handelshögskola

handelshögskola (indefinite nominative singular)
handelshögskolas (genitive indefinite singular)
handelshögskolan (definite nominative singular)
handelshögskolans (definite genitive singular)
handelshögskolor (indefinite nominative plural)
handelshögskolors (genitive indefinite plural)
handelshögskolorna (definite nominative plural)
handelshögskolornas (definite genitive plural)

From handel (“trade”) + -s- + högskola (“university college”).

affix

Min flickvän läser på handelshögskola.

My girlfriend is studying at a school of economics and business administration.

school of business administration
school of business administration

school of economics, school of business administration, school of economics and business administration; A university specialized in business administration and/or economics.


rompecabezas

Verb-object compound, composed of rompe (“to break”) + cabezas (“heads”). Compare French casse-tête.


bloodstone

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From blood + stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood.

These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

The magician wore a blood-stone ring […]

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 148:

A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.

heliotropi

green chalcedony sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite


paintball

en-noun

paintball (countable and uncountable, plural paintballs)

(uncountable) A sport where teams shoot each other with gelatin capsules filled with paint-like dye.

(countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.


paintball

en-verb

paintball (third-person singular simple present paintballs, present participle paintballing, simple past and past participle paintballed)

paintballs (present singular third-person)
paintballing (participle present)
paintballed (participle past)
paintballed (past)


tengeralattjáró

tengeralattjárók (plural)
tengeralattjáró (nominative singular)
tengeralattjárók (nominative plural)
tengeralattjárót (accusative singular)
tengeralattjárókat (accusative plural)
tengeralattjárónak (dative singular)
tengeralattjáróknak (dative plural)
tengeralattjáróval (instrumental singular)
tengeralattjárókkal (instrumental plural)
tengeralattjáróért (causal-final singular)
tengeralattjárókért (causal-final plural)
tengeralattjáróvá (singular translative)
tengeralattjárókká (plural translative)
tengeralattjáróig (singular terminative)
tengeralattjárókig (plural terminative)
tengeralattjáróként (essive-formal singular)
tengeralattjárókként (essive-formal plural)
tengeralattjáróban (inessive singular)
tengeralattjárókban (inessive plural)
tengeralattjárón (singular superessive)
tengeralattjárókon (plural superessive)
tengeralattjárónál (adessive singular)
tengeralattjáróknál (adessive plural)
tengeralattjáróba (illative singular)
tengeralattjárókba (illative plural)
tengeralattjáróra (singular sublative)
tengeralattjárókra (plural sublative)
tengeralattjáróhoz (allative singular)
tengeralattjárókhoz (allative plural)
tengeralattjáróból (elative singular)
tengeralattjárókból (elative plural)
tengeralattjáróról (delative singular)
tengeralattjárókról (delative plural)
tengeralattjárótól (ablative singular)
tengeralattjáróktól (ablative plural)
tengeralattjáróé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
tengeralattjáróké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
tengeralattjáróéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
tengeralattjárókéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
tengeralattjáróm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
tengeralattjáróim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
tengeralattjáród (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
tengeralattjáróid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tengeralattjárója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
tengeralattjárói (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tengeralattjárónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
tengeralattjáróink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
tengeralattjárótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
tengeralattjáróitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tengeralattjárójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
tengeralattjáróik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

tenger (“sea”) + alatt (“under”) + járó (“moving”)


showroom

From show + room. Verb sense circa 2011.

A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.

павильо́н

на вы́ставке


farfar

farfaren (definite singular)
farfedre (indefinite plural)
farfedrene (definite plural)

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather


farfar

farfaren (definite singular)
farfedrar (indefinite plural)
farfedrane (definite plural)


farfar

farfar (indefinite nominative singular)
farfars (genitive indefinite singular)
farfadern (definite nominative singular)
farfaderns (definite genitive singular)
farfäder (indefinite nominative plural)
farfäders (genitive indefinite plural)
farfäderna (definite nominative plural)
farfädernas (definite genitive plural)

a father's father; a paternal grandfather


cache-sexe

From cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).


longboat

But our Patron, warn’d by this Disaster, resolved to take more Care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the Long-Boat of our English Ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a fishing any more without a Compass and some Provision […]

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

We cast Anchor within a League of this Creek, and our Captain sent a dozen of his Men well armed in the Long Boat, with Vessels for Water, if any could be found.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 153–154:

So far we had had reason to rejoice in the escape of our longboat, which had received no damage from any of the huge seas which had come on board.

1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter VIII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 83:

The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat Myrtle, and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible Medusa case.

1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:

(nautical) The largest and thus the most capable of boats carried on a ship.


eme

Coordinate term: ama

És a zászlókon eme szent jelszóval: / „Világszabadság!”

1846, Sándor Petőfi, translated by George Szirtes, Egy gondolat bánt engemet:

One undefiled word fluttering overhead, / That word Liberty
(literally) And on the flags with this holy word: / “World freedom!”

(archaic, poetic) Alternative form of emez before consonants: this


farmhouse

Since the farm's redevelopment into mixed commercial and residential space, the farmhouse has served as a community center.

The couple live in a renovated farmhouse that was once the hub of a 300-acre farm.

A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus:

A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.


drunk driving

(law, automotive, US) The act of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Specifically, the criminal offence of driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) level higher than the local legal limit.


夫妻

/fu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

/fu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

/fuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰɐi̯⁵⁵/

/fu⁴² t͡ɕʰi²/

/fu²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰi²⁴/

/hu⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰe⁴⁴/

/hu⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/

/fu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹/

/fu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

/fu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/

/fuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰɐi̯⁵⁵/

/fu⁴² t͡ɕʰi²/

/fu²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰi²⁴/

/hu⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰe⁴⁴/

/hu⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰe⁴⁴/

/fu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹/

Dvandva of 夫 (fū, “husband”) + 妻 (qī, “wife”)

夫妻關係

夫妻关系

ways to enhance the relationship between husband and wife

增進夫妻感情的方式

增进夫妻感情的方式

husband and wife; married couple (Classifier: 對／对)


lazybones

The foremost traveller stopped and called impatiently to his companion. "Come on, can't yer? What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte."

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 42, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

His father thought that there was no doubt some more suitable work to be found for him, for he who should watch hares ought to be light and smart, and no lazybones, and when the hares began to run and fly about, there would be quite another dance than hanging about the house all day doing nothing.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 168:

How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?

Isn't it time you got up, you lazybones?

2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 145:


lowbrow

en-noun

lowbrow (countable and uncountable, plural lowbrows)

A bahuvrihi compound of low + brow, Americanism, circa 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.

(uncountable, art) An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.


cutpurse

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From Middle English cutte-purs; equivalent to cut + purse: originally, purses were worn by a strap at the girdle, which the thief would cut.

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

The Gipsie snap & Pedro
are none of Toms Comradoes,
yͤ punck I skorne, & yͤ cutpurse sworn
& yͤ roring boyes brauadoes

c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

A thief who steals from others' purses or pockets in public.


square meal

From square (“hearty, vigorous”) + meal;

Three square meals a day should give you plenty of energy.

(idiomatic) A (nutritionally) complete and satisfying meal, especially one suitable for a person performing physical labour.

square deal

adequate; proper; rhymes and shares a semantic theme of square as and


rotgut

rotgut (usually uncountable, plural rotguts)

Near-synonym: red-eye

Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.

1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48:

(slang) Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.


hot-pot

hot-pot (countable and uncountable, plural hot-pots)


hotpot

hotpot (countable and uncountable, plural hotpots)

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sun room

A room with many glass windows or walls.


hot pot

hot pot (usually uncountable, plural hot pots)

Surface analysis hot + pot. For sense of stewed meat and potatoes, compare French pot-au-feu. For the sense of a communal meal cooked at the table, Calque of Chinese 火鍋／火锅.


fussbudget

/ˈfʌsˌbʌd͡ʒɪt/

Their three-year-old daughter can be quite a fussbudget, but she's cute.

The nation's 50 million smokers remain at liberty to vote en bloc for a fussbudget-free Congress. Are the polls ready to accommodate smokers?

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting Russell Seitz, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:

(colloquial, derogatory, Canada, US) One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot.

мрънкало

One who complains a great deal, especially about unimportant matters


lit crit

literary criticism
literary criticism#English

(informal) Clipping of literary criticism.


catchphrase

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From catch + phrase, from the notion that the phrase will catch in the mind of the user.

Instead, bro country songs string together a formulaic subset of tropes about beer sipping, truck driving, sunglasses wearing, unpaved roads, and tanned girls in shorts, typically building to a predictable catchphrase singsong chorus.

