cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Blackademic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blackademics
form: blackademic
Etymology: Blend of Black + academic.
Senses: examples: text: We all have pursued successful careers and are active as academics/aka “Blackademics” (scholars and researchers), musicians (performers, composers and arrangers), media personalities, writers, and teachers, often functioning in more than one of these capacities.
ref: 2010, Leonard L. Brown, “Preface”, in Leonard L. Brown, editor, John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
text: In the next section I will discuss my experiences being a Blackademic at a historically white institution in the Sociology department.
ref: 2020, Chaddrick James-Gallaway, “[Scratching and Surviving: Critical Race Theory and Being a “Blackademic” in the Academy] Stressing Racism’s Permanence Despite Programmatic Resistance, Chaddrick’s Story”, in Vernon Lee Farmer, Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer, editors, Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 346:
text: Next, the first part, Black Lives Matter: Research and Reflections, is a collection of writings about the #BlackLivesMatter movement, digital activism, education, race-based stereotypes, and the personal experiences and stories of Blackademics.
ref: 2022, Sarah Jane Blithe, Janell C. Bauer, “Introduction”, in Sarah Jane Blithe, Janell C. Bauer, editors, Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Female “Blackademics” and Presentation of Self in the Academy: Managing Role Stressors, Navigating Roadblocks, and Managing Impressions Along Career Trajectories
ref: 2022, Jennifer T. Butcher, editor, Black Female Leaders in Academia: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence (Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership), IGI Global, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A black academic.
Blackademics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blackademic
blackademic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackademics
Etymology: Blend of black + academic.
Senses: examples: text: Nick wasn’t what he’d had in mind for Billie. He’d planned on a blackademic just like himself. Herbert was the son of teachers who had instilled their deep love of education into him.
ref: 2009, Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters, One World Books, →ISBN, page 44:
text: It’s about an untenured black professor, a “blackademic,” obsessed with Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” and the possibility of finding a remote island of pure blackness—the last bastion of the African diaspora—in Antarctica.
ref: 2012 March 4, “He’s reading at Writers House”, in Sunday News, 89 years, number 25, page E4:
text: My uncle, Kevin Gaines, first demonstrated what being a blackademic meant. He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate.
ref: 2017, Alisha Gaines, “Acknowledgments”, in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page xiii:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Blackademic.
blackademics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackademic
cranzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranze
crastins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crastin
crate motors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crate motor
crazy carpets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crazy carpet
missew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missews
form: missewing
form: missewed
form: missewn
form: missewed
Etymology: From mis- + sew.
Senses: examples: text: But the chances of miscutting and missewing will be greater than with the 2-bar unit and, since the tapering intervals are larger, the tapered edge will not be as smooth.
ref: 1968, “A Method for Tapering Purse Seines”, in Commercial Fisheries Abstracts - Volume 21, page 5:
text: The supervisor noticed that the Grievant had missewed a sham and helped her assemble her work.
ref: 1991, Randy Hodson, Labor Arbitration Information System, page 289:
text: A similar but more quickly developing series of events occurred at an apparel factory when workers were accused of missewing garments.
ref: 2001, Dignity at Work, page 99:
text: Now turn this sleeve over and show me what we have missewn.
ref: 2009, Jay Lake, Green, page 51:
text: "No." He shook his head. “Just shit they mis-sewed. But still classy.”
ref: 2014, Mark Powell, The Sheltering: A Novel:
glosses: To sew badly, with errors.
cream-colored coursers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cream-colored courser
missews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missew
creatine phosphokinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creatine phosphokinase
missewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missew
missewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missew
creeping sages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeping sage
crepatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crepature
missewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missewn
form: most missewn
Etymology: From mis- + sewn.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, whether a dress was pretty and well made or ugly and missewn was irrelevant, since profit was not at issue: the dress would be “given away” at a subsidized price, not sold.
ref: 2005, Vladimir Tismaneanu, The Revolutions of 1989, page 70:
text: A universe can be fully equivalent to a lesser-dimensional one on its boundary. Like missewn threads between different parts of a shirt, nonlocal.
ref: 2008, George Musser, The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory:
text: The women conspire to cover up the murder by hiding evidence that only another woman could decipher within the women's world of the kitchen, such as a missewn quilt and an unkempt cupboard that attest to Minnie's distraught state of mind.
ref: 2009, Pamela Cobrin, From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway, page 112:
text: Justin's suggestion of a missewn selvage wouldn't work with the nap, but she did have a bolt end she'd put aside, as it had a row of flaws.
ref: 2010, Rosemary Laurey, Love Me Forever:
glosses: Containing sewing errors.
missewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mis- + sewn.
