haggis

en-noun

haggis (countable and uncountable, plural haggises)

haggises (plural)
haggess (alternative obsolete)
haggies (alternative obsolete)
haggiss (alternative obsolete)

→ Irish: hagaois

→ Scottish Gaelic: taigeis

Burns supper
en:Haggis (disambiguation)
en:haggis

From Late Middle English hagis (“haggis”), from hag, haggen (“to chop, cut, hack; to cut into”) (from Old Norse hǫggva (“to hew”)), or from hakken (“to chop, hack; to dice, mince”) (from Old English hēawan (“to chop, hew; to dice, mince”)), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to hew; to beat, strike; to forge”).

der

HAGGESS, haggas, or haggis, ſort d'appret fait avec des herbes, du larde caupé menu, des épices, des œufs, & du fromage, le tout mis enſemble & bouilli dans une panſe de brebis.

[1677, Guy Miege [i.e., Guy Miège], “HAGGESS”, in A New Dictionary French and English, with Another English and French; According to the Present Use, and Modern Orthography of the French. Inrich’d with New Words, Choice Phrases, and Apposite Proverbs; Digested into a Most Accurate Method; and Contrived for the Use Both of English and Foreiners (in French), London: Printed by Tho[mas] Dawks, for Thomas Basset, at the George, near Cliffords-inn, in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, column 3:

HAGGESS, haggas, or haggis, a sort of preparation made with herbs, bacon, spices, eggs, cheese, all put together and boiled in a sheep's belly.

I congratulate the Caledonians on the acquiſition of this new Saint, but wonder if the German crows were ſo civil to refrain from ſo ſavoury a Scotch haggiſs.

1717 January 16 (Old Style), Lady Mary W. Montague [i.e. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], “Original Letter of Lady Mary W. Montague, Never before Published. Found Lately amongst the Papers of a Lady Deceased.”, in The Scots Magazine; or General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, volume LXI (volume VI, New Series), Edinburgh: [Printed by Alex[ander] Chapman and Co.] Sold by James Watson, No. 40. South Bridge, and by the principal booksellers in Town and Country and by T. Kay, Strand, London, published February 1799, →OCLC, pages 101–102:

"[…] You are all for providing other things before we have fixed upon the victuals. Let us ſettle about them firſt." / This word raiſed a tumult, ten times greater than the former; every one in the room roaring out at once for ſome particular diſh, either that it was his trade to provide, or which he was fond of himſelf. / […]—"An haggis,"—ſaid a Scot. / —"Leek-pottage,"—ſputtered Taffy. In a word, they all raiſed their voices with ſuch vehemence, not one attending to what another ſaid, that ſince the building of Babel, there was not ſuch a ſcene of confuſion.

1762, [Charles Johnstone], The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools. By the Editor of The Adventures of a Guinea. In Two Volumes, volume II, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, in Smock-alley, →OCLC, page 185:

And thank kind heav'n, their country can afford / A tumid haggeſs to adorn their board.

[1769], [John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn], “The Disappointed Epicures”, in Essays in Verse, [Edinburgh]: [Privately printed at the author's press], →OCLC, page 78:

The Haggies is that very diſh (if I may ſo call it) and a very good diſh it is. […] [W]henever inſtead of the paunch, refinement ſhall invent a veſſel, in which to ſerve up the Haggies, it will certainly reſemble in its model the original prototype, whether it be formed into a turrene or a ſilver vaſe, having the ſinged head as ornamented handles to the ſides.

1778 February 5, Thomas Pownall, “XXXII. Observations Arising from an Enquiry into the Nature of the Vases Found on the Mosquito Shore in South America.”, in Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume V, London: Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London; sold at the house of the Society, in Chancery-Lane; and by Messieurs White, Robson, Conant, Leigh and Sotheby, Brown and H. Payne, published 1779, →OCLC, page 322:

[T]he thousands of Englishmen who annually visit our romantic country can attest, that, even in the wildest Highland glens, something better can be found for their roast-beef stomachs, than sheep's-heads, haggises, and oat-meal cakes.

1821 October, “The Voyages and Travels of Columbus Secundus. Chapter XIII. The King’s Birth-day.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume X, number LVI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, Strand, London, →OCLC, footnote, page 305:

Another one of those revered patriarchs whom it were almost sacrilege to touch is [Robert] Burn's, with "honest sonsie face," the haggis. […] It is a pity that one of the last minstrels, if only one of humble rank, did not fix unchangeably in verse the component parts of the national haggis, as some one has done the "Eve's pudding," and Sydney Smith did for his salad, and another did for mulled wine. We have a compound called haggis, without the preceding article, composed of meat, chopped anchovies, eggs, bread, sour wine, pepper and salt. But that does not seem to correspond with the remarks of an editor of Burns, who says the haggis was to Scotland what the plum pudding is to England, and it was the pride of her people that all the ingredients and even the bag it was boiled in were of native production.

1894, Jessup Whitehead, “The Hotel Book of Puddings”, in The American Pastry Cook: A Book of Perfected Recipes, for Making All Sorts of Articles Required of the Hotel Pastry Cook, Baker and Confectioner, Especially Adapted for Hotel and Steamboat Use, and for Cafés and Fine Bakeries, 7th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Jessup Whitehead & Co., publishers, →OCLC, page 78, column 1:

Haggis has a faggot-like consistency that certainly isn't short of flavour. I like to make individual portion haggises (traditional haggises are cooked in the sheep's paunch or stomach). It can also be made into a steamed haggis pudding simply by making the recipe, placing the mix in two 1.75 litre (3 pint) pudding basins, covering with buttered foil and then steaming for 3½ hours.

1999, Gary Rhodes, “Home-made Haggis”, in New British Classics, London: BBC Worldwide, →ISBN:

[T]he final dish of the day arrived in the form of a giant blood pudding, which was about the size of a basketball and wrapped in the goat's stomach. It reminded me more of Scottish haggis than of anything else I had seen on my travels around the globe. I took a tentative bite. It was fantastic, but I was completely done by this point and made my apologies to the disappointed restaurant owner. He seemed happy enough, particularly when he smiled and said, "Don't worry, anything that's left, I'll be taking home for dinner."

2015, Simon Majumdar, “The Baron and the Bronx”, in Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America with My Fork, New York, N.Y.: Hudson Street Press, →ISBN, pages 62–63; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Avery, Penguin Random House, 2016, →ISBN:

A traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep offal with oatmeal and spices, etc., originally boiled in the stomach of a sheep but now often in an artificial casing, and usually served with neeps and tatties (mashed swede and potatoes) and accompanied with whisky.


interchange

en-verb

interchange (third-person singular simple present interchanges, present participle interchanging, simple past and past participle interchanged)

interchanges (present singular third-person)
interchanging (participle present)
interchanged (participle past)
interchanged (past)

/ɪntɚˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.

The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc.

