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1314400 | word:
probjects
word_type:
noun
expansion:
probjects
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of probject
senses_topics:
|
1314401 | word:
G.O.A.T.ED
word_type:
adj
expansion:
G.O.A.T.ED (comparative more G.O.A.T.ED, superlative most G.O.A.T.ED)
forms:
form:
more G.O.A.T.ED
tags:
comparative
form:
most G.O.A.T.ED
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From GOAT (“Greatest Of All Time”) + -ed.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of goated
senses_topics:
|
1314402 | word:
grecizations
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grecizations
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of grecization
senses_topics:
|
1314403 | word:
blow one's wig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blow one's wig (third-person singular simple present blows one's wig, present participle blowing one's wig, simple past blew one's wig, past participle blown one's wig)
forms:
form:
blows one's wig
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
blowing one's wig
tags:
participle
present
form:
blew one's wig
tags:
past
form:
blown one's wig
tags:
participle
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of flip one's wig
senses_topics:
|
1314404 | word:
leap out
word_type:
verb
expansion:
leap out (third-person singular simple present leaps out, present participle leaping out, simple past and past participle leapt out or leaped out)
forms:
form:
leaps out
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
leaping out
tags:
participle
present
form:
leapt out
tags:
participle
past
form:
leapt out
tags:
past
form:
leaped out
tags:
participle
past
form:
leaped out
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To stand in stark contrast to something; to be immediately noticeable or apparent.
senses_topics:
|
1314405 | word:
Grecizations
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Grecizations
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Grecization
senses_topics:
|
1314406 | word:
mini mod
word_type:
noun
expansion:
mini mod (plural mini mods)
forms:
form:
mini mods
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I really don't know why they were being so mean to the mini mod. I actually like mini mods because they help keep the server nice while mods are not online. What did the mini mod do wrong? He was simply trying to help out the community, making the server more enjoyable to other players. There were some arguments against mini modding that people talked about in public chat the other day.
ref:
2020 July 31, Shakarane, ManaCube
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of minimod
senses_topics:
|
1314407 | word:
mini mod
word_type:
verb
expansion:
mini mod (third-person singular simple present mini mods, present participle mini modding, simple past and past participle mini modded)
forms:
form:
mini mods
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
mini modding
tags:
participle
present
form:
mini modded
tags:
participle
past
form:
mini modded
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
I really don't know why they were being so mean to the mini mod. I actually like mini mods because they help keep the server nice while mods are not online. What did the mini mod do wrong? He was simply trying to help out the community, making the server more enjoyable to other players. There were some arguments against mini modding that people talked about in public chat the other day.
ref:
2020 July 31, Shakarane, ManaCube
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of minimod
senses_topics:
|
1314408 | word:
Bedwas
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bedwas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Welsh.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A town in Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen community, Caerphilly county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1789).
senses_topics:
|
1314409 | word:
cow pusher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cow pusher (plural cow pushers)
forms:
form:
cow pushers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers.
ref:
1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 94
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A cowcatcher
senses_topics:
rail-transport
railways
transport |
1314410 | word:
Ganjam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ganjam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Odia ଗଞ୍ଜାମ (gañjāma).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city in Odia, India.
A district of Odia, India.
senses_topics:
|
1314411 | word:
community garden
word_type:
noun
expansion:
community garden (plural community gardens)
forms:
form:
community gardens
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively.
senses_topics:
|
1314412 | word:
grecization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grecization (countable and uncountable, plural grecizations)
forms:
form:
grecizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Grecization
senses_topics:
|
1314413 | word:
unlike-minded
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unlike-minded (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Not like-minded.
senses_topics:
|
1314414 | word:
taharas hamishpacha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
taharas hamishpacha (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of taharat hamishpacha
senses_topics:
|
1314415 | word:
Sonoran bumble bee
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Sonoran bumble bee (plural Sonoran bumble bees)
forms:
form:
Sonoran bumble bees
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Sonoran + bumble bee, a calque of translingual Bombus sonorus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Bombus sonorus, a species of bumble bee found from the southern United States into Central America.
senses_topics:
|
1314416 | word:
aaher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aaher (plural aahers)
forms:
form:
aahers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aah + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who aahs (in various senses).
senses_topics:
|
1314417 | word:
dog's soup
word_type:
noun
expansion:
dog's soup (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
Mental Floss
etymology_text:
Coined in the 19th century for rainwater and shifted to drinking water by the 1930s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Rainwater.
