muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬／玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”).

gl

"small cake"; <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">Muffen</i> (plural)

ncog

(British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten; an English muffin.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:muffin.

A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).

muffin

cupcake-shaped baked good, American muffin

(baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.

(UK dialect, Northern England, especially Manchester) A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.

I had a charming muffin yesterday. She is engaged to be married, so don't be alarmed.

1854, Margaret Oliphant W[ilson] Oliphant, quoting Laurence Oliphant, Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife, new edition, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1892, page 92:

The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella."

[1865, W[illiam] Howard Russell, Canada: Its Defenses, Condition, and Resources, London: Bradbury and Evans, page 149:

A long string of two-seated sleighs, a pleasant tête-à-tête drive for many miles snugly ensconced in the buffalo robes with your "muffin" by your side, a halt at some hospitable settler's, and an impromptu dance in his barn, wTith a return journey in the crisp moonlight air, left impressions that are still vivid. ¶ The "muffin" was a social institution of those days, which may or may not have survived. Every young swain by unwritten but acknowledged law was permitted to make his choice of a partner for the season, with whom he danced exclusively, and whom he drove in his sleigh and skated with hand in hand.

1904, Arthur Griffiths, Fifty Years of Public Service, London […]: Cassel and Company, Limited, pages 52–53:

(Canada, slang, archaic) A young woman who would regularly accompany a particular man during a social season.


Squarial

(British) A flat, diamond-shaped aerial (antenna) for receiving satellite television signals; it became obsolete in the 1990s.


towelhead

(slang, ethnic slur, religious slur) A member of the Muslims, Arabs, Sikhs, and other groups that traditionally wear headdress such as a turban and keffiyeh or headscarf.


женщина

ru-noun+

же́нщина • (žénščina) f anim (genitive же́нщины, nominative plural же́нщины, genitive plural же́нщин, relational adjective же́нский)

же́нщина (canonical)
žénščina (romanization)
же́нщины (genitive)
же́нщины (nominative plural)
же́нщин (genitive plural)
же́нский (adjective relational)
же́нщина (nominative singular)
же́нщины (nominative plural)
же́нщины (genitive singular)
же́нщин (genitive plural)
же́нщине (dative singular)
же́нщинам (dative plural)
же́нщину (accusative singular)
же́нщин (accusative plural)
же́нщиной (instrumental singular)
же́нщиною (instrumental singular)
же́нщинами (instrumental plural)
же́нщине (prepositional singular)
же́нщинах (plural prepositional)
же́нщина (dated nominative singular)
же́нщины (dated nominative plural)
же́нщины (dated genitive singular)
же́нщинъ (dated genitive plural)
же́нщинѣ (dated dative singular)
же́нщинамъ (dated dative plural)
же́нщину (accusative dated singular)
же́нщинъ (accusative dated plural)
же́нщиной (dated instrumental singular)
же́нщиною (dated instrumental singular)
же́нщинами (dated instrumental plural)
же́нщинѣ (dated prepositional singular)
же́нщинахъ (dated plural prepositional)

[ˈʐɛnʲɕːɪnə]

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ženьščina, from *ženьskъ + *-ina, from *žena + *-ьskъ. By surface analysis, же́нский (žénskij) + -ина (-ina).

surf

(low colloquial) Madam, lady, woman (rather crude but common form of address)


мужчина

ru-noun+

мужчи́на • (mužčína) m anim (genitive мужчи́ны, nominative plural мужчи́ны, genitive plural мужчи́н, relational adjective мужско́й, augmentative мужчи́нище)

мужчи́на (canonical)
mužčína (romanization)
мужчи́ны (genitive)
мужчи́ны (nominative plural)
мужчи́н (genitive plural)
мужско́й (adjective relational)
мужчи́нище (augmentative)
мужчи́на (nominative singular)
мужчи́ны (nominative plural)
мужчи́ны (genitive singular)
мужчи́н (genitive plural)
мужчи́не (dative singular)
мужчи́нам (dative plural)
мужчи́ну (accusative singular)
мужчи́н (accusative plural)
мужчи́ной (instrumental singular)
мужчи́ною (instrumental singular)
мужчи́нами (instrumental plural)
мужчи́не (prepositional singular)
мужчи́нах (plural prepositional)
мужчи́на (dated nominative singular)
мужчи́ны (dated nominative plural)
мужчи́ны (dated genitive singular)
мужчи́нъ (dated genitive plural)
мужчи́нѣ (dated dative singular)
мужчи́намъ (dated dative plural)
мужчи́ну (accusative dated singular)
мужчи́нъ (accusative dated plural)
мужчи́ной (dated instrumental singular)
мужчи́ною (dated instrumental singular)
мужчи́нами (dated instrumental plural)
мужчи́нѣ (dated prepositional singular)
мужчи́нахъ (dated plural prepositional)

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Attested since the 16th century as мущи́на (muščína), from Old East Slavic *мѫжьщина (*mǫžĭščina) or borrowed from Polish mężczyzna, from Proto-Slavic *mǫžьščina, from *mǫžьskъ + *-ina, from *mǫžь + *-ьskъ. By surface analysis, мужско́й (mužskój) + -ина (-ina). Cognates include Ukrainian мужчи́на (mužčýna), Belarusian мужчы́на (mužčýna), Polish mężczyzna.


rug

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).

cog

We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.

1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212:

(US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.


tía

es-noun

tía f (plural tías, masculine tío, masculine plural tíos)

tías (plural)
tío (masculine)
tíos (masculine plural)

Inherited from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

¡Tías buenas!


kartoffel

head

kartoffel c (singular definite kartoflen or kartoffelen, plural indefinite kartofler)

kartoflen (definite singular)
kartoffelen (definite singular)
kartofler (indefinite plural)
kartoffel (indefinite nominative singular)
kartoflen (definite nominative singular)
kartoffelen (definite nominative singular)
kartofler (indefinite nominative plural)
kartoflerne (definite nominative plural)
kartoffels (genitive indefinite singular)
kartoflens (definite genitive singular)
kartoffelens (definite genitive singular)
kartoflers (genitive indefinite plural)
kartoflernes (definite genitive plural)

→ Icelandic: kartafla

[kʰɑ̈ˈtsʰɒ̽fəl]

[kʰæ̝ˈtsʰɒ̽fəl]

Borrowed from German Kartoffel, from Italian tartufolo, diminutive of tartufo (“truffle”).

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) whitey (A derogatory word used about ethnic Danes, mostly used by Danish citizens of non-Germanic origin.)


Ameise

de-noun

Ameise f (genitive Ameise, plural Ameisen, diminutive Ameischen n or Ameislein n)

Ameise (genitive)
Ameisen (plural)
Ameischen (diminutive neuter)
Ameislein (diminutive neuter)
Ameise (nominative singular)
Ameisen (definite nominative plural)
Ameise (genitive singular)
Ameisen (definite genitive plural)
Ameise (dative singular)
Ameisen (dative definite plural)
Ameise (accusative singular)
Ameisen (accusative definite plural)

*From Middle High German āmeiʒe, from Old High German āmeiʒa, from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā.
*(electric pallet jack): From the trademark "Ameise", a brand of the Jungheinrich German company for electric pallet jacks.

electric pallet jack, electric pallet truck, electric pallet truck


γιαγιά

head

γιαγιά • (giagiá) f (plural γιαγιάδες, masculine παππούς)

giagiá (romanization)
γιαγιάδες (plural)
παππούς (masculine)
γιαγιά (nominative singular)
γιαγιάδες (nominative plural)
γιαγιάς (genitive singular)
γιαγιάδων (genitive plural)
γιαγιά (accusative singular)
γιαγιάδες (accusative plural)
γιαγιά (singular vocative)
γιαγιάδες (plural vocative)

Nursery word, compare μαμά (mamá, “mom”), μπαμπάς (bampás, “dad”), νταντά (ntantá, “nanny”), and νενέ (nené, “granny”, now obsolete).

Η γιαγιά μου ήταν πάντα η καλύτερη μαγείρισσα.

My grandmother was always the best cook.

I giagiá mou ítan pánta i kalýteri mageírissa.

grandmother, grandma, granny, nan, nanna (mother of one's parent)

Θες βοήθεια να διασχίσεις το δρόμο, γιαγιά;

Do you need help to cross the street, ma'am?

Thes voḯtheia na diaschíseis to drómo, giagiá;

(colloquial, by extension, very impolite) granny, grandma (to address or refer to any old woman)


παππούς

παππούς • (pappoús) m (plural παππούδες, feminine γιαγιά)

pappoús (romanization)
παππούδες (plural)
γιαγιά (feminine)
παππούς (nominative singular)
παππούδες (nominative plural)
παππού (genitive singular)
παππούδων (genitive plural)
παππού (accusative singular)
παππούδες (accusative plural)
παππού (singular vocative)
παππούδες (plural vocative)

From Byzantine Greek παππούς (pappoús), from Ancient Greek παππίας (pappías), diminutive form of πάππας (páppas, “daddy”).

Ο παππούς μου πολέμησε στον Βʹ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο.
O pappoús mou polémise ston Vʹ Pagkósmio Pólemo.
My grandpa fought in World War II.

grandfather, grandad, grandpa (father of one's parents)


Bible thumper

Zeal and knowledge have here a wide field ; the calm, thoughtful logician ; the cold, phlegmatic reasoner ; the cautious, pathetic pleader ; the shouting, stamping Bible thumper ; all have their mission, all have their followers and admirers...

1870, J. Ashworth, “Old Ab'.”, in Strange Tales from Humble Life, Manchester: Tubbs and Brook, page 253:

The terms "Blue Light," "Holy Joe" and "Bible Thumper" began to lose some of their venom ; religion in the army was respected.

1900 June 16, Joseph Paul, “Lord Roberts in Times of Peace”, in The Standard, volume 47, number 42, Chicago: Goodman & Dickerson, page 7:

But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.

1984, Anthony West, H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, →OL, page 126:

(derogatory) A Christian fundamentalist or overzealous evangelical Christian.


lê

Eye dialect spelling of ler, representing Brazil Portuguese.