Senses: glosses: past participle of missew
crested ibises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crested ibis
crico-arytænoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crico-arytænoid
cricoarytenoid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricoarytenoid muscle
cricothyroid muscles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricothyroid muscle
cricothyroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricothyroid
cricotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cricotomy
Crimean Tatars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crimean Tatar
criminalesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminaless
crimson-winged woodpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crimson-winged woodpecker
crinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crinch
crinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crinch
crinching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crinch
crisis interventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crisis intervention
Cristeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cristero
critical receptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critical reception
critocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of critocracy
APIDA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APIDAs
form: APIDA
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi American.
Synonyms: APISAA
Related terms: AANHPI
AAPI
APA
Croatian checkerboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatian checkerboard
Croatian chessboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croatian chessboard
cronches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cronch
cronches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cronch
cronching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cronch
cronched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cronch
croploads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cropload
crossclampings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossclamping
crosscovariances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosscovariance
crossinjections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossinjection
cross-price elasticity of demands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-price elasticity of demand
crossprotections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossprotection
crosstolerances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosstolerance
crosstrackings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crosstracking
crotch tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotch tent
crotonylomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotonylome
Crown dependencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crown dependency
Crown Dependencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crown Dependency
crown leases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown lease
crown witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown witness
cruet sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruet set
unrepresent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrepresents
form: unrepresenting
form: unrepresented
form: unrepresented
Etymology: From un- + represent.
Senses: examples: text: As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac[h] the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.
ref: 2013, Catherine Bates, “Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water”, in Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup, editors, Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border (Cultural Studies), Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
glosses: To undo the representation of; to refuse or cease to represent.
call around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls around
form: calling around
form: called around
form: called around
Senses: glosses: To make several phone calls, usually for the purpose of locating an item, comparing prices or inquiring about a topic.
misrace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misraces
form: misracing
form: misraced
form: misraced
Etymology: From mis- + race, influenced by misgender.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, Fram had an acrimonious semantic debate with a high-profile transgender editor over whether referring to them as "xe" constituted misgendering. It culminated in an ugly claim by Fram that he would not be misracing a black person by calling them the n-word, only being racist.
ref: 2019 June 27, Joseph Bernstein, “The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023:
text: We had two models who aren't Asian. One was Palmtrees [Olin Caprison] and the other was Micaela Durand. They often get misraced as Asian, so we included them in the show.
ref: 2023 January 31, Olivia Kan-Sperling, quoting Kirsten Kilponen, “CFGNY Stages a "Vaguely Asian" Fashion Show at Japan Society”, in Interview, New York, N.Y.: Interview, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023:
glosses: To incorrectly identify someone's race.
misraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrace
misracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrace
misraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrace
Omotik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An endangered Nilotic language of Kenya.
grape vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grape vines
Senses: examples: text: Plant a grape vine near the house.
ref: 1897, Charles A. Green, Green's Four Books:
text: His opponent got a grape vine on, dragged him helplessly across deep sands and changed his hold to a reversed bear hug.
ref: 2013, R L Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe, The Watching World:
text: Certain people resented River Oak's elimination of color distinction and grape vine gossip included retaliation toward its master's partners.
ref: 2014, Connie High, A Single Yellow Rose, page 37:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).
grape vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grape vine
grape-vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grape-vines
Senses: examples: text: The leaves of the common creeper, Ampelopsis quinquefolia, a plant belonging to the same natural family as the grape-vine, appear to be their natural food.
