nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Ma Wan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 馬灣 (maa⁵ waan¹). 1. An island of Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong. Example: The developers, a group of Hong Kong construction professionals, said work would start on the park, on Ma Wan island, in late 2001, and will be completed in 2003. Example: In the post, Tam said that it had been more difficult to serve the residents of Ma Wan and Tsuen Wan, even though he received help from other district councillors and his team.[…] Correction 23.8.2021: A previous version of this article stated that Roy Tam resigned from the Ma Wan District Council. He resigned from the Ma Wan constituency of the Tsuen Wan District Council. 2. A village in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong. Example: When I went there I couldn't find the main road to the village. Afterwards, I just asked some people to direct me to the village and lucky I find some people who can give me the right direction. The first person was really helpful and he gave me plenty of information about Ma Wan. 3. A rural committee in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Word: Peipinger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Peiping + -er. For historical or dated use of the name Peiping, see Chinese 北平 (Běipíng). 1. A person from Peiping. Labels: dated, historical, rare Example: It comes into line with Nankinger, / T'ienchiner, Liaoninger, / Ch'ungkinger, Paotinger, / And last but not least with Peipinger. Example: Peipingers looked on all this activity as a rude intrusion on the quiet culture of their ancient capital.
Word: Peipingers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Peipinger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prat boy Part of Speech: noun 1. A gofer. Labels: informal
Word: prat boys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prat boy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Stemp Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: agapanthussaponins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of agapanthussaponin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Makushi Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Macushi. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: Makushi Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Macushi. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Tsim Sha Tsui Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 尖沙咀 /尖沙嘴 (zim¹ saa¹ zeoi²). 1. An area of Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: This arrangement will, however, be found to be of very little use until the Observatory is placed in direct communication with the telegraph offices in Hong Kong, as the connections between the police stations generally break down in bad weather,[…] In the course of the summer of 1884 the writer invented and started a system of meteorological signals, which continue to be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball tower at Tsim-sha-tsui. Example: Think of Tsimshatsui and you think shopping! This is Kowloon's internationally renowned shopping district, where anything can be bought at the right price.
Word: Yau Ma Tei Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 油麻地 /油蔴地 (jau⁴ maa⁴ dei⁶⁻²). Pronunciation: /jaʊ mɑː teɪ/ 1. An area of Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: The contract has been let for the construction of a breakwater to provide a harbor of refuge for Hongkong’s shipping. This breakwater will extend 3 300 feet from a point near the Asiatic Petroleum Co.’s tanks at Tai-Kok-Tsui to a point opposite the Yau-ma-tei police station with an opening at one end of 400 feet. Example: For Sheung Wan and Wanchai census districts on Hong Kong Island (Fig. 3) gross densities of 963 and 846 per aere were recorded, while the densities of population for the Yau Ma Tei and Mongkok districts of Kowloon were 568 and 545 per acre.
Word: Malay bear Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of sun bear.
Word: Malayan bear Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of sun bear.
Word: Malay bears Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Malay bear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Malayan bears Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Malayan bear Labels: form-of, plural
Word: maledictive Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to malediction.
Word: BMCF Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of bovine malignant catarrhal fever. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: Yau Tsim Mong Part of Speech: name Etymology: c. 1990s, merger of two districts, Yau Tsim district and Mong Kok district. Ultimately from the first syllables of the three major areas in the district: Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Mong Kok. Pronunciation: /ˈjaʊ tsɪm ˈmɒŋ/, /ˈjaʊ tsɪm ˈmɔŋ/ 1. A district of Hong Kong. Example: The decline of the DP’s success rate was attributable to a number of factors, including (1) the shift of some DP incumbents to competition in other geographical constituencies, (2) the mutual distrust between some DP candidates and the local residents, and (3) the strong performance of the opponents of the DP candidates, especially the DAB candidates.³ Examples showing the failure of DP incumbents changing their constituencies included Ng Wing-fai in Yau Tsim Mong district and Ho Suk-ping in the Shatin district.⁴ Example: A company in Hong Kong’s southern Yau Tsim Mong District is at the forefront of Cung Le’s dispute with the UFC over drug testing. The Hong Kong Functional Medical Testing Center (HKFMTC) resides in Hong Kong’s southern Yau Tsim Mong District, about an hour’s ferry ride from the Macau’s Cotai Arena where August’s UFC Fight Night 48 was held.
