precious

en-adj

precious (comparative more precious, superlative most precious)

more precious (comparative)
most precious (superlative)

From Middle English precious, borrowed from Old French precios (“valuable, costly, precious, beloved, also affected, finical”), from Latin pretiōsus (“of great value, costly, dear, precious”), from pretium (“value, price”); see price.

der

a precious rascal


gunk

en-noun

gunk (countable and uncountable, plural gunks)

Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime + funk.

(uncountable) A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock.


petrol sniffer

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal.


trampoline

From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino; in English, a genericized trademark based on the Spanish word trademarked in 1936.

A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric or rubber stretched over a (usually steel) frame using many coiled springs as anchors.


paia

From an eye-dialect spelling of palha (“straw”).

(Northeast Brazil, South Brazil, slang) of bad quality, inefficient


zorra

First attested in the 15th century. Of unclear origin: perhaps from an unknown pre-Roman language, or perhaps from Basque azari/azeri (“fox”) (a third suggestion, which holds that the term derives from onomatopoeia, is considered "far from convincing" and "unprovable").


leatherette

leatherette (countable and uncountable, plural leatherettes)

From leather + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning an imitation or substitute of something); originally a trademark that has since been genericized.

refn

From the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.

From the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, New York, USA.

suffix

The NYU tarts and the club slime, the art holes and the once-a-week bridge-and-tunnel leatherettes, the spikes and the usual dregs and walking garbage, Eel was giving them all the hiss.

1994, George Dawes Green, chapter 27, in The Caveman’s Valentine, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN; ebook edition, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, March 2001, →ISBN:

Since I seemed to know some of the leatherettes, I was a magnet for fellow Jews wanting to know what was going on.

2003 August 19, Bruce Vilanch, “Heathers in Leathers”, in Bruce C. Steele, editor, The Advocate, Los Angeles, Calif.: Liberation Publications, →ISSN, page 66, column 2:

I could tell in advance if they were screamers, or leatherettes, or buggers, or great head-givers, or into toys and ticklers – I had it down to an art.

2005, Tom Horn, chapter 2, in The Devil and George Bailey, [s.l.]: RSE, published 2011, →ISBN, part III (Fire), page 827:

(countable, slang) A person who dresses in leather or imitation leather.


bougnoule

fr-noun

bougnoule m or f by sense (plural bougnoules)

Borrowed from Wolof ñuul (“black, to be black”), wu ñuula (“a person who is black”), fas wu ñuul (“black horse”), 1890. The original phrase is sometimes offensive in the Wolof language.

bor+

Jeune, j’ai le souvenir d’une madame Nicole / Instit’ qui pensait qu’un bougnoule n’était pas fait pour l’école

2005, “Thé à la menthe”, performed by La Caution:

I remember when I was young there was a Madame Nicole / A primary school teacher who thought that a wog was not cut out for school

À Amiens y a que des Noirs et des bougnoules, des crouilles t’y vas tu crois que t’en Afrique. Faut pas aller là-bas, c’est sûr que tu te fais dépouiller.

2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:

In Amiens there's nothing but blacks, wogs and Maghrebis; you go and you think you're in Africa. You mustn't go there; you'll definitely get robbed.

(ethnic slur) wog; raghead (person of North African descent)


jefe

es-noun

jefe m (plural jefes, feminine jefa or jefe, feminine plural jefas or jefes)

jefes (plural)
jefa (feminine)
jefe (feminine)
jefas (feminine plural)
jefes (feminine plural)

→ English: jefe

→ Bikol Central: hepe

→ Cebuano: hepe

→ Tagalog: hepe

Inherited from Old Spanish xefe, from Old French chief, from Latin caput. Compare Portuguese chefe. Doublet of cabo and chef.


bubbler

(US) A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), of central North America.


мальчик

ru-noun+

ма́льчик • (málʹčik) m anim (genitive ма́льчика, nominative plural ма́льчики, genitive plural ма́льчиков)

ма́льчик (canonical)
málʹčik (romanization)
ма́льчика (genitive)
ма́льчики (nominative plural)
ма́льчиков (genitive plural)
ма́льчик (nominative singular)
ма́льчики (nominative plural)
ма́льчика (genitive singular)
ма́льчиков (genitive plural)
ма́льчику (dative singular)
ма́льчикам (dative plural)
ма́льчика (accusative singular)
ма́льчиков (accusative plural)
ма́льчиком (instrumental singular)
ма́льчиками (instrumental plural)
ма́льчике (prepositional singular)
ма́льчиках (plural prepositional)

→ English: malchick, malchik

desctree

→⇒ Yiddish: בויטשיק (boytshik)
→ English: boychik

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esky

From Esky (“brand name”), a brand name originally owned by Malley's Ltd, of Sydney, Australia, from 1952; since genericised. From esk(imo) + -ie.

The rear of the cab was stacked with boxes of soft drinks and ‘Eskis’.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 75:

Instructions followed for the package to be covered with clean ice in a six-pack esky (which should be big enough), and stored in a cool room at the hotel or the butcher shop, until the arrival of the mail plane.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 211:

(Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.


babes

Are you all right, babes?

Alternative form of babe (“as a term of endearment to a loved one”)


frisbee

Borrowed from English. Genericized trademark.


frisbee

Unadapted borrowing from English Frisbee. Genericized trademark.

ubor

Frisbee, disc, flying disc (disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee)


frisbee

frisbee (indefinite nominative singular)

Ultimately a genericized trademark, from Frisbee.


butterscotch

en-noun

butterscotch (usually uncountable, plural butterscotches)

/ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/

From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.

der

A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.


jackeen

From Jack + -een (“little”), from Jack being a common English name.

To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickakafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105:

(Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of Dubliner, especially (obsolete or historical) an excessively Anglophile one.


paranã

desctree

Old Tupi: paraná
Nheengatu: paraná, paranã
→ Brazilian Portuguese: paraná
→ Portuguese: Paraná

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paranã.

etymon

anonymous author (1622) “Aguoa do mar”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 24: “Paranã.”


îasy

Nheengatu: yasí

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jat͡sɨ, from Proto-Tupian *watɨ.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní jaxy and Paraguayan Guaraní jasy.

inh+

Marã eteĩ raumope amó Anhangarata pôra recou ycô ârapupe oyepe yaci Tupã ebanoĩ çuí omomborû omoingoberememô[…]

(Can we date this quote?), Antônio de Araújo, “Do primeiro nouiſsimo, que he a morte” (chapter I), in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon, page 156v:

How would a inhabitant of Hell live in this world if God made him live out of there for a month?

(Late Tupi, hapax) month (period into which a year is divided)


девушка

ru-noun+

де́вушка • (dévuška) f anim (genitive де́вушки, nominative plural де́вушки, genitive plural де́вушек)

де́вушка (canonical)
dévuška (romanization)
де́вушки (genitive)
де́вушки (nominative plural)
де́вушек (genitive plural)
де́вушка (nominative singular)
де́вушки (nominative plural)
де́вушки (genitive singular)
де́вушек (genitive plural)
де́вушке (dative singular)
де́вушкам (dative plural)
де́вушку (accusative singular)
де́вушек (accusative plural)
де́вушкой (instrumental singular)
де́вушкою (instrumental singular)
де́вушками (instrumental plural)
де́вушке (prepositional singular)
де́вушках (plural prepositional)

desc

→ Ainu: デウシカ

→ Ainu: デウシカ

Ru-девушка.ogg

дѣ́вушка — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Де́вушка, подойди́те пожа́луйста к тре́тьему око́шку.

Miss, please go to window/counter three.

Dévuška, podojdíte požálujsta k trétʹjemu okóšku.

miss (informal but common form of address to a young woman; may also apply to middle-aged women working in the service industry, e.g., sales)


девочка

ru-noun+

де́вочка • (dévočka) f anim (genitive де́вочки, nominative plural де́вочки, genitive plural де́вочек)

де́вочка (canonical)
dévočka (romanization)
де́вочки (genitive)
де́вочки (nominative plural)
де́вочек (genitive plural)
де́вочка (nominative singular)
де́вочки (nominative plural)
де́вочки (genitive singular)
де́вочек (genitive plural)
де́вочке (dative singular)
де́вочкам (dative plural)
де́вочку (accusative singular)
де́вочек (accusative plural)
де́вочкой (instrumental singular)
де́вочкою (instrumental singular)
де́вочками (instrumental plural)
де́вочке (prepositional singular)
де́вочках (plural prepositional)

→ English: devotchka

Ru-девочка.ogg

girl, little girl (before the age of puberty)

дѣ́вочка — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


spastic

ro-adj

spastic m or n (feminine singular spastică, masculine plural spastici, feminine and neuter plural spastice)

spastică (feminine singular)
spastici (masculine plural)
spastice (feminine neuter plural)
spastic (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
spastică (feminine indefinite singular)
spastici (indefinite masculine plural)
spastice (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
spasticul (definite masculine neuter singular)
spastica (definite feminine singular)
spasticii (definite masculine plural)
spasticele (definite feminine neuter plural)
spastice (feminine indefinite singular)
spasticului (definite masculine neuter singular)
spasticei (definite feminine singular)
spasticilor (definite masculine plural)
spasticelor (definite feminine neuter plural)


znak

Polish: znak

Silesian: znak

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *znakъ. First attested in the.

Dacz znak designare

1908 [c. 1500], Bolesław Erzepki, editor, Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego. I. Glosy polskie wpisane do łacińsko-niemieckiego słownika drukowanego w roku 1490, Lubiń, page 135:

(attested in Greater Poland) The meaning of this term is uncertain.


asi

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *asi. First attested in the 14th century.

Suøta Katerina... ne meskacy iesc stala, ue zlem ne lezala, asy y ty <...jeż są> v blødnem stadle lezaly, ty iesc suoiø naukø otuodila.

c. 1301-1350, Kazania świętokrzyskie, Miechów, page br 39:


cariño

→ Catalan: carinyo

→ Portuguese: carinho

Uncertain, but possibly via Aragonese cariño, from Latin carere.


jigaboo

Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo.

(offensive, slang, dated) Any dark-skinned person.


sweetheart

[ˈswiˌɾ(ʱ)ɑɹt̠̚]

From Middle English swete hert, swete heorte (phrase of endearment); equivalent to sweet + heart.

John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.

Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]

c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.

حَبِيب

a person very much liked or loved by someone — see also darling, cutie

(one's lover, with possessive suffixes) kedves

(US) A female member of a college or university fraternity.


