daghor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daghors
form: Daghor
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daur.
Daghor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daur.
Daghur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daghurs
form: Daghur
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daur.
Daghur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daur.
Daghors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daghor
Daghurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Daghur
the spirit moves someone
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the spirit moves
Etymology: Reflecting the senses of spirit as enthusiasm, as energy or will ( ≈ notion), or as mood (compare in the mood); sometimes also taken to be a reference to the Holy Spirit.
Senses: examples: text: 'I may possibly say a few words,' said Psmith carelessly, 'if the spirit moves me. Who am I that I should deny people a simple pleasure?'
ref: 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith in the City:
text: Let me say that we are open at this point for questions and let's have an interchange as the spirit moves you with respect to bringing out whatever points you are interested in.
ref: 1963, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Winning the Cold War: The U.S. Ideological Offensive, page 218:
text: Don't just think about the content of your publication whenever the spirit moves you. Think content FIRST. Then think about HOW you can present all that good CONTENT with some contemporary design strategies.
ref: 1984, Military Media Review, volume 11, number 4, page 18:
text: If the spirit moves me, I can stand in the center of the room. If the spirit moves me in another direction, I can stand in any one of the four corners and in this way bring myself into contact with two walls at the same time.
ref: 2016, Emmanuelle Peraldo, Literature and Geography, page 224:
glosses: One desires or decides on something.
Related terms: the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Dartmoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dartmoor
cardists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardist
DDSc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDScs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of doctor of dental science.
hotpaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotpath
bulletproof coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulletproof coffees
Senses: glosses: Coffee with a high-fat substance added, often butter or coconut oil.
Chagang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jagang
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 자강도(慈江道) (Jagangdo).
Senses: examples: text: In the late 1960s or early 1970s the Unbong hydroelectric plant was constructed at Chasong on the Yalu River in Chagang Province, with an installed generating capacity of 400,000 kilowatts.
ref: 1976 May, Nena Vreeland, Rinn-Sup Shinn, “Industry”, in Area Handbook for North Korea, 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 282:
text: Last week, U.S. Rep. Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio) and this correspondent were permitted an unusual look behind the regime's wall of secrecy, traveling into areas rarely seen by outsiders, and never by an American journalist. In addition to Hamhung, which we reached in an old Soviet-made helicopter, we also took a 3 1/2-hour drive north from Pyongyang on the country's main north-south highway into the rugged mountains of Chagang province to the small town of Tongsin, stopping briefly along the way in a slightly larger town, Huichon.
ref: 1997 October 19, Keith B. Richburg, “Beyond a Wall of Secrecy, Devastation”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2000, page A01:
text: On a recent visit to North Korea, I was welcomed into a modest apartment by a family in Huichon city, Chagang Province. Its four members lived on a diet of government-supplied corn and acorns foraged in nearby woodland.
ref: 2005 June 14, Tony Banbury, “Hungry, and getting desperate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2023, Opinion:
text: Darlene Tymo, the WFP’s country director in North Korea, said that although official statistics from the North Korean government are not out yet, the main harvest of the year is believed to have been worse than last year and that could mean especially remote and impoverished areas — particularly the mountainous provinces of Chagang and Ryanggang along the border with China — could be looking at a harsher than usual winter ahead.
ref: 2015 December 4, Eric Talmadge, “North Korea hunkers down for harsh winter”, in AP News, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023:
text: Chagang Province was not that far away from my province, but they spoke with a very different accent. People in my hometown sound very abrupt and stern. But people in Chagang Province speak very gently, which makes people feel comfortable.
ref: 2017, Daniel Tudor, quoting Je Son Lee, “Pyongyang vs. the Rest”, in Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk about their Lives inside the World's Most Secretive Nation, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:
text: "Should operational ICBMs not become available in the near term, it is likely that intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) will be deployed," the report added, noting that North Korea tested a Hwasong-12 IRBM from Chagang province last month.
