cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
malconduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mal- + conduct.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of misconduct.
synonyms: word: misconduct
Bainton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baintons
Etymology: Various origins:
* The village in the East Riding of Yorkshire was recorded as Bagentone in the Domesday Book, suggesting a derivation from the Old English personal name Bǣga + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* The hamlet in Oxfordshire was recorded as Baditone in the Domesday Book, suggesting a derivation from the Old English personal name Bada + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Bainton and Ashton Parish Council) in the City of Peterborough district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF0906).
glosses: A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9652).
glosses: A hamlet in Stoke Lyne parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5827).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
sheriffry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheriffries
Etymology: From sheriff + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The area of jurisdiction of a sheriff.
sheriffries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheriffry
babba gannouge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baba gannouge
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baba ganoush.
NLT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of New Living Translation.
NLT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of now listening to.
common factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common factors
Senses: examples: text: 10 and 20 have a common factor of 2 because they are both even, and a greatest common factor of 10.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number that can divide two different numbers, without leaving a remainder.
Stoke Lyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP5628).
sit in judgement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits in judgement
form: sitting in judgement
form: sat in judgement
form: sat in judgement
Senses: glosses: to perform the role of a judge; to take on the power of judgement
person-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: person-hours
Etymology: Compound of person + hour, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X persons working during Y hours = X × Y = Z person-hours.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: person-day, man-day < person-month, man-month < person-year, man-year
synonyms: man-hour
coordinate_terms: machine-hour
glosses: The amount of work that can be done by one person in one hour.
time scramble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time scrambles
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A situation in which one or both players have very little remaining time on their clocks, therefore increasing the chance of inaccuracies or blunders being played as well as the risk of flagging.
Related terms: time trouble
time pressure
Eemsdelta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Eemsdelta.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Groningen, Netherlands.
kaolin clotting time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaolin clotting times
form: KCT
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: (The result of) a sensitive test used to detect lupus anticoagulants.
KCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KCTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of kaolin clotting time.
KCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KCT
only move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːv
Forms: form: only moves
Senses: examples: text: Andersson must accept the piece sacrifice and after doing so find a whole series of only moves.
ref: 2015, Jurgen Kaufeld, Guido Kern, Grandmaster Chess Strategy, page 141:
text: In such positions, failure to comply with an only move means instant death
ref: 2019, Cyrus Lakdawala, Winning Ugly in Chess:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The only move to maintain the current evaluation of the position.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see only, move.
androgenetic alopecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of male pattern baldness.
synonyms: word: male pattern baldness
androgenic alopecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of male pattern baldness.
synonyms: word: male pattern baldness
DHTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DHT
Hamilton-Norwood scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hamilton-Norwood scale
Etymology: Named after Drs. James Hamilton and O'Tar Norwood.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A scale used to classify the stages of male pattern baldness.
Synonyms: Norwood scale
Related terms: Ludwig scale
Norwood reaper
Norwood scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Norwood scale
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hamilton-Norwood scale.
synonyms: word: Hamilton-Norwood scale
Ludwig scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Dr. Erich Ludwig in 1977.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A scale used for classifying female pattern baldness.
Related terms: Hamilton-Norwood scale
reverse Magnus effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse Magnus effects
Senses: glosses: The situation where, under certain conditions, a spinning ball deflects in a direction contrasting to that predicted by the Magnus effect.
fleshfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleshfest
meatfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatfest
countree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌnˈtɹi/
ipa: /kʌnˈtɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: countrees
Senses: examples: text: Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The light-house top I see?
Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
Is this mine own countree?
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
glosses: Alternative form of country, used when poetic meter demands a stress on the final syllable.
countrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countree
Frating
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0822).
pogonophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pogono- + -philia
Senses: glosses: A preference or love for beards.
Derived terms: pogonophilic
pogonophile
pain d'épices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains d'épices
form: pain d'épice
Etymology: Borrowed from French pain d'épices (literally “spices bread”).
Senses: glosses: A form of French gingerbread.
resignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resignable
form: most resignable
Etymology: From resign + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps for the first time the presidency was to be considered a resignable office.
ref: 2012, Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents And The Legacy Of Watergate:
glosses: Able to be resigned.
examples: text: The ending is resignable for White, down two pawns, with nothing to show for it.
ref: 2015, Cyrus Lakdawala, 1…b6: Move by Move:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Completely lost.
as along as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of as long as.
tardeada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tardeadas
Senses: glosses: A party among Hispanics held in the early evening.