2018, Bill C. Malone, Tracey E. W. Laird, Country Music USA, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 547:

A signature phrase of a particular person or group.


blatherskite

blatherskite (countable and uncountable, plural blatherskites)

From blather + skite (“shit, shite”). Alternatively the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary asserts that the word is of Scottish origin, with blather/blether + skate referring to someone who is "contemptible". First use of the term dates to the mid-17th century. Compare cheapskate.


marcapasos

Verb-object compound, composed of marca (“to mark”) + pasos (“paces”). Calque of English pacemaker.


longhair

dismissed as just another band of longhairs at the height of longhair bands

A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.

A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.


longhair

I would rather see a musical, but my wife, who loves longhair music, is dragging me to the symphony again.

(derogatory, music) Concerning or characteristic of classical music.


workmate

He loved going to the boozer for lunch with his workmates.

Somebody with whom one works; a coworker.


lowlife

(derogatory) A person who is rebuked by their community for their behavior.


workhorse

A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse.


gentlewoman

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From Middle English gentilwoman, modelled after gentilman (“gentleman”), equivalent to gentle + -woman.

'The gentlewoman from California.' Or 'the gentlewoman from Texas.' Gentlewoman?

1998 December 11, “GENTLEWOMEN AND GENTLEMEN DON'T SAY 'LADY'”, in Daily Press:

House of Representatives
House of Representatives

(US, politics) A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives.


bookbinder

From Middle English bokebynder, bok-bindere, equivalent to book + binder.

A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.

cildçi

person whose profession is binding books


toolshed

An outdoor shed for storing tools and other equipment.


smokescreen

Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.

1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 25, Part 5, p. 284:

C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin.

1959 September, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401, photo caption:

Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.


class clown

He was always the class clown, constantly telling jokes and attracting everyone's attention in school.

(idiomatic) A student who frequently makes jokes or pokes fun; a wiseacre.


beija-flor

pt-noun

beija-flor m or f by sense (plural beija-flores)

Literally, “flower kisser”, from beijar (“to kiss”) + flor (“flower”).


boneyard

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(dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.

B-52s in a boneyard

a 440 V-8 from the boneyard

Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that "the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it"?

1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:

The “Boneyard” is a place of antiques and historic symbolism, a burial ground for aircraft.

1999, Naval Aviation News, volumes 82-83, page 37:

Beginning in December 1969, the entire fleet was retired to the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.

2017, William A. Flanagan, Aviation Records in the Jet Age:

(aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.


tag team

Probably from tag (“children’s chasing game in which one player (known as ‘it’) attempts to touch another, who then becomes ‘it’; (baseball) instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him ‘out’”) + team.

compound

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A group of wrestlers who work together as a team. Only one is in the ring at any given time, and they change places by "tagging" each other with a gesture like a high five.


pinhead

The moment the nitre was red hot, the coal, previously reduced to small pieces of the size of a pinhead, was projected in portions of one or two grains at a time…

1810, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry, Vol. 4, Bell & Bradfute, page 602

Settlements some centuries old, and still no bigger than pinheads on the untouched expanse of their background.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:

The head of a pin. (Frequently used in size comparisons.)

The microcephalic idiot is an unfortunate with a "pinhead," sometimes exhibited as a "what's-it" in circus side-shows, whose mental age never goes beyond that of an imbecile.

1939, Amram Scheinfeld, Morton David Schweitzer, You and Heredity, Frederick A. Stokes Co., page 155:

Zip the What-Is-It was simply a Negro idiot. […] For half an hour at a time, David Belasco used to watch Zip at Coney Island. The producer insisted he saw signs of intelligence in the pinhead […]

1943, Oliver Ramsay Pilat, Sodom by the Sea: An Affectionate History of Coney Island, Garden City Publishing, page 187:

(slang, medicine) A human head that is unusually tapered or small, often due to microcephaly, or a person with that trait. Often promoted in freak shows as "human pinheads".

A newly hatched gecko will need pretty small crickets, but you will not have to go all the way down to pinheads.

1994, Raymond E. Hunziker, Leopard Geckos, Publisher, →ISBN, page 16:

Crickets can be purchased in many sizes from newborns ("pinheads") to adults.

2000, Manny Rubio, Scorpions: Everything About Purchase, Care, Feeding, and Housing^(http://books.google.com/books?id=XjUwzS7emXQC&pg=PA70&dq=Rubio+newborns-(%22pinheads%22)&lr=&num=20&as_brr=0&sig=rDludfhNOKOBL5uKvEDX_Asvj4Y), Barron's Educational Series, →ISBN, page 70:

(slang, pet stores) A newborn cricket used as food for pets.

(mycology) The immature juvenile fruiting body of a mushroom prior to its gills opening.


trabalenguas

Verb-object compound, composed of traba (“to obstruct”) + lenguas (“tongues”).


tire-bouchon

→ Bulgarian: тирбушо́н (tirbušón)

→ Catalan: tirabuixó

→ Romanian: tirbușon

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: تیربوشون (tirbuşon), طرابشون (terabeşon), թիրպուշօն (tirbuşon) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: tirbuşon

corkscrew (to pull corks out of bottles)


computer literacy

en-noun

computer literacy (usually uncountable, plural computer literacies)

programming language
programming language

(computing) The ability to operate a personal computer, including its associated hardware and software (but not necessarily to understand the underlying electronics or a programming language).


spendthrift

en-adj

spendthrift (comparative more spendthrift, superlative most spendthrift)

more spendthrift (comparative)
most spendthrift (superlative)

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

compound

Wel, go to wild oats, ſpend thrift prodigal, / Ile croſſe thy name quight from my reckning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall ſcath thee ſome what, / I will not ſay what, ſomewhat it ſhall be.

1621, attributed to Thomas Heywood or John Cooke, A Pleasant Conceited Comedy, wherein is Shewed, how a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad. As It hath been Sundry Times Acted by the Earle of Worcesters Seruants, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, →OCLC:

He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be hers hereafter.

1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 299:

Powerful feelings and generous designs are, alas! too like the inheritance of a miser in the hands of some spendthrift heir—lavished away on trifles in our early years, and needed, but not posessed, in our riper age.

1831, [George Payne Rainsford James], chapter II, in Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 33:

Billie Burke's career and life often twined together in this manner – so many of her roles called on her to play parts that were fragments of her real life: the sought-after young stage beauty, the wronged wife, the spendthrift matriarch of bankrupt wealth, the woman too old to be acting so young.

2009, Grant Hayter-Menzies, “Preface”, in Mrs. Ziegfield: The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 3:

Rufus's stone lies in the outskirts of the forest, and in a few minutes they emerged upon the broad heath which bounds it, then like a sea of gold; for the furze was in the first glory of its spendthrift wealth.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 269:

A high-powered entertainment that acceded to the spiraling capitalization costs of the big musical with a production of spendthrift command, La Cage [aux Folles] came in at summer's end as a guaranteed hit.

2004, Ethan Mordden, “The Great Tradition”, in The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-five Years of the Broadway Musical, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 6:

This feels like a significant league title in more ways than one. It is now 14 years since Roman Abramovich emerged as an spendthrift presence in west London.

2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-09-09:


spendthrift

[T]hat vve vvould doe / VVe ſhould doe vvhen vve vvould: for this vvould changes, / And hath abatements and delayes as many, / As there are tongues, are hands, are accedents, / And then this ſhould is like a ſpend thrifts ſigh, / That hurts by eaſing; […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], signature [L4], verso:

VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be.

1602, [Thomas Heywood], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, wherein is Shewed How a Man may Chuse a Good Wife from a Bad. […], London: […] [Thomas Creede] for Mathew Lawe, […], →OCLC; reprinted as How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (Old English Drama Students Facsimile; 50), [London: s.n.], 1912, →OCLC, signature C, recto:

Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin n'a du ſien ne four, ne moulin: Pro. The drunken ſpendthrift vvaſts his beſt poſſeſſions.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Prodigue”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, column 1:

[T]emperate people choose neither total abstinence nor perpetual indulgence, but something in between; liberal people are neither spendthrifts nor misers; the properly angry are neither apathetic nor short-tempered; and the strictly just person distributes to everyone what is his or her due, neither more nor less.

1999, Warren G. Bovée, “Democratic Promise, Democratic Reality, and the Journalists”, in Discovering Journalism (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications; no. 56), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 79–80:

Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

مُبَذِّر

someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully

It was one of those bright days in spring, which are very spendthrifts of sunshine, when the darkest alley in London wins a golden glimpse, and the eternal mist around St. Paul's turns to a glittering haze:...

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 9:

(figuratively) Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.


roughneck

From rough + neck, originally "someone who works a manual labour job".

Coordinate term: redneck

LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend.

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 202:

(colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.

грубиян

someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person

(colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.

