pickpenny

[…]and therefore lie wholly at the mercy of him whom the greatness of his Title and Pontifical Pomp, exceeding so infinitely his just Revenues, must make a severe exacter of Tribute from them that are most appropriately under his power, and thereby put them to unworthy shifts and sharkings upon the people by pious, or rather impious, Sleights and Frauds, he sending out and dispersing these Birds of his in numerous flocks, to be his hungry Pick-peny's throughout the whole Pastorage of the Empire.

1664, Dr. Henry More, A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, book 2, chapter 9, section 8, page 143:


do-all

Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things.

1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):


smell-feast

Paraſites, were called ſoche ſmellefeaſtes as would ſeeke to be free geaſtes at richemens tables.

1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Alexander the Greate”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 144, recto, paragraph 38:

Origen ſpeaks of the religation of theſe Dæmons near their Statues, vvhether by Magical incantation, or that, like ſo many ſmell-Feaſts, they hankered near the Altars, to enjoy the nidorous fumes of the Sacrifices, […]

1664, H[enry] More, chapter VII, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 21:

She [the ant] lives upon her Ovvn, Honeſtly Gotten and Poſſeſs'd, vvithout either Envy or Violence; VVhereas the Fly is an Intruder, and a Common Smell-Feaſt, that Spunges upon Other peoples Trenchers.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] XXXIV. An Ant and a Fly [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 33:

[W]ho has a ſtupid Intellect, a Broken memory, and a blaſted vvit, and (vvhich is vvorſe than all) a Blind and a Benighted Conſcience, but the Intemperate and Luxurious, the Epicure and the Smell-feaſt?

1693 November 8 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1698, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Christ-Church in Oxford before the University, Octob. 29. 1693.”, in Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Warren for Thomas Bennet […], →OCLC, page 94:

The smell-feasts rouse them at the hint / There's cookery in a certain dwelling-place!

1869, Robert Browning, “VIII. Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 92, lines 39–40:

(archaic) One who is apt to find and frequent places where good food is available; especially one who comes uninvited to a meal; a parasite; a sponger.


breedbate

No telltale nor no breedbate.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

(obsolete, rare) Someone who causess quarrels; a quarreler


boutefeu

(mining) blaster, shotfirer (person in charge of detonating explosives)


clubfist

The rascall rude, the roag, the clubfist griepte / My sclender arme, and pluckt mee on in hast: / And with my robes the bloudy ground hee sweepte: / As I drue backe hee hal'd mee on full fast.

1574, John Higgins, “How the Lady Sabrine, daughter of King Locrinus and Elstride, was drowned by Queen Guendoline. Ant. C. 1064.”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Mirror for Magistrates, London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., published 1815, page 79:


swagbelly

Sancho Zancas […] in the picture, was represented as a person of a short stature, swag belly, and long spindle shanks […].

1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, II.1:

He swept his gaze over the short, squat throat, the hairy swagbelly, and the mighty breast, swelling in giant arches like twin shields.

1935, Robert Ervin Howard, “The Haunter of the Pits”, in The Hour of the Dragon:

However, so many swagbellies and puff-bags will hardly go to St Hiacco, as there did in the year 524

1694, Peter, transl. Motteux, chapter V, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel by Rabelais, François, published c. 1564:

(medicine) A distended abdomen, especially caused by a tumour or enlarged organ; a physconia.


tire-lait

fr-noun

tire-lait m (plural tire-lait or tire-laits)


draggle-tail

From draggle (“to make wet and muddy by dragging along the ground”) + tail. Implying that such a person's gown trailed in the mire or along the ground.

compound

For yee shall not onely see the Damoiselles (Gentlewomen) and them of the better sort, but euery poore Chapperonnieze (draggletayle) euen to the Coblers daughter, that can Dance with good measure, & Arte, all your Quarantes, Leualties, Bransles, & other Dances whatsoeuer […]

1604, Robert Dallington, The View of Fraunce, London: Symon Stafford:

It was a long canting monologue, which ended with, "And a lady is just what you are not — you don't even wear under-drawers, you draggle-tail!" Whereupon in her fury she lifted her skirts and showed me that she did wear underdrawers.

2010, Alexander Granach, Herbert Lewis, From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor, page 133:

(chiefly archaic) A slut or slattern; a slovenly woman.


draggle-tail

You notice that across the lawn the coppice looks not so wind-beaten and draggletail as it did a while ago.

1903, W. G. Collingwood, “The Fésole Club Papers: Chapter X: Infinity”, in The Parents' Review, volume 14, number 10, page 781:

—words spliced to form
draggletail phrases
met by brittle conjunctions–
We two are poorly bound

1982, Joseph Sherman, “The little black ant and the little blue heron”, in Lords of shouting: Poems, page 70:

Dirty, draggletail, it was nevertheless an important street […]

1982, Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow, page 68:


swingebuckler

There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele, a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the Inns-of-court; and, I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were.

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

(obsolete) A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.


gagne-petit

fr-noun

gagne-petit m or f by sense (plural gagne-petit)

(obsolete) (travelling) grinder, knife-grinder


scratchback

(UK, dated) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.


sellsword

One such warrior was Kothar, cast up by the sea in the northlands of his world, a sellsword and a mercenary, a wencher after the women of his day, a freebooter and a thief, at times, whose sword Frostfire was a magic sword.

1969, Gardner Francis Fox, “Prologue”, in Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman, reprinted in The First Kothar the Barbarian MEGAPACK, Wildside Press, published 2016, →ISBN:

Your profession always charges high and never guarantees their work. No sellsword would stay alive if he demanded a sorcerer's terms.

1982, Robert Lynn Asprin, “Exercise in Pain”, in Storm Season, →ISBN:

The sellsword scrambled backward, checking each blow, stepping lithely over rock and root, his eyes never leaving his foe. He was quicker, Catelyn saw; the knight's silvered sword never came near to touching him, but his own ugly grey blade hacked a notch from Ser Vadis's shoulder plate.

1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire), Bantam Books (2011), →ISBN, pages 367–368:

Bandit: It's those fool villagers...They think they can buy a bunch of sellswords to chase us away.

2005, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, "Chapter 1: The Battle Begins", developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube


drabble-tail

From drabble (“to make wet and dirty by dragging through the mud”) + tail.

compound

Whose tinsel robes of tawdry language trail, Slatterns in fine attire, a drabble tail; Whose monft'rous thoughts, diminutive and vile, Seem pigmy pages to a giant style;

1785, The Beauties of the Brinsleiad, page 22:

If the rubber piled up to the ceiling she would simply move to another room. His disgust with such slatternly, drabbletail customs of India rose to the surface as he slapped twenty-rupees in the crack-salesman's light-colored palm. The girl winked at the pimp as he slipped out to the hallway.

1979, Dale Riepe, The Owl Flies by Day, page 40:

Lad-loupin molls an gadabouts, / fellow-fond an sly, / flappy-skets an drabble-tails / oo'll bleed a bloke bone-dry: […]

1985 July, Blake Morrison, “The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper”, in London Review of Books, volume 7, number 12:

I am told he is come back from his travels, bringing a drabble[-]tail with him, a wench from Baltimore […]

1989, Patrick O'Brian, Fortune of War, page 147:

No Latin prayers or laughing drabble-tail whores.

1998, Mark Anthony Jarman, “Skin a Flea for Hide and Tallow”, in 19 Knives, published 2008, page 71:

A couple of hundred papist drabble-tails, found begging for quarter with whorish mouths, are heaped by some wagons, where his men eye them hungrily.

2014, Antonia Senior, Treason's Daughter:

They're hard, often brutal, sometimes vicious to their wives, their 'drabbletails' (girlfriends), and one another.

2018, Clancy Sigal, The London Lover: My Weekend that Lasted Thirty Years:

A draggle-tail; a prostitute or promiscuous woman.

Jinx said to Bubber [a male character]– "Aw go 'haid, drabble[-]tail. Ain' nobody studyin' yo' family."

1994, Rudolph Fisher, The Walls of Jericho, page 14:

the drunken drabbletail Dublin drab

2002, Seamus Deane, Angela Bourke, Andrew Carpenter, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing - Volume 5, page 1607:

The mule didn't budge. "Gol-danged son of a splinter-cat!! Hee-yah...Hee-yah!" The man then resorted to a blow with a heavy, stick.^([sic]) "In all my born days I never seen such a ornery, blamed drabbletail!" he yelled.

2002, Beverly Mai, Kate of Kentucky: Land of Blood and Plenty, page 158:

"That's as well, you low-arsed pair o' drabble-tails. I wants to see you behind a plough this afternoon. […]"

2016, Julian Stockwin, chapter 2, in The Powder of Death:

An untidy person; a general term of contempt.

Ngarara went in, and mistaking the post for Ruru, encircled it with the drabbletail of her dress.

1876, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, page 117:

Probably she got it on hire from some cheap costume dealer in the Brunnen Strasse or some such locality. It was a perfect drabbletail, and looked hideous.

1886, Julius Stinde, The Buchholz Family: Sketches of Berlin Life - Volume 1, page 86:

A drabble tail a trample — an empty coddle cap

1996, John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell, John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837: Volume V, page 752:

A mess; something bedraggled or cheaply made.


drabble-tail

What was ailing this ordinarily competent musical flock that they should have languished into such a straggly, drabbletail gathering of barnyard fowl?

1993, Nancy Kay Webb, “Community Concert”, in Ridge Review, volume 10, page 42:

Most of the inhabitants were white women, noted Tom Osborn, with lots of dirty, half-naked children hanging onto their skirts. When Osborn asked a drabbletail group gathered in front of a stick-chimney shanty to account for their husbands, two or three acknowledged the men were away soldiering; another claimed to be an old maid.

1999, Michael Golay, A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War, page 101:


crève-la-faim

From crever de faim. See also crever la dalle for a closer transitive use.


scapegallows

From scape (archaic for escape) + gallows.

archaic for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">escape</i>

[…] And remember this, 'scapegallows,' said Ralph, menacing him with his hand, 'that if we meet again, and you so much as notice me by one begging gesture, you shall see the inside of a jail once more […]

1838–1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

(colloquial, dated) A criminal who has narrowly escaped being hanged.


gagne-pain

fr-noun

gagne-pain m (plural gagne-pain or gagne-pains)

gagne-pain (plural)
gagne-pains (plural)

From gagner (“to win, earn”) + pain (“bread”).

af

Aujourd’hui que mon gagne-pain / C’est de parler comme un turlupin

1958, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Le Pornographe”:


coupe-gorge

no-go zone, deathtrap, cutthroat area, dangerous area, ghetto


skip-kennel

(obsolete) A young lackey or assistant; a footboy.


quebra-cabeças

[ˌkɛ.βɾɐ.kɐˈβe.sɐʃ]


quebra-nozes

/ˌkɛ.bɾɐˈnɔ.zɨʃ/

[ˌkɛ.βɾɐˈnɔ.zɨʃ]


matapiollos

From mata (“kills”) + piollos (“lice”). Compare Asturian matapioyos, Venetan masapeoci.


guarda-sol

[ˌɡwaɦ.dɐˈsɔʊ̯]

[ˌɡwaɦ.dɐˈsɔʊ̯]

[ˌɡwaɾ.dɐˈsɔʊ̯]

[ˌɡwaʁ.dɐˈsɔʊ̯]

[ˌɡwaɾ.ðɐˈsɔɫ]

[ˌɡwaɾ.ðɐˈsɔɫ]

a large parasol; sun umbrella (umbrella used as protection from the sun)


porte-documents

fr-noun

porte-documents m (plural porte-documents)


ouvre-bouteille

ouvre-bouteille m (plural ouvre-bouteilles)


paraquedas

[ˌpa.ɾɐˈkɛ.ðɐʃ]

From para (“stops”) + quedas (“falls”), a calque of French parachute, from para- (“protection against”).


botafumeiro

From botar (“to throw”) + fume (“smoke”) + -eiro.


smellfungus

en-noun

smellfungus (plural smellfunguses or smellfungi)

smellfunguses (plural)
smellfungi (plural)

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

/ˈsmɛlˌfʌŋɡəs/

From Smelfungus, name of a hypercritical traveller in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, a satirical characterization of Tobias Smollett and his Travels Through France and Italy (1766). Apparently from smell + fungus.

