yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Isfahani
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Isfahani
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Isfahani
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Isfahanis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Isfahan.
pos: adj
gloss: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Isfahan.
pos: noun
Translations:
dive-under
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: dive-unders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A railway junction where at least one track passes under other lines instead of crossing them on the same level, in order to avoid conflicting movements; an underpass.
pos: noun
examples: Services from Heathrow would use the existing Byfleet Junction, enabling trains to join the slow line of the South Western Main Line to Woking. The junction already has a dive-under.
Translations:
cost-saving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cost saving
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a reduction in expenditure.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: Wales: Bangor: The recently restored station has had its two notable chimney stacks reinstated thanks to financial support from the Railway Heritage Trust. They had been removed in the 1980s as a cost-saving exercise.
Translations:
drafthouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From draft + house.
Compound parts: draft
house
Inflected forms:
form: drafthouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
pos: noun
examples: Going to Tiffany's on Young Circle in Hollywood for the 3-for-1's, open 'til 3 AM, now a cinema and drafthouse.
Music and singing, shouts and laughter came from many of the buildings they passed—inns and drafthouses and restaurants alive with the lives of ordinary people who had toiled all day in the sun.
As for a winery effect on the Roseburg drafthouse (besides selling draft wine), he usually has a wine barrel-aged number available in a cask-conditioned firkin, like the red wine-aged Stock Ale I really dug.
Translations:
k-algebra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: k-algebras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An algebra over a field; a ring with identity together with an injective ring homomorphism from a field, k, to the ring such that the image of the field is a subset of the center of the ring and such that the image of the field’s unity is the ring’s unity.
pos: noun
examples: A k'''-algebra A with ring homomorphism ϕ:k→A is a k-vector space with scalar multiplication (i.e., action of k upon A): λ·a=ϕ(λ)a where λ∈k,a∈A.
Translations:
sif
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sif
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sif
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Foul, disgusting.
pos: adj
tags: South-Africa
slang
Translations:
kawal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A meat substitute made in Sudan from the fermented leaves of the sicklepod.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
boab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of boabab.
Inflected forms:
form: boabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tree Adansonia gregorii, a baobab species endemic to the Kimberley region and the Northern Territory of Australia.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
deep-drawing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a ship: requiring a considerable depth of water to float in.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rough-draw
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rough-draws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rough-drawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rough-drew
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rough-drawn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rough draw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: roughdraw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version.
pos: verb
examples: His victories we scarce could keep in view, Or polish them so fast as he rough-drew.
My pen is not a fit pencil in the least to rough-draw the great jubilee with which the hearts of the people of Rome were filled, when, on Monday morning, the twentieth of June, it began to be whispered about the city, that so deserving a prelate had been created the sacred Monarch of Christendome;
The case standing hereabouts (as near as I could rough-draw the state of it in this instantaneous haste) let us I beseech you be rather Irenei than Cassandri.
Whether he worked fast or slow, at the flower of the day or not, it appears that from the beginning to the end of his career as a poet, Swift first rough-drew his verse and then revisited it in order to add, blot, and alter.
Translations:
letting-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: letting-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of permitting or allowing something to enter.
pos: noun
examples: But this letting-in of the three-dimensional world exorcised the vision.
Translations:
witch-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From witch + -like.
Base: witch
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more witch-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most witch-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a witch.
pos: adj
examples: `Hail!' squeaked Arumugam, witch-like.
Witch-like she smiled and moved away.
Translations:
full-body
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of the whole body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a full-body image
a full-body statue
Firefighters in the nearby city of Mesa are offered additional screening options under a publicly funded programme, including a full-body MRI scan.
The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments with a hood and integral three-finger gloves and boots. They are bulky and hard to get on but far more likely to save your life in cold water than a lifejacket.
Translations:
sole-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sole-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sole-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to the fish sole, as in taste, appearance, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Over the fish-dish — something sole-like, exquisitely seethed in a strange sauce, garnished with roots and fruits of the country — Tommy became sentimental.
gloss: Similar to the sole of the foot.
pos: adj
Translations:
yellow-skinned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Having yellow skin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Kaempferol was not also detectable in the fruits of yellow-skinned cactus pear[.]"
gloss: Of Far East Asian descent.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
offensive
examples: "Curse you, you yellow-skinned bastard."