Gelernt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gelernts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Canovio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Canovios
Senses: glosses: A surname.
loselry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From losel + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: I dought lest by Sorsery
Or suche other loselry
As wychecraft / or charmyng
ref: 1522, John Skelton, Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 295, lines 663–665:
glosses: Low, rascally behaviour characteristic of a losel.
narrow-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
chemistry
engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of moderately-heavy hydrocarbons with boiling points in the kerosene range, without a significant proportion of lighter, gasoline-type hydrocarbons; Jet A is an example of a fuel of this type.
raw_tags: of jet fuel
wide-cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
chemistry
engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of a mixture of hydrocarbons with a wide range of boiling points, including both moderately-heavy, higher-boiling kerosene-type molecules and lighter, lower-boiling, more-volatile gasoline-type molecules; Jet B or JP-4 is a fuel of this type.
raw_tags: of jet fuel
reban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebans
form: rebanning
form: rebanned
form: rebanned
Etymology: From re- + ban.
Senses: examples: text: Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
ref: 2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To ban again.
aggregogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggregogenic
form: most aggregogenic
Senses: glosses: That leads to aggregation
mesoectoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoectoderms
Etymology: From meso- + ectoderm.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesectoderm.
monoallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monoallelic
endovasculature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + vasculature.
Senses: glosses: The interior structure of blood vessels
Related terms: endovascular
triazol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triazols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triazole.
someweh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Start someweh.
ref: 2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 8, in Here Comes the Sun:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of somewhere.
Indian taco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian tacos
Etymology: Ostensibly from Indian + taco, based on the use of frybread, an American Indian food, similarity of toppings to those in tacos, and the fact that the frybread is sometimes folded as part of the dish.
Senses: examples: text: If you stay for lunch, local Society of American Indian members will be home - cooking such native delicacies as puffy fried bread, thick Indian tacos and spicy chili beans.
ref: 1976 April 21, Pat Kennedy, “Indian festival set May 1”, in The Pleasanton Times, volume 90, number 116, Pleasanton, page 4:
text: when I'm having an Indian taco day / I discover it's just about too late / not to educate the oppressor / but am I ever good at doing it
ref: 1992, Annharte, “Coyote Columbus Cafe”, in Terry Goldie, Daniel David Moses, editors, An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 195:
text: "Lony, you like the taste of Indian tacos, right?" Orvil says.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, There, There, 1st; Everybody Reads edition, New York: Vintage Books, published 2020, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 131:
glosses: A dish made of fry bread topped with ingredients such as beans, cheese, and lettuce.
Synonyms: frybread taco
fry bread taco
fried bread taco
Navajo taco
Hopi taco
Tewa taco
Hualapai taco
Pueblo taco
Apache taco
Indian tacos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indian taco
Mountforts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mountfort
give neck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives neck
form: giving neck
form: gave neck
form: given neck
Senses: examples: text: He give me neck like a yo-yo, uh / Talk to my kitty like "hello," uh / Slide on your mouth like a cello, uh
ref: 2018, “Cocky AF”, in Tina Snow, performed by Megan Thee Stallion:
glosses: Synonym of give head.
synonyms: word: give head
give brain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives brain
form: giving brain
form: gave brain
form: given brain
Senses: glosses: Synonym of give head.
synonyms: word: give head
Baintons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bainton
Lanyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lanyons
Etymology: From Cornish lynn (“pool”) + yeyn (“cold”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet (Lanyon Farm) in Madron parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW4234).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Webster County, Iowa, United States.
examples: text: Coun. Ben Lanyon said he thought the changes would benefit tourism but added that he found the Likʷala name for Discovery Passage difficult to pronounce.
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: A habitational surname from Cornish.
Winches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Winch
Gelernts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gelernt
Lanyons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lanyon
Forni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fornis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Forni.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Fusselman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fusselmans
Etymology: Americanized form of German Füsselmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
caker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cakers
Etymology: From cake + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who forms something into a cake.
examples: He loves hockey and poutine; he's such a caker.
glosses: A Canadian, especially if Anglophone and exhibiting stereotypical or archetypal Canadian traits.
cakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caker
Fornis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Forni
Fusselmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fusselman
coners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coner
Faler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Falers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Pfahler or Fehler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gallentine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gallentines
Etymology: Variant of Gillentine.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
caecums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caecum
Gallentines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gallentine
Falers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Faler
Garnsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garnseys
Etymology: * English surname of Norman origin, from Great Gornhay in Tiverton, Devon, from the Old English personal name Gārmund, see Garman.