This first ship had a small geophysical-type drilling rig mounted over the side of the ship with a steel grid runround for the roughnecks, who stood in knee-deep water while making connections or pulling the drill string.

1992, Elmer P. Wheaton, “William Bradford Whitehill Rand”, in Memorial Tributes: Volume 5, page 234:

As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 286:

(colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig.


roughneck

en-verb

roughneck (third-person singular simple present roughnecks, present participle roughnecking, simple past and past participle roughnecked)

roughnecks (present singular third-person)
roughnecking (participle present)
roughnecked (participle past)
roughnecked (past)

There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope […]

2009 January 13, Michael Brick, “Racing's Last Frontier”, in New York Times:


farmland

en-noun

farmland (usually uncountable, plural farmlands)

From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.

أَرْض زِرَاعِيَّة

land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production


hillside

Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.

2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.

2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:


earworm

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-earworm.wav

/ˈɪ(ə)ɹˌwɚm/

From ear + worm; senses 1 and 3 (“tune that keeps replaying in one’s head”; “earwig”) are a calque of German Ohrwurm (“tune that pops up in one’s memory all the time; earwig”) (from the idea of a creature burrowing into the ear, an erroneous belief where earwigs are concerned), while sense 2 (“moth larva”) refers to the fact that these pests infest, among other things, ears of maize or sweet corn.

calque

I had planned in mind to tell you [...] how I protected, that is, guaranteed, Evergreen sweet corn against the bud worm and the ear worm; [...]

1924 January–March, Martin V. Calvin, “Agricultural Research”, in Annual Report of Georgia Department of Agriculture for 1923 (Quarterly Bulletin of the Georgia Department of Agriculture; serial no. 95), Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 44:

The number of bollworms or ear worms increases greatly as the season advances. This indicates a need for hastening the maturity of all crops affected.

1929 June, F[red] C[ory] Bishopp, “Control Measures”, in The Bollworm or Corn Ear Worm as a Cotton Pest (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 1595), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 7:

Encouraging progress is being made, however, in the search for and utilization of earworm-resistant strains of both field and sweet corn. We mentioned the protection of ears from earworms, weevils, and grain moths by tight husks that extend beyond the tip of the ear.

1952, C. M. Packard, John H. Martin, “Resistant Crops, the Ideal Way”, in Alfred Stefferud, editor, The Yearbook of Agriculture 1952: Insects, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture; United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 434, column 1:

The fall armyworm and the corn earworm attack sweet corn as earworms. [...] Although they may sometimes eat through the husk to attack the side of the ear, most earworms feed on the silks and enter through the silk channel to attack the tip of the ear. The earworm population may be almost completely composed of corn earworms or of fall armyworms, or of a mixture of the two species.

1967 February, Victor L. Guzman et al., “Insects and Their Control”, in Sweet Corn Production on the Organic and Sandy Soils of Florida (Bulletin (Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Florida); no. 714), Gainesville, Fla.: Agricultural Experiment Stations, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, →OCLC, pages 27–28:

A single earworm may seriously damage or destroy the bud of a cole crop plant, causing the plant to be disfigured or to produce several secondary buds. Earworms may disfigure the heads of cabbage plants by their feeding and tunneling [...].

1980 October, C. S. Creighton, J. E. Halfhill, “Caterpillars and How They Damage Plants”, in Control of Caterpillars on Cabbage and Other Cole Crops (United States Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin; no. 2271), Washington, D.C.: Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 10, column 2:

[I]nsects exert undesirable influence on tropical maize production, with stem borers, ear worms and weevils being the most ubiquitous groups.

1984, J. M. Fajemisin, S. K. Kim, Y. Efron, M. S. Alam, “Breeding for Durable Disease Resistance in Tropical Maize with Special Reference to Maize Streak Virus”, in Breeding for Durable Disease and Pest Resistance […] (FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper; 55), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, published 1985, →ISBN, page 49:

(originally US) Short for corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”).


strangolapreti

Verb-object compound, composed of strangola (“to strangle”) + preti (“priests”), literally “priest stranglers”.


hothouse

From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.

As with much of Carsley's reign, England entered this Athens hothouse with sub-plots in the background, this time the nine withdrawals from the squad which was met with a critical public response from the normally strictly-on-message captain Harry Kane.

2024 November 14, Phil McNulty, “'A night of redemption for Carsley offers real hope for Tuchel'”, in BBC Sport:

An environment full of conflict or plots.


greybeard

From grey + beard; men of advanced age would be expected to have a grey beard.

A powerful wave in the vicinity of Cape Horn.


showgirl

She was a Las Vegas showgirl when she was younger.

A non-starring but physically beautiful female dancer in an often lavishly produced theatrical revue; a chorine.


thunderbox

From thunder + box. Senses 1 and 2 (“portable commode; any lavatory or toilet”) are probably because of the noises that may be made while using it, especially while defecating.

True, our cash would run out, but Charleton wouldn't let us starve. He'd put us into shorts, and we should wash the dishes and clean the thunder-boxes and take out guests for walks.

1939 March, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, Christopher Isherwood, “Travel-diary. Chapter 7.”, in Journey to a War, London: Faber & Faber […], →OCLC, page 182:

Then, after another pause, he said: "Well, if you must know, it's my Thunder-box." […] He opened it, showing a mechanism of heavy cast-iron brass and patterned earthenware of solid Edwardian workmanship. On the inside of the lid was a plaque bearing the embossed title Connolly's Chemical Closet.

1952 October, Evelyn Waugh, chapter XV, in Men at Arms […], Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 196:

[T]he response would sound from some soldier unseen, perhaps astride a thunderbox in the ablutions.

1975, Leslie Thomas, chapter 7, in Stand Up Virgin Soldiers, London: Arrow Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 105:

In the present age the historian must content himself with the role of humble camp follower to the sociologist and economist. But like the sweeper in my regiment who carried the thunder-box of the sahibs through the Arakan campaign there is the hope that in the end it is he and not they who will be awarded the decoration.

1978, Eric [Thomas] Stokes, “The Return of the Peasant to South Asian History”, in The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House in association with Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 289:

Then there were the million-odd Indians, coolies, gardeners, house servants, ayahs, syces and others who performed the tasks that no one else would tackle; they emptied the "thunder boxes", collected the refuse and were the main source of labour in the docks.

1987, Alfred Draper, chapter 2, in Dawns Like Thunder: The Retreat from Burma 1942, London: Leo Cooper, →ISBN, page 22:

I am afraid his history on the advent of pan latrines or what is better known to 'thoroughbred colonials' as "Thunder Boxes" was rather wanting; and I don't blame him. […] [W]ell after the end of the Second World War some boarding schools in Cape Coast were still using "thunder boxes".

1991 April 20, Carl Mutt, “The dilemma of ‘thunder boxes’”, in The Mirror, Accra, Ghana: Graphic Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, columns 1–2:

At Roorkee, in King George's Own Royal Bengal Sappers and Miners quarters, thunderboxes with a china receptacle were the only form of sanitation. Outside the little room in which the thunderbox was enclosed prowled a "sweeper" with a wickerwork basket. As soon as the thunderbox had been used, the sweeper hurried forward and carried off triumphantly the china receptacle and contents.

1994, Michael Blundell, “Towards Peace – via Ceylon”, in A Love Affair with the Sun: A Memoir of Seventy Years in Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya: Kenway Publications, →ISBN, part II (Ups and Downs of War), page 80:

The adults in the family used commodes or ‘thunderboxes’ – European-style toilets on which one sat. The children and servants relieved themselves in the traditional Indian way at ground level. […] [W]hen running water was introduced, the thunderboxes became flushable.

2001, Katherine Frank, “Descent from Kashmir”, in Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, part 1 (Indira Nehru), page 8:

[O]ur nocturnal visitors would, with much clattering and banging, collect and dispose of the contents of our commodes, or thunder boxes, doubtless to be used as fertiliser for distant vegetable gardens. We had about half a dozen thunder boxes ranged down one side of the bathroom,[…]. The practice was to leave unused thunder boxes with their seats and lids up, to indicate which were available, and then close them after use.

2004, Peter Moss, “Far Titanic City and a Near Fatal Thunder Box”, in Bye-bye Blackbird: An Anglo-Indian Memoir, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 50:

(slang) A chamber pot enclosed in a box; a portable commode.

(outhouse):

Meantime the ICE [Institute of Consumer Ergonomics] experts are poring over their photographs, and making measurements, which, presumably, will go into a computer, and out will come the specification for the perfect thunderbox.

1974 June 13, Donald Gould, “A Groundling’s Notebook: Ice Waterloo”, in Bernard Dixon, editor, New Scientist, volume 62, number 902, London: IPC Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 708, column 2:

In the old days, when there was a corrugated iron thunderbox, the Holts' guests were told to approach it with caution: where other thunderboxes had redback spiders, the local ones tended to have taipans.