ref: 1844, Some Account of an Insects that Attacks the Grape-vine, page 201:
text: "The Strangler" is a wonderful wrestler, and throws his men with the "grape-vine, " a method closely resembling the Cumberland "hank."
ref: 1893, James Muldoon, Muldoon's Wrestling, page 63:
text: Many industrialists have noted that the structure of rumour transmission seems to be similar to its industrial counterpart—the grape-vine.
ref: 2016, T. M. Lillico, Managerial Communication, page 67:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).
grape-vine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grape-vines
form: grape-vining
form: grape-vined
form: grape-vined
Senses: examples: text: Then Old Fox was hitched with a mate to draw the hay on a wagon across a creek over which the cocks could not be "grape-vined."
ref: 1892, Charles Josiah Adams, Where is My Dog?: Or, Is Man Alone Immortal?, page 184:
text: You grape-vine the opponent's right leg, twining it around from the back.
ref: 1950, Guy Le Bow, The Wrestling Scene, page 43:
text: As my despair grape-vined through the community friends called to reassure me.
ref: 2006, Dov Peretz Elkins, Rosh Hashanah Readings, page 179:
text: The news of Bernard's presence had already been grape-vined round Gib., however, and in no time at all a couple of Army Intelligence oflicers came to whisk him away for interrogation.
ref: 2008, Alastair Mars, Unbroken: The Story of a Submarine, page 80:
text: No longer did she go to the gym, where she and her girlfriends had donned Lycra tights and bras and sweated while they grape-vined left and right.
ref: 2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter, page 97:
text: But word of the bomber had swiftly grape-vined Lower Midtown down to the NYU campus.
ref: 2015, Brian Flager, Narrowing the East River:
text: He tried hard, lifting Larry for a cross-buttock, but Larry grape-vined him smartly, and came to the ground safely.
ref: 2022, Maurice Walsh, The Spanish Lady:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).
grape-vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grape-vine
grape-vines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grape-vine
grape-vining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grape-vine
grape-vined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grape-vined
form: most grape-vined
Senses: examples: text: They sat on a bench around a large glass-topped table under a grape-vined trellis.
ref: 2013, Larry Stewart, Bacchanalian Romp, page 51:
text: After grabbing a quick bite, they'd hopped a train and coursed along plunging grape-vined hills to Lausanne.
ref: 2019, Amey Zeigler, The Swiss Mishap:
text: Low, weather-worn, mossy-shingled, secluded in its wayward garden of box and bleeding-hearts, sheltered by its tall pines, grape-vined, hop-vined, clung to by creeper and honeysuckle, it stood where the roads divided, halfway between everywhere, unpainted, unpretentious, as much a part of the landscape as the muskrat-lodge, and, like the lodge, roomy, warm, and hospitable.
ref: 2022, Dallas Lore Sharp, The Fall of the Year:
glosses: Alternative form of grapevined.
grape-vined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grape-vine
tena'im
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tna'im.
kedusha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kedushah.
kinor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnor.
round-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round-ears
Etymology: From an allusion to the round pinnae of humans, as contrasted to the long, pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves, fairies, and similar fictional species.
Senses: examples: text: Even though the round-ear wore a short, loose deerskin tunic, awkwardly stitched and beaded, Bearclaw could tell that the body beneath was almost as slender and fragilely boned as an elf’s, with the exception of the big hands and clumsy feet.
ref: 1993, Richard Pini, Dark Hours: The Blood of Ten Chiefs, page 296:
text: ‘You stinking, cowardly round-ear,’ she snarled, baring her canines at him.
ref: 2011, Sam Sykes, Tome of the Undergates, page 22:
text: "Shut up, round-ear," he barked back. There were a couple of laughs at that. And a few of the elves did look like they thought making a cage of human limbs could be a fun way to pass the time.
ref: 2017, Jon Hollins, The Dragon Lords: False Idols, page 229:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A human or half-human.
