acid test

Green's Dictionary of Slang
Merry Pranksters
Penske Media Corporation
Rolling Stone

From acid + test; sense 1 (“test involving the reaction of an acid with another chemical”) and sense 2 (“rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something”) refer to the use of nitric acid to test if a metal is gold; true gold is not affected by the acid.
Sense 3 (“party based around the use and advocacy of the psychedelic drug LSD”) is a pun referencing the slang term acid (“LSD”). The original “acid test” parties were thrown by the Merry Pranksters group between 1965 and 1966 and advertised by the slogan “Can you pass the acid test?”

Coordinate term: litmus test

[H]e reflected that few professional beauties could have stood, as this woman did, the acid test of that mercilessly brilliant morning.

1912 October, Louis Joseph Vance, “The Spy”, in The Destroying Angel, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 152:

"Eggs, Parker," said Freddie solemnly, "are the acid test!" / "Yes, sir?" / "If, on the morning after, you can tackle a poached egg, you are all right. If not not. And don't let anybody tell you otherwise."

1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 1, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, pages 7–8:

The acid test: will the British public abide by such stringent guidelines about where they should stand, walk or sit in our stations and on our trains, when they have been used to a turn-up-and-go railway where they enjoyed freedom having bought their ticket?

2020 May 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Safety First: Now More than Ever”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

This was the acid test – at least before Sunday's final with formidable Italy – and they came up with the goods not only in the context of Euro 2020 but also in demonstrating their character and big match mentality.

2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “European Championship – Semi-final: England 2 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2023-04-12:

(figuratively) A rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something.


workstation

All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.

2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:

(computing) A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.


asswipe

en-noun

asswipe (countable and uncountable, plural asswipes)

Bahuvrihi compound of ass + wipe. First use appears c. 1947 in the writings of Mari Sandoz.

I rapidly expended my own and everyone else’s supply of tiny C-ration rolls of asswipe and was reduced to wiping my nasty behind with leaves and grass.

1976, Micheal Clodfelter, The Pawns of Dishonor, Branden Press, →ISBN, page 249:

“[…] Into your packs you put your toilet articles, mess kits, extra socks, and skivvies and longjohns if you have them. If you have a roll of asswipe, put that in, too. […]”

1983, Nicholas Proffitt, Gardens of Stone, Carroll & Graf, →ISBN, page 317:

I doubt a dime would buy a single square of asswipe in this city, […]

2008, Joseph Heywood, Death Roe: A Woods Cop Mystery, Globe Pequot, page 252

(Canada, US, informal, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Toilet paper.

paskapaperi

Something used to wipe one's anus after defecation


headmaster

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A male headteacher.

مُدِير

the most senior master in a school (male)


Gaelic football

Armagh (and it is one of the most memorable chapters in the history of Gaelic football) were fated to fall at the last hurdle when they were beaten by Kerry in the All-Ireland decider.

2001, Brian Cosgrove, “Sport, Politics and the ‘Other Side’”, in The Yew Tree at the Head of the Strand, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, pages 143–144:

An Irish form of football played by two teams of 15 players each, who score by kicking or punching a ball into the opposing team's goal or over a crossbar and between two upright posts above the goal.

2008 Ulster Senior Football Championship


blockhead

en-verb

blockhead (third-person singular simple present blockheads, present participle blockheading, simple past and past participle blockheaded)

blockheads (present singular third-person)
blockheading (participle present)
blockheaded (participle past)
blockheaded (past)

Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.

2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, →ISBN:


dephlogisticated air

From dephlogisticated (“from which the phlogiston has been removed”) + air, coined by the English chemist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) in a 1775 article entitled “An Account of Further Discoveries in Air” published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: see the quotation.

coinage

[page 387] As I think I have that ſufficiently proved, the fitneſs of air for reſpiration depends on its capacity to receive the phlogiſton exhaled from the lungs, this ſpecies may not improperly be called, dephlogiſticated air. […] [page 392] Upon the whole, I think, it may ſafely be concluded, that the pureſt air is that vvhich contains the leaſt phlogiſton: […] and that there is a regular gradation from dephlogiſticated air, through common air, and phlogiſticated air, down to nitrous air; […]

1775 March 15 and May 25, Joseph Priestley, “XXXVIII. An Account of Further Discoveries in Air. […]”, in Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume LXV, part I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer and J[ohn] Nichols; for Lockyer Davis, […], printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, pages 387 and 392:

[Joseph] Priestley's experiments were performed at intervals from August 1774 till March 1775, and at that date it occurred to him to mix with his dephlogisticated air some nitric oxide over water; absorption took place, and he concluded that he might assume his new air to be respirable.

1896, William Ramsay, “The Discovery of ‘Dephlogisticated Air’ by Priestley and by Scheele—the Overthrow of the Phlogistic Theory by Lavoisier”, in The Gases of the Atmosphere: The History of Their Discovery, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Co., →OCLC, page 78:

[Joseph] Priestley never swayed from his firm conviction in the phlogiston theory as long as he lived, and he called his new gas ‘dephlogisticated air’.

2002, Philip Ball, “Revolution: How Oxygen Changed the World”, in The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 30:

(chemistry, historical) oxygen gas, as originally thought to be air deprived of phlogiston (“the hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning”).

flogistoniton ilma

oxygen gas, as originally thought to be air deprived of phlogiston — see also oxygen


pince-nez

→ Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)

→ Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)

→ Swedish: pincené c


house mouse

The universally common mouse of the species Mus musculus.


gender bender

(idiomatic, colloquial) A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.

(by extension) An event where people are encouraged to dress in the clothes of another sex, even if they would normally not.

(fantasy) A person capable of changing their physical sex.

(fantasy) An instance of someone's physical sex being changed, usually via magic.


abrelatas

→ Hiligaynon: abrilatas

→ Tagalog: abrelata

Verb-object compound, composed of abre (“to open”) + latas (“cans”).

es-verb-obj

(US, CA) can opener/can-opener, (UK, AU) tin opener/tin-opener (device to open tin cans)


abrebotellas

From abre (“it opens”) + botellas (“bottles”).


abrebotellas

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Verb-object compound, composed of abre (“to open”) + botellas (“bottles”).


seashore

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.

سَاحِل

the coastal land bordering a sea or ocean


tight end

National Football League
New England Patriots
Rob Gronkowski
Tampa Bay Buccaneers

From tight (“of a space, arrangement, etc.: narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it”) + end (“position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line; player playing this position”), from the fact that the player takes up a position close to the tackle.

近端鋒

(American football, Canadian football) position at the end of the offensive line

Jones played tight end.

The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs are to block and serve as a short receiver.

The tight end caught the pass.

He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole.

2024 February 11, Jane Coaston, “What MAGA Influencers Are Missing About Football”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 1.1).

ala tancat

(American football, Canadian football) player playing the position of tight end

The position at the end of the offensive line whose primary jobs were to block and serve as a short receiver; this position is no longer used.

A player (called an end) playing the position of tight end (sense 2.1).


skateboard

(automotive) A vehicle chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (ie. batteries), forming the vehicular base.


homeland

(South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.


washcloth

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

A small cloth used to wash the face and body.


orange peel

en-noun

orange peel (usually uncountable, plural orange peels)

(countable, uncountable, literally) The skin of an orange, including the pith.

An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.

orange peel:

A color between orange and amber, like that of an orange peel.


sacrifice bunt

The sacrifice bunt was fielded cleanly, but the only play was to first.

The manager will likely call for a sacrifice bunt here.

(baseball) A play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners.

sacrifici

play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly at the cost of an out


shock jock

“To slam a movie about hate radio for fostering hate is like saying that a movie about the Ku Klux Klan will foster the Klan,” he says, adding that the death threats against Barry Champlain, “Talk Radio’s” shock jock, are not the imaginings of a feverish, Hollywood-inspired imagination.

1989 January 6, Robert Koehler, “The Word on 'Talk Radio' : Eric Bogosian Finds Story in the 'Fringe Element' of the Media”, in Los Angeles Times:

“We always had shock jocks,” said Michael Harrison, publisher of the talk-radio trade magazine Talkers. “But then we had a shock president.”

2021 February 10, Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson, Keith Collins, quoting Michael Harrison, “How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol Siege”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Appearing frequently on Japanese online shows in T-shirts, hoodies or casual jackets, and wearing signature eyeglasses with one round and one square lens, Dr. Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.

2023 February 12, Motoko Rich, Hikari Hida, “A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(slang) A deliberately offensive or provocative talk show host.


bluegrass

From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.

(music, uncountable) A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments.


siege engine

/ˈsiːd͡ʒ ˌɛnd͡ʒɪn/

/ˈsid͡ʒ ˌɛnd͡ʒɪn/

PIE word
 *h₁én
From siege + engine (“large construction used in warfare”).

compound

Opposite this hill Bohemund's men now began to dig in a definite direction. For the besiegers had devised this new mischief against the city and invented a new knavish siege-engine to apply to the town. For as they dug, they went along under the ground like moles boring holes in the soil and in places protecting themselves by sheds with high roofs against the stones and arrows which were thrown from above, and in others propping up the earth above them with poles, and thus they went on in a straight line.

1928, Anna Comnena [i.e., Anna Komnene], “Book XIII”, in Elizabeth A[nna] S[ophia] Dawes, transl., The Alexiad (Byzantine Series), Cambridge, Ont.: In Parentheses Publications, published 2000, page 233:

The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.