Word: Sham Shui Po Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 深水埗 (sam1 seoi2 bou6-2). 1. An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Another proposal some years ago was for a line to be constructed from Canton to Sham-shui-po near the Cosmopolitan Docks in British territory, on the mainland opposite Hongkong. Example: The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit. 2. A district of Hong Kong.
Word: jaghiredar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of jagirdar. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jaghiredars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jaghiredar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jageer Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of jagir. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jageers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jageer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tai Kok Tsui Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 大角咀 (daai⁶ gok³ zeoi²). 1. An area of Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: An illustration of the problems this kind of industrial structure has created within the colony’s urban areas may be taken from the Tai Kok Tsui district of Kowloon. Example: Analysts said Sun Hung Kai had pre-sold several projects since the beginning of the year, including One Regent Place in Yuen Long, Avignon in Tuen Mun and Imperial Cullinan in Tai Kok Tsui, which would contribute substantially to the earnings in 2011/12.
Word: Cheung Sha Wan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 長沙灣 /长沙湾 (coeng⁴ saa¹ waan¹⁻⁴). 1. An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: A government-run affordable-housing development in Hong Kong’s Cheung Sha Wan district. Critics of the city’s government say officials want to avoid building more. Example: Lam was one of dozens of patients lying in the parking lot of Caritas on Thursday, after there was no more room inside the hospital that serves 400,000 people in the working-class district of Cheung Sha Wan on the Kowloon peninsula. Temperatures dipped to 15 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) amid some rain.
Word: Malinoises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Malinois Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misintegrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misintegration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: malintegration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mal- + integration. 1. Synonym of misintegration. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: malintegrations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of malintegration Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hung Hom Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 紅磡 /红磡 (hung⁴ ham³). Pronunciation: /hoʊŋ hɒm/ 1. An area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: There are Western residents in Hong Kong who argue endlessly about the best place to shop. Go to the manufacturers' outlet stores at the Kaiser Estates in the Hung Hom area for designer labels at bargain prices. Example: But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom. 2. 2025 April 25, Edith Lin, “Hong Kong eyes turning Hung Hom waterfront into yacht bay for rich tourists”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2025, Hong Kong / Society 3. 2025 April 25, Edith Lin, “Hong Kong eyes turning Hung Hom waterfront into yacht bay for rich tourists”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2025, Hong Kong / Society: Hong Kong authorities plan to turn the area around a premier concert venue in Hung Hom into a landmark waterfront, complete with a yacht marina and a 50-storey tower equipped with entertainment facilities, over more than a decade.
Word: Malmaison Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the Château de Malmaison, where Joséphine de Beauharnais had created a magnificent rose garden. Pronunciation: /ˌmælmeɪˈzɒn/ 1. A rose cultivar with large, pale pink flowers that open flat.
Word: Malmaisons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Malmaison Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kowloon Tong Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 九龍塘 /九龙塘 (gau² lung⁴ tong⁴). 1. A residential area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned. Example: At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.
Word: Mamie Taylor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the 19th-century actress and opera singer Mayme Taylor. 1. A cocktail of Scotch whisky with ginger beer or ginger ale.
Word: Mamie Taylors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mamie Taylor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dragonwise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dragon + -wise. 1. In the manner of a dragon. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dragonly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dragon + -ly. 1. Like a dragon in appearance or behaviour.
Word: dragonly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From dragon + -ly. 1. In the manner of a dragon.
Word: dragondom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dragon + -dom. 1. The world of dragons; dragons considered collectively. Labels: uncountable
Word: Ho Man Tin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 何文田 (ho⁴ man⁴ tin⁴). 1. A residential area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: One of my informants (born 1897) was a member of their church from his earliest years and his father was a member before him. The son told me that early in this century the Ho Man Tin area was known as ‘the Christian Valley’, presumably because of the sustained efforts made by members of the Basel Mission. Example: Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.
Word: dragonstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dragon + stone. 1. A stone or gem having magical powers in relation to dragons. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A type of jagged rock full of crevices, commonly used in aquascaping. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: dragonstones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dragonstone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wardour Part of Speech: name 1. A small settlement in Tisbury parish, south Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9227).
Word: decks of cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deck of cards Labels: form-of, plural
Word: conversation set Part of Speech: noun 1. A (typically four-piece) set of sofa, sofa chairs, and low table.