* Also as a habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Germisay, in Lorraine. It could also be a habitational surname from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. The second element of both of these is probably Old Norse ey (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
wikipedia: Germisay
Gerads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geradses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gerads.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Geradses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gerads
Garnseys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Garnsey
Greaser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Greasers
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Griesser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Givhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Givhans
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Given.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Givhans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Givhan
Greasers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Greaser
Hanak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hanaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Hanák.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Haks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hak
Hanaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanak
all-expenses-paid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They went on an all-expenses-paid trip to London.
synonyms: all-expense
glosses: Having all costs fully paid or reimbursed by someone else.
Related terms: all expenses paid
all-you-can-eat
all expenses paid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They went all expenses paid to Atlanta for a week courtesy of the association.
glosses: Having all costs fully paid or reimbursed by someone else.
Related terms: all-expenses-paid
Harrier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Harriers
Etymology: From harrier, an occupational surname for a hunter of hares or a nickname for someone who resembled a harrier, a kind of hawk.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Harrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harriers
Etymology: From harrier, an occupational surname for a hunter of hares or a nickname for someone who resembled a harrier, a kind of hawk.
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized dog breed of the hound class, used for hunting hares by trailing them.
Dorricott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorricotts
Etymology: Topographic surname for someone who lived near an enclosure for wild animals, from Old English dēor (“wild animal, beast”) + cot (“cottage, shelter”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Labrado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Labrados
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Labrado. This surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Komatsus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Komatsu
Harriers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Harrier
Labrados
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Labrado
Kuneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kunes
O'Gorman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: O'Gormans
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó Gormáin (“descendant of Gormán”), a diminutive form of gorm (“dark blue; noble”). Compare Gorman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Dorricotts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorricott
McCollister
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCollisters
Etymology: Variant of McAllister.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Stanworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stanworths
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Lancashire, from Old English stān (“stone”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
McCollisters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCollister
O'Gormans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of O'Gorman
Dunwoodys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dunwoody
Dunwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dunwoods
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Kotulich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kotuliches
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Slovak Kotulič.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Slovak.
Kotuliches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kotulich
Dunwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dunwood
Stanworths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stanworth
lanolin bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanolin bushes
Senses: glosses: Certain plants that yield lanolin, all of Australia
Franklandia fucifolia
glosses: Certain plants that yield lanolin, all of Australia
Franklandia triaristata
glosses: Certain plants that yield lanolin, all of Australia
Zieria smithii
non-military
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + military.
Senses: examples: text: There's a lot of stuff going through Parliament and we are still in the middle of the greatest non-military crisis of any of our generations.
ref: 2021 December 15, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Great British Railways: start the railway reform now”, in RAIL, number 946, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of nonmilitary.
Derived terms: non-military service
luridnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luridness
cold cook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold cooks
Senses: examples: text: The three of us took a big sigh as the cold cook took the sheet and pulled it back.
ref: 2011, Joyce Ann, Eliza Jane, page 66:
text: I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.
ref: 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:
glosses: An undertaker.
Related terms: cold meat
cold cooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold cook
shall-issue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to those jurisdictions that require a license to carry a concealed handgun, but where the granting of such licenses is subject only to legal criteria and not to the discretion of the granting authority or to the applicant's ability to demonstrate good cause.
starburst display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starburst displays
Senses: glosses: A display with fourteen segments that can be turned on or off to produce letters and numerals.
starburst displays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starburst display
TAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TAM
box meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box meals
Senses: examples: text: Stock up on frozen meals when you see them on sale at your supermarket. Look for coupons in your Sunday paper and online for other convenient dinners and box meals […]
ref: 2010, Kimberly Danger, Instant Bargains, page 228:
glosses: A ready meal that is supplied and packaged in a box.
box meals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box meal
Enoch Arden law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Enoch Arden laws
Etymology: Named after Tennyson's 1864 melodrama Enoch Arden.
Senses: glosses: A law that grants a divorce, or a legal exemption to allow remarrying, when a person's spouse has been absent without explanation for a certain period, typically seven years.