But this want of a softening medium, and consequently, of aerial perspective, is not the defect of the Rhine scenery in particular, but of river views in general. And then it is so rich in equivalents—so strong in picture; a true Smellfungus would exclaim, “Yes; but the pictures are all alike.”

1834, Mary Boddington, Slight reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a corner of Italy, volume I, page 81:

Nor is she a smellfungus searching for weeds where roses grow, or setting down everything a wilderness from Braga to Barcelona.

1847, “Journal of a few Months' Residence in Portugal, and Glimpses of the South of Spain”, in Quarterly Review, volume LXXXI, number CLXI, page 88:

(archaic) A faultfinder, complainer, grumbler.


serre-jarretelles

fr-noun

serre-jarretelles m (plural serre-jarretelles)

(rare) suspender belt (UK), garter belt (US)


aparcacoches

gl-noun

aparcacoches m or f by sense (invariable)

parking lot attendant
parking lot attendant

valet, parking attendant (US), parking lot attendant (person employed to park cars)


passe-montagne

fr-noun

passe-montagne m (plural passe-montagnes)


waaghals

nl-noun

waaghals m (plural waaghalzen, diminutive waaghalsje n)

waaghalzen (plural)
waaghalsje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of wagen (“to risk, dare”) + hals (“neck”).


lackwit

en-adj

lackwit (comparative more lackwit, superlative most lackwit)

more lackwit (comparative)
most lackwit (superlative)

An evil, however, accompanied the benefit; shoals of worthless authors sprang up, and you may still perceive the garreteer drawing upon his lackwit brain for some production, the labour of which he expects will be paid by the declaration of his country, that a second Boileau, a Montesquieu, or a Racine has at length appeared.

1818, Peter Hervé, How to enjoy Paris, page 257:

One wall was painted with the story of St Robert the hermit and his persecution by Sir William de Stuteville, while the other depicted the cowherd Caedmon, albeit looking too lackwit to herd a hen let alone wax lyrical.

2016, Isolde Martyn, The Knight and the Rose:

Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.

2018, Chris Claremont, George Lucas, Shadow Dawn:


attrape-rêves

From attrape (“(he/she/it) catches”, third person singular indicative of attraper) + rêves (“dreams”, plural of rêve).

af

third person singular indicative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">attraper</i>

plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">rêve</i>

L’ambiance était douillette, un peu étouffante. Trop de bibelots indiens, attrape-rêves, sacs-médecine et tambours de pluie qui auraient été davantage à leur place dans un musée.

2010, Serge Brussolo, chapter 4, in Ceux d'en bas, Fleuve Noir, page 30:

The atmosphere was cosy, slightly stifling. There were too many Indian ornaments, dreamcatchers, medicine bags and rain drums which would have been more at home in a museum.


quentapirolas

gl-noun

quentapirolas m or f by sense (invariable)

quentar (“heat up/excite”) + pirolas (“cocks”)

compound

(vulgar) blue-baller, cock tease, cocktease, cockteaser, prickteaser, tease


catasol

15th century. From catar (“to catch, watch”) + sol (“sun”).

umbrella, sunshade, parasol (used to protect against the sun)


broute-minou

(slang, vulgar) cunnilingus, carpet munching, muff diving, pussy eating


vira-casaca

pt-noun

vira-casaca m or f by sense (plural vira-casacas)

turncoat (a traitor; one who changes sides)


limpaparabrisas

limpar (“to clean”) + parabrisas (“windscreen”)


lambe-botas

pt-noun

lambe-botas m or f by sense (invariable)

/ˌlɐ̃.bɨˈbɔ.tɐʃ/

[ˌlɐ̃.bɨˈβɔ.tɐʃ]

bootlicker (person who behaves in a servile or obsequious manner)


mata-sanos

quack (fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine)


monta-cargas

/ˌmõ.tɐˈkaʁ.ɡɐʃ/

/ˌmõ.tɐˈkaɾ.ɡɐʃ/

[ˌmõ.tɐˈkaɾ.ɣɐʃ]

service lift, goods lift, cargo lift (UK), freight elevator, goods elevator, service elevator, cargo elevator (US)


vira-casacas

vira-casacas m or f by sense (invariable)


trouble-fête

fr-noun

trouble-fête m or f by sense (plural trouble-fête or trouble-fêtes)

trouble-fête (plural)
trouble-fêtes (plural)

Inherited from Middle French trouble-feste, from Old French troblefeste. Compound of troubler + fête.


para-lama

mudguard (a flap behind the wheel of a vehicle)


para-raios

[ˌpa.ɾɐˈχaɪ̯.uʃ]

From para (“stops”) + raios (“lightnings”)

lightning rod (metallic conductor that protects buildings from lightning)


para-choque

/ˌpa.ɾɐˈʃɔ.kɨ/

/ˌpa.ɾɐˈʃɔ.kɨ/

/ˌpa.ɾɐˈt͡ʃɔ.kɨ/

(automotive) bumper (impact absorber on a vehicle)


porta-voz

pt-noun

porta-voz m or f by sense (plural porta-vozes)

[ˌpɔχ.tɐˈvɔ(ɪ̯)ʃ]

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈvɔʃ/

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈvɔʃ/

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈbɔʃ/

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈβɔʃ]

Literally "voice carrier" or "voice bearer".

spokesperson, spokesman, spokeswoman (one who speaks as the voice of a group)


porta-malas

Ela se aproxima. Sua roupa mostra um corpo tonificado e uma bunda maravilhosa. Caramba, eu sabia que ela tinha um belo porta-malas quando estávamos na faculdade, mas não era tão empinado e redondo. book: International Guy: Londres, Berlim, Washington (Vol. 3), por Audrey Carlan · 2020

Cinquenta e seis anos, mas a bunda dele parece um tijolo. — Deve ser isso. George tem um porta-malas considerável mesmo. book: Billy Summers, por Stephen King · 2021

Eu já gosto de uma mulher com o porta-malas grande. Americano gosta de faróis grandes. book: Contos Sem Pudor, por Vinício Das Mercês · 2020


porta-luvas

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈlu.βɐʃ]

glove compartment (compartment recessed in an automobile’s dashboard)


porta-aviões

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.a.vɪˈõɪ̯̃s]

[ˌpɔχ.tɐ.a.vɪˈõɪ̯̃ʃ]

[ˌpɔχ.tɐ.aˈvjõɪ̯̃ʃ]

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.ɐˈvjõj̃ʃ/

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.ɐˈvjõj̃ʃ/

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.ɐˈbjõj̃ʃ/

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.ɐˈβjõj̃ʃ]

From porta (“it carries”, verb) + avião (“airplane”, noun).

af

A Coreia do Norte garantiu estar preparada para responder ao que entende ser uma provocação dos seus rivais. “As nossas forças revolucionárias estão preparadas militarmente para afundar o porta-aviões nuclear dos EUA com apenas um ataque”, escreveu o Rodong Sinmun, o jornal oficial do Partido dos Trabalhadores da Coreia.

2017 April 24, João Ruela Ribeiro, “Coreia do Norte ameaça afundar porta-aviões norte-americano”, in Público:

North Korea has assured that they are prepared to respond to what it considers a provocation by its enemies. Radong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, published that “our revolutionary forces are militarily prepared to sink the US’s nuclear aircraft carrier with a single attack”.

aircraft carrier (warship for launching aircraft)


puxa-saco

pt-noun

puxa-saco m or f by sense (plural puxa-sacos)

Deverbal from puxar saco, from puxa + saco.

I guess it sure must be easy being a people-pleaser like you.

2018 November 13, “A espada” (8:10 from the start), in She-Ra e as Princesas do Poder, season 1, episode 1 (streaming), spoken by Felina (Fernanda Baronne), Rio de Janeiro: Gramophone, dubbing of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: The Sword, via Netflix:

It would be way easier if I were a sycophant like you.

(Brazil, colloquial, derogatory) sycophant, apple polisher (one who uses compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another person)


quebra-mar

[ˌkɛ.βɾɐˈmaɾ]

[ˌkɛ.βɾɐˈmaɾ]

breakwater (construction around a harbour)


porta-joias

/ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈʒɔj.ɐs/

[ˌpɔh.tɐˈʒɔɪ̯.ɐs]

/ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈʒɔj.ɐs/

[ˌpɔh.tɐˈʒɔɪ̯.ɐs]

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈʒɔj.ɐs/

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈʒɔɪ̯.ɐs]

/ˌpɔʁ.tɐˈʒɔj.ɐʃ/

[ˌpɔχ.tɐˈʒɔɪ̯.ɐʃ]

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐˈʒɔj.ɐʃ/


rola-bosta

/ˈʁɔ.lɐ ˈbɔʃ.tɐ/

[ˈχɔ.lɐ ˈbɔʃ.tɐ]

(Brazil, vulgar) roller; dung beetle (beetle that rolls dung into round balls)


porta-copos

From porta (“carries”) + copos (“glasses”).

coaster (a recipient for glasses placed over tables in order to avoid the table's humidity)


know-nothing

Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb. Compare do-nothing § Etymology.

All over the world, know-nothing xenophobes are claiming – without evidence – that climate science is rigged.

2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian:

Ignorant; characterized by foolish denial of facts or beliefs in that which is not true.


know-nothing

An ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge.


prête-nom

Catalan: prestanoms (calque)


porta-bandeira

porta-bandeira m or f by sense (plural porta-bandeiras)

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ɾɐ/

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.βɐ̃ˈdɐj.ɾɐ]

/ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ɾɐ/

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.βɐ̃ˈdɐj.ɾɐ]

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.βɐ̃ˈdej.ɾɐ]

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.βɐ̃ˈdej.ɾɐ]

[ˌpɔɾ.tɐ.βɐ̃ˈde.ɾɐ]

flag-bearer (person who carries flag or banner)


porta-estandarte

porta-estandarte m or f by sense (plural porta-estandartes)

standard-bearer; flag-bearer (person who carries flag or banner)

O que é feito do cinema francês de "classe média"? Aquela geração de cineastas sóbrios, clássicos, atentos à narrativa e aos actores, algo burgueses é certo, mas sem excessivas pretensões autoristas, nem vontade de ceder ao popularucho, que terá tido em Claude Sautet o seu porta-estandarte nos anos 1970?