Coordinate terms: knife-ear
market force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market forces
Senses: examples: text: Few players are a guarantee at £105m - an excessive fee admittedly but the result of market forces - but Rice is one and he has been demonstrating how significant he will be even as Arsenal's early-season form was tentative.
ref: 2023 September 3, Phil McNulty, “Declan Rice: The game-changing midfielder Arsenal need for title challenge”, in BBC Sport:
text: The absence of a national rail manufacturer is the result of a long-term British phenomenon of bowing to market forces without regard for national interest.
ref: 2023 November 1, Christian Wolmar, “Feast or famine endangers future of UK production plants”, in RAIL, number 995, page 49:
glosses: Any factor affecting the price of, demand for, and availability of a commodity.
ropefuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rope (“to commit suicide”) + fuel.
Senses: qualifier: incel slang
glosses: That which provokes suicidal ideation.
knife-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knife-ears
form: knife ear
Etymology: From an allusion to the pointed ears common in fantasy depictions of elves. Popularised by Dragon Age: Origins (2009) and its subsequent use in the Dragon Age franchise. Possibly influenced by the earlier round-ear.
Senses: examples: text: You've a lot of nerve, knife-ears. This'll go badly for you.
ref: 2009 November 3, BioWare (developer), David Gaider (lead writer), Dragon Age: Origins, →OCLC, scene: wedding cutscene in the City Elf origin:
text: "Hard to believe the elves wiped out the Knights of Saint Augustine. Their captain was capable of summoning the angel, you know? How did a couple of knife-ears stand up to the Kingdom's strongest knights and an angel?”
ref: 2020, 616th Special Information Battalion (trans. ZackZeal), Her Majesty's Swarm: Volume 1, unnumbered page
text: "Get your ass in here. It's time you started acting like the chicano ork you are and not some pansy elf listening to Americano music by yourself all the time. That's what knife-ears do! Now get in here!"
ref: 2022, O. C. Presley, Shadowrun: Kings of the Street, unnumbered pages
topics: fantasy
glosses: An elf.
wikipedia: Dragon Age
Dragon Age: Origins
Coordinate terms: round-ear
valknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valknots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of valknut.
Skousenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skousenites
Senses: examples: text: There are Birchers here, Mormon Skousenites, Liberty Lobby people, a whole range of people who have virtually nothing in common but a concern about our future as a free people. We all fear and oppose the New World Order and the gangsters who are promoting it.
ref: 1993 December 7, Homer Wilson Smith, “Religion Discussions on ACT”, in alt.clearing.technology (Usenet):
text: I'd sooner live in a Muslim community than in one dominated by Skousen-ites (ie, Republicans) any day!
ref: 1995 January 1, David Alexander, “Koran/Book of Mormon parallel”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):
text: I could careless ^([sic]) if some self-important Skousenite from behind the Zion Curtain reads my posts.
ref: 1996 May 25, Perry R. Eidelbus, “First Colby, then Schwarzkopf's #2, now CNO Admiral Boorda -- , WHO'S NEXT?!”, in misc.activism.militia (Usenet):
glosses: A supporter of the views of conservative American author Willard Cleon Skousen.
valar morghulis
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase valar morghūlis, which means "all men must die" in the fictional language of High Valyrian, is used as a greeting by the Faceless Men, a combination death cult and assassin's guild. The traditional response is valar dohaeris (“all men must serve”).
Senses: examples: text: On a philosophical note, there has never been a moment in my life where I’ve truly considered the gravity of death. Yes I know, “All men must die,” but I’m a writer, not a BASE jumper. I spend most of my time behind a bright computer screen, thinking. Yet as I started driving along the edge of a snowy cliff tumbling hundreds of meters downwards to the rocky sea, without snow tyres, the possibility was getting a little bit too real. Valar morghulis.
ref: 2015, Hannah Jane Cohen, "A Road Trip To Djúpavík", The Reykjavík Grapevine, 5 June 2015 - 18 June 2015, page 31
text: In 2015, different beasts threaten our lives—heart disease, cancers, and chronic airway diseases comprise the majority of our disease burden. Valar morghulis—all men must die.