1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: […], New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401:

(weaponry, historical) A large weapon of war used during ancient and medieval times to batter fortifications, settlements, etc.; specifically, a trebuchet or other type of catapult.


bodyguard

/ˈbɑːdiɡɑːɹd/

A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.

lyfwag

person responsible for protecting someone

អង្គរក្ស

ʼɑngkĕəʼrĕək


creepy-crawly

From Kreepy Krauly, brand name, from Etymology 1.

(Australia, informal, trademark erosion) An automated suction pool cleaner.


redneck

Compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.

Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

1989, “Fight the Power”, in Fear of a Black Planet, performed by Public Enemy:

Southern United States
Southern United States

(slang, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.


workgroup

/ˈwəːkɡɹuːp/

A group of workers engaged in a series of collaborative tasks who usually work together.

työryhmä

a group of workers engaged in a series of collaborative tasks


snowboard

/ˈsnəʊˌbɔːd/

A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.


stop-motion

en-noun

stop-motion (countable and uncountable, plural stop-motions)

Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion looks angry, rough, and primal; Henry Selick’s is so polished and smooth that it resembles CGI.

2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:

(uncountable, photography) An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence.


shot glass

From shot + glass, in use since at least the 1940s.

A small glass used to hold or measure a small quantity of liquor.


crabapple

/ˈkɹæbˌæpəl/

Malus domestica
Malus domestica#Translingual

Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).


desktop

Laptops are often more expensive than desktops.

(computing) A personal computer, as opposed to computers for business or server purposes.

I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop.

Important menus, such as the root menu or Workspace menu, are "pinnable," which means that you can pin them up and keep them on your desktop […]

1994, Linda Mui, Valerie Quercia, X User Tools, page 312:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, graphical user interface) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:desktop.

(computing, graphical user interface, synecdochically) The wallpaper of this interface.


desktop

Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.

asztali

designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture

desktop browser

(computing) Of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer.

asztali

computing: of an application or website, designed to be run or viewed on a personal computer


moonlight

en-verb

moonlight (third-person singular simple present moonlights, present participle moonlighting, simple past and past participle moonlighted)

moonlights (present singular third-person)
moonlighting (participle present)
moonlighted (participle past)
moonlighted (past)

From Middle English monelight, from Old English mōnan lēoht (“moonlight”, literally “moon's light, light of the moon”). Equivalent to moon + light. Cognate with Scots munelicht ~ muinlicht, West Frisian moanneljocht, Dutch maanlicht, German Mondlicht.

inh

(British, dated) To carry out undeclared work.


apple core

The central portion of an apple containing the seeds and where the stem attaches (and the opposed end). Particularly the portion that remains after the main part of the fruit has been eaten.

Apfelkerngehäuse (stilted or when no picture of apples has been made yet, without that Kerngehäuse n “core” clearly refers to a fruit already)


apple sauce

en-noun

apple sauce (countable and uncountable, plural apple sauces)

“You mean that I am now labelled not only as a loony in a general sort of way but also as a klept-whatever-it-is?” “Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court, sir.” “You keep saying that, and you must know it's the purest apple sauce. You don't really think the Creams will maintain a tactful reserve? They'll dine out on it for years. Returning to America, they'll spread the story from the rock-bound coasts of Maine to the Everglades of Florida, with the result that when I go over there again, keen looks will be shot at me at every house I go into and spoons counted before I leave.”

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “VI AND XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(slang, dated) Alternative spelling of applesauce (“nonsense”)


bookkeeper

(accounting) A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.


catch-all

If you're not careful, the entrance table will quickly become a catch-all for things that come in the door.

The category was a catch-all for items that were not filed elsewhere.

Cancer is a catch-all term that encompasses a wide variety of diseases.

Any place or repository where things are placed indiscriminately or without careful thought.

за всякакви неща

used to hold, include, or describe a broad range of things

Sammelbegriff (catchall phrase oder term)


scofflaw

From scoff + law. Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in 1923 in which a word for "a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor" was sought during the Prohibition era.

The scofflaw entered the scoflsloon. He leaned an elbow on the scoffbar and rested a foot on the scoffrail.
 'Waddle'y' have?" said the scoffbartender.
 "A little tea," said the scofflaw.

If we are to scour out the scofflaws, we must first remove those particular laws at which nearly everybody scoffs.

Within six months, with the full cooperation of police throughout the state, the scofflaw rate was down to 22 per cent.

1967, Police: The Journal Covering the Professional Interests of All Law Enforcement Personnel, volumes 12-13:

At that time, appellant was informed that because there were unpaid tickets in the amount of $2,725.00, his Datsun had been declared a "scofflaw" car.

2001: 10th International Conference on High-Occupancy Vehicle Systems: Compendium of Technical Papers
The signage will make it clear that if a motorist is an HOV scofflaw (i.e., violator of the vehicle code driving in the HOV-Only zone) that they will be subject to HOV violation fine of at least $271.

Unrepentant scofflaw on the lam
Layin' waste to all the best-laid plans

2001, J. G. Thirlwell (lyrics and music), “Heuldoch 7B”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:

Given Montana's continued, fretful association with various scofflaw organizations and its unwanted reputation as a place without speed limits or other boundaries on personal behavior, we might do well to acknowledge the excesses and inherent abuse of power carried out by men who for too many years refused to bow to the police and courts and rule of law.

2013: A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes by Frederick Allen (University of Oklahoma Press)

(US) One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets).


silkworm

From Middle English silkwirm, from Old English seolcwyrm (“silkworm”), equivalent to silk + worm.

Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.


sellout

A statement by the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR), which organized the protest, charged that WPIX's sale of air time to the Anita Bryant Ministries "is a sell-out of the more than one million lesbians and gay residents in the WPIX broadcast service area.

1980 April 19, Philip Shehadi, “Bryant Program Sparks Protest”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

When his hearing came up, the sellout of Taiwan was particularly on my mind. I asked him if he thought that Taiwan should be pressured into making an accommodation with the Communist government in Beijing.
The candidate refused to answer my question.

2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229:

An action in which principles are compromised for personal gain.

elárulás

an action in which principles are compromised for financial gain

The rock star used to be hardcore, but now he's just a sellout.

A person who compromises his or her principles for financial gain.

مَأْجُوْرٌ

a person who compromises his or her principles

The game was a sellout.

Mel White recalls being a high school student and seeing Billy Graham preaching before sell-out crowds at San Francisco's Cow Palace.

1994 October, Michael Bronski, “Queer and Present Danger: Gay Conservatives, Sex and the Christianization of the Gay Movement”, in Gay Community News, page 22:

The selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event.

telt ház

the selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event


woodworm

woodworm (countable and uncountable, plural woodworms)

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

Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.

(particularly) Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle).


straw shoe

(slang, obsolete) A professional false witness hired by an unscrupulous attorney. Such a man would frequent the vicinity of a courthouse and show his intention and availability by a straw sticking from one of his shoes.


baby boy

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

A very young male human being, from birth to a couple of years old.

Tyrese stars as Jody, a misguided young Black man who is really just a "baby boy" finally forced to face the commitments of real life.

Says the director: "They've all been raised by women, so they're always trying to show how much of a man they are when they really are baby boys. They have nothing going for them."

2009, Craigh Barboza, John Singleton: Interviews, →ISBN, page 129:

"I have to sit in a class full of baby boys. Don't you hate baby boys?" "What're baby boys?" "Boys who don't know anything about girls," she said vaguely.

2011, Jackie Collins, DEADLY EMBRACE, →ISBN, page 207:

(derogatory) A man who is immature or infantile.

My baby boy was accepted to Columbia!


airfreight

en-verb

airfreight (third-person singular simple present airfreights, present participle airfreighting, simple past and past participle airfreighted)

airfreights (present singular third-person)
airfreighting (participle present)
airfreighted (participle past)
airfreighted (past)

And I've told you a hundred times, Mac, draft beer is too expensive to airfreight in.

1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 65:

Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.

2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times:


egghead

But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.

1962, The Pakistan Review - Volume 10, page Page 43:

At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.

2002, Robert Ross, The Complete Terry Thomas, page 87:

Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.

2010, Jena Pincott, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?:, page 81:

His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.


breadbasket

[I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's.

1990, Joshua M. Epstein, Raj Gupta, Controlling the Greenhouse Effect: Five Global Regimes Compared (Brookings Occasional Papers), Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, →ISBN, page 7:

Canada at the turn of the century had become the breadbasket of the British Empire and industrialised Europe and wheat grown on the prairies was consolidated in elevator at Fort William, Ontario to await shipment overseas.

1997, Peter Pigott, “C. D. Howe: Mister Trans-Canada Airlines”, in Flying Canucks II: Pioneers of Canadian Aviation, Toronto, Ont., Headington, Oxford: Hounslow Press, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

(agriculture) A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.


scatterbrain

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A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.


showcase

A setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect.

vitrinë

a setting for displaying something favorably

flagship

setting for exhibiting in favorable aspect


bittersweet

[ˈbɪɾɚˌswiʔt̚]

From Middle English bitterswete, biterswete, equivalent to bitter + sweet. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bitterswäit (“bittersweet”), West Frisian bittersoet (“bittersweet”), Dutch bitterzoet (“bittersweet”), German bittersüß (“bittersweet”), Danish bittersød (“bittersweet”), Swedish bittersöt (“bittersweet”).

cog

Bitter ſweete bringeth foorth wooddie ſtalks as doth the Vine, parted into many ſlender creeping braunches, by which it climeth and taketh holde of hedges and ſhrubbes next vnto it. […] Bitter ſweet doth grow in moiſt places about ditches, riuers, and hedges, almoſt euery where.