Related words: yellowskin
Translations:
robo-advisor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From robo- + advisor.
Base: advisor
Affixes: robo-
Inflected forms:
form: robo-advisors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: robo-adviser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: roboadviser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: roboadvisor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: robo advisor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An automated investment manager.
pos: noun
tags: neologism
examples: The flow of funds into robo-adviser accounts is expected to accelerate because of new federal regulations, which require all financial professionals to put their customers’ interests first, at least when providing advice on their tax-advantaged retirement accounts.
He suggested using Betterment, a roboadviser that automates the investing process with long-term portfolios.
Translations:
ten-strip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ten-strips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strip of ten doses of blotter acid.
pos: noun
examples: I took a ten strip that night, and didn't stop tripping until my junior year of high school was over.
Put that together with a lot of acid (and the night I got my nickname), and you have a recipe for disaster. She would literally hit her pipe, drop a ten-strip of acid, and wake up the next morning a different person.
Translations:
roll-playing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of roll + role-playing.
Compound parts: roll
role-playing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An approach to roleplaying games that focuses excessively on numerical scores (such as those obtained by rolling dice) at the expense of character and realism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 1996, Jean Carrières, Dream Pod 9 Inc, Heavy Gear Rulebook
This method is the easiest but it lends itself to "roll-playing" instead of roleplaying since it focuses much of the players attention on dice and bookkeeping tasks.
After all, this is role-playing, not roll-playing—a distinction commonly made when this question comes up. It's kind of painful when the actual dialogue and behavior is wildly inadequate, but the dice say that no, that was the most persuasive argument you ever heard.
Role-playing not “roll-playing,” in-character interaction more so than the rolling of dice and meta-talk, this is what is required to achieve maximum impact.
Translations:
link-dead
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a character in a multi-user dungeon: stuck in a frozen state, but still visible to other players, as a result of sudden disconnection by the user without logging out.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Tele-snap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: Trade name (Tele-snaps), from tele- + snap.
Base: snap
Affixes: tele-
Inflected forms:
form: Tele-snaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A still photograph of a television broadcast, taken and sold for commercial use in the days before video recording.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
un-Canadian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + Canadian, presumably influenced by un-American.
Base: Canadian
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more un-Canadian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most un-Canadian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Contrary to the principles, institutions or interests of the nation of Canada.
pos: adj
Translations:
Billy-be-damned
Part of speech: intj
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An expletive; damn it.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: He whispered to Delilah and—as mad as blazes—the pair stared daggers at me and huffed off. They might hate each other, but Billy-be-damned, they hated me more.
gloss: An expletive; accursed; damned.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: He's a Billy-be-damned fool if he thinks that plan will work.
gloss: An expletive.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: It's as cold as Billy-be-damned out there.
Translations:
self-evacuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + evacuate.
Base: evacuate
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-evacuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-evacuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-evacuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-evacuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To evacuate a place by one's own decision, without assistance, or unaided.
pos: verb
examples: The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has issued a Safety Digest into an incident where passengers self-evacuated from a train at North Pole Junction on July 15.
Translations:
orange-ball-tree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: orange-ball-trees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orange ball tree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orange ball-tree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: orange-ball tree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plant of species Buddleja globosa, native to Chile and Argentina.
pos: noun
Translations:
fishscale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fish + scale. The use for sense 2 is from its appearance as shiny yellowish flakes resembling the scales of a fish, as opposed to dull white powder.
Compound parts: fish
scale
Inflected forms:
form: fishscales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fish-scale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The scale of a fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Cocaine, usually of high quality, taken directly off the brick and uncut.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The kids out here don't know a flake from a fish—if you asked them what fishscale is, they wouldn't know. [Fishscale is high-grade cocaine powder with few rock-like chunks.]
Oh shit, it was Fishscale! It was love at first sight. He nearly fell back in his chair. "No mothafuckin' way!" he yelled. He jumped up and danced a little two-step jig and thanked his lucky stars for the come-up. Fishscale cocaine! It was fucking Fishscale!
"You can get anything on here—isn't it incredible?" Slick Guy continues. "I couldn't believe it, either. I mean anything. MDMA from Holland, high-end weed, fish-scale coke, whatever.