2016 February 16, Jorge Mourinha, “A classe média francesa está bem e recomenda-se”, in Público:

(figuratively) representant; poster child; figurehead


papa-léguas

roadrunner (bird of the Geococcyx genus)


chasse-café

fr-noun

chasse-café m (plural chasse-café or chasse-cafés)

chasse-café (plural)
chasse-cafés (plural)

Literally, “coffee-chaser”, from chasse (“chase, drive off”, 2nd person singular imperative of chasser) + café (“coffee”).

af

2nd person singular imperative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">chasser</i>

(archaic, rare) chasse-café, pousse-café (small glass of alcohol after coffee)


crackjaw

a crackjaw language

a crackjaw name

Benjamin Disraeli, who was a pretty bright guy—a novelist, debater, and prime minister of England—tried to identify a person once and ended up exclaiming, "A Polish nobleman, a Count somebody; I never can remember their crack-jaw name."

2009, Patsy Clairmont, All Cracked Up: Experiencing God in the Broken Places:


balikbayan

tl-noun

balikbayan (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜃ᜔ᜊᜌᜈ᜔)

expatriate that returns to their native country (especially Filipinos)


nipcheese

(military jargon, derogatory) Synonym of purser.


brise-glace

fr-noun

brise-glace m (plural brise-glace or brise-glaces)

brise-glace (plural)
brise-glaces (plural)


allume-cigare

cigar lighter (device in a motor car that was originally designed to light cigars and cigarettes)


appui-main

appui-main m (plural appuis-main or appui-mains)

appuis-main (plural)
appui-mains (plural)

From appuyer (“to support”) + main (“hand”).


watchnight

New Year's Eve

whereas watch night is the night that begins at sundown on New Year's Eve and ends with sunrise on New Year's Day

not identical to watchnight – New Year's Eve is the entire day before New Year's Day

And there is one night in the year I have always observed – the good old Methodist vigil called Watch-night, popularly described as "seeing the old year out and the new year in." […] I have only been a Methodist once a year; and peculiar, accordingly, have my watch-night emotions been. There stands the old portico in —— street; can it be a year since I ascended those steps? These are the aisles, the columns, the pulpit, the recess with its inscriptions, the Christmas evergreens yet fresh over the Communion Table – silent preachers all, that seem to say: "You and I are a year older, friend; but we have seen more watch-nights than you, and are likely to see more yet;[…]["]

1861, “Watch-night in the Channel”, in The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, London: The Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 260:

This was the first watchnight meeting among the Methodists. The people met at half-past eight; the house was filled from end to end; and "we concluded the year," says [John] Wesley, "wrestling with God in prayer, and praising Him for the wonderful work which He had already wrought upon the earth."

1872, L[uke] Tyerman, The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., Founder of the Methodists. … In Three Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 333:

Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Celebration: Order of Watchnight Service to be Held in Every Wesleyan-Methodist Place of Worship in Great Britain on the Night of Monday, 31st December, 1900, Being the Last Night of the Nineteenth Century

[1900], Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Celebration, London, Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson and Viney, →OCLC, cover title:

The first watch night services ever held in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church were but poorly attended, […]

1901 January 1, “Watch Night Services”, in The New York Times, page 2:

Watchnight. December 31 This is a midnight service that summarizes the past year. In recent centuries, the Moravians and early Methodists have celebrated it as a vigil service focusing on newness, the spiritual life, and covenants.

1999, R. Mark Liebenow, And Everyone Shall Praise: Resources for Multicultural Worship, Cleveland, Oh.: United Church Press, →ISBN, page 77:

(Christianity) A religious service involving a review of the past year and preparation for the year ahead participated in by Methodists and members of other Christian denominations which starts late on New Year's Eve and ends after midnight on New Year's Day; hence, the night that begins on December 31 and ends on January 1.


attrape-mouche

attrape-mouche m (plural attrape-mouches)

From attrape (“traps”) + mouche (“fly”).


turntail

One who turns tail, or flees in cowardice.


casse-briques

(video games) a style of video game in which the player moves a paddle to deflect a ball so as to clear a grid of bricks by striking them with the ball


papafigo

From papar (“to eat”) + figo (“fig”). The name of the sail, already attested in 1433, must derive from the name of the bird.

Oriolus oriolus
Oriolus oriolus#Translingual


lackland

Only let me say, that I should be as glad as you could be to find myself in possession of a good independent fortune: and that we poor lacklands and lackstocks who have to earn our livelihood, must endeavour to make the best of it.

1802 November 6, Robert Southey, Letter to To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq.; republished in Warter, John Wood, editor, Selections from the letters of Robert Southey, volume 3, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856, page 212:


wentelwiek

nl-noun

wentelwiek f (plural wentelwieken, diminutive wentelwiekje n)

wentelwieken (plural)
wentelwiekje (diminutive neuter)

From wentelen (“to rotate, to revolve”) + wiek (“propeller, blade (of a mill)”).

compound

Natuurlijk hangt de oplossing niet van een luchtbombardement of een handvol wentelwieken af.

2007, Ko Colijn, “On(in-)grijpbaar Darfur”, in Vrij Nederland, page 26:

Of course the solution doesn't depend on an aerial bombing or a handful of helicopters.


caga-regras

(idiomatic, vulgar) tyrannical, bossy, demanding


hush puppy

When we used it in our “hush puppy” against a sentry, the target was almost always hit only once, in the head.

Normally, they would have used the silenced .22 ‘Hush Puppy’ pistol to dispatch both the dog and the sentry, but this was an exercise.

2021, Christophe Downes, War Crimes for the Political Elite:

(military slang) A semiautomatic handgun fitted with a suppressor, used by special forces personnel to quietly take out guard dogs and sentries.


rzezimieszek

rzezimieszek (nominative singular)
rzezimieszkowie (nominative plural)
rzezimieszki (nominative plural)
rzezimieszka (genitive singular)
rzezimieszków (genitive plural)
rzezimieszkowi (dative singular)
rzezimieszkom (dative plural)
rzezimieszka (accusative singular)
rzezimieszków (accusative plural)
rzezimieszkiem (instrumental singular)
rzezimieszkami (instrumental plural)
rzezimieszku (locative singular)
rzezimieszkach (locative plural)
rzezimieszku (singular vocative)
rzezimieszkowie (plural vocative)
rzezimieszki (plural vocative)

From rzezać + -i- + mieszek. First attested in 1581. Compare English cutpurse and French coupe-bourse.

(Middle Polish, more specifically) cutpurse (thief that steals by cutting off a purse a belt)


scare-the-birds

Miss Padsoe looked very fragile and old, more like a scare-the-birds than a woman as she carefully wrapped a mothy old bit of fur round her thin neck, and Miss Baker wondered if she ought to come out in this bitter cold, and said as much.

A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable.

1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 22:


worricow

Hout, na! it canna be our commander Monſieur de Champignon, running about in the dark like a worricow!

1757, [Tobias George Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i:

(Scotland) Anything frightful or grotesque.


breekpunt

nl-noun

breekpunt n (plural breekpunten, diminutive breekpuntje n)

breekpunten (plural)
breekpuntje (diminutive neuter)

(politics) political red line, cause for ending coalition talks


starve-acre

Some sandy soils are much overrun with the wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), provincially called " rump," while the clays are swarmed with starve-acre (Ranunculus arvensis), and the clivers or burrs (Galium aparine), which are very troublesome to separate from the grain when winnowed.

1855, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 207:

It seems that a particularly tiresome form of rauunculus, well described by the nickname of “starve-acre," can be cxterminated with dressings of sulphate of ammonia, and that this method is equally efficacious in ridding land of the picturesque but unprofitable poppy. Where there is more starve-acre than grass, the farmer pays twice his nominal rent, and is otherwise wasting money by growing weeds on his pasture.

1922, Industrial & Mining Standard, page 500:

It is quite common for farmers to use cereal grains for seed which contain weed seeds, e.g. starve-acre (ranunculus arvensis), docks, wild oats, rye-like brome (bromus secolinus), etc.

1925, The Farmer and stockbreeder year book and country gentleman's almanack:

A type of crowfoot Ranunculus arvensis, known for growing on impoverished soil.


conta-gotas

dropper (utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time)


takipsilim

tl-noun

takipsilim (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜒᜉ᜔ᜐᜒᜎᜒᜋ᜔)

ᜆᜃᜒᜉ᜔ᜐᜒᜎᜒᜋ᜔ (Baybayin)


kieskring

nl-noun

kieskring m (plural kieskringen, diminutive kieskringetje n)

kieskringen (plural)
kieskringetje (diminutive neuter)

administrative regional electoral district (often of considerable size)


tear-cat

Fie upon't, mere fustian; I had rather hear two good bawdy jests then a whole play of such tear-cat thunder-claps.

1606, John Day, The Isle of Gulls, in White, Thomas, editor, The Old English Drama, volume 4, published 1830, Induction, page 15:

I am cal'd by those that have seen my valour, Tear-Cat.

1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girl, act 5, scene 1:


come-here

(US, Virginia, colloquial) A recent arrival to a place; a person who has only lately come to live in the area.


breakstone

en-noun

breakstone (countable and uncountable, plural breakstones)

Any plant growing in stony places, especially in cracks in stone

Pimpinella saxifraga
Pimpinella saxifraga#Translingual


Stawinoga

Stawinoga (nominative singular)
Stawinogowie (nominative plural)
Stawinogi (genitive singular)
Stawinogów (genitive plural)
Stawinodze (dative singular)
Stawinogom (dative plural)
Stawinogę (accusative singular)
Stawinogów (accusative plural)
Stawinogą (instrumental singular)
Stawinogami (instrumental plural)
Stawinodze (locative singular)
Stawinogach (locative plural)
Stawinogo (singular vocative)
Stawinogowie (plural vocative)

From stawiać + -i- + noga. Cognate of Czech Stavinoha.


Stawinoga

Stawinoga (nominative singular)
Stawinogi (nominative plural)
Stawinogi (genitive singular)
Stawinog (genitive plural)
Stawinodze (dative singular)
Stawinogom (dative plural)
Stawinogę (accusative singular)
Stawinogi (accusative plural)
Stawinogą (instrumental singular)
Stawinogami (instrumental plural)
Stawinodze (locative singular)
Stawinogach (locative plural)
Stawinogo (singular vocative)
Stawinogi (plural vocative)


Zawrzykraj

Zawrzykraj (nominative singular)
Zawrzykrajowie (nominative plural)
Zawrzykraja (genitive singular)
Zawrzykrajów (genitive plural)
Zawrzykrajowi (dative singular)
Zawrzykrajom (dative plural)
Zawrzykraja (accusative singular)
Zawrzykrajów (accusative plural)
Zawrzykrajem (instrumental singular)
Zawrzykrajami (instrumental plural)
Zawrzykraju (locative singular)
Zawrzykrajach (locative plural)
Zawrzykraju (singular vocative)
Zawrzykrajowie (plural vocative)


Kapinos

Kapinos (nominative singular)
Kapinosowie (nominative plural)
Kapinosa (genitive singular)
Kapinosów (genitive plural)
Kapinosowi (dative singular)
Kapinosom (dative plural)
Kapinosa (accusative singular)
Kapinosów (accusative plural)
Kapinosem (instrumental singular)
Kapinosami (instrumental plural)
Kapinosie (locative singular)
Kapinosach (locative plural)
Kapinosie (singular vocative)
Kapinosowie (plural vocative)

From kapać + -i- + nos. Compare Bolibrzuch, Boligłowa, Palichleb, Tracichleb, and Wozignój.