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Bitter Sweete, or Woode Nightshade”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, pages 278–279:

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual

Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).

acıtəhər quşüzümü

bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara

I had once before visited these three villages, Skedans, Tanoo and Cumshewa. The bitter-sweet of their overwhelming loneliness created a longing to return to them.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:

Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums.

1935, Bess Streeter Aldrich, chapter 43, in Spring Came on Forever:

(US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.

bittersweet:

A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.


everlasting

/ˌɛvɚˈlæstɪŋ/

/ˌɛvəˈlɑːstɪŋ/

From Middle English, equivalent to ever + lasting.

Reverently I replaced the grave-cloths, and, with a sigh that flowers so fair should, in the purpose of the Everlasting, have only bloomed to be gathered to the grave, I turned to the body on the opposite shelf, and gently unveiled it.

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

With a backward look Small said, “What a lovely lily!”
 “Well enough but strong-smelling, gaudy. Come see the everlastings.”

1942, Emily Carr, “The Orange Lily”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting.’

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 313:


heartstrings

en-noun

heartstrings pl (normally plural, singular heartstring)

/ˈhɑɹtˌstɹɪŋz/

PIE word
 *ḱḗr
From Late Middle English hartestrynges, hert strynges, from Middle English herte (“heart”) + strenges, strynges (“cords, strings”). The English word is analysable as heart + strings.

The atrioventricular valves are prevented from turning inside out by strands of connective tissue, which run from their underside to the walls of the ventricle. These are the so-called heartstrings or chordae tendin[e]ae.

2002, “Applied Physiology A”, in Beryl Stretch, editor, BTEC National Health Studies, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Heinemann Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 481:

Joined to the free ends of the AV [atrioventricular] valves are a number of cords called chordae tendineae (heart strings) attaching them to muscles in the wall of the ventricle. The heart strings keep the AV flaps pointing in the direction of the blood flow, stopping them being turned "inside out" and forced through the atria. The semilunar valves do not have heart strings. Blood flowing the wrong way makes the cusps balloon out so that their edges seal tight.

2005, “Section 2: Heart”, in The Facts on File Illustrated Guide to the Human Body: Heart and Circulatory System, New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, →ISBN, page 40:

[M]y precious Toby Chihuahua, soon to be twelve years old, had a heart attack. As a result, one or more of his chordae tendineae, or heartstrings, ruptured. Until very recently, this condition was curtains for a dog, but new meds are keeping him alive for now.

2014 February 15, Crissy Shreve, chapter 5, in BMom: Lovely Weeds, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 56:

chordae tendineae
chordae tendineae#English

(by extension) Synonym of chordae tendineae (“the cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart”)


pickpocket

Coordinate term: putpocket

One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

xhepist

one who steals from the pocket of a passerby


aki

aki (nominative singular)
akik (nominative plural)
akit (accusative singular)
akiket (accusative plural)
akinek (dative singular)
akiknek (dative plural)
akivel (instrumental singular)
akikkel (instrumental plural)
akiért (causal-final singular)
akikért (causal-final plural)
akivé (singular translative)
akikké (plural translative)
akiig (singular terminative)
akikig (plural terminative)
akiként (essive-formal singular)
akikként (essive-formal plural)
akiben (inessive singular)
akikben (inessive plural)
akin (singular superessive)
akiken (plural superessive)
akinél (adessive singular)
akiknél (adessive plural)
akibe (illative singular)
akikbe (illative plural)
akire (singular sublative)
akikre (plural sublative)
akihez (allative singular)
akikhez (allative plural)
akiből (elative singular)
akikből (elative plural)
akiről (delative singular)
akikről (delative plural)
akitől (ablative singular)
akiktől (ablative plural)
akié (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
akiké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
akiéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
akikéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
akim (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
akijeim (or akiim) (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
akid (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
akijeid (or akiid) (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
akije (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
akijei (or akii) (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
akink (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
akijeink (or akiink) (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
akitek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
akijeitek (or akiitek) (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
akijük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
akijeik (or akiik) (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

aki korpa közé keveredik, megeszik a disznók


headlight

Lysergic acid diethylamide
lysergic acid diethylamide#English

(US, slang, chiefly in the plural) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).


paramanteles

Verb-object compound, composed of para (“to stop”) + manteles (“tablecloths”).


pasamano

Verb-object compound, composed of pasa (“to pass”) + mano (“hand”).


flywheel

As on Nos. 20001-3, the motor and generator armature shafts of the new locomotive each carry a heavy flywheel to provide kinetic energy and help maintain the speed of the motor-generator set during interruptions of supply, as at breaks in the continuity of the conductor rail.

1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 123:

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.


graveyard

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).

kirkegård

final storage place for collections of things no longer used

(US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”)


姐妹

/t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ meɪ̯⁵¹/

/t͡sɛː³⁵ muːi̯²²/

/t͡sɛː³⁵ muːi̯²²⁻³⁵/

/t͡sia³³⁻⁵⁵ mui²¹³/

/t͡sia⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be²²/

/t͡sia⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ muĩ⁴¹/

/t͡se⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãi²²/

/t͡se⁵²⁻³⁵ mue¹¹/

/t͡ɕi³³ me⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ meɪ̯⁵¹/

/t͡sɛː³⁵ muːi̯²²/

/t͡sɛː³⁵ muːi̯²²⁻³⁵/

/t͡sia³³⁻⁵⁵ mui²¹³/

/t͡sia⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be²²/

/t͡sia⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ muĩ⁴¹/

/t͡se⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mãi²²/

/t͡se⁵²⁻³⁵ mue¹¹/

/t͡ɕi³³ me⁴⁴/

Thanks to the fellow for the ACG goods you sent

謝謝姐妹送的穀子

谢谢姐妹送的谷子

(neologism, fandom slang, chiefly feminine) term to address fellow/peer-netizens on social media platforms


breadcrumb

/ˈbɹɛdˌkɹʌm/

From bread + crumb. The computing and figurative senses allude to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.

Breadcrumbs usually look something like this: "Home > About Us > Staff" and are positioned near the top navigation. […] The words in the breadcrumbs are links to pages at higher levels of the website.

2010, Mark Stephenson, Web-Empower Your Church:

(graphical user interface, chiefly in the plural) A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid.


kaffekopp

head

kaffekopp m (definite singular kaffekoppen, indefinite plural kaffekopper, definite plural kaffekoppene)

kaffekoppen (definite singular)
kaffekopper (indefinite plural)
kaffekoppene (definite plural)

From kaffe + kopp. Cf. Swedish kaffekopp, Norwegian Nynorsk kaffikopp, Danish kaffekop.


kaffekopp

kaffekopp (indefinite nominative singular)

From kaffe (“coffee”) + kopp (“cup”). Cf. Norwegian Bokmål kaffekopp, Norwegian Nynorsk kaffikopp, Danish kaffekop.

coffee cup; a measure of about 1.5 dl. As a kitchen measure somewhat less than an English cup.


homestead

Ultimately from Old English hamstede through an unattested Middle English word. Cognate with German Heimstatt, Dutch heemstede and Swedish hemstad. By surface analysis, home + stead.

чифлик

He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery […]

1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!, Part 1:

A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

(Canada, US) A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.


greenshank

Tringa nebularia
Tringa nebularia#Translingual

A wading bird, Tringa nebularia, that has long greenish legs and is native to Eurasia.


nighttime

en-noun

nighttime (countable and uncountable, plural nighttimes)

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

From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).

cog

Nighttime fell like the opening / In the final act of the beginning of time

1986, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Hyena”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:

Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.

1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52:

The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.


nighttime

daytime

antonym(s) of “happening during the night”

Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.

noční

pertaining to nighttime, appropriate to the night


redshank

Persicaria maculosa
Persicaria maculosa#Translingual

Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.


wagtail

From a partial suppletion of Middle English wagstert (literally “wag-tail”), equivalent to wag + tail.

field wagtail

Motacilla flava and M. tschutschensis, syn. Budytes spp.

white-browed wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis

Any of various small passerine birds, principally of genus Motacilla, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.


悲喜

/peɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/peɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


turnstone

Arenaria interpres
Arenaria interpres#Translingual

Arenaria melanocephala
Arenaria melanocephala#Translingual

Either of two species of coastal wading bird, Arenaria interpres and Arenaria melanocephala, that breed in the Arctic and readily turn stones or seaweed looking for hidden invertebrates.


roadrunner

/ˈɹəʊdˌɹʌnə/

/ˈɹoʊdˌɹʌnɚ/

From road + runner, probably a calque of Spanish correcaminos (“roadrunner”), from correr (“to run”) + caminos (“roads”).

calque

Geococcyx velox
Geococcyx velox#Translingual

Geococcyx californianus
Geococcyx californianus#Translingual

Either of two species of fast-running bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family native to North and Central America, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox) and, especially, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus).