Translations:
katamari
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 固(かた)まり (katamari, “clump”), popularized by the 2004 video game Katamari Damacy and its sequels, in which players have to roll everyday objects into huge balls.
Inflected forms:
form: katamari
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: katamaris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which rolls up other objects, growing increasingly large.
pos: noun
examples: ... a lawyer from Washington says he met Obama on Mars after listening to David Wilcock discuss jump rooms on UFOs, somewhere back behind all the extra details that have been tacked on at every point in this chain like a katamari
Also, like a katamari, she tended to destroy things in her path. I would miss her. Hopefully marriage wouldn't change her too much.
It's like a Katamari effect. It would take only the slightest hint of a revolution to roll it all up.
Sunk costs snowball, like a katamari. The resources you have already spent make it less likely you will quit, which makes it more likely you will accumulate additional sunk costs, which makes it again less likely you will quit[…]
Translations:
come-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from come off.
Inflected forms:
form: come-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An outcome or conclusion; the way that a situation turns out.
pos: noun
gloss: An evasive answer or postponement; an act of putting someone off.
pos: noun
Translations:
sea-catgut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
transmasc
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of transmasculine.
Inflected forms:
form: more transmasc
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transmasc
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transmascs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Transmasculine.
pos: adj
examples: [...] the convention of masculinity through being an “alt” transmasc person (I was always explicitly non-binary) actually amounted to posturing, and ultimately allowed for more or less the same oppressions to be reinscribed, if only because I was uncritical about my position as a white [...] transmasc person.
[A] binder is a compression garment for your chest to flatten the chest. It's for other nonbinary or transmasc folks [...]
Quinn Eades is a queer transmasc writer and poet. Jamie & Quinn are in love. The images and poetry are from their forthcoming book, Queerdom.
gloss: A trans man or other transmasculine person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: [They say things like] “I'm attracted to all genders, especially androgynous people,” or, “I am primarily interested in other transmascs.”
And Literally No One treated me like shit when I identified as transmasc (I s2g, white transmascs seem to act victimized more than they materially are, and that's so much a part of the problem); [...]
Translations:
bad-jacket
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).
Compound parts: bad
jacket
Inflected forms:
form: bad-jackets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bad-jacketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bad-jacketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bad-jacketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Stokely Carmichael’s neutralization took a rather different form. Utilizing the services of Peter Cardoza, an infiltrator who had worked his way into a position as the SNCC leader’s bodyguard, the Bureau applied a "bad jacket," deliberately creating the false appearance that Carmichael was himself an operative.
The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970.
Translations:
snitch-jacket
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: snitch + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).
Compound parts: snitch
jacket
Inflected forms:
form: snitch-jackets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snitch-jacketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snitch-jacketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snitch-jacketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To create suspicion around (a person) in a way that makes them appear to be an informer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
bodice-ripping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bodice ripper.
Inflected forms:
form: bodice-rippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bodice ripping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more bodice-ripping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bodice-ripping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bodice ripping
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lustful scene of seduction and violent or forcefully initiated sex.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We had a long debate about the ethics of bodice-ripping—who was allowed to rip and who got ripped.
The Dutch sado-masochism, represented first by the Vroom women's attempts at seducing Mason (through multiple bodice-rippings and invitations to spank) for the purpose of reproducing slaves, is further accentuated in a similarly contrived orgy -- described as ritualistic opportunity to transcend societal norms and delineations -- where "Lust is schedul'd, splashing outside the Church-drawn boundaries of marriage, as across racial lines."
All unknowing, innocent as the heroine of a Barbara Cartland Regency romance (at least for the first fifteen pages before the initial bodice-ripping), I came to Hollywood in 1962 with a few published books to my credit and the ingenuous naivete that led me to believe that merely by being the best writer the medium had ever seen, I could raise the level of what went out across the coaxial cable.
Naomi Klein is right to call Atlas Shrugged 'pulp' – there is plenty of bodice-ripping in its romantic sections, and, very significantly, there are never any babies produced.
gloss: Characteristic of a bodice ripper.
pos: adj
examples: There was, nearly always, ecstasy at the moment of entry. Jesus. What a cheap, bodice-ripping insult of a word.