ref: 2022 February 7, David Brunnstrom, “U.S. think tank identifies North Korea base likely intended for ICBMs”, in Sam Holmes, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A province of North Korea. Capital: Kanggye.
naked sand rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked sand rats
Senses: glosses: The naked mole rat
speckled teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speckled teals
Senses: glosses: Anas flavirostris, a South American teal.
yellow-billed teal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-billed teals
Senses: glosses: The speckled teal.
naked sand rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naked sand rat
Debye-Scherrer method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Debye-Scherrer method
Etymology: Named after physicists Peter Debye and Paul Scherrer.
Senses: glosses: An X-ray powder diffraction technique.
wikipedia: Paul Scherrer
Peter Debye
Related terms: Debye-Scherrer ring
speckled teals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speckled teal
DChE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DChEs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of doctor of chemical engineering.
Common Riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Common Ridings
Senses: examples: text: The great day of the whole year in Selkirk is that of the Common Riding, the Riding of the Marches of the town's property.
ref: 1913, Andrew Lang, John Lang, Highways and Byways in the Border, page 270:
text: There are four genuine or 'real' Common Ridings in the Borders: Selkirk Common Riding, with its 'Casting the Colours' ceremony, dates from the early 16th century; Harwick Common Riding was first recorded in 1640; Langholm Common Riding, which Hugh MacDiarmid loved to attend, dates from 1816, although the Langholm marches were perambulated before then; finally, Lauder Common Riding, like many other traditional customs, lapsed in the 19th century but was revived in 1911 to commemorate the coronation of George V.
ref: 2007, Michael Lynch, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History, page 507:
text: It is the duty of the band to waken Hawick and to alert its folk, known as Teries, that today is the Common Riding, the loudest, proudest day in the town's calendar.
ref: 2014, Peter Ross, Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland:
glosses: Alternative form of common riding.
Common Ridings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Common Riding
podeena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pudina.
podina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pudina.
pudeena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pudina.
Montbéliarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montbéliardes
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of red pied dairy cattle from the area of Montbéliard, in the département of Doubs, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Montbéliardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montbéliarde
Common-Riding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Common-Ridings
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Scott, who was present at the Common-Riding this year, left for Boston, which had become his adopted home, by the steamer Celtic little more than a fortnight ago, accompanied by Mrs. Scott and his son, Mr. James Scott.
ref: 1889 September 21, “The Woolen Factory”, in Fibre & Fabric, volume 10, number 238, page 238:
text: The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.
ref: 1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:
text: The flag of the town, an old and battered pennon, has recently been replaced by a new one, which is carried in the Common-Riding.
ref: 2014, Peter Hempson Ditchfield, Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of common riding.
Common-Ridings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Common-Riding
frightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frightable
form: most frightable
Etymology: From fright + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being frightened.
Decauville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Decauvilles
Etymology: The manufacturing company was founded by Paul Decauville (1846–1922).
Senses: glosses: A railway/railroad consisting of ready-made sections of light, narrow-gauge track fastened to steel sleepers, able to be disassembled and transported easily.
Decauvilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Decauville
Dear John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dear Johns
Senses: examples: text: One of my roommates, Kevin Baker, fell apart when his fiancée, an old high school sweetheart, gave him a Dear John phone call.
ref: 2011, Judy Duarte, Call Me Cowboy:
text: She sent me a Dear John email and divorce papers from Sioux Falls, and I never saw her again.
ref: 2019, J. B. Curry, Bad Keys:
text: A Dear John was a letter from a wife that announced her desire for a divorce. Many GIs might have corrected the professor, however, pointing out that girlfriends and fiancées also sent Dear Johns.
ref: 2022, Susan L. Carruthers, Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America, page 122:
glosses: A Dear John letter in any form or medium.
Dear Johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dear John
sweetheart tax deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetheart tax deals
Senses: glosses: A sweetheart deal in which one party benefits from a tax reduction.