dolly

Welsh: doli

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

rattaat

term not specific to bridge construction

(obsolete) An old gambling device, found in dolly shops, with the figure of an old man or "dolly", and a spiral hole down which a dropped marble would proceed to one of a set of numbered holes.


dun

Now, ya dun it!

...a wise old lady exclaimed, "Why Mrs. M. warn't you orful skeerd wunst when you seed a dog fight? [...] an that ere big yaller dog bit orf your baby's hand that minit; in cors he dun it, so now that settles it."

1895 May 20, S.L.N. Foote, “Correspondence”, in International Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 8, retrieved 2016-10-13, page 194:

“Oh, Because I want their dollar.
 I don't want Anything they've not got. I never dun.
 I'm there, and they can pay me if they like.
 I go nowhere on purpose: I happen by.
Sorry there is no cup to give you a drink.[…]

2001 April 1, Robert Frost, Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston, Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do


fader

Borrowed from German Vater. Doublet of fater.

(Chełmno-Dobrzyń, derogatory, ethnic slur) German person; Kraut


paragon

paragon (nominative singular)
paragony (nominative plural)
paragonu (genitive singular)
paragonů (genitive plural)
paragonu (dative singular)
paragonům (dative plural)
paragon (accusative singular)
paragony (accusative plural)
paragone (singular vocative)
paragony (plural vocative)
paragonu (locative singular)
paragonech (locative plural)
paragonem (instrumental singular)
paragony (instrumental plural)

Genericized trademark of the German paper company Paragon, from Italian paragone, from Byzantine Greek παρακόνη (parakónē).


paragon

paragon (nominative singular)
paragony (nominative plural)
paragonu (genitive singular)
paragonów (genitive plural)
paragonowi (dative singular)
paragonom (dative plural)
paragon (accusative singular)
paragony (accusative plural)
paragonem (instrumental singular)
paragonami (instrumental plural)
paragonie (locative singular)
paragonach (locative plural)
paragonie (singular vocative)
paragony (plural vocative)

receipt (written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received)


drab

Masovian Polish: drabia

⇒ Polish: drabka (regional)

⇒ Silesian: drabka

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drabь. First attested in the fifteenth century.

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

Plaustrum al. drab

1865 [1499], Szczęsny Morawski, editor, Sądecczyzna za Jagiellonów z miasty spiskiemi i księstwem oświęcimskiem, volume II, Stary Sącz, page 342:


squaw

From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant "vagina"; this has been discredited.
The first recorded version of the word was found in a book called Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth written in 1622. The term was not used in a derogatory fashion but spoke of the “squa sachim or Massachusets Queen” in the September 20, 1621 journal entry.

der

(now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.

en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology

индианка

a woman, wife; especially a Native American woman

mulher índia (especialmente norte americana)


mite

From Middle English mite, from Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *mītā, from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) or *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Akin to Old High German mīza (“mite”), Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), Dutch mijt (“moth, mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).


oczywiście

Polish: oczywiście

Silesian: ôczywiście

/ɔt͡ʃʲɨviɕt͡ɕɛ/

/ɔt͡ʃʲɨviɕt͡ɕɛ/

From oczwisty + -ie. First attested in 1432.

Oczwysczie ad [v]isa (quasi qui apprehendit umbram et persequitur ventum, sic et qui attendit ad visa mendacia Ecclus 34, 2)

1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 8:


laundromat

/ˈlɔːndɹəʊˌmæt/

en:George Edward Pendray
en:laundromat (disambiguation)

Blend of laundry + automatic. From Laundromat, (former) trademark (1940s) of Westinghouse Electric Corporation for its washing machines, coined by Westinghouse publicist George Edward Pendray.

(US, Canada, Australia) A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now may use other per-load payment methods) washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items.


tasty

From taste + -y.
The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.


launderette

Genericized trademark of Launderette; originally a proprietary name (1940s) of Bendix corporation, from launder + -ette.

A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use.

llavandería

place with facilities for washing that public may use


treacle

en-noun

treacle (countable and uncountable, plural treacles)

From Middle English triacle, partly from Old French triacle, and partly from Old English tiriaca, both from Late Latin *triaca, *tiriaca, late form of theriaca, ultimately from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “antidote”), feminine form of θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”). Doublet of theriacle, equivalent to theriac + -le.

der

Didn’t you see how the cub was ashamed of the thick bread-and-butter? I dare say they’re going to have treacle if they are good.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

(chiefly UK, Ireland) A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.


Phillips screwdriver

en-noun

Phillips screwdriver (plural Phillips screwdrivers)

From Henry F. Phillips, the name of the inventor of the tool and the screws that it is designed to work with, and screwdriver.

flathead screwdriver
flathead screwdriver

A screwdriver having a cross-shaped tip rather than the rectangular tip of a standard flathead screwdriver.

philips screwdriver misspelling of eponymous referent is very common


bunny

Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies. You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.

2008, Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa, page 258:

(South Africa) Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.


macaco

pt-noun

macaco m (plural macacos, feminine macaca, feminine plural macacas)

macacos (plural)
macaca (feminine)
macacas (feminine plural)

→ Catalan: macaco

→ English: macaco

desctree

→ French: macaque
Haitian Creole: makak
→ Bulgarian: макак (makak)
→ English: macaque
→ German: Makake
→ Romanian: macac

→ Italian: macaco

→ Spanish: macaco

Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other suggested derivations include:
* from Kongo makaku (“monkeys”)
* from a language of Madagascar (compare macaco, macauco, maucaco (“any of several lemurs”), perhaps related to maky);
* from Kari'na macaca (“simian”), though it may have been loaned into Galibi from a language of African slaves;
* from dialectal French macao (“cat; monkey; long-tailed monkey”), allegedly used in Normandy and Berry.
* from Spanish muchacho;
* from Macau + -aco.

der

(Brazil, offensive, ethnic slur) monkey (derogatory term for a black person)


gorgeous

en-adj

gorgeous (comparative more gorgeous, superlative most gorgeous)

more gorgeous (comparative)
most gorgeous (superlative)

From Middle English gorgeouse, a borrowing from Middle French gorgias (“elegant, fashionable”), from Old French gourgias, gorgias (“gorgeous, gaudy, flaunting, gallant, fine”), of uncertain origin, but apparently connected with Old French gorgias (“a gorget, ruffle for the neck”), from Old French gorge (“bosom, throat”). See gorge. Semantic evolution probably akin to "swelling of the throat or bosom due to pride, bridling up" to "assume an air of importance, flaunting".

cog

Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt-fronts, diamond breastpins, kid gloves, and patent-leather boots...The others were more or less loosely clad...One of the gorgeous ones remarked...

1883, Mark Twain, “Chapter VII: A daring deed”, in Life on the Mississippi, 1883 illustrated edition, Boston MA: James R Osgood & Co, →OCLC, pages 92-93; digitised as part of the UNC-CH digitization project Documenting the American South, 1st edition, Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina, 1999, →OCLC:

(of a person, sometimes endearing) Sumptuously dressed.


seeing-eye dog

Genericization of a trademark. From the name of the charity The Seeing Eye, which trains guide dogs.

(US, informal) A guide dog for people who suffer from impaired vision.


Twinkie

The brand name is said to be a diminutive, twinkle + -ie (or otherwise modified), based on a billboard for "Twinkle Toe Shoes" in St. Louis, although there are also claims for solely one or the other. The meaning in reference to well-assimilated Asians is derived from the slur that they are "yellow on the outside, white on the inside".

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of banana: A person of East Asian descent considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor.


Oreo

National Biscuit Company
Oreo
Oreo#Etymology
Wikipedia

Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".

She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside.

1971, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House:

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

Uncle Tom

black person assimilated into white culture


spork

Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark.

An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.


G-d

הַשֵּׁם

the name; literally a Hebrew phrase used for the same reasons

[…] after ſome pauſe, his rage for a while depriving him of utterance, he took out his pen-knife, and opening it, vehemently ſwore, with this very pen-knife, by G—d, will I cut off his ears.

1784, Thomas Sheridan, “Section VII.”, in The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, London: […] C[harles] Bathurst, W[illiam] Strahan, B. Collins, […], pages 438–439:

[…] having made a cross cut, so as to ascertain the depth of the fat upon the chest, exclaimed, in a sort of rapture, “Three inches of white fat on the brisket!—prime—prime, as I am a crowded sinner—and de’il ane o’ the lazy loons in but mysell! Seven—aught—aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season![…]”

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 85:

The designer, in essence, is G-d--it is s/he who creates the geography of the world (It took me six months to design the world for Lords and Wizards ((Adam's fantasy boardgame, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited-tpg))...guess I'm a slow worker, because it took you-know-how six days.).

1978 May 29, Adam L. Gruen, “Fantasy Game Design”, in Thomas Philip Gould, editor, Lilaf, number 9, New York, N.Y.: FWS Publications, page 3:

(dated, Christianity) Censored spelling of God in contexts perceived as blasphemous.