Word: packs of cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pack of cards Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dragon whisperer Part of Speech: noun 1. One who has the ability to talk to and control dragons.
Word: dragon whisperers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dragon whisperer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dragonmaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dragon + master. 1. One who has the ability to control dragons; someone with mastery over dragons.
Word: dragonmasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dragonmaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acoustic impedance Part of Speech: noun 1. Degree of opposition that a system presents to an acoustic flow. Reciprocal of acoustic admittance. Labels: uncountable
Word: esparto grass Part of Speech: noun 1. Esparto. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.
Word: esparto grasses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of esparto grass Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nitre bush Part of Speech: noun 1. Any flowering plant of the genus Nitraria, family Nitrariaceae, native to Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.
Word: nitre bushes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nitre bush Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cannonball mangrove Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of mangrove, Xylocarpus granatum, having round fruit reminiscent of a cannonball. Example: A member of the mahogany family, the cannonball mangrove is today found in the tropical, coastal regions of Africa, Asia and Australasia, extending far into the Pacific.
Word: cannonball mangroves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cannonball mangrove Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hedgenettle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hedge + nettle. 1. Any of certain plants of the genus Stachys. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: houmongi Part of Speech: noun 1. A semiformal kimono
Word: Rheidol Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh. 1. A river in Ceredigion, Wales, which flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberystwyth; in full, Afon Rheidol.
Word: Cardigan Bay Part of Speech: name 1. A bay of the Irish Sea, mainly on the coast of Ceredigion, (formerly Cardiganshire), and also Gwynedd, Wales.
Word: Belcher Bay Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Admiral Sir Edward Belcher. 1. A bay of Hong Kong Island in Central and Western district, Hong Kong. Example: On the Hong Kong side, the new Smithfield link at Pokfulam will connect Belcher Bay in Kennedy Town into Sai Ying Pun and the tunnel entrance. A series of specially constructed bridges will provide fast access to the Central business district, Wan Chai and North Point. Example: The Merton complex on Catchick Street, Kennedy Town's main employment has always been shifting cargoes between the warehouses, wharfs and ships lining Belcher Bay and, though there s not a huge amount to sec by way of activity, there’s a definite maritime feel to the place.
Word: Capel Bangor Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh. 1. A small village in Melindwr community, Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN6580).
Word: push up against Part of Speech: verb 1. To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge. Labels: transitive Example: Beyond delivering services, Bobby brought his revolutionary nationalist theory to the job and used the opportunity to push up against the ideological bias in the government program. Example: If there’s a bar for the features and performance that make a flagship phone, well, flagshippy, then the midrange Samsung Galaxy A54 5G pushes right up against it. When this $449 device is sitting on a table next to the $999 Galaxy S23 Plus, I can barely tell the two apart until I’m close enough to pick them up. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, up against.
Word: pushes up against Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of push up against Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pushing up against Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of push up against Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pushed up against Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of push up against Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Morrison Hill Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Robert Morrison. 1. A hill in Wan Chai, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong. Example: Where today are Caroline Hill, East Point Hill, and Morrison Hill on which Hong Kong's first western school was built? Where are the bays which formerly indented the coastline of Hong Kong? Example: East of Morrison Hill and the rice paddies of Belcher Valley (named after himself by a rather conceited Captain Edward Belcher) were the godowns of the Jardine-Matheson company, situated roughly where the modern Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay now stands.
Word: Wan Chai Gap Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Wan Chai + gap. 1. A mountain pass in Wan Chai, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong. Example: The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'. Example: The assortment of hikes radiating from Wan Chai Gap, in the middle of Hong Kong Island, ranges from flat Bowen Road to steep Wan Chai Gap Road. Wan Chai Gap gives you access to all of Aberdeen Country Park with its beautiful reservoirs and diverse trails.
Word: Magazine Gap Part of Speech: name Etymology: From magazine (“an ammunition storehouse”) + gap. 1. A mountain pass in Mid-Levels, Central and Western district, Hong Kong. Example: Every winter, the birds move south to the city for warmer weather, food and shelter. The society estimates there are 1,300 black kites in Hong Kong. Magazine Gap in Mid-Levels alone is home to 800. Example: At 1330 hours 23rd December communication was re-established with HQ West Infantry Brigade at Magazine Gap and it was learnt that about 250 enemy were round St. Albert's Convent, that our troops on the Northern slopes of Mount Cameron were withdrawing and that Magazine Gap and Wanchai Gap were being heavily bombed.