ref: 2015, Keegan Guidolin & Matthew Douglas-Vail, "What kills us and what costs us: An examination of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge", University of Western Ontario Medical Journal, Volume 84, Issue 1, Winter 2015, page 18
text: You fought a good battle, and it was an honour to be there right beside you. I will miss you. “Valar Morghulis” my friend. The God of Death has called one of its valiant warrior home, albeit, too soon.
ref: 2019, "Dedication", in Jennifer P. B. Price, "Testing Construct Redundancy: Resilience, Grit, Hardiness, and Mental Toughness", thesis submitted to Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS), page 7
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An expression used as an acknowledgement of human mortality and the inevitability of death.
wikipedia: A Song of Ice and Fire
Related terms: life's a bitch and then you die
memento mori
crumbling skull rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crumbling skull rule
cruralgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruralgia
crusader complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crusader complex
crush barriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crush barrier
kuzhal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kuzhals
Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam കുഴൽ (kuḻal).
Senses: glosses: A type of double reed musical instrument used in Kerala, India.
cryocauterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryocauterization
cryofacilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryofacility
lusheng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lushengs
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 蘆笙 /芦笙 (lúshēng).
Senses: glosses: A type of mouth organ with multiple pipes with a free reed used by the Hmong people.
High Valyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. First referenced in his 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones. Developed into a usable conlang by David J. Peterson.
Senses: examples: text: The HBO series Games of Thrones, which premiered in 2011, has included the languages of Dothraki and High Valyrian, both created by David Peterson.
ref: 2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, pages 148–149:
text: Though two language courses (High Valyrian and Klingon) are constructed languages from popular TV series (Game of Thrones and Star Trek, respectively), there are reportedly more than 100,000 learners doing the High Valyrian course.
ref: 2017, David M. Palfreyman, “Learner Autonomy and Groups”, in Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas, page 79:
text: The use of High Valyrian mirrors the use of Latin both in the medieval Christian church and as a common language used among the educated elite.
ref: 2019, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones, page 113:
glosses: A constructed language developed for use in the television series Game of Thrones.
wikipedia: A Game of Thrones
David J. Peterson
Chelmsfordian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chelmsfordians
Etymology: From Chelmsford + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Grisby, an old Chelmsfordian, founder of the Law School in Japan and president of the District Court in Cyprus 1893–5 was present.
ref: 1907, The Victoria History of the County of Essex, Constable:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Chelmsford, United Kingdom.
valar dohaeris
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin for use in his A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series. The phrase valar dohaeris means "all men must serve" in the fictional language of High Valyrian. It is a traditional response to valar morghulis (“all men must die”).
Senses: examples: text: If Valar Morghulis, then I shall do my very best in paying it forward in the time I have left. Valar Dohaeris.
ref: 2014, "Acknowledgements", in Kathleen A. Moore, "Scrutiny on the Bounty: From Crisis Communication To Crisis Conversation", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, page xi
text: But soon there will be a new clickbait queen, as HBO's Game of Thrones gears up for its penultimate season this weekend. After that, you can expect endless recaps and speculations for the next two months, clogging up your social media feed (not to mention the endless memes) as the show moves beyond the source material and into the realm of "everyone will have theories." We'll try to steer clear of that business, but no promises: We are a free alt-weekly in 2017, after all, and everyone's got bills to pay. Valar dohaeris.
ref: 2017 July 14, Josh Kupecki, “Stream Analysis”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 43:
text: Although Dr. Murphy’s “watch has ended,” her trailblazing legacy and extreme passion to improve kidney and health care will live on in many ways (14), but forever in our hearts and minds. Indeed, Valar dohaeris (15).
ref: 2021, Steven G. Coca, "Tribute to Barbara Murphy", Kidney360, Volume 2, Issue 9, page 1500
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An expression used as an affirmation of duty to a higher purpose or authority.
wikipedia: A Song of Ice and Fire
Boltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boltonians
Etymology: From Bolton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The gentleman repeated his description, and the worthy Boltonian recorded every word in the tablet of his memory.
ref: 1907, The English Spy, Methuen:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bolton, United Kingdom.
speare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of spear.