Fidschi

de-noun

Fidschi m (strong, genitive Fidschis, plural Fidschis or Fidschi, feminine Fidschi)

Fidschis (genitive)
Fidschis (plural)
Fidschi (plural)
Fidschi (feminine)
Fidschi (nominative singular)
Fidschis (definite nominative plural)
Fidschi (definite nominative plural)
Fidschis (genitive singular)
Fidschis (definite genitive plural)
Fidschi (definite genitive plural)
Fidschi (dative singular)
Fidschis (dative definite plural)
Fidschi (dative definite plural)
Fidschi (accusative singular)
Fidschis (accusative definite plural)
Fidschi (accusative definite plural)

Originated in former East Germany. Formerly written as Vitschi.

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Vietnamese person

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, by extension) East Asian or Southeast Asian person


redneck

Compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.

Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

1989, “Fight the Power”, in Fear of a Black Planet, performed by Public Enemy:

Southern United States
Southern United States

(slang, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.

(UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries, religious slur) A Roman Catholic.


votator

Coined as a brand name by the Girdler Company in 1936. Perhaps related to rotate?

The Company produces dough products which are extruded from a machine called a votator. Hot cooking oil, along with flour and other ingredients, is pumped into the votator by a pressure pump.

1985, Labor Arbitration Information System, volume 2, page 303:

In the following paragraphs, the general principle of votator margarine processing (about 80% fat) is described.

1994, Frank D. Gunstone, John L. Harwood, Fred B. Padley, The Lipid Handbook, Second Edition, page 291:

The required proportions of fat and aqueous phases may be continuously stirred in a premix tank to create a loose emulsion suitable for pumping into the votator line.

2017, Ullmann's Food and Feed, 3 Volume Set, volume 2, page 836:

Margarine manufacture involves preparation of the water-in-fat emulsion, crystallization of the fat phase, and finally plasticizing in scraped surface heat exchangers (votators).

2017, Casimir C. Akoh, Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition:

A machine that cools and kneads liquid margarine etc., preparatory to packaging.


Syrette

Originally a trademark; from syringe + -ette.

A collapsible tube with a hypodermic needle containing a single dose of a medicine.


voicemail

en-noun

voicemail (countable and uncountable, plural voicemails)

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From voice + mail, genericized trademark.

(uncountable) A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.


EpiPen

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Originally a trademark; a marketing coinage, presumably a blend of epinephrine + pen.

Alternative form of epipen (genericized term)


celo

(UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) sellotape; (UK, AU) sticky tape; (US) Scotch tape; adhesive tape


дон

ru-noun+

дон • (don) m anim (genitive до́на, nominative plural до́ны, genitive plural до́нов)

don (romanization)
до́на (genitive)
до́ны (nominative plural)
до́нов (genitive plural)
до́н (nominative singular)
до́ны (nominative plural)
до́на (genitive singular)
до́нов (genitive plural)
до́ну (dative singular)
до́нам (dative plural)
до́на (accusative singular)
до́нов (accusative plural)
до́ном (instrumental singular)
до́нами (instrumental plural)
до́не (prepositional singular)
до́нах (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Spanish don and Italian don.


bez

extra placitum, besz voley, nad volyą

1532, Bartłomiej z Bydgoszczy, Słownik łacińsko-polski, page 116b:

(Middle Polish) without; Further details are uncertain.


baguette

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

(ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.


coon

And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff-raff into the room?

1979, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “In the Flesh”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd:

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

(Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.


parti

Eye dialect spelling of partir, representing Brazil Portuguese.


baby boy

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Tyrese stars as Jody, a misguided young Black man who is really just a "baby boy" finally forced to face the commitments of real life.

Says the director: "They've all been raised by women, so they're always trying to show how much of a man they are when they really are baby boys. They have nothing going for them."

2009, Craigh Barboza, John Singleton: Interviews, →ISBN, page 129:

"I have to sit in a class full of baby boys. Don't you hate baby boys?" "What're baby boys?" "Boys who don't know anything about girls," she said vaguely.

2011, Jackie Collins, DEADLY EMBRACE, →ISBN, page 207:

(derogatory) A man who is immature or infantile.


hillbilly

→ German: Hillbilly

→ Russian: хи́ллбилли (xíllbilli)

From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).

cog

Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.

2017, JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, →ISBN, page 21:

(ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.

metsäläinen

white person from the rural southern United States


damned

en-adj

damned (comparative damneder or more damned, superlative damnedest or most damned)

damneder (comparative)
more damned (comparative)
damnedest (superlative)
most damned (superlative)

damned if one does and damned if one doesn't

Damned if I know. (strong assertion that you do not know)


thermos

en-noun

thermos (plural thermoses or (rare) thermoi)

thermoses (plural)
thermoi (plural rare)

→ Dhivehi: ތަރުމޯޒު (tarumōzu)

Genericization of the trademark Thermos, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”).

A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents


コ

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji 己.

ja-kana-mannyogana-etym

The katakana syllable コ (ko). Its equivalent in hiragana is こ (ko). It is the tenth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is カ行オ段 (ka-gyō o-dan, “row ka, section o”).


nes

nesuri (plural)
nes (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
nesul (accusative definite nominative singular)
nese (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
nesele (accusative definite nominative plural)
nes (indefinite singular)
nesului (definite singular)
nese (indefinite plural)
neselor (definite plural)
nesule (singular vocative)
neselor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French Nescafé, a trademark, itself a portmanteau of Nestlé and café.


dry ice

A genericised trademark of the DryIce Corporation of America.

Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like special effects. It sublimes at −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) at normal atmospheric pressure.

izotz lehor

carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state


simonize

en-verb

simonize (third-person singular simple present simonizes, present participle simonizing, simple past and past participle simonized)

simonizes (present singular third-person)
simonizing (participle present)
simonized (participle past)
simonized (past)

From Simoniz, a commercial polish (named after the company founder, George Simons), + -ize.

Remember those days? The way Biff used to simonize that car? The dealer refused to believe there was eighty thousand miles on it.

1949, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman:

Night after night I had to play rummy with Dr. Lutz, and on Sundays I helped him to watch and simonize his Auburn.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 73:

(transitive) To polish to a high sheen with a wax-like substance.


adrenaline

en-noun

adrenaline (usually uncountable, plural adrenalines)

→ Catalan: adrenalina

→ Dutch: adrenaline

→ French: adrénaline

→ Spanish: adrenalina

→ Swahili: adrenalini

/əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/

From adrenal + -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.

coin

(biochemistry) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.


gramophone

[ˈɡɹæ.məˌfəʊn]

[ˈɡɹæ.məˌfoʊn]

From the trademark Gramophone, coined by German-American inventor Emile Berliner in 1887 after the invention of the first phonograph, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “letter”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).


rede

English: reed, read

Scots: reid, reed

From Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō.


linoleum

en-noun

linoleum (countable and uncountable, plural linoleums)

Coined by English inventor Frederick Walton c. 1864 from Latin līnum (“flax”) + oleum (“oil”). Used as a trade name but never registered as a trademark, it was the first product whose name was ruled to be genericized.

coinage

The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.

1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi:

An inexpensive waterproof covering used especially for floors, made from solidified linseed oil over a burlap or canvas backing, or from its modern replacement, polyvinyl chloride.


ato

Middle Polish: ato

Univerbation of a + oto. First attested in the 15th century.

Ato tez vstawyø (ecce ego statuam) slyub moy myedzy wamy a s waszym naszenym po was

1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 9, 9:


ato

Inherited from Old Polish ato. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + oto.

surf

boscie nas tam czci poodsądzali, powiedział ato iako odaycie pokoy.

1588, Acta primi regiminis Sigismundi III, page 84:

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


socio

es-noun

socio m (plural socios, feminine socia, feminine plural socias)

socios (plural)
socia (feminine)
socias (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin socius (“partaking, associated; partner, associate”).


pp

en-noun

pp (countable and uncountable, plural pps)


compañero

es-noun

compañero m (plural compañeros, feminine compañera, feminine plural compañeras)

compañeros (plural)
compañera (feminine)
compañeras (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Spanish compannero, from companna (“company, entourage”). Analyzable as compaña (“company”) + -ero. Compare Portuguese companheiro.

un grano no hace granero, pero ayuda al compañero


muchacho

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Hey there, my muchacho. How's it going?

"So you're talking about a thermonuclear explosion and adiós, muchachos." – Paul Reiser as Carter Burke in Aliens (1986)

(slang) An informal term of address, especially to a young man; similar to man, chap, dude, etc.


muchacho

muchacho m (plural muchachos, feminine muchacha, feminine plural muchachas)

muchachos (plural)
muchacha (feminine)
muchachas (feminine plural)

From older mochacho, from mozo + -acho. Cognate to Portuguese moçaço.


Kalamazoo

Etymology of Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo County
Kalamazoo County#English

A city, the county seat of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States.


señorita

Borrowed from Spanish señorita. Doublet of senhorita.