Aspirin

From the German trademark Aspirin, from acetylierte Spirsäure (“acetylated spiræic acid”); more at aspirin § Etymology.

acetylsalicylic acid
acetylsalicylic acid#English

(pharmacology) A marketed variety of acetylsalicylic acid.

aspirin

the genericized trademark meaning acetylsalicylic acid


Aspirin

de-noun

Aspirin n (strong, genitive Aspirins, no plural)

Aspirins (genitive)
Aspirin (nominative singular)
Aspirins (genitive singular)
Aspirin (dative singular)
Aspirin (accusative singular)

From acetylierte Spirsäure (literally “acetylated salicylic acid”). The second word is from the plant name Spiraea.


Adan

(used only in tales) A mythological location.


брат

ru-noun+

брат • (brat) m anim (genitive бра́та, nominative plural бра́тья^*, genitive plural бра́тьев^*, relational adjective бра́тский, diminutive бра́тик or бра́тец or брато́к or брати́шка) (* The soft ending of the plural was originally used for feminine collective nouns, and the meaning of братья then was brotherhood.)

brat (romanization)
бра́та (genitive)
бра́тья^* (nominative plural)
бра́тьев^* (genitive plural)
бра́тский (adjective relational)
бра́тик (diminutive)
бра́тец (diminutive)
брато́к (diminutive)
брати́шка (diminutive)
бра́т (nominative singular)
бра́тья (nominative plural)
brátʹja (nominative plural)
бра́та (genitive singular)
бра́тьев (genitive plural)
brátʹjev (genitive plural)
бра́ту (dative singular)
бра́тьям (dative plural)
brátʹjam (dative plural)
бра́та (accusative singular)
бра́тьев (accusative plural)
brátʹjev (accusative plural)
бра́том (instrumental singular)
бра́тьями (instrumental plural)
brátʹjami (instrumental plural)
бра́те (prepositional singular)
бра́тьях (plural prepositional)
brátʹjax (plural prepositional)
бра́те (singular vocative)

→ Armenian: բրատ (brat) (slang)

→ Azerbaijani: brat (slang)

→ Georgian: ბრატ (braṭ) (slang)

→ Yakut: быраат (bıraat)

Inherited from Old East Slavic братъ (bratŭ), from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
Cognates include Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ), Latin frater, English brother and English pal.


Bantu

en-noun

Bantu (countable and uncountable, plural Bantus or Bantu)

From Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

(South Africa, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black South African.


Doctor

The students asked to see Doctor Jones.

Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.

Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live?

They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.

1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, pages ix–x:

The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before or instead of the doctor's name.

醫生

title of a doctor, used before the doctor's name


Doc

Nice pair of Docs you've got on there, bro!

(slang, usually in the plural) A Doc Marten shoe or boot.


Flip

One of the children beckoned to me to try it and I started forward, but before I could move Ryland grabbed my coat. "They're fucking Flips, kid. The only way to play is to be better than they are. Go all the way to the top."

1993, Gary Paulsen, Eastern sun, winter moon: an autobiographical odyssey, →ISBN:

Later, the lieutenant came up to me. “Those dumb Flips finally got the message, right? […]

2002, Henry C Allan, H-Hour Plus Three: The Saga of the US Army Amphibious Engineers in the Pacific During World War II, →ISBN, page 188:

(slang, chiefly derogatory, ethnic slur) A Filipino; a person who is of Filipino background.


Formica

Coined in 1913 as a brand name for the material and the company producing it. Formica was originally intended as a replacement “for mica”, which was then commonly used for electrical insulation.

She creamed in her jeans as he picked up her knees / From off of the Formica topped bar

1978, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Street Hassle”, in Street Hassle:


Coke

Coke (countable and uncountable, plural Cokes)

Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).

(countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.

The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.

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

'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'

1958, Franklin Martin, “The Trouble with Mrs. Benton”, in Venus, volume 1, number 1, Garden of Eve Publications, page 16:

(countable, informal) A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.

(US, especially Southern US, informal) Any soft drink, regardless of type.


Friend

English surname, from the noun friend, or adaptations of it in other languages such as German Freund, Dutch Vriend, Slovene Prijatelj.

A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)

spring-loaded camming device
spring-loaded camming device

(rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.


Friend

An unincorporated community in Terry Township, Finney County, Kansas.

A minor city in Saline County, Nebraska, named after Charles E. Friend.

A ghost town in Wasco County, Oregon, named after George J. Friend.


Mace

en-proper noun

Mace (countable and uncountable, plural Maces)

* As an English surname, from the personal name Masse, probably shortened from Matthew. Compare Massey, Massett.
* As a French and Breton surname, from Macé, vernacular form of Mathieu. Compare Maze.
* Also as a French surname, from Macé in Orne, from Late Latin Macciacum, from the personal name Maccius.
* Also as a French surname, variant of Massé; see Masse.

An English surname transferred from the given name.

Montgomery County
Montgomery County#English

An unincorporated community in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.


Missus

(informal) Mrs, a form of address for a married woman.


Ka

Ka (canonical)
Kâ (canonical)
ᜃ (Baybayin)

From clipping of kaka (“elder sibling; elder”).

clipping

Ka Pedro

Ka Maria

term of address for elders and distant uncles or aunts


Ka

From clipping of kapatid (“sibling; brother; sister”).

Ka Felix

Iglesia ni Cristo
Iglesia ni Cristo#English

term of address used by members of Iglesia ni Cristo to refer to other Church members


Ka

From clipping of kasama (“companion; comrade”).

Ka Amado

non-hierarchical term of address, used in socialist and communist circles: comrade


Moose

(slang, derogatory, religious slur) A Muslim.


Mt

Mt Everest

Abbreviation of Mount (in the names of mountains)

Mt Airy

Abbreviation of Mount (in the names of cities)


Misses

Perhaps we are disposed to smile at seeing so much made of titles; but after what we have learned of Lord Timothy Dexter and the high-sounding names appropriated by many of our own compatriots, who have no more claim to them than we plain Misters and Misseses, we may feel to them something as our late friend Mr. Appleton felt to the real green turtle soup set before him, when he said that it was almost as good as mock.

1890, O[liver] W[endell] Holmes [Sr.], “The tea is sweeneted”, in Over the Teacups, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], pages 274–275:

Eye dialect spelling of Mrs; alternative spelling of Missus.


Hun

From Old English Hūnas, Hūne (both plural), from Late Latin Hunni, from Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), borrowed through Middle Iranian. Cognate with Old Norse húnir, Old High German Hunni. See also etymology of Xiongnu.
Compare Sogdian [script needed] (xwn), Sanskrit हूण (hūṇa), and 匈奴 (OC *hoŋ-nâ) (c. 318 BCE) > *hɨoŋ-nɑ (Eastern Han), which Schuessler (2014:264) proposes to be transcription of foreign *Hŏna ~ Hŭna. More at Huns.
As a derogatory term for Germans popularized by Rudyard Kipling, reacting to Germany's proposal that the Royal Navy be used to collect debts from Venezuela.

Doubtless the first German band to return to England will be composed of the most gentle peace and beer-loving Huns that ever visited our favoured shores.

1919, Gerald Featherstone Knight, Brother Bosch: An Airman's Escape from Germany:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German.


Frisbee

1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).

A trademarked brand name of disc-shaped gliding toy.


Nip

CHUNGKING, Oct. 10—Chinese counterblows against the Japanese offensive in south China have reeled the Nips back from two towns in the approaches to Kweilin, capital city of Kwangsi Province, today’s Chinese High Command communique announced.

1944 October 11, “Sino Counterblows Send Nips Reeling”, in The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean, Italy, →OCLC, page 1:

(dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.


Nip

(dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Japanese.


Muppet

Diane Sawyer
Elmo
Jim Henson
Kevin Clash
Muppet

Coined by Jim Henson as an alteration of puppet. Henson had claimed the word was a blend of marionette + puppet, but later recanted.

One of a group of established puppet characters acting as a sort of repertory company on The Muppet Show, and/or appearing on Sesame Street.


Q-tip

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

American genericization from the brand name coined (and registered as the trademark "Q-TIPS") by Unilever; see tip. Q stands for quality.

A cotton swab consisting of short, thin, flexible plastic rods with a swab of cotton/cotton wool at each end; they are typically used for cleaning the ears and other hard-to-reach places.


Slick

That was a great move locking your keys in the car, Slick.

Don't you look good tonight, Slick!

A term of address, generally applied to males, possibly including strangers, implying that the person addressed is slick in the sense of "sophisticated", but often used sarcastically.


Miss

Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.

Form of address for a teacher or a waitress.

(Philippines) A respectful term of address or reference to a woman of higher rank or position before the woman's given name or nickname.


Spaghetti

de-noun

Spaghetti m (strong, genitive Spaghettis or Spaghetti, plural Spaghettis)

Spaghettis (genitive)
Spaghetti (genitive)
Spaghettis (plural)
Spaghetti (nominative singular)
Spaghettis (definite nominative plural)
Spaghettis (genitive singular)
Spaghetti (genitive singular)
Spaghettis (definite genitive plural)
Spaghetti (dative singular)
Spaghettis (dative definite plural)
Spaghetti (accusative singular)
Spaghettis (accusative definite plural)

„Dir werde ich das Grinsen austreiben, verdammter Spaghetti! Ab morgen malochst du im Schlackenkeller.“

1970, Bruno Gluchowski, Blutiger Stahl, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, page 12:

Nun, seit zwei Jahren schreibt dieser Spaghetti bei »Nationalität« nicht mehr »Italiener«, sondern »Gastarbeiter«.

1988, Rafik Schami, Die Sehnsucht fährt schwarz, dtv, →ISBN, page 34:

«Das ist ein Spaghetti», sagte der Klinikangestellte, um sich sofort für diese Wortwahl zu entschuldigen. Das sei politisch nicht korrekt, er habe vielmehr gemeint, es handele sich um einen Mitbürger mit italienischen Vorfahren, […]

2012, Michael Böckler, Tod oder Reben, Rowohlt E-Book, →ISBN:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) wop (person of Italian descent)


Telex

Central Telegraph Office
General Post Office
Telex (input method)
Western Union

From Telex Printergram, a service offered beginning 15 Aug. 1932 by the British General Post Office's Central Telegraph Office, derived as a blend of tele- (“telegraph, teletype, teleprinter, etc.”) + exchange. Subsequently branded in the United States by Western Union and then similarly genericized. In reference to the Vietnamese conventions, a borrowing of Vietnamese Telex, from French télex, from the English term.

blend

(computing) Input method for Vietnamese text based on this convention.


Tempo

Genericization of the trademark Tempo. From the name of a popular manufacturer of such structures. Clipping of temporary.

(Quebec, automotive) A type of car shelter, a temporary kit-built prefabricated steel-framed high tunnel peaked hoop house with an impermeable translucent plastic fabric cover, and flap doors.


Tempo

Genericization of the trademark Tempo. From the name of a popular manufacturer of such structures. Clipping of temporaire.