EECA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The first years of the transition have not been easy. The late 1980s had been periods of declining growth for all EECA countries, as the inefficiencies of central planning, the limits to growth led by cheap energy, and (especially in the Soviet Union) the burden of high military expenditures took its toll.
ref: 1997 February 28, Louise [M.] Fox, Old-Age Security in Transitional Economies, Washington, DC: World Bank Group, WPS1257, page 1:
glosses: Initialism of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
examples: text: The [European Voluntary Service] projects teach all those involved tolerance, openness and respect towards different cultures. EECA is still perceived as an exotic, not well-known region especially for participants from western Europe.
ref: 2017 December, Marzena Ples, edited by Maurice Devlin, Søren Kristensen, Ewa Krzaklewska, and Magda Nico, Learning Mobility, Social Inclusion and Non-Formal Education: Access, Processes and Outcomes (Youth Knowledge; 22), Council of Europe Publishing, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Initialism of Eastern Europe and Caucasus.
kryal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kryals
Senses: examples: text: Steffan believed that kryal chironomids derive their nutrition from wind-blown organic particles that are released from the ice as it melts.
ref: 1995, The Chironomidae, Springer Netherlands:
text: These efforts will examine the nature of glacier fluctuation influences on habitat for keystone biota such as salmonids, the response of the zoobenthic community and its structures within the kryal and rhithral stream segments and associated riparian zones.
ref: 1997, Final Report of the Workshop on Long-term Monitoring of Glaciers of North America and Northwestern Europe, USGS:
text: Previous kryal systems will follow expected successional changes in habitat properties with concomitant changes in biodiversity and ecosystem fuction.
ref: 2010, Alpine Systems, Springer:
glosses: The portion of a stream fed by meltwaters from ice.
my watch has ended
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Derived from a misquotation of a phrase used in the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. In the novels, "and now his watch is ended" is used to conclude eulogies honouring fallen members of the Night's Watch, a brotherhood of men who swear lifelong vows to defend the Wall. "My watch is ended" is used in the episode "Oathbreaker" (2016) by a character who resigns from the Watch.
Senses: examples: text: My watch has ended.
For the last eight years – four of them here at Courier Life Publications – I have had the privilege to be your eyes and ears, your evaluator, and a watchdog in New York City's local sports scene.
ref: 2016, Joseph Staszewski, "Farewell – but not goodbye", Brooklyn Courier, 20 May 2016 - 26 May 2016, page 44
text: My watch has ended. After six years, I'm about to conclude my last three-year term as department chair.
ref: 2018, Gary W. Lewandowski, "My Watch Has Ended: A Chair's Exit Interview", The Department Chair, Fall 2018, page 10
text: "I really enjoyed my time on city council the last eight years. I've learned a lot, developed some really good relationships. I'm proud of the work we've done. And you know, I'm going to be thinking of our achievements as I move forward but for now, my watch has ended."
ref: 2020, Ryan Bater, quoted in John Cairns, "Bater concedes race", Regional News-Optimist (The Battlefords, SK), 12 November 2020, page 3
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Used to indicate that one's duties or tenure in a position have ended.
wikipedia: A Song of Ice and Fire
Game of Thrones
Night's Watch
Oathbreaker (Game of Thrones)
The Wall (A Song of Ice and Fire)
flash drought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash droughts
Senses: examples: text: Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture. However, potential changes to flash drought risk in a warming climate remain unknown.
ref: 2023 May 25, Jordan I. Christian, Elinor R. Martin, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason C. Furtado, Jason A. Otkin, “Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate”, in Communications Earth & Environment, volume 4, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1–10:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sudden, rapid drought.
Related terms: flash flood
Martikyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Martikyans
form: Mardigian
form: Mardigyan
form: Mardikian
form: Martikian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մարտիկյան (Martikyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Goolishian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goolishians
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Գուլիշյան (Gulišyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Goolishians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goolishian
Martikyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Martikyan
flash droughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash drought
shapeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shape + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The shapeability of the material is high.
glosses: Ability to be shaped.