I love it when you call me señorita

A young, unmarried woman in or from a Hispanophone community.

senjoriita

courtesy title for an unmarried woman in a Hispanophone country


señorita

señorita f (plural señoritas, masculine señorito, masculine plural señoritos)

señoritas (plural)
señorito (masculine)
señoritos (masculine plural)


mamá

(Mexico) a term of affection for a woman


señora

señora f (plural señoras, masculine señor, masculine plural señores)

señoras (plural)
señor (masculine)
señores (masculine plural)

Ms; a title or form of address for a woman; formerly for a married, divorced, or widowed woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, depending on the region


señor

es-adj

señor (feminine señora, masculine plural señores, feminine plural señoras)

señora (feminine)
señores (masculine plural)
señoras (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Spanish sennor (“lord”), from Vulgar Latin *senjor (“master, elder, lord, nobleman”), from Latin seniōrem (“elder”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senior, borrowed from Latin.

inh

dar un señor golpe


chico

(Mexico) white-nosed coati (Nasua Narica)

Procyon lotor
Procyon lotor#Translingual


bebé

ux

Mira a este bebé insoportablemente lindito. ¡Míralo!
Look at this unbearably cute baby. Look at him!


cachinnus

la-noun

cachinnus m (genitive cachinnī); second declension

cachinnī (genitive)
cachinnus (nominative singular)
cachinnī (nominative plural)
cachinnī (genitive singular)
cachinnōrum (genitive plural)
cachinnō (dative singular)
cachinnīs (dative plural)
cachinnum (accusative singular)
cachinnōs (accusative plural)
cachinnō (ablative singular)
cachinnīs (ablative plural)
cachinne (singular vocative)
cachinnī (plural vocative)

Italian: cachinno

[käˈkʰɪnːʊs̠]

onomatopoeic

imitative

Hīc, quālis flātū placidum mare mātūtīnō
horrificāns Zephyrus prōclīvās incitat undās
aurōra exoriente vagī sub līmina sōlis,
quae tardē prīmum clēmentī flāmine pulsae
prōcēdunt, leviterque sonant plangōre cachinnī,
post ventō crēscente magis magis incrēbēscunt
purpureāque procul nantēs ab lūce refulgent,
sīc tum vestibulī linquentēs rēgia tēcta
ad sē quisque vagō passim pede discēdēbant.
1894 translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Even as Zephyrus' breath, seas couching placid at dawn-tide,
Roughens, then stings and spurs the wavelets slantingly fretted—
Rising Aurora the while 'neath Sol the wanderer's threshold—
Tardy at first they flow by the clement breathing of breezes
Urged, and echo the shores with soft-toned ripples of laughter,
But as the winds wax high so waves wax higher and higher,
Flashing and floating afar to outswim morn's purpurine splendours,—

c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64.269–277

So did the crowd fare forth, the royal vestibule leaving,
And to their house each wight with vaguing paces departed.

(hapax, poetic) flashing, roaring (of the sea)


Ali Baba

From Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā). The use of Ali Baba to designate a type of container originates from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (see the use as proper noun below), suggesting the appearance of the oil jars in which the thieves hide in the story.

bor

عَلِيّ بَابَا

Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā)

(slang, ethnic slur, US, military) An Iraqi.


kwik

en-adj

kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikkest)

kwikker (comparative)
kwikkest (superlative)


injun

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1805–15; variant of Indian. Compare Cajun.

We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!

You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill

1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan:

Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.

2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(US, slang, offensive) A Native American.

en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology


lubra

Derived from the word for wife or woman in the Nuenonne language, an Indigenous language of southern Tasmania.

At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in the fire).

1829, George Augustus Robinson, Friendly Mission, page 61:

Mr. Foelsche's reports show how, at Port Essington, the men will barter their lubras, and everything they possess, for square gin; and, in the south, restrictions have had to be placed upon the publicans to prevent them selling drink to the few natives that remain.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 301:

We went into the house and Roy called out, “Alice, boil ’im billy, make some tea,” and a few minutes later a comely young lubra appeared, a huge teapot in one hand and a plate with a big brownie on it.

The lubras were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one lubra, then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.

2001, Robert Denis Whittle, One Skin For An Overlander, page 166:

As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.

2003, Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer, page 94:

(Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian.


bean-eater

The sense referring to Mexicans is explained by beans being a staple of Mexican cuisine.
The sense referring to Bostonians came from a time when navy beans were a staple in Boston, especially as Boston baked beans. It is sometimes said to have originated in reference to immigrants there, but in usage it more often has referred to Boston Brahmins just as much as other Bostonians, and the assertion may well be only an ill-founded assumption.

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Mexican.


photoshop

From Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.


whitey

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From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).

af

I can't pay no doctor bills / But whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin' still / While whitey’s on the moon

1970, “Whitey on the Moon”, in Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics), Small Talk at 125th and Lenox:

She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw

1970, “Outlaw”, in Outlaw, performed by Eugene McDaniels:

"Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."

1976, New York Magazine, volume 9, number 47, page 102:

Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?

1997, Dave Chappelle, “Racism Connoisseur”, in HBO Comedy Half-Hour (television production):

(especially African-American Vernacular, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A white person, a person of Western European descent.


honky

Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk.
Most likely from hunky (“Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person”), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof xonq (“red, pink”), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men.
As a term of racial abuse it was popularized by the Black Panther Party starting from 1967, who sought a rebuttal to nigger.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky.

(US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.


みん

From Proto-Ryukyuan *mimi, from Proto-Japonic *mimi.
Attested in Miyanaga (1930)'s 八重山語彙 as ミン (1930 IPA: [m’iŋ]).


bobcat

From bob (short hair; with reference to its tail) + cat.

compound

In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: […]A father from East Orlando punched a bobcat in the face for attacking his daughter’s dog.

2023 March 27, Helen Lewis, “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?”, in The Atlantic:

A North American wildcat, Lynx rufus, having tufted ears and a short tail.

чэтыушыумыш

čɛtəwušəwuməš


mother fucker

(vulgar) Alternative form of motherfucker


хуй

ru-noun+

хуй • (xuj) m inan or m anim (genitive ху́я or хуя́^*, nominative plural хуи́, genitive plural хуёв, relational adjective ху́ев, diminutive хуёк, augmentative хуи́ще, pejorative хуи́шко) (* See Usage notes below.)

xuj (romanization)
ху́я (genitive)
хуя́^* (genitive)
хуи́ (nominative plural)
хуёв (genitive plural)
ху́ев (adjective relational)
хуёк (diminutive)
хуи́ще (augmentative)
хуи́шко (pejorative)
ху́й (nominative singular)
хуи́ (nominative plural)
ху́я (genitive singular)
хуя́ (genitive singular)
хуёв (genitive plural)
ху́ю (dative singular)
хую́ (dative singular)
хуя́м (dative plural)
ху́я (accusative animate singular)
хуя́ (accusative animate singular)
хуёв (accusative animate plural)
ху́й (accusative inanimate singular)
хуи́ (accusative inanimate plural)
ху́ем (instrumental singular)
хуём (instrumental singular)
хуя́ми (instrumental plural)
ху́е (prepositional singular)
хуе́ (prepositional singular)
хуя́х (plural prepositional)
хую́ (locative singular)
ху́й (dated nominative singular)
хуи́ (dated nominative plural)
ху́я (dated genitive singular)
хуя́ (dated genitive singular)
хуёвъ (dated genitive plural)
ху́ю (dated dative singular)
хую́ (dated dative singular)
хуя́мъ (dated dative plural)
ху́я (accusative animate dated singular)
хуя́ (accusative animate dated singular)
хуёвъ (accusative animate dated plural)
ху́й (accusative dated inanimate singular)
хуи́ (accusative dated inanimate plural)
ху́емъ (dated instrumental singular)
хуёмъ (dated instrumental singular)
хуя́ми (dated instrumental plural)
ху́ѣ (dated prepositional singular)
хуѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
хуя́хъ (dated plural prepositional)
хую́ (dated locative singular)

→ Ingrian: huja

→ Karelian:

South Karelian: huja

→ Votic: huju

Inherited from Old East Slavic хуи (xui), from Proto-Slavic *xȗjь.

охуе́ть

to get crazy; to become brazen; (interjection) fuck!

хуйло́

dickwad, dipshit, prick, fucker, asshole

Е́сли бы у ба́бушки был хуй, то она́ была́ бы де́душкой.
Jésli by u bábuški byl xuj, to oná bylá by déduškoj.
If a grandma had a dick, she would be a grandpa.

Russian proverb conveying that reasoning in the conditional is meaningless and often used as a response to statements such as, “If I had only purchased that lottery ticket, I would have been a rich man.” Compare English if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.

Переда́й э́тому ху́ю, что́бы верну́л мне черво́нец!

Tell that dickhead to pay me back the ten roubles!

Peredáj étomu xúju, štóby vernúl mne červónec!

до хуя́ ― do xujá ― fuckload

У него́ компа́кт-ди́сков — до хуя́.
U nevó kompákt-dískov — do xujá.
He’s got a fuckload of CDs.

иди́ на́ хуй

fuck you; fuck off; go fuck yourself (literally, “go on a dick”)

Иди́ ты на́ хуй со свои́ми сове́тами!

по́ хуй / по́ хую ([with dative ‘someone’])

(I/he/she) don’t/doesn’t care; doesn't give a fuck

Мне по́ хую, что́ он сказа́л.

Когда́ всё бы́ло гото́во, она́ зале́зла на мой хуй до упо́ра и, ме́дленно дви́гаясь, ста́ла дотра́гиваться до мое́й груди́.

2007, Марк Черняховский [Mark Černjaxovskij, Mark Chernyakhovsky], Времени голоса: сбо́рник про́зы: [Vremeni golosa: sbórnik prózy:], volume 2:

When everything was ready, she inserted my cock as far as it could go and, moving slowly, started touching my chest.

(vulgar, swear word, taboo slang) cock, dick, prick (meaning a penis or a highly contemptible male person)


regarded

en-adj

regarded (comparative more regarded, superlative most regarded)

more regarded (comparative)
most regarded (superlative)

Originated on imageboard website 4chan. Popularized on Reddit beginning around 2022 in response to increasing censorship of the words retard and retarded.

/ɹɪˈɡɑː.dəd/

/ɹɪˈɡɑɹ.dəd/

Don't listen to them they're regarded

2019 June 22, u/MichaelT359, “One of the trainers at my gym has scared me from starting leg workouts. Is it too soon?”, in Reddit, r/Fitness:

Statists are very regarded

Can the mods step up and remove these garbage "pls gib MG2 discord :)" posts? Every other post to this subreddit is literally that, and it's getting kinda regarded.

2022 November 27, u/UniqueCod69, “Go find the MG2 Discord elsewhere.”, in Reddit, r/mapleservers:

45k as a certified electrician? Where, rural Africa? I work in Indiana, get paid less than I would at most places, and still make way more than that. OP is regarded.

2022 December 29, u/enoughfuckery, “anon is an electrician”, in Reddit, r/4chan:

He makes it hard to be a bull right now. For the first and probably only time, I hope and think maybe he's right 👀. Or I'm regarded and now we will see a huge bear market.

(Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of retarded.


buckwheat

en-noun

buckwheat (usually uncountable, plural buckwheats)

Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen.
Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.

der

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.


czekać

Polish: czekać

Silesian: czekać

/t͡ʃʲɛkat͡ɕ/

/t͡ʃʲɛkat͡ɕ/

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čekati. First attested in the beginning of the 14th century.

etydate

Ten ps[alm] powyada, yze Xpus od drewna w narodoch krolyuyøcz, opyøcz yest czakayøczy przyszczym

1916 [second half of the 15th century], Stanisław Słoński, editor, Psałterz puławski, Greater Poland, page 95 arg:

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


czekać

czekać (infinitive)
czekam (present singular)
czekamy (plural present)
czekasz (present singular)
czekacie (plural present)
czeka (present singular third-person)
czekają (plural present third-person)
czeka się (impersonal present)
czekałem (masculine past singular)
-(e)m czekał (masculine past singular)
czekałam (feminine past singular)
-(e)m czekała (feminine past singular)
czekałom (neuter past singular)
-(e)m czekało (neuter past singular)
czekaliśmy (past plural virile)
-(e)śmy czekali (past plural virile)
czekałyśmy (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)śmy czekały (nonvirile past plural)
czekałeś (masculine past singular)
-(e)ś czekał (masculine past singular)
czekałaś (feminine past singular)
-(e)ś czekała (feminine past singular)
czekałoś (neuter past singular)
-(e)ś czekało (neuter past singular)
czekaliście (past plural virile)
-(e)ście czekali (past plural virile)
czekałyście (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)ście czekały (nonvirile past plural)
czekał (masculine past singular third-person)
czekała (feminine past singular third-person)
czekało (neuter past singular third-person)
czekali (past plural third-person virile)
czekały (nonvirile past plural third-person)
czekano (impersonal past)
będę czekał (future masculine singular)
będę czekać (future masculine singular)
będę czekała (feminine future singular)
będę czekać (feminine future singular)
będę czekało (future neuter singular)
będę czekać (future neuter singular)
będziemy czekali (future plural virile)
będziemy czekać (future plural virile)
będziemy czekały (future nonvirile plural)
będziemy czekać (future nonvirile plural)
będziesz czekał (future masculine singular)
będziesz czekać (future masculine singular)
będziesz czekała (feminine future singular)
będziesz czekać (feminine future singular)
będziesz czekało (future neuter singular)
będziesz czekać (future neuter singular)
będziecie czekali (future plural virile)
będziecie czekać (future plural virile)
będziecie czekały (future nonvirile plural)
będziecie czekać (future nonvirile plural)
będzie czekał (future masculine singular third-person)
będzie czekać (future masculine singular third-person)
będzie czekała (feminine future singular third-person)
będzie czekać (feminine future singular third-person)
będzie czekało (future neuter singular third-person)
będzie czekać (future neuter singular third-person)
będą czekali (future plural third-person virile)
będą czekać (future plural third-person virile)
będą czekały (future nonvirile plural third-person)
będą czekać (future nonvirile plural third-person)
będzie czekać się (future impersonal)
czekałbym (conditional masculine singular)
bym czekał (conditional masculine singular)
czekałabym (conditional feminine singular)
bym czekała (conditional feminine singular)
czekałobym (conditional neuter singular)
bym czekało (conditional neuter singular)
czekalibyśmy (conditional plural virile)
byśmy czekali (conditional plural virile)
czekałybyśmy (conditional nonvirile plural)
byśmy czekały (conditional nonvirile plural)
czekałbyś (conditional masculine singular)
byś czekał (conditional masculine singular)
czekałabyś (conditional feminine singular)
byś czekała (conditional feminine singular)
czekałobyś (conditional neuter singular)
byś czekało (conditional neuter singular)
czekalibyście (conditional plural virile)
byście czekali (conditional plural virile)
czekałybyście (conditional nonvirile plural)
byście czekały (conditional nonvirile plural)
czekałby (conditional masculine singular third-person)
by czekał (conditional masculine singular third-person)
czekałaby (conditional feminine singular third-person)
by czekała (conditional feminine singular third-person)
czekałoby (conditional neuter singular third-person)
by czekało (conditional neuter singular third-person)
czekaliby (conditional plural third-person virile)
by czekali (conditional plural third-person virile)
czekałyby (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
by czekały (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
czekano by (conditional impersonal)
niech czekam (imperative singular)
czekajmy (imperative plural)
czekaj (imperative singular)
czekajcie (imperative plural)
niech czeka (imperative singular third-person)
niech czekają (imperative plural third-person)
czekający (active adjectival masculine participle singular)
czekająca (active adjectival feminine participle singular)
czekające (active adjectival neuter participle singular)
czekający (active adjectival participle plural virile)
czekające (active adjectival nonvirile participle plural)
czekając (adjectival contemporary participle)
czekanie (noun-from-verb)

czekaj tatka latka, aż kobyłę wilcy zjedzą

Harren. Cżekáć. Expectare.

1579, A. Calagius, Synonyma Latina, page 264b:

(Middle Polish) to wait; Further details are uncertain.


Jell-O

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Trademarked by Pearle Bixby Wait and named by his wife, May Wait. From gelatin and jelly, following a then relatively popular trend to add “O” to the end of products.

The store brand Jell-O is just as good and one third the price.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jell-O.

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(genericized trademark, by extension) Any brand of fruit flavored gelatin dessert mix.


czarny

Polish: czarny

Silesian: czŏrny

/t͡ʃʲaːrnɨː/

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čь̀rnъ. First attested in the first half of the 15th century.

De coccione ruffa czarney

1874-1891 [Middle of the 15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XXV, page 151:


папа

ru-noun+

па́па • (pápa) m anim or m inan (genitive па́пы, nominative plural па́пы, genitive plural пап)

па́па (canonical)
pápa (romanization)
па́пы (genitive)
па́пы (nominative plural)
пап (genitive plural)
па́па (nominative singular)
па́пы (nominative plural)
па́пы (genitive singular)
па́п (genitive plural)
па́пе (dative singular)
па́пам (dative plural)
па́пу (accusative animate singular)
па́п (accusative animate plural)
па́пу (accusative inanimate singular)
па́пы (accusative inanimate plural)
па́пой (instrumental singular)
па́пою (instrumental singular)
па́пами (instrumental plural)
па́пе (prepositional singular)
па́пах (plural prepositional)
па́п (singular vocative)
па́па (dated nominative singular)
па́пы (dated nominative plural)
па́пы (dated genitive singular)
па́пъ (dated genitive plural)
па́пѣ (dated dative singular)
па́памъ (dated dative plural)
па́пу (accusative animate dated singular)
па́пъ (accusative animate dated plural)
па́пу (accusative dated inanimate singular)
па́пы (accusative dated inanimate plural)
па́пой (dated instrumental singular)
па́пою (dated instrumental singular)
па́пами (dated instrumental plural)
па́пѣ (dated prepositional singular)
па́пахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: papa

→ Korean: 빠빠 (ppappa)

A Lallwort. Perhaps borrowed from French papa; obsolete variant папа́ (papá) is certainly French.


bebo

pt-adj

bebo (feminine beba, masculine plural bebos, feminine plural bebas)

beba (feminine)
bebos (masculine plural)
bebas (feminine plural)


bebo

pt-noun

bebo m (plural bebos, feminine beba, feminine plural bebas)

bebos (plural)
beba (feminine)
bebas (feminine plural)


jelly bean

A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.


coño

(vulgar, slang, ethnic slur) Spanish person


soda water

en-noun

soda water (countable and uncountable, plural soda waters)

From sodium bicarbonate, originally a constituent of soda water.

"Scotch and soda" is a mixture of Scotch whisky and soda water.

Carbonated water, water that has carbon dioxide dissolved in it and has been stored under pressure in a bottle. Usually mixed before drinking with another beverage.


はた

This is the only known citation. The type of cloth is unknown. The three other examples in the same text refer to cloth made from various plants, so this could be the original meaning. Otherwise it may be identified as 機 (hata, “woven”). The pronunciation may have even been /hada/ since voicing is not always explicitly marked.

c. 800: Shibunritsu Ongi (page 47)
絁衣 波太衣
rough silk cloth: pataKINU


vê

Eye dialect spelling of ver, representing Brazil Portuguese.


jook-sing

Borrowed from Cantonese 竹升 (zuk1 sing1). See jook-sing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A Chinese person, especially a Cantonese person born in the USA or Canada, who has overly assimilated to Western culture and has little or no command of any Chinese language.

竹升

Overly assimilated Chinese living outside China


cutie

Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]

2009, Sara Roahen, Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, page 239:


ding

(Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian


kiddo

Okay, kiddo, I gotta run.

(US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) A close friend; especially used as a form of address.


milady

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

Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord.

(now chiefly historical or humorous) An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.


pickaninny

Australian Kriol: biginini

Bajan: pickney

Bislama: pikinini

Jamaican Creole: pickney

Pijin: pikinini

Tok Pisin: pikinini

Torres Strait Creole: biginini, piknini

Probably from a Portuguese pidgin, from Portuguese pequenino (“boy, child”), noun use of pequenino (“tiny”), from pequeno (“small”). In South African uses probably partly after Afrikaans pikenien.

A small white donkey glimmered into sight, and behind it a milk cart, rattling its cans, and behind that ran a small and ragged piccaninny, a child of perhaps seven years, whose teeth were rattling so loudly they sounded like falling pebbles even across the width of the garden.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 134:

What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies

2002 January 10, Boris Johnson, “If Blair's so good at running the Congo, let him stay there”, in The Daily Telegraph:

The pickaninny was an imagined, subhuman black juvenile who was typically depicted outdoors, merrily accepting (or even inviting) violence. The word (alternatively spelled “picaninny” or “piccaninny”) dates to the seventeenth century, […]

2011, Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 34:

(colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child.


greaseball

From grease + ball; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.

(Italian)

Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same.

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent especially, but also used pejoratively to refer to people of Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, other Mediterranean, or Latin American descent.


skype

en-verb

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping or skypeing, simple past and past participle skyped)

skypes (present singular third-person)
skyping (participle present)
skypeing (participle present)
skyped (participle past)
skyped (past)

(transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.

(transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.

I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.