問答

/wən⁵¹ tä³⁵/

/bun³³⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun³³⁻¹¹ tap̚³²/

/muĩ²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/wən⁵¹ tä³⁵/

/bun³³⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun³³⁻¹¹ tap̚³²/

/muĩ²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/


問答

/wən⁵¹ tä³⁵/

/bun³³⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun³³⁻¹¹ tap̚³²/

/muĩ²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/wən⁵¹ tä³⁵/

/bun³³⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/

/bun³³⁻¹¹ tap̚³²/

/muĩ²²⁻²¹ tap̚³²/


shearwater

Macronesian shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri baroli or Puffinus baroli

Persian shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri persicus or Puffinus persicus

tropical shearwater

Puffinus lherminieri bailloni or Puffinus bailloni

At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:

Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.


spoilsport

From the verbal expression spoil sport (“ruin the amusement”).

I know I am a sad spoilsport, but it would make me wretched.

1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XIV, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC:

He looks a spoilsport. There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun: men who are a sort of walking conscience.

1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 31:

Someone who puts an end to others' fun, especially harmless fun.


puff pastry

en-noun

puff pastry (countable and uncountable, plural puff pastries)

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

A light, flaky pastry that is made of alternating buttery and floury dough layers by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers.


big mouth

Shut your big mouth or I'll shut it for you.

(idiomatic, often derogatory) The mouth of someone who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information.

Shut up, big mouth!

(idiomatic, often derogatory) A person who talks too much, especially by making exaggerated claims or by inappropriately revealing information.


makeweight

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

1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88.
I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.

Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.


eyeliner

eyeliner (countable and uncountable, plural eyeliners)

Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.

2004, Paula Begoun, The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 419:

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.


hairpiece

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

A false substitute for a person's hair; a toupee or wig.


goat boat

en-verb

goat boat (third-person singular simple present goat boats, present participle goat boating, simple past and past participle goat boated)

goat boats (present singular third-person)
goat boating (participle present)
goat boated (participle past)
goat boated (past)

Do us surfers a favour please and goat boat at Nobblers or Sumpters - please. — BBC Cable Bay message forum https://web.archive.org/web/20040207131935/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/surfing/pages/cablebay.shtml

(surfing, mildly derogatory) to ride a wave ski.


maailma

maailma (nominative singular)
maailmat (nominative plural)
maailma (accusative nominative singular)
maailmat (accusative nominative plural)
maailman (accusative genitive singular)
maailmat (accusative genitive plural)
maailman (genitive singular)
maailmoiden (genitive plural)
maailmoitten (genitive plural)
maailmojen (genitive plural)
maailmain (genitive plural rare)
maailmaa (partitive singular)
maailmoita (partitive plural)
maailmoja (partitive plural)
maailmassa (inessive singular)
maailmoissa (inessive plural)
maailmasta (elative singular)
maailmoista (elative plural)
maailmaan (illative singular)
maailmoihin (illative plural)
maailmalla (adessive singular)
maailmoilla (adessive plural)
maailmalta (ablative singular)
maailmoilta (ablative plural)
maailmalle (allative singular)
maailmoille (allative plural)
maailmana (essive singular)
maailmoina (essive plural)
maailmaksi (singular translative)
maailmoiksi (plural translative)
maailmatta (abessive singular)
maailmoitta (abessive plural)
maailmoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
maailmani (nominative singular)
maailmani (nominative plural)
maailmani (accusative nominative singular)
maailmani (accusative nominative plural)
maailmani (accusative genitive singular)
maailmani (accusative genitive plural)
maailmani (genitive singular)
maailmoideni (genitive plural)
maailmoitteni (genitive plural)
maailmojeni (genitive plural)
maailmaini (genitive plural rare)
maailmaani (partitive singular)
maailmoitani (partitive plural)
maailmojani (partitive plural)
maailmassani (inessive singular)
maailmoissani (inessive plural)
maailmastani (elative singular)
maailmoistani (elative plural)
maailmaani (illative singular)
maailmoihini (illative plural)
maailmallani (adessive singular)
maailmoillani (adessive plural)
maailmaltani (ablative singular)
maailmoiltani (ablative plural)
maailmalleni (allative singular)
maailmoilleni (allative plural)
maailmanani (essive singular)
maailmoinani (essive plural)
maailmakseni (singular translative)
maailmoikseni (plural translative)
maailmattani (abessive singular)
maailmoittani (abessive plural)
maailmoineni (comitative plural)
maailmasi (nominative singular)
maailmasi (nominative plural)
maailmasi (accusative nominative singular)
maailmasi (accusative nominative plural)
maailmasi (accusative genitive singular)
maailmasi (accusative genitive plural)
maailmasi (genitive singular)
maailmoidesi (genitive plural)
maailmoittesi (genitive plural)
maailmojesi (genitive plural)
maailmaisi (genitive plural rare)
maailmaasi (partitive singular)
maailmoitasi (partitive plural)
maailmojasi (partitive plural)
maailmassasi (inessive singular)
maailmoissasi (inessive plural)
maailmastasi (elative singular)
maailmoistasi (elative plural)
maailmaasi (illative singular)
maailmoihisi (illative plural)
maailmallasi (adessive singular)
maailmoillasi (adessive plural)
maailmaltasi (ablative singular)
maailmoiltasi (ablative plural)
maailmallesi (allative singular)
maailmoillesi (allative plural)
maailmanasi (essive singular)
maailmoinasi (essive plural)
maailmaksesi (singular translative)
maailmoiksesi (plural translative)
maailmattasi (abessive singular)
maailmoittasi (abessive plural)
maailmoinesi (comitative plural)
maailmamme (nominative singular)
maailmamme (nominative plural)
maailmamme (accusative nominative singular)
maailmamme (accusative nominative plural)
maailmamme (accusative genitive singular)
maailmamme (accusative genitive plural)
maailmamme (genitive singular)
maailmoidemme (genitive plural)
maailmoittemme (genitive plural)
maailmojemme (genitive plural)
maailmaimme (genitive plural rare)
maailmaamme (partitive singular)
maailmoitamme (partitive plural)
maailmojamme (partitive plural)
maailmassamme (inessive singular)
maailmoissamme (inessive plural)
maailmastamme (elative singular)
maailmoistamme (elative plural)
maailmaamme (illative singular)
maailmoihimme (illative plural)
maailmallamme (adessive singular)
maailmoillamme (adessive plural)
maailmaltamme (ablative singular)
maailmoiltamme (ablative plural)
maailmallemme (allative singular)
maailmoillemme (allative plural)
maailmanamme (essive singular)
maailmoinamme (essive plural)
maailmaksemme (singular translative)
maailmoiksemme (plural translative)
maailmattamme (abessive singular)
maailmoittamme (abessive plural)
maailmoinemme (comitative plural)
maailmanne (nominative singular)
maailmanne (nominative plural)
maailmanne (accusative nominative singular)
maailmanne (accusative nominative plural)
maailmanne (accusative genitive singular)
maailmanne (accusative genitive plural)
maailmanne (genitive singular)
maailmoidenne (genitive plural)
maailmoittenne (genitive plural)
maailmojenne (genitive plural)
maailmainne (genitive plural rare)
maailmaanne (partitive singular)
maailmoitanne (partitive plural)
maailmojanne (partitive plural)
maailmassanne (inessive singular)
maailmoissanne (inessive plural)
maailmastanne (elative singular)
maailmoistanne (elative plural)
maailmaanne (illative singular)
maailmoihinne (illative plural)
maailmallanne (adessive singular)
maailmoillanne (adessive plural)
maailmaltanne (ablative singular)
maailmoiltanne (ablative plural)
maailmallenne (allative singular)
maailmoillenne (allative plural)
maailmananne (essive singular)
maailmoinanne (essive plural)
maailmaksenne (singular translative)
maailmoiksenne (plural translative)
maailmattanne (abessive singular)
maailmoittanne (abessive plural)
maailmoinenne (comitative plural)
maailmansa (nominative singular)
maailmansa (nominative plural)
maailmansa (accusative nominative singular)
maailmansa (accusative nominative plural)
maailmansa (accusative genitive singular)
maailmansa (accusative genitive plural)
maailmansa (genitive singular)
maailmoidensa (genitive plural)
maailmoittensa (genitive plural)
maailmojensa (genitive plural)
maailmainsa (genitive plural rare)
maailmaansa (partitive singular)
maailmoitaan (partitive plural)
maailmojaan (partitive plural)
maailmoitansa (partitive plural)
maailmojansa (partitive plural)
maailmassaan (inessive singular)
maailmassansa (inessive singular)
maailmoissaan (inessive plural)
maailmoissansa (inessive plural)
maailmastaan (elative singular)
maailmastansa (elative singular)
maailmoistaan (elative plural)
maailmoistansa (elative plural)
maailmaansa (illative singular)
maailmoihinsa (illative plural)
maailmallaan (adessive singular)
maailmallansa (adessive singular)
maailmoillaan (adessive plural)
maailmoillansa (adessive plural)
maailmaltaan (ablative singular)
maailmaltansa (ablative singular)
maailmoiltaan (ablative plural)
maailmoiltansa (ablative plural)
maailmalleen (allative singular)
maailmallensa (allative singular)
maailmoilleen (allative plural)
maailmoillensa (allative plural)
maailmanaan (essive singular)
maailmanansa (essive singular)
maailmoinaan (essive plural)
maailmoinansa (essive plural)
maailmakseen (singular translative)
maailmaksensa (singular translative)
maailmoikseen (plural translative)
maailmoiksensa (plural translative)
maailmattaan (abessive singular)
maailmattansa (abessive singular)
maailmoittaan (abessive plural)
maailmoittansa (abessive plural)
maailmoineen (comitative plural)
maailmoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *maailma, a dvandva compound of maa (“earth, ground”) + ilma (“air”).

compound

maailma on pieni

Mihin tämä maailma on menossa?