Dembers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dember
Generation Zeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Generation Zed
Spixworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From either the genitive of an Old English personal name *Spic, spiċ (“bacon, lard”), or spiċ (“brushwood”) + worþ (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2415).
Costessey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsi/
Etymology: From the genitive form of Old English personal name *Cost + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG1712).
beast of draft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beast of drafts
form: beast of draught
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beast of draught.
from A to Zed
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: As to plots, “there are only about a score in the world, and when you have used them all from A to Zed you can turn around and use them from Zed to A.”
ref: 1922, The Writer’s Monthly, page 433:
text: Oh, I hate men. From all I’ve read, / Alone in bed, / From A to Zed / About ’em, / Since love is blind, / Then from the blind / All womankind / Should rout ’em, / But ladies, you / Must answer, too . . . / “What would we do / Without ’em?”
ref: 1954, Cole Porter, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York, N.Y.: Random House, pages 21–22:
text: I’ve learned from A to Zed about Dummerston.
ref: 1955, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, Wings of the Morning, New York, N.Y.: Ives Washburn, Inc., page 88:
text: And interrelationships are what we get in Pulp Fiction, fictions from A to Zed.
ref: 1998, Joseph Natoli, “Reality as Pulp Fiction”, in Speeding to the Millennium: Film & Culture 1993–1995, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: British form of from A to Z.
from A to Zee
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He’s here to look good; if he does that he fills the bill from A to Zee.
ref: 1913, Oliver Onions, The Two Kisses: A Tale of a Very Modern Courtship, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 170:
text: If it were a colonel’s daughter or someone of that sort, I’d know the psychology from A to Zee (as the English say).
ref: 1936 December, Richard Aldington, “To Patricia and A. S. Frere (privately held)”, in Norman T. Gates, editor, Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 143:
text: The business of all art, from A to Zee, as the Americans say, is to show things in their true relationships.
ref: 1985 [a. 1931?], D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “‘Art and Morality’, First version”, in Bruce Steele, editor, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence), Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 236:
text: I was by now beginning to get used to “affirmatives”, “negatives”, “nixes” (strong negatives), “checks” (confirmations), and even beginning to think of things ranging from A to Zee.
ref: 1991, Gopal Baratham, chapter 6, in A Candle or The Sun, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 62:
text: I knew my French rock ’n’ roll from A to Zee via Salut Les Copains, the glossy colour music mag that took its pop as seriously as Cahiers du Cinéma did film.
ref: 2000, Andrew Loog Oldham, Stoned, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Alternative form of from A to Z.
prophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prophane
prophaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prophane
prophaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prophane
-oh
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -o.
enregisterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enregisterments
Etymology: From enregister + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The enregisterment of culture among Latino, Black, and Asian students resembles that of multicultural programs insofar as the noun culture denotes a valuable possession of the racially marked and a contribution to the larger community.
ref: 2009 June, Bonnie Urciuoli, “Talking/Not Talking about Race: The Enregisterments of Culture in Higher Education Discourses”, in Linguistic Anthropology, volume 19, number 1, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The process of enregistering or becoming a register ("a style of a language used in a particular context").
enregisterments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enregisterment
Valengin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑ.lɑnˈʒæ/
enpr: välänzhă
Forms: form: Valengines
form: Valengin
Senses: glosses: A placename
glosses: A placename
A former municipality of Val-de-Ruz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
glosses: A surname from French.
-fish
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from catfish.
Senses: examples: text: "As long as men height-fish, income-fish, marital status-fish, I will keep hood fishing!!!!" said another.
ref: 2024 August 10, Deirdre Bardolf, anonymous quotee, “What is 'hoodfishing'? The sneaky new trend singles are trying to cast a wider net in NYC”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2024:
text: According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.
ref: 2024 August 29, Gina Cherelus, “The Irresistible Urge to Change Your Location on a Dating App”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2024:
glosses: Forming terms denoting disingenuous ways by which people seek to attract attention, especially on a dating app.