Word: Leighton Hill Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after a civilian F. Leighton. 1. A hill in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong. Example: The erection of the following houses for senior officers was completed:-Two blocks each of four houses at Leighton Hill, three houses on Severn Road, one house for the Puisne Judge, and one house for a senior engineer, and, in addition, two contracts were let for two additional blocks of three houses each at Leighton Hill, and for one block containing six flats and four detached houses on the Homestead site, respectively. Example: The remnants of the Grenadiers held Mt. Cameron, the Royal Scots held Stubbs Road facing Middle Gap and the northern slopes of Mt. Nicholson, the Punjabis, only 35 strong, held the Filter Beds and two weak platoons of the Rajputs, with elements of 1st Middlesex, from Leighton Hill to the western side of Causeway Bay.
Word: Iruthayaraj Part of Speech: name 1. A South Indian surname and given name (which means sacred heart).
Word: So Kon Po Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 掃桿埔 /扫杆埔. 1. An area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong. Example: Not far from here in So Kon Po is the new Hong Kong Stadium, completed in 1994, where the annual International Rugby Sevens tournament in March brings in visitors from all over the world. Example: Miura was cremated in the Japanese crematorium at So Kon Po. A local historian has been in contact with his descendants back in Japan who provided photographs of Miura and his assistants in Hong Kong, and expressed amazement that his grave still existed in the Cemetery.
Word: Mehsana Part of Speech: name 1. A city and district in Gujarat, India.
Word: intracorporate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intra- + corporate. 1. Within a corporation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Middle Gap Part of Speech: name Etymology: From middle + gap. 1. A mountain pass in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong. Example: While moving there they came under heavy fire from Doi's men on the hill and had to be withdrawn to Middle Gap, where they spent the night exposed to pouring rain and a cold wind – a cheerless prelude to a dawn attack. Example: The Japanese tunnels were crude, carved out of the hills. Mr Bruce said one could be found along the path running from Middle Gap to Middle Gap Road, another on a path near Queen Mary Hospital.
Word: excardinate Part of Speech: verb 1. To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop. Labels: transitive Example: When a see is vacant , whoever governs the diocese ad interim until the designation of a diocesan administrator is not competent to incardinate or excardinate a cleric ( cann . 419 , 428 ) . Can . 272 adds that the diocesan[…] Example: In order to be able to excardinate this cleric the bishop of diocese B must be his proper bishop ; for only a cleric's proper bishop can excardinate a cleric . " It cannot be denied that the bishop of diocese B is competent to[…]
Word: Tytam Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 大潭 (daai⁶ taam⁴). 1. Alternative form of Tai Tam. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: Shek Pai Wan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 石排灣 /石排湾 (sek⁶ paai⁴ waan¹). 1. An area of Aberdeen, Southern district, Hong Kong. Example: Adjoining Heung Gong Jai there was a walled village known as Heung Gong Wai, and next to it another village called Shek Pai Wan. Shek Pai Wan is now integrated into modern Aberdeen. 2. A bay of Lamma, Islands district, Hong Kong. Example: Aplichau, an island with an area of about 304 acres, lies adjacent to the south¬ western part of the Island of Hong Kong (Fig. I). It is separated from the town of Aberdeen on the mainland by the natural harbours of Shek Pai Wan and the Aberdeen Channel. Example: The path continues from here for a kilometre or so to the bigger beach at Shek Pai Wan on the southeastern coast, and then to Tung O, a minute settlement famous as the childhood home of Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-fat.
Word: Mahim Part of Speech: name 1. A northern neighbourhood of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Word: Victoria Gap Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Victoria + gap, from Victoria Peak, ultimately named after Queen Victoria. 1. A mountain pass in Central and Western district, Hong Kong. Example: The Peak Hotel is situated at Victoria Gap, about 1,400 feet above the sea, and provides extensive accommodation on a most luxurious scale. Example: In the course of its journey from Garden Road to the Upper Terminus at Victoria Gap, the tram, like any neighborhood commuter train, stops - or more accurately hesitates - at Barker, Bowen, Macdonnell, Kennedy and May Road Stations.