Drinking water.
senses_topics:
|
1314418 | word:
ooher
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ooher (plural oohers)
forms:
form:
oohers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ooh + -er.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who oohs (in various senses).
senses_topics:
|
1314419 | word:
community gardens
word_type:
noun
expansion:
community gardens
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of community garden
senses_topics:
|
1314420 | word:
blows one's wig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blows one's wig
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of blow one's wig
senses_topics:
|
1314421 | word:
community group
word_type:
noun
expansion:
community group (plural community groups)
forms:
form:
community groups
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An association of people from the same community, especially one formed to advance a common goal or interest.
senses_topics:
|
1314422 | word:
meeting of the mindless
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meeting of the mindless (plural meetings of the mindless)
forms:
form:
meetings of the mindless
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A serious disagreement, especially one resulting from a gathering in which discussion or negotiation took place.
A gathering of people whose views differ greatly.
senses_topics:
|
1314423 | word:
aprimoration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aprimoration (countable and uncountable, plural aprimorations)
forms:
form:
aprimorations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From aprimorate + -ion, as a mistranslation of aprimoração or aprimoramento by Portuguese speakers. The earliest known use of the term was in 2003, although it has likely been re-formed independently on multiple occasions.
senses_examples:
text:
The company must see the benefits brought for the compromised [sic, meaning committed] employees to the productive world, [such] as the aprimoration of the products and services, the reduction of wastefulness for the improvement of the work techniques, the magnifying or transformation of work programs, the economy of costs for the elimination of errors in the execution of the work and the best conditions of adaptation to the progress of the technology.
ref:
2003, Custodio, F.B., Treinamento corporativo aplicado à comunicação móvel [Corporate training applied to mobile communication] (master's thesis), page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The stable union like the marriage, it belongs the main center of cultivation of relationships that aim at moral aprimoration, to the man. It is important the analysis of the rights of the convivens for the moral attendance in reason of its relevance, the true requirement of the stable union that, like accur in the marriage, to bias the execution of the other duties for the companions [sic].
Corrected text: A civil union, as well as a marriage, is the main center of the cultivation of relationships that aim at human moral aprimoration. The analysis of cohabitants' right to moral attendance is important by reason of its relevance: it's the very requirement for a civil union that, as it occurs in a marriage, is favourable for the partners' compliance with other duties.
ref:
2003 December 18, Hendges, A.N.G., “Requisitos Essenciais para a Caracterização da União Estável [Essential Requirements for the Characterization of a Civil Union]”, in Revista de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais da UNIPAR [UNIPAR's Journal of Legal and Social Sciences], volume 6, number 2, page 6
type:
quotation
text:
The conceptual framework I used for the study is that of serious and casual leisure. Given the ethos of boxing, that [sic, meaning which] revolves around relentless acquisition of new skills and aprimoration of the body, built on relentless discipline and almost exclusive devotion to the sport, the acquisition of new skills in order to participate/engage in higher levels of the sport is paramount.
ref:
2017 June 16, Ribeiro, N. F., “Boxing Culture and Serious Leisure among North-American youth: An Embodied Ethnography.”, in The Qualitative Report, volume 22, number 6, page 1623
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
improvement, refinement, sublimation (raising to a state of excellence)
senses_topics:
|
1314424 | word:
Mervians
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mervians
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Mervian
senses_topics:
|
1314425 | word:
community groups
word_type:
noun
expansion:
community groups
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of community group
senses_topics:
|
1314426 | word:
meetings of the mindless
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meetings of the mindless
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of meeting of the mindless
senses_topics:
|
1314427 | word:
Grecization
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Grecization (countable and uncountable, plural Grecizations)
forms:
form:
Grecizations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Greco- + -ization.
senses_examples:
text:
Sixth, Jones views the spread of Greek as a correlative sign of the civilizing of the east. To Jones, “Grecization” is the result of urbanization.