(Quebec, automotive) Tempo: A type of temporary car shelter


Tempo

de-noun

Tempo n (strong, genitive Tempos, plural Tempi or Tempos)

Tempos (genitive)
Tempi (plural)
Tempos (plural)
Tempo (nominative singular)
Tempi (definite nominative plural)
Tempos (definite nominative plural)
Tempos (genitive singular)
Tempi (definite genitive plural)
Tempos (definite genitive plural)
Tempo (dative singular)
Tempi (dative definite plural)
Tempos (dative definite plural)
Tempo (accusative singular)
Tempi (accusative definite plural)
Tempos (accusative definite plural)


Xerox

en-verb

Xerox (third-person singular simple present Xeroxes, present participle Xeroxing, simple past and past participle Xeroxed)

Xeroxes (present singular third-person)
Xeroxing (participle present)
Xeroxed (participle past)
Xeroxed (past)


Tabasco

Of unclear origin. The first definition listed in the 1994 Diccionario enciclopédico de Tabasco was from the Nahuatl name of the area, tlapalco meaning "(place of) damp earth"; wetlands are still extensive in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Other opinions listed were Mayan word tab-uaxac-koh, meaning "(our) lord of eight lions"; others suggest it derives from a Nahuatl word: tla-uashka-ko meaning "place that has an owner", or tlapachtli.
The tabasco pepper was popular in the Mexican state and is named for it; a hot sauce made from that pepper was eaten in the state since the 1650s, and a version was popularized in the United States and elsewhere by the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana, beginning in the 1870s.

A spicy pepper sauce made from tabasco pepper (a chili pepper) with the addition of vinegar and salt.


Jessie

Variant of Jesse, from Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).

(US, eye dialect) A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Jesse.


Zeppelin

Borrowed from German Zeppelin. Named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin, whose surname derives from the German town name Zepelin. Doublet of cepelinas.


San

As a synonym of Bushmen introduced into ethnology from the 1960s, from Khoekhoe saan (singular saa) "foragers; people without wealth", via back-formation from Khoisan. Occasional citation as the Nama term for "Bushmen" from the 1880s.

(regionally, offensive, ethnic slur) Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.


chile

“I wants all the women and chillun and the old and the sick folks brought out.”

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 546:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of child, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.


popsicle

From the trade name Popsicle, a blend of (soda) pop or lollipop + Epsicle (original trade name), itself a blend of Epperson (surname of the inventor) + icicle.

blend

(chiefly US, Canada) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.


svarting

svartingen (definite singular)
svartinger (indefinite plural)
svartingene (definite plural)


guinea

→ Arabic: جُنَيْه (junayh)

→ Egyptian Arabic: جنيه (ginēh)

→ Irish: gine

→ Scottish Gaelic: gini

→ Spanish: guinea

→ Welsh: gini

From Guinea, the early modern name for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there.

If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.


Pan

Pan (nominative singular)
Pana (genitive singular)
Panowi (dative singular)
Pana (accusative singular)
Panem (instrumental singular)
Panie (locative singular)
Panie (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Pan, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

(Greek mythology) Pan (Greek god of nature)


ugli

Proprietary name, an alteration of ugly, from the fruit's often lumpy and discoloured appearance.

In a world of fruit — from apples to uglis — why is wine made from grapes?

2009, Wine Enthusiast, volume 22, numbers 8-13, page 36:

Citrus reticulata
Citrus reticulata#Translingual

Citrus paradisi
Citrus paradisi#Translingual

Citrus × paradisi, a cross between a tangerine, Citrus reticulata and grapefruit Citrus paradisi, grown in the West Indies.

نَرَنْج

cross between a tangerine and grapefruit


cologne

en-noun

cologne (usually uncountable, plural colognes)

Short for eau de Cologne (French Eau de Cologne), the name given to the original product in 1709. The success of the original Eau de Cologne inspired many imitators and it has become a genericized trademark. See Cologne.

គន្ធរស

kŏənthĕəʼrŭəh

You stink of too much cologne.

He wore some aftershave or cologne that gave him a heavy, nasty, sweet scent.

1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 95:

A type of perfume consisting of 2-5% essential oils, 70-90% alcohol and water.


hoover

The Hoover Company
Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
hoover

Genericized trademark of Hoover, the brand name of one of the first vacuum cleaners, which was sold by The Hoover Company. The American company was founded by William Henry Hoover (1849–1932) and his son Herbert William Hoover, Sr. (1877–1954). The surname Hoover is an Anglicized version of the German Huber, originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small-scale farmer.

"What do you do about dogs that don't like Hoovers?" […] At the first opportunity place the Hoover in the area where your dog is lying calmly, and since it is normally the noise that sends it into those fits of anger, it should be unconcerned with a silent machine. Continue to place the Hoover in those areas that your pet is relaxing until it is familiar with the Hoover being in such close proximity. […] By continuing to distract your pet each time the Hoover is switched on but stationary, you should be able to move it a little closer without causing your pet any alarm.

2006, William Houston, Party Tricks for Dogs, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

And the brooms lined up behind the buckets, and the dusters, dustpans, cloths and brushes, feather dusters and sweepers all lined up bravely to do battle with the thousand upright Hoovers. The Hoovers charged, engines roaring and bags fully inflated.

2011, Terry Jones, Evil Machines, Clerkenwell, London: Unbound, →ISBN:

Vacuuming the house is a very quick way of sprucing it up simply because you can use the hoover to push everything out of the way. Cleaning an average-size room is also the exercise equivalent of ten minutes on the Nordic Skier, while changing the hoover bag is the mental equivalent of doing a Rubik's cube in a dust storm.

2014, Guy Browning, How to Be Normal: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.


hoover

en-verb

hoover (third-person singular simple present hoovers, present participle hoovering, simple past and past participle hoovered)

hoovers (present singular third-person)
hoovering (participle present)
hoovered (participle past)
hoovered (past)

I need to hoover this room.

This time Robbie was dreaming about Mr Spatchley's ducks. They had all come alive and were flying around the office whilst Robbie desperately tried to hoover the floor. There were ducks everywhere, on the desk and mantelpiece and padding around on the floor, knocking things over and quacking indignantly.

2000, Tanya David, Dennis Pepper, comp., “Dogends”, in The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 30–31:

In the freshly hoovered living room of her house in Wokingham, Thelma Dawnton was distinctly miffed.

2006, Stella Rimington, Secret Asset, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-180024-6; republished New York, N.Y.: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-7982-7, page 210

In honour of my visit, he'd gotten rid of 'most' of the cobwebs, and washed and hoovered the walls next to the bed. Hoovered the walls? What sort of creatures were living in the gaps in the stone that would need to be hoovered out?

2009, Ariel Leve, The Cassandra Chronicles, London: Portobello, →ISBN:

After I'd eaten my dinner on Saturday, Mum said I could start earning some money by hoovering the lounge. She got the hoover out, plugged it in and said that she would come and inspect the carpet after she had finished clearing the dinner things away. […] I had started off hoovering the carpet, but after about twelve pushes I got a bit bored.

2015, Kes Gray, Daisy and the Trouble with Piggy Banks, London: Red Fox, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive, British, Ireland) To clean (a room, etc.) with a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.

My husband is upstairs, hoovering.

[…] she was always in trouble for not hoovering behind the bed picked up what I could of it still there after he hoovered […]

2001, Ali Smith, Hotel World, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN:

A woman from a funding agency visited the station for a meeting early one morning, and when she arrived I was doing the hoovering. My colleague introduced us and we chatted for a bit. Then she asked me what my job was and I told her 'station manager'. She looked really puzzled, and asked 'so why are you doing the hoovering?' I answered, 'because the floor was dirty.'

2005, Ally Fogg, Phil Korbel, Cathy Brooks, Steve Lee, “Money and Monitoring”, in Community Radio Toolkit, Manchester: Radio Regen, →ISBN, page 78:

Up and down the wooden stairs of the house in Cambridge large balls of dust and dog hair bounced. Toby wondered whether John Lambert III, if he'd stuck around, would have hoovered. The hoover stopped and the man wound in the cord, admiring his handiwork. The silence pounded against Toby's eardrums. It seemed that real men hoovered.

2007, Olivia Liberty, Falling, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

(intransitive, British, Ireland) To use a vacuum cleaner, irrespective of brand.


frappuccino

en-noun

frappuccino (plural frappuccinos or (rare) frappuccini)

frappuccinos (plural)
frappuccini (plural rare)

French: frappuccino

Spanish: frappuccino

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Blend of frappe + cappuccino.
Genericization of Frappuccino.
From a Starbucks tradename (Frappuccino), from frappe (“a sort of milkshake”) and cappuccino.


nb

Demotic:  (nby),  (nbe.t)

Akhmimic Coptic: ⲛⲁⲃⲉ (nabe)

Bohairic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲃⲓ (nobi)

desc

Fayyumic Coptic: ⲛⲁⲃⲓ (nabi), ⲛⲁϥⲓ (nafi)

Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲛⲁⲃⲉ (nabe)

Sahidic Coptic: ⲛⲟⲃⲉ (nobe)

From m- (noun-forming prefix) + *bw(j) (“abomination”) with regular dissimilation of m- to n- before a labial; for the stem, compare bwt (“abomination”), bwj (“to abominate”).