Word: Brayshay Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Tai Ping Shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 太平山 (taai³ ping⁴ saan¹). 1. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong. Example: Farther on is Tai Ping Shan, the residents of which were once followers of a famous Chinese pirate. The old tenements are reminders of nineteenth-century village China. There are three temples in Tai Ping Shan, all crowded with joss sticks, tablets in memory of the dead, and fortune tellers. Example: Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.
Word: excardinated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of excardinate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: excardinates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of excardinate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: excardinating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of excardinate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: straight-face test Part of Speech: noun 1. A tongue-in-cheek test of the merits of an argument which asks whether it can be made with a straight face (without laughing). Labels: idiomatic Example: As such, her [Nancy Pelosi's] effort to distance herself from the CIA's conceit on torture should not be surprising or cause for outrage. To presume the benefit of the doubt with the CIA after countless destroyed interrogation tapes doesn't even pass the straight face test. Example: A system of regulation might easily include requiring you to pay taxes if you choose to burden commerce; willful refusal to maintain adequate health coverage for yourself and your family is such a burden. To claim otherwise doesn't pass the straight-face test.
Word: straight-face tests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of straight-face test Labels: form-of, plural
Word: straight face test Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of straight-face test. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: straight face tests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of straight face test Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pay-for Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from pay for. 1. Something which is used to pay for a bill, such as an increase in taxes. Labels: US Example: The government is debating whether to include various pay-fors in order to fund the new infrastructure bill. Example: The bill is instead paid for by a jumble of pay-fors, including $40 billion from the Federal Reserve surplus account, which acts as a cushion to help the Fed take potential losses.
Word: pay-fors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pay-for Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pay for Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of pay-for. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: pay fors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pay for Labels: form-of, plural
Word: seed library Part of Speech: noun 1. An institution or community resource that lends or shares seeds. Example: As with other seed libraries, he also aims to encourage biodiversity, to offer an alternative to the genetically modified seeds produced by large corporations and to make money.
Word: seed libraries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of seed library Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Moyne Part of Speech: name 1. A local government area in south-west Victoria, Australia, named after the Moyne River; in full, the Shire of Moyne.
Word: McClare Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Petworth Part of Speech: name 1. A small town and civil parish with a town council in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU9721). Example: They have driven into the very centre of Petworth, with no parking spaces yet evident. The town is very beautiful – cobbled streets, flowers in the windows, antiques shops every five yards – but he is unable to enjoy it. 2. A neighbourhood in north-west Washington, D.C., United States.
Word: calls to action Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of call to action Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Nasmyth Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Coles Notes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coles+note From Coles Notes, the brand of summarized information note books. From the bookstore chain Coles, named after its founders Carl and Jack Cole. From the surname Cole. 1. quick notes; a summary, precis/précis, abstract, outline. Labels: Canada, plural, plural-only 2. Any such published guide to material Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Landseer Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: Landseer Part of Speech: noun 1. A dog of a black-and-white Canadian variety descended from dogs used by fishermen in the Newfoundland and Labrador region.
Word: Yarl Part of Speech: name 1. A surname
Word: La Oroya Part of Speech: name 1. A city, the capital of Yauli province, Junín department, Peru.
Word: Oroya Part of Speech: name 1. Ellipsis of La Oroya: a city, the capital of Yauli province, Junín department, Peru. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: crow tit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of crow-tit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: weakie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of weakfish + -ie. 1. A weakfish. Labels: US, colloquial Example: Although the weakie has no chopping teeth comparable to those of a bluefish, he boasts a pair of extremely sharp canines in his upper jaw.
Word: weakie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weak + -ie. 1. A weak, unreliable or mediocre person or thing; a weakling. Labels: Australia, slang Example: That was as far as Macauley would go. He wanted to set his shoulders and bunch his fists and let the words fly at O' Neill: You can spot the stranger that comes on a visit and mark him down; you can swagger the streets at shearing-time and reap a harvest; but don't lump me in with the weakies and the yellow-bellies busting their cheques over a good time; the curs and the possums who get silly-drunk and fall in fear to your authority. 2. An unskilled player. Labels: especially, rare Example: And now we enter the real chess arena, where, haughty about ratings, everybody has only one thought in mind: to win — to pile up plaudits against the county grader's autumnal assessment. And to this end we all hope for a weaker opponent, but in the tournaments there are no outright weakies.