ref:
2005, Jack N. Lightstone, “Urbanization in the Roman East and the Inter-Religious Struggle for Success”, in Richard S[tephen] Ascough, editor, Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna (Studies in Christianity and Judaism; 14), Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, section “Broadening the Context”, page 217
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Hellenization.
senses_topics:
|
1314428 | word:
foedom
word_type:
noun
expansion:
foedom (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From foe + -dom.
senses_examples:
text:
[…] that our volunteer forces may stand in their stead, to protect us from any one who would in foedom attempt our shores; […]
ref:
1860, James Walter, The British Volunteer of Yesterday and To-day
type:
quotation
text:
Friends in foedom, I come to you today to tell you that I have regained my resolve to crush the superheroes who stand in our way.
ref:
2017, King Oblivion, Matt D. Wilson, Supreme Villainy
type:
quotation
text:
I might also add that favour or foedom do not concern us, no matter the shadowy tendency of your encouragements.
ref:
2018, Benjamin Swan, immaculate
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state or condition of being an enemy; enmity; hostility.
senses_topics:
|
1314429 | word:
Nipponizing
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Nipponizing
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of Nipponize
senses_topics:
|
1314430 | word:
Nipponizes
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Nipponizes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of Nipponize
senses_topics:
|
1314431 | word:
Nipponized
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Nipponized
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of Nipponize
senses_topics:
|
1314432 | word:
mastadenoviral
word_type:
adj
expansion:
mastadenoviral (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From mastadenovirus + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, pertaining to, or caused by a mastadenovirus.
senses_topics:
medicine
sciences |
1314433 | word:
nyamivirus
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nyamivirus (plural nyamiviruses)
forms:
form:
nyamiviruses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Any virus of the Nyamiviridae family.
senses_topics:
|
1314434 | word:
nipponize
word_type:
verb
expansion:
nipponize (third-person singular simple present nipponizes, present participle nipponizing, simple past and past participle nipponized)
forms:
form:
nipponizes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
nipponizing
tags:
participle
present
form:
nipponized
tags:
participle
past
form:
nipponized
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative letter-case form of Nipponize.
senses_topics:
|
1314435 | word:
homebuild
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homebuild
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An item designed to be assembled by amateurs.
senses_topics:
aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences |
1314436 | word:
Mervian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Mervian (comparative more Mervian, superlative most Mervian)
forms:
form:
more Mervian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Mervian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Merv + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
We have entered the Mervian oasis, eighty miles long and eight wide, and containing about six hundred thousand hectares...
ref:
1893, anonymous trans. of Jules Verne, Claudius Bombarnac, Ch. 10
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or related to Merv, the oasis and city of Mary, Uzbekistan.
senses_topics:
|
1314437 | word:
Mervian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Mervian (plural Mervians)
forms:
form:
Mervians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Merv + -ian.
senses_examples:
text:
The circumstances of the submission of the Mervians are furnished by the World, a small newspaper owned and edited by M. Komaroff, late chief of General Tchernaieff's staff in Servia...
ref:
1884' June 10, "The Russians and Merv", Brisbane Courier, p. 3
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person of Merv.
senses_topics:
|
1314438 | word:
Empire of China
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Empire of China
forms:
form:
the Empire of China
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of China, particularly (historical) the short-lived empire founded by Yuan Shikai in 1915.
senses_topics:
|
1314439 | word:
paddlecraft
word_type:
noun
expansion:
paddlecraft (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
:Template:compounds
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Watercraft propelled by paddles.
senses_topics:
|
1314440 | word:
rogainer
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rogainer (plural rogainers)
forms:
form:
rogainers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One who takes part in rogaining.
senses_topics:
|
1314441 | word:
interspars
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interspars
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of interspar
senses_topics:
|
1314442 | word:
interspar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
interspar (plural interspars)
forms:
form:
interspars
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
inter- + spar
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A strut between spars.
senses_topics:
|
1314443 | word:
microweight
word_type:
noun
expansion:
microweight (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
micro- + weight
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A weight class in mixed martial arts, below 45 kg
senses_topics:
|
1314444 | word:
Chinese Empire
word_type:
name
expansion:
the Chinese Empire
forms:
form:
the Chinese Empire
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of China, particularly (historical) the Ming and Qing Empires.