eskimo

eskimo (nominative singular)
eskimot (nominative plural)
eskimo (accusative nominative singular)
eskimot (accusative nominative plural)
eskimon (accusative genitive singular)
eskimot (accusative genitive plural)
eskimon (genitive singular)
eskimojen (genitive plural)
eskimoiden (genitive plural)
eskimoitten (genitive plural)
eskimoa (partitive singular)
eskimoja (partitive plural)
eskimoita (partitive plural)
eskimossa (inessive singular)
eskimoissa (inessive plural)
eskimosta (elative singular)
eskimoista (elative plural)
eskimoon (illative singular)
eskimoihin (illative plural)
eskimolla (adessive singular)
eskimoilla (adessive plural)
eskimolta (ablative singular)
eskimoilta (ablative plural)
eskimolle (allative singular)
eskimoille (allative plural)
eskimona (essive singular)
eskimoina (essive plural)
eskimoksi (singular translative)
eskimoiksi (plural translative)
eskimotta (abessive singular)
eskimoitta (abessive plural)
eskimoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
eskimoni (nominative singular)
eskimoni (nominative plural)
eskimoni (accusative nominative singular)
eskimoni (accusative nominative plural)
eskimoni (accusative genitive singular)
eskimoni (accusative genitive plural)
eskimoni (genitive singular)
eskimojeni (genitive plural)
eskimoideni (genitive plural)
eskimoitteni (genitive plural)
eskimoani (partitive singular)
eskimojani (partitive plural)
eskimoitani (partitive plural)
eskimossani (inessive singular)
eskimoissani (inessive plural)
eskimostani (elative singular)
eskimoistani (elative plural)
eskimooni (illative singular)
eskimoihini (illative plural)
eskimollani (adessive singular)
eskimoillani (adessive plural)
eskimoltani (ablative singular)
eskimoiltani (ablative plural)
eskimolleni (allative singular)
eskimoilleni (allative plural)
eskimonani (essive singular)
eskimoinani (essive plural)
eskimokseni (singular translative)
eskimoikseni (plural translative)
eskimottani (abessive singular)
eskimoittani (abessive plural)
eskimoineni (comitative plural)
eskimosi (nominative singular)
eskimosi (nominative plural)
eskimosi (accusative nominative singular)
eskimosi (accusative nominative plural)
eskimosi (accusative genitive singular)
eskimosi (accusative genitive plural)
eskimosi (genitive singular)
eskimojesi (genitive plural)
eskimoidesi (genitive plural)
eskimoittesi (genitive plural)
eskimoasi (partitive singular)
eskimojasi (partitive plural)
eskimoitasi (partitive plural)
eskimossasi (inessive singular)
eskimoissasi (inessive plural)
eskimostasi (elative singular)
eskimoistasi (elative plural)
eskimoosi (illative singular)
eskimoihisi (illative plural)
eskimollasi (adessive singular)
eskimoillasi (adessive plural)
eskimoltasi (ablative singular)
eskimoiltasi (ablative plural)
eskimollesi (allative singular)
eskimoillesi (allative plural)
eskimonasi (essive singular)
eskimoinasi (essive plural)
eskimoksesi (singular translative)
eskimoiksesi (plural translative)
eskimottasi (abessive singular)
eskimoittasi (abessive plural)
eskimoinesi (comitative plural)
eskimomme (nominative singular)
eskimomme (nominative plural)
eskimomme (accusative nominative singular)
eskimomme (accusative nominative plural)
eskimomme (accusative genitive singular)
eskimomme (accusative genitive plural)
eskimomme (genitive singular)
eskimojemme (genitive plural)
eskimoidemme (genitive plural)
eskimoittemme (genitive plural)
eskimoamme (partitive singular)
eskimojamme (partitive plural)
eskimoitamme (partitive plural)
eskimossamme (inessive singular)
eskimoissamme (inessive plural)
eskimostamme (elative singular)
eskimoistamme (elative plural)
eskimoomme (illative singular)
eskimoihimme (illative plural)
eskimollamme (adessive singular)
eskimoillamme (adessive plural)
eskimoltamme (ablative singular)
eskimoiltamme (ablative plural)
eskimollemme (allative singular)
eskimoillemme (allative plural)
eskimonamme (essive singular)
eskimoinamme (essive plural)
eskimoksemme (singular translative)
eskimoiksemme (plural translative)
eskimottamme (abessive singular)
eskimoittamme (abessive plural)
eskimoinemme (comitative plural)
eskimonne (nominative singular)
eskimonne (nominative plural)
eskimonne (accusative nominative singular)
eskimonne (accusative nominative plural)
eskimonne (accusative genitive singular)
eskimonne (accusative genitive plural)
eskimonne (genitive singular)
eskimojenne (genitive plural)
eskimoidenne (genitive plural)
eskimoittenne (genitive plural)
eskimoanne (partitive singular)
eskimojanne (partitive plural)
eskimoitanne (partitive plural)
eskimossanne (inessive singular)
eskimoissanne (inessive plural)
eskimostanne (elative singular)
eskimoistanne (elative plural)
eskimoonne (illative singular)
eskimoihinne (illative plural)
eskimollanne (adessive singular)
eskimoillanne (adessive plural)
eskimoltanne (ablative singular)
eskimoiltanne (ablative plural)
eskimollenne (allative singular)
eskimoillenne (allative plural)
eskimonanne (essive singular)
eskimoinanne (essive plural)
eskimoksenne (singular translative)
eskimoiksenne (plural translative)
eskimottanne (abessive singular)
eskimoittanne (abessive plural)
eskimoinenne (comitative plural)
eskimonsa (nominative singular)
eskimonsa (nominative plural)
eskimonsa (accusative nominative singular)
eskimonsa (accusative nominative plural)
eskimonsa (accusative genitive singular)
eskimonsa (accusative genitive plural)
eskimonsa (genitive singular)
eskimojensa (genitive plural)
eskimoidensa (genitive plural)
eskimoittensa (genitive plural)
eskimoaan (partitive singular)
eskimoansa (partitive singular)
eskimojaan (partitive plural)
eskimoitaan (partitive plural)
eskimojansa (partitive plural)
eskimoitansa (partitive plural)
eskimossaan (inessive singular)
eskimossansa (inessive singular)
eskimoissaan (inessive plural)
eskimoissansa (inessive plural)
eskimostaan (elative singular)
eskimostansa (elative singular)
eskimoistaan (elative plural)
eskimoistansa (elative plural)
eskimoonsa (illative singular)
eskimoihinsa (illative plural)
eskimollaan (adessive singular)
eskimollansa (adessive singular)
eskimoillaan (adessive plural)
eskimoillansa (adessive plural)
eskimoltaan (ablative singular)
eskimoltansa (ablative singular)
eskimoiltaan (ablative plural)
eskimoiltansa (ablative plural)
eskimolleen (allative singular)
eskimollensa (allative singular)
eskimoilleen (allative plural)
eskimoillensa (allative plural)
eskimonaan (essive singular)
eskimonansa (essive singular)
eskimoinaan (essive plural)
eskimoinansa (essive plural)
eskimokseen (singular translative)
eskimoksensa (singular translative)
eskimoikseen (plural translative)
eskimoiksensa (plural translative)
eskimottaan (abessive singular)
eskimottansa (abessive singular)
eskimoittaan (abessive plural)
eskimoittansa (abessive plural)
eskimoineen (comitative plural)
eskimoinensa (comitative plural)


eskimo

From Suomen Eskimo (“Finnish Eskimo”), a former ice cream maker that introduced the ice cream bar into the Finnish market. The ice cream was still sold as Eskimo until the name was retired in 2020, although it still remains a trademark.

Synonym of jäätelöpuikko (ice cream bar, specifically one coated in a thin layer of chocolate)


lucifer

→ Dutch: lucifer

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Originally a brand name for matches made by Samuel Jones from 1830, soon used generically for self-igniting matches of any brand. From Latin lucifer (“bringer of light”).

1915, George Asaf, song Pack up your Troubles
While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that’s the style.

(British, archaic) A self-igniting match, i.e. one which could be lit by striking on any surface (as opposed to safety matches which only light against the material on the side of the box).


cupcake

→ Cebuano: kapkeyk

→ Dutch: cupcake

→ Finnish: kuppikakku (calque)

→ German: Cupcake

→ Hebrew: קאפקייק (kápkeik)

→ Japanese: カップケーキ (kappukēki)

→ Korean: 컵케이크 (keopkeikeu)

→ Lao: ກັຜເຄ້ກ (kap khēk)

→ Portuguese: cupcake

→ Russian: капке́йк (kapkéjk)

→ Spanish: cupcake

→ Thai: คัพเค้ก (káp-kéek)

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.


haz

Our daddy waz mad! He haz a big spaceship on toppa hiz stereo speaker. Dylan an' me wanted to 'xplore new wurlds when he waz at werk, so we klimbed up da speaker (he hatez dat, too, picky hoomin!) an' tryed to go fer a spin 'round da yew-niverse while Mommy an' Daddy waz gone.

1996 June 14, Cheryl L. Rankin, “MEOW: To boldly go were no kat haz gone...”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

Keith ODonnell iz n0t with0ut rezpect in the hallz of the great. He haz t0lerated y0u, but d0ez n0t have t0. He d0ez s0 becauze he iz a g00d man.

2000 August 25, BARBAZZZZ!, “PH000LZ on public dizplay (what's really going on here).”, in alt.support.attn-deficit (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

He haz earnt hiz success, he's been litaraly 'battlin' to get where he iz today.

2001 February 10, Ali - B, “EXTRA UK EMINEM DATE...”, in uk.local.london (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:


satan

Satan också!

Sluta föra sånt satans oväsen!

Spelet är svårt som satan

(vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. A swear word.


sam

Polish: sam

Silesian: sōm

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *samъ. First attested in the 14th century.


freon

en-noun

freon (countable and uncountable, plural freons)

Genericization of the Chemours trademark "Freon." According to Flood, the name was formed from freeze and the arbitrary suffix -on.

(organic chemistry) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.


GED

He’d had the thought of getting his GED in the back of his mind for a while.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 138:

General Educational Development
w:General Educational Development

(US, education) Initialism of General Educational Development.


toyota

toyota (nominative singular)
toyoty (nominative plural)
toyoty (genitive singular)
toyot (genitive plural)
toyocie (dative singular)
toyotom (dative plural)
toyotę (accusative singular)
toyoty (accusative plural)
toyotą (instrumental singular)
toyotami (instrumental plural)
toyocie (locative singular)
toyotach (locative plural)
toyoto (singular vocative)
toyoty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Japanese トヨタ (Toyota). Genericized trademark.


sais

'Yes,' sais I, 'what's left of me; but, good gracious,' sais I, 'you have got the 'heaves.' I hope it ain't catchin'.

1855 August, “Editor's Drawer”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XI, number LXIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 425:

Well, he tak some young man un he go off to Alsaroke to steal horse, un I seet roun' un watch dat woman. She watch me. Pretty soon camp was hunt de buffalo, un I was hunt Snow-Owl's woman. Every one was excite, un dey don' tak no 'count of me. I see de woman go up leetle coulie for stray horse, un I follar her. I sais, 'How do? You come be my woman. We run off to Meestar MacDonnail's tradehouse.' […] She sais she afraid.

2000, Frederic Remington, “Sun-Down Leflare's Warm Spot”, in John D. Seelye, editor, Stories of the Old West: Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry Troop, & Cattle Ranch, Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 203:

Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says.


kevlar

kevlar (countable and uncountable, plural kevlars)

(uncountable) (Fabric, cordage, etc made of) aramid fiber, an exceptionally strong, light, man-made fibre used to strengthen cables and sheet materials, e.g. in stab-resistant vests.