If you're going to be selling workshops on how to write a winning romance novel to romance writers' groups, you know every would-be bodice-ripping author in five states.
His realist twenty-first century marital rape pays literal homage to the bodice-ripping violence of popular historical romances: He backhanded her again, much harder, and threw her backwards across the bed.
Polselli seemed to have been deeply a›ected by the British Hammer vampire movies, for his two early productions are steeped in nice-looking atmospheric sets and cast with busty, bodice-ripping actresses.
Translations:
double-gaited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a horse, able to compete in harness racing as either a pacer or a trotter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
square-gaiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Inflected forms:
form: square-gaiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; a trotter, as opposed to a pacer.
pos: noun
Translations:
double-gaiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Inflected forms:
form: double-gaiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In harness racing, a horse that is able to compete as either a pacer or a trotter.
pos: noun
Translations:
high-stepper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: high-steppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse that lifts its hooves high when walking, trotting, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who indulges in a hedonistic social life.
pos: noun
Translations:
extra-Anatolian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From extra- + Anatolian.
Base: Anatolian
Affixes: extra-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Outside Anatolia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
McCoy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Coy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McCay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McCue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McGue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McHugh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McKey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McKie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McKoy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McQuay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of real McCoy.
pos: noun
examples: Far as I know it's the McCoy. You want to count it?
Translations:
steam-heat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: steam-heats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steam-heating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steam-heated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steam-heated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To heat with the use of steam.
pos: verb
examples: Diesel traction on the "Golden Arrow" - diverted via Chatham because of Sunday engineering work in Sevenoaks Tunnel. The down train is diesel-hauled out of Victoria by Birmingham/Sulzer Type 3 No. D6500 and B.R./Sulzer Type 2 No. D5004 on January 28, 1961; the inner locomotive is provided to steam-heat the train.
Translations:
anti-brony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From anti- + brony.
Base: brony
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-bronies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An anti-fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, typically an adult male.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Antonyms: brony
Translations:
Rumchata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of rum + horchata.
Compound parts: rum
horchata
Inflected forms:
form: RumChata
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cream liqueur made from spiced rum and horchata.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
anti-ice
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + ice.
Base: ice
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Removing ice or preventing it from building up.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An anti-ice system was installed.
Translations:
PABA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Para-aminobenzoic acid, a member of the B-complex family of vitamins that can be synthesized by the human body from folic acid, and used primarily as an active ingredient in sunscreen, but also is necessary for some intestinal bacteria.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The inhibitory action of PABA on the growth of rickettsiae was first demonstrated experimentally against murine typhus in 1942 by Snyder, Maier, and Anderson.
Furthermore, these newer compounds are much less likely to permanently stain clothing; the older PABA formulations were famous for the yellow stain they left behind.
In 1976, Willis (63) suggested that the sensitization potential of PABA was minimal.
Translations:
pac-a-mac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally a brand name coined in 1949 as a shortening of "pack a macintosh".
Inflected forms:
form: pac-a-macs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lightweight rainjacket that can be compressed into a small pocket-sized bag.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: And there she was - wearing a dark blue pac-a-mac over a blue brushed-nylon nightdress, topped off with a hairnet. It was as though Death itself had just walked into the kitchen. She always wore the pac-a-mac because a dressing gown would have taken up valuable space in her suitcase.
It was raining hard when the girls came back into the Brownie circle for vespers, and the gaggle of mums gathered in the Drill Hall porch, sweating in their pac-a-macs and listening to the water swishing down the guttering.
I am the only customer in the Perch in possession of a backpack and wearing a pac-a-mac, which I've yet to take off despite the sun coming out.
Translations:
tackle-porter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tackle-porters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tackle porter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A porter employed by a tacklehouse who loads and unloads ships.
pos: noun
examples: And it was likewise enacted "that all and every the tackle-house and ticket-porter and porters should execute a bond with two good and sufficient sureties to the said governor for the time being, in the penalty of 100l., conditioned for paying, making good, and reimbursing to any merchant or merchants or other person or persons who should employ him or them, all and every loss and damage which such merchant or merchants should or might sustain by the negligence, carelessness, or improper conduct of such porter, and also for the further [faithful?] performance of the duties of his office, and for his general good behaviour as a porter, except in the case where the tackle-porter hath already given bond to the respective company to which he belongs ; and in such case the production of a certificate to the governor of the said society of tackle-house and ticket-porters for the time being, from the clerk of the company to which such porter belongs, of such bond having been duly entered into by such porter, should be deemed and taken to be fully sufficient."