What is the world coming to? / Where is this world heading?


maailma

maailma (nominative singular)
maailmat (nominative plural)
maailman (accusative singular)
maailmat (accusative plural)
maailman (genitive singular)
maailmadën (genitive plural)
maailmoidën (genitive plural)
maailmada (partitive singular)
maailmoida (partitive plural)
maailmassa (inessive singular)
maailmahna (inessive singular)
maailmoissa (inessive plural)
maailmoihna (inessive plural)
maailmasta (elative singular)
maailmoista (elative plural)
maailmahën (illative singular)
maailmoihën (illative plural)
maailmalla (adessive singular)
maailmoilla (adessive plural)
maailmalta (ablative singular)
maailmoilta (ablative plural)
maailmalën (allative singular)
maailmalëk (allative singular)
maailmoilën (allative plural)
maailmoilëk (allative plural)
maailmana (essive singular)
maailmoina (essive plural)
maailmaksi (singular translative)
maailmoiksi (plural translative)
maailman (instructive singular)
maailmoin (instructive plural)
maailmanëk (comitative singular)
maailmoinëk (comitative plural)
maailmatta (abessive singular)
maailmoitta (abessive plural)

Estonian: maailm

Finnish: maailma

→ Inari Sami: maailm

→ Northern Sami: máilbmi

Ingrian: maailma, mailma

Karelian:

North Karelian: muailma, muajilma

South Karelian: muailma

Livonian: mǭīlma

Livvi: muailmu

Ludian: muailm, moaiľm

Veps: mail'm

Võro: maailm

Votic: maailmõ

A dvandva compound of *maa (“land”) + *ilma (“air”).


chupatintas

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

es-verb-obj

(often derogatory) a pencil pusher, a pen pusher (one who does routine office work)


limpiabotas

Verb-object compound, composed of limpia (“to clean”) + botas (“boots”).

work that consists in washing shoes and boots


breadfruit

en-noun

breadfruit (plural breadfruits or breadfruit)

breadfruits (plural)
breadfruit (plural)

From bread + fruit, from the texture of the fruit.

African breadfruit (Artocarpus treculianus and Treculia africana

There is also a fine tract of guano, inland, where grow limes, oranges, breadfruit and mummy-apples.

Artocarpus altilis
Artocarpus altilis#Translingual

An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.


buscavidas

es-noun

buscavidas m or f by sense (plural buscavidas)

Verb-object compound, composed of busca (“to look for”) + vidas (“livings”).

es-verb-obj

hustler, go-getter (one who is good at finding easy employment, and who can easily exploit any ability he has to succeed in life and earn money)


cascarrabias

Verb-object compound, composed of casca + rabias.

(colloquial) cantankerous, crotchety, curmudgeonly, grumpy, grouchy, cranky, crabby


punched tape

en-noun

punched tape (usually uncountable, plural punched tapes)

ref

From the collection of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the United Kingdom.

Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707:

paper tape

(computing, historical) Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”)

Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing


portefeuille

→ Danish: portefølje

→ Dutch: portefeuille

→ German: Portefeuille

→ Limburgish: portefui

→ Norwegian Bokmål: portefølje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: portefølje

→ Polish: portfel

→ Portuguese: porta-fólio

→ Russian: портфе́ль (portfélʹ)

→ Romanian: portofel

→ Swedish: portfölj

→ Turkish: portföy

→ Ukrainian: портфе́ль (portfélʹ)

→ West Frisian: portefúlje

From porte (“carry”, third person singular indicative) + feuille (“sheet, paper”). Cognate with Italian portafoglio (whence French portfolio).


jailbird

From jail + bird, circa 1600. Compare gallows bird.

у́рка

criminal slang; opposed to political prisoner


cure-all

Step right up! Step right up! Our panacean patent medicine miracle cure-all will cure what ails ya! Cash only! No refunds.

(colloquial) Synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.


muskmelon

A type of melon with netted rind and sweet aromatic flesh, Cucumis melo Reticulatus Group (sometimes merged into Cantalupensis Group)


pole star

From pole (“either of the two points on the Earth’s surface around which it rotates; similar points on any other rotating object”) + star, possibly a calque of Latin stēllam polārem (“the Pole Star”).

calque

Polaris is currently the pole star of planet Earth.

Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?

1837 August 31, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete Works; I), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 84:

(astronomy) The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet.

poolster

star visible to the naked eye which was, is, or will be nearest a celestial pole of a planet

But it [our hotel] has one great advantage for a stranger, by being in the market place, and the next neighbour of the huge church of St. Nicholas: […] A better pole-star could scarcely be desired.

1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “[Satyrane’s Letters.] Letter II. (To a Lady.)”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:

Love was her pole-star. What was Jason's? Only the blankness of despair.

1889 June–November, Hall Caine, “Strong Knots of Love”, in The Bondman. A New Saga. […], volume II (The Book of Michael Sunlocks), London: William Heinemann, published January 1890, →OCLC, page 118:

(figuratively) A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre of attention.

пътеводна звезда

person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide — see also guiding light


bookshelf

Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.

1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:

(furniture) A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.


pot shot

1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926.


ash cash

Chosen for the rhyme, in reference to the ashes of a cremated body.

(slang) The fees claimed by a medical practitioner for completing forms required for cremation of a body.


bluestocking

→ Dutch: blauwkous (calque)

→ French: bas-bleu (calque)

→ English: basbleu

→ Italian: bas-bleu

→ German: Blaustrumpf (calque)

Barebones Parliament
Benjamin Stillingfleet
Blue Stockings Society
Elizabeth Montagu
bluestocking

From the 17th century. Originally in reference to blue stockings worn by men as opposed to more expensive white stockings. First associated with the Barebones Parliament in the 17th century, then with a series of literary salons which admitted female intellectuals in the 18th century; in particular the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society led by Elizabeth Montagu on the Parisian model. The term was not originally derogatory.
None of the ladies wore blue stockings. The first recorded use of the term is in reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet. He was not rich enough to have the proper formal dress, which included black silk stockings and so he attended in everyday blue worsted stockings.

pedia

Benjamin Stillingfleet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(historical) The English parliament of 1653, more commonly called the Barebones Parliament


greenback

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threadbare

en-adj

threadbare (comparative more threadbare, superlative most threadbare)

more threadbare (comparative)
most threadbare (superlative)

/ˈθɹɛdˌbɛ(ə)ɹ/

PIE word
 *bʰosós
From Middle English thred-bar, thred-bare (“of cloth, clothing, etc.: worn to such an extent that the warp and weft threads show, shabby, worn-out; (figurative) inadequate, poor”) [and other forms], from thred (“piece of textile twine”) (from Old English þrǣd (“thread”), from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz (“thread; twisted fibre”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn, twist”)) + bar, bare (“naked, unclothed, bare; not covered”) (from Old English bær (“naked, bare; unconcealed”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“naked, bare”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós (“bare; barefoot”)). The English word is analysable as thread + bare.

inh

Be gon, all Honeſty, / Thou fooliſh, ſlender, thredbare, ſtarving thing, be gon!

1678 February 28 (date licensed), Tho[mas] Shadwell, The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-hater. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

(archaic or obsolete) Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare (sense 1) material; hence, impoverished, poor.

nuhruinen

of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare material


teahouse

(euphemistic) a public lavatory, particularly (dated US gay slang) as a meeting place for gay men.

tetera

a public lavatory particularly as a meeting place for gay men


nightclub

en-verb

nightclub (third-person singular simple present nightclubs, present participle nightclubbing, simple past and past participle nightclubbed)

nightclubs (present singular third-person)
nightclubbing (participle present)
nightclubbed (participle past)
nightclubbed (past)

Our first night in the big city we went out nightclubbing. The next morning we stayed in hung over.

(informal, transitive, intransitive) To visit a nightclub (or nightclubs) for entertainment.


zookeeper

A person employed at a zoo to attend to the animals.


stir-fry

en-noun

stir-fry (countable and uncountable, plural stir-fries or stir-frys)

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From stir + fry. Coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1945, in How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

Geschnetzeltes

traditional dish with stir-fried strips of meat


tombstone

True, there's no harm in crying for one's husband, and the tombstone, though plain, was a solid piece of work, and on summer's days when the widow brought her boys to stand there one felt kindly towards her.

1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room:

A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.


stardust

stardust (usually uncountable, plural stardusts)

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
interplanetary dust cloud

We are all made of stardust.

Presolar grains were isolated in primitive meteorites only 15 years ago. These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta.

2004 March 5, Ann N. Nguyen, Ernst Zinner, “Discovery of Ancient Silicate Stardust in a Meteorite”, in Science, volume 303, number 5663, Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 1496:

Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.

宇宙塵

small fragments of dust-like material found in space

(informal, dated) A distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust, especially if the individual stars of which cannot be resolved with a telescope.

星塵

(archaic) Small fragments in the Earth's atmosphere or on its surface originating from meteorites; meteor dust.

meteoriittipöly

small fragments in the Earth's atmosphere or on its surface originating from meteorites

His [Sickert's] paint has a tangible quality; it is made not of air and star-dust but of oil and earth.