Soliwoda

Soliwoda (nominative singular)
Soliwodowie (nominative plural)
Soliwody (genitive singular)
Soliwodów (genitive plural)
Soliwodzie (dative singular)
Soliwodom (dative plural)
Soliwodę (accusative singular)
Soliwodów (accusative plural)
Soliwodą (instrumental singular)
Soliwodami (instrumental plural)
Soliwodzie (locative singular)
Soliwodach (locative plural)
Soliwodo (singular vocative)
Soliwodowie (plural vocative)


Soliwoda

Soliwoda (nominative singular)
Soliwody (nominative plural)
Soliwody (genitive singular)
Soliwod (genitive plural)
Soliwodzie (dative singular)
Soliwodom (dative plural)
Soliwodę (accusative singular)
Soliwody (accusative plural)
Soliwodą (instrumental singular)
Soliwodami (instrumental plural)
Soliwodzie (locative singular)
Soliwodach (locative plural)
Soliwodo (singular vocative)
Soliwody (plural vocative)


porte-drapeau

From porte (“carry”) + drapeau (“flag”).


akyat-bahay

tl-noun

akyát-bahay (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜃ᜔ᜌᜆ᜔ᜊᜑᜌ᜔)

akyát-bahay (canonical)
ᜀᜃ᜔ᜌᜆ᜔ᜊᜑᜌ᜔ (Baybayin)

Akyat-bahay Sa panaginip ko'y sa sala ako natutulog. Ginising ako ng kaluskos, o baka kalabog, at nakita ko sa bintana ang madilim na anyo ng isang lalaking paakyat sa ikalawang palapag ng ating apartment, sa kuwartong kinaroroonan ...

2000, Jose F. Lacaba, Edad medya: mga tula sa katanghaliang gulang, →ISBN:

House burglar. On my dreams, I was sleeping by the living rooom. I was awoken by a rustle, or maybe a thud, and I saw by the window, a dark silhouette of a man climbing the second floor of our apartment, at the room containing...

Para daw kasing nag-aadvertise sa Akyat Bahay Gang na “wala kami sa bahay, puwede kayong magpunta.” SELECTIVE DOCUMENTARY Dahil sa Facebook, ginagawa nating isang documentary ang ating buhay. We choose which aspect ...

2015, Mighty Rasing, Get A Life...Online: Tips and Tricks para sa Hardcore na Netizen, OMF Literature, →ISBN:

Because according to them, it seems like advertising to the House Burglar Gang that "we aren't in the house, you can go." SELECTIVE DOCUMENTARY Because of Facebook, we are making our lives one documentary. We choose which aspect...

house burglar, usually one that scales walls and is part of a gang


gallybagger

From gally (“to frighten”) + bagger (“beggar”).


vaarboom

nl-noun

vaarboom m (plural vaarbomen, diminutive vaarboompje n)

vaarbomen (plural)
vaarboompje (diminutive neuter)


Moczybroda

Moczybroda (nominative singular)
Moczybrodowie (nominative plural)
Moczybrody (genitive singular)
Moczybrodów (genitive plural)
Moczybrodzie (dative singular)
Moczybrodom (dative plural)
Moczybrodę (accusative singular)
Moczybrodów (accusative plural)
Moczybrodą (instrumental singular)
Moczybrodami (instrumental plural)
Moczybrodzie (locative singular)
Moczybrodach (locative plural)
Moczybrodo (singular vocative)
Moczybrodowie (plural vocative)

From moczyć + -y- + broda. Compare moczygęba.


Moczybroda

Moczybroda (nominative singular)
Moczybrody (nominative plural)
Moczybrody (genitive singular)
Moczybrod (genitive plural)
Moczybrodzie (dative singular)
Moczybrodom (dative plural)
Moczybrodę (accusative singular)
Moczybrody (accusative plural)
Moczybrodą (instrumental singular)
Moczybrodami (instrumental plural)
Moczybrodzie (locative singular)
Moczybrodach (locative plural)
Moczybrodo (singular vocative)
Moczybrody (plural vocative)


Pędziwiatr

Pędziwiatr (nominative singular)
Pędziwiatrowie (nominative plural)
Pędziwiatra (genitive singular)
Pędziwiatrów (genitive plural)
Pędziwiatrowi (dative singular)
Pędziwiatrom (dative plural)
Pędziwiatra (accusative singular)
Pędziwiatrów (accusative plural)
Pędziwiatrem (instrumental singular)
Pędziwiatrami (instrumental plural)
Pędziwiatrze (locative singular)
Pędziwiatrach (locative plural)
Pędziwiatrze (singular vocative)
Pędziwiatrowie (plural vocative)


Pędzimąż

Pędzimąż (nominative singular)
Pędzimążowie (nominative plural)
Pędzimąża (genitive singular)
Pędzimążów (genitive plural)
Pędzimążowi (dative singular)
Pędzimążom (dative plural)
Pędzimąża (accusative singular)
Pędzimążów (accusative plural)
Pędzimążem (instrumental singular)
Pędzimążami (instrumental plural)
Pędzimążu (locative singular)
Pędzimążach (locative plural)
Pędzimążu (singular vocative)
Pędzimążowie (plural vocative)

/pɛɲˈd͡ʑi.mɔw̃ʂ/


Pędzimąż

/pɛɲˈd͡ʑi.mɔw̃ʂ/


trompe-la-mort

fr-noun

trompe-la-mort m (plural trompe-la-mort)

Literally, “cheat-death”; more loosely, “death cheater”.

daredevil (person who engages in very risky behavior)


torcol

From tord (“he twists”) + col (“the neck”). Compare torticolis.


lack-all

To these outcast soldiers of his, unregimented roving banditti for the present, or unworking workhouse prisoners who are almost uglier than banditti; to these floods of Irish Beggars, Able-bodied Paupers, and nomadic Lackalls, now stagnating or roaming everywhere, drowning the face of the world (too truly) into an untenantable swamp and Stygian quagmire, has the Chief Governor of this country no word whatever to say?

1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The Present Time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:

Thus feel both the labourers and the lack-alls who do not labour, and partly both have a just grievance and a true quarrel against society.

1886, William Graham, The Social Problem, page 7:

One who has nothing; a destitute person.


salungguhit

tl-noun

salungguhit (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜓᜑᜒᜆ᜔)

ᜐᜎᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜓᜑᜒᜆ᜔ (Baybayin)

[sɐ.lʊŋˈɡuː.hɪt̪̚]

From salo + -ng- + guhit, literally “catching line”.


remue-ménage

fr-noun

remue-ménage m (plural remue-ménage or remue-ménages)

remue-ménage (plural)
remue-ménages (plural)

From remuer + ménage. Compare Walloon rimowe-manaedje.


bouche-trou

(informal, offensive) a second fiddle, a stopgap, a stand-in, a fill-in, a makeweight; a rebound (a person whose sole purpose is to fill a void left by another person)


lack-latin

From lack + Latin. Literally someone who does not understand the Latin language.

But some will say, our curate is naught, an asshead, a dodipole, a lack-latin, and can do nothing: Shall I pay him my tithes, that doth us no good or none will do? Yea, I say, thou must pay him his due; and if he be such a one, complain to the bishop.

1550 October 9, Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon preached at Stamford”, in John Watkins, editor, The Sermons and Life of Hugh Latimer, volume 1, London: Aylott & Son, published 1858, page 288:

(obsolete, derogatory) An uneducated, ignorant person.


hanapbuhay

tl-noun

hánapbúhay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜈᜉ᜔ᜊᜓᜑᜌ᜔)

hánapbúhay (canonical)
ᜑᜈᜉ᜔ᜊᜓᜑᜌ᜔ (Baybayin)


allume-feu

firelighter (small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires)


casse-vitesse

From casser (“to break”) + vitesse (“speed”), literally “speedbreaker”.


protège-matelas

fr-noun

protège-matelas m (plural protège-matelas)


Dzierżykraj

Dzierżykraj (nominative singular)
Dzierżykrajowie (nominative plural)
Dzierżykraja (genitive singular)
Dzierżykrajów (genitive plural)
Dzierżykrajowi (dative singular)
Dzierżykrajom (dative plural)
Dzierżykraja (accusative singular)
Dzierżykrajów (accusative plural)
Dzierżykrajem (instrumental singular)
Dzierżykrajami (instrumental plural)
Dzierżykraju (locative singular)
Dzierżykrajach (locative plural)
Dzierżykraju (singular vocative)
Dzierżykrajowie (plural vocative)


étouffe-chrétien

étouffe-chrétien m (plural étouffe-chrétiens)

From étouffer (“to choke”) + chrétien (“Christian”).


peigne-cul

fr-noun

peigne-cul m (plural peigne-culs or peigne-cul)

peigne-culs (plural)
peigne-cul (plural)


Kręcichwost

Kręcichwost (nominative singular)
Kręcichwostowie (nominative plural)
Kręcichwosta (genitive singular)
Kręcichwostów (genitive plural)
Kręcichwostowi (dative singular)
Kręcichwostom (dative plural)
Kręcichwosta (accusative singular)
Kręcichwostów (accusative plural)
Kręcichwostem (instrumental singular)
Kręcichwostami (instrumental plural)
Kręcichwoście (locative singular)
Kręcichwostach (locative plural)
Kręcichwoście (singular vocative)
Kręcichwostowie (plural vocative)


tue-l'amour

tue-l’amour (canonical masculine)
tue-l’amour (plural)

Literally, “kills-the-love”, or more loosely translated as “love killer”.

lit

They should have been the definition of anti-sexy, but they so incredibly weren't. They rode low on her naturally swinging hips, and it was her beautiful heart-shaped backside they were clinging to.