senses_topics:
|
1314445 | word:
August Thearch
word_type:
noun
expansion:
August Thearch (plural August Thearches)
forms:
form:
August Thearches
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of Literary Chinese 皇帝 (huángdì).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
the emperor of ancient China, especially in reference to the literal religious meaning of the title.
senses_topics:
|
1314446 | word:
Rudry
word_type:
name
expansion:
Rudry
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small village and community (served by Draethen, Waterloo and Rudry Community Council) in Caerphilly county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1986).
senses_topics:
|
1314447 | word:
probject
word_type:
noun
expansion:
probject (plural probjects)
forms:
form:
probjects
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Blend of problem + project
senses_examples:
text:
Q. Now as a matter of fact, isn't it true that on the occasion of this visit to your office by Mr. Rosenthaler he came there to discuss primarily the matter of this sinter development probject? A. That is what he told me. Q. And that in the course of the conversation you were the one who first initiated the matter of license under the Gelbman patent and asked him why a license could not be obtained under the patents.
ref:
1952, United States. Supreme Court, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, United States. Supreme Court, page 310
type:
quotation
text:
Yet it is at the theoretical level that problems persist and must be tackled so that the content of existing empirical studies may be given an adequately theoretically founded interpretation. While ‘substantivism’ cannot realise the probject of providing a foundation for a comparative theory of economic forms, the rigorous development of Marxist theory presents engaging possibilities.
ref:
1977 November 24, Barry Hindess, “‘Substantivism’ as a Comparative Theory of Economic Forms”, in Sociological Theories of the Economy, illustrated edition, Springer, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
Authorship of the prose satire remains problematic: it has been attributed at one time or another to Gay, Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, all of whom have a claim; but whichever of these authors actually composed it, it clearly remains a Scriblerian probject.
ref:
1991, George Sebastian Rousseau, “Wicked Whiston and the English wits”, in Enlightenment Borders: Pre- and Post-modern Discourses: Medical, Scientific, volume 2, Manchester University Press, page 339
type:
quotation
text:
Nevertheless, it may be that Hauerwas's focus suggests that people with profound disabilities are merely useful vehicles for his broader theological probject (Hauerwas 1999, 1), which raises significant issues regarding the pastoral utility of his position. One of the problems is that Hauerwas's personal memory of people with disability is distant (Hauerwas 1999, 13).
ref:
2012 August 6, Brian Brock, John Swinton, “14 The Importance of Being a Creature: Stanley Hauerwas on Disability”, in Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader, reprint edition, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, page 521
type:
quotation
text:
In other words, image as such, figure as such, fiction as such appears as something else, in the image of something, in the figure of something, in the fiction of something, even if this “something” is like the king in Hamlet, “a thing - Of nothing” (Scene 4.2), an “absolut” as in Malevich's black quadrat, a “non-object” or “non-figure” in abstractionist and concretist paintings, or even a “probject,” recalling the term suggested by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica to describe his “parangolés.”
ref:
2014 May 21, Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm, “Image Language Identity”, in True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts, reprint edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, page 71
type:
quotation
text:
“Sorry, Dad, no time for sitting. I've got a prob... ject, school probject I need to work on tonight.” “Say no more. From one projecteur to another, I wish you luck.” “You two know about this probject?” “Yeah, we know about it. We're currently monitoring it from afar.”
ref:
2022 April 10, Mike Olsen, “Dead Moon Walking Adventure” (11:45 from the start), in The Great North, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Moon Tobin (Aparna Nancherla)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A problematic project.
senses_topics:
|
1314448 | word:
Draethen
word_type:
name
expansion:
Draethen
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Welsh.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A village in Rudry community, Caerphilly county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2287).
senses_topics:
|
1314449 | word:
bulochka
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bulochka (plural bulochki or bulochky)
forms:
form:
bulochki
tags:
plural
form:
bulochky
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Russian бу́лочка (búločka) and Ukrainian бу́лочка (búločka).
senses_examples:
text:
Kasha, holoubtsi, kissel, bulochki! It’s not a college yell but a part of the menu the University Club will serve Tuesday evening, April 11, when Ukrainian night is observed there.