1934, Virginia Woolf, Walter Sickert: A Conversation, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], →OCLC, page 90:

Something imaginary or lacking substance.

tähtipöly

something imaginary or lacking substance

My sister’s eyes were full of stardust – she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.

An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.

tähtipöly

imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one’s eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted

Why would experienced deal makers want rock stars and actors to advise them? Why would entrepreneurs seek their money? There is a certain cachet with all that stardust, of course, and perhaps some free publicity.

2015 May 5, Steven Davidoff Solomon, “Sprinkling a Little Celebrity Stardust on Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.


espantapájaros

es-noun

espantapájaros m (plural espantapájaros)

Verb-object compound, composed of espanta (“to scare away”) + pájaros (“birds”).


daytime

en-noun

daytime (usually uncountable, plural daytimes)

In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.

1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:

The time of daylight; the time between sunrise and sunset.


兄弟

ryu-r

兄(ちょー)弟(でー) (chōdē)

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (兄弟):
* → Japanese: 兄(きょう)弟(だい) (kyōdai); 兄(けい)弟(てい) (keitei)
* → Okinawan: 兄(ちょー)弟(でー) (chōdē)
* → Korean: 형제(兄弟) (hyeongje)
* → Jeju: 성제 (seongje)
* → Vietnamese: huynh đệ (兄弟)

/ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵ ti⁵¹/

/ɕyoŋ⁵⁵ ti²¹³/

/ɕyŋ²⁴ ti²⁴/

/hɪŋ⁵⁵ tɐi̯²²/

/ˈɕiaŋ⁴² tʰi¹¹/

/ˈɕiuŋ⁴² tʰi¹¹/

/hi̯uŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰi⁵⁵/

/hiʊŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ tʰi⁵³/

/ɕyŋ¹¹ ti⁴⁵/

/hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾niɛ²⁴²/

/hiã⁴⁴⁻³³ ti³³/

/hiã⁴⁴⁻²² ti²²/

/hiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ te³³/

/hiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² te²²/

/hiɪŋ³³ te²²/

/hĩã³³⁻²³ ti³⁵/

/ɕioŋ⁵⁵ di²¹/

/ɕi̯ʊŋ³³ ti²¹⁻¹¹/

/ɕin³³ ti²¹⁻¹¹/

/ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵ ti⁵¹/

/ɕyoŋ⁵⁵ ti²¹³/

/ɕyŋ²⁴ ti²⁴/

/hɪŋ⁵⁵ tɐi̯²²/

/ˈɕiaŋ⁴² tʰi¹¹/

/ˈɕiuŋ⁴² tʰi¹¹/

/hi̯uŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰi⁵⁵/

/hiʊŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ tʰi⁵³/

/ɕyŋ¹¹ ti⁴⁵/

/hiaŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾niɛ²⁴²/

/hiã⁴⁴⁻³³ ti³³/

/hiã⁴⁴⁻²² ti²²/

/hiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ te³³/

/hiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² te²²/

/hiɪŋ³³ te²²/

/hĩã³³⁻²³ ti³⁵/

/ɕioŋ⁵⁵ di²¹/

/ɕi̯ʊŋ³³ ti²¹⁻¹¹/

/ɕin³³ ti²¹⁻¹¹/

Dvandva of 兄 (xiōng, “older brother”) + 弟 (dì, “younger brother”)


snowshoe

A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow.

elur-erraketa

flat footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow


sawbones

en-noun

sawbones (plural sawbones or sawboneses)


tugboat

Coordinate term: towboat

A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.


sawmill

He brought his portable sawmill and turned the old beams into interesting flooring.

The old sawmill still has its waterwheel but they took the saw away years ago.

The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.

When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:

My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.


sawmill

en-verb

sawmill (third-person singular simple present sawmills, present participle sawmilling, simple past and past participle sawmilled)

sawmills (present singular third-person)
sawmilling (participle present)
sawmilled (participle past)
sawmilled (past)

(transitive) To process (lumber) in a sawmill.


airhead

From air + head, in the sense of having one’s head filled with air instead of a brain; compare empty-headed.

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Sometimes people tell you directly that you aren't very smart, but most of the time they ignore your attempts to display your intelligence, or they kid you about being a "space case" or an "airhead." After a while you are bound to see yourself as not very intelligent, particularly if the people who have been sending you those messages about yourself are important to you.

1989, Lynne Kelly, Arden K. Watson, “The Process of Communication”, in Speaking with Confidence and Skill (Speech Communication Series), Lanham, Md., London: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 11:

Yeah. Well, Tammi is a bit of an airhead, I guess, but I feel sorry for her.

1996, Mary Ann Scott, chapter 4, in Doris Cowan, editor, Ear-witness: A Jessica March Mystery, Toronto, Ont., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Boardwalk Books, Dundurn Group, →ISBN, page 24:

He would be thrust into the invidious position of subordinate host, welcoming all the dorks and dweebs and airheads that he saw far too much of in school.

2000, Brian McNaughton, chapter 4, in Downward to Darkness, Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 37:

So, just why couldn't I be an oblivious airhead with absolutely no patience and piles of fury, just so I could fit in and rush everything in order to cause who knows what?

2015 March 9, John Friesen, Six Bosnian Marks: The Oppressive Price of Pondering & Pontification, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 262:

(originally US, informal, derogatory) A foolish, silly, or unintelligent person.


俯仰

/fu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ jɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/fuː³⁵ jœːŋ¹³/

/hu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔŋ⁴¹/

/hu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔŋ⁵³/

/hu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɡiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/

/hu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiaŋ⁵³/

/fu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ jɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/fuː³⁵ jœːŋ¹³/

/hu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔŋ⁴¹/

/hu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiɔŋ⁵³/

/hu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɡiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/

/hu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡiaŋ⁵³/

bending or lifting of the head; simple move or action


取捨

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰɵy̯³⁵ sɛː³⁵/

/t͡sʰu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sia⁴¹/

/t͡sʰu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sia²¹/

/t͡sʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sia²¹/

/t͡sʰu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sia⁵³/

/t͡sʰu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sia⁴¹/

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰɵy̯³⁵ sɛː³⁵/

/t͡sʰu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sia⁴¹/

/t͡sʰu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sia²¹/

/t͡sʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sia²¹/

/t͡sʰu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sia⁵³/

/t͡sʰu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sia⁴¹/

The fifth is their preferences and dislikes, which unsettle the mind, and cause the nature to go flying about.

Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

五曰趣舍滑心，使性飛揚。

五曰趣舍滑心，使性飞扬。

to accept or reject; to make one's choice


mass media

Collectively, the communications media, especially television, radio, and newspapers, that reach the mass of the people.

massamedia

public communication that reaches a large audience


左右

/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ joʊ̯⁵¹/

/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴ joʊ̯⁴/

/t͡so⁵³ iəu²¹³/

/t͡sɔː³⁵ jɐu̯²²/

/t͡sɔː³⁵ jɐu̯²²⁻³⁵/

/t͡sɤ⁵³ iəu⁴⁵/

/t͡so³³⁻⁵⁵ iɛu²⁴²/

/t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ iu⁴¹/

/t͡so⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu³³/

/t͡sɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ iu³³/

/t͡so⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu²²/

/t͡so⁵²⁻³⁵ iu³⁵/

/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ joʊ̯⁵¹/

/t͡su̯ɔ²¹⁴ joʊ̯⁴/

/t͡so⁵³ iəu²¹³/

/t͡sɔː³⁵ jɐu̯²²/

/t͡sɔː³⁵ jɐu̯²²⁻³⁵/

/t͡sɤ⁵³ iəu⁴⁵/

/t͡so³³⁻⁵⁵ iɛu²⁴²/

/t͡sɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ iu⁴¹/

/t͡so⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu³³/

/t͡sɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ iu³³/

/t͡so⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iu²²/

/t͡so⁵²⁻³⁵ iu³⁵/

Here long, there short, is the duckweed, To the left, to the right, borne about by the current. […]
The modest, retiring, virtuous, young lady: With lutes, small and large, let us give her friendly welcome.
Here long, there short, is the duckweed; On the left, on the right, we cook and present it.

The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Cēncī xìngcài, zuǒyòu liú zhī.... Yǎotiǎoshūnǚ, qínsè yǒu zhī. Cēncī xìngcài, zuǒ yòu mào zhī.

參差荇菜，左右流之。…窈窕淑女，琴瑟友之。參差荇菜、左右芼之。

参差荇菜，左右流之。…窈窕淑女，琴瑟友之。参差荇菜、左右芼之。


tell-all

At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation.

1998, Laurie Stone, Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire, page xi:

Mikerra had been offered a seven-figure book deal for a tell-all chronicling her relationship with Senator McCaffrey, his death, and the project's ultimate demise.

2009, Kennedy Shaw, Tour of Duty, page 308:

Surprise! I wrote a tell-all about each and every one of you!

2010, Zoe Fishman, Balancing Acts: A Novel, page 357:

Of all the people in the world to write a tell-all about The Lunch Club, it had to be Missy Adams?!

2011, Star Jones, Satan's Sisters: A Novel Work of Fiction, page 23:

The highly anticipated proceedings are poised to serve as a tell-all on FTX and Alameda’s shocking downfall, with jurors weighing whether Bankman-Fried callously lined his pockets with hapless investors’ money. Ellison will play a pivotal role in the case.