Mickey Mouse

→ Albanian: Miushi Miki (calque)

desc

مِيكِي مَاوْس

→ Arabic: مِيكِي مَاوْس (mīkī māws)

→ Arabic: مِيكِي مَاوْس (mīkī māws)

→ Azerbaijani: Mikki Maus

→ Bulgarian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)

→ Czech: Mickey Mouse

→ Danish: Mickey Mouse

→ Dutch: Mickey Mouse

→ French: Mickey Mouse

→ Georgian: მიკი მაუსი (miḳi mausi)

→ German: Micky Maus (calque)

→ Greek: Μίκυ Μάους (Míky Máous), μικιμάους (mikimáous)

→ Hebrew: מיקי מאוס (miki maus)

→ Hindi: मिकी माउस (mikī māus)

→ Japanese: ミッキーマウス (Mikkī Mausu)

→ Korean: 미키 마우스 (Miki Mauseu)

→ Macedonian: Мики Маус (Miki Maus)

→ Portuguese: Mickey Mouse

→ Romanian: Mickey Mouse, Miki Maus

Ми́кки Ма́ус

→ Russian: Ми́кки Ма́ус (Míkki Máus)

→ Samoan: Miki Mausi

→ Spanish: Mickey Mouse

มิกกี้ เมาส์

→ Thai: มิกกี้ เมาส์

→ Thai: มิกกี้ เมาส์

From Mickey, a diminutive of the given name Michael, + mouse, referring to the species of the character. The name Mickey Mouse was coined by American animator Walt Disney in 1928 after his wife, Lillian Disney, persuaded him to change the character's original name Mortimer Mouse to Mickey, deeming the former too formal for the playful character. "Mickey" was suggested by Lillian, who preferred its more approachable and lively sound.
The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low-quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.

The most famous Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic mouse with a falsetto voice and a cheerful disposition.


dammit

(mildly vulgar) Expressing anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.


dammit

We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.

2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21:

A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.


pussy

en-noun

pussy (countable and uncountable, plural pussies)

Maori: poti, puihi


सह

sahá (romanization)
सहः (nominative singular)
सहौ (dual nominative)
सहाः (nominative plural)
सह (singular vocative)
सहौ (dual vocative)
सहाः (plural vocative)
सहम् (accusative singular)
सहौ (accusative dual)
सहान् (accusative plural)
सहेन (instrumental singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सहैः (instrumental plural)
सहाय (dative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dative dual)
सहेभ्यः (dative plural)
सहात् (ablative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सहेभ्यः (ablative plural)
सहस्य (genitive singular)
सहयोः (dual genitive)
सहानाम् (genitive plural)
सहे (locative singular)
सहयोः (dual locative)
सहेषु (locative plural)
सहा (nominative singular)
सहे (dual nominative)
सहाः (nominative plural)
सहे (singular vocative)
सहे (dual vocative)
सहाः (plural vocative)
सहाम् (accusative singular)
सहे (accusative dual)
सहाः (accusative plural)
सहया (instrumental singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सहाभिः (instrumental plural)
सहायै (dative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dative dual)
सहाभ्यः (dative plural)
सहायाः (ablative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सहाभ्यः (ablative plural)
सहायाः (genitive singular)
सहयोः (dual genitive)
सहानाम् (genitive plural)
सहायाम् (locative singular)
सहयोः (dual locative)
सहासु (locative plural)
सहम् (nominative singular)
सहे (dual nominative)
सहानि (nominative plural)
सह (singular vocative)
सहे (dual vocative)
सहानि (plural vocative)
सहम् (accusative singular)
सहे (accusative dual)
सहानि (accusative plural)
सहेन (instrumental singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सहैः (instrumental plural)
सहाय (dative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dative dual)
सहेभ्यः (dative plural)
सहात् (ablative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सहेभ्यः (ablative plural)
सहस्य (genitive singular)
सहयोः (dual genitive)
सहानाम् (genitive plural)
सहे (locative singular)
सहयोः (dual locative)
सहेषु (locative plural)

sa-decl-noun

Masculine a-stem declension of सह

Feminine ā-stem declension of सह

Neuter a-stem declension of <i class="Deva mention" lang="sa">सह</i>

From Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold, posess, overcome, overpower”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, “have, possess, hold”), σχῆμᾰ (skhêma, “form, shape, figure”), σχολή (skholḗ, “leisure, free time; philosophy”) whence Latin schola (“leisure time for learning, schooltime, school”); Latin sēverus (“severe, strict, harsh”). See also सहस् (sahas).

cog

bearing, enduring, withstanding, defying, equal to, a match for (+ genitive or compound)


सह

From Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-gʰé ~ *sm̥-gʰó-, from *sm̥- (“whole, all, together (with)”) + *gʰé (“indeed, at any rate”, discourse/emphatic particle). The first element is equivalent to स- (sa-); the second element is equivalent to ह (ha) and also found in नहि (nahi) (< *ne-gʰí); see also हि (hi), घ (gha). Cognate with Latin singulus, Albanian gjithë.

तेन सह (tena saha)

ऐश्वर्यात् सह (aiśvaryāt saha)

often as a preposition governing instrumental case, but generally placed after the governed word


सह

sahá (romanization)
सहः (nominative singular)
सहौ (dual nominative)
सहाः (nominative plural)
सह (singular vocative)
सहौ (dual vocative)
सहाः (plural vocative)
सहम् (accusative singular)
सहौ (accusative dual)
सहान् (accusative plural)
सहेन (instrumental singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
सहैः (instrumental plural)
सहाय (dative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (dative dual)
सहेभ्यः (dative plural)
सहात् (ablative singular)
सहाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
सहेभ्यः (ablative plural)
सहस्य (genitive singular)
सहयोः (dual genitive)
सहानाम् (genitive plural)
सहे (locative singular)
सहयोः (dual locative)
सहेषु (locative plural)

sa-decl-noun

Masculine a-stem declension of सह

Romani: -ça

Pali: saha

→ Khmer: សហ (saʼhaʼ)

→ Marathi: सह (sah)

From the preposition, probably etymologically "one who is with (another person)".

वैनतेयसह (vainateya-saha)

(rarely at the end of a compound)
companion


Durex

en-noun

Durex (countable and uncountable, plural Durexes)

Condom brand name: 1929, from durability, reliability, excellence.


old man

old man (countable and uncountable, plural old men)

From Middle English alde mann, aldman, elde man, oldeman, from Old English eald man.

(theology, uncountable) Synonym of Old Adam


pamper

nl-noun

pamper m (plural pampers, diminutive pampertje n)

pampers (plural)
pampertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: pamper

From English Pampers a genericized trademark brand of diapers, from English pamper.


pamper

id-noun

pamper (plural pamper-pamper, first-person possessive pamperku, second-person possessive pampermu, third-person possessive pampernya)

pamper-pamper (plural)
pamperku (first-person possessive)
pampermu (possessive second-person)
pampernya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch pamper, from the genericized trademark of English Pampers, a brand of diapers, from English pamper, from Middle English pamperen (“to cram with food”), from Middle Dutch *pamperen (“to cram with food”), frequentative of *pampen (“to stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *pamp- (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”).


Respelling of porn with middle letters transposed and o replaced with zero.

They were just pr0n, really. And I figured you might need to blow off some steam. No pun intended.

2017, Emma Newman, After Atlas, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Merlin Mann, creator of 43 Folders, joked about the lure of “productivity pr0n” (pornography in internet slang) as early as 2005: “It is a tongue-in-cheek term often used lovingly by its avid—even obsessive—consumers. It often implies the awareness that not all productivity pr0n leads to actual productivity[…]

2019, Joseph M. Reagle Jr, quoting Merlin Mann, Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(Internet slang, leetspeak) Filter-avoidance spelling of porn.

based on the phonetics of pr0n and used to avoid internet content filters


twink

From the name of the Twink brand of correction fluid.

Correction fluid
correction fluid#English

(New Zealand) Correction fluid or correction tape.


укроп

ru-noun+

укро́п • (ukróp) m inan or m anim (genitive укро́па, nominative plural укро́пы, genitive plural укро́пов, feminine укро́пка, relational adjective укро́пный)

укро́п (canonical)
ukróp (romanization)
укро́па (genitive)
укро́пы (nominative plural)
укро́пов (genitive plural)
укро́пка (feminine)
укро́пный (adjective relational)
укро́п (nominative singular)
укро́пы (nominative plural)
укро́па (genitive singular)
укро́пов (genitive plural)
укро́пу (dative singular)
укро́пам (dative plural)
укро́па (accusative animate singular)
укро́пов (accusative animate plural)
укро́п (accusative inanimate singular)
укро́пы (accusative inanimate plural)
укро́пом (instrumental singular)
укро́пами (instrumental plural)
укро́пе (prepositional singular)
укро́пах (plural prepositional)
укро́пу (partitive singular)

desc

→ Chinese: 烏克蘿／乌克萝

→ Chinese: 烏克蘿／乌克萝

→ English: ukrop

→ Ingrian: ukrooppi

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ukropъ.
Sense 7 mocks the similarity of the word with the name Украи́на (Ukraína).

Ру́ки прочь от Донба́сса, укро́п!

(animate, derogatory, ethnic slur) a Ukrainian (member of a side of the war in Donbass since 2014)


biro

en-noun

biro (countable and uncountable, plural biros)

Genericized trademark of BIRO, named after László Bíró, the inventor of the ballpoint pen.

Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.

2007, Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings, page 250:

(by extension, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.


bic

→ Chadian Arabic: بيك (bīk)

→ Khmer: ប៊ិក (bĭk)

→ Lao: ບິກ (bik)

A genericized trademark. From BIC, a popular French brand of disposable ballpoint pen and disposable lighters, which is from the name of the co-founder of the company. Named after French businessman Marcel Bich. From Bich (“surname”).

named-after

disposable ballpoint pen, stick pen; Bic, Biro (Britain, Australia, New Zealand)


iPod

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-der.
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
English Internet
English i-
English pod
English iPod
Coined (and trademarked) by Apple, from i- + pod, suggesting a small place to keep things. Inspired by the space shuttles in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the quote, "Open the pod bay doors, Hal."

etymon

(by extension) Any portable personal MP3 player or similar device.


cookie

→ Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)

→ Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk¹ kei⁴)

→ Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)

→ Catalan: cookie

→ Cebuano: kokis

→ French: cookie

→ Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)

→ German: Cookie

→ Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)

→ Hindi: कुकी (kukī)

→ Italian: cookie

→ Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)

→ Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)

→ Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)

→ Malay: kuki

→ Polish: cookie

→ Portuguese: cookie

→ Russian: куки (kuki)

→ Spanish: cookie

→ Swedish: cookie

→ Tagalog: kuki

→ Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)

→ Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

koekie

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit

(Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

(UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.

koekie

sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it


cookie

More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.

1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276, page 340:

"You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she's taken."
The boy didn't move.
"Go on, get on with it," the Trunchbull said. "Cut a slice and taste it. We haven't got all day."

(dated, colloquial) Affectionate name for a cook.


klimp

Originally a trademark, perhaps influenced by clamp and clip.

A metal clip or clamp used to fasten the walls of a crate together during shipment


magi

From English Maggi, which was genericized from the name of the company and product, named after Swiss entrepreneur Julius Maggi.

named-after

sugbon ao le se'be ka ma fi magi si lode oni. Bi a ba tie fi iru si, ao tun fi magi die si tori oun na ni awon eroja asara loore (ṣùgbọ́n a ò lè sebẹ̀ ká má fi magí sí lóde òní. Bí a bá tiẹ̀ fi irú sí, a ó tún fi magí díẹ̀ sí torí òun náà ní àwọn èròjà aṣaralóore)

2014-7-12, @bodex4mama, Twitter :https://twitter.com/bodex4mama/status/488057808089534464

But we can't cook stew without adding stock cubes nowadays. Even if we use iru [locust beans], we'll still add some of stock cubes because it has nutrients too.

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(genericized trademark) bouillon cube; stock cube (regardless of brand)


господин

ru-noun+

господи́н • (gospodín) m anim (genitive господи́на, nominative plural господа́, genitive plural госпо́д, feminine госпожа́, relational adjective госпо́дский)

господи́н (canonical)
gospodín (romanization)
господи́на (genitive)
господа́ (nominative plural)
госпо́д (genitive plural)
госпожа́ (feminine)
госпо́дский (adjective relational)
господи́н (nominative singular)
господа́ (irregular nominative plural)
господи́на (genitive singular)
госпо́д (genitive plural)
господи́ну (dative singular)
господа́м (dative plural)
господи́на (accusative singular)
госпо́д (accusative plural)
господи́ном (instrumental singular)
господа́ми (instrumental plural)
господи́не (prepositional singular)
господа́х (plural prepositional)

Ru-господин.ogg

господи́нъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

(formal, term of address) mister, Mr., sir (polite, formal term of address to a man)


Ivan

Ivan (nominative singular)
Ivanové (nominative plural)
Ivana (genitive singular)
Ivanů (genitive plural)
Ivanovi (dative singular)
Ivanu (dative singular)
Ivanům (dative plural)
Ivana (accusative singular)
Ivany (accusative plural)
Ivane (singular vocative)
Ivanové (plural vocative)
Ivanovi (locative singular)
Ivanu (locative singular)
Ivanech (locative plural)
Ivanem (instrumental singular)
Ivany (instrumental plural)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Russian (person)


trailer trash

(US, idiomatic, slang, derogatory) A poorly-educated, and usually white individual(s) of low social status who stereotypically reside(s) in a trailer park.


comrade

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata, from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.

(communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or Islamist state.


kuka

kukák (plural)
kuka (nominative singular)
kukák (nominative plural)
kukát (accusative singular)
kukákat (accusative plural)
kukának (dative singular)
kukáknak (dative plural)
kukával (instrumental singular)
kukákkal (instrumental plural)
kukáért (causal-final singular)
kukákért (causal-final plural)
kukává (singular translative)
kukákká (plural translative)
kukáig (singular terminative)
kukákig (plural terminative)
kukaként (essive-formal singular)
kukákként (essive-formal plural)
kukában (inessive singular)
kukákban (inessive plural)
kukán (singular superessive)
kukákon (plural superessive)
kukánál (adessive singular)
kukáknál (adessive plural)
kukába (illative singular)
kukákba (illative plural)
kukára (singular sublative)
kukákra (plural sublative)
kukához (allative singular)
kukákhoz (allative plural)
kukából (elative singular)
kukákból (elative plural)
kukáról (delative singular)
kukákról (delative plural)
kukától (ablative singular)
kukáktól (ablative plural)
kukáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
kukáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
kukáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
kukákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
kukám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
kukáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
kukád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
kukáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
kukája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
kukái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
kukánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
kukáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
kukátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
kukáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
kukájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
kukáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Via Czech, from German KUKA, short for Keller und Knappich Augsburg, a German firm which manufactured and supplied orange refuse collection vehicles. Today the company KUKA produces industrial robots and automation technologies.

garbage can, trash can, refuse bin (especially an outdoor container)


pikey

Possibly from obsolete pike (“depart or travel”), or possibly from turnpike. The verb is derived from the stereotype that the Romani people or other travellers are thieves.

“They must be the pikeys who live up there. They're a nasty bunch. Shouldn't get mixed up with them.” “Well, we told them to fuck off, they didn't seem that nasty to me! What are pikeys anyway?” “Well, they're like vagabonds.”

2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything: a Life-story, →ISBN, page 15:

Gipsies and the pikey race generally were a class outside Lord Sandbar's previous experience, and he listened greedily.

(UK, Ireland, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.


you guys

Hey you guys!

the list of other second-person pronouns in you


wapanese

Blend of white + Japanese under influence from wigger, ("white" + "nigger"), although sometimes parsed as wannabe + Japanese, popularized by the message board 4chan.

Now, I know some of you Wapanese (Caucasian Japan fanboys) might get your panties in a bunch, but it's my opinion. LIVE WITH IT.

2003 December 16, I. B. Blaqman [username], “I really hate the way Japanese media sensationalizes their so-called "superstars"”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

She wasn't the best, Wapanese.

2006 February 28, Blowhole911 [username], “Re: Arakawa”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

His making the greatest samurai legend in Japanese history a white guy in the middle of the closed country era pretty much sealed it that he's a Wapanese with a pen.

2007 November 5, WrestlingizReel [username], “Re: Too much Hiro in ancient Japan?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) Synonym of weeaboo: a person from elsewhere, particularly an unsocial white male, considered overly infatuated with Japanese culture.


cocksucker

After he said the kid was a no-talent cocksucker whose teeth were always in the way ...

1970, Donald Warman, Some of my best friends, page 102:

He attended every Monday night show at Skipper's, where he knew everyone and everyone knew him. Here he was affectionately called "Ed Head" and was famous for being the most sophisticated cocksucker anywhere — the fabulous GTX, "Golden Throated Extra."

1982 April 10, Charley Shively, “Ed Hood of Cambridge Dies”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

(vulgar, colloquial, derogatory, offensive, very uncommon, literal) Someone who performs fellatio.

very uncommon; literal; very uncommon; literal


partner

→ Albanian: partner

→ Czech: partner

→ Danish: partner

→ Dutch: partner

→ French: partenaire

→ German: Partner

→ Hungarian: partner

→ Irish: páirtnéir

→ Italian: partner

→ Japanese: パートナー (pātonā)

→ Korean: 파트너 (pateuneo)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: partner

→ Persian: پارتنر (pârtner)

→ Polish: partner

→ Portuguese: partner

→ Serbo-Croatian: pȁrtner, па̏ртнер

→ Swedish: partner

→ West Frisian: partner

From Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (“joint heir”) from parçon (“partition”), from Latin partītiōnem, singular accusative of partītiō (“portion”). The word may also represent Old French part tenour (“part holder”). Compare also Middle English partifere (“partner”), partifelewe (“partner”). Doublet of parcener.

partner

someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest

партньо́р

either member of a pair in a card game or sports team (1.4)

Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.

Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.


dood

"Talk about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train last night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September."

1884 August, “The Boston Dude”, in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 18, number 8:

An' now Oi suppose if Oi don't get thim rolls riddy fer der brikfus' av that small dood that comes ter see Alice, Oi'll niver hear der end av it. Wot do Oi kee-ur? If he gives me a quarter whin he goes, it's more'n he'll do, fer all he's a dood an' all.

1888 November 17, “The Cook's Soliloquy”, in Time, volume 8, number 223, page 7:

On the dood ranch the dweller from the city can renew his almost forgotten ambition to be one with the rider of the Western plains --the cowpuncher, the Indian fighter, the pony express rider, the buffalo hunter, the scout.


qui

Eye dialect spelling of que, representing Brazil Portuguese.


tío

es-noun

tío m (plural tíos, feminine tía, feminine plural tías)

tíos (plural)
tía (feminine)
tías (feminine plural)

→ Catalan: tio

Inherited from Old Spanish tio, from Late Latin thius, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Compare Italian zio, Galician tío and Portuguese tio, Sardinian tiu.

Y ese tío me gritó.

(colloquial, Spain) unknown or any male person, dude, guy


lovely

en-adj

lovely (comparative lovelier or more lovely, superlative loveliest or most lovely)

lovelier (comparative)
more lovely (comparative)
loveliest (superlative)
most lovely (superlative)

From Middle English lofly, lovely (“praiseworthy; laudatory”), equivalent to lofe + -ly. Cognate with Dutch loffelijk (“laudable, praiseworthy”), German löblich (“commendable, laudable, praiseworthy”), Swedish lovlig (“permissible”). More at lofe, love.

cog

And so he is in the eyes of all who live to his praise. To them every attribute of God is lovely. The holiness and purity of his nature is most lovely to them.

1773, Thomas Boston (the Elder.), Alexander Colden, The Whole Works of the late reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick:

He is altogether lovely. O, all our praises of him are poor and low things!

1807, Erasmus Middleton, Evangelical biography:

О praise the Lord, for the Lord is gracious : О sing praises unto his Name, for it is lovely.

1823, Church of England, Llyfr gweddi gyffredin:

It is the duty of all believers to join themselves cheerfully in the setting forth the Lord's care over them, and whatsoever may make his lovely Majesty known to the world: for so he requireth the present precept and example, -- sing praises to the Lord.

1834, David Dickson, A Brief Explication of the Psalms - Volume 1, page 39:

My precious Saviour's matchless name ; He's wise and holy, just and true, And altogether lovely too.

1876, John Vaughan, Trinity hymns for the worship of the three-one Jehovah in faith & love:


mud

en-noun

mud (countable and uncountable, plural muds)

From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), Danish mudder (“mud”).
Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), from Proto-Uralic *muďa).

cog

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.

How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]

2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.


papist

From Middle French papiste, from Latin pāpa (“pope”).

(religious slur, Christianity) A Roman Catholic, especially one whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome.


papist

en-adj

papist (comparative more papist, superlative most papist)

more papist (comparative)
most papist (superlative)

However, Menem promptly surprised many observers (and most of his voters) by forming an alliance with Alsogaray, and becoming more papist than the Pope in economic orthodoxy.

2011, Jill Hedges, Argentina: A Modern History:

(religious slur, Christianity) Roman Catholic.


Jerry

A clipped form of German popularized during the First World War.

Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”

2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:

[…] chucking your towel on the sunbed and making sure Jerry doesn't get there first.

2012, Bill Leckie, Penthouse and Pavement:

(UK, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people.


Jerry

But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries.

2012, Margaret James, The Penny Bangle, Harpenden: Choc Lit, →ISBN, page 43:

(British, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.


heroin

en-noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)

Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Said to have been called thus to evoke quick and sweeping effect as a painkiller and cough suppressant (its original uses). Alternatively explained as a reference to the heroic school of medicine.

Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess I just don't know

1967, “Heroin”, in Lou Reed (music), The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:

I saw a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins

1972, “King Heroin”, in Manny Rosen (lyrics), There It Is, performed by James Brown:

2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22ⁿᵈ of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.

2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Opiods”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 27, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

Okay, wel-, I’ll tell you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop?”, the answer is always fucking somewhere! You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?”!

2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

That’s because the second thing to know about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.

2019 January 21, Alex Hern, “‘Heroin for middle-class nerds’: how Warhammer conquered gaming”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.


mayo

mayo (countable and uncountable, plural mayos)

(countable, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, Internet slang) A white person.


ลูก

th-noun

ลูก • (lûuk)

From Proto-Tai *lɯ:kᴰ (“child (offspring)”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩃᩪᨠ, Lao ລູກ (lūk), Lü ᦟᦴᧅ (luuk), Tai Dam ꪩꪴꪀ, Shan လုၵ်ႈ (lūk), Tai Nüa ᥘᥧᥐ (luk), Khamti လုက်ႉ, Phake လုက် (luk), Ahom 𑜎𑜤𑜀𑜫 (luk), Bouyei leg, Zhuang lwg. Within Kra-Dai, compare Sui laag (“son”), Proto-Hlai *hlɯːk (“child; offspring”) (whence ɗɯːʔ⁷~ɬɯːʔ⁷~ɬɯːk⁷~ɬɯaʔ⁷ across the different lects) and Proto-Be *ləːkᴰ² (“child; offspring”) (whence lɛk⁸~lək⁸ across the different lects). Outside of Kra-Dai, compare Proto-Austronesian *aNak (whence Siraya alak and Lubuagan Kalinga alak).

used as an affectionate term of address to or title for an offspring, person regarded as one's offspring, or young person; and used by such person to refer to oneself.

used as a title for a ball, round object, or fruit.


Pali

Clipping of Palestinian, influenced by Paki.

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Palestinian person.


Pali

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Palestinian


boogie

in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees, Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis

1966, Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66:


Bible basher

Coordinate term: Koran basher (“fundamentalist Muslim”)

I don't ever go to my local church any more: it's become filled with stupid, fuddy-duddy Bible bashers.

I was a real Bible basher. I used to rush round asking people if they were saved.

1969, April Hersey, Hooked on God : the Wayside Chapel experiment, Melbourne: Sun Books, →LCCN, LCC BV2656.S9 W35, page 106:

There is a skinny old bible basher who is always out gathering souls, regardless of the weather.

2008, Ian Commins, Fiveways, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(derogatory) A fundamentalist Christian preacher, or other fervent Christian, who is seen to take every opportunity to talk about Christianity and attempt to convert those around them.

I'm no bible-basher looking to discredit everything I hear, but there is one point that might be interesting to argue...If the bible is the Word of God, which version or language is the official Word, as the meanings change subtley^([sic]) from one to another?

2002, Everett Hickey, “Biblical”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet):

There *are* no "Biblical contradictions". Years ago, I...addressed many, many, many alleged "contradictions". It's a very sad state of affairs, most Bible bashers who claim "contradictions" prefer quantity over quality, and no matter how many *ridiculous* claims they came up with and I demolished, they would continue with others...

2003, Jeff Shirton, “Conference...”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):

2006, veralein, How to protect yourself against false Christian teachers in alt.christnet.christianlife http://groups.google.com/group/alt.christnet.christianlife/browse_thread/thread/80f36af2e40d135a/15e69f2a5f0959de?lnk=st&q=%22bible+basher%22+against+-deicide&rnum=6&hl=en#15e69f2a5f0959de
I think you are just a Bible basher for what reasons ever. Maybe you are just an atheist who has pleasure in trolling Christians and recruiting them.

A person who finds fault with the Bible, Christianity, or Christian teaching.


spa

nl-noun

spa m (plural spaden, diminutive spaatje n)

spaden (plural)
spaatje (diminutive neuter)

From earlier spade, from Middle Dutch spade, from Old Dutch *spado, from Proto-Germanic *spadô.


niglet

From nig(ger) + -let, made to sound like piglet.

Coordinate term: niglette

(slang, US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black child.


sulla

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੁੱਲ (sulla), a mispronunciation of Punjabi ਮੁੱਲਾ (mullā, “mullah, Islamic religious leader”), derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), from Arabic مُلَّا (mullā).

der

(South Asia, religious slur, ethnic slur) A Muslim man; especially one from Pakistan.


bye

"So what shall I do, now, Patric? Can you think of any plan? "Bedad!" said Pat , as he scratched his head , “ I'm the very bye that can."

1883, Rose Garfield Clemens, “Pat and the Pig”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume 58, page 383:

'Och,' sez I, 'there's many a bye that's lonely livin' rite wid his friends an' naybors. Sure an' I'm lonesome mesilf.'

1887, “Pat's Love Episode”, in Parry's Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 252:

There a bye has his hand toorn off, and there a bye loses his eyesight complately, and over yan a bye has his joogular vein torn wid a whistlin' boom, and forninst that is the bye who thinks his gun isn't loaded and kills his little sisther.

1903, Our Young People - Volume 12, page 51:

In thim days the bye who wint to work in the foundhry to learn the thrade, in goin' into the shop in the morning would meet a big, ruffneck boss wit his blue faunel shirt on and his schleeves rolled up to his ilbows, who could show him the mishtakes he made the day befoor, if he made any.

1907, International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Journal, page 545:

I know a nice bye who's goin' to git two cookies fer thim worrds.

1920, Marjorie Benton Cooke, The Girl who Lived in the Woods, page 184:

Hardy, weatherbeaten, intimately familiar with the winds and tides of his local shore, capable of turning his hand to many things, squeezing a hard living from the treacherous sea—a figure rendered familiar by the words “Ise the bye who builds the boat / And ise the bye that sails her / Ise the bye who catches the fish / And takes them home to Liza."

2012, Robert Craig Brown, Illustrated History of Canada, page 224:


hovercraft

en-noun

hovercraft (plural hovercrafts or hovercraft)

hovercrafts (plural)
hovercraft (plural)

From hover + -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.

The snapshot shows the whale parallel above the water almost as if it’s competing in belly-flop contest, doing a midair plank or floating across the bay like a hovercraft.

2022 July 24, Morgan Krakow, “It began as a typical ferry ride in Kachemak Bay. Then a minke whale went airborne.”, in Anchorage Daily News:

(vehicles, genericized trademark) A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.


fara

farny (adjective)
fara (nominative singular)
fary (nominative plural)
fary (genitive singular)
far (genitive plural)
farze (dative singular)
farom (dative plural)
farę (accusative singular)
fary (accusative plural)
farą (instrumental singular)
farami (instrumental plural)
farze (locative singular)
farach (locative plural)
faro (singular vocative)
fary (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: fara

→ Slovincian: fara

Borrowed from German Pfarre. First attested in 1553. Compare Silesian fara.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “fara”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Pánie ſtáry/ Porzuć cżáry/ Im ſie wiáry/ Gotuy máry/ By bez wiáry/ Dyabeł ſzáry/ Do ſwey fáry/ Zá ſwe dary/ W ſwe browáry Ná przewáry/ Nie wziął cie ná ſwiętá.

(Middle Polish, figurative, hapax, religion) hell (place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death)


sweet pea

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No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him who had not much to do, they required a great deal of sticking and tying.

1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162:

A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.


grigri

From grigri, and possibly related to French grimper (“to climb”).

(climbing) A belay device that incorporates an assisted braking system, trademark of French company Petzl.


Dobro

Originally a trademark; a contraction of Dopyera brothers, the inventors.

A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.


shylock

From the character Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1600).

(offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent.


LP

(US, politics, uncountable) The Libertarian Party of the United States.


Uncle Tom

Referring to the character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

1968, Norman Mailer, “Nixon in Miami”, in Harper's, §6:

Some blacks don't want to deal with the black cop because they see him as an Uncle Tom, a person who stands by while the white cop abuses and shows disrespect toward other blacks.

1985 April 1, Steven Leinen, quoting a police officer, Black Police, White Society, NYU Press:

One of the less entertaining components of the Ali act was the way he tried to "outblack" someone like Frazier, call him an Uncle Tom, an "honorary white," when in fact Frazier had grown up dirt poor in South Carolina.

2014 April 2, David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, Knopf Doubleday:

"You are an Uncle Tom, Scott. You're for Sessions. How does a black man turn on his own," Scott said, reading criticisms of himself on social media.

2017 February 8, Burgess Everett, “Tim Scott, the lone black GOP senator, rises to Sessions' defense”, in Politico:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor.


doc

If you think watching a doc about a spelling bee isn't the most entertaining way to spend ninety minutes, think again.

2003, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, page 38:

On the subject of fat men, I was watching a doc about a mountain of flab called Paul last night and Ludo said that he was very proud that the fattest man in the world was English.

2010, Rachel Johnson, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor:

According to Forbes, Billie [Eilish] earned $53 million in 2020. Half of that was thanks to the Apple doc, and the other half was thanks to music sales. Cool-cool-cool, same!

2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:


lava lamp

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A trademarked name registered by Mathmos in 1963 for the item.

A kind of lamp, typically used more for decoration than illumination, in which the gentle flow of randomly-shaped clumps of wax purportedly suggests the flowing of lava.


mum

Alternative form of mam, or an abbreviation of mummy. Compare mom, mama.

From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.

1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:

'Ooh Mum, Auntie don′t allow smokin’ - Pat′s eyes were round with awe as Mum struck a match.

1993, Hilda Hollingsworth, Places of Greater Safety, Zenobia Press edition, page 278:

Her mum says that she is deaf and only partially sighted, so I need to go and stand in front of her, so she can see the gift.

2004, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul 2, page 336:

“Mum! Mum!” he shouted out. The laughter stopped. Two bright, sparkling yellow eyes peeped from the hollow. Atop her head were the fluffy ear tufts that his mum was so proud of because they were fuller and lovelier than those of most Great Horned Owls. It was indeed his mum!

2006, Kathryn Lasky, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book 11: To Be a King, page 88

2011, Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang, unnumbered page,
He′s looking at my mum, at her swollen eyes, busted nose and bloodied lips. She′s mashed up something chronic, and the man who did this to her is my dad.

(Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.


bagno

Silesian: bagno

Polish: bagno

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bagno. First attested in 1426.

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

Adde herbam dictam in vulgari bagno

1874-1891 [End of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume LIII, Krakow, page 63:


coolie

→ Macanese: cúli

→ Romanian: culi

From Hindustani क़ुली / قلی (qulī, “hired laborer”), possibly from Ottoman Turkish قول (kul, “servant”). Another theory says that it is named after Gujarati કોળી (koḷī), a Gujarati tribe or caste. Other forms occur in Bengali কুলি (kuli) and Tamil கூலி (kūli, “daily hire”). Possibly also influenced by Hindustani کولی (kolī) / कोली (kolī, “weaver; low-class”). In Kurdish Koile (کۆیلە) and Quli (قولى): Slave, Servant. Kawli (Keweli): Low-Class, Gypsy.
Mandarin 苦力 (kǔlì, “hard labor”) may have been influenced by cognates of the above Hindi word in other languages and may have further influenced English.

Well, he and his troops had shown the koefietjies-the little coolies-how quickly and how easily Afrikaner explosive shells could knock it down.

1991, Larry Bond, Patrick Larkin, Vortex, page 56:

Even a coolie would have been better.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 199:

(Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, Fiji, South Africa and other parts of Africa, ethnic slur) An Indian or a person of Indian descent.


mister

→ Italian: mister

→ Japanese: ミスター (misutā)

→ Polish: mister

→ Portuguese: míster

→ Spanish: míster

→ Russian: мистер (mister)

Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.

You may sit here, mister.

Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.

1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358

There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.

1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:

Liara: We have to hurry. The whole place is caving in!
Shepard: Joker! Get the Normandy airbone and lock in on my signal. On the double, mister!

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therum:

Asterix: What? And only now you tell us?
Obelix: I was talking to the future queen, mister Asterix!
Asterix: And I advise you to change your tone, mister Obelix!
Obelix: The future queen and I don't need your advice, mister Asterix! Mister Asterix gives too much advice anyway!

A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.

hr. (rarely written herr, a short form of herre)


son of a bitch

en-noun

son of a bitch (plural sons of bitches or sons of a bitch)

sons of bitches (plural)
sons of a bitch (plural)

Alteration of an earlier phrase represented by Middle English biche-sone (“son of a bitch”, literally “bitch's son”), calqued from Old Norse bikkju-sonr (“son of a bitch”).

der

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.

You twisted son of a bitch! You're going to torture somebody!

You’re one fury son of a bitch.

Those sons of bitches don’t stand a chance.

There's that snarling cur, and son of a Bitch Boccaline.

1685, John Eachard, The grounds & occasions of the contempt of the clergy and religion enquired into, 9th edition, London, page 252:

He had the insolence obliquely to give me the name of Son of a Bitch.

1691, Thomas Shadwell, The Humorists, a Comedy, London, page 22:

[…] Count Davia, like a Son of a Bitch as he is, Chop'd upon mine and the Duke of Mantuu's Equipage, and rubb'd off with our Plate, Jewels, and other Knicknacks of Inestimable Value.

1703, Thomas Brown, Letters from the living to the living, relating to the present transactions both Publick and Private, page 105:

But ya ought to thank me, before I die / For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye / Because I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you Sue

1969, Shel Silverstein (lyrics and music), “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash:

(derogatory or offensive, slang, vulgar, usually referring specifically to a man, chiefly US, Canada) An objectionable, despicable person.


semtex

Genericized trademark Semtex, derived from the Czech name of the suburb of Pardubice where it was manufactured, Semtín, and ex(plosive).

A highly malleable general-purpose plastic explosive.


cioară

ciori (plural)
cioară (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cioara (accusative definite nominative singular)
ciori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
ciorile (accusative definite nominative plural)
ciori (indefinite singular)
ciorii (definite singular)
ciori (indefinite plural)
ciorilor (definite plural)
cioară (singular vocative)
cioaro (singular vocative)
ciorilor (plural vocative)

Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italian dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person


you-uns

From you + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.

Guthrie turned upon him a face aglow with gratification. ‘That's what makes me like you-uns, stranger,’ he said, cordially.

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country (Nebraska 2005), page 122

(US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) You (plural, as subject or object).


babka

Polish: babka

Silesian: babka

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babъka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka. First attested in the second half of the 14th century.

etydate

Babka citharia, plantago

1450, rkps Archiwum i Biblioteki Krakowskiej Kapituły Katedralnej o sygn. KP 224., Uście Solne, Lviv:

Plantago major
Plantago major#Translingual

plantain; greater plantain (Plantago major)

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

attested in Greater Poland; Southern Borderlands; attested in Greater Poland; Southern Borderlands


Gatling gun

/ˈɡætlɪŋ ˌɡʌn/

Named after American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling.

named-after

A type of gun, similar to a modern machine gun, with several barrels on a rotating frame.


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Doublet of puck.

cog

Some won't take spooks—hell, don't make no difference to me.

1976, Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver, spoken by Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro):

"[…] Dryades Street and that whole uptown neighborhood is gonna be worth a fortune once the white people take it back from you spooks and develop it. […]"

2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps, Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:

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


kitty litter

en-noun

kitty litter (usually uncountable, plural kitty litters)

[ˈkʰɪɾi ˈlɪɾɚ]

(by extension, informal) Any similar mix, used to soak up liquid spills.

(motor racing, informal) A gravel trap (a large area of gravel used to slow cars that leave the track)


wigger

Blend of white + nigger. First use appears c. 1988. See cite below.

I have often heard the word "wigger" used to describe a white person who supposedly acts and talks "black," while the same type of taunting is put upon a black person who supposedly acts "white."

1988 April 20, “How race-conscious are high school students today?”, in The Washington Post, number ?, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, column ?:

To some extent wiggers are simply the most visible examples of a very American brand of teenage rebellion.

1999, Leonard Steinhorn et al., By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, page 178:

And I just do not got the patience
To deal with these cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black...

cultural appropriator
cultural appropriator

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.


paleface

From pale + face, a supposed calque from a Native American language. First appearing in print in the early 19th century.

Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.

1848, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XXVIII, in The Bee-Hunter, or, The Oak Openings:

The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.

1889, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Sketches from Memory”, in The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains:

The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.

1905, Edward S. Ellis, Deerfoot in The Mountains:

"Yes me big paleface—me come long way toward setting sun—go cross Big Water—go Buckskin—Siwash—chase cougar." The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajos hold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great Slave Indians the musk-ox.

1908, Zane Grey, The Last of the Plainsmen:

High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.

1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “He Also Serves”, in Options:

Some Blackfeet Indians, with a taste and a respect for Nature that shames the paleface, have protested to the Secretary of the Interior[…]

1916 March 11, “Silly Place-Names”, in Saturday Evening Post:

Speed is whitey's drug, from the palefaces who cook it to the Caspers who deal it to the ofay vanilla wafers who snort or spike it.

1998, Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto, page 128:

(ethnic slur) A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.

սպիտակամորթ

a white person of European descent, in the context of American Indians


scope

De scope van deze maatregel is beperkt tot het komende jaar.

The scope of this measure is limited to the coming year.


ugg boot

In Australia ugg boots and variants like ug, ugh or uggs are used generically. A trademark of UGH-BOOTS was registered in 1971 but was not enforced and generic users of the terms successfully applied for its removal in 2006 (Deckers Outdoor Corporation v B&B McDougal ATMO 5 (16 January 2006)).

A boot made of sheepskin with the wool as the lining and the leather as the outside.


good-looking

en-adj

good-looking (comparative better-looking or more good-looking, superlative best-looking or most good-looking)

better-looking (comparative)
more good-looking (comparative)
best-looking (superlative)
most good-looking (superlative)

/ˈɡʊdˈlʊk.ɪŋ/

From good + looking. Compare Dutch goeduitziend (“good-looking”), German gutaussehend (“good-looking”).

When one of us sees a good-looking guy, we nudge the other one and smile. One guy had the most gorgeous face I had ever seen. Every time we go to the mall we look around for 'that guy' just in case.

2001, Julia DeVillers, Teen Girlfriends:


nugget

en-noun

nugget (countable and uncountable, plural nuggets)

→ Portuguese: nugget

Uncertain. Possibly from a rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got. Alternatively, likely a diminutive of dialectal nug (“lump, block”) + -et.

Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa#Translingual

(countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.

We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most λ values […]

2002, Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 93:

(computing theory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.

(Australia, slang, countable) An item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition.


nugget

en-verb

nugget (third-person singular simple present nuggets, present participle nuggetting, simple past and past participle nuggetted)

nuggets (present singular third-person)
nuggetting (participle present)
nuggetted (participle past)
nuggetted (past)

The other day, you are told, a fellow nuggetted ten or twenty pounds weight, and, of course, you see no reason why half a hundred weight might not be lying snugly ensconced awaiting the revelations of your pick.

1852, James Bonwick, Notes of a Gold Digger: and Gold Digger's Guide, Melbourne: R. Connebee, page 8:

Among the complaints to Dart, “blackballing” or “nuggetting” was the most common form of sexual abuse carried out by recruits, and referred to a boy being forcibly held down “while boot polish, toothpaste or another substance was forcibly smeared on his genitals or anal area, sometimes with a hard brush.”

2014 June 17, Helen Davidson, “Blackballing and blanket beatings: decades of abuse at defence training school revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang, Australia, New Zealand) To smear a male's genitals or anus with boot polish or similar substance against his will.


gin

Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.

His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.

1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, volume 1, page 273:

On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.

1879 December 31, “Obituary”, in The Hobart Mercury, page 2:

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.

How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin!

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XXI, in Capricornia, D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 353:

Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.

1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 179:

But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.

2008, Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia, unnumbered page:

(Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.


negri

is-noun

negri m (genitive singular negra, nominative plural negrar)

negra (genitive singular)
negrar (nominative plural)
negri (indefinite nominative singular)
negrinn (definite nominative singular)
negrar (indefinite nominative plural)
negrarnir (definite nominative plural)
negra (accusative indefinite singular)
negrann (accusative definite singular)
negra (accusative indefinite plural)
negrana (accusative definite plural)
negra (dative indefinite singular)
negranum (dative definite singular)
negrum (dative indefinite plural)
negrunum (dative definite plural)
negra (genitive indefinite singular)
negrans (definite genitive singular)
negra (genitive indefinite plural)
negranna (definite genitive plural)

First appeared in writing in the late 18ᵗʰ century. Borrowed from Danish neger, borrowed from German Neger, borrowed from French nègre, borrowed from Spanish negro and Portuguese negro, both inherited from Latin niger (“black”).

(ethnic slur, offensive, vulgar) A black person, negro


Slurpee

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From slurp + -ee. Originally a brand name.

(Canada, US) A slushie; a partially-frozen drink made of small ice crystals flavored with syrup.


Slush Puppie

Blend of slush + hushpuppy, a trademark.

(British) A slushie, a slush — a non-alcoholic drink made of small ice crystals flavoured with syrup.

Slush Puppy

an alcoholic drink; not to be confused with slush puppy


tannoy

A genericised trademark of Tannoy Ltd, a manufacturer of public address systems. "Tannoy" is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy, which was the material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company.

Terry Putnam, from Weymouth, adds: "Riding home from Bristol a few days ago, as we approached Weymouth the guard announced over the tannoy 'The next station is Weymouth - please remember to take all your luggage and children with you...'"

2020 August 12, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 70:

public address system
public address system

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) A public address system.


pigfucker

(slang, vulgar, derogatory or offensive) One who has sex with overweight women.


sellotape

en-noun

sellotape (countable and uncountable, plural sellotapes)

From genericized trademark Sellotape, from cello(phane) + tape. The spelling with S- was to avoid an existing trademark on the word Cellophane itself.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Adhesive tape.


tarmac

en-verb

tarmac (third-person singular simple present tarmacs, present participle tarmacking or tarmacing or tarmaccing, simple past and past participle tarmacked or tarmaced or tarmacced)

tarmacs (present singular third-person)
tarmacking (participle present)
tarmacing (participle present)
tarmaccing (participle present)
tarmacked (participle past)
tarmacked (past)
tarmaced (participle past)
tarmaced (past)
tarmacced (participle past)
tarmacced (past)

Clipping of tarmacadam, which is from tar + macadam (“crushed stones”). Originally a trademark owned by its inventor, Edgar Hooley.

"It is not unusual these days for the time spent tarmacking to exceed the time spent in the air, " said Senator John Danforth, R-Mo.

1989, Donald F. Wood, James C. Johnson, Contemporary Transportation, →ISBN, page 213:

(aviation) To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.


tarmac

Borrowed from English, a clipping of tarmacadam. Genericized trademark.


wog

The origins are not entirely clear. The term was first noted by the lexicographer F.C. Bowen in 1929, in his Sea Slang: a dictionary of the old-timers’ expressions and epithets, where he defines wogs as "lower class Babu shipping clerks on the Indian coast."
The most common theory is that it is a clipping of golliwog, which was first used as the name of a black-faced doll in Florence Upton’s 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. A variety of folk etymologies exist, with the most common claiming that the word is an acronym for one of either westernized, worthy, wily, or wonderful preceding “Oriental gentlemen”. Another erroneous claim is that it was used in the mid 1800s, with WOGS (meaning Working On Government Service) stencilled on the shirts of Indian workers in Egypt.
The Scientologist sense is from the usage of L. Ron Hubbard, who apparently accepted the folk etymology from “worthy Oriental gentleman” but employed the term to mean “common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid”.

perker

an offensive term for a dark-skinned person

'One of the little Indian girls whose name is Polly has just come in to ask, " Miss D., what is a wog? One white boy called me a polliwog, and I thought a wog must be something bad."'

1889, The American Missionary Volume 43 p. 81:

"The King Edward's Horse called the Indian Cavalry 'The Wogs'—which is the diminutive of 'Golliwogs',—a description that was very apt of these dark apparitions in khaki and tin-hats."

1921, Lionel James, chapter 18, in The History of King Edward's Horse, page 188:

(UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any person who looks in-between "white" and "black": originally specifically an Indian, but later also broadened to anybody of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.


merde

Borrowed from Italian merda (“shit, crap”).


merde

→ English: merde

Inherited from Middle French merde, from Old French merde, from Latin merda.

Aïe, cette télé de merde !


Zip drive

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A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”).

(computing) A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).


copha

A vegetable shortening made of coconut oil, used in cooking.


walkman

en-noun

walkman (plural walkmans or (uncommon) walkmen)

walkmans (plural)
walkmen (plural uncommon)

Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark, Walkman.

Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.

2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):

A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.


walkman

pt-noun

walkman m (plural walkmans or walkmen or walkman)

walkmans (plural)
walkmen (plural)
walkman (plural)

[ˈwɔk.mẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈwɔk.mẽɪ̯̃]

[ˈwɔk.mẽɪ̯̃]

Unadapted borrowing from English walkman.


missus

Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.

'Scuse me missus, but your petticoat's showing.

Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.

2013, C. S. Peters, On a Wing and a Prayer, page 161:

(colloquial) Term of address for a woman.


breathalyzer

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Blend of breath + analyzer. Originally a trademark of Smith & Wesson.

During the three day class we took one day of classroom study followed by one day of operating the breathalyzer and one day of drinking. Yes, I said drinking. […] I hated it but I got it down long enough to take the breathalyzer test. I blew a .11 on the model 900A Breathalyzer.

2012, G. Douglas Ward, Memories of a Small-Town Cop, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 73:

A device that measures alcohol in expired air so as to estimate the concentration of alcohol in a person's blood; used by traffic police in cases of suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol.

alkoholimetro

a device that measures alcohol in expired air


toon

But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?

1872, David Ross Locke, The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby, page 556:

Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.

1876, Eneas Sweetland Dallas -, Once a Week, page 45:

“But toon up, and a song all round.”

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 39:

Why suddenly you're so eager to know the toon, now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear no toon.


belle

From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.


macaroni

en-noun

macaroni (countable and uncountable, plural macaronis or macaronies)

→ Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)

→ Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)

→ Malay:

Arabic script: ماكاروني

Latin script: makaroni

→ Scottish Gaelic: macaroni

From Italian maccaroni, plural of maccarone, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni, fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, favored by the gods”), and from maccare (“to bruise, to crush”), archaic variant of ammaccare, from Latin maccāre (“to bruise, to crush”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.

cog

Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, among frogs or maccaronis, to procure sucre noir, or inchiostro nero.

1845 December 15, Frances Anne Kemble, letter

(countable, ethnic slur) Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).


escalator

From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin e (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency. See the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by escalate, and is equivalent to escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.

They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.


escalator

Borrowed from English. Genericized trademark.


gabacho

es-noun

gabacho m (plural gabachos, feminine gabacha, feminine plural gabachas)

gabachos (plural)
gabacha (feminine)
gabachas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).

(colloquial, derogatory, Mexico) foreigner, gringo, specifically, from the United States


redskin

From red + skin.
References to indigenous Americans' skin being red can be found from the 1580s, although not consistently (another European in 1584 described indigenous Americans as "yellowish"); in some cases the reference may be not to their skin color per se but to their painting themselves with red paint. A letter ostensibly from 1699, which was formerly cited as the earliest reference to "red skins", was not published until 1900 and is now recognized as fake.
The earliest documented instance of the term "redskin" is from a 1769 discussion between the Piankeshaw and John Wilkins, this and other early uses appear to be translating terms meaning red + skin, flesh, or people that the tribes of the Illinois / Mississippi Valley area used to refer to themselves when communicating with the French (who translated such terms as French peau-rouge) and with English-speakers (whence redskin).
Piecewise doublet of Rauðskinna.

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(ethnic slur, offensive) A Native American.


sand nigger

→ Finnish: hiekkaneekeri (calque)

From sand + nigger, referring to the several deserts located in much of the region.

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern or North African descent.

perker

Lafferty would point to one cracked Islamic plate ( which was in a case in the dining room in Honolulu ) and say “ can you believe this piece of shit is worth millions of dollars ? ' Lafferty would say the Islamic art was made by ' sand niggers '.

1996, Pony Duke, Jason Thomas, Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke, page 206:

[…] which included a drive-by shooting at a mosque in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and verbal and physical assaults on Muslims who were called “sand niggers."

2003, Jennifer Spangler, A Memorial to Terrorism's Victims, page 7:

At local universities, there were a few incidents of students spitting on and throwing rocks at Muslim women. Verbal violence was also reported. One teenage interviewee described separate incidents in which two brothers were called sand niggers, and one was brutally beaten.

2008, Katherine Pratt Ewing, Being and Belonging: Muslims in the United States Since 9/11, page 84:

We didn't hate blacks anymore we hated Muslims. They were the new type of niggers to all the Navy men and us, and veterans in our town called them “sand niggers."

2015, Jared William Carter, The Southern Saint of Tennessee:

(derogatory, offensive, religious slur) A Muslim.


wonderbra

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From the brand name Wonderbra, from wonder + bra.

(informal) Any padded enhancement brassiere.


tá

Clipping of está, third-person singular present indicative of estar.

Eu queria tá com você.

É bom tá sempre aprendendo, né?


freestyle

freestyle (indefinite nominative singular)

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from freestyle, which was the genericized trademark of the Sony Walkman portable cassette player in Sweden.

pseudo-loan

1997, Annika Thor, Sanning eller konsekvens, Bonnier Carlsen (publ., 2009 ed.).

En freestyle är ju en ganska dyr sak, en sån som man inte köper själv för månadspengen.

A walkman is as we all know a pretty expensive thing; you don't buy one of those by yourself from your monthly pocket money.

A walkman, a portable audio cassette player.


wise guy

(US, slang) A member of the Mafia; a mobster.

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian-American man.


thru

American English
Merriam-Webster
Middle English

Modern use originated in American English as a phonetic and simplified spelling of through around 1839. The spelling had previously been one of several used in Middle English.

(UK, rare, regional or dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of through.


Windex

From a brand of mast-top wind indicator for sailing boats, derived from wind.

(sailing) An arrow-shaped indicator of wind direction installed in mast-top.


jungle gym

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Genericized trademark of JungleGym, from jungle + gym.

Not much later, in 2008, attention shifted south again as the Israeli army invaded Gaza in response to the Qassam rockets launched into the Negev, and the JNF introduced Operation Security Blanket. Instead of building up new Blueprint Negev settlements, the JNF allocated millions for a rocket-proof indoor playground replete with a jungle gym, video game arcade, disco, merry-go-round, swing sets, therapy rooms, barbecue pit and, according to the JNF, "rooms that double as bomb shelters."

2010, Rebecca Manski, “Blueprint Negev”, in Middle East Report, number 256, page 3:

(US, Israel) A play structure designed for children to climb on, traditionally constructed as a frame of metal bars as introduced in 1920.

马骝架 (maa⁵ lau⁴⁻¹ gaa³⁻², literally “monkey frame”)


golly

“Bloody gollies!” muttered David Bromhead, provoked by the assault into bitter xenophobia.

2005, Richard Snailham, The Blue Nile Revealed: The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968, page 217:

[…]poked fun at the American “fashion” of “political correctness” and reassured viewers that gollies and black minstrel shows are just good, old-fashioned, innocent fun.

2008, Theo van Leeuwen, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis, page 137:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person.

Abbreviation of golliwog:
Any dark-skinned person.


angol

angol (nominative singular)
angole (nominative plural)
angola (genitive singular)
angoli (genitive plural)
angolów (genitive plural)
angolowi (dative singular)
angolom (dative plural)
angola (accusative singular)
angoli (accusative plural)
angolów (accusative plural)
angolem (instrumental singular)
angolami (instrumental plural)
angolu (locative singular)
angolach (locative plural)
angolu (singular vocative)
angole (plural vocative)

(colloquial, mildly derogatory, ethnic slur) Englishman


viejo

es-adj

viejo (feminine vieja, masculine plural viejos, feminine plural viejas, superlative viejísimo)

vieja (feminine)
viejos (masculine plural)
viejas (feminine plural)
viejísimo (superlative)

Inherited from Old Spanish vieio, from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus. Compare Leonese vieyo, Aragonese viello and Galician vello.

más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo

Se levanta del sillón, busca en un estante un disco viejo, de pasta, y lo pone en el combinado. —Un poco de música —dice.

2012, Jorge Accame, Forastero, SUDAMERICANA, →ISBN:

He gets out of the chair, looks on the shelf for an old record, made of plastic, and he puts it in the radiogram. "A little music," he says.

Mi abuelo es viejo.

También hay un profesor viejo que se ha vuelto sabio a raíz de vivir mucho tiempo y de escuchar y contar historias.

2014, Victor Muñoz, La noche del 9 de febrero, Punto de Lectura, →ISBN:

There's also an old professor who has grown wise as a result of living a long time and listening to and telling stories.


viejo

es-noun

viejo m (plural viejos, feminine vieja, feminine plural viejas)

viejos (plural)
vieja (feminine)
viejas (feminine plural)

Ya regresé, viejo.

(Mexico) sweetheart, honey (substitute for a male name)

(Mexico) a male sexual companion or partner, occasional or stable; husband


animatronics

/ˌænɪməˈtɹɒnɪks/

Blend of animation + electronics, from the Disney trademark "Audio-Animatronics".

Claim that Armitage was not a real rat but an animatronics one that she had made in Science class.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

A form of robotics used to create robots that produce preset moves and prerecorded sounds.

ShowBiz Pizza Place
animatronics
the Rock-afire Explosion


darkey

The windmill under the care of Mr. Kinney, a kind hearted old Englishman, was to me a source of infinite interest and pleasure. The old man always seemed pleased when he saw a troop of darkey little urchins, with their tow-linen shirts fluttering in the breeze, approaching to view and admire the whirling wings of his wondrous machine.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master.

1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune

(dated slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.

чернилка

(slang, offensive) a person with dark skin


sez

Sez who? – Sez me!

"Whoo!" Dr. Blatnoyd had a soda straw and was busy snorting away. "No worries, it's on the house, as the TV antenna man always sez.... Hmm, missed a little...."

2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 169:


videotape

en-verb

videotape (third-person singular simple present videotapes, present participle videotaping, simple past and past participle videotaped)

videotapes (present singular third-person)
videotaping (participle present)
videotaped (participle past)
videotaped (past)

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From video + tape, a trademark of media company Ampex.

(transitive, intransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.


morgn

Gott wird morgn kommen, […]

1612, Hans Sachs, Comoedia, quoted in 1840 by Wilhelm Wackernagel, in Deutsches Lesebuch, part 2, 2nd edition

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

(obsolete or eye dialect) Alternative spelling of morgen


victrola

Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.


猴子

/xoʊ̯³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/xəu²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/hɐu̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/xəu̯¹³ t͡sz̩³/

/xoʊ̯³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/xəu²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/hɐu̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/xəu̯¹³ t͡sz̩³/

(ethnic slur, slang, derogatory) Southeast Asian (people)


zorb

Originally the trademarked name of a particular brand of sphere; perhaps from orb.

Uneven plains that are interspersed with pebbles and rocks are likely to cause punctures in the zorbs.

2006 March 25, Susmita Saha, quoting Anurag Mehra, “A different ballgame”, in Calcutta Telegraph:

There's even a kids' zorb for the under six.

2007, William Gray, “Wellington”, in Travel with Kids, →ISBN, page 309:

An Interlaken entrepreneur […] came across the activity in the Swiss canton of Valais (the Rhone Valley) and ended up buying the 'zorbs' from a German manufacturer.

2008, Katrin Blumberg, “Internationalisation in adventure tourism”, in Coles & Hall, editors, International Business and Tourism, →ISBN, page 175:

(sports) A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill.


yoyo

Genericized trademark. Likely from Ilocano yóyo or another Philippine cognate.


yoyo

yoyo (third-person singular simple present yoyos, present participle yoyoing, simple past and past participle yoyoed)

yoyos (present singular third-person)
yoyoing (participle present)
yoyoed (participle past)
yoyoed (past)


yoyo

From English yo-yo / yoyo. Formerly a trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo.

a cake that is shaped like a yoyo, akin to a cookie sandwich, often purple and with a margarine filling and rolled in white sugar


yoyo

Borrowed from English yo-yo, a genericized trademark, possibly from Ilocano yoyo.


paramour

English: paramour

Borrowed from Old French par amour (“for love's sake”); equivalent to par- + amour.

bor+

A term of address for someone that one loves.


yo-yo

→ Italian: yo-yo

Genericized trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo, or another Philippine cognate.

I bought a yo-yo from the toy store yesterday.

A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.

(finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.

(aviation, military) A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.

(sewing) A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.


yo-yo

en-verb

yo-yo (third-person singular simple present yo-yos, present participle yo-yoing, simple past and past participle yo-yoed)

yo-yos (present singular third-person)
yo-yoing (participle present)
yo-yoed (participle past)
yo-yoed (past)

The yo-yoing stockmarket whizzed back up by around a quarter and then started to fall again.

1990, The Economist, volume 316, page 93:

(intransitive) To vacillate; to move up and down.


identikit

Blend of identification + kit, originally a trademark.

A picture of a person, reconstructed from strips showing facial features selected to match witnesses' descriptions; used by the police to build a likeness of a person sought for a crime.


Jesus freak

The phrase originally was applied to those involved in the Jesus movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, within the context of the freak scene of that era. However, some Christians now consider it a reclaimed word, as Christians, especially Christian youth, occasionally use it today as a positive term to let others know that they are not ashamed of their belief in Jesus.

What will people say when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?
 What will people do when they find out it's true?
 I don't really care if they label me a Jesus freak.
 There ain't no disguisin' the truth.

1995, “Jesus Freak”, TobyMac (lyrics), performed by dc Talk:

(Christianity, slang) An enthusiastic Christian.


peaceful

Derived from the derogatory term religion of peace, which is used against Islam itself for its association with violent attacks by Islamic extremists, and alleged support and lack of condemnation against them by certain Muslim communities.

They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing.

(India, Islam, Islamophobic, Internet slang, offensive) a Muslim; especially a violent member of a radical Islamist group.


jävlar

Related to jävel and Norwegian jævla. Probably a relatively newer curse word, because no other Scandinavian language has it in the same way of use (except when it is humorously used as an unadapted borrowing in Norwegian).

Jävlar också!

(swear word, sometimes followed by också) damn, damn it


mom

(spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?

(Canada, South Africa, US, West Midlands, colloquial, informal) Mother.

(by extension) used as a term of address for one's wife


Viagra

Marketing name, perhaps from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghrá, “tiger”), or perhaps based on words such as vigour, virility, victory and Niagara.

Just like any other drug that elevates any aspect or level of performance, Viagra has a pretty harsh comedown, so to speak.

2004, Jayson Gallaway, Diary of a Viagra Fiend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 49:

erectile dysfunction
erectile dysfunction

(pharmacology) A brand name of the drug sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.

فِيَاغْرَا

trademark name of the drug, sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction


fumo

Eye dialect spelling of fomos, representing rural Brazilian Portuguese.


bikini

→ Norwegian Bokmål: bikini

From French bikini, named after the place name Bikini, from English Bikini, the name of the atoll where the United States tested nuclear weapons in July 1946; it was reckoned that the bathing suit would cause as much excitement as a nuclear bomb. This name was originally from German Bikini, the colonial name of the atoll as part of German New Guinea, and this was derived from Marshallese Pikinni.

Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "

A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by girls and women, especially one that exposes the midriff and navel.

We high-schoolers didn't understand why death came in the form of a gorgeous young man with muscles in a skimpy bikini.

2004, Cathy Crimmons, How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization, page 202:


pike

Clipping of turnpike (“a toll road, especially a toll expressway; a spiked barrier across a road, originally used to block access to the road until toll had been paid”)
Noun sense 2 (“gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller”) and verb sense 2 (“to depart, travel, especially to flee, run away”) may refer to someone frequently using turnpikes, or may be derived from Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”).

inh

The true "Pike," however, in the Californian sense of the word, is the wandering gypsy-like Southern poor white. […] "I found a Pike the other day killing and salting hogs, and actually hauling the salt pork off to sell it," said a gentleman in whose company we were discussing these people. / "Certainly that was an industrious Pike," said I. / "Yes, but confound it, they were my hogs," he replied, with natural wrath.

1873, Charles Nordhoff, “A January Day in Los Angeles”, in California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Residents, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 138:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.


rosbif

→ Catalan: rosbif

→ English: rosbif

→ Portuguese: rosbife

→ Russian: ро́стбиф (róstbif)

→ Turkish: rozbif

Borrowed from English roast beef, stereotypical food of the English.
Compare English frog (“French person”), from frog legs, corresponding term for French, likewise based on food; and Kraut for Germans.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) an English person


Murphy bed

We lived in just one room with a Murphy bed and a kitchen that looked out on the alley.

2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 104:

(Canada, US) A light type of bed designed to be folded up or swung into a wall or closet for storage when not in use.


gaga

name of the Baybayin letter ᜄ, corresponding to "ga"