Enoch Arden laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Enoch Arden law
lawksamercy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: But lawksamercy! While she is here, her youngest is, by pure chance, stolen away by a heroin addict who sells children for adoption by lustful Arabs.
ref: 1996, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of lawks a-mercy.
sbottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sbottom
humentashen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamantaschen.
homentashen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamantaschen.
homentaschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamantaschen.
broad money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: That part of the money supply comprising both highly liquid "narrow money" and less liquid forms.
back of the book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Segment 3" established the daily presence of a five-minute back-of-the-book feature on network newscasts. Although previously the TV networks had usually featured soft news at the end of their evening news, on some days the soft-news feature did not make it on the air because of the judged newsworthiness of the hard news.
ref: 1999, Bartholomew H. Sparrow, Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution, page 97:
text: The change in the hard/soft news ratio has taken on several forms. In the print media, the change can be seen clearly by the expansion of "back of the book" sections, for example, about subjects as varied as science and gardening. Television has no formal back of the book, but there are now fewer sections devoted to domestic and international political news.
ref: 2004, Herbert J. Gans, Democracy and the News, page 29:
text: Some magazines use the back-of-the-book merely for story “jumps” (continuations of articles from the feature well). Others fill the back-of-the-book with additional departments and columns.
ref: 2014, Christopher D. Benson, Charles F. Whitaker, Magazine Writing:
topics: broadcasting
media
publishing
glosses: Less important or less hard-hitting material relegated to the later pages of a print publication or the later stages of a television broadcast.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, book.
Related terms: back matter
barn dooring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barn door
barn doored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barn door
blanket ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanket ballots
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of bedsheet ballot.
synonyms: word: bedsheet ballot
blanket ballots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanket ballot
bedsheet ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedsheet ballots
Etymology: Suggesting that the ballet is long enough to be used as a bedsheet.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: blanket ballot
glosses: A ballot offering an extremely long list of candidates.
bedsheet ballots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedsheet ballot
Sammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sammie
Sammys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sammy
mowburnt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mow + burnt.
Senses: examples: text: This is necessary for the developement of the saccharine principle; but occasionally it proceeds too far and the hay becomes mowburnt, in which state it is injurious, or even poisonous.
ref: 1865, William Youatt, Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse, page 399:
glosses: Of hay: stacked before it is sufficiently dry, leading to excessive fermentation and sometimes toxicity.
Related terms: mowburning
Nassaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nassau
duesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duesies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doozy.
duesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duesy
lisen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lisens
form: lisening
form: lisened
form: lisened
Etymology: A respelling of listen.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of listen.
Paretskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paretsky
Kanders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kander
Ranhofers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ranhofer
Frechtmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frechtman
Poarches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Poarch
Francomes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Francome
forward integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forward integrations
Senses: topics: business
coordinate_terms: backward integration
glosses: The takeover of a retailer of goods by the supplier that provides those goods.
forward integrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forward integration
racial integrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racial integration
Biddlecombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Biddlecombes
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Somerset, from the Old English personal name *Bitel + cumb (“short, straight valley, combe”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Biddlecombes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Biddlecombe
forward market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forward markets
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The informal over-the-counter financial market by which contracts for future delivery are entered into.
forward markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forward market
Trapidos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trapido
tosserish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tosserish
form: most tosserish
Etymology: From tosser + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, there are many ways of being less tosserish in life. But, surely, one of those ways involves not farting on and on about how much your standard of living has improved since you 'cut out all the crap and left all that mess behind'.
ref: 2011, Steve Lowe, Alan McArthur, The Best Of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?:
text: 'He is unfortunately developing tosserish elements,' she said into his ear.
ref: 2020, Joanna Briscoe, The Seduction:
glosses: Like a tosser (obnoxious person).
Stransham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stranshams
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stranshams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stransham
washikong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washikongs
Senses: examples: text: Costumes are simple, the girls wearing full short skirts, blouses trimmed in swansdown, washikongs or alpagats, and decorated metallic paper crowns.
ref: 1988, Trinidad Carnival, page 78:
glosses: A rubber-soled shoe or plimsoll.
washikongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washikong
alpagat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpagats
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alpargata.