1979, The Bulletin, volume 100, Sydney, N.S.W.: Australian Consolidated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35, column 1:

It's an invaluable open-sided box with no bottom and a hole in the top. Perch this over a hole in the ground and voila! you have a thunder box. Comfy to sit on and handsome as well.

1992, Gerald Durrell, “Crystal Country and beyond”, in The Aye-aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar, London: BCA, →ISBN, page 94:

A more macabre exercise in historical reconstruction follows the fate of those who, on the eve of the Great War, scrawled their names on the plaster of the ‘thunder box’—the toilet next to the dark house.

1998, Raphael Samuel, “The Lost Gardens of Heligan”, in Alison Light, with Sally Alexander and Gareth Stedman Jones, editors, Island Stories: Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II, paperback edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, published 1999, →ISBN, part II (English Journeys), page 128:

There are basically three types of toilets in provincial and national parks. The first are the pit toilets—"thunderboxes"—boxes painted white inside, centrally located in various sections of the campground. The second type of toilet looks like a thunderbox but houses an odour-free flushing toilet.

2004, Jayne Seagrave, “How to Be a Happy Camper”, in Terri Elderton, Karla Decker, editors, Camping With Kids: The Best Family Campgrounds in British Columbia and Alberta, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House, →ISBN, page 20:

He [John Blashford-Snell] boobytrapped the ‘thunderbox’ and the next guardsman who sat down was met by a deafening blast. The guardsman and plastic loo seat were hurled one way, the loo paper another, but there were no injuries.

2005 May, Benedict le Vay, “Eccentric Pastimes”, in Eccentric Britain: The Bradt Guide to Britain’s Follies and Foibles, 2nd edition, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Eccentric Things We Do), page 57:

And finally he pointed to an old thunderbox and shovel. 'Our toilet block.' Everyone except Fly stared at that old thunderbox like it was from Mars.

2007, Shelley Birse, Blue Water High, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN, page 230:

We did not have any toilet facilities inside the building. However, after searching, we found small groups of thunderboxes over pits down on the slope in front of the building. These lonely thunderboxes had no protection from the weather, not even a hessian screen.

2013, Frederick Rennie From, “The German Barracks”, in That’s Enough, Freddy From!, Houston, Tex.: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., →ISBN, page 234:

(by extension, chiefly Australia, British, slang) Any lavatory or toilet, especially a rudimentary outdoor latrine or toilet, or an outhouse.

[T]wo articles, both indispensibly necessary to a theatre, are not blundered, viz. a property room, and thunder box!—no they are omitted altogether!!

1806 September, Argus [pseudonym], “Provincial Drama, &c.”, in The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners. […], volume XXII, London: […] J. Wright, […] [a]nd published by Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, […], →OCLC, pages 205–206:

[H]e [the English actor West Digges] said, "Take the child to the slips;" and I was led through the carpenter's gallery, the cloudings and thunder boxes, and placed in a good seat, where I saw the play with great delight.

1833 May, O’Keeffe, “The Late Mr. O’Keeffe”, in Edward Bulwer-Lytton, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume XXXVIII, 2nd part, number CXLIX, London: [F]or Henry Colburn by Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 37:

It was what is called a good passage, and a feather in the Casco’s cap; but among the most miserable forty hours that any one of us had ever passed. We were swung and tossed together all that time like shot in a stage thunder-box.

1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Hatiheu”, in In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC, part I (The Marquesas), page 65:

The pouring and pattering of rain and the beating of hail require four different contrivances. The most novel of these is a wooden box, about twelve feet long and six inches square, inside of which are numerous slanting sheets of tin, punctured with small holes. A number of peas are rushed continuously up and down the box, rolling over the punctured tin and tumbling from one sheet to the other in a manner like that described of the iron balls in the "thunder box."

1892 January, “Ingenious Stage Machinery”, in The Theatre: A Record of the Stage, Drama, Music, Art, Literature, volume VIII, number 1 (number 179 overall), New York, N.Y.: The Theatre Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 32, column 1:

Thundercrashes, on the other hand, are made by a number of barrel strakes, suspended above one another on a rope to one side of the stage. At a given signal they are allowed to drop to the floor with a crash, followed by loud peal of thunder from the thunderbox.

1991, Paul Britten Austin, transl., edited by Hans Åstrand, Inger Mattsson, and Gunnar Larsson, Gustavian Opera: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Swedish Opera, Dance, and Theatre, 1771–1809 (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Skriftserie [Royal Academy of Music Book Series]; 66), Stockholm: Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien [Royal Swedish Academy of Music], →ISBN, →ISSN, page 101:

(theater) A box of metal balls which is shaken to create a thunder sound effect.


pickthank

[T]he Dogge nuſling his noſe vnder the necke of the Deare, the Wolfe glad to let the Lambe lye vpon hym to kéepe him warme, the Lyon ſuffering the Aſſe to caſt hys legge ouer him: preferring one honeſt vnmannerly friende, before a number of croutching picke-thankes.

1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, “The Vnfortunate Traueller”, in The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: […] T. Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, […], →OCLC:

Yet such extenuation let me beg, / As, in reproof of many tales devised, / which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear, / By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers, / I may, for some things true, wherein my youth / Hath faulty wander’d and irregular, / Find pardon on my true submission.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Piece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, Characters, 40. A rash man,
He is a man still swayed with the first reports, and no man more in the power of a pickthank then he.

1755, Eliza Haywood (under the pseudonym Exploralibus), The Invisible Spy, London: T. Garner, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 256,
Why then, sir, your friend is no better than a pickthank for bringing you such idle stories; and I am not afraid to tell him so to his face.

1868, F. H. Doyle, Lectures Delivered before the University of Oxford, London: Macmillan, Lecture 2, pp. 49-50,
Some pickthank contrived to let the little great man know what had taken place, and he, so she informed me, was ungenerous enough to wreak a mean revenge.

A sycophant; one who meddles, tattles, informs (often in order to curry favour).


daylight robbery

en-noun

daylight robbery (countable and uncountable, plural daylight robberies)

From daylight + robbery, originally used literally to refer to robbery occurring in the daytime rather than at night, which was thought to be more audacious or risky.

(chiefly sports, uncountable) Conduct which unfairly deprives an opponent of an advantage or a win; (countable, rare) an instance of this.


mooncake

From moon + cake, a calque of Mandarin 月餅／月饼 (yuèbíng, “mooncake”), from 月 (yuè, “moon”) + 餅／饼 (bíng, “pastry; biscuit, cookie”), probably because the pastry’s traditional round shape resembles the full moon visible during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

calque

The fifteenth Day of the eighth Moon, is ſolemniz'd by the Chineſes with great feaſting and rejoycing. […] To this purpoſe, the preceding Days they ſend to one another Preſents of little Loaves and Sugar-Cakes, which they call Yue Pim, or Moon-Cakes. They are round, but the biggeſt, which are about two hands breadth in diameter, and repreſent the Full Moon, have every one a Hare in the middle made of a Paſt of Walnuts, Almonds, Pine-Apple-Kernels and other Indgredients. Theſe they eat by the Light of the moon; the Richer ſort having their Muſick alſo playing about 'em, which is very good.

1688, Gabriel Magaillans [i.e., Gabriel de Magalhães], “Of Several Other Palaces, and Some Temples Erected within the Same Enclosures”, in [anonymous], transl., A New History of China, Containing a Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of that Vast Empire. […], London: […] Thomas Newborough, […], →OCLC, page 318:

Mei-kwei 玫丨 [i.e., 玫瑰] name of a pearl; also of a round cake, called the moon-cake, eaten at the harvest moon; […]

1819, R[obert] Morrison, “瑰 [guī]”, in A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, […], part II, volume I, Macao: […] East India Company’s Press, by P[eter] P[erring] Thoms, →OCLC, entry number 6772, page 507, column 3:

The 15th day of the 8th moon is the 中秋 mid autumn feast. […] The cake shops are cleared of other stock, and nothing is to be bought in them for many days but the moon cakes. The moon cake—I am afraid I cannot convey an idea in words, of the delicacy of this exquisite morceau. I merely give its composition, and leave the rest to the imagination of the reader. A small pie in shape of a pork pie, with a crust not quite so tough as well tanned leather, filled with lumps of pork fat mixed with sugar, almonds, chopped walnuts, sesamum, and other varieties of seed.