...he, the plaintiff was on the said wharf with divers, to wit, three servants, then being ticket-porters of the said city duly and regularly admitted, and then was ready and willing and offered to unship, land, and carry the said casks of olive oil, and no other tackle-porter belonging to the said city then was present to unship, land, or carry the said casks of olive oil;
Translations:
ticket-porter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ticket-porters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ticket porter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A porter licensed by the City of London Corporation; an official street porter in London.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [H]is servant put in his hand a packet, which had been delivered by a ticket-porter at the door.
[T]he production of a certificate to the governor of the said society of tackle-house and ticket-porters for the time being, from the clerk of the company to which such porter belongs, of such bond having been duly entered into by such porter, should be deemed and taken to be fully sufficient.
You could hear the ticket-porter, who lolls about Shepherd’s Inn, as he passed on the flags under the archway: the clink of his boot-heels was noted by everybody.
[H]e, the plaintiff was on the said wharf with divers, to wit, three servants, then being ticket-porters of the said city duly and regularly admitted, and then was ready and willing and offered to unship, land, and carry the said casks of olive oil, and no other tackle-porter belonging to the said city then was present to unship, land, or carry the said casks of olive oil […].
Around 2,000 or more ticket porters, their names stamped on a metal ticket hung from their belts, were authorised to ply for hire at one of ninety-two stands about the quays and in the streets.
Translations:
haroun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Somali xarunta.
Inflected forms:
form: harouns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The headquarters or government of a post-medieval Horn African state, particularly the Daraawiish.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The headquarters or government of a post-medieval Horn African state, particularly the Daraawiish.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
idiomatic
Translations:
son-of-a-bitching
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
vulgar
examples: But that was the really crazy thought. There was money waiting for him out there in the night. Maybe a lot of it. Maybe a son-of-a-bitching fortune.
Translations:
FOOF
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Onomatopoeic (see foof), in reference to its explosive properties, and as a play on its chemical structure (F = fluorine, O = oxygen).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: dioxygen difluoride
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations:
riverdance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From river + dance, originally the trademarked name of an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
Compound parts: river
dance
Inflected forms:
form: riverdances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: riverdances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: riverdancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: riverdanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: riverdanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A theatrical show based on traditional Irish music and dance.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform this style of dance.
pos: verb
examples: And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.
Translations:
Zorba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An arbitrary code name defined by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of nonferrous scrap metal consisting mainly of aluminum, especially that which is left behind after an automobile is shredded and the iron and steel is removed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
paddock-stool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English paddocstol, paddok stule; equivalent to paddock (“frog; toad”) + stool.
Compound parts: paddock
stool
Inflected forms:
form: paddock-stools
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A toadstool.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: The toad was popularly thought to impersonate the devil; and the toad-stool, pixie stool, or paddock stool was believed to spring from the devil's droppings.
I asked an old woman in the fields this morning, pointing to a cluster of what we in the north-east corner call paddock-stools, and sometimes fairy-stools.
Sometimes, when Jack happened to be in a humorous frame, he would seat himself at the bottom of the sea on one of the brain-corals, as if he were seated on a large paddock-stool, and then make faces at me, in order, if possible, to make me laugh under water.
Translations:
Polie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pole + -ie.
Base: pole
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Polies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worker stationed at the South Pole.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Polies have much more attitude than McMurdoites. […] Where a McMurdoite would simply turn and leave a conversation that didn't interest him, a Polie would blatantly change the subject or challenge the entire premise of the discussion.
“When Polies see the red coats come off the plane, we think they're not real Antarctic workers. We see McMurdo as a luxury resort. We think we're tougher and want the people from McMurdo to see how cold it is and how much ice we have […]
[…] there have been many attempts to do biological and psychological studies on wintering Polies, to see how a genuine Moon base might play out, or one on Mars.