1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 260:


conjure

conjure (third-person singular simple present conjures, present participle conjuring, simple past and past participle conjured)

conjures (present singular third-person)
conjuring (participle present)
conjured (participle past)
conjured (past)

/kənˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/

From Middle English conjuren, from Old French conjurer, from Latin coniūrō (“I swear together; conspire”), from con- (“with, together”) + iūro (“I swear or take an oath”).

der

He started conjuring at the age of 15, and is now a famous stage magician.


fon

Province-wide, the latter part of the 1990s witnessed considerable efforts by the regime to organize and activate a bloc of such financially dependent fons in the North West Elite Association (NWELA), […]

2008, Milton Krieger, Cameroon's Social Democratic Front, →ISBN, page 71:

In the early 1900s, the Bafut fought several wars with the German colonizers and their allies, ending in 1907 with the exile of the fon of that time.

2010, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon, →ISBN, page 53:

Biya's volte-face became apparent in July 1990 when he, as president of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) appointed Ganyonga and the fons of Mankon and Bafut into key positions of the party […]

2011, Society and Change in Bali Nyonga: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 152:

A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon.


overflow

en-noun

overflow (countable and uncountable, plural overflows)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.

GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts?
JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality.

1977 February 12, Don Shewey, John Glines, “Theatre Profiles Part II”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 8:

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

přetečení

computing: situation where a value exceeds the available range


overflow

en-verb

overflow (third-person singular simple present overflows, present participle overflowing, simple past overflowed, past participle overflowed or (sometimes proscribed) overflown)

overflows (present singular third-person)
overflowing (participle present)
overflowed (past)
overflowed (participle past)
overflown (participle past proscribed sometimes)

/ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/

/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/

The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.

The shadows had begun to overflow Their stagnant puddles on the nightward side, When presently the roar of battle died

2018, John G. Neihardt, A Cycle of the West, page 461:

(intransitive) To flow over the edge of a container.

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.

2008, Adam Oxford, Windows Vista - Autumn 2008, Future US, →ISSN, page 67:

(intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.

(computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.

aiheuttaa ylivuoto

computing: to exceed the available numeric range


breathed

(phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) voiceless, contrasting with voiced


ragged

en-adj

ragged (comparative more ragged, superlative most ragged)

more ragged (comparative)
most ragged (superlative)

From Middle English ragged, from North Germanic. Compare with Old Norse rǫgvaðr (“tufted”) and Norwegian ragget (“shaggy”).

ragged rocks


peaked

peaked (comparative more peaked, superlative most peaked)

more peaked (comparative)
most peaked (superlative)
peakèd (alternative)
pekid (alternative)

2000, Toshio Mori and Lawson Fusao Inada, Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori, p. 149,
She looked peaked and tired ever since he had volunteered for the army.

2001, Fred C. Feddeck, Hale Men of Fordham: Hail!, p. 17,
While Nixon looked peaked throughout the debate, Kennedy looked like a poised diplomat oozing confidence.

2004, Don Ecker, Past Sins, p. 276,
Peck looked peaked to Williams. He was pale and appeared to be breathing in shallow gasps.


recollect

en-verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

recollects (present singular third-person)
recollecting (participle present)
recollected (participle past)
recollected (past)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

der

I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.


emasculate

en-verb

emasculate (third-person singular simple present emasculates, present participle emasculating, simple past and past participle emasculated)

emasculates (present singular third-person)
emasculating (participle present)
emasculated (participle past)
emasculated (past)

From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

скопявам

to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate

Castration has a ſtrange effect; it emaſculates both man, beaſt and bird, and brings them to a near reſemblance of the other ſex. Thus, eunuchs have ſmooth unmuſcular arms, thighs, and legs; and broad hips, and beardleſs chins, and ſqueaking voices. Gelt stags and bucks have hornleſs heads, like hinds and does.

1789, Gilbert White, “Letter XXXII. To the Same [Daines Barrington].”, in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton: With Engravings, and an Appendix, London: Printed by T[homas] Bensley; for B[enjamin] White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 212:

At Athens the Prieſts and Prieſteſſes were drawn by lot, from the men and virgins of diſtinguiſhed family and irreproachable life. Maimed or deformed perſons were not admitted, and purity and chaſtity were ſo particularly required, that the Prieſts frequently uſed means to emaſculate themselves.

1793, T[homas] Wilson, “Priest”, in An Archæological Dictionary; or, Classical Antiquities of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, Alphabetically Arranged: …, 2nd edition, London: Printed for D. Ogilvy [et al.], →OCLC, column 1:

(transitive) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.

(specifically) To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).

[H]is Majeſty [...] is now reſolved (in proſecution of his priſtine Counſels) by force or policy to diſſolve this Parliament in diſcontent, as he hath done all former, and that with ſuch advantages of a generall ill opinion of Parliaments in the ignorant miſ-informed vulgar on the one hand, and of a prevailing counquering power on his part on the other hand, as ſhall either utterly extinguiſh the hopes and Bill of ſummoning any future trienniall Parliamentary Aſſemblies, or at leaſt ſo emaſculate the vigour, and eclipſe the power of them, if called; [...]

1643, William Prynne, “The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments & Kingdomes. […]”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC, page 29:

A hardy race, in ungenial climates, with nerves ſtrung by the northern blaſt, though little refined by knowledge, felt in an early age, the ſentiments of manly virtue, and ſpurned the baſeneſs of ſlavery. Luxury had not emaſculated their minds; and they threw off, with native elaſticity, the burden of unjuſt dominion.

1795, [Vicesimus Knox], “Section II. Oriental Manners, and the Ideas Imbibed in Youth, both in the West and East Indies, Favourable to the Spirit of Depotism”, in The Spirit of Despotism, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 13:

[I]f luxury emaſculate the minds of the nobility, enervate the ſinews of the people, render money, and not merit, the paſſport to authority, and, inſtead of the ſtrong and natural ſupport of native valour, ſubſtitute the weak and inefficient prop of mercenary aid: of ſuch a ſtate, however extenſive may be its Commerce, however ample its revenue, the ruin is inevitable.

1799 June 5, Richard Mant, An Essay on Commerce, Oxford: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 18:

The Agadic tradition has preserved another element of the Noah-myth. The wicked black son Ham (Châm), emasculates his father [...]. The emasculation of the Sun, when the Sun is male, is an expression of Aryan mythology denoting the weakening of his rays before and at sunset. The black son, the Night, overcomes and emasculates his father, takes all power from his rays and drives him to ruin.

1877, Ignaz Goldziher [i.e., Ignác Goldziher], “The Most Prominent Figures in Hebrew Mythology”, in Russell Martineau, transl., Mythology among the Hebrews and Its Historical Development, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 131:

A few weeks later he came to the conclusion that his mother was emasculating him. He claimed that her grip was so strong on him that he was resentful. Not only was she emasculating, but she was also "castrating" because her demands and expectations were feminizing him.

2006, Steve Gerali, “The Teenage Guy’s Family and Friends (Social Development)”, in Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face and Strategies to Help Them, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Youth Specialities, Zondervan, →ISBN, section 6.3 (Guys and Family), page 233:

(transitive) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

обезсилвам

to deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken

It is well understood that in artificial cross-fertilizing, in order to prevent self-fecundation, we emasculate the flower from which we wish to obtain the seeds for new varieties; that is, we remove the anthers from that flower, and in the proper season apply to the stigma the pollen from some other distinct flower.