2012, Donna Kauffman, translated by Alix Paupy, Petites douceurs (Cupcake Club; 2), translation of Sweet Stuff, →ISBN:

(informal) turn-off, passion killer, boner-killer, mood-killer, deal breaker


monte-charge

From monter + charge. Compare Spanish montacargas and Portuguese monta-cargas.


brekebeen

nl-noun

brekebeen m (plural brekebenen, diminutive brekebeentje n)

brekebenen (plural)
brekebeentje (diminutive neuter)

a person who broke one of his or her limbs or other bones; often one who habitually breaks one's bones


lambefoula

From lamber (“lick”) + foula (“milldust”).


lambecricas

From lamber + crica, literally “pussy-licker”.


wodzirej

pl-noun

wodzirej m pers (female equivalent wodzirejka)

wodzirejka (feminine)
wodzirej (nominative singular)
wodzireje (nominative plural)
wodzireja (genitive singular)
wodzirejów (genitive plural)
wodzirejowi (dative singular)
wodzirejom (dative plural)
wodzireja (accusative singular)
wodzirejów (accusative plural)
wodzirejem (instrumental singular)
wodzirejami (instrumental plural)
wodzireju (locative singular)
wodzirejach (locative plural)
wodzireju (singular vocative)
wodzireje (plural vocative)

person who leads dances at a wedding, ball, or other event


fodechinchos

Attested since circa 1970. From foder (“to steal, waste, annoy, fuck”) + chincho (“jack mackerel”), because the affluence of tourists to the fishing ports and markets, either asking for cheap deals or simply causing annoyment.

compound

(humorous, mildly derogatory, ethnic slur) emmet, grockle, foreigner, tourist (specifically one who speaks Castilian Spanish)


mrzygłód

mrzygłód (nominative singular)
mrzygłody (nominative plural)
mrzygłoda (genitive singular)
mrzygłodów (genitive plural)
mrzygłodowi (dative singular)
mrzygłodom (dative plural)
mrzygłoda (accusative singular)
mrzygłodów (accusative plural)
mrzygłodem (instrumental singular)
mrzygłodami (instrumental plural)
mrzygłodzie (locative singular)
mrzygłodach (locative plural)
mrzygłodzie (singular vocative)
mrzygłody (plural vocative)


grippe-sou

fr-noun

grippe-sou m (plural grippe-sou or grippe-sous)

grippe-sou (plural)
grippe-sous (plural)


killcow

Of all occupations that now adays are used / I would not be a butcher, for that's to be refused; / For whatever is gotten, or whatever is gained, / He shall be call'd Kill-cow, and so shall be named.

c. 15th century, anonymous author, Old Ballad; quoted in Nares, Robert, Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, Wright, Thomas, A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration in the works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, new edition, volume 2, London: Reeves and Turner, 1888, page 483:

And how do I look now? Like one that was begotten under a butcher's stall, I warrant, and born in a slaughter-house? I know there's never a Kill-cow i' th' city becomes a woollen apron better than I do.

c. 1636, anonymous author, The London Chanticleers, scene 4; A Select Collection of Old English Plays, 4th edition, New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1964:


ticklebrain

Peace, good pintpot. Peace, good ticklebrain.

a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 4:


tanglelegs

You remind me of a sailor I saw the other day. Jack was already "half seas over," when he went into Smith's and called for an ounce of old tangle-legs. Thinks I, what is that? So I kept my eye on the scales, but Smith understood him; so he gave him a glass, you see, and off he went. But, dear me, I guess it was tangle-legs! First he went this way; and then that, zigzag, like a Virginia fence, till his legs got into a complete tangle, and down he went.

1844, “The Monster of Many Names”, in Temperance Dialogues, New York: American Temperance Union:

Whiskee iz one ov the tonicks, i think, but i aint sure, i kno it iz one ov the tanglelegs, for I hav seen it tried often.

1879, Henry Wheeler Shaw, “March 1879”, in Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax; republished in Josh Billings' Old Farmer's Allminax, 1870–1879, New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1902:


kill-devil

The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot hellish, and terrible liquor.

1651, [anonymous letter], quoted in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, published 2015, Rum, page 582:

KILL DEVIL. New ſtill-burnt rum.

1788, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition:

Without half the indulgences British troops have, were these poor miserable wretches left to their fate, not an allowance of spirits to render their water palatable, except new rum, which is not improperly termed "kill devil."

1807, Henry Bolingbroke, chapter XIV, in A Voyage to the Demerary, page 291:

Monday 24, I went aboard the Fellowship of 170 tons, a Flemish bottom: several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among them the rest Capt. Thomas Wannerton, who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias rhum at a draught; at 6 o'clock in the morning, we set sail for Massachusetts.

1831, William Willis, quoting Mr. Mitton, The History of Portland, volume 1, page 39:

Some nights Musa brought her small gifts of rich molasses smuggled from the boiling house, or a tot of kill-devil made from the skimmings of the sugar vats that transformed the crushed cane into a harsh, courage-giving liquid.


killcalf

With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know.

1628, John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, page 35:

Sir Francis Drake's ship at Deptford, my Lord Mayor's barge, and divers secret and unsuspected places, and there they make private shambles with kill-calf cruelty, and sheep slaughtering murder, to the abuse of Lent, the deceiving of the informers, and the great grief of every zealous fishmonger.

1630, John Taylor, “Jack A Lent: His Beginning and Entertainment”, in Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1876, pages 12–13:


kill-the-beggar

In your examination of Monday, you spoke of kill-the-beggar-whiskey; has any analysis been made of that whiskey?

1834 June 18, James Silk Buckingham, “Minutes of Evidence, Wednesday, the Eighteenth Day of June, 1834”, in Evidence on Drunkenness, London: British and Foreign Temperance Society, published 1834, page 98:

To men of common gumption, / Hot strange, besides, must seem / At this time any scheme / To put a check upon potheen's consumption, / When all are calling for Irish Poor Laws! / Instead of framing more laws, / To pauperism if you'd give a pegger, / Don't check, but patronise their "Kill-the-Beggar!" / If Pat is apt to go in Irish Linen, / (Buttoning his coat, with nothing but his skin in) / Would any Christian man -- that's quite himself, / His wits not floor'd, or laid upon the shelf --, While blaming Pat for raggedness, poor boy, / Would deprive him of his "Corduroy!"

1835, Thomas Hood, “Ode to J. S. Buckingham, Esq. M.P.”, in The Comic Annual, pages 135–136:

The quality of the liquor served in the spirit grocers was poor and often adulterated, said [John] Edgar. He gave an example of a whiskey known as 'kill the beggar' in Belfast because 'it first makes the beggar and then kills the beggar'. There was an even worse concoction called 'corduroy', so named because it gave a rough feeling on the tongue and palate.

2016, Kevin Martin, “Special Exemptions”, in Have Ye No Homes to Go To?: The History of the Irish Pub, Collins Press, →ISBN:

(obsolete, Ireland, slang) Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.


watch-birth

This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,
Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:
Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,
Unto the PORCH may rich relation have:
For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,
Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;
And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall
At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.

1641 [1578–84], “The Magnificence”, in Sylvester, Joshua, transl., Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes, translation of Semaines by Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, page 215:


reel-pot

And lastly some shall have a palsy in their feet, and will not be able to stand to anything but shake and reel from the stall into the channel—your excellent reel-pots.

1604, Thomas Middleton, Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604:

There I heard news out of all countries in all languages: how many villains were in Spain, how many luxurs in Italy, how many perjureds in France and how many reel-pots in Germany.


quakebreech

en-adj

quakebreech (comparative more quakebreech, superlative most quakebreech)

more quakebreech (comparative)
most quakebreech (superlative)

Hang me, if I do not fancy I ſtill hear that confounded Noiſe, which made my Guts wamble in my Belly! Faith and Troth, I found that Bout that my Mothers Son was in Quake-breech fear.

1705, John Stevens, A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, volume 3, translation of original by de Avellaneda, Alonso Fernández, page 59:


squeeze-grape

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He was a notable squeeze-grape, a huge quaffer, his glasse should bee alway brim-full, and he would vp with it de profundis; his vsuall draught was a large pint & a halfe: and hauing drunke liberally before he came to the rack, think∣ing that would haue made him lesse sensible of his paine, he confest at the first, whatsoeuer they would haue him.

1623, Mabbe, James, transl., The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán, page 33:


strikefire

[…] hevin a little drop a strikefire in a bottle e me pockit, ah thowt ah cuddant do better then drink t'Queen and Prince Olbert's good health […]

1851, Tom Treddlehoyle's Trip Ta Lunnan, Leeds: Alice Mann, page 43:


spoil-paper

From spoil + paper. Possibly a calque of French guaste-papier.

Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times.

1874 [1833], “Prologue [The Second Ten]”, in Droll Stories, translation of Les Cent Contes drolatiques by Honoré de Balzac, page 173:


whip-arse

From whip + arse. Possibly a calque of French fouette-cul, from fouetter (“to whip”) + cul (“arse”).

Feſſe-cul. A Pedanticall whip-arſe.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page FES-FES:


get-nothing

Euery get-nothing is a theefe, and lazineſſe is a ſtolen water: if the Deuill can winne thee, to plye hard this liquour, hee knowes it will whet thy ſtomach to any vice.

1614, Thomas Adams, The Diuells Banket [The Devil's Banquet], page 76:

(obsolete) A lazy person; an idler; a layabout.


turntippet

The priests, for the most part, were doublefaced, turntippets, and flatterers

c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confution of Unwritten Verities; republished in The Works of Thomas Cranmer, volume 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1846, page 15:

(obsolete) A traitor; a defector; a renegade.


nipfarthing

I woulde the not a nipfarthinge, / nor yet a niggarde haue, / Wilte thou therefore, a drunkard be, / a dingthrifte, and a knaue?

1566, “1st satire”, in Drant, Thomas, transl., A Medicinable Morall, translation of Satires by Horace:

Were you hoping to benefit from your sister's marriage, Sebastian? Are all the rumors I have heard of your gambling and other debts true? And is your father still the nipfarthing you have always claimed him to be?


stroygood

To this same Turret up they went, and there with syghes behilld / The Oxen lying every where stark dead uppon the feelde / And eeke the cruell stroygood with his bluddy mouth and heare.

1567, Golding, Arthur, transl., Metamorphoses, book 11, translation of original by Ovid, lines 392–394:

[…]If I should destroy and pull down those things which my predecessors have built and ordained, I should not be called a builder and maker, but justly accounted a stroy-good and puller down[…]

c. 1563–1570, John Foxe, “Answer of the Prelates to the Lord Peter's Oration Before Philip, the French King”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 2, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, published 1837, page 632:

A Drunkard is a meer stroy-good.

1712, Increase Mather, Wo to Drunkards, 2nd edition, Boston: Timothy Green, page 11:


spit-poison

[…]a vile person comes to be understood, and then to be abhorred, and to be pointed at as he passes by with such kind of elogies as these; "There goes a person for whom no one breathing was ever the better, but many ruined, blasted, and undone; the scourge of society, a spit-poison, a viper, and to be abandoned and shunned by all companies, like a mortal infection[…]"

a. 1716, Robert South, “Posthumous Sermon L”, in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, volume 2, London: Reeves & Turner, published 1877, page 424:

(obsolete, derogatory) A malicious person.


quenchcoal

en-noun

quenchcoal (countable and uncountable, plural quenchcoals)

Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and much quench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled.

1615, Samuel Ward, A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal:

You are quenchcoal; no sparkle of grace can kindle upon your cold hearth.

1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure, page 868:

In 1636 he published two books at once, or immediately after each other. One of them was called The Quench Coal, in answer to that called A Coal from the Altar; against placing the Communion-Table Altarwise.

1817, “William Prynne”, in Athenae Oxonienses, volume 3, page 847:

(obsolete, idiomatic, Puritanism) A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion.


lack-looks

Oh but our sweet fac't Gentlewomen will keepe your profession in great request; our lacke-lookes and barren-beauties will vphold it for euer, when the old Baude like a greene apple parch't in an Ouen, or the Italian coulorist with his new cast face shall present this good complexion.