ref:
1933 April 3, Cornelia Curtiss, “Entertaining by Groups and Individuals Leads Society’s Interests: Strange and Wonderful Food on Ukrainian Night Menu at the University Club”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 92nd year, number 93, Cleveland, Oh.: Plain Dealer Publishing Company, page 14, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
There she was confronted with dozens of kinds of loaves and rolls from the soft, mealy black bread that is Russia’s traditional staff of life to beautiful bulochki or rolls made with cake flour and cinnamon and raisens and nuts.
ref:
1962 February 6, Harrison E[vans] Salisbury, “Shopping An Adventure For Moscow Housewife”, in Bangor Daily News, volume 73, number 200, Bangor, Me., page 20
type:
quotation
text:
Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.
ref:
1967, Ira J. Morris, chapter III, in The Troika Belle, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 16
type:
quotation
text:
And we’ve got our Guardian agents at work spotting the best hamburgers and cherry sodas in town. Good homemade ice cream. The last word in piroshki and bulochka with macom.
ref:
1971 June 7, “Meanwhile, can you survive in San Francisco?”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 5, number 3, San Francisco, Calif.: Bay Guardian Company, Inc., →ISSN, page 18
type:
quotation
text:
Titles like “Tender Bulochky” from Wroxton, Saskatchewan, “Plain Krendli” and “Crackling Korzhiyky” — both specialties of North Battleford, Saskatchewan — reflect something of the nature and style of the Ukrainian communities that are spread across the western provinces.
ref:
1972, Sondra Gotlieb, “What to Eat and How to Cook It—a Cross-Canada Tour”, in The Gourmet’s Canada, Toronto, Ont.: New Press, page 109
type:
quotation
text:
Other breads include bulochky, plain or rich rolls, pyrohy, yeast-raised rolls or short pastry dainties with sweet or savory filling in a standard oblong shape tapering at the ends.
ref:
1980 July 19, Helen Bosavage, “Bread is basic — and beautiful”, in Pottsville Republican, volume CLXLII, number 70, Pottsville, Pa., page 8, column 2
type:
quotation
text:
CINNAMON BULOCHKI / Kaldor/Joffe / These are really sweet rolls rather than cakes
ref:
1982, “Desserts”, in Lynn Visson, compiler, The Complete Russian Cookbook, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis Publishers, page 286
type:
quotation
text:
The idea for rye scones comes from a Russian recipe for ‘Rye Bulochki’, which are yeast-raised rolls with a texture somewhere between bread and scone.
ref:
1996, Sue Lawrence, “[Scones] Rum, Raisin and Rye Scone Ring”, in On Baking, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, page 104
type:
quotation
text:
Katya would go into the bread shop. […] There were different shapes and varieties. […] Every kind of bread! […] And the many kinds of bulochki. […] And she always bought Vera a sweet bulochka as well.
ref:
1999, Natasha Templeton, “[Leningrad 1941] Everyone Has a Talent”, in Winter in the Summer Garden, Auckland: Vintage, Random House New Zealand, published 2000
type:
quotation
text:
On one expedition we were very lucky with our transaction: a peasant at one of the stalls was selling bulochky (traditional Russian breadrolls) and another sold us fine apples and strawberries.
ref:
2004, Zev Katz, “Deportation: A Long Journey into Russia”, in From the Gestapo to the Gulags: One Jewish Life, London: Vallentine Mitchell, page 46
type:
quotation
text:
But at night when they came to see me in the Ural, when they had knocked back huge amounts of Kunzevskaya and Stolichnaya and devoured piles of piroshki, oladyi, vatrushki, and bulochki with zimmes, they spoke French, English, kissed hands and paid compliments, knew the wittiest toasts, and fiddled their Russian souls inside out in order to dance on the most crooked roofs of the most Eastern shtetl at dawn. […] Everybody has longings, I said. Shit, I said, is this guy ever going to finish with the Zionist platitudes? Stuffed my mouth with bulochki and knocked back the vodka, and didn’t challenge the Israeli when he explained that longing was a German emotion; […]
ref:
2005, Ulla Berkéwicz, translated by Katharina Rout, Love in a Time of Terror, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, pages 29 and 111 (November 3)
type:
quotation
text:
Lunch: beefaroni or chili mac, garden salad with croutons, assorted dressing, whole-wheat bulochky, fruit cup.