(countable, US, slang, military) A piece of personal protective equipment made from Kevlar, such as a helmet or a vest.


kevlar

Borrowed from English Kevlar; a trademark Kevlar.


kevlar

Borrowed from English kevlar; a trademarked name Kevlar.


nene

es-noun

nene m or f (plural nenes, feminine nena, feminine plural nenas)

nenes (plural)
nena (feminine)
nenas (feminine plural)

term of endearment
term of endearment#English

(familiar) babe; baby; kiddo (term of endearment for usually a male, female equivalent: nena)


чёрный

ru-noun+

чёрный • (čórnyj) m anim (genitive чёрного, nominative plural чёрные, genitive plural чёрных, feminine чёрная, relational adjective черново́й)

čórnyj (romanization)
чёрного (genitive)
чёрные (nominative plural)
чёрных (genitive plural)
чёрная (feminine)
черново́й (adjective relational)
чёрный (nominative singular)
чёрные (nominative plural)
чёрного (genitive singular)
чёрных (genitive plural)
чёрному (dative singular)
чёрным (dative plural)
чёрного (accusative singular)
чёрных (accusative plural)
чёрным (instrumental singular)
чёрными (instrumental plural)
чёрном (prepositional singular)
чёрных (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ.
Cognates include Lithuanian kir̃snas and Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, “black, dark”).

чёрно-бе́лый

чёрно- (čórno-, “black-and-”), -чёрный (-čórnyj, “-and-black, -black”)

(offensive, ethnic slur) a darker-skinned immigrant

на чёрный день

чёрный день m (čórnyj denʹ)


kaffir

en-noun

kaffir (countable and uncountable, plural kaffirs)

Ultimately from Arabic كَفَّار (kaffār, “infidel”) or كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), both from كَفَرَ (kafara, “to cover, to hide”); in some (especially early) uses, via Spanish cafre, Dutch kaffer or other European languages. Doublet of kafir.

If you ask a Kaffir why he does so-and-so, he will answer—"How can I tell? It has always been done by our forefathers."

I once heard him say to the gardener, 'Come along, son.' His wife scolded him saying, 'He's not son, don't call him son, he's a kaffir.'

1971, Naboth Mokgatle, The Autobiography of an Unknown South African:

"… and today here a white man is calling me a kaffir. This term that I absolutely resented." And that, says Nofomela, is his political motive.

Monkey see, monkey do ... which in this case refers to the baboons in Rhodesia - proves just how vulnerable the whities are in the hands of the kaffirs.

2000 April 9, Squirrel, “SA Silence on Mugabe's actions”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):

(countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.


-stan

From Classical Persian ـستان (-istān), from Middle Persian -stʾn' (-estān), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n /stāna/), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬁𐬥𐬀 (stāna), Sanskrit स्थान (sthā́na), Russian стан (stan) (< Proto-Slavic *stanъ), English stay, stand, state.

der

London + -i- + -stan → Londonistan

Dearborn + -i- + -stan → Dearbornistan

Sweden + -i- + -stan → Swedistan

Middle Easterner
Middle Easterner#English

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Used after European and American place names to emphasize that there are many Middle Easterners or Muslims there.

-स्तान

connected with diacritic -i- after consonants


kafir

en-noun

kafir (countable and uncountable, plural kuffar or kafirs)

Borrowed from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”). Doublet of kaffir.

bor

In his sermon, Amir Hamza espoused extremist and segregationist views. He inferred that non-Muslims are “kafir” (infidels).

2024 August 21, “Investigation Into Bangladeshi Preacher Amir Hamza’s Sermon in Singapore on 9 August 2024”, in Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore):

(Islam, countable, offensive, religious slur, politics) A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.


kafir

ms-noun

kafir (Jawi spelling کافير, plural kafir-kafir)

From Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “denier, unbeliever”).

(Islam, offensive, religious slur) A kafir, a disbeliever, a denier: someone who denies the truths from Allah; or more broadly any non-Muslim.


hunky

From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian + -ie/-y. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.

"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."

He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.

1940, Unemployment Compensation Interpretation Service: Benefit series, page 183:

The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]

1952, Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, page 66:

He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."

1969, Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim), Trick Baby, page 149

On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]

1994, Josephine Wtulich, American Xenophobia and the Slav Immigrant: A Living Legacy of Mind and Spirit:

Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.

2009, Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography, page 20:

(US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)


jeet

Clipping of pajeet (“an Indian”), the second part of which is derived from Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory, win”). Sense 2 likely stems from the fact Indian posters tended to shill low circulation crypto coins (or "shitcoins") in order to get anons on 4chan's /biz/ board to buy into them, only for the scammer to sell off at the first hint the coin was going for a downturn.

So unless Asian chicks secretly date jeets somewhere no one ever fucking notices them, it just ain't happening. Always white dudes or other asian dudes.

2024 February 4, u/fourthwallcrisis, “Anon is asianmasculinity sub user”, in Reddit, r/4chan, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

Every job opening has 100s of jeets flooding applications so good luck getting your resume looked at. The tech industry(and especially tech depts in non-tech companies) is mutilating itself to reduce costs, and not even by that much because they could accomplish more with less people if they just hired westerners instead of jeets. The era of easy job hunting is tech is over.

2024 July 31, u/SituatiornIndividjul, “The white collar job market feels like it has been unbelievably decimated.”, in Reddit, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

No self respecting white woman would ever marry a jeet

2024 August 31, @JamesPGoddard90, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

Decided to give jeets a break and buy some Indian cuisine for the family.

2024 September 1, @hyperboreanakl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

(Internet slang, 4chan, offensive, ethnic slur) An Indian.


NOS

en-noun

NOS (countable and uncountable, plural NOSes)


balsam

Polish: balsam

Learned borrowing from Latin balsamum. First attested in the 15th century.

Balsam balsamnis

1874-1891 [End of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume LIII, Krakow, page 65:

(attested in Lesser Poland) The meaning of this term is uncertain.


coconut

coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)

→ Japanese: ココナッツ (kokonattsu)

From coco + nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or Black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins and the slur that they are "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.

that accounts for the milk in the coconut

After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a race traitor.

Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.

2016 June 8, “Containment”, in Cleverman, episode 2, spoken by Waruu West [speaking to half-brother Koen West]:

(South Africa, Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.

(New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.


gau

gau (nominative singular)
gau (nominative plural)
gau (genitive singular)
gau (genitive plural)
gau (dative singular)
gau (dative plural)
gau (accusative singular)
gau (accusative plural)
gau (ablative singular)
gau (ablative plural)
gau (singular vocative)
gau (plural vocative)

Poetic clipping of gaudium. Attributed to Ennius (circa 200 BCE) by the poet Ausonius in his catalogue of monosyllabic Latin words, never attested directly.

Ennius ut memorat, repleat te laetificum gau.

c.''' 310 CE – c. 395 CE, Ausonius, Technopaegnion 144

As Ennius says, may gladdening joy fill you.


smartass

(mildly vulgar) Synonym of know-it-all, an obnoxious clever person or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever.


мать

ru-noun+

~~я́ми,~~ьми́

матери́нский

мать • (matʹ) f anim (genitive ма́тери, nominative plural ма́тери, genitive plural матере́й, relational adjective матери́нский)

matʹ (romanization)
ма́тери (genitive)
ма́тери (nominative plural)
матере́й (genitive plural)
матери́нский (adjective relational)
ма́ть (irregular nominative singular)
ма́тери (nominative plural)
ма́тери (genitive singular)
матере́й (genitive plural)
ма́тери (dative singular)
матеря́м (dative plural)
ма́ть (accusative irregular singular)
матере́й (accusative plural)
ма́терью (instrumental singular)
матеря́ми (instrumental plural)
матерьми́ (instrumental irregular plural)
ма́тери (prepositional singular)
матеря́х (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic мати (mati), from Proto-Slavic *mati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀtē, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr, whence English mother and Sanskrit मातृ (mātṛ).


FedEx

⇒ Translingual: Fedexia

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Blend of federal + express; abbreviated from the company’s former name, Federal Express.

(business) FedEx Corporation, a package express company.


FedEx

en-verb

FedEx (third-person singular simple present FedExes, present participle FedExing, simple past and past participle FedExed)

FedExes (present singular third-person)
FedExing (participle present)
FedExed (participle past)
FedExed (past)

Has he considered disconnecting his modem and Fedexing it to himself overnight, as some digital addicts say they have done?

2011 March 10, Jim Holt, London Review of Books, page 11:

(transitive) To send a package or letter by FedEx, or a competitor.


отец

ru-noun+

оте́ц • (otéc) m anim (genitive отца́, nominative plural отцы́, genitive plural отцо́в)

оте́ц (canonical)
otéc (romanization)
отца́ (genitive)
отцы́ (nominative plural)
отцо́в (genitive plural)
оте́ц (nominative singular)
отцы́ (nominative plural)
отца́ (genitive singular)
отцо́в (genitive plural)
отцу́ (dative singular)
отца́м (dative plural)
отца́ (accusative singular)
отцо́в (accusative plural)
отцо́м (instrumental singular)
отца́ми (instrumental plural)
отце́ (prepositional singular)
отца́х (plural prepositional)
о́тче (singular vocative)

Inherited from Old East Slavic отьць (otĭcĭ), from Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.

inh+

familiar term of address for an elderly man


сука

head

су́ка • (súka)

→ Azerbaijani: suka

→ Latvian: suka

Inherited from Old East Slavic сука (suka), from Proto-Slavic *sùka, further etymology unclear.

inh+

2023 May 5, Yevgeny Prigozhin, as quoted, “«Шойгу, Герасимов, где, сука, боеприпасы?» Пригожин записал видео для Минобороны на фоне трупов наемников ЧВК Вагнера (много мата)”, in Meduza:

Shoigu, Gerasimov, where is the fucking ammunition?

Šojgu, Gerasimov, gde, suka, bojepripasy?


сука

head

су́ка • (súka)

(vulgar, swear word) fuck!; shit! (an expression of anger)


num

Eu num estou doido […]!

1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:


pismo

pisemko (diminutive)
pismo (nominative singular)
pisma (nominative plural)
pisma (genitive singular)
pism (genitive plural)
pismu (dative singular)
pismom (dative plural)
pismo (accusative singular)
pisma (accusative plural)
pismem (instrumental singular)
pismami (instrumental plural)
piśmie (locative singular)
pismie (locative singular)
pismach (locative plural)
pismo (singular vocative)
pisma (plural vocative)

Literatura, Piſmo/ Też nauká.

Stylus etiam, Piſánie/ piſmo.

Scriptus – Pyſmo.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 956b:

(Middle Polish) script; literature; writing Further details are uncertain.


Ouija

en-noun

Ouija (countable and uncountable, plural Ouijas)

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The popular belief that the word came from French oui (“yes”) + German ja (“yes”) is a misconception. The name is taken from a word spelled out on the board when it was asked to name itself by Helen Peters, sister-in-law of Kennard Company investor Elijah Bond. It is noted in personal letters that Ouija was the name of a woman in a painting above her head at the time, who it is speculated may have in fact been Ouida.

(countable) A board, having letters of the alphabet and the words yes and no; used with a planchette during a seance to "communicate" with spirits.