Word: mazhanje Part of Speech: noun 1. Uapaca kirkiana, the sugar-plum. Example: Women and adolescent boys sell airtime, vegetables, mazhanje and matohwe fruit, which are not stocked in supermarkets, and cheap Chinese biscuits, almost to the Green Jacaranda block doorstep.
Word: wild loquat Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the various African fruit trees of the genus Uapaca.
Word: harurwa Part of Speech: noun 1. A commonly eaten species of stink bug, Encosternum delegorguei, found in southern Africa.
Word: noon fly Part of Speech: noun 1. Mesembrina meridiana, a small, black-bodied fly with orangeish wings.
Word: fawnsfoot Part of Speech: noun 1. A North American freshwater mussel of the genus Truncilla.
Word: mashuku Part of Speech: noun 1. Uapaca kirkiana, the sugar-plum.
Word: mahobohobo Part of Speech: noun 1. Uapaca kirkiana, the sugar-plum.
Word: firearms licences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of firearms licence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: depreference Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + preference. 1. To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm. Example: We predict from this experiment that depreferencing short-term routes would have little negative impact in practice, as most affected routes are misconfigured, non-optimal routes discovered during convergence, or attacks. Example: In a related intervention, Google has successfully pushed ad-filled sites down the results by changes to its search-ranking algorithm, suggesting that a similar effort to depreference malware-infected sites is technically feasible.
Word: depreferences Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of depreference Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: depreferencing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of depreference Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: depreferenced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of depreference Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shittify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From shit + -ify. Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪtɪfaɪ/ 1. To make shitty. Labels: nonstandard, vulgar Example: The BACAT (Bay Area Center for Art and Technology) Collective, who put this out, gain an added dimension with their invitations to reader input and focus on the global networks and manipulations behind the shittifying of proletarian lifestyle (written by people who've actually left California and gone somewhere besides New York). Example: Just because the PS2 takes great PC games and shittifies them into half-assed ports like Half-Life and Star Trek Voyager and the rest of that awful PS2PC dreck doesn't mean the same has to apply to the Xbox's one and only PC port. Don't cry.
Word: shittifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shittify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shittifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shittify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shittified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of shittify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: horsebarn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horse + barn. 1. A barn for horses.
Word: horsebarns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of horsebarn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shitify Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of shittify. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Another pub in the middle of town, a bit crummy but with a decent enough atmosphere and an interesting history, also caused a big fuss a few years ago when a chain of Plastic Oirish Pubs'R'Us that no Irishman would be seen dead in took the place over and shitified it. Example: It's hard to remember now, what with the second and third movies retroactively shitifying the first, but the first two acts of "The Matrix" are pretty damn wicked: great action, Lawrence Fishburn^([sic]) acting all weird, some nifty near-Cronenberg-esque body horror elements, and some hints that this might be the first big budget Hollywood movie to really understand Phil Dick, all mixed in with a generous helping manga/anime flava.
Word: shitifies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shitify Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shitifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shitify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shitified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of shitify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shittification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shit + -ification. Pronunciation: /ˌʃɪtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The process of shittifying or becoming shitty. Labels: nonstandard, uncountable, vulgar Example: I don't use reverb, I'd rather hear my guitar & amp ringing than a spring reverb or a di-di-di-digital shitification of my guitar. Example: you call that "evolution"........i call that the shitification of radio today.
Word: shitification Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shittification. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Conan Doylish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Conan Doyle + -ish. 1. Resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Example: The impecunious position of the hero is cleverly sketched in the first pages; but the device that is resorted to by way of extricating him from it is deficient in true humour, even although it smacks of Conan Doylish ingenuity. Example: This proved satisfactory to us, but we cannot quite comprehend why Dr. Wood so strenuously objected to our frequently tying down his dip, so it would not run away; or hiding his book bag so as to give him some experience in using his latent Conan Doylish deduction.
Word: Conan-Doylish Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Conan Doylish. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: A new romance, full of adventure and replete with wonderful “Conan-Doylish” strategy, is in our hands. Example: I knew the book, and the part where his finger kept the place, for I have the habit of noting details as I go about the world—a sort of Sherlock Holmesy, Conan-Doylish gift, or trick, inherited doubtless from some Calvinistic forbear, I expect.
