Tootfinder

New dictionary dropped https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/18/merriam-webster-new-collegiate-dictionary

Trump's attorney general Pam Bondi dared liberals to define 'fascist' and the internet pulled out the snarkiest dictionaries they could find - The Poke
https://www.thepoke.com/2025/11/17/pam-bondi-dared-liberals-to-define-facist-and-the-internet-pulled-out-the-snarkiest-dictionaries-they-could-find/

What do ya mean, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poot isn't a word??

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/115567694605402964
The dictionary of Kashmiri proverbs & sayings https://archive.org/details/cu31924023043809/ from 1885 is a treasure trove of wisdom ... ;-)

Well this is very cool and very handy, especially as Google Trabslate keeps getting worse, somehow.
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/new-online-dictionary-aims-to-make-icelandic-more-accessible/

New Online Dictionary Aims to Make Icelandic More Accessible
A new online Icelandic–English dictionary has been launched by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. This handy, modern resource is perfect for aspiring language learners, translators, and anyone interested in the Icelandic language. Built on the foundation of the multilingual Scandinavian project ISLEX, the new site combines linguistic research with user-friendly digital tools. The […]

my current favourite dictionary is
GREEN’S DICTIONARY OF SLANG
https://greensdictofslang.com/
Green has been compiling and updating it since 1993, it’s amazing
stick it in your bookmarks and don’t forget to consult it when you see a strange turn of phrase

Yesterday, I wanted to quickly post something on my blog when I realized that my blog generating process was broken after upgrading to Debian 13.
So I had to analyze the situation, got lost in my complex shell script hell and decided to merge it into one single script without lots of dated stuff.
Next I realized that one of my own libs has a minor issue with Python 3 strings: had to migrate to raw strings to get rid of very valid warnings.
Well, I could not publish that lib…

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

It seems that this Andrew Windsor chap is moving to Sandringham
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/paedophile

paedophile
1. someone who is sexually interested in children 2. UK spelling of pedophile

If I’ve stopped lying, then you should too. But you can’t seem to stop twisting the truth about anarchism, using the dictionary as a weapon to bend reality toward your own system and agenda. That manipulation says more about your control than my beliefs.