Senses: examples: text: Costumes are simple, the girls wearing full short skirts, blouses trimmed in swansdown, washikongs or alpagats, and decorated metallic paper crowns.
ref: 1988, Trinidad Carnival, page 78:
glosses: A kind of sandal, alpargata.
alpagats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpagat
whooee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Whooee! You boys is havin' yourselves a good time, ain't you?”
ref: 2002, Jim Blair, The Foundation, page 139:
glosses: Expressing exhilaration; woohoo.
examples: text: He returned to the song for a few notes then introduced, “Whooee, whooee, whooee, whooee,” the way a human whistled his dog.
ref: 2012, Jill Harris, Sil:
glosses: Used to call a person or animal; cooee.
ghosts in the machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost in the machine
ghosts in machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost in the machine
witchfinders general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchfinder general
FLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FLSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Frontline State.
examples: text: The major drivers of synovial inflammation are cytokines and chemokines. Among these molecules, TNF activates fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs), which leads to the production of inflammatory mediators. Here, we show that TNF regulates the expression of the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1) in human FLSs as well as in a TNF transgenic arthritis mouse model.
ref: 2019 July 8, Michael Bonelli, Karolina Dalwigk, Alexander Platzer, Isabel Olmos Calvo, Silvia Hayer, Birgit Niederreiter, et al., “IRF1 is critical for the TNF-driven interferon response in rheumatoid fibroblast-like synoviocytes”, in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, volume 51, →DOI, page 1:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fibroblast-like synoviocyte.
Frontline State
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frontline States
Senses: synonyms: word: FLS
glosses: Any of a loose coalition of African countries from the 1960s to the early 1990s committed to ending apartheid and white minority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia.
Frontline States
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frontline State
Nyererean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nyererean
form: most Nyererean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), Tanzanian politician and anticolonial activist.
milk of roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fortune, however, to-night seemed resolved on making full amends to a beauty cut short in the first flush of success, and sent to waste two of her prettiest years in the dull seclusion of an old house in the country.
"What blooming simplicity!" exclaimed Lord Townshend.
"Positive milk of roses!" exclaimed Lady Mary Wortley Montague: but the sneer passed unheeded; and Lord Townshend, crossing the room, entreated Mrs. Courtenaye to present him to her lovely young friend.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 135–136:
glosses: A skin cream to improve the complexion, usually made from rosewater, sweet almonds and salt of tartar.
Greatworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Greatworth and Halse parish, West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5542).
viscocanalostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscocanalostomy
silicoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having undergone the silicoating process.
silicoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique for resin-metal bonding in dental prosthetics, involving silicon.
Related terms: silicoated
jejunojejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jejuno- + jejunal.
Senses: examples: a jejunojejunal fistula
glosses: Connecting one region of the jejunum to another.
cryonecrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + necrotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryonecrosis.
enterococcaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enterococcemia.
epicondylopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicondylopathy
preexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + experiment.
Senses: glosses: Before an experiment takes place.
preexperiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preexperiments
Etymology: From pre- + experiment.
Senses: examples: text: A study that uses only a manipulation is considered a pre-experiment. As the name implies, a pre-experiment has not quite achieved the level of control necessary to be termed an experiment at all.
ref: 2016, Marina Krcmar, David R. Ewoldsen, Ascan Koerner, Communication Science Theory and Research:
text: Campbell and Stanley describe three forms of preexperiments: the one-shot case study, the one-group pretest–posttest design, and the static-group comparison.
ref: 2020, Earl R. Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, page 247:
glosses: A simple form of research that examines a group or groups before and after an event, to see whether there is change, but does not employ a control group.
cutwaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutwauls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cutwal.
cutwauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutwaul
catwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catwals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cutwal.
catwals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catwal
gaspeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: gasp + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gasp
Courtallum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu, India.
covids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covid
covit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covits
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of covid.
covits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covit
cowrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowreys
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cowrie.
cowreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowrey
Cranganore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crongolor
Etymology: From Portuguese Cranganor, from Malayalam കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂർ (koṭuṅṅallūṟ)
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kodungallur (“a town in Kerala, India”).
Cuddalore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A port and a district in Tamil Nadu, India.
Chelmsley Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and civil parish with a town council in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1886)
pork Wellingtons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pork Wellington
Cuddapah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kadapa (“city in Andhra Pradesh, India”).
Cuddappah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cuddapah.
kadangustins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kadangustin
cumrunga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumrungas
Senses: glosses: The carambola or star fruit.
cumrungas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumrunga
shutten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Morphologically shut + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of shut
karonda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karondas
Etymology: From Hindi करोंदा (karondā).
Senses: glosses: Carissa carandas, a flowering shrub in the family Apocynaceae.
glosses: The berry-sized fruit of this shrub, used in Indian pickles and spices.
karondas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karonda
Cutch Gundava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kach Gandava.
Kach Gandava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A low-lying flat region in Balochistan, Pakistan, separating the Bugti hills from those of Kalat.
Cuttack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kataka
Etymology: Borrowed from Odia କଟକ (kaṭaka).