وْيْجَا

a board with letters of the alphabet and "yes" and "no"


sweetie

desc

→ Kashubian: switus (Canada, United States)

"But... Do you feel better now?" "Much better, sweetie, thank you. Now I get to be a girl everyday."^([sic])

2022 April 8, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1493 - Everyday:

(often as a term of address) A person who is much loved.


бабушка

ru-noun+

ба́бушка • (bábuška) f anim (genitive ба́бушки, nominative plural ба́бушки, genitive plural ба́бушек)

ба́бушка (canonical)
bábuška (romanization)
ба́бушки (genitive)
ба́бушки (nominative plural)
ба́бушек (genitive plural)
ба́бушка (nominative singular)
ба́бушки (nominative plural)
ба́бушки (genitive singular)
ба́бушек (genitive plural)
ба́бушке (dative singular)
ба́бушкам (dative plural)
ба́бушку (accusative singular)
ба́бушек (accusative plural)
ба́бушкой (instrumental singular)
ба́бушкою (instrumental singular)
ба́бушками (instrumental plural)
ба́бушке (prepositional singular)
ба́бушках (plural prepositional)
ба́бушка (dated nominative singular)
ба́бушки (dated nominative plural)
ба́бушки (dated genitive singular)
ба́бушекъ (dated genitive plural)
ба́бушкѣ (dated dative singular)
ба́бушкамъ (dated dative plural)
ба́бушку (accusative dated singular)
ба́бушекъ (accusative dated plural)
ба́бушкой (dated instrumental singular)
ба́бушкою (dated instrumental singular)
ба́бушками (dated instrumental plural)
ба́бушкѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ба́бушкахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: baabuška

→ English: babushka

→ Romanian: băbușcă

→ Votic: baabuškõ

desc

→ Yakut: баабыска (baabıska, “midwife; grandmother; old woman”)

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babušьka. By surface analysis, ба́ба (bába) + -ушка (-uška).


bhoy

(West Coast Scottish, Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of boy.


koń

zlw-opl-noun

koń m animal (diminutive konik, augmentative koniowy or koński)

konik (diminutive)
koniowy (augmentative)
koński (augmentative)

Polish: koń

Silesian: kōń

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kòňь. First attested in the 14th century.

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

A superiori riuulo, ubi con seu cumulus lapidum vlg. nuncupatus

1878-1889 [1241], Archiwum Komisji Historycznej, volume IV, Kujavia, Masovia, page 35:

(attested in Kuyavia, Masovia) corruption of Latin cōnus


assistent

assistent (indefinite nominative singular)
assistents (genitive indefinite singular)
assistenten (definite nominative singular)
assistentens (definite genitive singular)
assistenter (indefinite nominative plural)
assistenters (genitive indefinite plural)
assistenterna (definite nominative plural)
assistenternas (definite genitive plural)

From assistera + -ent. Stand mixer sense is a genericized trademark from the Electrolux kitchen appliance Assistent.

(computing) a wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)


Kümmeltürke

de-noun

Kümmeltürke m (weak, genitive Kümmeltürken, plural Kümmeltürken, feminine Kümmeltürkin)

Kümmeltürken (genitive)
Kümmeltürken (plural)
Kümmeltürkin (feminine)
Kümmeltürke (nominative singular)
Kümmeltürken (definite nominative plural)
Kümmeltürken (genitive singular)
Kümmeltürken (definite genitive plural)
Kümmeltürken (dative singular)
Kümmeltürken (dative definite plural)
Kümmeltürken (accusative singular)
Kümmeltürken (accusative definite plural)

/ˈkʏml̩ˌtʏʁkə/

From Kümmel (“caraway”) + Türke (“Turk”). The term was first coined in the 18th century to refer to students from Kümmeltürkei, an area so named for its caraway production, but in modern times is used exclusively in a transferred sense as a slur, sometimes explained as being due to Turks smelling like caraway or cumin.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) Turk; Middle Easterner


Kanake

Kanake m (weak, genitive Kanaken, plural Kanaken, feminine Kanakin)

Kanaken (genitive)
Kanaken (plural)
Kanakin (feminine)
Kanake (nominative singular)
Kanaken (definite nominative plural)
Kanaken (genitive singular)
Kanaken (definite genitive plural)
Kanaken (dative singular)
Kanaken (dative definite plural)
Kanaken (accusative singular)
Kanaken (accusative definite plural)

Ultimately from Hawaiian kanaka (“person”).

Alternative forms: Kanacke, Kanak, Kanack

Wie lebt es sich als Kanake in Deutschland, war die Frage, die ich mir und anderen gestellt habe. Kanake, ein Etikett, das nach mehr als 30 Jahren Immigrationsgeschichte von Türken nicht nur Schimpfwort ist, sondern auch ein Name, den »Gastarbeiterkinder« der zweiten und vor allem der dritten Generation mit stolzem Trotz führen.

2004 [1995], Feridun Zaimoğlu, Kanak Sprak, Rotbuch, →ISBN, page 9:

Da kommt also der gute Kanake, stellt sich mitten rein, und während er sich fragt, warum die Leute so Spalier stehen, wird er im nächsten Moment auf seinen Platz verwiesen. Schließlich gehört jeder irgendwohin und der Kanake am besten[…]

2012, Maria Stehle, Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes, Camden House, →ISBN, page 56:

(often derogatory, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned foreigner.


fibreglass

en-noun

fibreglass (usually uncountable, plural fibreglasses)

en:fibreglass composite material, elliptically

(ellipsis) A composite material made from fine fibres of spun glass held together with resin.


deep-freeze

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deep-freeze

en-verb

deep-freeze (third-person singular simple present deep-freezes, present participle deep-freezing, simple past deep-froze or (nonstandard) deep-freezed, past participle deep-frozen or (nonstandard) deep-freezed)

deep-freezes (present singular third-person)
deep-freezing (participle present)
deep-froze (past)
deep-freezed (nonstandard past)
deep-frozen (participle past)
deep-freezed (nonstandard participle past)

(transitive) To freeze at very low temperatures.


muslim

muslim (nominative singular)
muslimowie (nominative plural)
muslimy (nominative plural)
muslimy (derogatory nominative plural)
muslima (genitive singular)
muslimów (genitive plural)
muslimowi (dative singular)
muslimom (dative plural)
muslima (accusative singular)
muslimów (accusative plural)
muslimem (instrumental singular)
muslimami (instrumental plural)
muslimie (locative singular)
muslimach (locative plural)
muslimie (singular vocative)
muslimowie (plural vocative)
muslimy (plural vocative)


mick

en-adj

mick (comparative more mick, superlative most mick)

more mick (comparative)
most mick (superlative)

Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.


buttercup

When she touched my hand, what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that's hot
I'm proud to say that she's my buttercup.
I'm in love - I'm all shook up.

1957, “All Shook Up”, Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:

Listen, buttercup, you're damned good in bed. They don't come any better, but I'm really not interested in playing second fiddle to your camera or your young lovers.

1987, Joyce Brandon, Lady and the Lawman, page 346:


cerca

la-noun

cerca f (genitive cercae); first declension

cercae (genitive)
hapax (Medieval-Latin)

Taken from Old Catalan cerca, itself from Vulgar Latin *circa (“surrounding structure”). Attested in the single mid-11th century Catalan document quoted below. Note the ⟨e⟩ for etymological Latin /ĭ/ as well as how it is paired with ⟨manedas⟩, another Romance word derived ultimately from Latin manēre through a Vulgar Latin *manita, showing both /ĭ/ > /e/ and /-t-/ > /d/.