Translations:
pay-to-stay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
form: pay to stay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice where retailers charge manufacturers a slotting fee to place their products on the shelves of stores.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly at a time when small business confidence is at an all-time low.”
gloss: A scheme where prison inmates are charged for their accommodation (meals, clothing etc.) while in prison.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A scheme where prisoners can pay to be moved to a more desirable prison.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: In what is commonly called “pay-to-stay” or “private jail,” a constellation of small city jails — at least 26 of them in Los Angeles and Orange counties — open their doors to defendants who can afford the option. […] The region’s pay-to-stay jails took in nearly $7 million from the programs from 2011 through 2015, according to revenue figures provided by the cities.
gloss: A United Kingdom government policy, due to come into effect in April 2017 but never implemented, whereby council tenants earning £30,000 (£40,000 in London) would have to pay "market or near market rents".
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: In 1979, 42% of Britons lived in council homes. Today that figure is just under 8%. Now, by scrapping secure tenancies and bringing in a pay-to-stay scheme, the government’s new housing bill could mark the end of a century-old dream[.]
Under the so-called “pay to stay” plans, families or individuals with a total annual income of £30,000 outside London or £40,000 in the capital will have to pay rents “at market or near-market levels”.
Translations:
brand-iron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brand-irons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of branding iron (“for livestock”).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of brandise (“stand for a pot or pan over a fire”).
pos: noun
Translations:
apple-knocker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From apple + knocker, suggesting a person who knocks apples from the trees to harvest them.
Compound parts: apple
knocker
Inflected forms:
form: apple-knockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: rustic; yokel; rube
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
Brattleboro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The strain was developed by Henry Schroeder and technician Tim Vinton in West Brattleboro, Vermont, beginning in 1961, for Dartmouth Medical School.
Inflected forms:
form: Brattleboros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of rat used in medical research, having a naturally-occurring genetic mutation that prevents it from producing vasopressin.
pos: noun
examples: Vasopressin is not detectable in the posterior pituitary of the homozygous Brattleboros.
Translations:
lalla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lallas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Persia, a kind of domestic tutor.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: In Persia, a male nurse.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A native clerk who writes the vernacular.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
gloss: A respectable merchant.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
examples: Where there are no tigers, the Lalla (scribe) becomes a shikaree.
There were Hindu lallas from the piece-goods market of Bulandshahr, smartly dressed in silks; there were Kashmiri Muhammadans from the local carpet factories, immaculately clad in white cotton; […]
Translations:
buttplate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From butt + plate.
Compound parts: butt
plate
Inflected forms:
form: buttplates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The plate affixed to the rear end of a rifle stock.
pos: noun
Translations:
Z-pinch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Z refers to the direction of the current in the devices, the z-axis on a normal three-dimensional graph.
Inflected forms:
form: Z-pinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of plasma confinement system that uses an electrical current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field that compresses it.
pos: noun
Translations:
hermitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hermit + -tude.
Base: hermit
Affixes: -tude
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hermitness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Thus Ellis is intrigued by the outlook he labels "hermitude."
Not that he abandoned his aspirations to serve his country and resolved to pass his life in idle pleasure and quiet hermitude...
Translations:
geo-imputation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + imputation.
Base: imputation
Affixes: geo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of replacing missing values for exact geographical locations with approximate locations derived from associated data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If a person's census tract is known but no other address information is available, then geo-imputation may be used to assign that person to a smaller geographic area, such as a census block group.
Translations:
flag-waver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flag + waver.
Compound parts: flag
waver
Inflected forms:
form: flag-wavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flag waver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flagwaver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A highly vocal and visible supporter of a cause.
pos: noun
examples: In every organization exists a number of so-called flagwavers. Their principal stock in trade is a boisterous verbal display of loyalty to the cause […]
And the hardcore group of some fifty North Viet flagwavers, they're toting the yellow-star standard as if they owned it! And does General Giap know his battles are being won with the aid of every last boy and girl fluttering their flags […]
These kinds of empirical studies might seem like the best way of countering the claims of post-bureaucracy's flag-wavers. They certainly act as an antidote to the extravagant and self-serving claims […]
Translations:
flag-waving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: From flag + waving.
Compound parts: flag
waving
Inflected forms:
form: flag waving
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flagwaving
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in an analog video signal.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.
The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.