Word: God be with you Part of Speech: intj 1. God bless you. Example: Celebrant: God be with you. Congregation: And also with you. 2. Goodbye (especially where a person is going into danger).
Word: To Kwa Wan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 土瓜灣 (tou² gwaa¹ waan¹⁻⁴). 1. An area of Kowloon City district, Hong Kong. Example: To Kwa Wan is an old area with most buildings constructed decades ago. Apart from blocks of flats, the area is criss-crossed by water pipes and gas pipes; the consequence if they were affected would be dire. Four gas pipes in the area have been affected by subsidence. A gas leak could cause an explosion just like four years ago in Taiwan. As a To Kwa Wan resident, I am concerned. Example: On 4 December, a group of teenage protesters (aged 14-15) launched a flash protest near Ma Tau Wai Road at To Kwa Wan at around 0715.
Word: Kowloon Tsai Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 九龍仔 /九龙仔 (gau² lung⁴ zai²). 1. An area of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Two children, brother and sister, died in the Kowloon Tsai fire last night. Example: The So Uk people were said to be related to the So families of Kowloon Tsai, which may explain why they alone among the Cheung Sha Wan villages were involved.
Word: Lee Garden Hill Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately named after Hong Kong businessman Lee Hysan (利希慎) (1879-1928). 1. A hill in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong. Example: Lee Hysan, a wealthy opium trader bought a piece of land on a hill (later known as the Lee Garden Hill) in the early 20s to be used for his business. Example: Early this century his grandfather — the famous Lee Hysan bought the entire hill which later became known as the Lee Garden Hill and established a base for the family in Hong Kong.
Word: Chabonesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Chabon + -esque. 1. Resembling or characteristic of American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer Michael Chabon (born 1963). Example: Now, with Werewolves in Their Youth, his splendid new volume of short stories, it’s possible to speak of a Chabon oeuvre, to recognize a style and certain subject matters as Chabonesque. Example: Mapping is a very Chabonesque activity; in Summerland, he creates not one world but four, linked by a vast tree.
Word: Mount Butler Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unknown. 1. A peak in Eastern district, Hong Kong. Example: The first reached its objective but, attacked by superior numbers, was forced back next morning. The second found that the enemy was already holding Mount Butler and withdrew under heavy fire; the third held the road junction throughout the night despite heavy fire from Jardines Lookout. Example: The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.
Word: Wong Tai Sin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 黃大仙 /黄大仙 (wong⁴ daai⁶ sin¹, literally “great immortal Wong”). Named after Taoist god Wong Tai Sin via Wong Tai Sin Temple. See Chinese 黃大仙 /黄大仙 (Huángdàxiān) for more info. 1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: The term was popularized by a TV show called “Below the Lion Rock,” which first aired in the 1970s and explored the lives of working-class people in Hong Kong, particularly those who had fled mainland China to settle in the former British colony. The show depicted the lives of people living around Lion Rock in areas such as Wong Tai Sin and Kowloon City, known for their slums and dense public housing developments. Example: Officers also fired tear gas in the Wong Tai Sin area Saturday evening; the police said the action was a response to protesters obstructing roads and aiming laser pointers at officers. 2. A district of Hong Kong. Example: In the 1995 Legco elections, DAB leader Tsang Yok-shing originally wished to compete with LP leader Allen Lee in Tai Po district. As a result of political compromise, Tsang decided not to run in Tai Po and opted for Wong Tai Sin district. Example: The district of Wong Tai Sin to the north of Kowloon City is known for two things: its enormous and faceless housing estate and one of the most active and interesting temples in the territory.
Word: Diamond Hill Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 鑽石山 /钻石山 (zyun³ sek⁶ saan¹, literally “stone-mining hill”). 1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong. Example: Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill was once home to a mix of gamblers, thugs and movie stars. Over the last 20 years, the government cleared away much of the squalor (and history) to make way for a subway stop, generic high-rise housing developments and the cacophonous Hollywood Plaza shopping center. Example: Diamond Hill has traditionally been one of the poorest parts of Hong Kong. In the 1950s and 60s, the area became one of the city's largest 'informal settlements', with squatter villages stretching down the slopes towards the city, housing some 50,000 people at their peak.