2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:

‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’

2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:

And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.

2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21:

(transitive, intransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.


goombah

From Neapolitan cumpà and Sicilian cumpari (“buddy, pal”, akin to Italian compare, Spanish compadre, from Latin compater, literally “godfather”), a word often used to refer to “family friends” or friends close enough to be considered an “aunt” or “uncle”, though not related by blood.
 To an English-speaking ear, the unaspirated stops of Southern Italian dialects (especially Neapolitan) are interpreted as voiced stops, yielding goombah. Compare South American Spanish cumpa. Doublet of compadre, compeer, and compere.

doublet

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent (often implies the person is connected to Italian organized crime)


dago

Alteration of diego (“Spaniard”), from Spanish Diego (common Spanish name) by law of Hobson-Jobson.

And all foreigners to him were "dem bloody dagoes"—for, according to his theory, foreigners were responsible for unemployment.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

(UK, Ireland, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, or other Mediterranean descent.

"Matilda's making us omelettes, that all right, Miss Tomson."
"Are they going to reek."
"Dear me, I hope not. I instructed her to leave out particularly strong ingredients."
"Just so I don't leave here smelling like a dago."

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 19:

(US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.


пизда

ru-noun+

пизда́ • (pizdá) f anim or f inan (genitive пизды́, nominative plural пи́зды or пёзды, genitive plural пизд or пёзд, diminutive пиздёнка, augmentative пизди́ща or пизди́ще)

пизда́ (canonical)
pizdá (romanization)
пизды́ (genitive)
пи́зды (nominative plural)
пёзды (nominative plural)
пизд (genitive plural)
пёзд (genitive plural)
пиздёнка (diminutive)
пизди́ща (augmentative)
пизди́ще (augmentative)
пизда́ (nominative singular)
пи́зды (nominative plural)
пёзды (irregular nominative plural)
пизды́ (genitive singular)
пи́зд (genitive plural)
пёзд (genitive irregular plural)
пизде́ (dative singular)
пи́здам (dative plural)
пёздам (dative irregular plural)
пизду́ (accusative animate singular)
пи́зд (accusative animate plural)
пёзд (accusative animate irregular plural)
пизду́ (accusative inanimate singular)
пи́зды (accusative inanimate plural)
пёзды (accusative inanimate irregular plural)
пиздо́й (instrumental singular)
пиздо́ю (instrumental singular)
пи́здами (instrumental plural)
пёздами (instrumental irregular plural)
пизде́ (prepositional singular)
пи́здах (plural prepositional)
пёздах (irregular plural prepositional)
пизда́ (dated nominative singular)
пи́зды (dated nominative plural)
пёзды (dated irregular nominative plural)
пизды́ (dated genitive singular)
пи́здъ (dated genitive plural)
пёздъ (dated genitive irregular plural)
пиздѣ́ (dated dative singular)
пи́здамъ (dated dative plural)
пёздамъ (dated dative irregular plural)
пизду́ (accusative animate dated singular)
пи́здъ (accusative animate dated plural)
пёздъ (accusative animate dated irregular plural)
пизду́ (accusative dated inanimate singular)
пи́зды (accusative dated inanimate plural)
пёзды (accusative dated inanimate irregular plural)
пиздо́й (dated instrumental singular)
пиздо́ю (dated instrumental singular)
пи́здами (dated instrumental plural)
пёздами (dated instrumental irregular plural)
пиздѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
пи́здахъ (dated plural prepositional)
пёздахъ (dated irregular plural prepositional)

→ Mongolian: пизда (pizda)

→ Ukrainian: пізда́ (pizdá)

Inherited from Old East Slavic пизда́ (pizdá), from Proto-Slavic *pīzdà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīˀsdāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh₂.

inh+

дать пизды́

Теперь ты ясно видишь мое несчастное положение и, как друг, верно, пожалеешь, а может быть, и позавидуешь, ибо всё то хорошо, чего у нас нет, от этого, верно, и пизда нам нравится.
Lermontov, letter to S. Rayevsky, 1836

(vulgar, swear word, taboo slang) pussy, cunt, twat


wop

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term is not an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms derived from the term.

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


jazzercise

Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.

I don't know when the hearse is gonna be ready, and Mama has her Jazzercise on Mondays.

2004, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear: A Novel, page 107:

Probably because when she got her period, her father had been so completely freaked out he'd left her in the bathroom, bleeding onto wadded-up toilet paper, for three hours, until Sydelle returned from her Jazzercise class with a box of sanitary napkins.

2002, Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel, page 136:

Denise reports that one of the members of her Jazzercise class works for City Hospital, where the nurses also are organized.

1983, Belinda E. Puetz, Linda J. Shinn, Networking for Nurses: Intra and Interprofessional Relations, page 148:

A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.


Silastic

Blend of silicone + plastic. Originally a brand name.

A type of flexible, inert silicone rubber, used especially in prosthetic medicine to make devices such as shunts to control hydrocephalus, artificial heart valves and breast implants.


Rolodex

Blend of rolling + index; a brand name, originally part of a range including other items such as the Autodex and Clipodex.


abequito

la-verb

abequitō (present infinitive abequitāre, perfect active abequitāvī); first conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive

abequitō (canonical)
abequitāre (infinitive present)
abequitāvī (active perfect)
abequitō (active first-person indicative present singular)
abequitās (active indicative present second-person singular)
abequitat (active indicative present singular third-person)
abequitāmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
abequitātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
abequitant (active indicative plural present third-person)
abequitābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abequitābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
abequitābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
abequitābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
abequitābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
abequitābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abequitābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
abequitābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
abequitābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
abequitābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
abequitābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
abequitābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
abequitāvī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
abequitāvistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
abequitāvit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
abequitāvimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
abequitāvistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
abequitāvērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
abequitāvēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
abequitāveram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
abequitāverās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
abequitāverat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
abequitāverāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
abequitāverātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
abequitāverant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
abequitāverō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
abequitāveris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
abequitāverit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
abequitāverimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
abequitāveritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
abequitāverint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
abequitātur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
abequitābātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
abequitābitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
abequitem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
abequitēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
abequitet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
abequitēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
abequitētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
abequitent (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
abequitārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
abequitārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abequitāret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abequitārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
abequitārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abequitārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abequitāverim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
abequitāverīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abequitāverit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abequitāverīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
abequitāverītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abequitāverint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abequitāvissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
abequitāvissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abequitāvisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abequitāvissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
abequitāvissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abequitāvissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abequitētur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
abequitārētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
abequitā (active imperative present second-person singular)
abequitāte (active imperative plural present second-person)
abequitātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
abequitātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
abequitātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
abequitantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
abequitāre (active infinitive present)
abequitāvisse (active infinitive perfect)
abequitārī (infinitive passive present)
abequitāns (active participle present)
abequitandum (future participle passive)
abequitandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
abequitandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
abequitandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
abequitandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)

[äˈbɛkʷɪt̪oː]

From ab- (“from, away from”) + equitō (“ride on horseback”).

prefix

Haec cum recitāta essent, cum tantō clāmōre ad arma discursum est ut praetōrēs inter tumultum pavidī abequitāverint Syrācūsās.

59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 24.31.10

When these had been read out, they rushed to war with such noise that the scared praetors rode away to Syracuse.


жопа

head

жопа • (žopa) f

From early *жоупа (*župa), inherited from Proto-Slavic *ďupa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *djaupāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewp-eh₂ (“hole”), from *dʰewp-, from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”). First attested in c. 1320‒1340. Cognate with Middle Russian жопа (žopa), жупа (župa), Russian жо́па (žópa), dialectal Czech ďupa.

… [жо|па паганна] …

c. 1320‒1340, Берестяная грамота № 1131 [Birchbark letter no. 1131]:

Andrey Zaliznyak
ru:Аникин, Александр Евгеньевич
ru:Гиппиус, Алексей Алексеевич


ちょん

ちょん (canonical)
チョン (canonical)
chon (romanization)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Korean person; kimchi


't

He could not miſſe't.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 6, column 2:

Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t:

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 217, column 1:

(archaic or eye dialect) Contraction of it.

What was all that about?
Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad.
't’s a bit sexist, isn't it?
Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes?
No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!"

2006 February 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 1, episode 2:


white bread

en-noun

white bread (usually uncountable, plural white breads)

Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads.

2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass Is Green, section 296:

evelyn. Fuck you, white bread.
vincent. Oh, I'm white?
evelyn. You don't act black.
vincent. (smiling) And yet, people still treat me like I'm black.

2011, Kathryn Grant, The Good Counselor, act I, scene ii:

(US, ethnic slur, uncommon) A white person, a person of European descent, a person who 'acts white'.


white bread

en-adj

white bread (comparative more white bread, superlative most white bread)

more white bread (comparative)
most white bread (superlative)

[Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.

1993 November 15, Eric Pooley, “Can Giuliani Pull It Together?”, in New York, volume 26, number 45, page 53:

(US ethnic slur) Of or relating to white people.


hottie

From hot + -ie. Sense “stolen vehicle” perhaps from hot-wired.

You guys are pathetic. I'm gonna find myself a little hottie.

1999, Adam Herz, directed by Paul Weitz, American Pie, spoken by Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott):

Junior public servants in the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s graduate program allegedly compiled a “hotties list” which rated female colleagues’ attractiveness.

2023 October 23, Elias Visontay, “Junior public servants allegedly made ‘hotties list’ that ranked female colleagues, Senate hears”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.


broer

nl-noun

broer m (plural broers, diminutive broertje n)

broers (plural)
broertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: broer

Berbice Creole Dutch: brur

desc

Negerhollands: broeer, bruer, bru, bju, butje, boetje, butji, butši

→ Virgin Islands Creole: bru, bro, bruds, butchie

Petjo: broer

Skepi Creole Dutch: broor, blur

→ Papiamentu: broer, broertje, bru

→ Sranan Tongo: brur

From broeder through regular syncope of intervocalic -d- (compare weer, blij, la).

Mijn broer heeft vaak ruzie met zijn klasgenoten.