Notum sit omnibus hominibus qualiter Domina Ermisendis Comitissa, et Dominus Petrus Rodegarii Gerundensis Episcopus, atque Gaufredus Vitalis cum uxore sua Chixol, Domnus quoque Landricus sancti Felicis Guixalensis Abbas cum monachis suis, convenere ad Ecclesiam sanctae Christinae Vallis-aradi; ubi statuentes et disponentes utrique ordinaverunt quomodo illum castrum appelatum Benedormiens ab omnibus eisdem in commune aedificatum custodiretur a militibus, vel peditibus per diem et noctem omni tempore; ut omnes homines a Colonico usque ad Monasterium sancti Felicis cohabitantes absque ulla paganorum infestatione manere possent. Facta vero dispositione sive ordinatione praefati castri, dixerunt ad invicem nihil suarum rerum alicuae laicae personae causa custodiendi castrum dari nisi tali personae qui nullam calumniam praeter ab illis constitutam honori vel hominibus suis immittere praesumeret. Unde non parva dissona verba referentes, sedatis jam omnibus, idem castrum cum omnibus quae ad illud custodiendum pertinent, dederunt in jus, et potestatem sancti Felicis monasterii Guixalensis, Landrici Abbatis et monachorum ejus, atque omnium successorum suorum tradiderunt in perpetuum habiturum per hanc seriem verborum sic insequentem: 'In nomine Dei summi. Ego Ermissendes Comitissa, et ego Petrus Rodegarii Gerundensis Episcopus donamus Deo, sanctoque Felici monasterio Guixalensi et omnibus Abbatibus vel monachis in perpetuum ibi habitantibus cunctas decimas et primitias vel universa alia quae nos habemus et habere debemus, vel possumus, aut aliquis homo per nos infra parrochiam sanctae Christinae vallis Aradi cum eodem castro Benedormientis solide sine ullo retentu, cum exitibus, et ingressibus suis, ad custodiendum praedictum castrum ab ipso portu de Pinel usque ad portum de Castellar, sicut ipsa via exiens a monasterio, et vadens per ipsas Canellas, et per planum vel collum sancti Pauli, usque ad parrochiam sanctae Mariae de Fanales per directum pergens determinat in rivum Aradi, et sic descendit ab ipsa via praedicta in omnibus locis usque in mare, et de nostro jure, vel sanctae Christinae in jus et dominium sancti Felicis, et omnium hominum ibi in perpetuum habitantium tradimus. Sic et ego praenominatus Gaufredus Vitalis, et ego uxor ejus Chixol donamus Domino Deo et sancto Felici monasterio Guixalensi omne illud alodium, quod nos habemus in parrochia sanctae Christinae vallis Aradi ab ipso portu de Pinel usque ad praedictum castrum cum decimis et primitiis praefati alodii, praedictum quoque castrum, cercas et manedas suas, sicut illa via quae ducit vel exit a monasterio, vadit per Canellas et per planum vel collum sancti Pauli contra Fenals, per directum determinat in rivum Aradi, et sic descendit ab ipsa via praedicta in omnibus locis usque ad mare, et omnes cercas, et manedas quas nos dedimus ad praedictum castrum custodiendum; tam in mari quam in domibus nostrorum hominum infra parrochiam sanctae Christinae vel sanctae Mariae Fenals habitantium, ut Abbas praefati loci semper faciat custodire praefatum castrum, et de nostro jure in potestatem sancti Felicis tradimus, et dominium sine ullo retentu.' Siquis contra hanc scripturam venerit ad irrumpendum, vel defraudandum, non valeat perficere, sed praedicta omnia in duplo componat sancto Felici praefato. Actum est hoc VII Kal. Junii anno decimo Henrici Regis...
Let it be known to all how Countess Ermessenda, bishop of Girona Pere Roger, Gaufred Vidal along with his wife Quíxol, and abbot Llandric of the Monastery of St. Felix of Guíxols, along with his monks, gathered at the Church of St. Cristina of Aro, where they came to an agreement on ordering the castle called Benedormiens, which was jointly built by the aforementioned individuals, to be garrisoned by knights or infantrymen, night and day at all hours, so that everyone living in the area from Calonge to the Monastery of St. Felix of Guíxols could live free of any Saracen raiding. Once this arrangement for the aforementioned castle was made, they declared to each other that they would not give any of their possessions to a lay person for the protection of the castle, unless it be to a person who would not presume to besmirch their honor or their men. Once everything was settled, after considerable debate on the matter, they transferred the castle, along with everything needed for its defence, to the possession of the Monastery of St. Felix of Guíxols, of Abbot Llandric and his monks, and of all their successors in perpetuity, by speaking the following words: 'In the name of almighty God, I, Countess Ermessenda, and I, bishop of Girona Pere Roger, give to God, to the Monastery of St. Felix of Guíxols, and to all the abbots or monks dwelling therein all the tithes and first fruits in perpetuity, or anything else that we possess and [anything that] we should possess, or can possess, or that another man [possesses] through us, in the parish of St. Cristina of Aro, along with the aforementioned castle of Benedormiens in its entirety, not keeping any of it for ourselves, along with its exits and entrances, so that they may protect the aforementioned castle from the port of Pinell to the port of Castellar, along the road that begins from the monastery and passes through Canellas and the plane or hill of St. Paul, to the parish of St. Mary of Fenals, continues straight to the river Ridaura, and descends from the aforementioned road along all the places to the sea. And we transfer [all this] from our possession, or that of [the Church of] St. Cristina, to the possession of [the Monastery of] St. Felix and everyone residing therein in perpetuity. Likewise I, the aforementioned Gaufred Vidal, and I, his wife Quíxol, give to God and to the Monastery of St. Felix of Guíxols all the property that we own in the parish of St. Cristina of Aro, from the port of Pinell to the aforementioned castle, along with all the tithes and first fruits of the aforementioned property, as well as the aforementioned castle, along with its enclosures and habitations, along the road that begins from the monastery, passes through Canellas and the plain or hill of St. Paul, opposite Fenals, reaches an end at the river Ridaura, and descends from the aforementioned road along all locations to the sea and to all the enclosures and habitations that we are handing over for the protection of the aforementioned castle, along the sea as well as among the homes of our men living in the parishes of St. Cristina or St. Maria of Fenals, so that the abbot of the aforementioned place may always have the castle protected, and we transfer [all the above] from our possession to that of [the Monastery of] St. Felix, keeping none of it for ourselves.' If anyone should venture to violate this agreement, may he fail to do so, and may he atone for it by handing over twice as much property to the aforementioned [Monastery of] St. Felix. [This document was] drawn up on the 26th of May in the tenth year of [the reign of] King Henry [of France]...

1041, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Marcæ Hisp. col. 1083


conifer

la-adj

cōnifer (feminine cōnifera, neuter cōniferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

cōnifer (canonical)
cōnifera (feminine)
cōniferum (neuter)
in -er (masculine nominative singular)
cōnifer (masculine nominative singular)
cōnifera (feminine nominative singular)
cōniferum (neuter nominative singular)
cōniferī (masculine nominative plural)
cōniferae (feminine nominative plural)
cōnifera (neuter nominative plural)
cōniferī (genitive masculine singular)
cōniferae (feminine genitive singular)
cōniferī (genitive neuter singular)
cōniferōrum (genitive masculine plural)
cōniferārum (feminine genitive plural)
cōniferōrum (genitive neuter plural)
cōniferō (dative masculine singular)
cōniferae (dative feminine singular)
cōniferō (dative neuter singular)
cōniferīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
cōniferum (accusative masculine singular)
cōniferam (accusative feminine singular)
cōniferum (accusative neuter singular)
cōniferōs (accusative masculine plural)
cōniferās (accusative feminine plural)
cōnifera (accusative neuter plural)
cōniferō (ablative masculine singular)
cōniferā (ablative feminine singular)
cōniferō (ablative neuter singular)
cōniferīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
cōnifer (masculine singular vocative)
cōnifera (feminine singular vocative)
cōniferum (neuter singular vocative)
cōniferī (masculine plural vocative)
cōniferae (feminine plural vocative)
cōnifera (neuter plural vocative)

cernimus astantis nequiquam lumine torvo
Aetnaeos fratres caelo capita alta ferentis,
concilium horrendum: quales cum vertice celso
aeriae quercus aut coniferae cyparissi

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.677–681

Translation by David West
We saw the brotherhood of Etna standing there helpless, each with his one eye glaring and head held high in the sky, a fearsome gathering, standing like high-topped mountain oaks or cone-bearing cypresses in Jupiter's soaring forest or the grove of Diana.

constiterunt, silva alta Iovis lucusve Dianae.


gweilo

From Cantonese 鬼佬 (gwai² lou²), from 鬼 (gwai², “ghost”) + 佬 (lou², “guy, man”).

She had ruffled the bed and laid a frilly nightdress on the floor because so far as the block was concerned Phoebe was the half-kwailo bastard who whored with the fat foreign devil.

1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 179:

(colloquial, ethnic slur) A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’.


reptilian

From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile.

(figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.


Orimulsion

Originally a trade name, from Orinoco and emulsion.

An emulsion of bitumen in water, used as an industrial fuel.


Spansule

Blend of span + capsule, originally a proprietary name.

1971: Huge white spansules. I went into the men's room to eat mine. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 66)

(medicine) A capsule designed to release drugs at a steady rate over a period of hours; a sustained-release capsule.


nog

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.

(Australia, dated, ethnic slur) A Vietnamese person.


terylene

en-noun

terylene (countable and uncountable, plural terylenes)

From Terylene, originated as a trademark.

I saw myself smart and clean in a white blouse and dark-red pleated terylene skirt, with blazer and gloves and a hat.

1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 268:

polyethylene terephthalate
polyethylene terephthalate

A polymer, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), used for making thread and cloth.


buddy

First appears c. 1788, in the writings of Charles Dibdin, of uncertain origin. Possibly from *bruddy, *bruthy, a child-talk alteration of brother. Alternatively, perhaps from British colloquial butty (“companion”), also the form of an older dialect term meaning workmate, associated with coal mining. Itself believed derived from 1530 as booty fellow, a partner with whom one shares booty or loot. Alternatively, compare Scots buddo, bodda (“buddy, kiddo, dear”), related to Icelandic budda (“purse"; also "short, stout person”).

unc

uncertain

cog

I found some earphones in the pocket, buddy must have been pissed.

Buddy's loaded. 'Got like three houses.

(Maritime English) A person far removed from the conversation.


jake brake

From JakeBrake, an abbreviation for the Jacobs brand name of engine braking systems.

(slang) Especially on trucks, an engine compression release braking system that opens the exhaust valves in each cylinder near the top of their compression strokes in order to slow the vehicle; an engine retarder.


друг

ru-noun+

друг • (drug) m anim (genitive дру́га, nominative plural друзья́, genitive plural друзе́й, feminine подру́га, relational adjective дру́жеский, diminutive дружо́к)

drug (romanization)
дру́га (genitive)
друзья́ (nominative plural)
друзе́й (genitive plural)
подру́га (feminine)
дру́жеский (adjective relational)
дружо́к (diminutive)
дру́г (nominative singular)
друзья́ (irregular nominative plural)
дру́га (genitive singular)
друзе́й (genitive irregular plural)
дру́гу (dative singular)
друзья́м (dative irregular plural)
дру́га (accusative singular)
друзе́й (accusative irregular plural)
дру́гом (instrumental singular)
друзья́ми (instrumental irregular plural)
дру́ге (prepositional singular)
друзья́х (irregular plural prepositional)
дру́же (singular vocative)

→ English: droog

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drugъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *draugás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-.

Я хочу́ име́ть друзе́й. ― Ja xočú imétʹ druzéj. ― I want to have friends.

бли́зкий друг

стари́нный друг

друг семьи́

друг де́тства

дру́жный

friendly, amicable, personable; harmonious, concurrent, unanimous


друг

друг • (drug) m anim (genitive дру́га, uncountable)

drug (romanization)
дру́га (genitive)
дру́г (nominative singular)
дру́га (genitive singular)
дру́гу (dative singular)
дру́га (accusative singular)
дру́гом (instrumental singular)
дру́ге (prepositional singular)

Originally the predicative (short) form of друго́й (drugój, “another”).

друг в дру́га

друг дру́га

друг дру́гу

друг за дру́гом

друг к дру́гу

друг на дру́га

друг от дру́га

друг под дру́га

друг про́тив дру́га ― drug prótiv drúga ― face to face; vis-à-vis

друг с дру́гом

друг у дру́га


turk

(slang, dated, ethnic slur, derogatory) a dark-haired or dark-skinned immigrant, regardless of country of origin


мама

ма́ма • (máma) f anim or f inan (genitive ма́мы, nominative plural ма́мы, genitive plural мам, diminutive ма́мочка or ма́менька)

ма́ма (canonical)
máma (romanization)
ма́мы (genitive)
ма́мы (nominative plural)
мам (genitive plural)
ма́мочка (diminutive)
ма́менька (diminutive)
ма́ма (nominative singular)
ма́мы (nominative plural)
ма́мы (genitive singular)
ма́м (genitive plural)
ма́ме (dative singular)
ма́мам (dative plural)
ма́му (accusative animate singular)
ма́м (accusative animate plural)
ма́му (accusative inanimate singular)
ма́мы (accusative inanimate plural)
ма́мой (instrumental singular)
ма́мою (instrumental singular)
ма́мами (instrumental plural)
ма́ме (prepositional singular)
ма́мах (plural prepositional)
ма́м (singular vocative)
ма́ма (dated nominative singular)
ма́мы (dated nominative plural)
ма́мы (dated genitive singular)
ма́мъ (dated genitive plural)
ма́мѣ (dated dative singular)
ма́мамъ (dated dative plural)
ма́му (accusative animate dated singular)
ма́мъ (accusative animate dated plural)
ма́му (accusative dated inanimate singular)
ма́мы (accusative dated inanimate plural)
ма́мой (dated instrumental singular)
ма́мою (dated instrumental singular)
ма́мами (dated instrumental plural)
ма́мѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ма́махъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: mama

A nursery word. From Proto-Slavic *mama, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀmāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-méh₂, a reduplication of *méh₂- - the root of *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Cognate with German Muhme (“aunt”), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse”), Irish mam (“mother”), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother”) among others. Cf. Proto-Slavic *tata, *baba.