1854 March, Charles G[rafton] Page, “Article IV. Artificial Fecundation of Flowers. [From the American Polytechnic Journal.]”, in M. Tarver, H. Cobb, editors, The Western Journal and Civilian, Devoted to Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, Public Policy, and Polite Literature, volume XI (volume V, New Series), number VI, St. Louis, Mo.: Printed by M. Niedner & Co., cor[ner] of Pine & Third Streets, →OCLC, page 409:

Legume flowers are emasculated by removing the corolla, staminal tube, and anthers with small forceps, leaving the pistil intact. Anthers and pollen are sometimes removed from flowers with suction, washed off with a jet of water, or killed by immersing the flower in an alcohol solution or hot water. In crops that have a high degree of self-sterility, such as red clover, it may be unnecessary to emasculate, especially if the pollen parent has a dominant marker gene so that plants originating by self-pollination may be identified.

1987, John Milton Poehlman, “Breeding Forage Crops”, in Breeding Field Crops (An AVI Book), 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, page 639:

(transitive, botany) Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.


emasculate

en-adj

emasculate (comparative more emasculate, superlative most emasculate)

more emasculate (comparative)
most emasculate (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ēmasculātus (more at Etymology 1), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

lbor

If the Icelander in his native climate ever ſhould experience the impulſe of a painter's genius, the year itſelf would not ſupply many hours in which his fingers could obey its ſummons; and in the other extremity of climate, where every fibre is unſtrung by relaxation, all, who have experienced, know the inaptitude both of mind and body towards any action or employ of either; unfit alike for arts and arms, the emaſculate and ſoft inhabitant ſinks into ſloth and ſlumbers away a life, that ſcarce deſerves a better name than vegetation.

1782, Richard Cumberland, Anecdotes of Eminent Painters in Spain, during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; with Cursory Remarks upon the Present Stateof Arts in that Kingdom. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Walter, Charing-Cross, →OCLC, pages 199–200:

Thence as he glanc'd his eye, far other form / And much unfit for war he next eſpied, / Chemos, the ſin of Moab; power obſcene, / Emaſculate and ſoft, in looſe attire / A ſenſual deity; his glory 'twas / In arts of baſe ſeduction to excel, / And leagu'd with harlots to have turn'd the heart, / Of that wife king, and drawn him from his God / To bend his aged knees at idol ſhrines.

1794, Richard Cumberland, “Book I. The Assembling of the Devils.”, in Calvary, or The Death of Christ. A Poem, in Eight Books, Dublin: Printed by Robert Napper, for B. Dugdale, No. 150, Capel-Street, →OCLC, pages 14–15, lines 279–287:

Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.


spreading

en-noun

spreading (countable and uncountable, plural spreadings)

Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.

1991, Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present, page 579:


egress

egress (countable and uncountable, plural egresses)

From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus.

(astronomy) The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

ja-ryk

(judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


compassionate

en-adj

compassionate (comparative more compassionate, superlative most compassionate)

more compassionate (comparative)
most compassionate (superlative)

A pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle of compassionner (“feel sorry for”).

The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate

As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell
By looking pale, the wearer is not well,

1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham:

1675, Robert South, A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 574,
[…] there never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender, and compassionate.

He was by nature so exceedingly compassionate of anyone who seemed to be ill at ease […] that he shook hands with Mr. Micawber, at least half-a-dozen times in five minutes.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 502:

[…] the compassionate pangs I felt for soon-to-be redundant workers were not overwhelming in their frequency; our job required a degree of commitment that left one with rather limited time for such distractions.

2007, Mohsin Hamid, chapter 7, in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Orlando: Harcourt, page 99:

Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).

compassionate leave; a compassionate visa

Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.

henkilökohtainen

given to someone because of a family emergency

It boots thee not to be compassionate:
After our sentence plaining comes too late.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 3]:


compassionate

en-verb

compassionate (third-person singular simple present compassionates, present participle compassionating, simple past and past participle compassionated)

compassionates (present singular third-person)
compassionating (participle present)
compassionated (participle past)
compassionated (past)

[…] seeing them die so wofully in the flames, he compassionated them.

1602, G. Bishop et al., chapter 6, in Thomas Lodge, transl., The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus, London, page 733:

The Justice which Mr. Allworthy had executed on Partridge, at first met with universal Approbation; but no sooner had he felt its Consequences, than his Neighbours began to relent, and to compassionate his Case;

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 6, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II, page 83:

And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel.

1794, William Godwin, chapter 1, in Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, volume 2, London: B. Crosby, page 4:

“[…] if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that.”

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter III, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 38:

Helen laughed at these sentimental remarks, and wondered that Madame herself did not compassionate her lodger, and console him

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

I explained the circumstances of the past two days, which had driven me to the woods, and he deeply compassionated my distress.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 17, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 236:

(transitive, archaic) To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.


escort

Borrowed from French escorte, itself borrowed from Italian scorta.

The soldier who was pulling at the other end was clumsily unhorsed, and I myself was all but thrown by the unexpected jerk. This ludicrous incident at first provoked mirth among my escort, a mirth which their superstitious minds immediately turned into an ill omen.

1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, chapter LXXXIII, in In the Forbidden Land:

Whole squadrons of cavalry escort had sometimes to be sent thundering against a powerful infantry outpost in order that the brief time between the charge and the inevitable retreat might be utilized in sounding a ford or determining the point of intersection of two roads.

There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.

1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 286:

A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.

Of the 68 women, 26 reported that they had worked on the streets and as an escort over the course of their career as a prostitute, 18 exclusively as a street prostitute, and 8 as an escort only (i.e., working for an escort service).

2014, Jeffrey T. Parsons, Contemporary Research on Sex Work, page 87:

Every escort has at least one or two regular clients; they are our bread and butter.

2017, Samantha X, Back on Top: Confessions of a High-Class Escort, Hachette, →ISBN:

(somewhat euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.


escort

escort (third-person singular simple present escorts, present participle escorting, simple past and past participle escorted)

escorts (present singular third-person)
escorting (participle present)
escorted (participle past)
escorted (past)

He reported that the police escorted the children five or six blocks beyond Natural Bridge Avenue and at that point stopped the white children who were following and shooed them back to the park.

2009, Allen D. Grimshaw, A Social History of Racial Violence:

Lord Lyndsey, ever attentive, escorted his Lady to the carriage

To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to

رَافَقَ

At this point, the Tenant became extremely angry.... the Tenant started yelling even louder and charged at me. The Tenant was restrained by the security guard and escorted out of the hearing room. The Tenant was ultimately escorted out of the Board’s office because he continued his yelling and aggressive behaviour in the hallway and at the customer service desk.

2018, TST-00493-18 (Re), Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board (Anna Solomon, member)

Three local yobs have also joined, but they have not reckoned on a redoubtable Conductor and two local revenue protection officers who soon escort them off the train!

2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:

To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).


ictus

en-noun

ictus (plural ictus or ictuses or ictusses)

ictus (plural)
ictuses (plural)
ictusses (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īco (“I hit, strike”).

ubor

(music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.


chasse

From Middle English chasse, variant of case, from Old French chasse. Doublet of case, cash, and chase.


conjunct

From Latin conjunctus, the perfect past participle of conjungō. Doublet of conjoint. See conjoin.

(linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.


aji

Borrowed from Japanese 味 (aji, “flavour”).


tarry

en-verb

tarry (third-person singular simple present tarries, present participle tarrying, simple past and past participle tarried)

tarries (present singular third-person)
tarrying (participle present)
tarried (participle past)
tarried (past)
tarrow (alternative Scotland)

From Middle English tarien, terien (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirian, tirġan, terġan (“to worry, exasperate, pain, provoke, excite”), from Proto-Germanic *terganą, *targijaną (“to pull, tease, irritate”), from Proto-Indo-European *derHgʰ- (“to pull, tug, irritate”). Cognate with Dutch tergen (“to provoke”), German zergen (“to vex, irritate, provoke”), Norwegian Bokmål terge (“to irritate, provoke”), Russian дёргать (djórgatʹ, “to pull, yank, jerk, pester”). Compare also Walloon tårdjî (“to be late, to be slow, to wait”).

noncog

I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.

c. 1170, Maimonides, “Thirteen principles of faith”, in Mishneh Torah:

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Habakkuk 2:3:

But so was Face, crouched before the fire in her banana skins, and so was Mug, smoking a cigarette and saying as he flicked the ash: “Why doth the bridegroom tarry?”

1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 126:

(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow[…].

1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, published 1864:

(intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.


tarry

en-adj

tarry (comparative tarrier, superlative tarriest)

tarrier (comparative)
tarriest (superlative)

From Middle English terrie, equivalent to tar + -y.


inlet

en-verb

inlet (third-person singular simple present inlets, present participle inletting, simple past and past participle inlet)

inlets (present singular third-person)
inletting (participle present)
inlet (participle past)
inlet (past)

From Middle English inleten, equivalent to in- + let. Cognate with Dutch inlaten (“to let in, admit”), Low German inlaten (“to let in”), German einlassen (“to admit, let in”), Swedish inlåta (“to enter, engage”).


inoculate

inoculates (plural)
innoculate (alternative)

Back-formation from inoculation, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).


mediate

mediate (third-person singular simple present mediates, present participle mediating, simple past and past participle mediated)

mediates (present singular third-person)
mediating (participle present)
mediated (participle past)
mediated (past)

The adjective is first attested in the 1440's in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English mediat(e) (“intermediate; intercessory”), borrowed from Late Latin mediātus, perfect passive participle of mediō (“to divide in the middle; (in Medieval Latin) to be in the middle, be or become between, mediate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from medius (“middle”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).

af

To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.


resound

en-verb

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

resounds (present singular third-person)
resounding (participle present)
resounded (participle past)
resounded (past)

From both of the following:
* From Late Middle English resounen (“to return with an echo, resound; to make a sound, to sound; of speech or writing: to announce a theme”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman resoner, resouner [and other forms], Middle French resoner, and Old French resoner (“to make a (deep or echoing) sound; of sounds: to echo; to ring; of one’s name or actions: to be frequently recounted; of a place: to re-echo or ring with sound”) (modern French résonner), from Latin resonāre, the present active infinitive of resonō (“to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound; to call repeatedly; to give back the sound of (something), re-echo or resound (something)”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonō (“to make a noise, resound, sound; to sound (something); to speak or utter (something); to call, cry out; to celebrate; to extol, praise; to sing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- (“to sound”)).
* From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).
Cognates
* Catalan ressonar
* Italian resonare (obsolete), risonare
* Old Occitan resonar
* Portuguese ressoar, ressonar, resonar (obsolete)
* Spanish resonar

nb...

reson, resoun, resound, resoune, resounnen, resown, resowne, resownen

prefix

This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues.

1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 19:

The Warrier his deere skarres no more reſounds, / But ſeems to yeeld Chriſt hath the greater wounds, / Wounds willingly endur'd to work his bliſſe, / Who by an ambuſh loſt his Paradiſe.

[1633], George Herbert, “The Church Militant”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC, page 185:

[B]oth Heav'n and Earth ſhall high extoll / Thy praiſes, with th' innumerable ſound / Of Hymns and ſacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne / Encompaſs'd ſhall reſound thee ever bleſt.

1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 146–149:

The Man, for VViſdom's various arts renovvn'd, / Long exercis'd in vvoes, oh Muſe! reſound.

1725, Homer, “Book I”, in [Elijah Fenton], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 3:

To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.


resound

en-noun

resound (countable and uncountable, plural resounds)

From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise”), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (“echoing, resounding”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (“sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice”) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)).
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹɪˈsaʊnd/, /-ˈzaʊnd/
*
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* (General American) IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/
*
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* Rhymes: -aʊnd
* Hyphenation: re‧sound

IPA

And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]

c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf.

c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] XXXIV”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part I, page 40:

(uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.


micrometer

[ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌmiːɾɚ]


lived

a short-lived recycling scheme

(in combination) Having a specified duration of life.


indite

(mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.


Christmas present

en-noun

Christmas present (countable and uncountable, plural Christmases present)

Christmas + present (“relating to now, current”). Present is used as a postpositioned adjective. First popularized in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Christmas past becomes Christmas present.

1998 May 15, Janet Colsher Teitsort, Long-Distance Grandma: How to Stay Connected with Grandkids Far Away, Baker, →ISBN, page 145:

Anita had been relieved to unload the burden of her Christmases Past following her Process but she certainly hasn't told Max any of the details of the Christmases present she'd be spending with John.

2012 May 3, Stella Duffy, chapter 13, in Wavewalker, Profile Books, →ISBN, section 5:


leading

From Middle English ledinge, ledynge, ledand, ledande, ledende, from Old English lǣdende, from Proto-West Germanic *laidijandī, from Proto-Germanic *laidijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *laidijaną (“to lead”), equivalent to lead + -ing. Compare West Frisian liedend, Dutch leidend, German leitend, Swedish ledande, Icelandic leiðandi.

The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.


heterophone

/ˈhɛtəɹəʊfəʊn/

heterofon

a word whose spelling is the same but sound differs from another’s

hasonló alakú és kiejtésű, azonos jelentésű szó


saucier

sauce boat (a pitcher, dish, or, bowl, used to serve sauce)


misword

en-verb

misword (third-person singular simple present miswords, present participle miswording, simple past and past participle misworded)

miswords (present singular third-person)
miswording (participle present)
misworded (participle past)
misworded (past)

From mis- + word; formed separately from Etymology 2.

I misworded my offer: I meant help, not rescue.


offence

en-noun

offence (countable and uncountable, plural offences)

British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.


perpetuate

From earlier preparat (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).

/pəˈpɛt͡ʃʊət/

/pɚˈpɛt͡ʃəˌweɪt/

The wele suertie and comfort perpetuat of theym ther heires and successours.

1503-1504, “32, Preambule”, in Act 19, Henry VII:

The trees and flowers remain / By Nature's care perpetuate and self-sown.

1801, Robert Southey, “The First Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume I, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 24:

To be perpetuate for my mightiness / Sculpture must image me when I am gone.

1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Children and Sir Nameless”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 134:

(archaic except poetic) Perpetual, or made perpetual; continued for an indefinite time.


retread

From re- + tread (“grooves carved into the face of a tire”, noun).

affix

In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.

1950, Air Force Association, United States Army, Air Force Magazine:

They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.

1971, Brian Garfield, The thousand-mile war: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians:

We retreads upset everybody.