2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A publication, usually a book or magazine article, which tells all, revealing everything, particularly what is normally withheld.


tell-all

The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death.

Open source is a tell-all software development strategy.

Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue.

1997 February 1, Walter Goodman, “The Role of Partisans in a Neutral Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]

2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:

The Princess of Canada is a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim”, while her husband, the prince, has written a tell-all book about his family and the media called “Waaagh!”.

2023 February 22, Alexi Duggins, “‘Baseless nonsense’: Meghan and Harry won’t sue South Park for mocking them”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Telling all; revealing everything, particularly what is normally withheld.


tree trunk

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

(botany) The main structural member of a tree.


greenhorn

From Middle English grene horn, which is attested for “horn of a recently killed animal” and as the name of a horse. It may also have been used of young horned animals. In all cases “green” refers to the idea of “fresh, young, recent”, taken from plants and used in Middle English for all kinds of things irrespective of their colour, e.g. wounds, leather, fish, cheese (see green cheese). Figurative use for people dates from the 17th century. Compare semantically German Grünschnabel (literally “green-beak”).

cog

The powers of the Canadian voyageurs and hunters in the consumption of meat strike the greenhorn with wonder and astonishment; and are only equalled by the gastronomical capabilities exhibited by Indian dogs, both following the same plan in their epicurean gorgings.

1847, George Frederick Augustus Ruxton, Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, page 267:

All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close...this is gonna be your lucky day.

2001 November 15, Bungie, Halo: Combat Evolved, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Pillar of Autumn:

(chiefly US) An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner or newcomer.


lifeline

→ Japanese: ライフライン (raifurain)

A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling.


hilltop

→ Japanese: ヒルトップ

The territory should be small enough to be surveyed in its entirety from a hilltop.

1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.

2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:


abat-jour

→ Albanian: abazhur

desc

→ Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʔabāžūr)

→ Arabic: أَبَاجُور (ʔabāžūr)

→ Hijazi Arabic: أَبَجورة (ʔabajōra)

→ Bulgarian: абажу́р (abažúr)

→ Czech: abažúr

→ English: abatjour

→ Estonian: abažuur

→ Greek: αμπαζούρ (ampazoúr)

→ Ladino: abazur

→ Italian: abat-jour

→ Latvian: abažūrs

→ Lithuanian: abažūras

→ Persian: آباژور (âbâžur)

→ Polish: abażur

desctree

→ Portuguese: abajur, abat-jour, abaju, abajour
→ Hunsrik: Abaschur

→ Romagnol: abat-jour

→ Romanian: abajur

→ Russian: абажу́р (abažúr)
→ Azerbaijani: abajur
→ Bashkir: абажур (abajur)
→ Belarusian: абажу́р (abažúr)
→ Chuvash: абажур (abažur)
→ Eastern Mari: абажур (abažur)
→ Georgian: აბაჟური (abažuri)
→ Kazakh: абажур (abajur)
→ Komi-Zyrian: абажур (abažur)
→ Ossetian: абажур (abažur)
→ Tatar: абажур (abajur)
→ Tajik: абажур (abažur)
→ Udmurt: абажур (abažur)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: аба̀жӯр

Latin script: abàžūr

→ Ottoman Turkish: آباژور (abajur)

Turkish: abajur

→ Ukrainian: абажу́р (abažúr)

From abat (“breaks down”) + jour (“light”).


foghorn

en-verb

foghorn (third-person singular simple present foghorns, present participle foghorning, simple past and past participle foghorned)

foghorns (present singular third-person)
foghorning (participle present)
foghorned (participle past)
foghorned (past)

the voice of the teacher foghorned away undisturbed

1924, Frank Watts, Abnormal Psychology and Education:

To shout or bellow in a loud, deep voice


sump pump

A pump used for the removal of liquid from a sump or sump pit.


nine-day wonder

en-noun

nine-day wonder (plural nine-day wonders)

From nine + day + wonder (“something that causes amazement or awe”). References to a period of nine days or nights to describe the length of a short-lived fad date from as early as the 14th century; see, for instance, Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 1400; spelling modernized): “Ek [besides] wonder last but nine days never in town”.

nb...

wyth Dyuers Workes whych were Neuer in Print before: As in the Table More Playnly doth Appere

dwellynge at the sygne of saynte George in Pauls Church-yarde

[…] I am content this vvinter to haue my doings read for a toye, that in ſommer they may be ready for traſh. It is not ſtraunge vvhen as the greateſt vvonder laſteth but nyne dayes, that a nevve vvorke ſhould not endure but three monethes.

[[1578], Iohn Lylly [i.e., John Lyly], “To the Gentlemen Readers”, in Euphues. The Anatomy of Wyt. […], London: […] [Thomas East] for Gabriell Cawood, […], →OCLC:

This that I did vvas for a policie, / To ſmooth and keepe the murther ſecret, / VVhich at a nine daies vvonder being ore-blovvne, / My gentle ſiſter vvill I novv inlarge.

c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:

I vvas ſeuen of the nine daies out of the vvonder, before you came:[…]

[c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 196, column 1:

VVould that vvere the vvorſt: / That vvere but nine dayes vvonder, […]

1625 (date written), Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts: A Comœdie […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:

But vvhen the frequent Soule-departing Bell / Has pav'd their eares vvith her familiar knell, / It is reputed but a nine dayes vvonder, / They neither feare the Thund'rer, nor his Thunder; […]

1635, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Canto VIII. Luke VI. XXV.”, in Emblemes, London: […] G[eorge] M[iller] and sold at at Iohn Marriots shope […], →OCLC, book I, page 34:

The pleasant scandal which arose next day, / The nine days' wonder which was brought to light, / And how Alfonso sued for a divorce, / Were in the English newspapers, of course.

1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza CLXXXVIII, page 97:

Everybody else was thinking of his breakdown; some with real sorrow and sympathy; others as of any other nine-days' wonder,—pretty much as if the favorite for the Derby had broken down; others with ill-concealed triumph, for Blake had many enemies amongst the men.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Schools”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 6:

[O]ut of Germany come mesmerism and all the other "isms" that pass for nine-day wonders.

1863, Cyrus Redding, chapter I, in Yesterday and To-day. […], volume II, London: T[homas] Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 22:

Well, dear editor, I suppose you are, like myself, wearied with the "nine-day wonder," and I will merely add that I have thought it possible that in this case, as in many others I have known, the amniotic sac, by some means, was ruptured and the fluid all passed out.

1889 July, A. H. Wilson, “Nine-day Wonder”, in J. J. Lawrence, editor, The Medical Brief, a Monthly Journal of Practical Medicine, volume XVII, number 7, St. Louis, Mo.: J. J. Lawrence, →OCLC, page 331:

As the matter is to be a "nine days' wonder," they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint.

1897, Bram Stoker, “Cutting from ‘The Dailygraph,’ 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal.) From a Correspondent.”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 89:

Harold Russell, who plays handless Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives, is not only a nine-day wonder in the movies but also one of the best-adjusted veterans of World War II. The most widely publicized double amputee of the war, Russell realizes that, though there is talk of his getting an Academy Award, he is strictly a one-shot and will probably act in no more movies.

1946 December 16, Bernard Frizell, “Handless Veteran: Amateur Actor Harold Russell has No Trouble with Hooks, a Great Deal with Anxious Friends”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 21, number 25, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 2:

In his letter to this journal Mr. Lawrence remarked that some traders were waiting to see if "Condor" was merely a nine days' wonder before scheduling its use by their goods.

1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “‘Condor’—British Railways’ Fastest Freight Train”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47:

So far as we're concerned, the ashes of Endymion can stay buried for another two hundred years—or another two million. It doesn't matter; come the day when somebody stumbles over the tombstones, they'll just be an archaeological find: a nine day wonder. By then, we'll be out among the stars. Earth will be just our cradle.

1993 December, Brian Stableford, “The Cure for Love”, in The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, [Rockville, Md.]: Borgo Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 40:

It's actually rather easy to assess the scientific influence of, for instance, fractals or chaos. […] You can't dismiss something as a nine-day wonder when it has survived for nine thousand days and is currently thriving.

2006, Ian Stewart, “Pure or Applied?”, in Letters to a Young Mathematician, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 142:

Ed[ward] Feigenbaum and I enjoyed the giddy experience of being nine-day wonders. Yes, it's fun to walk along Madison Avenue and see your own book in bookshop windows.

2019, Pamela McCorduck, “Being a Nine-day Wonder”, in This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University; ETC Press; Signature, →ISBN, part 4 (The World Discovers Artificial Intelligence), section 1, page 297:

(idiomatic) Something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned.

hetken villitys

something that generates interest for a limited time and is then abandoned

चार दिन की चाँदनी f (cār din kī cā̃dnī, literally “four days of moonlight”)

人の噂も七十五日 (ひとのうわさもななじゅうごにち, hito no uwasa mo nana juu go nichi, literally “people's gossip [lasts] only 75 days”)

злоба дня f (zloba dnja, literally “one-day grudge”)


bull ring

(bullfighting) The area in which bullfighting takes place.

(US, horse racing) An unusually short track, typically six furlongs or less for one lap.