Word: San Po Kong Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 新蒲崗 /新蒲岗 (san¹ pou⁴ gong¹). 1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Sanpokong was airport land until about 1960: the industrial area at Kwuntong and part of that at Cheungshawan were reclaimed only in the 1950s. Example: Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.
Word: Ngau Chi Wan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 牛池灣 /牛池湾 (ngau⁴ ci⁴ waan¹). 1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Arising from a limited design competition, this winning scheme for residential accommodation at Ngau Chi Wan is located on a narrow strip of sloping land in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: With hindsight, the decision of Mildred and then her children to escape to Hong Kong was a no-brainer.[…] They settled in a sordid shantytown known as Ngau Chi Wan, alongside thousands of other mainlanders.
Word: Tsz Wan Shan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 慈雲山 (ci⁴ wan⁴ saan¹). 1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: The exceptional vitality of Mongkok, the capital city of all this vast industrial territory, owes something—perhaps very much—to the comparative deprivation of Tsz Wan Shan. Example: In Hong Kong, torrential rain associated with Brenda resulted in 100 landslides and 118 floods. In Tsz Wan Shan, more than 20 tons of mud and rocks crashed down a hillside and struck three squatter huts, leaving two people dead.
Word: Kai Tak Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately named after Kai Ho and Au Tak, the two original developers of the area. 1. An area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: The present airport, at Kai Tak, in Kowloon, which has one runway, will be closed when the new one opens. Example: Some residents of Kai Tak said they would consider organising protests, which would pose a significant headache for the government, and seeking a judicial review. They said the scheme ran contrary to plans to build a second central business district (CBD) in the area and could affect home prices. "This is a matter of confidence in the government (planning)," said Cheung King-fan, a district councillor of Kai Tak area. 2. A former airport in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Word: Kowloon Bay Part of Speech: name Etymology: After the nearby Kowloon City. 1. A bay in Kowloon, Hong Kong. 2. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons. Example: Another lot is located at number 5989, Kowloon Bay, occupying an area of 2,058 square meters. The bidding started at HK$10 million, and each bid was increased by HK$100,000.
Word: Kwun Tong Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 官塘 (gun¹ tong⁴) or an earlier equivalent. 1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 2. A district of Hong Kong. Example: Mr Li's business interests already extend into the strategic Kwun Tong area after he joined Kumagai Gumi, the main Japanese contractor for the second harbour tunnel, and his present partner CITIC, in developing a multi-billion dollar housing complex in Lam Tin. Example: The paper trail left behind by $2 million (1.38 million pounds) stolen from a hacked Ecuadorian bank runs cold in a windowless gamers’ crash pad in a gritty industrial area of Hong Kong. The room, in a former factory in the Kwun Tong district, is the registered address for Jiushun Group Co., Ltd., the firm that received the largest single transfer of the $12 million reported missing from Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) in January 2015.
Word: Ngau Tau Kok Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 牛頭角 /牛头角 (ngau⁴ tau⁴ gok³). 1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: An old Hakka woman, who was married into the Hakka stone-cutters’ settlement of Ngau Tau Kok in East Kowloon at the age of 9 in 1897, recalls that her sister-in-law bought hemp in Kowloon City market and brought it home to weave, took it back to Kowloon Street to be dyed and later brought it back to the village to make into clothes for the family. Making bedclothes and mosquito nets was also mentioned. Most items were dyed black in colour. Her husband’s family were Hakkas from near Taàm-shui and they had then been in Ngau Tau Kok for three generations. Example: Deep in the working-class housing district of Ngau Tau Kok, Mr. Tong and his three officers were exasperated. They had visited 10 likely sites for sellers of pirated music CD's but had come up empty-handed.
Word: Sau Mau Ping Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 秀茂坪 (sau³ mau⁶ ping⁴). 1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods. Example: There can be few more ghastly deaths than to suffocate under a mudslide or be swept over the balcony into the abyss below when your block of flats suddenly topples over like a house of cards. Both happened that night. Police said 78 squatter huts were buried at Sau Mau Ping.
Word: Lam Tin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cantonese 藍田 /蓝田 (laam⁴ tin⁴). 1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Example: Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons. Example: The Hong Kong government imposed a third “ambush-style” lockdown at a housing estate in Lam Tin on Sunday night, as two building blocks recorded 15 coronavirus infections in 12 days. 2. A village of Tsing Yi Rural Committee, Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.