1976, James Jones, Art Weithas, WW II: a chronicle of soldiering:

As with the 100th Division, many of the replacements joining the 103d were "retreads" from the technical services or antiaircraft and aviation troops...

2006, Keith E Bonn, When the Odds Were Even:

(military, slang) A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.


pastille

Partly from the following:
* From Late Middle English pastil, pastill (“crushed leek leaves; vegetable pulp”), borrowed from Old French pastel, probably from Latin pastillus, pastillum (“small bread roll; lozenge to freshen breath; medicated lozenge”), possibly from pāstus (“fed, nourished; consumed; having eaten; of an animal: driven to pasture, pastured; having browsed or grazed”) + -illus (diminutive suffix). Pāstus is the perfect passive participle of pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to maintain, support; of an animal: to drive to pasture, pasture; to browse, graze”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”).
* Borrowed from French pastille (“candy or medicinal lozenge; small fragrant pellet burnt to perfume the air; pellet, pill”), and from its etymon Spanish pastilla (“candy or medicinal lozenge; small fragrant pellet burnt to perfume the air”), from Latin pastillus, pastillum; see above.
Doublet of pastegh, pastel, pastiglia, pastila, and pastilla.

pastilla

small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material — see also tablet

In the desperate search for amatory satisfactions, the most monstrous ingredients have throughout the ages, been sought and compounded into electuaries and pastilles, philtres and ointments.

1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:

(historical) A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.


tara

taras (plural)
tar (alternative)
tare (alternative)
tarr (alternative)

The only silver coin of this empire reported so far is a Tara of the time of Pratāpa devaraya.

1979, The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, volume 41, page 70:

(India) A small silver coin current in South India at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese.


geniculate

PIE word
 *ǵónu
Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

af

(anatomy) Relating to a geniculate nucleus.


frow

en-adj

frow (comparative more frow, superlative most frow)

more frow (comparative)
most frow (superlative)

From Middle English frow, frough, frogh, frouh, frouȝ (“brittle; tender; fickle; slack; loose”), cognate with Scots frooch, freuch (“dry and brittle”). Of obscure origin. Perhaps also related to Middle Dutch vro, vroo, Middle Low German vrô, German froh.

that which grows in gravel is subject to be frow, as they term it , and brittle

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

(now chiefly dialectal) Brittle; tender; crisp


outgoing

outgoing (comparative more outgoing, superlative most outgoing)

more outgoing (comparative)
most outgoing (superlative)

/ˈaʊtˌɡəʊɪŋ/

مُنْشَرِح

being comfortable in social settings and interactions

Is there any outgoing post?

1917 August 27, President of the United States (Woodrow Wilson), Executive Order 2692,
In the neighborhood of each defensive sea area the following entrances are designated for incoming and outgoing vessels: Atlantic. […] Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: The main entrance to the Panama Canal, between the breakwaters. Pacific. […] Designated entrance for outgoing vessels: Canal prism.

There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water.

1922, John Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science, Volume I, Part III:

By KRIYA, the outgoing life force is not wasted and abused in the senses, but constrained to reunite with subtler spinal energies.

1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 26, in Autobiography of a Yogi:

(not comparable) Going out, on its way out.


replicate

/ˈɹɛpləˌkət/

From Latin replicātus, past participle of replicāre (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicāre (“to fold”); see ply. Doublet of reply and replica.

(music) A tone that is one or more octaves away from a given tone.


jong

From Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “fortress, castle; province, district”).

bor

The rock on which the jong stands must at one time have been lapped by the waters of the lake, but at the present time the Yam-dok tso has retreated so far, that a quashy stretch of vivid green quagmire spreads between the road and the shore.

1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet:

When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.

1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Tauris Parke, published 2011, page 211:

However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 451:

The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.

2011, Peter Harrison, Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas, Osprey, published 2011, page 14:

A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.


Demi

A female given name, a diminutive of Demetria introduced into English in the 1990s by the actress Demi Moore.


sophisticate

en-verb

sophisticate (third-person singular simple present sophisticates, present participle sophisticating, simple past and past participle sophisticated)

sophisticates (present singular third-person)
sophisticating (participle present)
sophisticated (participle past)
sophisticated (past)

From Middle English sophisticaten (“to mix (something) with a foreign or inferior substance, adulterate”), from Medieval Latin sophisticātus, the perfect passive participle of sophisticāre (“to disguise; to tamper with; to trick using words”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more). Sophisticāre is derived from Latin sophisticus (“pertaining to the ancient Sophists, sophistic; pertaining to sophistry, sophistic, sophistical”) (from Ancient Greek σοφιστικός (sophistikós), from σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “master of a craft; prudent or wise person; philosopher; teacher, tutor; (derogatory) one who profits from false wisdom, cheat, swindler”), from σοφός (sophós, “able, skilful; clever, intelligent, prudent, wise; cunning”), further etymology unknown) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).
Cognates
* French sophistiquer
* Italian sofisticare
* Spanish sofisticar

der

(also reflexive) To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.

sivistää

to make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”) — see also cosmopolitanize


sophisticate

en-adj

sophisticate (comparative more sophisticate, superlative most sophisticate)

more sophisticate (comparative)
most sophisticate (superlative)

From Middle English sophisticat, sophisticate (“adulterated; not genuine, counterfeit”), an adjective use of the past participle of sophisticaten (verb) See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.


sophisticate

From a substantivation of the above adjective or back-formation of the verb, either on the basis of -ate (noun-forming suffix).

[…] the soporific details of Porter's socially correct marriage of convenience to wealthy and somewhat enigmatic Linda, "a professional beauty." They evidently shared a taste for high social status and the elegant luxuries, high life and freedoms afforded by wealth. Linda and Cole are portrayed as the ultimate sophisticates but the viewer is never told the cause for their separation or why they married.

1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8:

Patrick Star: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.
 SpongeBob SquarePants: Yea verily!

2001 September 21, Walt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, Merriwether Williams, “Sailor Mouth”, in SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 18a:

A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.

hienostunut

person who is sophisticated, or who has sophisticated tastes


levant

Crest, a stag regardant levant argent.

1932, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset:

[...] crest a raven levant sable issant out of a[…]

1977, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History, Proceedings:

[...] neck grene acornes proper wounded on his left sholder and at her feet there is a fawcon issant levant argent out of a crowne or.

1980, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History:


discriminate

en-verb

discriminate (third-person singular simple present discriminates, present participle discriminating, simple past and past participle discriminated)

discriminates (present singular third-person)
discriminating (participle present)
discriminated (participle past)
discriminated (past)

favor

antonym(s) of “make decisions based on prejudice”

First attested in 1615; borrowed from Latin discrīminātus, perfect passive participle of discrīminō (“to divide, separate, distinguish”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from discrīmen (“a space between, division, separation, distinction”), from discernō (“to divide, separate, distinguish, discern”).

Since he was color blind he was unable to discriminate between the blue and green bottles.

The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.

“The more a young person is discriminated against, the more likely they will experience emotional difficulties including depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues and even suicidal ideation,” said Duffy, who specializes in work with teens, parents, couples and families, and wrote the book “Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety.”