ref:
2007 February 4, “School menus”, in El Paso Times, El Paso, Tex.: MediaNews Group, page 3B
type:
quotation
text:
Plain or stuffed bulochki can be served either as snack or appetizer. […] Using the soft pastry brush, totally brush each risen bulochka (mini roll) with it.
ref:
2010, Nadejda Reilly, Ukrainian Cuisine with an American Touch and Ingredients, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, pages 33 and 71
type:
quotation
text:
He [Timothy Post] has exchanged Red Sox Nation for the Black Earth region, Newbury Street for Ulitsa Krasnaya, bagels at Baker’s Best in Newton Highlands for bulochki in this southern Russian city that bestrides the country’s breadbasket.
ref:
2010 September 20, David Filipov, “Russia’s ‘Crazy American’: Mass. native aims to turn a provincial capital into a mecca for Internet start-ups”, in The Boston Globe, volume 278, number 82, Boston, Mass., page B5, column 1
type:
quotation
text:
Volodya, his government-appointed driver who usually ferries him across town without comment, has offered him coffee, poppyseed bulochky that some old babusias are selling inside the station and, in desperation to get Stefko to relax, his own pack of cigarettes.
ref:
2012 October, Ksenia Rychtycka, “Homecoming: Summer 1990”, in Crossing the Border: Stories, Johnson City, Tenn.: Little Creek Books, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Kusher Bakery specializes in Ukrainian breads including, […] poppy seed strudel, caramel cookies (walnut-shaped), bulochka and rogalik.
ref:
2013 May 22, Sue Kidd, “Food find: Old-world bread at local European markets”, in The Olympian, Olympia, Wash., →ISSN, page C1
type:
quotation
text:
She radiated health and the kind of ripe beauty that Daria often compared to a sugar bun. ‘Pretty like a bulochka,’ she would say admiringly whenever we passed tall, plump, blonde women.
ref:
2023, Victoria Belim, The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir, Virago
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A soft, sweet bread roll, often filled with sweet or savory ingredients, popular in Russian and Eastern European cuisine and often enjoyed as snacks or desserts.
senses_topics:
|
1314450 | word:
itasha
word_type:
noun
expansion:
itasha (plural itashas)
forms:
form:
itashas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Japanese 痛車 (itasha).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A car decorated with popular culture artwork, especially such as anime or manga.
senses_topics:
|
1314451 | word:
coverholders
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coverholders
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of coverholder
senses_topics:
|
1314452 | word:
kwai muk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
kwai muk (plural kwai muks)
forms:
form:
kwai muks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Cantonese 桂木 (gwai3 muk6).
senses_examples:
text:
The Kwai muk is native to southern China, where it grows wild in Kwangtung Province, on Hainan Island, and in Hong Kong.
ref:
2016 July 15, Rolf Blancke, Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide, Cornell University Press, page 28
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a species of plant (Artocarpus parvus) endemic to South-East Asia and China
the fruit of this plant
senses_topics:
|
1314453 | word:
Moorhampton
word_type:
name
expansion:
Moorhampton
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A hamlet in Yazor parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3846).
senses_topics:
|
1314454 | word:
sandwich course
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandwich course (plural sandwich courses)
forms:
form:
sandwich courses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of sandwich degree
senses_topics:
|
1314455 | word:
Yefinhar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Yefinhar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ukrainian Єфінгар (Jefinhar), apparently from Hebrew.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The former name, from its founding until 1945, of Pliushchivka.
senses_topics:
|
1314456 | word:
sandwich courses
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandwich courses
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of sandwich course
senses_topics:
|
1314457 | word:
sandwich round
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandwich round (plural sandwich rounds)
forms:
form:
sandwich rounds
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A sandwich made from two whole pieces of bread.