Tupperware

en-noun

Tupperware (countable and uncountable, plural Tupperware or Tupperwares)

Tupperware (plural)
Tupperwares (plural)

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

From Tupper + -ware. Named after American businessman Earl Tupper (1907–1983), who invented the product in 1942 and founded the company that produced it. Thus it is a genericised trademark.

named-after

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tupperware.

A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.


πατέρας

head

πατέρας • (patéras) m (plural πατέρες or πατεράδες, feminine μητέρα)

patéras (romanization)
πατέρες (plural)
πατεράδες (plural)
μητέρα (feminine)
πατέρας (nominative singular)
πατέρες (nominative plural)
πατεράδες (nominative plural)
πατέρα (genitive singular)
πατέρων (genitive plural)
πατεράδων (genitive plural)
πατέρα (accusative singular)
πατέρες (accusative plural)
πατεράδες (accusative plural)
πατέρα (singular vocative)
πατέρες (plural vocative)
πατεράδες (plural vocative)

el-decl-noun

1. There is a learned genitive singular πατρός (patrós); a vocative singular form πάτερ (páter) is used for priests.
3. The 1st plural forms are used formally for priests and in the sense of founders & forefathers; The 2nd plurals for fathers.

Inherited from Byzantine Greek πατέρας (patéras), from Ancient Greek πατήρ (patḗr) through the accusative singular πατέρα (patéra), from Proto-Hellenic *patḗr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr. Doublet of πατήρ (patír).

inh+

πατέρες πατέρες

Father (form of address for monk or priest)


nigra

A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella.

She used the term nigger and its close South Carolina cognate nigra only when quoting others with disapproval.

2012, Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields, “Authors' Note”, in Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Verso Books, →ISBN:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


zip code

United States Postal Service
ZIP Code
Zone Improvement Plan

From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.

90210 was a television show popular in the 1990s about a group of high school students and their families who all lived in the zip code 90210 in Beverly Hills, California, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles.

2009, Judy Root Aulette, Judith G. Wittner, Kristin Blakely, Gendered Worlds, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:

(US) A postal code, especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number.

For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number.

1990, Alan Simpson, Paul Lichtman, The First Book of Lotus 1-2-3, H.W. Sams & Company, →ISBN:

Carrying the package to the stairs inside, I noticed it was addressed to Mom and me with a European zip code and stamp.

2011, Jaime Reed, Burning Emerald, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 46:

(Philippines) A postal code, especially for addresses served by PhilPost, consisting of a four-figure number.


iu

(dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of yêu, representing Southern Vietnam Vietnamese.


dobry

pl-adj

dobry (comparative lepszy or (humorous or ironic) lepsiejszy or (humorous or ironic) dobrzejszy, superlative najlepszy or (humorous or ironic) najlepsiejszy or (humorous or ironic) dobrzejszy, derived adverb dobrze)

lepszy (comparative)
lepsiejszy (comparative humorous ironic)
dobrzejszy (comparative humorous ironic)
najlepszy (superlative)
najlepsiejszy (humorous ironic superlative)
dobrzejszy (humorous ironic superlative)
dobry (masculine nominative singular)
dobra (feminine nominative singular)
dobre (neuter nominative singular)
dobrzy (nominative plural virile)
dobre (nominative plural)
dobrego (genitive masculine singular)
dobrej (feminine genitive singular)
dobrego (genitive neuter singular)
dobrych (genitive plural)
dobrych (genitive plural virile)
dobremu (dative masculine singular)
dobrej (dative feminine singular)
dobremu (dative neuter singular)
dobrym (dative plural)
dobrym (dative plural virile)
dobrego (accusative animate masculine singular)
dobry (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
dobrą (accusative feminine singular)
dobre (accusative neuter singular)
dobrych (accusative plural virile)
dobre (accusative plural)
dobrym (instrumental masculine singular)
dobrą (feminine instrumental singular)
dobrym (instrumental neuter singular)
dobrymi (instrumental plural)
dobrymi (instrumental plural virile)
dobrym (locative masculine singular)
dobrej (feminine locative singular)
dobrym (locative neuter singular)
dobrych (locative plural)
dobrych (locative plural virile)

Albus, Biały/ per Metaphoram. Bonus, Dobry

Dobry/ to ſłowo/ Káżdemu zdrowo.

Perbonus ‒ Barzo dobri.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 775a:

(Middle Polish) good; Further details are uncertain.


kol

id-noun

kol (first-person possessive kolku, second-person possessive kolmu, third-person possessive kolnya)

kolku (first-person possessive)
kolmu (possessive second-person)
kolnya (possessive third-person)


tae

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Ilocano takki, Malagasy tay, Malay tahi, Palauan dach, and Samoan tae.


taser

Jack Cover
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle

Acronym of the science fiction story Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. Coined in the early 1970s by the inventor Jack Cover originally as TSER, to which he later added the letter A to ease pronunciation. Genericization of the trademark Taser.

cattle prod

an electric shock device used to herd cattle

electric fence

a fixed installation electric shock barrier used to control livestock

mace

a self-defense chemical spray used to fend off attackers, similar use to personal tasers

(by extension) Any electroshock stun gun.


ребята

ru-noun+

ребя́та • (rebjáta) m anim pl (genitive ребя́т, plural only, relational adjective ребя́ческий or ребя́чий, diminutive ребяти́шки or ребя́тки or ребя́тушки)

ребя́та (canonical)
rebjáta (romanization)
ребя́т (genitive)
ребя́ческий (adjective relational)
ребя́чий (adjective relational)
ребяти́шки (diminutive)
ребя́тки (diminutive)
ребя́тушки (diminutive)
ребя́та (nominative plural)
ребя́т (genitive plural)
ребя́там (dative plural)
ребя́т (accusative plural)
ребя́тами (instrumental plural)
ребя́тах (plural prepositional)
ребя́т (plural vocative)
ребя́та (dated nominative plural)
ребя́тъ (dated genitive plural)
ребя́тамъ (dated dative plural)
ребя́тъ (accusative dated plural)
ребя́тами (dated instrumental plural)
ребя́тахъ (dated plural prepositional)


Votze

Votze (genitive)
Votzen (plural)
Votze (nominative singular)
Votzen (definite nominative plural)
Votze (genitive singular)
Votzen (definite genitive plural)
Votze (dative singular)
Votzen (dative definite plural)
Votze (accusative singular)
Votzen (accusative definite plural)

The spelling is possibly due to the fact that Fotze is an offensive word and is thus not often found in published works. The spelling has also been used deliberately by some (as an eye-dialect form), because the shape of the letter V is reminiscent of a mons Venus, and because the words Vulva and Vagina are also spelt with an initial V.

»Aber du bist eine gute Votze, ja, das bist du, nicht wahr? Du bist das beste kleine Vötzchen auf der Welt. Wenn's dir Spaß macht. Wenn du gefügig bist!«

2009, Tom Roberts, Lady Chatterley, Anaconda, translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, →ISBN:

(vulgar) Nonstandard spelling of Fotze (“cunt”).


bær

bært (neuter)
bære (definite plural singular)
bærare (comparative)
bærast (indefinite superlative)
bæraste (definite superlative)

(obsolete, dialectal or eye dialect) alternative spelling of berr (“bare”)


blatte

Probably from the verb blattra (“to talk nonsense”).

(slang, ethnic slur, often derogatory) a person with an immigrant background (and brown or dark skin); often restricted to people of Middle Eastern or North African descent, and sometimes restricted to people thought to be poorly integrated into society


puta

Inherited from Old Spanish puta, from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines. Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

(derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute


svenne

Used by immigrants in Sweden in reference to ethnic Swedes. It originates from a nickname for Sven.^([citation needed])

Är han svenne?

Is he an [ethnic/native] Swede? [see vara for why there is no particle]

en fest med en massa svennar

a party with a bunch of [ethnic/native] Swedes

en typisk svenne

(colloquial, mildly ethnic slur, sometimes derogatory or humorous) an ethnic/native Swede (as opposed to someone with an immigrant background)


Cajun

An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien (itself an aphetic form of Acadien (“Acadian”)), reflecting the palatalization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect.

Damn Cajuns! They're all a bunch of lazy coonasses!

(ethnic slur, dated) Any uneducated poor Francophone in French Louisiana.


Segway

Brand name; according to Segway Inc., chosen for similarity to segue on notion of “a smooth transition from one place to another”, with probable influence of way.

A motorised vehicle for one person, ridden while standing, and having two wheels on one axle that balances itself using gyroscopes and tilt sensors.


Pilates

Named after German physical trainer Joseph Pilates.

named-after

"Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla."

2014 April 14, Matt Cleary, “What do Australia's cricketers do on holiday?”, in ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 2015-07-21:

A physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates.


hon

Shortened from honey.
The transgender slang sense derives from the supposedly abundant use of "hon" as a term of address by older male-to-female transgender people, presumably as a way to verbally affect a femininity they are otherwise perceived by some to lack (due to not passing well), and is especially associated with the cliché phrase "you look great, hon". Derogatory sense likely came about from users of 4chan's /lgbt/ board mocking the discourse on transgender forum Susan's Place.

(Southern US) A friendly term of address.

A term of endearment; Honey, sweetheart
A friendly term of address.


ey

non-decl-blank-full

ey

ey (indefinite nominative singular)
eyit (definite nominative singular)
ey (indefinite nominative plural)
eyin (definite nominative plural)
ey (accusative indefinite singular)
eyit (accusative definite singular)
ey (accusative indefinite plural)
eyin (accusative definite plural)
eyi (dative indefinite singular)
eyinu (dative definite singular)
eyjum (dative indefinite plural)
eyjunum (dative definite plural)
eys (genitive indefinite singular)
eysins (definite genitive singular)
eyja (genitive indefinite plural)
eyjanna (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Proto-Norse ᚨᚢᛃᚨ (auja), itself from Proto-Germanic *aują n, itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“enjoy”). Related to auð- (“easy, easily”), from Proto-Germanic *auþuz (“easy”), whence Old English ieþe (“easy”).

In a prayer towards the Cross recorded in Landnámabók
Gótt ey gǫmlum mǫnnum, gótt ey ungum mǫnnum.

Good fortune to old men, good fortune to young men.