2021 November 8, Kristen Rogers, “Discrimination of any kind can lead to much higher risk of mental and behavioral issues for young people, study finds”, in CNN:

The Office for Civil Rights said that it sent letters under its authority to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans any institution receiving federal funds from discriminating based on race, color, and national origin.

2025 March 10, Karina Tsui and Elizabeth Wolfe, “Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims”, in CNN:

To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.

(intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice.

The ordinance condones immorality and discriminates against my children's rights to grow up in a healthy, decent community.

1977 January 19, Anita Bryant, quotee, “Bias Against Homosexuals Is Outlawed in Miami”, in The New York Times, page 14:

There's also expected to be a ruling out of Washington over Texas' efforts to impose a restrictive new voter law that many minority groups allege discriminates against their right to vote.

2012 August 28, “Federal court finds discrimination in new Texas voting maps”, in CBS News:

Under the RHA, a person can sue the State of Illinois or local governments like cities and counties if they improperly deny, interfere with, or discriminate against the person’s fundamental rights to make their own reproductive health decisions.

2019 June 20, “Illinois Reproductive Health Act FAQ”, in ACLU Illinois, archived from the original on 2019-07-06:

(intransitive, construed with against, uncommon) To infringe upon (a person's rights) in a prejudicial manner.

Low self-esteem can affect both rich and poor people: it doesn't discriminate.

To discriminate the goats from the sheep.

1670-7, Isaac Barrow, “Sermon XX: Against rash Censuring and Judging”, in The Theological Works, volume 1, published 1818, page 448:

Still stranger much, that when at length mankind
Had reach'd the sinewy firmness of their youth,
And could discriminate and argue well
On subjects more mysterious

1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.


inrush

inrush (third-person singular simple present inrushes, present participle inrushing, simple past and past participle inrushed)

inrushes (present singular third-person)
inrushing (participle present)
inrushed (participle past)
inrushed (past)

The Ocean, ready to inrush upon them.

1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC:


ake

The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever."

1882, B. Francis, Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches from the South Seas, page 78:

That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish.

1907, Wilhelm Dittmer, Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris:

"Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day?"

1938, Edith J. Lyttleton, G. B. Lancaster, Promenade, page 383:

One day Maui visited his parents to tell them of his latest plan — he wished to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po so that the Night might die and man would live forever: ake, ake, ake!

1997, Queenie Rikihana, Paki Waitara: Myths & Legends of the Māori, →ISBN, page 33:


implant

implant (third-person singular simple present implants, present participle implanting, simple past and past participle implanted)

implants (present singular third-person)
implanting (participle present)
implanted (participle past)
implanted (past)

From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō. By surface analysis, im- + plant.

That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London.

1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584:

(transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.

If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).

2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:

(transitive) To insert (something) surgically into the body.


implant

They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.

2007, Julie Albrecht Royce, Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast, Dog Ear Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 420:

Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.

2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(medicine) Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.

implantaat

anything surgically implanted in the body

(travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.


inaugurate

inaugurate (third-person singular simple present inaugurates, present participle inaugurating, simple past and past participle inaugurated)

inaugurates (present singular third-person)
inaugurating (participle present)
inaugurated (participle past)
inaugurated (past)
inaugurate (infinitive)
inaugurate (first-person present singular)
inaugurated (first-person past singular)
inaugurate (present second-person singular)
inauguratest (archaic present second-person singular)
inaugurated (past second-person singular)
inauguratedst (archaic past second-person singular)
inaugurates (present singular third-person)
inaugurateth (archaic present singular third-person)
inaugurated (past singular third-person)
inaugurate (plural present)
inaugurated (past plural)
inaugurate (present subjunctive)
inaugurated (past subjunctive)
inaugurate (imperative present)
inaugurating (participle present)
inaugurated (participle past)

/ɪˈnɔːɡjʊ.ɹeɪt/

/ɪˈnɔ.ɡjəˌɹeɪt/

/ɪˈnɔ.ɡəˌɹeɪt/

/ɪˈnɑ.ɡjəˌɹeɪt/

/ɪˈnɑ.ɡəˌɹeɪt/

Barack Obama
Chief Justice of the United States
John Roberts
Michelle Obama

Either:
* borrowed from French inaugurer (“to inaugurate”), from Latin inaugurō (“to take omens from the flight of birds, to divine, practise augury; to approve, consecrate, or inaugurate on the basis of omens; to install”) with common assimilation of French -er with English -ate (verb-forming suffix)
* or a Learned borrowing from Latin inaugurātus, perfect passive participle of inaugurō, see etymology at -ate;
Further from in- (“against; into; on, upon; to, towards”) + augurō (“to act as an augur, interpret omens, augur; to foretell, predict; to conjecture, guess”), from augur (“soothsayer, augur”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (further etymology uncertain; see the entry).

اِفْتَتَحَ

to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony

The sun!—he came up to be viewed; / And sky and sea made mighty room / To inaugurate the vision!

1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Sabbath Morning at Sea”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza V, page 326:

Had Mr. Sunley performed the same experiment on the mainland, where people would have flocked to him for the wages he now gives, he would certainly have inaugurated a new era on the East Coast of Africa.

1865, David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone, chapter XXI, in Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858–1864, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 428:

To initiate or usher in (something, as a (significant) course of action, development, organization, or period of time) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner; also (loosely), to begin or commence (something); to start.

vihkiä

to initiate or usher in (something) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner


forearm

From fore- + arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).

(anatomy) The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.

karera

part of a firearm below and supporting the barrel.

(firearms) A section of the weapon between the receiver and the muzzle, used to hold the firearm steady.


forearm

en-verb

forearm (third-person singular simple present forearms, present participle forearming, simple past and past participle forearmed)

forearms (present singular third-person)
forearming (participle present)
forearmed (participle past)
forearmed (past)

But in so far as they were able to forearm themselves against the anxieties of bereavement, the loss may have been that much easier to face.

2013, Peter Marris, Widows and Their Families, page 20:

(transitive, sometimes figurative) To arm in preparation.


triplicate

Early 15th century. From Latin triplicātus, perfect passive participle of triplicō (“to triple”) (see -ate), from tri- (“three”) + plicō (“to fold”). By surface analysis, tri- (“three”) + plicate, analogous with duplicate.

surf

Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.


cleanly

en-adj

cleanly (comparative cleanlier or more cleanly, superlative cleanliest or most cleanly)

cleanlier (comparative)
more cleanly (comparative)
cleanliest (superlative)
most cleanly (superlative)
clenly (alternative)

From Middle English clenly, clenliche, clanly, from Old English clǣnlīċ (“cleanly, pure, excellent”), equivalent to clean + -ly.

inh

Yet at the laſt (ſo well he him applyde,) / Through his fine handling, and cleanly play, / He all thoſe royall ſignes had ſtolne away, / And with the Foxes helpe them borne aſide, / Into a ſecret corner vneſpide.

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature P2, verso:


cleanly

cleanlier (comparative)
more cleanly (comparative)
cleanliest (superlative)
most cleanly (superlative)

From Middle English clenly, clenli, clenliche, from Old English clǣnlīċe (“cleanly”), equivalent to clean + -ly.

He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trowsers; […]

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I Make another Beginning”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 157:

We agreed to break off our relationship cleanly.

Fortunately, the bullet passed cleanly through your shoulder.

Not causing a mess or unnecessary damage.