My brother often gets into fights with his classmates.


farðu í rassgat

Literally, “go into an arsehole/asshole!”.

lit

Farðu í rassgat helvítis tíkin þín!

Farðu í rassgat andskotans auminginn þinn!


rassgat

is-noun

rassgat n (genitive singular rassgats, nominative plural rassgöt)

rassgats (genitive singular)
rassgöt (nominative plural)
rassgat (indefinite nominative singular)
rassgatið (definite nominative singular)
rassgöt (indefinite nominative plural)
rassgötin (definite nominative plural)
rassgat (accusative indefinite singular)
rassgatið (accusative definite singular)
rassgöt (accusative indefinite plural)
rassgötin (accusative definite plural)
rassgati (dative indefinite singular)
rassgatinu (dative definite singular)
rassgötum (dative indefinite plural)
rassgötunum (dative definite plural)
rassgats (genitive indefinite singular)
rassgatsins (definite genitive singular)
rassgata (genitive indefinite plural)
rassgatanna (definite genitive plural)

Hún er óttalega mikið rassgat.

(informal) an affectionate term for babies denoting cuteness; cutie


cate

(hapax) Alternative form of gate (“gate”)


noga

pl-noun

noga f (diminutive nóżka, augmentative nożysko, related adjective nożny)

nóżka (diminutive)
nożysko (augmentative)
nożny (adjective)
noga (nominative singular)
nogi (nominative plural)
nogi (genitive singular)
nóg (genitive plural)
nodze (dative singular)
nogom (dative plural)
nogę (accusative singular)
nogi (accusative plural)
nogą (instrumental singular)
nogami (instrumental plural)
nodze (locative singular)
nogach (locative plural)
nogo (singular vocative)
nogi (plural vocative)

Bipes, Który má dwie nodze.

1564, J. Mączyński, Lexicon, pages 25b, 293d:

Pedes ‒ Nogi.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, pages [767]b, 131b:

(Middle Polish) foot; Further details are uncertain.


meneer

nl-noun

meneer m (plural meneren, diminutive meneertje n)

meneren (plural)
meneertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: meneer

Petjo: m'nir, nir

Skepi Creole Dutch: meneer

→ Caribbean Javanese: menir

→ Indonesian: menir

→ Javanese: ꦩꦼꦤꦶꦂ (menir)

→ Papiamentu: mener

From earlier mijnheer, from Middle Dutch mijnhere. Equivalent to a univerbation of mijn (“my”) + heer (“lord”), formed similarly to English milord.


werk

en-verb

werk (third-person singular simple present werks, present participle werking, simple past and past participle werked)

werks (present singular third-person)
werking (participle present)
werked (participle past)
werked (past)

The LGBT slang usage is very recent and in essence an orthographical variant. It is independent from the far older and long-obsolete alternative form which derived directly from Middle English werk.

Werk it, bitch!

(obsolete except as LGBTQ slang and eye dialect) Alternative form of work


hiisi

hiisi (nominative singular)
hiidet (nominative plural)
hiisi (accusative nominative singular)
hiidet (accusative nominative plural)
hiiden (accusative genitive singular)
hiidet (accusative genitive plural)
hiiden (genitive singular)
hiisien (genitive plural)
hiitten (genitive plural rare)
hiittä (partitive singular)
hiisiä (partitive plural)
hiidessä (inessive singular)
hiisissä (inessive plural)
hiidestä (elative singular)
hiisistä (elative plural)
hiiteen (illative singular)
hiisiin (illative plural)
hiidellä (adessive singular)
hiisillä (adessive plural)
hiideltä (ablative singular)
hiisiltä (ablative plural)
hiidelle (allative singular)
hiisille (allative plural)
hiitenä (essive singular)
hiisinä (essive plural)
hiideksi (singular translative)
hiisiksi (plural translative)
hiidettä (abessive singular)
hiisittä (abessive plural)
hiisin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
hiiteni (nominative singular)
hiiteni (nominative plural)
hiiteni (accusative nominative singular)
hiiteni (accusative nominative plural)
hiiteni (accusative genitive singular)
hiiteni (accusative genitive plural)
hiiteni (genitive singular)
hiisieni (genitive plural)
hiitteni (genitive plural rare)
hiittäni (partitive singular)
hiisiäni (partitive plural)
hiidessäni (inessive singular)
hiisissäni (inessive plural)
hiidestäni (elative singular)
hiisistäni (elative plural)
hiiteeni (illative singular)
hiisiini (illative plural)
hiidelläni (adessive singular)
hiisilläni (adessive plural)
hiideltäni (ablative singular)
hiisiltäni (ablative plural)
hiidelleni (allative singular)
hiisilleni (allative plural)
hiitenäni (essive singular)
hiisinäni (essive plural)
hiidekseni (singular translative)
hiisikseni (plural translative)
hiidettäni (abessive singular)
hiisittäni (abessive plural)
hiisineni (comitative plural)
hiitesi (nominative singular)
hiitesi (nominative plural)
hiitesi (accusative nominative singular)
hiitesi (accusative nominative plural)
hiitesi (accusative genitive singular)
hiitesi (accusative genitive plural)
hiitesi (genitive singular)
hiisiesi (genitive plural)
hiittesi (genitive plural rare)
hiittäsi (partitive singular)
hiisiäsi (partitive plural)
hiidessäsi (inessive singular)
hiisissäsi (inessive plural)
hiidestäsi (elative singular)
hiisistäsi (elative plural)
hiiteesi (illative singular)
hiisiisi (illative plural)
hiidelläsi (adessive singular)
hiisilläsi (adessive plural)
hiideltäsi (ablative singular)
hiisiltäsi (ablative plural)
hiidellesi (allative singular)
hiisillesi (allative plural)
hiitenäsi (essive singular)
hiisinäsi (essive plural)
hiideksesi (singular translative)
hiisiksesi (plural translative)
hiidettäsi (abessive singular)
hiisittäsi (abessive plural)
hiisinesi (comitative plural)
hiitemme (nominative singular)
hiitemme (nominative plural)
hiitemme (accusative nominative singular)
hiitemme (accusative nominative plural)
hiitemme (accusative genitive singular)
hiitemme (accusative genitive plural)
hiitemme (genitive singular)
hiisiemme (genitive plural)
hiittemme (genitive plural rare)
hiittämme (partitive singular)
hiisiämme (partitive plural)
hiidessämme (inessive singular)
hiisissämme (inessive plural)
hiidestämme (elative singular)
hiisistämme (elative plural)
hiiteemme (illative singular)
hiisiimme (illative plural)
hiidellämme (adessive singular)
hiisillämme (adessive plural)
hiideltämme (ablative singular)
hiisiltämme (ablative plural)
hiidellemme (allative singular)
hiisillemme (allative plural)
hiitenämme (essive singular)
hiisinämme (essive plural)
hiideksemme (singular translative)
hiisiksemme (plural translative)
hiidettämme (abessive singular)
hiisittämme (abessive plural)
hiisinemme (comitative plural)
hiitenne (nominative singular)
hiitenne (nominative plural)
hiitenne (accusative nominative singular)
hiitenne (accusative nominative plural)
hiitenne (accusative genitive singular)
hiitenne (accusative genitive plural)
hiitenne (genitive singular)
hiisienne (genitive plural)
hiittenne (genitive plural rare)
hiittänne (partitive singular)
hiisiänne (partitive plural)
hiidessänne (inessive singular)
hiisissänne (inessive plural)
hiidestänne (elative singular)
hiisistänne (elative plural)
hiiteenne (illative singular)
hiisiinne (illative plural)
hiidellänne (adessive singular)
hiisillänne (adessive plural)
hiideltänne (ablative singular)
hiisiltänne (ablative plural)
hiidellenne (allative singular)
hiisillenne (allative plural)
hiitenänne (essive singular)
hiisinänne (essive plural)
hiideksenne (singular translative)
hiisiksenne (plural translative)
hiidettänne (abessive singular)
hiisittänne (abessive plural)
hiisinenne (comitative plural)
hiitensä (nominative singular)
hiitensä (nominative plural)
hiitensä (accusative nominative singular)
hiitensä (accusative nominative plural)
hiitensä (accusative genitive singular)
hiitensä (accusative genitive plural)
hiitensä (genitive singular)
hiisiensä (genitive plural)
hiittensä (genitive plural rare)
hiittään (partitive singular)
hiittänsä (partitive singular)
hiisiään (partitive plural)
hiisiänsä (partitive plural)
hiidessään (inessive singular)
hiidessänsä (inessive singular)
hiisissään (inessive plural)
hiisissänsä (inessive plural)
hiidestään (elative singular)
hiidestänsä (elative singular)
hiisistään (elative plural)
hiisistänsä (elative plural)
hiiteensä (illative singular)
hiisiinsä (illative plural)
hiidellään (adessive singular)
hiidellänsä (adessive singular)
hiisillään (adessive plural)
hiisillänsä (adessive plural)
hiideltään (ablative singular)
hiideltänsä (ablative singular)
hiisiltään (ablative plural)
hiisiltänsä (ablative plural)
hiidelleen (allative singular)
hiidellensä (allative singular)
hiisilleen (allative plural)
hiisillensä (allative plural)
hiitenään (essive singular)
hiitenänsä (essive singular)
hiisinään (essive plural)
hiisinänsä (essive plural)
hiidekseen (singular translative)
hiideksensä (singular translative)
hiisikseen (plural translative)
hiisiksensä (plural translative)
hiidettään (abessive singular)
hiidettänsä (abessive singular)
hiisittään (abessive plural)
hiisittänsä (abessive plural)
hiisineen (comitative plural)
hiisinensä (comitative plural)

Mikä hiisi sinua pidätteli? Pitäisi olla jo matkalla!

What the devil was it, that held you back? We should be on the road already!

Painu hiiteen!

(mild, swear word) goblin, devil, demon, hell


teja

Clipping of esteja, a possible conjugation of the verb estar.


lilo

From the name of the company which made rubberised canvas air-mattresses from the 1940s to the 1970s under the trademark name "Li-Lo" (a sensational spelling of lie low).


giaour

Borrowed from French giaour, from Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur), from Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), a variant of گَبْر (gabr, “infidel”); see there for more. Doublet of Gheber and Gueber.