(military slang, obsolete, chiefly British) A corral wherein horses are exercised and riders trained.


burrstone

en-noun

burrstone (countable and uncountable, plural burrstones)

A tough, silicified limestone formerly used to make millstones. It is typified by the presence of multiple cavities that originally housed fossilized shells.


someplace

We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.


coffeehouse

[…] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.

1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin, London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3:

An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.


houseboat

A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.


anyplace

It’s funny, I’ve never felt anyplace was home before.

1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2, Chapter 2:

(informal, chiefly US) At a non-specific place; anywhere.


hotshot

Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the hotshots fast enough.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:

(US, rail transport) A fast freight train.


footfall

footfall (countable and uncountable, plural footfalls)

From foot (“part of the human leg below the ankle”) + fall (“act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity”, noun).

compound

This stir of change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall, haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune; and, fortune found, still wander.

1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “In the Valley. III. Napa Wine.”, in The Silverado Squatters, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 46:

With high-street stores desperate to increase footfall and buck the financial downturn, retailers have started issuing discount vouchers.

2008 December 9, “Bargains galore in battle of the high street”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh: The Scotsman Publications, JPIMedia Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-08-23:

John Betjeman enjoyed travelling on the line and said that, when he retired, he'd like to be the station master at Blake Hall, which was the stop before Ongar until it (Blake Hall) was closed permanently in 1981, its passenger footfall being down to six a day, or twelve, depending on whether you're counting passengers or feet.

2012, Andrew Martin, “New Works”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, London: Profile Books, →ISBN, page 209:

(uncountable, originally and chiefly British) The number of pedestrians going into or passing through a place (especially a commercial venue such as a shop) during a specified time period; also, the pedestrians in a particular place regarded collectively; foot traffic.

jalankulkijamäärä

number of pedestrians going into or passing through a place during a specified time period; pedestrians in a particular place regarded collectively


workplace

The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.

2022 January 26, John Crosse, “When the tide turned to a safer railway...”, in RAIL, number 949, page 53:

It [the West Midlands Rail Executive] also notes that some people are choosing to live further from their workplace and commute less often.

2022 December 28, Philip Haigh, “Building the case for West Midlands rail improvements”, in RAIL, number 973, page 24:


draaikont

nl-noun

draaikont m (plural draaikonten, diminutive draaikontje n)

draaikonten (plural)
draaikontje (diminutive neuter)

20th century. Compound of draaien (“to turn (around)”) + kont (“butt, bum”).

compound

(informal) a U-turner; an inconsistent person, who readily changes position (literally, “butt-turner”)

(informal) a fidget; someone who can't sit still


coverall

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

(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A loose-fitting jumpsuit-style protective garment worn over other clothing.


hookworm

en-noun

hookworm (countable and uncountable, plural hookworms)

en:any of several parasitic roundworm genera

(countable) Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.


rainforest

rainforest (countable and uncountable, plural rainforests)

From rain + forest, a calque of German Regenwald.

Perhaps the most impressive expression of species diversity is the density of species found in a given area of rainforest.

2002, Chris C. Park, Tropical Rainforests, page 27:

Tropical rainforests in Australia have suffered a fate similar in many ways to that of rainforests elsewhere in the world, but considerable progress in safeguarding the future of what remains has been made.

2004, Nigel E. Stork, “24: The Theory and Practice of Planning for Long-Term Conservation of Biodiversity of Wet Tropics Rainforests in Australia”, in Eldredge Bermingham, Christopher W. Dick, Craig Moritz, editors, Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future, page 508:

Enjoy your visit to the rainforests, because the next time you go there things could be very different.

2014, Nick Hunter, Rainforests, page 38:

A forest in a climate with high annual rainfall and no dry season.


tucker fucker

tucker fucker (countable and uncountable, plural tucker fuckers)

From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).

(uncountable, Australia, slang) Tomato sauce.


hairbrush

A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair


bandstand

Brian Cox as Logan Roy (2019), 31:28 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I saw a mistle thrush at the bandstand.”

A small, open-air platform or enclosure for bands to play on, usually roofed.


apagafuegos

es-noun

apagafuegos m or f by sense (plural apagafuegos)

Verb-object compound, composed of apaga (“to extinguish”) + fuegos (“fires”).


lardass

It was soon realized that there werenąt^([sic]) enough creaky knees, arthritic hips and aching backs outside of the sunbelt to support carts so they went after the lardass trade. And when they realized that there were not sufficient numbers of creaky knees, arthritic hips, aching backs and lardasses, they targeted the morally crippled. And when they saw that creaky knees, arthritic hips, aching backs, lardasses and the morally crippled didnąt^([sic]) do it for them, they finally made carts mandatory for everyone.

1997 February 20, Albert Charles, “CART GOLF as I see it”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, vulgar) An overweight or obese person.


whorehouse

From Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore + house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).


cellmate

A person with whom one shares a prison cell.


stopwatch

A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.


cutthroat

en-noun

cutthroat (countable and uncountable, plural cutthroats)

Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again.

2015 May 22, Stan Carey, “The Kick-butt World of Cutthroat Compounds”, in Slate Lexicon Valley:

cutthroat compound
cutthroat compound#English

(linguistics) Short for cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).


dreamboat

From dream + boat, probably suggesting a person “carrying” or embodying the dreams of another; the term appeared in some 1930s and 1940s love songs, referring to a metaphorical boat carrying a lover’s dreams, such as “When My Dream Boat Comes Home” (1936) written by the Canadian-American bandleader Guy Lombardo (1902–1977) and “Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat” (1941) by the American songwriters Otis (1898–1970) and Leon René (1902–1982), and Emerson Scott.

My new fella is such a dreamboat. He can dance, can sing, and is the captain of the school hockey team.

(informal, dated or humorous) An exceptionally good-looking and sexually attractive person, particularly a man.


airfare

airfare (countable and uncountable, plural airfares)

I'd love to visit Paris, but I can't afford the airfare.

The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.


bookshop

bookstore

in the US, a bookshop mainly refers to a smaller type of shop


rattletrap

Mom always worried about our safety in my friend's rattletrap. I told her not to worry, as it can't go fast enough to be dangerous.

(informal) A mechanical device, particularly an automobile, that is worn out, run down, or mechanically unreliable as indicated by noises it makes in operation.

Shut your rattletrap!

(dated, slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.


powerhouse

The new powerhouse comprised two tube turbines with a total capacity of 4,500 kW under 18.3 feet head.

1986, Donald R. Froelich, S. K. Wagner, Fourth International Symposium on Hydro Power Fluid Machinery:

A power station; the building housing a power station

The company has been a powerhouse in its industry for many years.

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

She's a powerhouse of ideas.

The Soviet Union often led the world in the Olympics during the Cold War, and East Germany was an Olympic powerhouse — though athletes from both are now believed to have been systematically and massively doped[…]

2016 August 25, Fareed Zakaria, “What the Olympics reveal about the world”, in The Washington Post:

While the California economy maintains its powerhouse status, outranking even those of most countries, the state’s most-powerful sectors — including tech companies and supply chain logistics — have struggled to keep their footing, pummeled by high interest rates, investor skittishness, labor strife and other turmoil.

2023 April 11, Kurtis Lee, “California Economy Is on Edge After Tech Layoffs and Studio Cutbacks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Long Europe’s powerhouse, Germany is struggling with a potent mix of short-term and deeper structural problems that – along with a divided and seemingly ineffectual government – have prompted economists to talk of the “sick man of Europe”.

2024 January 5, Jon Henley, “Why is Germany’s economy struggling – and can the government fix it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The vocal powerhouse has sold more than 250 million albums during her 40-year career and has won five Grammy awards.

2024 February 4, “Celine Dion makes surprise appearance at Grammy awards”, in bbc.com:

(figurative) Any source of power, energy or strength; a source of influence or inspiration

A hand like A-2-3-4 is a powerhouse in Omaha/8, because it can easily make the best low hand and capture half the pot.

2011, Richard D. Harroch, Lou Krieger, Poker For Dummies:

(card games) A very good hand of cards, likely to win.


gravestone

From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone.

The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised. The discovery of a single gravestone may provide more information on the history of a family than could be gleaned from […]

2005, William J. Roulston, Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800, Ulster Historical Foundation, →ISBN, page 41:

A stone slab set at the head of a grave.


mineshaft

A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined.


catchpole

From Old French chacepol (“one who chases fowls”) (or a northern variant thereof).

der

With two such catchpoles as Henry and Uncle Fred at his heels there was nothing left for Grandpa Piper but to sign his abdication to the drapery business.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 247:

(obsolete) A taxman, one who gathers taxes.

A sheriff’s officer, usually one who arrests debtors.


catchpole

The use of the catch-pole is said to have been to take horsemen in battle by the neck and drag them from their horses.

1843, Henry Shaw, Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, W Pickering:

(historical) An implement formerly used for seizing and securing a person who would otherwise be out of reach.


bookmark

From Middle English *boke-merk, *boke-merke (attested only in the bare form merk (“bookmark”)), equivalent to book + mark. Cognate with Danish bogmærke (“bookmark”), Swedish bokmärke (“bookmark”), Norwegian bokmerke (“bookmark”), Icelandic bókamerki (“bookmark”). Eclipsed non-native Old English æstel (“bookmark”), from Old Irish astal, from Latin hastula (“little spear, splint”).

(databases) A pointer found in a nonclustered index to a row in a clustered index or a table heap