Related words: flag-waver
Translations:
well-brought-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-brought-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-brought-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-brought-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-brought-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well brought up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been taught during childhood to exhibit good manners and pleasant behaviour.
pos: adj
examples: He strikes me as a very well-brought-up young man.
Translations:
cockle-bread
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bread made from wild grain.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation.
gloss: A form of bread used as a love charm, variously described as being kneaded with the knees or buttocks, or simply shaped to look like buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.
The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to.
A European custom had young women prepare "cockle-bread," a food intended to excite men's passion, by sitting on dough and wiggling around to knead it, sometimes reciting a rhyme in the process ("Up with my heels and down with my head/And this is the way to mould cockle-bread" is an example).
They recall the much later English 'cockle bread', one of many methods used by girls to divine the names of their future husbands.
Related words: cocket-bread
mould cocklebread
Translations:
race-monger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From race + monger.
Compound parts: race
monger
Inflected forms:
form: race-mongers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: racemonger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: race monger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who causes or fuels racial or ethnic tensions
pos: noun
gloss: One who often uses racial arguments or references in contexts where these are (perceived to be) less or not at all relevant
pos: noun
Translations:
obbo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Shortened from observation + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: obbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obbos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obboing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obboed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obboed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: police observation
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Thing is, victim was under obbo. He'd done time. He was a nark.
If we'd known about that two or three weeks ago, had him under obbo – assuming we could afford that – we could be looking at a serious result by now.
That block popping,
them bodies dropping like it’s nothing,
them pigs watching
[…] My nitties always clucking for my food, cause they love it
Got a bitch, yeah she swallows,
my whole strip, that’s an obbo
Them jakes, yeah they follow
I got light, I got choco
I step out, the CCTV clocks me / Under obbo like man shots keys
gloss: To keep under police observation.
pos: verb
examples: Feds on the set, trynna obbo my gang
Paigons chattin', it ain't harmin' us
Translations:
oily-wad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oily-wads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oil-powered torpedo boat.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
olive-branch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: olive-branches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: olive-branching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: olive-branched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: olive-branched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations.
pos: verb
examples: As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!
That was intricate reporting plus reasoning plus olive-branching and remonstrating.
The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.
“Let me help you out,” I olive-branched him, “I do know what you pulled me for; I crossed the double yellow line.
Translations:
olive-branched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more olive-branched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most olive-branched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Adorned with one or more olive branches.
pos: adj
examples: Indeed, in the 1960's, Blacks and other minorities extended, by and large, the olive-branched claw of the Eagle, our national symbol.
Members of San Francisco's considerable French colony were at tables flanked by the French tricolor and the Stars and Stripes, with the olive-branched symbol of the UN in the center.
Orange trees and apricot trees huddled amid the gray-silver leaves of gnarled olive-branched trees.
Translations:
stall-feed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stall-feeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stall-feeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stall-fed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stall-fed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To raise and feed (an animal) in a stall.
pos: verb
examples: Stubble would have been much cheaper for the littering part, but it is not always to be had; whereas straw is every where to be bought; and it is necessary to charge the price of it, because a farmer may probably have a regular stock of cattle for the straw of his crop; in which case he cannot stall-feed to advantage without buying more.
Traditionally, rural households that stall-feed cattle have slaughtered their bulls after two to three years of feeding at the annual harvest festival (November through December) or the bi- or tri-annual festival of the bull, the Marai (January through February).
Poorer farmers let their animals graze on communal lands and along the roadside, and some nutrients may return to the farm although much of the dung will remain on communal lands. Richer farmers stall-feed their cattle in zero-grazing units, which facilitiates the collection and storage of manure and ensures that the manure remains on the farm.
Translations:
self-opening
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + opening.
Base: opening
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: that opens, or is designed to open automatically, or opens of its own accord.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Special features enable the cars to be used as mobile classrooms; equipment includes a microphone and inter-car broadcasting equipment, self-opening doors, fluorescent lights, illuminated speedometer, carton disposal units and a folding bed which normally serves as seats on either side of a table.
Translations:
parley-vous
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: parley-vouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parley-vousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parley-voused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parley-voused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
pos: verb
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
saudagar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: saudagars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soudagur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A merchant or trader, especially one selling European goods in a civil station or cantonment.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
Translations: