nekru

nekru (nominative singular)
nekrut (nominative plural)
nekru (accusative nominative singular)
nekrut (accusative nominative plural)
nekrun (accusative genitive singular)
nekrut (accusative genitive plural)
nekrun (genitive singular)
nekrujen (genitive plural)
nekrua (partitive singular)
nekruja (partitive plural)
nekrussa (inessive singular)
nekruissa (inessive plural)
nekrusta (elative singular)
nekruista (elative plural)
nekruun (illative singular)
nekruihin (illative plural)
nekrulla (adessive singular)
nekruilla (adessive plural)
nekrulta (ablative singular)
nekruilta (ablative plural)
nekrulle (allative singular)
nekruille (allative plural)
nekruna (essive singular)
nekruina (essive plural)
nekruksi (singular translative)
nekruiksi (plural translative)
nekrutta (abessive singular)
nekruitta (abessive plural)
nekruin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
nekruni (nominative singular)
nekruni (nominative plural)
nekruni (accusative nominative singular)
nekruni (accusative nominative plural)
nekruni (accusative genitive singular)
nekruni (accusative genitive plural)
nekruni (genitive singular)
nekrujeni (genitive plural)
nekruani (partitive singular)
nekrujani (partitive plural)
nekrussani (inessive singular)
nekruissani (inessive plural)
nekrustani (elative singular)
nekruistani (elative plural)
nekruuni (illative singular)
nekruihini (illative plural)
nekrullani (adessive singular)
nekruillani (adessive plural)
nekrultani (ablative singular)
nekruiltani (ablative plural)
nekrulleni (allative singular)
nekruilleni (allative plural)
nekrunani (essive singular)
nekruinani (essive plural)
nekrukseni (singular translative)
nekruikseni (plural translative)
nekruttani (abessive singular)
nekruittani (abessive plural)
nekruineni (comitative plural)
nekrusi (nominative singular)
nekrusi (nominative plural)
nekrusi (accusative nominative singular)
nekrusi (accusative nominative plural)
nekrusi (accusative genitive singular)
nekrusi (accusative genitive plural)
nekrusi (genitive singular)
nekrujesi (genitive plural)
nekruasi (partitive singular)
nekrujasi (partitive plural)
nekrussasi (inessive singular)
nekruissasi (inessive plural)
nekrustasi (elative singular)
nekruistasi (elative plural)
nekruusi (illative singular)
nekruihisi (illative plural)
nekrullasi (adessive singular)
nekruillasi (adessive plural)
nekrultasi (ablative singular)
nekruiltasi (ablative plural)
nekrullesi (allative singular)
nekruillesi (allative plural)
nekrunasi (essive singular)
nekruinasi (essive plural)
nekruksesi (singular translative)
nekruiksesi (plural translative)
nekruttasi (abessive singular)
nekruittasi (abessive plural)
nekruinesi (comitative plural)
nekrumme (nominative singular)
nekrumme (nominative plural)
nekrumme (accusative nominative singular)
nekrumme (accusative nominative plural)
nekrumme (accusative genitive singular)
nekrumme (accusative genitive plural)
nekrumme (genitive singular)
nekrujemme (genitive plural)
nekruamme (partitive singular)
nekrujamme (partitive plural)
nekrussamme (inessive singular)
nekruissamme (inessive plural)
nekrustamme (elative singular)
nekruistamme (elative plural)
nekruumme (illative singular)
nekruihimme (illative plural)
nekrullamme (adessive singular)
nekruillamme (adessive plural)
nekrultamme (ablative singular)
nekruiltamme (ablative plural)
nekrullemme (allative singular)
nekruillemme (allative plural)
nekrunamme (essive singular)
nekruinamme (essive plural)
nekruksemme (singular translative)
nekruiksemme (plural translative)
nekruttamme (abessive singular)
nekruittamme (abessive plural)
nekruinemme (comitative plural)
nekrunne (nominative singular)
nekrunne (nominative plural)
nekrunne (accusative nominative singular)
nekrunne (accusative nominative plural)
nekrunne (accusative genitive singular)
nekrunne (accusative genitive plural)
nekrunne (genitive singular)
nekrujenne (genitive plural)
nekruanne (partitive singular)
nekrujanne (partitive plural)
nekrussanne (inessive singular)
nekruissanne (inessive plural)
nekrustanne (elative singular)
nekruistanne (elative plural)
nekruunne (illative singular)
nekruihinne (illative plural)
nekrullanne (adessive singular)
nekruillanne (adessive plural)
nekrultanne (ablative singular)
nekruiltanne (ablative plural)
nekrullenne (allative singular)
nekruillenne (allative plural)
nekrunanne (essive singular)
nekruinanne (essive plural)
nekruksenne (singular translative)
nekruiksenne (plural translative)
nekruttanne (abessive singular)
nekruittanne (abessive plural)
nekruinenne (comitative plural)
nekrunsa (nominative singular)
nekrunsa (nominative plural)
nekrunsa (accusative nominative singular)
nekrunsa (accusative nominative plural)
nekrunsa (accusative genitive singular)
nekrunsa (accusative genitive plural)
nekrunsa (genitive singular)
nekrujensa (genitive plural)
nekruaan (partitive singular)
nekruansa (partitive singular)
nekrujaan (partitive plural)
nekrujansa (partitive plural)
nekrussaan (inessive singular)
nekrussansa (inessive singular)
nekruissaan (inessive plural)
nekruissansa (inessive plural)
nekrustaan (elative singular)
nekrustansa (elative singular)
nekruistaan (elative plural)
nekruistansa (elative plural)
nekruunsa (illative singular)
nekruihinsa (illative plural)
nekrullaan (adessive singular)
nekrullansa (adessive singular)
nekruillaan (adessive plural)
nekruillansa (adessive plural)
nekrultaan (ablative singular)
nekrultansa (ablative singular)
nekruiltaan (ablative plural)
nekruiltansa (ablative plural)
nekrulleen (allative singular)
nekrullensa (allative singular)
nekruilleen (allative plural)
nekruillensa (allative plural)
nekrunaan (essive singular)
nekrunansa (essive singular)
nekruinaan (essive plural)
nekruinansa (essive plural)
nekrukseen (singular translative)
nekruksensa (singular translative)
nekruikseen (plural translative)
nekruiksensa (plural translative)
nekruttaan (abessive singular)
nekruttansa (abessive singular)
nekruittaan (abessive plural)
nekruittansa (abessive plural)
nekruineen (comitative plural)
nekruinensa (comitative plural)


celofan

celofan (accusative indefinite nominative)
celofanul (accusative definite nominative)
celofan (indefinite)
celofanului (definite)
celofanule (vocative)


neekeri

neekeri (nominative singular)
neekerit (nominative plural)
neekeri (accusative nominative singular)
neekerit (accusative nominative plural)
neekerin (accusative genitive singular)
neekerit (accusative genitive plural)
neekerin (genitive singular)
neekerien (genitive plural)
neekereiden (genitive plural)
neekereitten (genitive plural)
neekeriä (partitive singular)
neekereitä (partitive plural)
neekerejä (partitive plural)
neekerissä (inessive singular)
neekereissä (inessive plural)
neekeristä (elative singular)
neekereistä (elative plural)
neekeriin (illative singular)
neekereihin (illative plural)
neekerillä (adessive singular)
neekereillä (adessive plural)
neekeriltä (ablative singular)
neekereiltä (ablative plural)
neekerille (allative singular)
neekereille (allative plural)
neekerinä (essive singular)
neekereinä (essive plural)
neekeriksi (singular translative)
neekereiksi (plural translative)
neekerittä (abessive singular)
neekereittä (abessive plural)
neekerein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
neekerini (nominative singular)
neekerini (nominative plural)
neekerini (accusative nominative singular)
neekerini (accusative nominative plural)
neekerini (accusative genitive singular)
neekerini (accusative genitive plural)
neekerini (genitive singular)
neekerieni (genitive plural)
neekereideni (genitive plural)
neekereitteni (genitive plural)
neekeriäni (partitive singular)
neekereitäni (partitive plural)
neekerejäni (partitive plural)
neekerissäni (inessive singular)
neekereissäni (inessive plural)
neekeristäni (elative singular)
neekereistäni (elative plural)
neekeriini (illative singular)
neekereihini (illative plural)
neekerilläni (adessive singular)
neekereilläni (adessive plural)
neekeriltäni (ablative singular)
neekereiltäni (ablative plural)
neekerilleni (allative singular)
neekereilleni (allative plural)
neekerinäni (essive singular)
neekereinäni (essive plural)
neekerikseni (singular translative)
neekereikseni (plural translative)
neekerittäni (abessive singular)
neekereittäni (abessive plural)
neekereineni (comitative plural)
neekerisi (nominative singular)
neekerisi (nominative plural)
neekerisi (accusative nominative singular)
neekerisi (accusative nominative plural)
neekerisi (accusative genitive singular)
neekerisi (accusative genitive plural)
neekerisi (genitive singular)
neekeriesi (genitive plural)
neekereidesi (genitive plural)
neekereittesi (genitive plural)
neekeriäsi (partitive singular)
neekereitäsi (partitive plural)
neekerejäsi (partitive plural)
neekerissäsi (inessive singular)
neekereissäsi (inessive plural)
neekeristäsi (elative singular)
neekereistäsi (elative plural)
neekeriisi (illative singular)
neekereihisi (illative plural)
neekerilläsi (adessive singular)
neekereilläsi (adessive plural)
neekeriltäsi (ablative singular)
neekereiltäsi (ablative plural)
neekerillesi (allative singular)
neekereillesi (allative plural)
neekerinäsi (essive singular)
neekereinäsi (essive plural)
neekeriksesi (singular translative)
neekereiksesi (plural translative)
neekerittäsi (abessive singular)
neekereittäsi (abessive plural)
neekereinesi (comitative plural)
neekerimme (nominative singular)
neekerimme (nominative plural)
neekerimme (accusative nominative singular)
neekerimme (accusative nominative plural)
neekerimme (accusative genitive singular)
neekerimme (accusative genitive plural)
neekerimme (genitive singular)
neekeriemme (genitive plural)
neekereidemme (genitive plural)
neekereittemme (genitive plural)
neekeriämme (partitive singular)
neekereitämme (partitive plural)
neekerejämme (partitive plural)
neekerissämme (inessive singular)
neekereissämme (inessive plural)
neekeristämme (elative singular)
neekereistämme (elative plural)
neekeriimme (illative singular)
neekereihimme (illative plural)
neekerillämme (adessive singular)
neekereillämme (adessive plural)
neekeriltämme (ablative singular)
neekereiltämme (ablative plural)
neekerillemme (allative singular)
neekereillemme (allative plural)
neekerinämme (essive singular)
neekereinämme (essive plural)
neekeriksemme (singular translative)
neekereiksemme (plural translative)
neekerittämme (abessive singular)
neekereittämme (abessive plural)
neekereinemme (comitative plural)
neekerinne (nominative singular)
neekerinne (nominative plural)
neekerinne (accusative nominative singular)
neekerinne (accusative nominative plural)
neekerinne (accusative genitive singular)
neekerinne (accusative genitive plural)
neekerinne (genitive singular)
neekerienne (genitive plural)
neekereidenne (genitive plural)
neekereittenne (genitive plural)
neekeriänne (partitive singular)
neekereitänne (partitive plural)
neekerejänne (partitive plural)
neekerissänne (inessive singular)
neekereissänne (inessive plural)
neekeristänne (elative singular)
neekereistänne (elative plural)
neekeriinne (illative singular)
neekereihinne (illative plural)
neekerillänne (adessive singular)
neekereillänne (adessive plural)
neekeriltänne (ablative singular)
neekereiltänne (ablative plural)
neekerillenne (allative singular)
neekereillenne (allative plural)
neekerinänne (essive singular)
neekereinänne (essive plural)
neekeriksenne (singular translative)
neekereiksenne (plural translative)
neekerittänne (abessive singular)
neekereittänne (abessive plural)
neekereinenne (comitative plural)
neekerinsä (nominative singular)
neekerinsä (nominative plural)
neekerinsä (accusative nominative singular)
neekerinsä (accusative nominative plural)
neekerinsä (accusative genitive singular)
neekerinsä (accusative genitive plural)
neekerinsä (genitive singular)
neekeriensä (genitive plural)
neekereidensä (genitive plural)
neekereittensä (genitive plural)
neekeriään (partitive singular)
neekeriänsä (partitive singular)
neekereitään (partitive plural)
neekerejään (partitive plural)
neekereitänsä (partitive plural)
neekerejänsä (partitive plural)
neekerissään (inessive singular)
neekerissänsä (inessive singular)
neekereissään (inessive plural)
neekereissänsä (inessive plural)
neekeristään (elative singular)
neekeristänsä (elative singular)
neekereistään (elative plural)
neekereistänsä (elative plural)
neekeriinsä (illative singular)
neekereihinsä (illative plural)
neekerillään (adessive singular)
neekerillänsä (adessive singular)
neekereillään (adessive plural)
neekereillänsä (adessive plural)
neekeriltään (ablative singular)
neekeriltänsä (ablative singular)
neekereiltään (ablative plural)
neekereiltänsä (ablative plural)
neekerilleen (allative singular)
neekerillensä (allative singular)
neekereilleen (allative plural)
neekereillensä (allative plural)
neekerinään (essive singular)
neekerinänsä (essive singular)
neekereinään (essive plural)
neekereinänsä (essive plural)
neekerikseen (singular translative)
neekeriksensä (singular translative)
neekereikseen (plural translative)
neekereiksensä (plural translative)
neekerittään (abessive singular)
neekerittänsä (abessive singular)
neekereittään (abessive plural)
neekereittänsä (abessive plural)
neekereineen (comitative plural)
neekereinensä (comitative plural)

Until the second half of the 19th century, this was a direct loan of Swedish neger without adaptation to Finnish phonology, at least in writing, which rarely happens in Finnish. Nevertheless, the form neekeri was no doubt almost immediately used in speaking, long before it was used in writing since Finnish seldom differentiates between voiced and unvoiced plosives and since an /i/ is usually suffixed to foreign words ending in a consonant. The Swedish word came from French nègre.

(offensive, ethnic slur) nigger (person with dark brown skin)


hubby

en-adj

hubby (comparative hubbier, superlative hubbiest)

hubbier (comparative)
hubbiest (superlative)

A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.


greenhorn

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

cog

She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn,

1993, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives- Issues 47-49, page 37:

(chiefly Massachusetts, ethnic slur, offensive) A Portuguese person.


Fritz

From German Fritz, pet form of Friedrich (“Frederick”).

Someone sent up a shout and word came that oil had begun to show on the water—that meant one less submarine afloat! Again the roar of guns—again the shout! Two Fritzes sunk. . . !

1918, Elaine Sterne, Over the Seas for Uncle Sam:

(UK, offensive, ethnic slur) A German person, usually male.


Sambo

(derogatory) A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom.

(offensive, obsolete) A person of three quarters African descent and one quarter Caucasian descent.


Sambo

A nickname from the given name Samantha.


celluloid

en-noun

celluloid (countable and uncountable, plural celluloids)

Former trademark of Celluloid Manufacturing Company

1894 June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph: Account of the Invention, article in Century Magazine, Volume 48, Issue 2,
Then followed some experiments with drums, over which sheets of sensitized celluloid film were drawn, the edges being pressed into a narrow slot in the surface, similar in construction to the old tin-foil phonograph.

"And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."

1910, Stephen Leacock, “The Conjurer's Revenge”, in Literary Lapses:

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.


cellophane

cellophane (countable and uncountable, plural cellophanes)

Genericized trademark. Blend of cellulose + diaphane.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head

1967, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, The Beatles (music):

Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.


Punic

en-adj

Punic (comparative more Punic, superlative most Punic)

more Punic (comparative)
most Punic (superlative)

From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic.

(figurative, ethnic slur) Perfidious, treacherous, faithless.


chee chee

en-noun

chee chee (countable and uncountable, plural chee chees)

tlb

(UK, slang, archaic, offensive, 19th century)

Hobson-Jobson (see References) stated that the word is "said to be taken from chi (fie!), a common native (South Indian) interjection of remonstrance or reproof, supposed to be much used by the class in question. The term is, however, perhaps also a kind of onomatopoeia, indicating the mincing pronunciation which often characterises them." Hotten stated in his 1870 The Slang Dictionary "it takes its origin from a very common expression of these half-caste females, "CHEE-CHEE," equivalent to our "Oh, fie! - Nonsense! - For shame!" Merriam-Webster (see References) states "probably from Hindi chī-chī fie!, literally, dirt".

Pretty little Looking-Glasses, / Good and cheap for Chee-chee Misses.

Chee-chees, blacky-whites, half castes, Anglo-Indians. Midnight's orphans. The Brits hated us for giving human form to their rapacious colonial lust.

2021, Robyn Andrews, Merin Simi Raj, Anglo-Indian Identity, page 401:

(countable, ethnic slur) A mixed-race person of British and Eurasian origin and in particular of Anglo-Indian descent.


sonny

(dated) A familiar form of address for a boy.

(colloquial, dated, derogatory) Form of address to a boy or man, to express contempt, warning etc.


yarpie

From Afrikaans japie, short for plaasjapie (“farm-boy”), referring to any person who grew up on a farm and is unfamiliar with city life, and hence naive and unsophisticated.

(South Africa, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A white South African man.


peckerwood

Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.

All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 16:

Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.

1967, John Oliver Killens, 'Sippi, New York: Trident Press, →LCCN, →OL, page 50:

(US, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.


Chen

From Mandarin 陳／陈 (Chén). Doublet of Tan, Chan, and Tran.

(US, ethnic slur, offensive) A Chinese person whose name is not known to the speaker.


crockpot

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

From Crock-Pot (1971), brand name of slow cooker by The Rival Company, from crock + pot. Coined by duplication and assonance.


Tylenol

en-noun

Tylenol (countable and uncountable, plural Tylenols)

(Canada, US, uncountable) Alternative form of tylenol (genericized trademark) (the pharmaceutical drug acetaminophen (“paracetamol”))


raton

fr-noun

raton m (plural ratons, feminine ratonne)

The same as etymology 1, influenced by Spanish ratón.

Quel bavardage : liberté, égalité, fraternité, amour, honneur, patrie, que sais-je ? Cela ne nous empêchait pas de tenir en même temps des discours racistes, sale nègre, sale juif, sale raton.

1961, Jean-Paul Sartre, Préface des Les Damnés de la Terre (Frantz Fanon):

What gibberish: liberty, fairness, brotherhood, amity, honor, fatherland, what do I know? This doesn't stop us from holding at the same time racist discourses, foul black, foul jew, vile person of Arab or Algerian descent.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, vulgar) someone of Arab or Algerian descent


milk of magnesia

Former trademark; see Wikipedia for details.

A milky-white solution of magnesium hydroxide, used as a saline osmotic laxative and as an antacid.


dobro

From the trade name "Dobro", used by Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, name of the inventors + brothers, also punning on Slovak dobro (“good”).

The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.

2007 January 21, Nate Chinen, “Dueling Banjos, Gospel Harmonies, Arabesques and Electric Eels”, in New York Times:

(music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator.


lanolin

en-noun

lanolin (usually uncountable, plural lanolins)

Former trademark (1885-1902), from lana (“wool”) + oleum (“oil”) + -in

She was sitting cross-legged on the floor with a tray of leather-bound books in front of her; she was rubbing lanolin into their covers […] ‘Look at these lovely old editions,’ she said, showing me a couple of small tan books, their bindings still glossy and moist from the lanolin, like newly exposed conkers.

2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), pages 138-139:

A greasy yellow substance chemically akin to wax that is secreted from wooly animals, with a variety of uses from rust prevention, lubrication and waterproofing to cosmetics and skin ointments.


granola

granola (countable and uncountable, plural granolas)

Globe Pequot Press
Graham flour
Granula
James Caleb Jackson
Will Keith Kellogg
granola

By 1967, American English, probably from Italian grano (“grain”) or granular, with commercial suffix -ola.
Earlier, with a capital G-, it was a proprietary name for a kind of breakfast cereal, registered in 1886 by Will Keith Kellogg and in use into the early 20th century. It was initially known as Granula and renamed Granola to avoid legal problems with James Caleb Jackson, who invented a similar cereal in 1863, named Granula after the granules of Graham flour, the main ingredient. The food and name were revived in the 1960s.

A breakfast and snack food consisting of loose, crispy pellets made of nuts, rolled oats, honey and other natural ingredients.

(slang, countable) Short for crunchy granola.


granola

en-adjective

granola (comparative more granola, superlative most granola)

more granola (comparative)
most granola (superlative)

You see more and more of the granola hippie activist types these days.

[…]behind them a granola-looking mom in denim overalls and a t-shirt was pulling in to do her drop-off . . . from a Prius.

2013 November 21, Jame Schaefer, Tobias Winright, Environmental Justice and Climate Change, page 228:

Rather, the anti-vax movement is almost entirely a phenomenon of the affluent crunchy granola Left—as everyone across the political spectrum acknowledged until the last week or so.

2015 February 13, Dennis Saffran, “The Orwellian Campaign To Project Anti-Vaccination Onto Republicans”, in The Federalist:

Yet some experts believe that voices from the far right are beginning to drown out those of the crunchy granola crowd.

2020 June 18, Kiera Butler, “The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones:

(chiefly Canada, US, of a person) Eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment, and having liberal views.


mack

Since 1920 from the trademark MACK, an initialism for "Mathiasson, Andersson, Collin, Key", the owners of one of the first companies that opened gas stations in Sweden.

Vi åker till macken och tankar lite.

Let's go down to the gas station and get some gas.

Howdy, cowboy! Visa nu, vad har du på din mack? Jag behöver fylla skafferiet på min truck [English]. Tuggummi, så klart, snus och chips, en låda dryck, skulle jag bli glad om jag fick. Jag drar min långtradarsång, min lastbilskörarsång, för jag har sån smak för bilar med flak. Jag drar min truckdriving song [English], tjugofyra meter lång, och jag tackar Gud för countryns alla ljud. Och om låten blir för tråkig, ja, då jag tar jag det kallt. Ja, då byter jag tonart och höjer ett halvt. Ja, jag höjer ett halvt.

1986, Claes Eriksson (lyrics and music), “Truckdriving song”, in Macken [The gas station], performed by Per Fritzell:

Howdy, cowboy! Show me now, what do you have at your gas station? I need to fill the pantry in my truck [English]. Chewing gum, of course, snus and chips [in the US sense], a case of drink, I would be happy if I got. I do [pull] my big rig song, my truck driving song, because I have such taste for cars with a flatbed [platform]. I do my truckdriving song [English], twenty-four meters long, and I thank God for all the sounds of country music. And if the song gets too boring, yes, then I stay cool [take it cool]. Yes, then I change the key and raise by a half [step]. Yes, I raise by a half [step].


teleprompter

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/ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/

From tele- + prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.

Ahem ... GRBLB BLABT UNT MIT SPEEB!! OOT PIFFOO BLABOO... [pause] Would someone please give the Teleprompter a swift kick...

1984 April 20, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (comic):

He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.


choco

nl-noun

choco m (plural choco's, diminutive chocootje n)

choco's (plural)
chocootje (diminutive neuter)

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

(Belgium, offensive, ethnic slur) Term of abuse for a person of black-African descent.


honda

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(genericized trademark, regional, chiefly Southern Leyte) motorcycle


honda

id-noun

honda (first-person possessive hondaku, second-person possessive hondamu, third-person possessive hondanya)

hondaku (first-person possessive)
hondamu (possessive second-person)
hondanya (possessive third-person)

A genericized trademark of the Japanese trademark Honda, from Japanese ホンダ or 本田(ほんだ) (honda).


Muzak

The noun is a blend of music + the letters ak from Kodak, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was coined by the American inventor, scientist, and soldier George Owen Squier (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.
The verb is derived from the noun.

coinage

It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak. It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.

1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 105:

There's no way I can change internal body functions. Only yogis can do that. Muzak, for example, can't change you. Aaron Copeland [i.e., Aaron Copland] calls Muzak 'the obsequious.' We're super-saturated with shitty music. [Originally published in New Times.]

1975 February 7, Michael Gross, quoting Tom Turicchi, “The Hits Just Keep on Coming”, in Robert Atwan, Barry Orton, William Vesterman, American Mass Media: Industries and Issues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1978, →ISBN, part 3 (The Sound Media), page 320, column 2:

Some people, of course, have no trouble making that decision: they know they don't like Muzak. Critics charge that Muzak invades what could be pleasurable silence, disrupts conversation, or smacks of George Orwell's 1984. [Originally published in American Way.]

1983 November, Bill Hunter, “It’s Muzak through Your Ears”, in Robert Atwan, Barry Orton, William Vesterman, American Mass Media: Industries and Issues, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1986, →ISBN, part 3 (The Sound Media), page 289, column 1:

(music, trademark) Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises.


Muzak

The sound you make is muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years

1971 September 9, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “How Do You Sleep?”, in Imagine:

[T]he supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store is hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out.

2005 May 21, David Foster Wallace, This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published April 2009, →ISBN:

(music) Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.

hissimusiikki

easy listening music, especially if regarded as uninteresting

(figuratively) Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.


dumpster

Genericized brand name, from blend of dump + Dempster. The original brand (and some associated things) are no longer trademarked, because the three trademarks involved have either expired or been cancelled. By surface analysis, dump + -ster.

[…]with the uncanny ability to always look like he just woke up in a dumpster

2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:

(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.


hansom

I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house.

1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom—there had still been a good many hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.

1931, Francis Beeding, “6/4”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:

tweewielig rijtuig met koetsier achterop


hotshot

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

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

(US, rail transport) A fast freight train.

I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.

1997, Andi Rierden, The Farm: Life inside a women's prison, page 120:

(slang) A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.


hotshot

en-verb

hotshot (third-person singular simple present hotshots, present participle hotshotting, simple past and past participle hotshotted)

hotshots (present singular third-person)
hotshotting (participle present)
hotshotted (participle past)
hotshotted (past)

(transitive, slang) To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.


państwo

państewko (diminutive)
państwo (nominative singular)
państwa (nominative plural)
państwa (genitive singular)
państw (genitive plural)
państwu (dative singular)
państwom (dative plural)
państwo (accusative singular)
państwa (accusative plural)
państwem (instrumental singular)
państwami (instrumental plural)
państwie (locative singular)
państwach (locative plural)
państwo (singular vocative)
państwa (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish państwo. By surface analysis, pan + -stwo. Compare Czech panstvo, Kashubian państwò, and Slovincian państwô.

(Middle Polish, Christianity) domain (order of angels)

Potentatus – Panſtwo.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 825b:

(Middle Polish) domain; Further details are uncertain.


państwo

pl-noun

państwo m pers pl (abbreviation pp. or p.)

pp. (abbreviation)
p. (abbreviation)
państwo (nominative plural)
państwa (genitive plural)
państwu (dative plural)
państwa (accusative plural)
państwem (instrumental plural)
państwu (locative plural)
państwo (plural vocative)

Mr. and Mrs. (husband and wife collectively)


goddamn

From God + damn; originally, and sometimes still, a present subjunctive expression of a wish that God smite someone for their wickedness; compare also antonymous God bless, God bless you, and God love (someone or something).

The goddamns (British soldiers) are coming / To steal your children. / Awaken! Awaken! / Acadian men / To save our heritage.

2009, Shane K. Bernard, The Cajuns: Americanization of a People, page 72:

Alternative form of goddam (“an English person, from French perspective”)


touch-tone

software to decode touch-tones


jacuzzi

A generic use of the proprietary name Jacuzzi.

A hot tub or whirlpool bath with underwater jets that massage the body.


jacuzzi

Borrowed from English jacuzzi. Genericized trademark.


jacuzzi

Unadapted borrowing from American English jacuzzi. Genericized trademark. Doublet of Jakub.

ubor

jacuzzi (hot tub or whirlpool bath with underwater jets that massage the body)


jacuzzi

pl-adj

jacuzzi (not comparable, no derived adverb)


jacuzzi

jacuzzi (indefinite nominative singular)
jacuzzis (genitive indefinite singular)
jacuzzin (definite nominative singular)
jacuzzins (definite genitive singular)
jacuzzier (indefinite nominative plural)
jacuzziers (genitive indefinite plural)
jacuzzierna (definite nominative plural)
jacuzziernas (definite genitive plural)

Genericized trademark from the proprietary name Jacuzzi.

Ah, det är skönt att få glida ner i jacuzzin och knäcka en kall öl efter ett hårt arbetspass i skogen
Ah, it's nice [feels good] to slip ["get to slip" – redundant, but sounds natural] into the jacuzzi and crack open a cold beer after a session of hard work in the forest

a jacuzzi (hot tub or bathtub with underwater water jets)


lusk

English: los, loz

From Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs.


Lycra

en-noun

Lycra (countable and uncountable, plural Lycras)

Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

(countable) A tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.


excelsior

From Latin excelsior, comparative of excelsus (“high”). The name of the stuffing material was originally a trademark.

(archaic) Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.


excelsior

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A greeting, farewell or acclamation, presently associated with comic book fandom and famous comic book writer Stan Lee, but continuing a long tradition of parodies of the New York State motto, first by Longfellow and continuing through Thurber to Lee.


excelsior

These little mangers, with baby dolls representing Jesus, porcelean Josephs and Marys, wide-eyed cows of papier-mâché, and excelsior for straw, were purchased by pious parents for well-behaved children at Christmas-tide.

1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 91:

Working both [of them] at Kroll's then, she selling candy and cashews in a white smock with "Jan" stitched on her pocket and he lugging easy chairs and maple end tables around on the floor above, hammering apart packing crates from nine to five, the itch of the packing excelsior getting into his nose and eyes and making them burn.

1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 13:

Each Pet Rock came in a cardboard carrying case, complete with air holes, tenderly nestled on a bed of excelsior.

2015 March 31, Margalit Fox, “Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Canada, US) Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled woodshavings, as a substitute for hair.

lastuvilla

stuffing made of slender, curled wood shavings


trailer park trash

I didn't wear my “Trailer Park Trash” T-shirt that day.

1996, Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America:

I swear, this whole thing sounds like we're talking about some hillbilly trailer park trash.

Eric's remark about “trailer park trash” is strictly his. I have some very good friends who live in trailers and they are not trash.

2004, Sam Warren, Tales from the Tijuana Jails II:

(US, idiomatic, derogatory) Alternative form of trailer trash


porta-potty

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Blend of portable + potty, from the commercial name Porta Potti. Equivalent to porta- (“portable”) + potty.

So let’s talk about infrastructure tonight, and let’s begin with dams, because dams are amazing. They’re the most powerful device we have for holding back liquid aside from the idea of using a porta-potty. “I’ll wait. I’ll just wait forever. I cannot go in there.”

2015 Mar, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

A portable toilet, (in UK, particularly) a chemical toilet comprising only the fixture rather than an entire enclosure.


sis

head

sis (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case)

en-pron

sis is living my delusions, happy for her

2023 February 2, ㅊ (@jaja_girly), Twitter:

The internalized colorism that has inflicted Will is just… Referring to gorgeous Veronica as “Black bald dark-skin woman.” How she didn’t snatch him from his Mama’s highchair I do not know.. Sis dodged all the bullets.. #loveisblindbrazil

“Sue Me” sis snapped

2022 September 29, Kahlen Barry (@KahlenBarry), Twitter:

sis really said fuck the police go off

2023 January 3, sésé/gee☆♱ (@d0llydeathw1sh), Twitter:

Call me when ur 3 year old daughter knows SZA lyrics, girl said “you still playin the pick me, I’m still playin the victim” we don’t care if it’s backwards sis learned that all on her own 🥹

2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter:

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) she


spandex

en-noun

spandex (usually uncountable, plural spandexes)

Coined as an anagram of the word expands.

A synthetic fibre known for its exceptional elasticity.


realist

He's the realist dude I know.


realtor

From real (in real estate) and -or. Coined by Charles N. Chadbourn in 1916, on the model of Latin agent nouns ending in -tor (such as actor, creator), to refer to real-estate professionals who are members of the National Association of Realtors, a trade association in the United States. Equivalent to realt(y) + -or.

It was composed of an engineer, if I remember correctly, a town planner, a realtor, and occasionally an architect […]

1919, Mr. Shannon, U.S. Housing Corporation. Hearings Before a Subcommittee, United States Senate:

First place, we ought to insist that folks call us ‘realtors’ and not ‘real-estate men.’ Sounds more like a reg’lar profession.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

Intrigued by the prospect of an additional commission, the realtor hurriedly assured me he foresaw no problem in obtaining the lease.

1975, Jerzy Kosiński, Cockpit, Grove Press, published 1998, page 189:

The terms agent, broker, and realtor are often used interchangeably.

1997, Douglas A. Gray, Canadian home buying made easy, second edition, page 72:

The realtor was like a carnivore, ready to spring. He was originally from New York and he seemed like the kind of guy who could smell a deal.

2003, Gary Andrew Dresden, Confessions of a Gynecologist, iUniverse, page 111:

(Canada, US) A person or business that sells or leases out real estate, acting as an agent for the property owner.

National Association of Realtors
realtor


פישון

he-proper noun

פִּישׁוֹן • (pishón) m

פִּישׁוֹן (canonical)
pishón (romanization)

Supposedly from the root פ־ו־שׁ (p-v-sh) or פ־י־שׁ (p-y-sh), meaning "to spring about".

שֵׁם הָֽאֶחָד פִּישֹׁון הוּא הַסֹּבֵב אֵת כָּל־אֶרֶץ הַֽחֲוִילָה אֲשֶׁר־שָׁם הַזָּהָֽב׃

Tanach, [[s:he:T0102#ב_יא|2:11]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;


בדולח

he-noun

בדולח / בְּדֹלַח • (bdólakh) m

בְּדֹלַח (canonical)
bdólakh (romanization)

Cognate with Akkadian 𒋆𒄀𒄙𒊏 (budulḫu/bidurḫu), perhaps from Ancient Greek βδέλλιον (bdéllion), perhaps cognate with Sanskrit भिदुर (bhidura, “brittle, easily split or broken”).

cog

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

(Biblical Hebrew) bdellium (an aromatic gum-like balsam extracted from one of several species of tree in the genus Commiphora)


munchkin

en:Munchkin (disambiguation)
munchkin
munchkin (cat)

Coined by American author L. Frank Baum in 1900 in his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Perhaps reflective of German Mensch or munch + -kin. Compare Low German Menschken and Low German Minschken

coinage

(informal) A pet name one uses for something adorable like a pet, child, or a romantic partner


hick

(derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.


hustler

(corporate jargon) One who is willing to suffer the most for the sake of company profits; a hard worker.


gippo

en-noun

gippo (countable and uncountable, plural gippos or gippoes)

→ Swedish: jippo

An alteration of gypsy, which is in turn an alteration of Egyptian.


regulo

20th century, from Regulo, trademark for a type of thermostatic control on gas ovens.

any of a number of temperatures to which a gas oven may be set. e.g. regulo 4


jungle bunny

Originally US English, 1950s. From jungle (“referring to the alleged origins of black people in the African jungles”) + bunny.

Merry Christmas to all the little jungle-bunnies. — From momma jungle bunny.

1952 December 18, The South Side Times, Fort Wayne, Indiana, page 8, column 6:

"[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."

1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6:

He doesn't say Judge Brown's last name, telling me Brown's just another jungle bunny far as he's concerned, robe or no robe.

2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, page 90:

(US, UK, ethnic slur, derogatory) A black person.


Jedi Master

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The highest of orders in the Jedi Order of the Star Wars universe, similar to a bishop.

(humorous) Respectful term of address for an expert in a particular field.


X-Acto

→ Portuguese: x-ato

English: Exacto knife

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Trademark, 1920s, presumably from exact.

A utility knife, usually with a short, sharp, disposable blade mounted on a pen-like body, usually for crafts and hobbies; an X-Acto knife.


pepsi

(slang, ethnic slur) Alternative form of Pepsi (“person from Quebec”)


pepsi

Unadapted borrowing from English Pepsi. Genericized trademark.


herpes

la-noun

herpēs m (genitive herpētis); third declension

herpēs (canonical masculine)
herpētis (genitive)
herpēs (nominative singular)
herpētēs (nominative plural)
herpētis (genitive singular)
herpētum (genitive plural)
herpētī (dative singular)
herpētibus (dative plural)
herpētem (accusative singular)
herpētēs (accusative plural)
herpēte (ablative singular)
herpētibus (ablative plural)
herpēs (singular vocative)
herpētēs (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἕρπης (hérpēs).

an unknown sort of animal, perhaps a kind of mongoose


tipo

es-adj

tipo (feminine tipa, masculine plural tipos, feminine plural tipas)

tipa (feminine)
tipos (masculine plural)
tipas (feminine plural)

From Latin typus (“figure; type”), from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to poke”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-.

estar tipo

(El Salvador) dolled up, smartened up, dressed for a special occasion


TV dinner

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Originally used for a brand of packaged meal (TV Brand Frozen Dinner) developed in 1953 for Swanson & Sons.

Like foil-tray frozen meals, which were used by airlines before Swanson branded them as “TV dinners,” Twitter was not initially invented to be an adjunct to the tube.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:

A prepackaged meal purchased frozen and heated at home.


sweety

Ses I, "My sweety, see how I'll fetch you down in less than no time."

1976, Henry A. Hawken, Trumpets of Glory, page 158:

"Yes, dear," he tells her. "You're right, dear. Of course, honey. I'll take care of everything, sweety."

1998, Jed Diamond, Male Menopause, Sourcebooks, page 269:

'He's my sweety pie, my darling man, my honey pot. ...

2003, James Riordan, The Cello, Oxford University Press, page 54:


mortician

/mɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃən/

“And I prefer mortician to funeral director. It sounds more professional and, well, it is more precise. I deal with more than mere funerals; I deal with death, passing on, the transition.”

2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 91:

(US) An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.


jap

en-verb

jap (third-person singular simple present japs, present participle japping, simple past and past participle japped)

japs (present singular third-person)
japping (participle present)
japped (participle past)
japped (past)

Shortening of Japanese, in reference to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

(Canada, US, ethnic slur, slang, transitive) To carry out a sneak attack upon (something or somebody).


dreamboat

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

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

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


курва

Inherited from Old Ruthenian ку́рва (kúrva).

inh+

(vulgar, swear word) fuck!, shit!, for fuck's sake!, bugger!


homie

Ella Mae Morse
Freddie Slack
The House of Blue Lights

Earliest known reference is in the 1946 tune "The House of Blue Lights" by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack, when Morse improvises a spoken-word intro. Equivalent to home + -ie.

(African-American Vernacular) Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.

maat

a friend; somebody one often hangs out with


obraz

Polish: obraz

Silesian: ôbrŏz

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obrazъ. By surface analysis, deverbal from obrazić. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.

etydate

(attested in Silesia) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

Si formam, obraszem, dei te appellem, digna existis

1956 [Middle of the 15th century], Jerzy Woronczak, editor, Teksty polskie w rękopisie nr 43 Biblioteki Kapitulnej we Wrocławiu z połowy XV wieku, Silesia, page 106r:


niggerball

en-noun

niggerball (countable and uncountable, plural niggerballs)

It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves.

2002, Lieberal Death, “Your TV viewing for This Evening”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

[…] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]

2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder:

(uncountable, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) The sport of basketball.


pocketbook

→ Gulf Arabic: بوك (būk, “wallet”)

→ Najdi Arabic: بوك (būk, “wallet”)

1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.

The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.

The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD. The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.

c. 2005, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Risk Management Pocket Guide:

"I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."

2011, Leslie Stephen, Swift, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 10:

Dave recorded the information in his pocketbook and looked Gibbs straight in the eye.

2015, Graham Ison, Whispering Grass, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(uncommon) A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).


band-aid

Genericization of the trademark Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as a clipping of bandage + aid.

(Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.


band-aid

[bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ðɨ]

[bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ðɨ]

Unadapted borrowing from English band-aid.


mae

(Costa Rica, colloquial, used in the vocative) dude, you


pogo stick

An acronym of the surnames of German inventors Max Pohlig and Ernst Gottschall, trademarked.

A toy, used for hopping up and down on, consisting of a pole with a T-bar handle at one end, and spring-loaded footpads on the other.

An internal cargo handling winch and “pogo stick” are provided for handling cargo inside the main cargo area.

1959, Aviation Storekeeper 3 & 2, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 394:

(aviation, informal) Synonym of tailstand


tais

Shortening of estais, second-person plural present indicative of estar.


shoneen

Borrowed from Irish Seoinín (“Johnny”), from Seán (“John, John Bull”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

Good Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out
To a shoneen who had free lands
And his own snipe and trout.

1889, W B Yeats, The Ballad of Father O'Hart:

So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language

(Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society.


sheeny

Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.

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

"I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

One time in Humboldt Park Leo "Bow" Gisensohn, our leader, didn't like the way a cop down by the lake called him "sheeny."

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 6:

Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.

2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:


Baileys

Brand name, originally adopted from the name of a restaurant.


gibi

Genericized trademark from Gibi, a comic book with a black boy as its mascot.

(obsolete, derogatory, Brazil) black boy


windbreaker

From a trademark of the John Rissman company; wind + breaker.

A thin outer coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain.


teve

Shortening of esteve, third-person singular preterite indicative of estar.


pollywog

(New Zealand, slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent.


Quaalude

Supposedly a blend of quiet + Maalox + interlude.

(pharmacology) A proprietary name for methaqualone.


hak

Yola: haach

Probably derived from Old Norse [Term?], compare Old Icelandic hākr (“in personal names”).

(Late Middle English, hapax) unsparing; ruthless, rough;


hak

Probably shortened form of hakeneie (“hackney horse”).


lambkin

A lambkin's snowy fleece

1781, Richard Hole, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, Exeter: B. Thorn & Son, p. 38

There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:

She has no real cognisance, dear lambkin, of anything at all.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, page 28:


kleenex

From the name of brand of tissues trademarked by Cellucotton Products Company (now Kimberly-Clark) in 1924–25. Alteration of clean + -ex.

Could you hand me a kleenex? My nose is running.


raz

raz (nominative singular)
razy (nominative plural)
razu (genitive singular)
razów (genitive plural)
razowi (dative singular)
razom (dative plural)
raz (accusative singular)
razy (accusative plural)
razem (instrumental singular)
razami (instrumental plural)
razie (locative singular)
razach (locative plural)
razie (singular vocative)
razy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish raz. By surface analysis, deverbal from razić. Sense 1 is a generalization of sense 1, for which see Old Polish raz. For this use, compare Russian раз (raz). Sense 1 is a semantic narrowing of sense 1. The genitive plural form razy is suppletive from the alternative form raza.

surf

Vices, Rázy też odmienność/ przemiennośc/ ſzkodá/ przigodá.

(Middle Polish) The meaning of this term is uncertain.


holy shit

/ˌhəʊli ˈʃɪt/

Holy shit, that car just exploded!

(idiomatic, vulgar, slang) Expression of terror, awe, surprise, astonishment, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.

me cago en Déu, en la creu i en el fuster que la féu!


toa

A genericized trademark of the Japanese trademark TOA, from the first two characters (東亞(とうあ) (tōa, “East Asia”))) of its former name (東亞特殊電機(とうあとくしゅでんき) (tōatokushudenki)).

Toa di sekolah kami sangat nyaring.

The megaphone in our school is very loud.

(dialect, informal) sound system, including megaphone.


Rohypnol

From the F. Hoffmann-La Roche brand name for flunitrazepam, a blend of Roche + hypno- + -ol.

Rohypnol like a chloroform / Sugar from the day you are born / Washed out like a dinosaur

2003, “Brothers and Sisters”, in Think Tank, performed by Blur:

Moss: [sniff] Why are you drinking rohypnol, Jen? Flunitrazepam, histomet... Yep, that's definitely rohypnol. Are you having problems with insomnia or?

2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

(pharmacology) Flunitrazepam, a powerful sedative sometimes used as a date rape drug.


berdache

From French bardache, from Italian bardassa, perhaps from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”). Doublet of bardash.

These culturally bound assumptions have bedevilled the entire anthropological literature on the berdache in Native American cultures, and it is because of this that I have followed the lead of Angelino and Shedd when referring to the phenomenon of the berdache-transgenderal, for as Fitzgerald (1977) points out: "A berdache . . . may be a transvestite, but a transvestite need not be a berdache; and neither need be homosexual."

1980, Kenneth E. Read, “Observations on the Current State of Anthropological Research on Homosexual Behavior”, in Other Voices: The Style of a Male Homosexual Tavern, Novato, Cali.: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two.

1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 439:

Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache (females who take on the lifeways of males) appear in half as many groups.

2005, Michael J Horswell, Decolonizing the Sodomite, University of Texas, published 2006, page 20:

(anthropology, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender identities which are not exclusively those of their biological sex; a transgender person.

wíŋkte

Native American who identifies with a gender identity not exclusively corresponding to their biological sex — see also two-spirit


wetback

1920
Operation Wetback
Rio Grande
wetback (slur)

First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.

1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141,
Mr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that.
The CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”?
Mr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously.

The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week.

1950 March 27, “United Nations: Objectivity”, in Time:

He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.

1997, Saul Bellow, The Actual, New York: Viking, page 12:

A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.

2015, John Irving, chapter 2, in Avenue of Mysteries, Canada: Knopf:

United States of America
United States of America

(derogatory slang) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.


čas

čas (nominative singular)
časy (dual nominative)
čěsi (nominative plural)
časové (nominative plural)
časa (genitive singular)
času (genitive singular)
časú (dual genitive)
časóv (genitive plural)
času (dative singular)
časoma (dative dual)
časóm (dative plural)
čas (accusative singular)
časy (accusative dual)
časy (accusative plural)
čěse (singular vocative)
časy (dual vocative)
čěsi (plural vocative)
časové (plural vocative)
čěsě (locative singular)
času (locative singular)
časú (dual locative)
čěsiech (locative plural)
časem (instrumental singular)
časoma (dual instrumental)
časy (instrumental plural)

Czech: čas

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:


medusetl

head

medusetl n (nominative plural medusetlu)

medusetlu (nominative plural)
medusetl (nominative singular)
medusetlu (nominative plural)
medusetl (accusative singular)
medusetlu (accusative plural)
medusetles (genitive singular)
medusetla (genitive plural)
medusetle (dative singular)
medusetlum (dative plural)

c. 975–1025, Beowulf (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV), published 4th quarter 10th century–2nd half 16th century, page 132r, lines 4–6:

Shield Sheafson often deprived the warriors of many armies of their mead-benches.

Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah.


Tayto

From Tayto (Northern Ireland), a manufacturer of crisps and corn snacks; presumably from potato.


moc

moc (nominative singular)
moce (nominative plural)
mocy (genitive singular)
mocy (genitive plural)
mocy (dative singular)
mocom (dative plural)
moc (accusative singular)
moce (accusative plural)
mocą (instrumental singular)
mocami (instrumental plural)
mocy (locative singular)
mocach (locative plural)
mocy (singular vocative)
moce (plural vocative)

Fortitudo. Sterck ader manlichkeit. Moc álbo mężnoſć.

1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius, page 206:

on podwyſſzy mocz ludu ſwego. Mocz, tho ieſth Chriſtuſa.

1539, W. Wróbel, Żołtarz Dawidów, page vv v:

Effectus, […] Dokonánie/ Spełnienie/ Koniec/ Moc/ álbo Przemożność.

Murus per translationem dicitur, Moc/ Grunt/ Pewność/ Stałość.

AEquipollentia, Iednáka moc/ równa przemożność.

Unde tantum virium caeco, Zkądże ſie bierze táka moc ślepemu.

(Middle Polish) power; Further details are uncertain.


whipper snipper

en-noun

whipper snipper (plural whipper snippers)

(Australia, Canada) A string trimmer; a strimmer.


Levi's

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Levi's.wav

From the Levi's brand of blue jeans, named after the company's founder, Levi Strauss (1829–1902).

It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:


ciało

zlw-opl-noun

ciało n (related adjective cielesny or cielny)

Polish: ciało

Silesian: ciało

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

Czasto a. czalo massam (modicum fermentum totam massam corrumpit Gal 5, 9)

1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 128:


ciało

pl-noun

ciało n (diminutive ciałko, augmentative cielsko, related adjective cielesny)

ciałko (diminutive)
cielsko (augmentative)
cielesny (adjective)
ciało (nominative singular)
ciała (nominative plural)
ciała (genitive singular)
ciał (genitive plural)
ciału (dative singular)
ciałom (dative plural)
ciało (accusative singular)
ciała (accusative plural)
ciałem (instrumental singular)
ciałami (instrumental plural)
ciele (locative singular)
ciałach (locative plural)
ciało (singular vocative)
ciała (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish ciało. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma) and Latin corpus. Sense 6 is a semantic loan from Latin corpus. Sense 7 is a semantic loan from French corps.

sl

Corpus. Der leib Czyáło

1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius, page 48:

wpáthrz śię pilnie w thy ſłowá/ Ciáło/ Duſzá/ Duch/ iáko śię rozmáicie w piśmie rozumieią.

1568, Grzegorz Paweł, O prawdziwej śmierci, page 19:

(Middle Polish) body; Further details are uncertain.


sweetie pie

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

(chiefly endearing) A sweetheart; a beloved person.


greaser

From grease + -er. Applied to mechanics because they frequently become greasy during the course of their work. Applied to toughs because they frequently greased their hair, and, like greaseball, to Italians for the same reason. Applied to Mexicans because, at the time the phrase originated, they commonly worked greasing the axles of carts.

A pair of Greasers were ahead of me, but I could see only their outlines, and they didn't seem to interfere any with the scenery.

1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 11, in Arizona Nights:

(US, offensive, ethnic slur) A Latin American, especially a Mexican.

(US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian.


baby girl

My beautiful sister Marveen. You are my babygirl. I didn't know what I had been missing until you appeared in my life.

2010, V. J. Gotastory, Year of the Crackmom:

"I mean, if you're not interested, it ain't nothing but a thang, baby girl. Just let a nigga know."

2010, Chunichi, The Return of a Gangster's Girl, page 26:

“Hey I missed your call. What's up?” “Hey babygirl, I was calling to check on you duh. What you doin?”

2011, Kristina Caraballo, Lileannas' Journey, page 103:

(chiefly African-American Vernacular) (sometimes endearing, sometimes derogatory) Friendly or intimate term of address for a woman.


(US, Internet slang, leetspeak) Censored spelling of ass.


zot

Regretfully there is nothing that can be done about things .. just a time bomb ticking, ticking, ticking .. until one day soon, the zots will decide to take a property here, and a property there (they have after all started with vacant land and been successful), so why not progress to property?

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

(SA) ¶ The government has TACITLY condoned the actions of the zots by allowing them to continue their illegal occupation.
(Zimbabwe) ¶ The government condoned the illegal activities and progressed to the point where they were actively supporting it.

2000 October 29, Nude Raider, “Here are the facts...”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):

The zots will destroy the barns, the homesteads, the tractors, everything - reducing them to their component parts without the aid of explosives.

2002 July 5, Alistair, “Re: Tobacco barn and other assets- disassembly instructions”, in soc.culture.zimbabwe (Usenet):

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


mackintosh

en-noun

mackintosh (countable and uncountable, plural mackintoshes)

From Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), who patented a type of rubberized cloth in 1823. Former trademark. The letter k is a later addition.

A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth.

мушама

waterproof coat made of rubberized cloth


freecycle

en-verb

freecycle (third-person singular simple present freecycles, present participle freecycling, simple past and past participle freecycled)

freecycles (present singular third-person)
freecycling (participle present)
freecycled (participle past)
freecycled (past)

Blend of free + recycle, popularized by The Freecycle Network and the general freecycling movement.

I freecycled most of the junk cluttering my house.

Here in New York's Hudson Valley, we've freecycled swing sets, Little Tikes outdoor climbers, freezers, computer equipment, entertainment centers, baby furniture, and much, much more!

2004 April 15, Nancy Castleman, “Freecycle for the Earth! Earth Day's coming up!”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet), retrieved 2024-09-08:

To recycle by giving away an item for free.


fia

pt-noun

fia f (plural fias, masculine fio, masculine plural fios)

fias (plural)
fio (masculine)
fios (masculine plural)


putus

la-noun

putus m (genitive putī); second declension

Earlier conjecture/variant reading in Pseudo-Virgil's Catalepton, where more recent editions read Pothus (“Desire”), i.e. personified Ancient Greek πόθος (póthos). The word would match the base form of pusillus, putillus (see the former for details) as well as a number of Italic and Indo-European cognates. For this reason it has found a circulation in etymological works and is included as a headword by De Vaan, but the single attestation is spurious, making this a ghost word. See Proto-Italic *putlos and Latin puer, pūsus, pullus.


rice burner

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) An ordinary automobile, especially a Japanese one, made to look fast or special by adding aftermarket parts.

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) A person who drives such an automobile.


rice rocket

So called because rice is a staple food in Japan, and rockets are known for their high speed.

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) A Japanese high-performance sport motorcycle or street-racing car.


hot stuff

Hey, hot stuff, wanna dance?

(idiomatic, colloquial) An attractive person. (often used as a come-on or pickup line)


wanta

Written form of a reduction of want to, used informally in most English dialects.

“We don’t wanta. Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 163:


wot

Wot, no bananas? ― (popular slogan during wartime rationing)

Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so.

1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:


wot

Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.

1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:


cale

Inherited from Old Polish cale. By surface analysis, cały + -e.

Solide adverbium, Cále/ zupełnie.

Incorupte ‒ Nie nakazenie czalię.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 523a:

Insolidum ‒ Czalię

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 544a:

Integre ‒ Czalie, ſzczerze, zupełnie.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 547b:

(Middle Polish) wholly; Further details are uncertain.


тётя

ru-noun+

тётя • (tjótja) f anim (genitive тёти, nominative plural тёти, genitive plural тёть or тётей, diminutive тётенька or тётушка, pejorative тётка)

tjótja (romanization)
тёти (genitive)
тёти (nominative plural)
тёть (genitive plural)
тётей (genitive plural)
тётенька (diminutive)
тётушка (diminutive)
тётка (pejorative)
тётя (nominative singular)
тёти (nominative plural)
тёти (genitive singular)
тёть (genitive plural)
тётей (genitive irregular plural)
тёте (dative singular)
тётям (dative plural)
тётю (accusative singular)
тёть (accusative plural)
тётей (accusative irregular plural)
тётей (instrumental singular)
тётею (instrumental singular)
тётями (instrumental plural)
тёте (prepositional singular)
тётях (plural prepositional)
тёть (colloquial singular vocative)
тётя (dated nominative singular)
тёти (dated nominative plural)
тёти (dated genitive singular)
тёть (dated genitive plural)
тётей (dated genitive irregular plural)
тётѣ (dated dative singular)
тётямъ (dated dative plural)
тётю (accusative dated singular)
тёть (accusative dated plural)
тётей (accusative dated irregular plural)
тётей (dated instrumental singular)
тётею (dated instrumental singular)
тётями (dated instrumental plural)
тётѣ (dated prepositional singular)
тётяхъ (dated plural prepositional)

desc

→ Armenian: ծյոծ (cyoc), ծյոծյա (cyocya), տոտ (tot)

Inherited from Old East Slavic тета (teta), from Proto-Slavic *teta.


дед

ru-noun+

дед • (ded) m anim (genitive де́да, nominative plural де́ды, genitive plural де́дов, relational adjective де́дов or де́дский, diminutive дедо́к)

дед • (ded) m anim (genitive де́да, nominative plural деды́, genitive plural дедо́в)

ded (romanization)
де́да (genitive)
де́ды (nominative plural)
де́дов (genitive plural)
де́дов (adjective relational)
де́дский (adjective relational)
дедо́к (diminutive)
ded (romanization)
де́да (genitive)
деды́ (nominative plural)
дедо́в (genitive plural)
де́д (nominative singular)
де́ды (nominative plural)
де́да (genitive singular)
де́дов (genitive plural)
де́ду (dative singular)
де́дам (dative plural)
де́да (accusative singular)
де́дов (accusative plural)
де́дом (instrumental singular)
де́дами (instrumental plural)
де́де (prepositional singular)
де́дах (plural prepositional)
де́да (singular vocative)
де́д (nominative singular)
деды́ (nominative plural)
де́да (genitive singular)
дедо́в (genitive plural)
де́ду (dative singular)
деда́м (dative plural)
де́да (accusative singular)
дедо́в (accusative plural)
де́дом (instrumental singular)
деда́ми (instrumental plural)
де́де (prepositional singular)
деда́х (plural prepositional)


shyt

im fine shyt but like keep treating me like chopped shyt.

2024 November 19, @DestroyerLu, Twitter:

anneyonghaseyo^([sic]) fine shyt❤

how it feels waiting for fine shyt to respond

(Internet slang) Filter-avoidance spelling of shit.


дядя

дя́дя • (djádja) m anim (genitive дя́ди, nominative plural дя́ди, genitive plural дя́дей, diminutive дя́денька or дя́дюшка or дя́дечка, pejorative дя́дька)

дя́дя (canonical)
djádja (romanization)
дя́ди (genitive)
дя́ди (nominative plural)
дя́дей (genitive plural)
дя́денька (diminutive)
дя́дюшка (diminutive)
дя́дечка (diminutive)
дя́дька (pejorative)
дя́дя (nominative singular)
дя́ди (nominative plural)
дя́ди (genitive singular)
дя́дей (genitive irregular plural)
дя́де (dative singular)
дя́дям (dative plural)
дя́дю (accusative singular)
дя́дей (accusative irregular plural)
дя́дей (instrumental singular)
дя́дею (instrumental singular)
дя́дями (instrumental plural)
дя́де (prepositional singular)
дя́дях (plural prepositional)
дя́дь (singular vocative)
дя́дя (dated nominative singular)
дя́ди (dated nominative plural)
дя́ди (dated genitive singular)
дя́дей (dated genitive irregular plural)
дя́дѣ (dated dative singular)
дя́дямъ (dated dative plural)
дя́дю (accusative dated singular)
дя́дей (accusative dated irregular plural)
дя́дей (dated instrumental singular)
дя́дею (dated instrumental singular)
дя́дями (dated instrumental plural)
дя́дѣ (dated prepositional singular)
дя́дяхъ (dated plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic дѣдѩ (dědję), baby-talk assimilation of Old East Slavic дѣдъ (dědŭ). Displaced Russian уй (uj) and стрый (stryj), the common Slavic terms for maternal and paternal uncle, respectively.

onomatopoeic

baby-talk


douchebag

That douchebag ruined my shrimp cocktail.

Why doesn't that guy get a job? He’s a regular douchebag.

It's fine to help your friends eat healthy, but don't be a douchebag and harass them about it.

(US, slang, vulgar, humorous) A jerk or asshole; a mean or rude person; someone seen as being arrogant, snobby or obnoxious.


дедушка

ru-noun+

де́душка • (déduška) m anim (genitive де́душки, nominative plural де́душки, genitive plural де́душек)

де́душка (canonical)
déduška (romanization)
де́душки (genitive)
де́душки (nominative plural)
де́душек (genitive plural)
де́душка (nominative singular)
де́душки (nominative plural)
де́душки (genitive singular)
де́душек (genitive plural)
де́душке (dative singular)
де́душкам (dative plural)
де́душку (accusative singular)
де́душек (accusative plural)
де́душкой (instrumental singular)
де́душкою (instrumental singular)
де́душками (instrumental plural)
де́душке (prepositional singular)
де́душках (plural prepositional)

Ru-дедушка.ogg

дѣ́душка — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

(slang) top of the house, ninety in the lotto game


sista

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

[…] but if you were a colorist and texturist and couldn't get down with a sista who had tighter than 3B hair, you'd confirm she was a knockout.

2020 December 22, G.L. Tomas, The Love Bet(A BWWM Romantic Comedy), Rebellious Valkyrie Press, →ISBN:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.


aspirina

From the German trademark Aspirin, from acetylierte Spirsäure (“acetylated spiræic acid”).


aspirina

[ʔɐs.pɪˈɾiː.n̪ɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish aspirina, from the genericized trademark of German Aspirin. Doublet of aspirin.


superstar

Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent.

2014 November 17, Lizzie Widdicombe, “The Programmer's Price”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2022-12-28:

Is your organization looking for its next new hire, that superstar performer to take things to the next level? Be careful: Organizations are greater than just one individual. If you're that superstar, remember to be a good team player. You'll feel better about your job and you'll perform at an even higher level.

2017 May 19, Hui Liao, “Career Coach: How to handle the new hotshot on your team”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2020-08-28:

"A superstar employee that is creating that toxic work environment is probably costing that company more than he or she is bringing in," Martin says.

2017 October 15, Tara Golshan, “Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:

There's no sense in hiring a superstar developer who will quit after three months because she can't stand the management style or requires flexibility the hiring company doesn't offer.

2022 June 27, Ariel Shapira, “As 'Tindery' hiring dies down, Unboxable's AI steers companies toward retention”, in The Jerusalem Post, archived from the original on 2023-02-07:

(corporate jargon) An exceptionally productive employee.


ble

head

ble (present tense bler, past tense blei, supine blitt)

bler (present)
blei (past)
blitt (supine)

(Stavanger) Eye dialect spelling of bli.


spet

English: spet

Yola: speate


mafioso

it-noun

mafioso m (plural mafiosi, feminine mafiosa)

(by extension, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) a Sicilian


sesqui

[ˈs̠eːs̠kʷɪ]

Pes enim, qui adhibetur ad numeros, partitur in tria, ut necesse sit partem pedis aut aequalem esse alteri parti aut altero tanto aut sesqui esse maiorem.

46 bc, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator, Ch. 23, §187 or 188

(hapax) Alternative form of sēsqui-: 1½ times; increased by 50%.


píka

is-noun

píka f (genitive singular píku, nominative plural píkur)

píku (genitive singular)
píkur (nominative plural)
píka (indefinite nominative singular)
píkan (definite nominative singular)
píkur (indefinite nominative plural)
píkurnar (definite nominative plural)
píku (accusative indefinite singular)
píkuna (accusative definite singular)
píkur (accusative indefinite plural)
píkurnar (accusative definite plural)
píku (dative indefinite singular)
píkunni (dative definite singular)
píkum (dative indefinite plural)
píkunum (dative definite plural)
píku (genitive indefinite singular)
píkunnar (definite genitive singular)
píkna (genitive indefinite plural)
píka (genitive indefinite plural)
píknanna (definite genitive plural)
píkanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse píka. Compare the Danish pige (“girl”) and Swedish piga (“maid”). Its origin in Icelandic is not certain as it occurs in Norway for the first time around 14th century and in Icelandic in the 15th century.


clip strip

Some retailers use clip strips to boost impulse purchases of related merchandise. Clip strips are plastic strips that clip onto store shelving and display small items, which complement the merchandise in the main display area.

2006, Rosemary Varley, Retail Product Management: Buying and Merchandising, page 152:

As a result, battery manufacturers have tried to meet the diverse needs of the retailers by providing different displays and other tools such as clip-strips, which are small hangers attached on the end of a grocery or merchandise aisle, to place batteries in limited spaces.

2007, Kevin K. Boeh, Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases, page 381:

The Hotdog EZ Bun Steamer® was best suited to become a clip strip product hanging next to the hotdog buns in every grocery store in America […]

2011, Janessa Castle, Your Complete Guide to Making Millions with Your Simple Idea or Invention, page 174:

Clip strips are used to display high profit, impulse items that are displayed throughout the store.

2011, Judith Adkins-Spears, Jump-Start Your Merchandising Career:

A retail product display consisting of a length of plastic or metal with clips or hooks at regular intervals, upon which merchandise is hung.


Teflon

Trade name, 1940s. From the first letters of tetra- (“four”) + fluoro- (“fluorine”) + -on, modeled after nylon etc. From the fluorine count of polytetrafluoroethylene.

af

A brand name of polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”) products, latterly applied to other fluoropolymer products.


dzień

dzionek (diminutive)
dzień (nominative singular)
dni (nominative plural)
dnie (nominative plural)
dnia (genitive singular)
dni (genitive plural)
dniowi (dative singular)
dniom (dative plural)
dzień (accusative singular)
dni (accusative plural)
dnie (accusative plural)
dniem (instrumental singular)
dniami (instrumental plural)
dniu (locative singular)
dniach (locative plural)
dniu (singular vocative)
dni (plural vocative)
dnie (plural vocative)

na Nowy Rok przybywa dnia na barani skok

Tag. Dzień. Dies, diecula.

1579, A. Calagius, Synonyma Latina, page 476a:

Diu adverb. pro die, a quo sit interdiu. ‒ wednie, długo, dzas [!] długi.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 335a:

(Middle Polish) day; Further details are uncertain.


raca

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥακά (rhaká), from Aramaic רֵיקָא (rēqā, “worthless person”) or Classical Syriac ܪܝܩܐ (rēqā, “vanity”).

der

4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Matthew 5:22

And whoever says to his brother, idiot!, shall be liable to answer to the council.

Quī autem dīxerit frātrī suō, raca!, reus erit conciliō.

397 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus (translator), Instituta Monachorum, question 145, original author: Basil of Caesarea, in Patrologia Latina (volume 103), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1851, column 538

What is raca? The answer: A provincial, that is, a pagan word used for example as a mild insult, which is usually said to servants and to those who rely on you.

Quid est raca? Respōnsum: Prōvinciālis, id est, gentīlis illīus sermō est velut convīciī leviōris, quod domesticīs et hīs quōrum fīdūciam quis gerit, dīcī solet.


raca

Dē eō autem quod nīteris approbāre, convīcium et homicīdium, raca et adulterium, et ōtiōsum sermōnem, et impietātem ūnō suppliciō repēnsārī, […]

c.''' 393 CE, Saint Jerome, Against Jovinianus 2.31, in Patrologia Latina (volume 23), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1883, column 342

As to the fact that you argue that an insult and a murder, calling somebody a putz and adultery, idle talk and impiety should be rewarded with the same punishment, […]

(metonymically) the act of calling someone ‘raca’.


profesor

es-noun

profesor m (plural profesores, feminine profesora, feminine plural profesoras)

profesores (plural)
profesora (feminine)
profesoras (feminine plural)

→ Bikol Central: propesor

→ Tagalog: propesor


cashpoint

Genericisation of Cashpoint, originally a registered trademark of Lloyds Bank introduced in 1972, from cash + point.

Gordon Brown today urged police across England and Wales to offer to walk the last mile home with people who feel unsafe after they visit the cashpoint.

2009 May 12, Alan Travis, “Gordon Brown urges police to walk people home from cashpoint”, in The Guardian:

automated teller machine
automated teller machine

(British, Ireland, banking) An automated teller machine.


hacky sack

en-noun

hacky sack (countable and uncountable, plural hacky sacks)

A trademark of Wham-O. It uses reduplication of the word sack with the word hacky; a "hack", in the game's terminology, is akin to a point, and happens when every player in a group successfully passes the footbag.

(uncountable, games) A game or activity in which one or a group of players try to keep a footbag off the ground using only the feet.


wuz

She wuz robbed!

‘We wuz talkin’ and the monk got loose, and she sent me off to catch him.’

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 64:


teflon

teflonok (plural)
teflon (nominative singular)
teflonok (nominative plural)
teflont (accusative singular)
teflonokat (accusative plural)
teflonnak (dative singular)
teflonoknak (dative plural)
teflonnal (instrumental singular)
teflonokkal (instrumental plural)
teflonért (causal-final singular)
teflonokért (causal-final plural)
teflonná (singular translative)
teflonokká (plural translative)
teflonig (singular terminative)
teflonokig (plural terminative)
teflonként (essive-formal singular)
teflonokként (essive-formal plural)
teflonban (inessive singular)
teflonokban (inessive plural)
teflonon (singular superessive)
teflonokon (plural superessive)
teflonnál (adessive singular)
teflonoknál (adessive plural)
teflonba (illative singular)
teflonokba (illative plural)
teflonra (singular sublative)
teflonokra (plural sublative)
teflonhoz (allative singular)
teflonokhoz (allative plural)
teflonból (elative singular)
teflonokból (elative plural)
teflonról (delative singular)
teflonokról (delative plural)
teflontól (ablative singular)
teflonoktól (ablative plural)
tefloné (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
teflonoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
teflonéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
teflonokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
teflonom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
teflonjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
teflonod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
teflonjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
teflonja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
teflonjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
teflonunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
teflonjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
teflonotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
teflonjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
teflonjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
teflonjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From the registered brand name "Teflon", a synthetic fluoropolymer manufactured by the DuPont company. Contraction of (poly)te(tra)fl(uoroethylene) with the letters "on" being an arbitrary ending.

Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene, a synthetic polymer used as a non-stick coating for cookware)


teflon

pl-noun

teflon m inan (related adjective teflonowy)

teflonowy (adjective)
teflon (nominative singular)
teflonu (genitive singular)
teflonowi (dative singular)
teflon (accusative singular)
teflonem (instrumental singular)
teflonie (locative singular)
teflonie (singular vocative)

Borrowed from English Teflon. Genericized trademark.

(organic chemistry) teflon, polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE


sardo

la-verb

sardō (present infinitive sardāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

sardō (canonical)
sardāre (infinitive present)
sardō (active first-person indicative present singular)
sardās (active indicative present second-person singular)
sardat (active indicative present singular third-person)
sardāmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
sardātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
sardant (active indicative plural present third-person)
sardābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sardābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sardābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sardābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sardābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sardābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sardābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
sardābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
sardābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
sardābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
sardābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
sardābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
sardor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
sardāris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
sardāre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
sardātur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
sardāmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
sardāminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
sardantur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
sardābar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
sardābāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
sardābāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
sardābātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
sardābāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
sardābāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
sardābantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
sardābor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
sardāberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
sardābere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
sardābitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
sardābimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
sardābiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
sardābuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
sardem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
sardēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
sardet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
sardēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
sardētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
sardent (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
sardārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sardārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sardāret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sardārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sardārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sardārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sarder (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
sardēris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
sardēre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
sardētur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
sardēmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
sardēminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
sardentur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
sardārer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
sardārēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
sardārēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
sardārētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
sardārēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
sardārēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
sardārentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
sardā (active imperative present second-person singular)
sardāte (active imperative plural present second-person)
sardātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
sardātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
sardātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
sardantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
sardāre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
sardāminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
sardātor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
sardātor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
sardantor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
sardāre (active infinitive present)
sardārī (infinitive passive present)
sardāns (active participle present)
sardandus (future participle passive)
sardandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
sardandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
sardandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
sardandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)

Sardāre intelligere. Naevius: 'Quod brūtī nec satis sardāre queunt'.

1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 523, line 6:

Sardāre means 'to understand'. Naevius: 'Because the dull are neither able to understand enough'.


veronal

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

Former trade name, after the Italian city Verona.

He was by now so worn out that he could not resist my firmness. I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours. I thought that was the best service I could render him.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 29, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much.

1926, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:

I have seen the Brazilian press photograph of Zweig and Lotte, his second wife, lying dead of their overdoses of veronal on two pushed-together single iron bedsteads, he on his back, mouth a little agape, in a sweat-stained shirt and knitted tie, she on his shoulder in a floral wrap and clean hair, and you can practically hear the ceiling fan going round.

2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books, volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:

A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep.


Canola

Genericization of a trade name, of a rapeseed oil from Canada. Acronym of "Can"adian "o"il, "l"ow "a"cid..


kets

id-noun

kets (first-person possessive ketsku, second-person possessive ketsmu, third-person possessive ketsnya)

ketsku (first-person possessive)
ketsmu (possessive second-person)
ketsnya (possessive third-person)


amcık

head

amcık (definite accusative amcığı, plural amcıklar)

amcığı (accusative definite)
amcıklar (plural)
amcık (nominative singular)
amcıklar (nominative plural)
amcığı (accusative definite singular)
amcıkları (accusative definite plural)
amcığa (dative singular)
amcıklara (dative plural)
amcıkta (locative singular)
amcıklarda (locative plural)
amcıktan (ablative singular)
amcıklardan (ablative plural)
amcığın (genitive singular)
amcıkların (genitive plural)

desc

→? Armenian: մամուխիկ (mamuxik) (calque)

From am (“pussy”) + -cık (diminutive suffix).


waga

desctree

Polish: waga
→ Kashubian: wôga
→ Russian: ва́га (vága)
→ Slovincian: wogha
→ Ukrainian: ва́га (váha)
→ Belarusian: ва́гі (váhi)

Silesian: wŏga

Borrowed from Middle High German wāge. First attested in the 14th century.

Jakom ya *szyanna... nye pobral gwaltem w vadze yako dwye kopye gr[oszy]

1950 [1483], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 1575, Warsaw:

(attested in Masovia) measure of quantity; Further details are uncertain.


товарищ

ru-noun+

това́рищеский

това́рищ • (továrišč) m anim (genitive това́рища, nominative plural това́рищи, genitive plural това́рищей, feminine това́рка, relational adjective това́рищеский)

това́рищ (canonical)
továrišč (romanization)
това́рища (genitive)
това́рищи (nominative plural)
това́рищей (genitive plural)
това́рка (feminine)
това́рищеский (adjective relational)
това́рищ (nominative singular)
това́рищи (nominative plural)
това́рища (genitive singular)
това́рищей (genitive plural)
това́рищу (dative singular)
това́рищам (dative plural)
това́рища (accusative singular)
това́рищей (accusative plural)
това́рищем (instrumental singular)
това́рищами (instrumental plural)
това́рище (prepositional singular)
това́рищах (plural prepositional)

→ Chinese:

zh-l

達瓦里希 (dáwǎlǐxī)

Mandarin: 達瓦里希 (dáwǎlǐxī)

→ English: tovarish

→ Finnish: toveri

→ Ingrian: tovarišša

→ Yakut: табаарыс (tabaarıs)

→ Persian: تاواریش (tâvâriš)

[tɐˈvarʲɪɕː]

Ru-товарищ.ogg

Inherited from Old East Slavic товарищь (tovariščĭ), from Proto-Slavic *tovariščь, from *tovarъ + *-iščь.

inh+

това́рищъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

a word used to address compatriots, fellow citizens (male or female) in the Soviet era


Campari

An Italian mildly bitter apéritif, coloured with cochineal, often drunk with soda water or orange juice.


borgen

borgen (infinitive)
borgen (gerund neuter)
borg (first-person present singular)
borgde (first-person past singular)
borgt (present second-person singular)
borg (present second-person singular)
borgde (past second-person singular)
borgt (formal present second-person singular)
borgde (formal past second-person singular)
borgt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
borgt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
borgde (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
borgde (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
borgt (present singular third-person)
borgde (past singular third-person)
borgen (plural present)
borgden (past plural)
borge (archaic present singular subjunctive)
borgde (archaic past singular subjunctive)
borgen (archaic plural present subjunctive)
borgden (archaic past plural subjunctive)
borg (imperative present singular)
borgt (archaic imperative plural present)
borgend (participle present)
geborgd (participle past)

→ Aukan: bolugu

→ Sranan Tongo: borgu

From Middle Dutch borgen. Equivalent to borg + -en.

(transitive, corporate jargon) to ensure the sustainability of a particular policy or procedure


matá

Eye dialect spelling of matar, representing Brazil Portuguese.


malathion

en-noun

malathion (countable and uncountable, plural malathions)

Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation.

Ecoparasite control, with appropriate concentrations of carbaryl, malathion, or pyrethrin dusts, is permissible if the agent is applied externally to both test and control animals not less than seven days prior to the start of the test.

1983, D. E. Kaukeinen, Vertebrate Pest Control and Management Materials, page 102:

An organophosphorus insecticide, Diethyl [(dimethoxyphosphinothioyl)-thio]butanedioate.