senses_topics:
|
1314458 | word:
assembly times
word_type:
noun
expansion:
assembly times
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of assembly time
senses_topics:
|
1314459 | word:
thick sandwich course
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thick sandwich course (plural thick sandwich courses)
forms:
form:
thick sandwich courses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of thick sandwich degree
senses_topics:
|
1314460 | word:
sandwich beams
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandwich beams
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of sandwich beam
senses_topics:
|
1314461 | word:
thin sandwich course
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thin sandwich course (plural thin sandwich courses)
forms:
form:
thin sandwich courses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of thin sandwich degree
senses_topics:
|
1314462 | word:
has a mind to
word_type:
verb
expansion:
has a mind to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
third-person singular simple present indicative of have a mind to
senses_topics:
|
1314463 | word:
had a mind to
word_type:
verb
expansion:
had a mind to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of have a mind to
senses_topics:
|
1314464 | word:
sandwich rounds
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandwich rounds
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of sandwich round
senses_topics:
|
1314465 | word:
thin sandwich courses
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thin sandwich courses
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of thin sandwich course
senses_topics:
|
1314466 | word:
having a mind to
word_type:
verb
expansion:
having a mind to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of have a mind to
senses_topics:
|
1314467 | word:
thick sandwich courses
word_type:
noun
expansion:
thick sandwich courses
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of thick sandwich course
senses_topics:
|
1314468 | word:
tobelijas
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tobelijas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of tobelija
senses_topics:
|
1314469 | word:
blew one's wig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blew one's wig
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past of blow one's wig
senses_topics:
|
1314470 | word:
blown one's wig
word_type:
verb
expansion:
blown one's wig
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
past participle of blow one's wig
senses_topics:
|
1314471 | word:
shit luck
word_type:
noun
expansion:
shit luck (plural shit lucks)
forms:
form:
shit lucks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
senses_topics:
|
1314472 | word:
non-functional DNAs
word_type:
noun
expansion:
non-functional DNAs
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of non-functional DNA
senses_topics:
|
1314473 | word:
Johnny One Notes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Johnny One Notes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Johnny One Note
senses_topics:
|
1314474 | word:
Woman Crush Wednesdays
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Woman Crush Wednesdays
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Woman Crush Wednesday
senses_topics:
|
1314475 | word:
johnny-come-lately
word_type:
noun
expansion:
johnny-come-lately
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Johnny-come-lately
senses_topics:
|
1314476 | word:
cabbage-bark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cabbage-bark
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The worm bark tree, Andira inermis.
senses_topics:
|
1314477 | word:
interbacterially
word_type:
adv
expansion:
interbacterially (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From inter- + bacterially.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In an interbacterial manner
senses_topics:
|
1314478 | word:
Johnny one-notes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Johnny one-notes
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Johnny one-note
senses_topics:
|
1314479 | word:
worm bark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
worm bark
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Andira inermis, a nitrogen-fixing tree with medicinal properties native to the area from southern Mexico to northern South America.
senses_topics:
|
1314480 | word:
Johnny one-note
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Johnny one-note (plural Johnny one-notes)
forms:
form:
Johnny one-notes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Johnny-one-note
senses_topics:
|
1314481 | word:
Johnny One Note
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Johnny One Note (plural Johnny One Notes)
forms:
form:
Johnny One Notes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Johnny-one-note
senses_topics:
|
1314482 | word:
Johnny One-note
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Johnny One-note (plural Johnny One-notes)
forms:
form:
Johnny One-notes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Johnny-one-note
senses_topics:
|
1314483 | word:
Dear Jane letters
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dear Jane letters
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Dear Jane letter
senses_topics:
|
1314484 | word:
rayskin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
rayskin (plural rayskins)
forms:
form:
rayskins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The hide of a stingray; shagreen.
senses_topics:
|
1314485 | word:
Johnny One-notes
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Johnny One-Notes
forms:
form:
Johnny One-Notes
tags:
canonical
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of Johnny One-note
senses_topics:
|
1314486 | word:
bandolin
word_type:
noun
expansion:
bandolin (plural bandolins)
forms:
form:
bandolins
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A kind of fifteen-stringed musical instrument related to the bandola and mandolin originating from Ecuador.
senses_topics:
|
1314487 | word:
non-functional DNA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
non-functional DNA (usually uncountable, plural non-functional DNAs)
forms:
form:
non-functional DNAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of junk DNA.
senses_topics:
|
1314488 | word:
Dear Jane letter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Dear Jane letter (plural Dear Jane letters)
forms:
form:
Dear Jane letters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: Dear John letter
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A letter from a husband or boyfriend to his wife or girlfriend, informing that the relationship is over, often because the writer has initiated a relationship with someone else.