1618, Thomas Decker, The Owles Almanacke:


frayboggard

From fray (“fear, terror”) + boggard (“bugbear, ghost, goblin”).

compound

For like as a frayboggarde in a garden off Cucumbers kepeth nothinge, euen ſo are their goddes of wod, of ſyluer ⁊ golde:

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Baruch vj:[70], folio liiij, recto:


loiter-sack

I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betraies his Maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovv vvhat my boy hath don, Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a Tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.

c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:


scrapegut

From scrape + gut (“intestines of an animal used to make strings”).

His father met him with some impatient questions as to what he had been living on so long, for the old man well knew how scantily his pocket was supplied. "Pretty much like the young ravens," answered he; "I only wished I had been as good a player on the flute as poor George Primrose in The Vicar of Wakefield. If I had his art, I should like nothing better than to tramp like him from cottage to cottage over the world."―"I doubt," said the grave Clerk to the Signet, "I greatly doubt, sir, you were born for nae better than a gangrel scrape-gut."

1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, volume 1, pages 151–152:

I was known in the whole street as crins crins, and scouted by the neighbours with the nickname of "Racleur de boyaux," terms equivalent in English to "Scrapegut."

1862 September 6, “Paganini's Ghost”, in The Musical World, volume 40, number 36, page 565:


thump-cushion

And yet, should the wind chop about, / And thy mouth cease this damn'd squally weather, / Let us send for old Thump-cushion out, / And swing in a hammock together.

1812, John Wolcot, “Sea Courtship”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., volume 4, page 117:

Rub-a-dub-dub, / The knight of the tub, Evangelical Thump-cushion hight, / Has too long had his way, / And, I'm sorry to say, / Put your orthodox phalanx to flight.

1844, Peter Placet, The String of Beads for Romanisers, page 51:

[…] let it be borne in mind, that it was a place for saints as well as for sinners; and, whilst the gayer portion of the community ran after assemblies and all such carnal amusements, the more serious moiety hurried as eagerly to hear the energetic expoundings of the favourite thump-cushion of the season.

1847, Robert Folkestone Williams, Strawberry Hill, volume 2, page 91:

(obsolete) A boisterous, impassioned preacher.


choke-priest

UK mid-19th century. Calque of Italian strozzapreti, from strozzare (“to choke; to strangle”) + prete (“priest”). Equivalent to choke + priest.

Warm choke-priest, pastry, and sour wine (the refuse of the convent cellars) were retailed for the same purposes.

1848, James Grant, Adventures of an Aide-de-camp, volume 1, page 145:

(obsolete) A thick Italian soup containing pasta or dumplings.


stab-rag

In conclusion, the bottom on the jacket, and the button-holes, companions thereto, would baffle the criticism of the most hyper-fastidious stab-rag; and the shirt collar, with every other detail—never forgetting the chiaro-scuro—are equal to any of the preceding.

1841 August 21, “Fine Arts”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 1, page 65:

Corporal Target is at the stab-rag—tailor's, sir. Bein' measured for a new overcoat, sir.

1943, Stella Gibbons, Ticky, London: Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 127:

(obsolete, military, British, slang) A regimental tailor.


choke-dog

Bought a little bit of Gruyere cheese, instead of our domestic choke-dog concern. When did I ever purchase anything for my own eating? But I will say no more of that. And now to the bread-mill.

1826 June 14, Walter Scott, edited by Douglas, David, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, New York: Harper & Brothers, published 1891, page 137:

As I have said before, the Dorsetshire hind is undoubtedly under-fed. Bread and "choke-dog", as he calls his county's cheese, […] these are the chief items in his bill of fare.

1870 February 14, “Our Working People and How They Live: The Dorsetshire Hind”, in Good Words, page 98:

As there was absolutely nothing to do but to grin and bear it, we made a breakfast of smoked salmon, "choke-dog," and tea; then shouldered our packs.

1897 August 14, F. J. Church, “In the Land of the Shag”, in Recreation, volume 7, number 2, page 123:

(obsolete, British slang) A very hard cheese. Attributed variously to counties of the West Country of the United Kingdom such as Devon, Dorset and the Isle of Wight.

(obsolete, US) Any of several plants in the genus Gonolobus.


choke-children

From choke + children. The fish is noted for its boniness, which could prove a choking-hazard to children. May be related to folklore surrounding the Cornish saint St. Leven.

(obsolete) A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa) or rock herring.


lack-laughter

en-adj

lack-laughter (comparative more lack-laughter, superlative most lack-laughter)

more lack-laughter (comparative)
most lack-laughter (superlative)

The lack-laughter sangfroid of the parſon was the conſtant topic of his ridicule, and he complained that whenever I appeared I caſt a gloom over the mirth of his company.

1771, John Horne, The Controversial Letters of John Wilkes, Esq., the Rev. John Horne, and Their Principal Adherents, page 153:

[…] many force / Lack-laughter faces to relax / Into the soft lines traced by joy.

1850, “Agamemnon”, in Blackie, John Stuart, transl., The Lyrical Dramas of Æschylus, volume 1, translation of original by Aeschylus, page 48:


lackstock

Only let me say, that I should be as glad as you could be to find myself in possession of a good independent fortune: and that we poor lacklands and lackstocks who have to earn our livelihood, must endeavour to make the best of it.

1802 November 6, Robert Southey, Letter to To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq.; republished in Warter, John Wood, editor, Selections from the letters of Robert Southey, volume 3, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856, page 212:

(obsolete, stock market) A person who has no money in stocks and shares.


lack-learning

So few persons among the laity were acquainted with the art of writing, that the science itself acquired the name of 'clergy.' The term ' clerk' became equivalent to 'penman;' and our common nomenclature still bears testimony to the lack-learning of ancient times.

1837, Sir Francis Palgrave, “The Refectory”, in The Merchant and the Friar, page 4:


lack-linen

lack-linen (comparative more lack-linen, superlative most lack-linen)

more lack-linen (comparative)
most lack-linen (superlative)

I scorn you, scurvy companion. What! / you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen / mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away!

c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 2, scene 4, lines 133–135:


kill-courtesy

Pretty soul! she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.

c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, scene 2, lines 76–77:


lack-love

lack-love (comparative more lack-love, superlative most lack-love)

more lack-love (comparative)
most lack-love (superlative)

And I in exile's lack-love loneliness / Must sigh for joy if yet I may not sing—

1917, Arthur Shearly Cripps, “The End of the Rains”, in Lake and War, page 17:

The effects upon the development of personality and behavior of a lack-love infancy appear to have still further repercussions.

1988, Karl J. Nice, Science and other ways of knowing:

Uncaring; indifferent to love; loveless.


lack-love

(obsolete) A heartless person; someone who is uncaring and indifferent to love.


clutchfist

No fitter place; there is / An old rich Clutchfist Knight, Sir Thomas Bitefig, / Invite him too; perhaps I may have luck, / And break his Purse yet open for one hundred. / A Usurer is somewhat exorable / When he is full: He ne'r lends money empty.

1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, act 2, scene 1:

Which, of course, her gouty, miserable clutchfist of a spouse had not.

2010, Patricia Rice, Wicked Wyckerly (Rebellious Sons; 1):

Amelia abandoned her soulful mien. "You are nothing but a penny-pinching clutchfist, Hugo!"

2014, Anne Gracie, An Honorable Thief (Harlequin Historicals; 616):


steelback

From steel (“to harden; to strengthen”) + back.

compound

Onely the Portugal inhabitants, in their townes and cities (being many and great) doe make a kinde of wine of dryed grapes or raysins of the sunne, for relish and operation the best (I thinike) in the world, not inferiour to the Spanish nectar, el vino de San Martin, being pleasant, strong, and cordiall, called raysin wine, almost of the colour of Alicant or steelebacke*; which (thankes to our honourable masters) wee were seldome without[…]
* A name given to Alicant wine, which was supposed to strengthen the back.

1633, Christopher Farewell, “An East-India Colation”, in Foster, Sir William, editor, The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614-15, London: Hakluyt Society, published 1939, page 146:


cumberworld

From Middle English combre-world, combreworldes pl, from the phrase *combren the world; equivalent to cumber + world.

A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.

1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London]: [Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 6:

His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.

1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 22–23:

(derogatory, obsolete) Someone who, or something which, is an encumbrance on the world; a useless person or thing.


crack-hemp

Come hither, crackhempe.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 226, column 2:

Even in the Castle of Avenel thou wert a wild blood enough, but hadst thou been nurtured here, within a flight shot of the court, thou hadst been the veriest crack-hemp of a page that ever wore a feather in thy bonnet or steel by thy side: truly, I wish it may end week with thee.

1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot (Waverley Novels), page 246:

(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.


crack-rope

Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell.
Carisophus. Handsomely, thou crack-rope?

1564, Richard Edwardes, Damon and Pythias; republished in King, Ros, editor, The Works of Richard Edwards, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, page 153:

Then let him be led through every ſtreete in yᵉ towne, / That every crackrope, may throw rottē egs at yᵉ clown.

1584, Anthony Munday, edited by Percy Simpson, Fidele and Fortunio, the Two Italian Gentlemen, The Malone Society, published 1909, page [55]:

Hark ye, ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief!

1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (Waverley Novels; 7), London: Adam and Charles Black, published 1898, page 307:

(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird.


sneak-cup

How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an / he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he / would say so.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, act 2, scene 3:

A sneaker was originally a smaller drinking mug or beaker than was ordinarily used, and was drunk from by a "sneak-cup," that contemptible creature who wished to shrink from his convivial duties by "balking his drink," or, to speak plainly, who wished to drink less than his companions fancied he ought to. It came gradually to be used as the name of a small mug, and as such frequently appears in the inventories of china made and sold at Worcester. Washington was no "sneak-cup," he boldly and liberally ordered large mugs instead of pint sneakers.

1892, Alice Morse Earle, “George and Martha Washington's China”, in China Collecting in America, published 1906, pages 237–238:

(obsolete) Someone who is deemed to not drink their share during communal drinking sessions.


swill-bowl

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But nothing like to that hath been shewed since in the English church by the spiritual tyrant of Rome and his mitred termagants, at the provocation of their oiled swill-bowls and blind Balaamites. For they most cruelly brent those innocents which did but only read the testament of God in their mother-tongue; and do not yet repent them of that mischief, but continue therein.

1547, John Bale, The Second Examination of Anne Askewe; republished in Christmas, Henry, editor, Select Works of John Bale, The Parker Society edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1849, Britannish, page 193:

Wantonness was never such a swill-bowl of ribaldry; nor Idleness ever such a carouser of knavery.

1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, page 141:


swill-flagon

Out, thou German wine-flask!—Out, thou eternal swill-flagon!—Heard you ever of a modest maiden who drank wine before she had dined?

1829, Sir Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein:


gulchecuppe

English: gulch-cup

From gulchen (“to gulp”) + cuppe (“cup”).

ȝif þe gulchecuppe ƿeallinde breſ to drincken. ⁊ ȝeot in hiſ ƿide þrote. þet he a ſƿelte ƿiðinnen.

c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (Cotton MS Nero A. XIV), Herefordshire, published c. 1225-1250, folio 56, verso; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2013 March 29:

Give the tosspot molten brass to drink, and pour it into his wide throat, that he may die inwardly.


smell-smock

From smell + smock (“woman's undergarment”).

Cardamine pratensis
Cardamine pratensis#Translingual

(British, dialect) A plant, the cuckooflower or lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis).


swill-belly

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I'll not account of her as of my child. / Was there no better object for her eyes / But a foul drunken lubber, swill-belly, / A shoemaker? That's brave!