If I do growe great, ile growe leſſe, for ile purge and leaue Sacke, and liue cleanlie as a noble man ſhould do.

c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], signature [K4], recto:

The boy will do well certain : give him grace To have a quick hand and convey things cleanly


uncleanly

en-adj

uncleanly (comparative more uncleanly, superlative most uncleanly)

more uncleanly (comparative)
most uncleanly (superlative)

From Middle English unclenlī, onclenlich, from Old English unclǣnlīc, equivalent to un- + cleanly.

Prosodemic typhoid from its nature may be disseminated in innumerable ways, but is more frequently found in slum districts, where the habits of the people are uncleanly, or in districts where there is no adequate sewerage.

1907, Annual Report, Ohio. State Board of Health:


federate

federates (plural)
fœderate (alternative)

A Federate (Application) can be defined as an application that implements or conforms to the HLA standard.

2016, Okan Topçu, Umut Durak, Halit Oğuztüzün, Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach:

(computer simulation) a system participating in a collective simulation, particularly within the context of the HLA (High Level Architecture) standard.


downhill

downhill (comparative further downhill, superlative furthest downhill)

further downhill (comparative)
furthest downhill (superlative)

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

This year's race is on a downhill course.

It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.

1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 706:


fimbriate

en-verb

fimbriate (third-person singular simple present fimbriates, present participle fimbriating, simple past and past participle fimbriated)

fimbriates (present singular third-person)
fimbriating (participle present)
fimbriated (participle past)
fimbriated (past)

Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

af

Beſides the divers tricking or dreſſing, as piercing, voiding, fimbriating, ingrailing, couping: And in fanſie and devices there is ſtill a plus ultrá; inſomuch that Croſſes alone as they are variouſly diſguiſed, are enough to diſtinguiſh all the ſeverall families of Gentlemen in England.

1639, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Honourable Arms in Scutcheons of Nobilitie Occasioned by Their Service in the Holy Warre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre), page 271:

(transitive, heraldry) To apply a thin border (a fimbriation) to some element, often to satisfy the rule of tincture.


regroup

en-verb

regroup (third-person singular simple present regroups, present participle regrouping, simple past and past participle regrouped)

regroups (present singular third-person)
regrouping (participle present)
regrouped (participle past)
regrouped (past)

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

Borrowed from French regrouper. By surface analysis, re- + group.

As half-time approached with Everton desperate to get into the dressing room and regroup, Liverpool were awarded a penalty for Jagielka's rash challenge on Suarez. This time there was no disputing Atkinson's decision, but Howard rescued Everton by diving low to his left to keep out Kuyt's spot-kick.

2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

(intransitive) To pause and become organized again.

перагрупо́ўвацца

pause and get organized again (intransitive)


excise

en-noun

excise (countable and uncountable, plural excises)

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise",
A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.

1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8,
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;

A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).


intern

From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.

A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.


intern

en-verb

intern (third-person singular simple present interns, present participle interning, simple past and past participle interned)

interns (present singular third-person)
interning (participle present)
interned (participle past)
interned (past)
interne (alternative)

The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.

(transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.

(of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.

Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code.

2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 81:

(transitive, programming) To internalize.


intern

From French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”); compare etymology 1.

Students know that working as an intern can provide contacts and all-important experience in their chosen fields. And last year, 26 percent of graduates hired by companies had worked as interns, compared with 9 percent the year before.

1994 November 6, William Goss, “Interning For Pleasure And Profit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

مُتَدَرِّب

A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.


refill

refill (third-person singular simple present refills, present participle refilling, simple past and past participle refilled)

refills (present singular third-person)
refilling (participle present)
refilled (participle past)
refilled (past)

Can you refill my cup please? I've finished my coffee.


ole

D'you see the ole guy sitting over there?

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


frig

From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”). More at free.
Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).

inh

I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.

A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed).


agonic

International Geomagnetic Reference Field

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privativum, a prefix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”) + -ic.

der

One of these [agonic lines] passes over the American and the other over the Asiatic continent, and the former has consequently been called the American and the latter the Asiatic agonic. […] On the west of the Asiatic agonic the declination is west, on the east it is east.

1852, Dionysius Lardner, “Terrestrial Magnetism”, in Hand-book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, second course (Heat—Common Electricity—Magnetism—Voltaic Electricity), London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, Upper Gower Street, and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, book II (Magnetism), paragraphs 1661–1662, page 172:

It should be noted that the period of 2000 years deduced from the average motion of the agonics is identical with that which we obtain if we suppose that the secondary magnetic system revolves around the equator at the average rate of the two secondary poles, viz: ³⁶⁰⁄_(0.194) = 1860 years.

1895, The American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn.: J[ames] D[wight] & E[dward] S[alisbury] Dana, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 321:


cashier

en-verb

cashier (third-person singular simple present cashiers, present participle cashiering, simple past and past participle cashiered)

cashiers (present singular third-person)
cashiering (participle present)
cashiered (participle past)
cashiered (past)

From Dutch casseren, kasseren, from Old French casser (“to break (up)”). During a ceremonial cashiering of a ranking military officer, the breakup was often symbolized dramatically by literally breaking the officer’s sword.

His ninth Legion having mutined neere unto Placentia, he presently cassiered the same with great ignominie unto it[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

The recent cashiering for disobedience of orders of a Major-General who is claimed, we know not with what truth, to be of the "conservative" order, has raised this outcry louder and fiercer than ever.

1863 February 1, “Politics of Military Commanders.”, in The New York Times:

They found an Army officer who had been a military failure until Bernard Baruch promoted him to General, and who in 1945 should have been able to hope for nothing better than that he could escape a court martial and thus avoid being cashiered, if he could prove that all the atrocities and all the sabotage of American interests of which he had been guilty in Europe had been carried out over his protest and under categorical orders from the President.

1968, Revilo P. Oliver, “What We Owe Our Parasites” (speech)

The Directory had been deregulating the economy since Thermidor; but it had not cashiered the police spies on which the Terror had depended, and these allowed the government to keep abreast of the threat.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 510:

Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers.

2012, Jonathan Keates, “Mon Père, ce héros”, in Literary Review, section 402:

(transitive, now rare) To dismiss (someone, especially military personnel) from service.

Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.

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


cashier

cashiers (plural)
casheer (alternative obsolete)

→ Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ੀਅਰ (kaiśīara)

Borrowed from Dutch cassier or French caissier, from French caisse.

The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

So when everyone was stopping at the grocery store for one or two things on the way home from work, inundating each express lane with at least ten custies, the cashier on the express lane was due for a break […]

2012, Freeman Hall, Coworker Hell: A Retail Hell Underground Digital Short:

One who works at a till or receives payments.

arkëtar

one who works at a till or receives payments

Person in charge of the cash of a business or bank.

arkëtar

person in charge of the cash of a business or bank


dingy

en-adj

dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)

dingier (comparative)
dingiest (superlative)

From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from Middle English *dingy, dungy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y, hence a doublet of dungy.

inh

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:


tearing

en-noun

tearing (usually uncountable, plural tearings)

Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303:

(computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.

yāihyāih

sound produce when ripping clothes or flat sheets


aquaplane

PIE word
 *h₂ékʷeh₂
The noun is derived from aqua- (prefix meaning ‘water’) + plane (“flat or level surface”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)).
The verb is derived from the noun, and is analysable as aqua- + plane (“to glide; to soar; to skim a water surface”).

prefix

At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.