And far beyond the Moslem's power / Had wrong'd him with the faithless Giaour.

1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: John Murray, page 10:

We men are not a race of freebooters or giaours; not when our argosies are prey and food to the evil fish-of-metal whose lair is a German U-boat.

I shudder in delight when I think of two-hundred-year-old books, dating back to the time of Tamerlane, volumes for which acquisitive giaours gleefully relinquish gold pieces and which they carry all the way back to their own countries[…].

2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red:

Byron’s tale called The Giaour is supposed to be told by a Turkish fisherman who had been employed all the day in the gulf of Ægi’na, and landed his boat at night-fall on the Piræus, now called the harbor of Port Leonê.[…]The tale is this: Leilah, the beautiful concubine of the Caliph Hasson^([sic]), falls in love with a giaour, flees from the seraglio, is overtaken by an emir, put to death, and cast into the sea. The giaour cleaves Hassan’s skull, flees for his life, and becomes a monk.

2004, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, “The Giaour”, in Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama, volume 2, page 85:

(religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians.


giaour

Borrowed from Venetan giaur, from Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur). Doublet of gwer.


giaour

(religious slur) giaour (term for a non-Muslim used by Turks)


twinkie

Genericization of the trademark Twinkie.


Jesus H. Christ

Unknown. Extension of Jesus Christ with a fantastical middle initial, perhaps derived from a reading of ΙΗΣ (IĒS) (sometimes ΙΗϹ, using a lunate sigma), a Greek-alphabet abbreviation for Jesus (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ) as three initials in Latin letters. See "Christogram" at Wikipedia.
The earliest use of the phrase is unknown, although according to Mark Twain (1835-1910) it was already common in the region of Hannibal, Missouri when he was a boy.

Jake: Yes! Yes! Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ, I have seen the light!

1980 June, Dan Aykroyd, John Landis, The Blues Brothers, Universal Pictures:

Stanton Boyd: Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick. First of all... Alan Stanwyk does not own one single share of stock.

1985, Andrew Bergman, Fletch, Universal Pictures:

“I’m gonna get outta their way,” he mutters, then snorts without mirth. “All I had were jacks.” We believe him, of course. What are jacks, after all, once Beelzebub and Jesus H. Christ get involved?

2004, James McManus, Positively Fifth Street:

“Jesus H. Christ on the cross,” he said. He caught my reflected gaze and held it. “How long have you known about this?”

2004, Marsha Moyer, The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels:

(potentially offensive) Jesus Christ (expression of surprise, shock, etc.)


くろ

Attested in the Butsurui Shōko (1775).
Unknown. Possibly a dialectal form of 蟋蟀(コオロギ) (kōrogi, “cricket”), but no sources support this.


oreo

The young woman said, "Well, actually we do have one minority student."
The young man chimed in, "Yeah, but he's an oreo."
"An oreo?" I asked. "Please define the term oreo."
"You know," the young man said. "Black on the outside, and white in the middle."

2012, Walter B.J. Mitchell, Stories I Tell My High School English Students, page 78:


neoprene

en-noun

neoprene (countable and uncountable, plural neoprenes)

US, 1930s; genericized trademark for DuPont brand of polychloroprene. neo- (“new”) + isoprene (dropping the iso-), the latter from terpene. Originally called duprene (blend of DuPont and isoprene); the “new” is because neoprene was the first mass-produced general-purpose synthetic rubber.

A synthetic rubber, a polymer of chloroprene, commonly used in wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces, electrical insulation, liquid and sheet-applied elastomeric membranes and flashings, car fan belts, etc.

نيوبرين

synthetic rubber, a polymer of chloroprene, used in various consumer products


κύριος

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κύριος • (kýrios) m (plural κύριοι, feminine κυρία)

kýrios (romanization)
κύριοι (plural)
κυρία (feminine)
κύριος (nominative singular)
κύριοι (nominative plural)
κυρίου (genitive singular)
κυρίων (genitive plural)
κύριο (accusative singular)
κυρίους (accusative plural)
κύριε (singular vocative)
κύριοι (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “who has power”) (noun and adjective).
For the "mister (term of address)" sense, from Koine Greek Κύριος (Kúrios), and a semantic loan from French monsieur or Italian signore.
Compare Mariupol Greek ки́риос (kírios).

lbor

mister (title conferred on an adult male)

formal spelling: Κύριος (Kýrios)


μάγος

grc-noun

μάγος • (mágos) m (genitive μάγου); second declension

mágos (romanization)
μάγου (genitive)
ὁ μᾰ́γος (nominative singular)
τὼ μᾰ́γω (dual nominative)
οἱ μᾰ́γοι (nominative plural)
τοῦ μᾰ́γου (genitive singular)
τοῖν μᾰ́γοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν μᾰ́γων (genitive plural)
τῷ μᾰ́γῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν μᾰ́γοιν (dative dual)
τοῖς μᾰ́γοις (dative plural)
τὸν μᾰ́γον (accusative singular)
τὼ μᾰ́γω (accusative dual)
τοὺς μᾰ́γους (accusative plural)
μᾰ́γε (singular vocative)
μᾰ́γω (dual vocative)
μᾰ́γοι (plural vocative)

Greek: μάγος (mágos)

→ Coptic: ⲙⲁⲅⲟⲥ (magos)

→ Latin: magus (see there for further descendants)

→ Russian: маг (mag)

Borrowed from Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐏁 (m-gu-š /maguš/).

(hapax) name of one of the tribes of the Medes. This usage is only attested once; Herodotus Histories 1.101.


папаша

ru-noun+

папа́ша • (papáša) m anim (genitive папа́ши, nominative plural папа́ши, genitive plural папа́ш)

папа́ша (canonical)
papáša (romanization)
папа́ши (genitive)
папа́ши (nominative plural)
папа́ш (genitive plural)
папа́ша (nominative singular)
папа́ши (nominative plural)
папа́ши (genitive singular)
папа́ш (genitive plural)
папа́ше (dative singular)
папа́шам (dative plural)
папа́шу (accusative singular)
папа́ш (accusative plural)
папа́шей (instrumental singular)
папа́шею (instrumental singular)
папа́шами (instrumental plural)
папа́ше (prepositional singular)
папа́шах (plural prepositional)
папа́ш (singular vocative)
папа́ша (dated nominative singular)
папа́ши (dated nominative plural)
папа́ши (dated genitive singular)
папа́шъ (dated genitive plural)
папа́шѣ (dated dative singular)
папа́шамъ (dated dative plural)
папа́шу (accusative dated singular)
папа́шъ (accusative dated plural)
папа́шей (dated instrumental singular)
папа́шею (dated instrumental singular)
папа́шами (dated instrumental plural)
папа́шѣ (dated prepositional singular)
папа́шахъ (dated plural prepositional)

Ru-папа́ша.ogg

familiar term of address for an (elderly) man


батя

ба́тя • (bátja) m anim (genitive ба́ти, nominative plural ба́ти, genitive plural ба́тей, diminutive ба́тька or ба́тюшка)

ба́тя (canonical)
bátja (romanization)
ба́ти (genitive)
ба́ти (nominative plural)
ба́тей (genitive plural)
ба́тька (diminutive)
ба́тюшка (diminutive)
ба́тя (nominative singular)
ба́ти (nominative plural)
ба́ти (genitive singular)
ба́тей (genitive irregular plural)
ба́те (dative singular)
ба́тям (dative plural)
ба́тю (accusative singular)
ба́тей (accusative irregular plural)
ба́тей (instrumental singular)
ба́тею (instrumental singular)
ба́тями (instrumental plural)
ба́те (prepositional singular)
ба́тях (plural prepositional)
ба́ть (colloquial singular vocative)
ба́тя (dated nominative singular)
ба́ти (dated nominative plural)
ба́ти (dated genitive singular)
ба́тей (dated genitive irregular plural)
ба́тѣ (dated dative singular)
ба́тямъ (dated dative plural)
ба́тю (accusative dated singular)
ба́тей (accusative dated irregular plural)
ба́тей (dated instrumental singular)
ба́тею (dated instrumental singular)
ба́тями (dated instrumental plural)
ба́тѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ба́тяхъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Komi-Permyak: бать (bať)

→ Komi-Zyrian: бать (bať)

Inherited from Old East Slavic батѧ (batę), from Proto-Slavic *batę, compare to Bulgarian баща́ (baštá). Alternatively from *brat(r)ъ.

inh+

familiar term of address for an elderly man


батюшка

ru-noun+

ба́тюшка • (bátjuška) m anim (genitive ба́тюшки, nominative plural ба́тюшки, genitive plural ба́тюшек)

ба́тюшка (canonical)
bátjuška (romanization)
ба́тюшки (genitive)
ба́тюшки (nominative plural)
ба́тюшек (genitive plural)
ба́тюшка (nominative singular)
ба́тюшки (nominative plural)
ба́тюшки (genitive singular)
ба́тюшек (genitive plural)
ба́тюшке (dative singular)
ба́тюшкам (dative plural)
ба́тюшку (accusative singular)
ба́тюшек (accusative plural)
ба́тюшкой (instrumental singular)
ба́тюшкою (instrumental singular)
ба́тюшками (instrumental plural)
ба́тюшке (prepositional singular)
ба́тюшках (plural prepositional)
ба́тюшка (dated nominative singular)
ба́тюшки (dated nominative plural)
ба́тюшки (dated genitive singular)
ба́тюшекъ (dated genitive plural)
ба́тюшкѣ (dated dative singular)
ба́тюшкамъ (dated dative plural)
ба́тюшку (accusative dated singular)
ба́тюшекъ (accusative dated plural)
ба́тюшкой (dated instrumental singular)
ба́тюшкою (dated instrumental singular)
ба́тюшками (dated instrumental plural)
ба́тюшкѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ба́тюшкахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Polish: batiuszka

Ru-батюшка.ogg

Ба́тюшки (мои́ or свя́ты)! (colloquial) ― Bátjuški (moí or svjáty)! ― Good gracious! Goodness me!