1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, act 4, scene 5; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 63:


Grzebinoga

Grzebinoga (nominative singular)
Grzebinogowie (nominative plural)
Grzebinogi (genitive singular)
Grzebinogów (genitive plural)
Grzebinodze (dative singular)
Grzebinogom (dative plural)
Grzebinogę (accusative singular)
Grzebinogów (accusative plural)
Grzebinogą (instrumental singular)
Grzebinogami (instrumental plural)
Grzebinodze (locative singular)
Grzebinogach (locative plural)
Grzebinogo (singular vocative)
Grzebinogowie (plural vocative)


Grzebinoga

Grzebinoga (nominative singular)
Grzebinogi (nominative plural)
Grzebinogi (genitive singular)
Grzebinog (genitive plural)
Grzebinodze (dative singular)
Grzebinogom (dative plural)
Grzebinogę (accusative singular)
Grzebinogi (accusative plural)
Grzebinogą (instrumental singular)
Grzebinogami (instrumental plural)
Grzebinodze (locative singular)
Grzebinogach (locative plural)
Grzebinogo (singular vocative)
Grzebinogi (plural vocative)


swill-pot

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But, said he, what doth that part of our army in the meantime which overthrows that unworthy swillpot Grangousier?

1653, Thomas, transl. Urquhart, chapter XXXIII, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of original by Francois Rabelais, First Book:

Look you, ye hang-dog! You ſhall caſt flections on me and my ways! You ſhall, ye ſwill-pot!

1799, George Peter Holford, True Patriotism, act2, scene 1, page 22:

Beer, ye boozy scabs! Ha'n't ye enough a'ready? Don't I pay for it, and for every minute of time ye rob me of, ye swabs, ye swill-pot hounds? There's the pond for ye. Go and lap water, like the lazy dogs ye are!

1892 June 14, Arthur Morison, “The Legend of Lapwater Hall”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 66, page 110:


swill-tub

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But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.

1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Epithalamium of Petrus Ægidius”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 261:


suck-pint

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Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM:

As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fielding was a squandering suck-pint, it would, I believe, have been held long since a common lie.

1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33:


bitesheep

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From bite + sheep. Possibly an intentional, satirical corruption of, or pun on, bishop, to imply one who bites the flock he should be protecting (compare English sheep-biter).

Wherefore mine advice and most earnest desire is, with all other of your loving friends, that you still keep that order with those bloodthirsty bitesheeps (bishops, I should say) that you have begun. For though in conclusion they will surely have your blood, yet shall they come by it with shame enough, and to their perpetual infamy while the world doth endure.

c. 1556, John Foxe, “A Letter of John Careless, answering to the loving Epistle or Letter sent to him before by Master John Philpot”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 8, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, published 1839, page 172:

Wherfore the bitesheepe and the recorder beinge owtragiously moved agaynst him, contrary to all justice all Law th[e]y condemned him to bee whipped at a Carts tayle and to bee boored through the eare wᵗʰ a hot iron, wᶜʰ was executed in most dispitful and cruellest manner that might bee executed to any Rooge, […]

1578 December 15, A. Dolm, [A Letter]; republished in “Diarium Secundum”, in The First and Second Diaries of the English College, Douay, London: David Nutt, 1878, Februarius 1579, page 149:

If Thomas is rather fond of calling Geoffrey Riddell Archidiabolus instead of Archidiaconus, was it not the established joke of the Reformation to call a Bishop a Bitesheep, and to turn Cardinal Poole into Carnal Fool?

[1860 April 14, Edward Augustus Freeman, “Saint Thomas of Canterbury and His Biographers”, in The National Review; republished as Historical Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1875, page 95:

(obsolete, derogatory, dysphemistic, religious slur) A bishop, particularly a Catholic bishop persecuting Protestants.


Palichleb

Palichleb (nominative singular)
Palichlebowie (nominative plural)
Palichleba (genitive singular)
Palichlebów (genitive plural)
Palichlebowi (dative singular)
Palichlebom (dative plural)
Palichleba (accusative singular)
Palichlebów (accusative plural)
Palichlebem (instrumental singular)
Palichlebami (instrumental plural)
Palichlebie (locative singular)
Palichlebach (locative plural)
Palichlebie (singular vocative)
Palichlebowie (plural vocative)


lack-pity

en-adj

lack-pity (comparative more lack-pity, superlative most lack-pity)

more lack-pity (comparative)
most lack-pity (superlative)

Each sore defeat of my defeated life / Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; / And turned to yearning palsy all my power, / And all my peace to strife, / Self stabbing self with keen lack-pity knife.

1881, Christina Rossetti, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems, page 122:


lack-grace

lack-grace (comparative more lack-grace, superlative most lack-grace)

more lack-grace (comparative)
most lack-grace (superlative)

"I'm calling on the owners of Maine Yankee to pull their managers in check, because they are destroying whatever goodwill their employees have built up," Shadis said. "This is such a lack-grace exit." He said instead of fighting the state and the community over jurisdiction questions and clean-up standards, the company should "go the extra mile, clean it up to community comfort levels, and fare thee well."

1999 July 28, Kris Ferrazza, quoting Ray Shadis, “State, Maine Yankee spar over inspections”, in Lincoln County Weekly:


lack-mind

Let us not imitate the lazy indifference of those lack-minds who visit in succession half a dozen wondrous new ports in the Far East, and whose stagnant curiosity is satisfied by staring over the ship's side and evaporating their brains in clouds of tobacco.

1887, Henry Knollys, “A Typhoon.—Nagasaki and Kobe.”, in Sketches of Life in Japan, page 17:

(archaic, derogatory) An unintelligent person.


whip-belly

From whip + belly. In reference to its effect on the stomach.

Whip-belly — Thin, poor, or weak liquor. Ex. She's a regular skinflint, and supplies her customers with whip-belly,

[1866, J. Ellet Brogden, Provincial Words and Expressions Current in Lincolnshire, page 223:

(Lincolnshire, obsolete) Poor quality (weak or sour) beer.


pinch-commons

She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs come to reform Zetland customs, let them try how they like a Zetland storm.—You that would not perish, quit this house!"

1822, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Pirate:

(obsolete) A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.


pinch-gut

Por. We are my Lady Pinch-guts men, Sir.
Co. Her Men? No, he Mice. We live upon crums,^([sic]) and a good Cat would run away with us all.
[…]
L. W. I wonder at it; my Lords humour is very oppoſite to hers, he loves Grandeur.
Co. So does ſhe, Sir, but hates to pat for't. She will ha' Servants for a ſhew, and they ſhall ha' Liveries for a ſhew, when company comes: But when company's gone, we are ſtripp'd and ſtarv'd; a damn'd Papiſtical Heathen.

1690, John Crowne, “Lady Pinch-guts Houſe”, in The English Frier, act 2, scene 1, page 9:

Pinch-gut—A mean purser.

[1883, William Clark Russell, Sailors' Language, page 103:


trabalinguas

From trabar (“to bite”) + lingua (“tongue”). Compare Portuguese trava-língua and Spanish trabalenguas.

Un trabalinguas galego: “Se vou a Bueu nun bou, vou. Se non vou nun bou, non vou.” [sɪˈβowɐβuˈewnumˈbowˈβow sɪnʊmˈbownum'bownʊm'bow]

A Galician tongue-twister: “If I'll go to Bueu in a bou (ship), I'll go; but if I won't go in a bou, I won't go.”

tongue-twister (a phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes)


stitch-back

Among the promiscuous Assembly of broken Extravagants, a slovenly Sot sits puffing at the Board in a woollen Night cap, so disguis'd with Dirt, & his Hands & Face with Nastiness, that he look'd like the Cook of a Newcastle Collier just slept on Shore to enter an Action against his Master for wages. A second in his slip shoes, and ungarter'd stockings, like a Journey Man Taylor jumpt of the Board for a Halfpenny Roll & a pint of Tow^([sic]) Penny Stich-Back.

1709, Edward Ward, “The Broken Shop-Keepers' Club”, in The History of the London Clubs, London: J. Dutten, published 1896, page 19:


bourre-cochon

From bourrer (“to stuff”) + cochon (“pig”).


cover-slut

Krio: kabaslot (“loose-fitting dress”)

From cover + slut (“slovenly, untidy person”).

compound

Nor let your women there appear / With dirty ſmock-ſleeves, foul head-geare, / With Cover-ſlut from Neck to Toe, / As Maids to morning Lectures go.

1678, John Phillips, “Book V”, in Maronides, or, Virgil Travesty, page 15:

The Irish cloak forms very graceful drapery; the material falls well, and folds well. It is usually large enough to envelop the whole person; and the hood is frequently drawn forward to shield the face of the wearer from sun, rain, or wind. Yet we would fain see its general use dispensed with. A female in the lower ranks of life cares but little for the other portions of her dress if she has "a good cloak;" and certainly her ordinary appearance would be more thought of, if the huge "cover-slut" were not always at hand to hide dilapidations in her other garments.

1846, Samuel Carter Hall, Ann Kent Hall, “Kildare”, in Ireland: Its Scenery, Character &c., volume 2, footnote, page 272:

(obsolete) An apron or pinafore, worn to hide slovenliness (such as dirt, stains, or tears) in the clothing beneath.

Fie, madam, you'll ruin the sex! Husband, say ye? A mere thing—a cover-slut of custom!

1690, John Wilson, Belphegor, act 2, scene 3; republished in The Dramatic Works of John Wilson, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, page 320:

(obsolete, by extension, figurative) Any surface appearance hiding something underneath.


cover-shame

Give place then exprobrating fruit, and come / Thou Cover-shame, old Fig-tree, in the Room: / Though men of all the fruit, that hangs o'th' tree, / Should love none less for your obscurity

1659, Edmund Gayton, chapter 31, in The Art of Longevity:

O impudence! O rogue! O villain! Nay, if he be such a man, my righteous spirit rises at him! Does he put on holy garments, for a cover-shame of lewdness?

1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, act 3, scene 2; republished in The Works of John Dryden, volume 6, Edinburgh: Archibold Constable and Co., 1821, page 428:

If this were believed, men would make more account of sincerity, which will only give us boldness, and not seek for cover-shames; the confidence whereof, as it maketh men now more presumptuous, so it will expose them hereafter to the greater shame.

1838, Richard Sibbes, chapter 25, in The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, page 122:

(obsolete) Something used to conceal infamy.


hide-all

The soldier is not unfrequently destitute of portions of his uniform, or his regimental coat and continuations are in such hopeless rags, that even in the sultry summer the slate-coloured great-coat is worn as a hide-all and slut-cover, like the begrimed blanket of a Mexican lépero. Clumsy gaiters, ill-buttoned and discoloured, descend over shoes which, in one case out of three, are broken in pieces, disclosing to view the naked toes of the men—such in Spain are the glories of the vida military!