1870 December, F. H. Ewer, “Some Account of Festivals in Canton”, in Justus Doolittle, editor, The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 3, number 7, Foochow, Fukien, China: Rozario, Marcal & Co., published 1871, →OCLC, paragraph VII, page 187, column 2:

[M]aybe his mother has promised him a mango or a moon-cake if he would be good; […]

1890 February, Yan Phou Lee, “The Boys and Girls of China”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XVII, part I, number 4, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 362, column 2:

The emblematical pastry of the period, the moon cake, has for its ingredients a little bit of everything grown during all the seasons of the year. […] Indeed, it is the nearest thing to pie the Chinese cookery affords. Bits of pork, cabbage, pumpkin, figs, fruit and fowl baked together in a cast-iron crust, seasoned with pork fat, may not be appetizing to the Caucasian taste, but they tickle the palate of a Chinaman into epicurean laughter and make him believe he is enlarging his mind proportionately with his waist.

1893 April, Don Seitz, “A Celestial Farm on Long Island”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXXV, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, […], →OCLC, page 495, column 2:

The servants had already packed and loaded a rickshaw with the day's basic provisions: […] sweaty earthen jars of preserved meats and vegetables; stacks of red boxes lined with four mooncakes each; and of course, sleeping mats for our afternoon map.

1989, Amy Tan, “Ying-Ying St. Clair: The Moon Lady”, in The Joy Luck Club, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 73:

The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruit cakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels, and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled into a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year"—that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary moon.

1989, K. S. Tom, “Celebrations and Festivals”, in Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom, Honolulu, Hi.: Hawaii Chinese History Center, published 2000, →ISBN, page 40, column 2:

During the year we gathered together in the coolie room a few times to celebrate certain festive occasions, like the Ghost Month or the Mooncake Festival. If you had money to spare, you would buy some food, for example mooncakes to celebrate with your sisters.

1994, Claire Chiang, “Female Migrants in Singapore: Towards a Strategy of Pragmatism and Coping”, in Maria Jaschok, Suzanne Miers, editors, Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude and Escape, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; London: Zed Books, →ISBN, part III (Social Remedies and Avenues of Escape), page 245:

[S]he just said, 'The mooncake, if don't eat, must throw away. But like that waste money, very gek sim.' I didn't want to hurt her heart, so I ate the cake. My mother watched me eat the mooncake. 'Do you like it?'

1997, Hwee Hwee Tan, Foreign Bodies […], 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, published January 2000, →ISBN, page 149:

Fruit mince moon cakes […] Over the years, the Chinese moon cake has evolved into a variety of treats with different fillings. To cater to the health-conscious, many bakeries also offer miniature moon cakes and sugar-free moon cakes. I have used a fruit mince filling to make these moon cakes a little more familiar to the European palate, but you do need a moon cake mould to make these.

2007, Dean Brettschneider, “Pastries”, in Global Baker: Inspirational Breads, Cakes, Pastries and Desserts with International Influences, new edition, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine, published 2020, →ISBN, page 120:

Remember the overthrow of the Manchus, when messages hidden in moon cakes roused the people to bring arms to the meeting place.

2008, Chin Woon Ping, “Mooncakes and the Moon”, in Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals, Singapore: NUS Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Tea and moon-cakes were served after dinner. The cakes came in square, octagonal and round shapes, each one about two inches thick and covered in a soft, brown skin. Emily cut them into quarter slices and handed them round.

2012, Tan Twan Eng, chapter 10, in The Garden of Evening Mists, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Myrmidon Books, →ISBN, page 143:

A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).

كَعْكَة اَلْقَمَر

Chinese pastry usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival


copy and paste

en-verb

copy and paste (third-person singular simple present copies and pastes, present participle copying and pasting, simple past and past participle copied and pasted)

copies and pastes (present singular third-person)
copying and pasting (participle present)
copied and pasted (participle past)
copied and pasted (past)


copy and paste

Note that the console listings are straight copy and pastes from the machines used to actually run this exploit—you see exactly what I saw while I ran it.

2010, Ryan Trost, Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

The log should include links, screenshots, or copy and pastes of the specific commands you ran as well as a short explanation for why you did this.

2015, Megan Squire, Clean Data: Save Time by Discovering Effortless Strategies for Cleaning, Organizing, and Manipulating Your Data (Community Experience Distilled), Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 4:

One of the concerns I had when considering adopting PeerWise was in relation to students doing a copy and paste of questions and not creating their own.

2019, Suzanne Fergus, “Using PeerWise to support the transition to higher education”, in Michael K. Seery, Claire Mc Donnell, editors, Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Tina Overton, Creathach Press, →ISBN, page 184:


copy-and-paste

en-noun

copy-and-paste (countable and uncountable, plural copy-and-pastes)

We mention XCOPY here because it is the command-line way of basically doing a copy-and-paste of the files you want to move.

2008, Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader, Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 1493:

I am not arguing for a copy-and-paste of Orkney future-making practices to urban centers of design and innovation.

2014, Laura Watts, “Liminal Futures: Poem for Islands at the Edge”, in James Leach, Lee Wilson, editors, Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 34:

The KPA’s works were beyond copy-and-pastes of the Soviet works.

2018, Youngjun Kim, Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War (Cold War History), Routledge, →ISBN:


copy-and-paste

en-verb

copy-and-paste (third-person singular simple present copy-and-pastes or copies-and-pastes, present participle copy-and-pasting or copying-and-pasting, simple past and past participle copy-and-pasted or copied-and-pasted)

copy-and-pastes (present singular third-person)
copies-and-pastes (present singular third-person)
copy-and-pasting (participle present)
copying-and-pasting (participle present)
copy-and-pasted (participle past)
copy-and-pasted (past)
copied-and-pasted (participle past)
copied-and-pasted (past)

Image and filter sequences were composed using Photoshop layers and then copy-and-pasted onto Director’s Internal Cast palette.

1997, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Photoshop 4 for Macintosh, Peachpit, →ISBN, page 265:

But instead of designing new work for this new offering, Hirst, do-nothing artist of our time, simply copy-and-pasted his old stuff.

2013 October 4, Mallika Rao, “Damien Hirst's Children's Book, Reviewed By A Six-Year-Old Painter (PHOTOS)”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2021-01-25:

Even the very title of Proclamation No. 23/1992 was simply copy-and-pasted onto Proclamation No. 37/1993.

2014, Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R[ezene] Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea, James Currey, →ISBN, page 30:

I simply copy-and-pasted it from the original pilot-project article – the one I had turned over to Dr. Bhattacharya last fall because I could no longer bear looking at it.

2016, Kakali Bhattacharya, Norman K. Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative (Teaching Race and Ethnicity), Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 167:

Called in Japanese language “matome [meaning “compilation”] site”; it designates a round-up and add-up site which collects and “copy-and-pastes” information from other websites, SNS or anonymous textboards,.

2017, Yuriko Haga, “Right to be Forgotten: A New Privacy Right in the Era of Internet”, in Marcelo Corrales, Mark Fenwick, Nikolaus Forgó, editors, New Technology, Big Data and the Law (Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., →ISBN, part I (Purpose and Limitation), page 117:

Following his aim of linguistically adapting the quote to its new Young Avestan context, he replaced the Old Avestan stem drəguuaṇt- by its regular Young Avestan equivalent druuaṇt- and removed the characteristic Old Avestan final long vowels, which are usually maintained when an Old Avestan passage is simply ‘copy-and-pasted’ into a Young Avestan environment.

2022, Benedikt Peschl, The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā: The Avestan Text of Yasna 28–30 and Its Tradition, Brill, →ISBN, page 227:


burnt offering

/bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/

/bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/

PIE word
 *h₁epi
From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering.

noncog

[…] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Job j:[5], folio i, recto, column 2:

When they faſt I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will conſume them by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 14:12, column 2:

(biblical) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.

brandoffer

(religion, by extension) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.

polttouhri

any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to an deceased person

A cooler oven would give heavy, doughy loaves while a hotter oven would provide the family with the inevitable burnt offerings.

1991, Sara Minwel Tibbott, Baking in Wales, page 21:


yellowtail

en-noun

yellowtail (plural yellowtails or yellowtail)

yellowtails (plural)
yellowtail (plural)

Any of various fish with yellow tails, including:

yellowtail amberjack
yellowtail amberjack

Seriola lalandi
Seriola lalandi#Translingual

Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata), native to the northwest Pacific, often used in sushi, .

yellow-tailed black cockatoo
yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus funereus
Calyptorhynchus funereus#Translingual

A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia.

A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.


battlefield

The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg

1886, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 35, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant:

Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place.

1939 September, John D. Hewitt, “The Kington Branch of the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 191:

The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.


slipstream

slipstream (countable and uncountable, plural slipstreams)

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

coin

Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.

2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport:

The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.

The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation’s public interest.

2012, Benjamin Barber, “Liberal Values in the Age of Interdependence”, in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture:

(figurative, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.