1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter III, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 47:

(originally US, water sports) A board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.

hydrofoil

planar surface that generates lift in water


refuel

An act or instance of refilling with fuel.


misconduct

en-noun

misconduct (usually uncountable, plural misconducts)

There is definitely an indication of retaliation in this case. I have never received a misconduct for possessing or using drugs.

1989 December 17, Edward Inman, “Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 5:

After Jonathan Marchessault buried an empty-net goal with 90 seconds left in overtime, Hartman yelled from the bench and allegedly threw his stick in the officials’ direction. Hartman was assessed a misconduct for abusive language, according to the game sheet.

2024 March 31, Michael Russo, “Wild’s Ryan Hartman offered hearing for throwing stick in direction of officials”, in New York Times:

A penalty or write-up for improper behavior.


misconduct

en-verb

misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)

misconducts (present singular third-person)
misconducting (participle present)
misconducted (participle past)
misconducted (past)

It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.

1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal, published 1995, page 224:

(reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave.

The quartermasters have misconducted, and the government should bear the loss resulting from that misconduct.

1869, Ebenezer Peck, “Spear v. United States: Dissenting Opinion”, in Charles C. Nott, Samuel H. Huntington, editors, Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, at the December Term for 1869, volume 5, published 1871, pages 213–14:

It seems no answer for the recipient to allege that he was incompetent and misconducted, but that the acts were committed outside the jurisdiction.

1881, William Stawell, “In re Victoria Steam Navigation Board, ex parte Allan”, in George H. F. Webb, editor, The Victorian Law Reports, volumes 7, 1881—XLIV and XLV Victoriæ, published 1882, page 264:

Whether the jury misconducted in making the view of the premises, or whether the court erred in instructing them as to what effect they should give, in making up their verdict, to matters which came under their observation while making the view, does not appear from the record in this case.

1882, David Taylor, “Boardman and another vs. The Westchester Fire Ins. Co. of New York”, in O. M. Conover, editor, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin […], volume 54, page 367:


dur

From German Dur, from Latin dūrus (“hard, firm, vigorous”).

C dur

(music, obsolete) Major; in the major mode.


incinerate

incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)

incinerates (present singular third-person)
incinerating (participle present)
incinerated (participle past)
incinerated (past)

/ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/

From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).

His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:


racemate

From racemic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

(archaic, organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of racemic acid.


lunged

He had grown a big strong fellow, but I had no difficulty in identifying the little squinting child, who begged, and sold flowers and songs in public-house bars, with the strong loud-lunged vendor of mackerel.

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:


pressie

(media, informal) A press conference or press briefing.


billiard

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

cog

A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.


billiard

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illiard.

(British, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

biljardi

a million milliards — see also quadrillion


laminate

From Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of metal/other material”).

uder

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.


overbite

(dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.


mutilate

en-verb

mutilate (third-person singular simple present mutilates, present participle mutilating, simple past and past participle mutilated)

mutilates (present singular third-person)
mutilating (participle present)
mutilated (participle past)
mutilated (past)

Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).

mutilated currency

To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.


misprint

Near-synonyms: typo; lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ

There is a misprint in the first print run: On page 42 where the character yells, "You're going to catch a cod if you spend all night fishing", the dialogue was meant to say, "You're going to catch a cold if you spend all night fishing."


swinger

Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future.

2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian:


swinger

/ˈswɪnd͡ʒəɹ/


lipread

lipread (third-person singular simple present lipreads, present participle lipreading, simple past and past participle lipread)

lipreads (present singular third-person)
lipreading (participle present)
lipread (participle past)
lipread (past)
lip-read (alternative)
lip read (alternative)

(transitive, intransitive) To determine a person's speech by watching the movement of their lips.

odezírat (ze rtů)

determine what a person is saying by watching or observing the movement of their lips.


leaded

en-adj

leaded (comparative more leaded, superlative most leaded)

more leaded (comparative)
most leaded (superlative)


moly

en-noun

moly (countable and uncountable, plural molies)

From Latin mōly, from Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu) (probably a loanword).

Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.


decanal

(organic chemistry) The aliphatic aldehyde, CH₃(CH₂)₈CHO, related to capric acid


benet

From French [Term?], from Latin benedictus (“blessed”).

An exorcist, the third of the four lesser orders in the Roman Catholic church.


festinate

en-adj

festinate (comparative more festinate, superlative most festinate)

more festinate (comparative)
most festinate (superlative)

From Latin festīnātus; festina lente (make haste slowly).

Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:


jupe

Apparently named after an EFnet user called Jupiter who did this to NickServ

(IRC) A block placed on a server, nickname or channel.


liven

en-verb

liven (third-person singular simple present livens, present participle livening, simple past and past participle livened)

livens (present singular third-person)
livening (participle present)
livened (participle past)
livened (past)

Partly from life + -en; partly from live (adjective) + -en; and partly a shortening of enliven. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk livna (“to quicken, come alive”), Faroese livna (“to come to life, come alive”), Icelandic lifna (“to come to life”).

cog

Let's liven up this party!

Bacon's Rebellion (p. 54) has no political meaning for Mr. Bruce. Champlain's fight with the Iroquois is told to liven the narrative with a fight (p. 36), but the far-reaching result is merely hinted in a manner that means nothing to one who doesn't know. The ideals and purposes of the Jesuits are not mentioned.

1905, The American Historical Review, the American Historical Association, page 380:

[…] and he fought for others' banners,
And he dined at others' tables, and he droned in others' hives,
And he livened others' journeys, and he rhymed of others' tourneys,
And he emptied others' flagons, and he flirted others' wives.

1958: Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (translator), The Travels of Marco Polo
Instead of the picturesque fables* that liven the pages of ‘Sir John Mandeville’ and of many more authentic travellers, he gives us no less picturesque facts, and facts in great abundance.

1979: The American School Board Journal, volume 166, no. 1, January 1979, published by the National School Boards Association, caption to an image in the May 1979 section
Visiting professionals frequently liven the day at the Elm Creative Arts School.

Anacreon […] celebrated wine and love and must have been a rousing fellow. Probably he livened heaven when he arrived.

[…] to invigorate and liven the spirits.

2003, Sarah Garland, The Herb Garden, page 69:

The fact of this made him realize he had a story. He livened. Father was washed overboard, Rupert said. He was going through the water like a duck.

2005, Michael Winter, The Big Why: A Novel:

(ambitransitive) To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively.


loti

loti (plural)
maloti (plural)
lotis (plural)

From the Sotho loti, singular derivation of maloti, mulati (“mountains”); compare Maloti.

The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender.


laver

en-noun

laver (countable and uncountable, plural lavers)

larva (non-rhotic, with the "broad a" pronunciation)

From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).

To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout; or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings.

1847, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], “Roasting”, in The Cook and Housewife’s Manual. […], 8th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd; London; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 19, pages 106–107:

Porphyra umbilicalis
Porphyra umbilicalis#Translingual

Porphyra laciniata
Porphyra laciniata#Translingual

A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.


semis

(historical) A small bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at half an as.