(Christianity) father (term of address for a priest), priest


батенька

ба́тенька • (bátenʹka) m anim (genitive ба́теньки, nominative plural ба́теньки, genitive plural ба́тенек)

ба́тенька (canonical)
bátenʹka (romanization)
ба́теньки (genitive)
ба́теньки (nominative plural)
ба́тенек (genitive plural)
ба́тенька (nominative singular)
ба́теньки (nominative plural)
ба́теньки (genitive singular)
ба́тенек (genitive plural)
ба́теньке (dative singular)
ба́тенькам (dative plural)
ба́теньку (accusative singular)
ба́тенек (accusative plural)
ба́тенькой (instrumental singular)
ба́тенькою (instrumental singular)
ба́теньками (instrumental plural)
ба́теньке (prepositional singular)
ба́теньках (plural prepositional)

familiar and affectionate term of address


banaan

nl-noun

banaan m or f (plural bananen, diminutive banaantje n)

bananen (plural)
banaantje (diminutive neuter)

Berbice Creole Dutch: banana

Negerhollands: banana

Skepi Creole Dutch: banan

→? Aukan: baana

→? Sranan Tongo: bana

→ Caribbean Hindustani: báná

→ Caribbean Javanese: banah

Borrowed from Portuguese banana, probably from a West African language.

(offensive, ethnic slur) black person, person of African heritage


kimchi

en-noun

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.

How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?

1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:

In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...

2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:

... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:

(countable, slang, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Korean person.


ἀλέκτωρ

ᾰ̓λέκτωρ (canonical)
aléktōr (romanization)
ᾰ̓́λεκτορ (neuter)
ᾰ̓λέκτωρ (feminine masculine nominative singular)
ᾰ̓́λεκτορ (neuter nominative singular)
ᾰ̓λέκτορε (dual feminine masculine nominative)
ᾰ̓λέκτορε (dual neuter nominative)
ᾰ̓λέκτορες (feminine masculine nominative plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορᾰ (neuter nominative plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορος (feminine genitive masculine singular)
ᾰ̓λέκτορος (genitive neuter singular)
ᾰ̓λεκτόροιν (dual feminine genitive masculine)
ᾰ̓λεκτόροιν (dual genitive neuter)
ᾰ̓λεκτόρων (feminine genitive masculine plural)
ᾰ̓λεκτόρων (genitive neuter plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορῐ (dative feminine masculine singular)
ᾰ̓λέκτορῐ (dative neuter singular)
ᾰ̓λεκτόροιν (dative dual feminine masculine)
ᾰ̓λεκτόροιν (dative dual neuter)
ᾰ̓λέκτορσῐ (dative feminine masculine plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορσῐν (dative feminine masculine plural)
aléktorsi (dative feminine masculine plural)
aléktorsin (dative feminine masculine plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορσῐ (dative neuter plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορσῐν (dative neuter plural)
aléktorsi (dative neuter plural)
aléktorsin (dative neuter plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορᾰ (accusative feminine masculine singular)
ᾰ̓́λεκτορ (accusative neuter singular)
ᾰ̓λέκτορε (accusative dual feminine masculine)
ᾰ̓λέκτορε (accusative dual neuter)
ᾰ̓λέκτορᾰς (accusative feminine masculine plural)
ᾰ̓λέκτορᾰ (accusative neuter plural)
ᾰ̓́λεκτορ (feminine masculine singular vocative)
ᾰ̓́λεκτορ (neuter singular vocative)
ᾰ̓λέκτορε (dual feminine masculine vocative)
ᾰ̓λέκτορε (dual neuter vocative)
ᾰ̓λέκτορες (feminine masculine plural vocative)
ᾰ̓λέκτορᾰ (neuter plural vocative)
ᾰ̓λεκτόρως (adverbial feminine masculine neuter)

From ᾰ̓- (a-, “not”) + λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lay”) + -τωρ (-tōr, “-er”). The meaning is supplied by λέκτρον (léktron, “marriage-bed”).

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ἔφη ’γενέθλιός ἐστι τῆς ἀλέκτορος Ἀθηνᾶς καὶ ἄδικος ἡ τῆτες ἡμέρα.'

250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.53

He said, "This is the birthday of the unwedded goddess Minerva, and this day is unjust."

éphē ’genéthliós esti tês aléktoros Athēnâs kaì ádikos hē têtes hēméra.'


sê

Eye dialect spelling of ser, representing Brazil Portuguese.


rooinek

From Afrikaans rooinek, from rooi (“red”) + nek (“neck”). The term refers to South Africans of British descent, who were perceived by Afrikaners to wear headgear (such as solar topees or no hat at all) which was inadequate in protecting them from sunburn, and thus caused them to have red necks. Other theories include the term being a reference to the red collars of 19th-century British military uniforms or to the red markings that British-South African farmers painted on their imported merino sheep. Compare redneck.

Again and again the surprise was effected, not by the nation of hunters, but by those rooineks whose want of cunning and of veld-craft had for so long been a subject of derision and merriment.

1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, published 2011, page 470:

“Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”

1904, Sabine Baring-Gould, The White Flag:

'My father was at Bronkhurst Spruit,' he continued. 'How they shot the rooineks down that day! Our men lay in the long grass, while the redcoats stood in line on the road, and they shot them like rabbits. The fools! Their guns were in the carts.'

1906, William Henry Fitchett, Ithuriel's Spear, published 2008, page 240:

That evening […] the other, quite frankly, said that these rooineks got her down, they were all the same, they thought they owned the earth they walked on.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 13:

I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.

1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans.


kömür

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kömür (definite accusative kömürü, plural kömürler)

kömürü (accusative definite)
kömürler (plural)
kömür (nominative singular)
kömürler (nominative plural)
kömürü (accusative definite singular)
kömürleri (accusative definite plural)
kömüre (dative singular)
kömürlere (dative plural)
kömürde (locative singular)
kömürlerde (locative plural)
kömürden (ablative singular)
kömürlerden (ablative plural)
kömürün (genitive singular)
kömürlerin (genitive plural)
kömürüm (first-person nominative singular)
kömürlerim (first-person nominative singular)
kömürün (nominative second-person singular)
kömürlerin (nominative second-person singular)
kömürü (nominative singular third-person)
kömürleri (nominative singular third-person)
kömürümüz (first-person nominative plural)
kömürlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
kömürünüz (nominative plural second-person)
kömürleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
kömürleri (nominative plural third-person)
kömürümü (accusative definite first-person singular)
kömürlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
kömürünü (accusative definite second-person singular)
kömürlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
kömürünü (accusative definite singular third-person)
kömürlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
kömürümüzü (accusative definite first-person plural)
kömürlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
kömürünüzü (accusative definite plural second-person)
kömürlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
kömürlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
kömürüme (dative first-person singular)
kömürlerime (dative first-person singular)
kömürüne (dative second-person singular)
kömürlerine (dative second-person singular)
kömürüne (dative singular third-person)
kömürlerine (dative singular third-person)
kömürümüze (dative first-person plural)
kömürlerimize (dative first-person plural)
kömürünüze (dative plural second-person)
kömürlerinize (dative plural second-person)
kömürlerine (dative plural third-person)
kömürümde (first-person locative singular)
kömürlerimde (first-person locative singular)
kömüründe (locative second-person singular)
kömürlerinde (locative second-person singular)
kömüründe (locative singular third-person)
kömürlerinde (locative singular third-person)
kömürümüzde (first-person locative plural)
kömürlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
kömürünüzde (locative plural second-person)
kömürlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
kömürlerinde (locative plural third-person)
kömürümden (ablative first-person singular)
kömürlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
kömüründen (ablative second-person singular)
kömürlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
kömüründen (ablative singular third-person)
kömürlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
kömürümüzden (ablative first-person plural)
kömürlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
kömürünüzden (ablative plural second-person)
kömürlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
kömürlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
kömürümün (first-person genitive singular)
kömürlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
kömürünün (genitive second-person singular)
kömürlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
kömürünün (genitive singular third-person)
kömürlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
kömürümüzün (first-person genitive plural)
kömürlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
kömürünüzün (genitive plural second-person)
kömürlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
kömürlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish كومور (kömür), from Proto-Turkic *kömür (“coal”).

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar) A black person; a person of black African descent.


dubonnet

en-noun

dubonnet (usually uncountable, plural dubonnets)

[…] greens, and blues through deep-toned dubonnets, grays, and greens.

dubonnet:

The reddish purple colour of the apéritif Dubonnet.


reffo

From refugee + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

‘It may be like this,’ he said ‘Australians are too bloody scared to be frankly unpleasant: Most of them hate the guts of reffos and other alien intruders, especially Jews and Dagos. But they like being liked and cannot resist giving help if it is needed, except, of course, if it′s the boss who needs it.[…]’

1980, Emery Barcs, Backyard of Mars: Memoirs of the “Reffo” Period in Australia, page 73:

On the top floor behind the gabled windows, it was rumored, the reffo family slept. Mishka did not know, until he began attending the regional school in Mossman at the age of six, that he was a reffo. He was born in the Daintree. His mother before him was born in Daintree. But his grandparents had arrived as refugees from a concentration camp in 1946 and the Bartoks were still a reffo family.

2007, Janette Turner Hospital, Orpheus Lost, HarperCollins, published 2010, unnumbered page:

‘There are the reffoes,’ he said loudly. ‘Been here for over a week now and hardly been out at all.[…]’

2010, Alison Booth, Stillwater Creek, published 2011, page 56:

(Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A refugee who has settled in Australia.


beaner

From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans".
Beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine.

You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.

1999, Gregory Alan Norton, There Ain't no Justice, Just Us, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 32:

Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?

2003, Roy Yelverton, “chapter 2”, in Shovelhead Red – The Drifter's Way, archived from the original on 2007-08-04:

I'm a beaner, and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!

(US, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic or Latino person.


slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


spackle

en-noun

spackle (countable and uncountable, plural spackles)

From Spackle, originally a brand name, perhaps based on spachtel which is ultimately from Latin spatula.

Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster.

plamuur

powder that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste


Allen wrench

Allen, the name of Allen Manufacturing Company, and wrench.