Coordinate term: New Weird

Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.

2000, Damien Broderick, quoting Justina Robson and Rozanne Rabinowitz, Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 88:

(uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.


slipstream

en-verb

slipstream (third-person singular simple present slipstreams, present participle slipstreaming, simple past and past participle slipstreamed)

slipstreams (present singular third-person)
slipstreaming (participle present)
slipstreamed (participle past)
slipstreamed (past)

Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.

To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.

You do this by slipstreaming the updates into the distribution folder.

2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003:

A better solution is to create a bootable Windows XP installation CD slipstreamed with the current service pack...

2004, Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, Microsoft Windows XP inside out:

It is illegal to distribute slipstreamed CDs. In some locales, it may also be illegal to create them.

2005, Jesper M Johansson, Steve Riley, Protect your Windows network: from perimeter to data:

(computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.


manservant

en-noun

manservant (plural manservants or menservants)

manservants (plural)
menservants (plural)

From Middle English man servant, man servaunt; equivalent to man + servant.

I asked my manservant to attend to the washing and cleaning.

Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy maid ſeruant may reſt as well as thou.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 5:13–14, column 2:

"A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came."

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:


東西

→ White Hmong: toobxib

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/

/toŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴ ɕi²⁴/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐi̯⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ si²⁴/

/tʊŋ⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/tuŋ¹¹ ɕi¹¹⁻⁴⁵/

/tɔŋ³³ si³³/

/tɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² si⁴⁴/

/toŋ⁵⁵ ɕi²¹/

/toŋ³³ ɕi⁵¹/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/

/toŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴ ɕi²⁴/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐi̯⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ si²⁴/

/tʊŋ⁴⁴ si⁴⁴/

/tuŋ¹¹ ɕi¹¹⁻⁴⁵/

/tɔŋ³³ si³³/

/tɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² si⁴⁴/

/toŋ⁵⁵ ɕi²¹/

/toŋ³³ ɕi⁵¹/

; "thing; stuff"
Unknown. Many theories exist.

我有東西要給你。

我有东西要给你。

把我的東西還給我。

把我的东西还给我。

我還有很多東西要學。

我还有很多东西要学。

How can I see that which does not exist?

Bù cúnzài de dōngxi, wǒ zěnme nénggòu kàn de dào?

不存在的東西，我怎麼能夠看得到？

不存在的东西，我怎么能够看得到？

(chiefly Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, Jin, Xiang) thing; stuff; something (Classifier: 個／个; 件; 樣／样)


blood blister

A blister filled with blood, usually caused by a sharp pinch to the skin.


redback

1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78,
“If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.

Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.

1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 254:

2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58,
Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.

Easily identified by a red, orange or brownish stripe on the abdomen, Redbacks are responsible for by far the most spider bites in Australia.

2007, Steve Backshall, Steve Backshall's Venom: Poisonous Animals in the Natural World, page 114:

The only truly dangerous Australian spiders are funnelwebs and redbacks but, these days, deaths of people from these spiders seem to be a thing of the past since antivenom is now available.

2012, Peter Macinnis, Australian Backyard Naturalist, page 55:

(Australia) A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.

Calidris alpina
Calidris alpina#Translingual

(US) A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.


redback

Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(slang) the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)


breadboard

en-verb

breadboard (third-person singular simple present breadboards, present participle breadboarding, simple past and past participle breadboarded)

breadboards (present singular third-person)
breadboarding (participle present)
breadboarded (participle past)
breadboarded (past)

From bread + board.
Regarding definition 3: the etymology is either that electric circuits used to be prototyped on actual bread boards (definition 1) populated with nails, or that solder breadboards have lots of holes and are usually brown (they visually resemble a slice of bread), or a merging of the two. The etymology is less obvious today given the popularity of solderless breadboards.

If the breadboarded circuit operates incorrectly or erratically, try relocating some of the components.

1990, Delton T. Horn, 49 electronic 6-volt projects, page 9:

There are many commercial breadboarding systems, but almost all of them are designed to facilitate the breadboarding of digital systems, where noise immunities are hundreds of millivolts or more.

1998, Jim Williams, The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design, page 114:

(transitive) To set up (an electronic device) on a breadboard.


fire marshal

(US, Philippines) A public official with police powers responsible for enforcing fire safety regulations, and sometimes, who also investigates suspicious fires.


doorknob

A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

2012 March 14, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:

A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door.

مِقْبَض اَلْبَاب

circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of a door


fathead

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fathead.wav

California sheephead
California sheephead

A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.


doorbell

A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.

جَرَس الْبَاب

A button that activates an electric doorbell.


doorbell

doorbell (third-person singular simple present doorbells, present participle doorbelling, simple past and past participle doorbelled)

doorbells (present singular third-person)
doorbelling (participle present)
doorbelled (participle past)
doorbelled (past)

→ Tagalog: dorbel

(intransitive) To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.

We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.

(transitive) To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.


pizza parlor

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pizza parlor.wav

The gang and I went to the pizza parlor to order some pizza and kill a little time.

(US) A restaurant or other business establishment whose primary menu item is pizza.


cathead

The noun is derived from cat + head.
Sense 1.1 (“heavy piece of timber projecting from a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured”) is from the fact that such a timber traditionally had a cat or lion’s head carved on its end. Sense 4 (“short for cathead biscuit”) is apparently from the fact that the biscuit is similar in size to a cat’s head.
The verb is derived from the noun.

The trick to eating catheads was to get the butter on them before they got cold—then they were delicious. When, unluckily, they were allowed to get cold, they tended to a gooeyness, not unlike a wad of tired gum.

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 6, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 36:

(US) Short for cathead biscuit (“a large fluffy biscuit, typically served with gravy”).


lovey-dovey

en-adj

lovey-dovey (comparative more lovey-dovey, superlative most lovey-dovey)

more lovey-dovey (comparative)
most lovey-dovey (superlative)

And then when she'd put me right off, and I didn't want her, she'd come all lovey-dovey, and get me. And I always went.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 2020-11-11:

This ain't no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey / I ain't got time for that now

1979, “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music, performed by Talking Heads:

(informal) Affectionate in a rather mushy or oversentimental fashion.


hiding place

A place where someone or something may be hidden.


analysis paralysis

The condition of being unable to make a decision due to the availability of too much information which must be processed in order for the decision to be made.


warhorse

a Wagner warhorse

I remember taking the old warhorse, “Una Voce Poco Fa,” from Il Barbiere (Rossini) to three of the greatest living singing masters in Italy.

1910, Millie Ryan, What Every Singer Should Know, Omaha, Nebr.: Franklin Publishing Co.:

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo[…] presented a typical program of Russian warhorses of the 19th and early 20th centuries[…]

1997 August 6, Jennifer Dunning, “Horsing Around With Balletic Warhorses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A Mendelssohn Warhorse Gets the Perlman Treatment [title]

1995 August 5, Anthony Tommasini, “A Mendelssohn Warhorse Gets the Perlman Treatment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

[…] the ROH mounts a new production of an Italian repertory warhorse that is fully on the level of the one it replaces […

2006 June 11, Stephen Jay-Taylor, “Tosca dress”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet):

(theater, music) A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.


suikerspin

nl-noun

suikerspin m or f (plural suikerspinnen, diminutive suikerspinnetje n)

suikerspinnen (plural)
suikerspinnetje (diminutive neuter)


selfsame

PIE word
 *swé
From Middle English self sam, self same, selve same (“the very same, selfsame”) [and other forms], from self (“that specific (person mentioned), herself, himself, itself, themselves”, pronoun) (from Old English self, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + sam, same (“(adjective) equal, identical; unchanging; referred to earlier, abovenamed, aforementioned; (adverb) again, repeatedly”) (from Old Norse samr (“same; agreeing, of one mind”), ultimately probably from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”)). The English word is analysable as self + same.
cognates
* Danish selvsamme (“identical, selfsame”)
* Old High German selbsama (“identical, selfsame”)

cog

For both of you are Birds of ſelfe-ſame Feather.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 162, column 1:

In my ſchoole dayes, vvhen I had loſt one ſhaft [i.e., arrow], / I ſhot his fellovv of the ſelfe-ſame flight / The ſelfe-ſame vvay, vvith more aduiſed vvatch / To finde the other foorth, and by aduentring both, / I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, / Becauſe vvhat follovves, is pure innocence.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

He and his Horse, were of a piece. / One Spirit did inform them both, / The self-same Vigor, Fury, Wroth: […]

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 40:

He trod the very ſelf-ſame ground you tread, / And victory refuted all he ſaid.