1845, Terence MacMahon Hughes, Revelations of Spain in 1845, page 326:

A female in the lower ranks of life cares but little for the other portions of her dress if she has "a good cloak;" and certainly her ordinary appearance would be more thought of, if the huge "cover-slut" were not always at hand to hide dilapidations in her other garments. "Oh, then, I'm not fit to be seen; hadn't I better tidy myself a bit?—but asy! sure when I throw on my cloak no one will know what I am," is a too frequent observation; and away they go, shrouded from head to foot in this woollen hide-all.


walke-street

From walke (“obsolete spelling of walk”) + street.

Bateur de pavez. An idle, or continuall walke-ſtreet; a jetter abroad in the ſtreets; one that ſees the towne ſerued when honeſt men are in bed; a laſciuious, or unthrifty, night-walker, generally, any looſe or mad youth, diſſolute or diſorderly yonker.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page BAT-BAT:

(obsolete) Someone who wanders aimlessly; a flaneur.


Tracichleb

Tracichleb (nominative singular)
Tracichlebowie (nominative plural)
Tracichleba (genitive singular)
Tracichlebów (genitive plural)
Tracichlebowi (dative singular)
Tracichlebom (dative plural)
Tracichleba (accusative singular)
Tracichlebów (accusative plural)
Tracichlebem (instrumental singular)
Tracichlebami (instrumental plural)
Tracichlebie (locative singular)
Tracichlebach (locative plural)
Tracichlebie (singular vocative)
Tracichlebowie (plural vocative)


break-bones

From break + bones, calque of Spanish quebrantahuesos.

These southern seas are frequented by several species of Petrels: the largest kind, Procellaria gigantea, or nelly (quebrantahuesos, or break-bones, of the Spaniards), is a common bird, both in the inland channels and on the open sea. In its habits and manner of flight, there is a very close resemblance with the albatross; and as with the albatross, a person may watch it for hours together without seeing on what it feeds. The "break-bones" is, however, a rapacious bird, for it was observed by some of the officers at Port St. Antonio chasing a diver, which tried to escape by diving and flying, but was continually struck down, and at last killed by a blow on its head.

1839, Charles Darwin, chapter 13, in The Voyage of the Beagle, volume 29, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, published 1909:

Whilst we were at work on the beach, crowds of birds began to assemble, especially the Giant Petrel or "Breakbones" (Ossifraga gigantea), the "Nelly" or "Stinker" of sealers. This bird in its habits is most remarkably like the vulture.

1879, Henry Mottidge Moseley, “Kerguelen's Land”, in Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Cambridge University Press, published 2014, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

The titlark, sheath-bill, teal, and goose of South Georgia are wholly or in part vegetable feeders. The cormorant and the tern eat fish. The gull subsists chiefly on limpets and other shell-bearing mollusks. The penguins and Tubinares capture cuttlefish and pelagic crustaceans, the giant petrel, or "breakbones," alone obtaining part of its food on shore, since it has a relish for carrion. The skua feeds on any kind of animal food, dead or alive, especially upon other birds and their eggs.

1922 April 14, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429:

Any bird in the genus Macronectes, known as giant petrels.


breakbone

en-noun

breakbone (countable and uncountable, plural breakbones)

breakbone A chicken's wishbone; also called the breaking bone or pulleybone.

[2000, Robert Hendrickson, editor, The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:

(US dialect, countable) A chicken's wishbone.


caille-lait

From cailler (“to curdle”) + lait (“milk”).


lack-life

en-adj

lack-life (comparative more lack-life, superlative most lack-life)

more lack-life (comparative)
most lack-life (superlative)

What influence the decorative motives of Egypt and Assyria, imported by the Phoenicians, had upon the early artists of Greece, it is again, as yet, very difficult to say, and we have to glean such scanty information as we can from what exists of archaic Greek art in pre-Phoenician strata, compared with such ancient Phoenician remains as are entirely destitute of any admixture of Greek influence. Such is the surpassing value of these Phoenician shields, the most ancient metal shields yet discovered. They belong to an epoch when the Greek race was in its youth, when the springs of its mind were fresh, when it was most likely to be influenced by external agents, and such objects were the first to introduce the young and aspiring Greek to the rigid, severe, monotonous, mysterious, and impenetrable forms of Egypt, and to the dreamy, lack-life, symbolic and ideal creations of the Assyrians.

1888 August 7, Rev. Joseph Hirst, “Opening Address of the Antiquarian Section”, in The Archaeological Journal, volume 46, number 181, Royal Archaeological Institute, published 1889, pages 31–32:

(art, nonce word) Represented in such a way as to show important characteristics, rather than in a realistic or literal manner; stylized; abstract.


mumble-matins

From mumble + matins (“morning prayers”).

The reason, why so great a stress was laid on the distinct reading of the Church Service, independently of its obvious necessity, was the general prevalence of an opposite practice amongst the Popish Clergy, many of whom, after they had conformed to the Liturgy, read it as they had been accustomed to read the prayers in their Breviary.*
* The Clergy who read in this hurried and indistinct manner were called, in derision, "Mumble-Matins."

[1845, Rev. William Simcox Bricknell, The Judgment of the Bishops Upon Tractarian Theology, page 604:

By our Lady! if thou hadst seen death in as many shapes as I have, the fearful change, as the mumble matins call it, coming over white and dusky faces alike, thou would not fear it, but prepare to meet it gaily, flask in hand, like a welcome guest or an expected bride[…]

1852, George Walter Thornbury, “The Monastery of the Flowery Plain”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 21, page 222:

(obsolete, religious slur) A Roman Catholic priest.


estripacontos

interrupter; a person who would interfere in the narration of a story, sometimes spoiling the end


make-debate

I will now pursue the Subject, and put the Case that you have no Proof that he is guilty, but your Surmizes, or, perhaps, the busy Whisperings of officious Make-debates. In this Case, take care, my Betsey, that you don't, by the Violence of your Passions, precipitate him on the Course you dread, and that you alienate not, by unjust Suspicions, his Affections from you; for then perhaps he will be ready indeed to place them somewhere else, where you may not so easily draw him off; for he will, may be, think, as to you (if he be devoid of superior Considerations) that he may as well deserve your Suspicions, as be tiezed with them without deserving them.

1741, Samuel Richardson, “Letter LV”, in Letters Written to and for Particular Friends, pages 68–69:

(obsolete) Someone who instigates quarrels.


make-fray

Alternative form: makefray

If brabbling Make-fray, at each fair and size, / Picks quarrels for to show his valiantize,

a. 1656, Joseph Hall, “Satire IV”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 5, published 1810, page 276:


Chwalibóg

Chwalibóg (nominative singular)
Chwalibogowie (nominative plural)
Chwaliboga (genitive singular)
Chwalibogów (genitive plural)
Chwalibogowi (dative singular)
Chwalibogom (dative plural)
Chwaliboga (accusative singular)
Chwalibogów (accusative plural)
Chwalibogiem (instrumental singular)
Chwalibogami (instrumental plural)
Chwalibogu (locative singular)
Chwalibogach (locative plural)
Chwalibogu (singular vocative)
Chwalibogowie (plural vocative)


pinchagato

From pinchar (“to cause to jump”) + gato (“cat”).


pinchacarneiro

gl-noun

pinchacarneiro m (plural pinchacarneiros)

From pinchar (“to cause to jump”) + carneiro (“ram”).


sacaúntos

From sacar (“to extract”) + unto (“fat of the abdomen”). Compare Spanish sacamantecas.

(folklore) bogeyman (an evil being used to scare children)


coupe-tifs

From couper (“to cut”) + tif (“hair”), hence "haircutter".


pète-burnes

From péter (“to break, bust”) + burne (“ball”).

af

N’importe où semblait convenir à Babeth, n’importe où lui suffisait, ce n’était pas le genre de nana pète-burnes, le genre de nana à préférer l’ombre au soleil, l’ herbe au sable, midi à quatorze heures selon les humeurs [...]

1999, Serge Perez, Dommage pour moi, →ISBN, page 150:

(figuratively, vulgar) irritating, annoying as fuck


pète-burnes

(figuratively, vulgar) ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse (someone who is irritating)


coupe-papier

From couper (“to cut”) + papier (“paper”), hence "papercutter".


casse-burnes

From casser (“to break, bust”) + burne (“ball”).


pète-couilles

From péter (“to break, bust”) + couille (“ball”).


casse-bonbons

From casser (“to break, bust”) + bonbon (“ball”).

(figuratively, somewhat vulgar) irritating, annoying as hell


casse-bonbons

(figuratively, somewhat vulgar) ball-buster; pain; pain in the arse (someone who is irritating)


tire-fesse

From tirer (“to pull”) + fesse (“butt-cheek”), hence "butt-cheek puller" or "bum-grabber".

(informal) ski lift, surface lift, platter lift, button lift, platter pull


remonte-pente

From remonter + pente. Displaced earlier monte-pente.


presse-papier

desc

пресс-папье́

→ Russian: пресс-папье́ (press-papʹjé)

→ Romanian: prespapier n

→ Turkish: prespapye


breakwind

He bent and disappeared out of the sheltering circle of the fir-fronds, returning in a moment with an armful of boughs. He went back, foraging, and she heard him snapping off others. Presently he was beside her again, and began to construct the break-wind, interweaving from the ground up to the fir-fronds a wall of boughs. Abruptly the wind ceased to blow upon Clair's back.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Three Go Back:

The rows of breakwind trees should be planted at right angles to the prevailing wind, and there should be at least thirty feet between the first row of fruit trees and the breakwind trees.

1971, Duncan Brown, Better Fruit Growing for Australian Gardeners, page 15:


break-promise

if you break one jot of your promise or come one / minute behind your hour, I will think you the most / pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover

1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 4, scene 1:

(obsolete, derogatory) An untrustworthy person; someone who habitually breaks vows and promises.


break-vow

With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil, / That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith, / That daily break-vow, he that wins of all, / Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:


hikap punoan

the act of touching a tree or shaking one's hand over a plant, done in order to pass to the plant whatever illnesses or aches one has removed from a person one has performed massage or hilot on


shark-gull

From shark (“to swindle; to trick”) + gull (“dupe; mark; sucker”).

compound

Complainest thou of bad doings, when there are harlots of all trades, and knaves of all languages? Knowest thou not that sin may be committed either in French, Dutch, Italian, or Spanish, and all after the English fashion? But thou excusest the negligence of thy practice by the last summer's pestilence: alas, poor shark-gull, that put-off is idle! for sergeant Carbuncle, one of the plague's chief officers, dares not venture within three yards of an harlot, because monsieur Drybone, the Frenchman, is a leiger before him.

1604, Thomas Middleton, The Black Book; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 5, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 524:

confidence trickster
confidence trickster

(obsolete) A confidence trickster; a person who preys on simpletons.


Bolibrzuch

Bolibrzuch (nominative singular)
Bolibrzuchowie (nominative plural)
Bolibrzucha (genitive singular)
Bolibrzuchów (genitive plural)
Bolibrzuchowi (dative singular)
Bolibrzuchom (dative plural)
Bolibrzucha (accusative singular)
Bolibrzuchów (accusative plural)
Bolibrzuchem (instrumental singular)
Bolibrzuchami (instrumental plural)
Bolibrzuchu (locative singular)
Bolibrzuchach (locative plural)
Bolibrzuchu (singular vocative)
Bolibrzuchowie (plural vocative)

From boleć + -i- + brzuch. Compare pasibrzuch, Boligłowa, and Kapinos.