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Odisha, India.
Smyly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smylys
Etymology: Variant of Smiley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Smilie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smilies
Etymology: Variant of Smiley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pancurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pancurious
form: most pancurious
form: pan-curious
Etymology: From pan- + curious.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: Exhibiting a state of uncertainty about one's pansexual or panromantic status.
Dewalee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Diwali (“Indian festival”).
Dewally
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Diwali (“Indian festival”).
Hedge End
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Winterborne Stickland parish, north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8206).
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4912).
dhurna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dharna.
pan-curious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pan-curious
form: most pan-curious
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pancurious.
nonignorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ignorant.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, Sor Juana argues that the dangers of reading and of knowledge, should such dangers exist, do not distinguish between genders but between intellectual and moral capacities (the ignorant and the nonignorant).
ref: 2015, Ileana Rodríguez, Mónica Szurmuk, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature:
glosses: Not ignorant.
nonlicking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + licking.
Senses: examples: text: These observations in nonlicking calves are in agreement with the data reported by Lifschitz et al. (2000) after the subcutaneous administration of doramectin, […]
ref: 2009, Jim E. Riviere, Mark G. Papich, Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, page 1137:
text: However, unless you have a nonshedding, nonlicking breed, there's no such thing as a truly hypoallergenic dog. How about a nice goldfish instead?
ref: 2017, Howard Bennett, The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get Sick:
glosses: That does not lick.
nonmonist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monist.
Senses: glosses: Not monistic.
nonmonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmonists
Etymology: From non- + monist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a monist.
nonmonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmonist
nonrepealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + repealed.
Senses: glosses: Not repealed.
nonrepealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + repealable.
Senses: glosses: Not repealable.
nonrefutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrefutations
Etymology: From non- + refutation.
Senses: glosses: Absence of refutation; failure to refute something.
nonrefutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrefutation
nonresolvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being resolvable.
nonsolvability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being solvable.
VBNMW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of vote blue no matter who (“vote for any politician in the Democratic Party regardless of their record”).
Related terms: english: voting for conservative politicians regardless of their record
translation: voting for conservative politicians regardless of their record
word: Trumpster diving
nonreverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reverse.
Senses: examples: text: The second method, used by many European throwers, is the nonreverse throw.
ref: 2000, Joseph L. Rogers, USA Track & Field Coaching Manual, page 222:
glosses: Not in reverse.
vblogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vblog
vblogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vblog
nonsanctity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + sanctity.
Senses: glosses: Lack of sanctity.
nonspecie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + specie.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Not specie.
nonspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonspecies
Etymology: From non- + species.
Senses: examples: text: Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.
ref: 1981, Field & Stream, volume 86, number 5, page 107:
glosses: That which is not a species.
nonrationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrationalists
Etymology: From non- + rationalist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a rationalist.
nonrationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrationalist
WWG1WGA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."
Senses: examples: text: But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
ref: 2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic:
text: Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.
ref: 2021, CBS News:
text: “Where we go one, we go all,” erupted the crowd in a QAnon chant that’s frequently abbreviated to WWG1WGA in online messaging boards like 4chan, where the cult began.
ref: 2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of where we go one, we go all: a popular slogan of QAnon believers.
Related terms: english: nothing can stop what is coming; slogan, meaning referring to mass arrests of opposing politicians or violence
translation: nothing can stop what is coming; slogan, meaning referring to mass arrests of opposing politicians or violence
word: NCSWIC
word: QAnonsense
word: MAGAt
nonpunishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + punishing.
Senses: glosses: That does not punish.
nonshaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shaming.
Senses: glosses: That does not shame.
nonreasoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonreasoners
Etymology: From non- + reasoner.
Senses: glosses: One who does not reason.
nonreasoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonreasoner
nonrecuperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + recuperation.
Senses: glosses: Lack of recuperation; failure to recuperate.
nonreinstatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + reinstatement.
Senses: glosses: Lack of reinstatement; failure to reinstate.
jelly leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jellyleaf
Senses: glosses: The plant Sida rhombifolia.
jellyleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jelly leaf.
jackbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackbirds
Senses: examples: text: The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.
ref: 1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67:
glosses: A saddleback (Philesturnus) in its first-year plumage, once thought to be a separate species.
jackbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackbird
kala jagah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kala jagahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kala juggah.
kala jagahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kala jagah
compass wallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass wallahs
Senses: glosses: A surveyor.
compass wallahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compass wallah