1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Table Talk”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 21:

Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free, / Like some broad river rushing down alone, / With the selfsame impulse wherewith he was thrown / From his loud fount upon the echoing lea:— […]

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Sonnet”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 1:

And Quack and Dupe, as we must ever keep in mind, are upper-side and under of the self-same substance; convertible personages: turn up your dupe into the proper fostering element, and he himself can become a quack; […]

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Morrison’s Pill”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 26:

But in [Isaac] Newton, science was as easy as breathing; he used the same wit to weigh the moon that he used to buckle his shoes; and all his life was simple, wise, and majestic. So it was in Archimedes,—always self-same, like the sky.

1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Works and Days”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 164:

[T]hrough my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head. […] But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street, watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it.

1992, Robert Rankin, chapter 12, in The Suburban Book of the Dead: Armageddon III: The Remake, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 131:

Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same; the very same; the same not only in being similar but in being identical.


bafflegab

Toss in a few technical terms that most people don't understand—"stochastic" this, "regression" that—and you can use people's justified respect for math and science to get them nodding along. This is granularity as bafflegab.

2015 September 29, Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Crown, →ISBN:

Teachout has a gift for slicing through the bafflegab and revealing that the grifter's patter disguises nothing more than unimaginative, sociopathic scams.

2020 July 29, Cory Doctorow, “Break 'Em Up”, in Pluralistic, retrieved 2020-08-02:

Pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon.


bafflegab

en-verb

bafflegab (third-person singular simple present bafflegabs, present participle bafflegabbing, simple past and past participle bafflegabbed)

bafflegabs (present singular third-person)
bafflegabbing (participle present)
bafflegabbed (participle past)
bafflegabbed (past)

(rare) To use pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language.


cortaúñas

Verb-object compound, composed of corta (“to cut”) + uñas (“nails (of the fingers/toes)”).

es-verb-obj

uña<t:nails (of the fingers/toes)><pl:1>


bonehead

Near-synonyms: thickhead, numskull; see also Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:idiot

Musical Potterism, for example, is everywhere rampant. It bobs up in music criticisms and peeps forth in daily intercourse. "Give me good old Mozart," cries the classical Potterite, "and keep your modern kickshaws. Mozart is good enough for me!" Alas, we think Mozart is too good for this bonehead, who no doubt prefers a Broadway comic opera to The Marriage of Figaro.

1921, James Huneker, Variations, page 248:

(slang) Someone who is thick-skulled, stupid, or stubborn.


shipworm

Ship-VVorms [running head] […] It is reported that thoſe VVorms vvhich get into a Ships bottom in the ſalt vvater, vvill dye in the freſh vvater; and that the freſh vvater VVorms vvill dye in ſalt vvater: but in brackiſh vvater both ſorts vvill increaſe prodigiouſly.

1697, William Dampier, chapter XIII, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 363:

The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…].

1756, Patrick Browne, “Of Insects”, in The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, and J. Shipton, […], →OCLC, part II, book III, class I, section II, order IV, page 395:

The Teredo, or ſhip-vvorm, has tvvo calcareous javvs, hemiſpherical, flat before, and angular behind. The ſhell is taper, vvinding, penetrating ſhips and ſubmarine vvood, and vvas brought from India into Europe,[…].

1791, [Erasmus Darwin], The Botanic Garden; a Poem, in Two Parts. […], London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, part I (The Economy of Vegetation), page 30:

The teredo navalis, or ship-worm, is seldom six inches in length, but the muscles and armour with which its head is provided enables it to penetrate readily into the stoutest oak-planks of a vessel, committing dreadful havoc among her timbers, and chiefly producing the necessity for her being copper-bottomed.

1826, John Mason Good, “Lecture X. On the Principle of Life, Irritability, and Muscular Power.”, in The Book of Nature. […], volumes I (Series I. Nature of the Material World; […].), London: […] [A[ndrew] & R. Spottiswoode] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 265:

[W]e have suffered seriously in our dock yards and harbors by the operations of the shipworm, to which the soundest and hardest oak offers no impediment.

1852 January 1, “Art. II.—Shell Fish: Their Ways and Works. An Introduction to Conchology, or Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals. By George Johnston, M.D. LL.D. London, J. Van Voorst. [book review]”, in The Westminster Review, volume I (New Series; volume LVII overall), number CXI, London: John Chapman, […], →OCLC, page 55:

Old spars and water-soaked timbers cast on the beach are full of the workings of the shipworm—long cylindrical tunnels penetrating all parts of the wood. Usually nothing remains of the creatures themselves except occasional fragments of their small calcaerous shells; these proclaim that the shipworm is a true mollusk, despite its long, slender, and wormlike body.

1955, Rachel Carson, “The Rim of Sand”, in The Edge of the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 185:

The shipworms, wood boring bivalves of the family Teredinidae, belong to the oldest invaders. […] Even though mankind has tried to develop counter measures for thousands of years, still there is no easy solution to the shipworm problem in sight.

2002, Kai N. Hoppe, “Teredo navalis – The Cryptogenic Shipworm”, in Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch, Sergej Olenin, editors, Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe: Distribution, Impacts, and Management, Dordrecht, South Holland: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 116:

Once inside edible wood, the shipworm begins eating and growing, and some species, such as those in the Caribbean, can attain a length of over 3 feet. In our waters, however, the shipworm seldom attains a length of over a foot-and-a-half long.

2004, Donald Launer, “The Lower Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Raritan Bay, and Their Tributaries”, in A Cruising Guide to New Jersey Waters, revised edition, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

In 1980, divers discovered that Teredo navalis, a shipworm, had infested the timber support. Such was the damage, it left the viaduct at risk of being closed permanently – and with it, the entire line.

2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The Tide is Turning for a Victorian Wonder”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51:

Any of several wormlike marine molluscs (not true worms) of the family Teredinidae that bore through the wooden hulls of ships and other woody material immersed in salt water; specifically, the naval shipworm or turu (Teredo navalis), the type species of the genus Teredo.

tamasok

any of several wormlike marine molluscs of the family Teredinidae


chupasangres

Verb-object compound, composed of chupa (“to suck”) + sangres (“bloods”).


displaced person

en-noun

displaced person (plural displaced persons or displaced people)

displaced persons (plural)
displaced people (plural)

A refugee, especially of war or of forced migration.


chupamangas

Verb-object compound, composed of chupa (“to suck”) + mangas (“sleeves”).


guttersnipe

(slang, dated) A small poster, suitable for a kerbstone.


tournevis

→ Catalan: tornavís

→ Chadian Arabic: ترنبيس (tarnabīs)

→ Khmer: ទួរណឺវិស (tuənəvɨh)

→ Luxembourgish: Tournevis

→ Vietnamese: tuốc-nơ-vít

→ Iraqi Arabic: درنفيس

From tourner + vis; compare Piedmontese tornavis.


aide-mémoire

fr-noun

aide-mémoire m (plural aide-mémoire or aide-mémoires)

aide-mémoire (plural)
aide-mémoires (plural)


是非

/ʂʐ̩⁵¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵/

/si³³⁻¹¹ hui⁴⁴/

/si³³⁻²¹ hui⁴⁴/

/si²²⁻²¹ hui⁴⁴/

/su³³⁻¹¹ hui⁴⁴/

/su³³⁻²¹ hui⁴⁴/

/ʂʐ̩⁵¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵/

/si³³⁻¹¹ hui⁴⁴/

/si³³⁻²¹ hui⁴⁴/

/si²²⁻²¹ hui⁴⁴/

/su³³⁻¹¹ hui⁴⁴/

/su³³⁻²¹ hui⁴⁴/

(literary) to praise and censure; to pass judgment on; to comment; to remark

來說是非者，便是是非人／来说是非者，便是是非人

lái shuō shìfēi zhě, biàn shì shìfēi rén


forapaglie

Verb-object compound, composed of fora (“to pierce”) + paglie (“stalk of straw”).


bodyboard

en-verb

bodyboard (third-person singular simple present bodyboards, present participle bodyboarding, simple past and past participle bodyboarded)

bodyboards (present singular third-person)
bodyboarding (participle present)
bodyboarded (participle past)
bodyboarded (past)


battleground

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Mr. Biden, the former vice president, is ahead of Mr. Trump in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.

2020 November 1, “Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows”, in New York Times:

battleground state
battleground state#English

(US politics) Ellipsis of battleground state.


flash flood

The West Highland Line reopened for passengers on July 11, following emergency repair works after more than 1,600 tons of material was washed away by a flash flood on June 25.

2020 August 12, Philip Haigh, “Short-term access planning is not in passengers' interest”, in Rail, page 55, photo caption:

One of the most heavily hit regions was Germany’s Ahrweiler district, where flash floods surged through the village of Schuld, washing away six houses and leaving several more on the verge of collapse. The police said at least 50 people had died in Ahrweiler district.