senses_topics:
|
1314489 | word:
sandwich beam
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sandwich beam (plural sandwich beams)
forms:
form:
sandwich beams
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A composite system that consists of two thin skin layers separated by a thick inner core.
senses_topics:
business
construction
manufacturing |
1314490 | word:
in good repair
word_type:
prep_phrase
expansion:
in good repair
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
in a fine condition or state
senses_topics:
|
1314491 | word:
cuntard
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cuntard (plural cuntards)
forms:
form:
cuntards
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cunt + tard
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Term of abuse.
senses_topics:
|
1314492 | word:
encephalemia
word_type:
noun
expansion:
encephalemia (countable and uncountable, plural encephalemias)
forms:
form:
encephalemias
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From encephal- + -emia.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Congestion of the brain.
senses_topics:
|
1314493 | word:
Verona green
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Verona green (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of green earth (“pigment from the minerals celadonite and glauconite”).
senses_topics:
|
1314494 | word:
Cross Keys
word_type:
name
expansion:
Cross Keys
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware.
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Baltimore, Maryland.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Allegheny Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union County, South Carolina.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rockingham County, Virginia, site of the Battle of Cross Keys in 1862.
Alternative form of Crosskeys, Wales.
senses_topics:
|
1314495 | word:
Woman Crush Wednesday
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Woman Crush Wednesday (plural Woman Crush Wednesdays)
forms:
form:
Woman Crush Wednesdays
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Kourtney Kardashian's ex-boyfriend and father of her three children, Scott Disick, took to Instagram to publicly praise how fiiiire Khloe is looking right now, naming her his Woman Crush Wednesday.
ref:
2019 March 14, Dusty Baxter-Wright, “Scott Disick names Khloe Kardashian his Woman Crush Wednesday, and she loves it”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-08
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman featured in a social media post shared by someone on Wednesday in which they share a woman (usually a celebrity) who they consider attractive.
senses_topics:
|
1314496 | word:
coverholder
word_type:
noun
expansion:
coverholder (plural coverholders)
forms:
form:
coverholders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From cover + holder.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
One authorized by the managing agent of an insurance syndicate to enter into policies on its behalf.
senses_topics:
business
insurance |
1314497 | word:
monobanks
word_type:
noun
expansion:
monobanks
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of monobank
senses_topics:
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1314498 | word:
unchristly
word_type:
adj
expansion:
unchristly (comparative more unchristly, superlative most unchristly)
forms:
form:
more unchristly
tags:
comparative
form:
most unchristly
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
un- + Christ + -ly
senses_examples:
text:
[…] the indistinctness of the line of demarkation between the professed friends of Christ and the unchristly world;[…]
ref:
1897, Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio, Brethren Evangelist Vol. XIX November 17, 1897 No. 44
type:
quotation
text:
this habit was inherited from one’s grandfather and that unchristly spirit from a long forgotten great-aunt
ref:
1907, Rev. Gearge Henry Hubbard, The Teachings Of Jesus In Parables
type:
quotation
text:
Ernest confided, “Am in such an unchristly gigantic jam of every bloody kind now that it’s practically comic.”
ref:
2017, Dearborn, Mary V., author, Ernest Hemingway : a biography
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Synonym of unchristlike.
senses_topics:
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1314499 | word:
toothache bark
word_type:
noun
expansion:
toothache bark (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
[…] that piece of toothache bark in your hand fits that little bitty trunk behind Colton there. So I reckon I'll rest my case. If you don' believe me, you can go ahead on with your manhunt by yourselves. We'll be up at the store eatin' a banana[…]
ref:
2014 July 1, Reavis Z. Wortham, Vengeance is Mine, Sourcebooks + ORM
type:
quotation
text:
"Chamomile and a touch of toothache bark, some mimosa bark and leaves...calming and mostly harmless." She whispered, with a smile, her eyes darting to the open door. More loudly she added, "You seem to be fatigued. The pain can do that; keep you from resting[…]"
ref:
2017 February 10, Christopher J. Fontenot, The Acadian Prairie - Theodule, Dorrance Publishing, page 401
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The bark of the prickly ash (toothache tree), traditionally held to treat toothaches.
senses_topics:
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