Related terms: blackfish
catfish
kittenfish
sadfish
wokefish
Yami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Torii Ryūzō in 1897. Possibly related to English Y'Ami Island and Spanish Diami, which early 1800s Spanish texts refer to as the name of a populated island of the Batanes Islands north of the Babuyan Islands, whose natives were at war with those of the other Batanes Islands who do not receive them except during storms or when the sea currents lead them to their islands, which in that case, they also don't let them go beyond the beaches. In 1802, Fr. Francisco de Paula Esteban O.P. also referred to Diami as the northernmost island in the Batanes Archipelago that people were moving to. See also Ibatan di- (qualitative prefix, indicating that someone or something possesses the quality of the word being prefixed), Ibatan ammyānan (“north”), Ibatan ammyan (“northeast monsoon; rainy season”), Ivatan amyan (“northeast monsoon; rainy season”), Ilocano amianan (“north”), Sakizaya amis (“north”), Amis amis (“north”), Bikol Central amihan (“north”), Cebuano amihanan (“north”), Tagalog amihan (“northeast monsoon”), Hiligaynon amihan (“north wind”), Proto-Austronesian *qamiS (“north wind”), Proto-Austronesian *i (location marker), Japanese 闇(やみ) (yami).
Senses: glosses: A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Tao people.
wikipedia: Babuyan Islands
Batanes
Batanes Islands
Torii Ryūzō
Synonyms: Tao
bucktees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucktee
raciolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From racio- + linguistics.
Senses: glosses: A field of study which focusses on the relationship between language and race.
Related terms: raciolinguistic
raciolinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raciolinguistic
form: most raciolinguistic
Etymology: From racio- + linguistic.
Senses: examples: text: Importantly, the linguistic interpretations of white listening subjects are part of a broader, racialized semiotics of white perceiving subjects. That is, the overdetermination of spoken language practices through raciolinguistic ideologies is tied to the overdetermination of various nonspoken and nonlinguistic signs associated with racialized subjects, including literacy practices, physical features, bodily comportment, and sartorial style.
ref: 2017 September 11, Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores, “Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective”, in Language in Society, volume 46, number 5, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 629:
glosses: Relating to or involving the intersection of language and race.
Related terms: raciolinguistics
racio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: racio- + linguistics → raciolinguistics
text: racio- + -logy → raciology
glosses: Combining form of race.
mademoiselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mademoiselle
mademoiselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mademoiselle
damed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dame
MAGAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAGA
dirtbiker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirtbikers
form: dirt biker
Etymology: From dirtbike + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who rides a dirtbike.
dirt biker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirt bikers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dirtbiker.
acoustoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acoustoelastic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being acoustoelastic.
acromiotrapezius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The middle part of the trapezius muscle in mammals.
Zortman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zortmans
Etymology: Variant of Zartman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A census-designated place in Phillips County, Montana, United States.
Akande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Akandes
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Akande.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yoruba.
Akandes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Akande
Zortmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zortman
Acocella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acocellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Acocella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Baribeau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baribeaus
Etymology: Borrowed from French Baribeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Baribault
aeroservoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the interaction between aerodynamic forces in aerospace engineering.
Baribeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baribeau
aeroservoelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aeroservoelasticity.
Acocellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Acocella
aero-servo-elastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeroservoelastic.
aero-servo-elasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeroservoelasticity.
aero-hydro-servo-elastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Both hydroelastic and aeroservoelastic.
aero-servo-hydro-elastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aero-hydro-servo-elastic.
synonyms: word: aero-hydro-servo-elastic
Austell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Austells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.
Derived terms: St Austell
St Austell Bay
Benanti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Benantis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Benanti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Benantis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Benanti
Austells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Austell
agri-biotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agri-biotechnologies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agribiotechnology.
agro-economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agroeconomics.
agroecologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agroecological.
Braver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bravers
Etymology: Jewish surname of Yiddish origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
Wandersee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wandersees
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wandersee, probably an altered form of Dutch van der Zee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German [in turn from Dutch].
Wandersees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wandersee
Bravers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Braver
MICLIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪk.lɪk/
Forms: form: MICLICs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
related: word: MCLC
glosses: Acronym of mine-clearing line charge.
MICLICs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MICLIC