2021 July 15, Melissa Eddy, “Hundreds Missing and Scores Dead as Raging Floods Strike Western Europe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(meteorology) A sudden, rapid flood, usually of short duration and local impact.


space race

The competition between nations in the field of space exploration.

宇宙開発競争

うちゅうかいはつきょうそう


workspace

An area allocated for someone to work in, especially in an office.

(computing) A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated or developed in isolation from others.

työtila

computing: A file (or system of files) in which related software and data can be manipulated

Unlike other Microsoft Office applications, Access doesn't automatically display an empty workspace when you start the program.

2011, June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, Donna Mulder, Practical Microsoft Office 2010, page 128:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) An empty portion of the screen or window that serves as a container for other windows or objects.

(computing, graphical user interface) Any of the screens that can be switched between in a virtual desktop.

(robotics) The set of points that can be reached by the end-effector of a robotic manipulator


trailer sailer

A sailboat designed to be carried on a towed trailer.


hot-brain

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From hot + brain. Compare Old English hātheort (“furious, angry, irascible, passionate, ardent”).

cog

(obsolete) an impetuous, fiery person; a hothead


squarehead

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(slang) An honest person; a non-criminal.

The squarehead bent his chin to his breast and said, "Very well. In an hour."

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 771:

"If I'm good enough to talk about I be good enough to drink with," Peters shouted. "Fritz! Squarehead! Two phlegm-cutters here."

2022, Brian Penton, Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch:

(slang) A foreigner of Germanic origin, especially a German, Dutch, or Scandinavian person.


jerkwater

From jerk (“to move with a sudden movement”) + water. Refers to the need to supply the boilers of steam trains with water. In rural areas and small towns with no water tower, where the train did not stop, this was done by scooping ("jerking") water from a track pan. First appears c. 1852, in the Miami County Sentinel (Peru, Indiana).

compound

Twenty-five miles down the narrow arid highway, there is another town like Napoleon, a little smaller. And then twenty-five miles further, another. This chain of jerkwaters stretches for a lazy afternoon, until you finally encounter a cluster of people that almost resembles a modern civilization, with a movie theater and chain restaurants.

2016 April 19, Rex Sorgatz, “The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof.”, in Wired:


凸凹

/tʰu⁵⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

/tʰu⁵⁵ ˀɑʊ̯⁵⁵/


werkwoord

From Dutch werkwoord. Equivalent to werk + woord.


werkwoord

nl-noun

werkwoord n (plural werkwoorden, diminutive werkwoordje n)

werkwoorden (plural)
werkwoordje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: werkwoord

→ Indonesian: kata kerja (calque)

Liefde is een werkwoord.

Love is something which requires continuous effort.

(figuratively, informal) something which requires continuous effort; an ongoing process


krantenkiosk

krantenkiosk f (plural krantenkiosken, diminutive krantenkioskje n)

krantenkiosken (plural)
krantenkioskje (diminutive neuter)


pigliamosche

Verb-object compound, composed of piglia (“to grab”) + mosche (“flies”).


washrag

Mrs. Glass abruptly leaned her weight forward, without getting up, and reached out and picked up something from the top of the laundry hamper. "Do you have a washrag back there?"she asked.
"The word is 'washcloth,' not 'washrag,' and all I want, God damn it, Bessie, is to be left alone in this bathroom.

1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:

(Southern US) A square piece of cloth for washing the face and body.


washbowl

A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.

умивалник

a sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain


watercourse

From Middle English water course; equivalent to water + course.

Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.


washboard

en-verb

washboard (third-person singular simple present washboards, present participle washboarding, simple past and past participle washboarded)

washboards (present singular third-person)
washboarding (participle present)
washboarded (participle past)
washboarded (past)

Individual bees have been observed washboarding on the inside glass of an observation hive.

2015, James E. Tew, The Beekeeper's Problem Solver, →ISBN, page 73:

This behaviour is believed to be associated with general cleaning activities but under what circumstances workers washboard is not known.

2015, Robert Owen, The Australian Beekeeping Manual, →ISBN, page 19-51:

(bees) To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax.


水火

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (水火):
* → Japanese: 水(すい)火(か) (suika)

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sɵy̯³⁵ fɔː³⁵/

/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ he⁵³/

/t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hə⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ̃⁵³/

/t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/

/ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sɵy̯³⁵ fɔː³⁵/

/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ he⁵³/

/t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hə⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ̃⁵³/

/t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/

(figurative) opposites; diametrically opposing things


出去

/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu²⁴ t͡ɕʰi²⁴/

/t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ hɵy̯³³/

/t͡sʰɨt̚⁵ t͡ɕʰie²/

/t͡sʰuəʔ²⁻⁵⁴ kʰəʔ²/

/t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ kʰɯ²¹³/

/t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ kʰu²¹³/

/t͡sʰəʔ³³ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu²⁴ t͡ɕʰi²⁴/

/t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ hɵy̯³³/

/t͡sʰɨt̚⁵ t͡ɕʰie²/

/t͡sʰuəʔ²⁻⁵⁴ kʰəʔ²/

/t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ kʰɯ²¹³/

/t͡sʰuk̚²⁻⁴ kʰu²¹³/

/t͡sʰəʔ³³ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/

丟出去

丢出去

開出去

开出去

to be unable to get married (to anyone); to be left on the shelf

嫁不出去

Used to modify a verb to indicate an outward direction; always appended to the end of a verb.


dustpan

→ Tagalog: daspan

→ Cebuano: daspan

When she got downstairs, she would find the house tidy, but dirty. She could not rest until she had thoroughly cleaned; so she went down to the ash-pit with her dustpan.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

A flat scoop with a short handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.


goldilocks

From goldy + locks. Goldilocks is a traditional children's story and its protagonist.

A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.


yellowback

From yellow + back, from their bright covers, often printed by chromoxylography.


windstorm

A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation.


worktable

A table designed for work of a specific type.

(historical) A small table used by ladies for doing needlework.


workbook

A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises.

A book, used by a business, containing a record of work to be done, or work completed.

(computing) A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file.


workweek

A 32-hour workweek is a 4-day week and an 8-hour day combined.

Mrs. Lienemann, the French Housing Minister, sees socialist and ecological forces proposing what she calls “a new culture”—perhaps named “Ecosocialism”—that might, she believes, work for innovations like a 32-hour workweek, more democracy at the workplace, and “a greater stress on quality than quantity in everyday life.”

[1992 November 1, Roger Cohen, quoting Marie-Noelle Lienemann, “Ideology Wanes for Europe, Leaving Politicians Adrift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.

2009 December 7, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in The New York Times:

(US) The range of days of the week that are normally worked


woodworker

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wristband

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final whistle

Before the next [tennis] game begins, the players in each court change partners: and the same routine is followed until the time agreed upon has elapsed, when the final whistle is sounded, scores are added up, and prizes awarded.

1888 July, “Chat”, in Demorest’s Monthly Magazine, volume XXIV, number 9 (number CCCI overall), New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] Jennings Demorest, →OCLC, page 583, column 2:

Only fifteen minutes now remained before the referee would blow the final whistle, and both teams exerted every effort to gain the mastery.

1910 January 15, Bernard Finch, “The Outside Right: A Football Story”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXXII, number 16 (number 1618 overall), London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 255, column 2:

On December 14 Cornell's green, soph-laden basketball team tasted its first defeat as it fell before an experienced Niagara five. […] The second half Niagara jumped into the lead and held it until the final whistle.

1949, “Basketball”, in The 1949 Cornellian, Ithaca, N.Y.: The 1949 Cornellian Board for the students of Cornell University, →OCLC, page 313, column 2:

It ended 1–0 to West Ham, and at the final whistle their players were going mad, knowing they were staying up [i.e., not being relegated].

2006, Wayne Rooney, “Introduction”, in Wayne Rooney: The Way It Is, London: HarperSport, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2007, →ISBN, page 3:

The final whistle prompted a pitch invasion – although there appeared to be an unwanted incident when a supporter seemed to punch Stevenage's Scott Laird, who subsequently fell to the ground.

2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 – 1 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-01-01:

(sports) The blow of the whistle by the referee or other adjudicator signifying the end of a match.

صَافِرَة نِهَائِيَّة

blow of the whistle signifying the end of a match


kerbstone

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.

1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act I, page 115:

Gabriel often saw him on the streets, playing on the curbstone with other boys his age.

1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):

A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.


rubberneck

Coined in the sense of "tourist" in the United States in the late 19th century. A favored Americanism of H.L. Mencken.

We must have looked gorgeous. And what made it worse, there was at least a hundred rubbernecks that didn't have anything better to do than stand around and watch everyone falling all over themselves.

1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 17, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:

Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.

зяпач

someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring — see also rubbernecker