dentistry

dentistry (usually uncountable, plural dentistries)

Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science.

1905, Australian journal of dentistry, volume 9, Australian Dental Association, page 184:

A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.

1957, West's Wisconsin statutes annotated, West Publishing Company:

He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.

1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24:

Wig-workers were not the only tradesmen who practiced dentistry on the side, or "assumed the role" of dentist, as the arrival of a thespian dentist from London attests in this ad from Boston's Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser

2000, James Wynbrandt, The excruciating history of dentistry, page 81:

(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.

သွားဘက်ဆိုင်ရာပညာ

the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth

POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.

2009, Siobhain Ryan, “Poor access leads to DIY dentistry: dental checks”, in The Australian, sourced from Dow Jones Newswires:

This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by.

2011, Gregory J. Tarantola, Clinical Cases in Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry, →ISBN:

(uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.

Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.

1908, in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene, volume 2, page 516

I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.

2004, Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story, page 83:

(countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.

They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.

1867, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464:

The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries.

1918, Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism, page 172:

As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.

2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review, →ISBN:

(countable) A place where dental operations are performed. (Not as common as "dentist's office". Compare surgery.)


toothpaste

en-noun

toothpaste (countable and uncountable, plural toothpastes)

From tooth + paste. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskepasta (“toothpaste”), West Frisian toskpoetserguod (“toothpaste”), Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”), German Zahnpasta, Zahnpaste (“toothpaste”), Danish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Swedish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Icelandic tannkrem (“toothpaste”).

cog

A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube


plomb

plomb (indefinite nominative singular)
plomben (definite nominative singular)
plomber (indefinite nominative plural)
plomberna (definite nominative plural)
plombs (genitive indefinite singular)
plombens (definite genitive singular)
plombers (genitive indefinite plural)
plombernas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from French plomb. Attested since 1829.


oxygenase

From German Oxygenase, corresponding to oxygen + -ase.

(biochemistry) An enzyme which catalyses biochemical reactions with oxygen.


oxytocin

en-noun

oxytocin (countable and uncountable, plural oxytocins)

From oxytocic, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “swift”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”, from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”)).

af

from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">τίκτω</i> (tíktō, “I give birth”)

Some women describe episodes of intense pleasure akin to orgasm during nursing. It would be interesting to know whether the release of oxytocin during suckling plays a role in this subjective feeling, as it may do in actual orgasm.

1994, Simon LeVay, The Sexual Brain, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 67:

MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy, greatly increases feelings of empathy (and perhaps the actual capacity to perceive the emotions of others); one of the mechanisms (oxytocin release) is now becoming understood, […]

2011, Mark A.R. Kleiman et al., Drugs and Drug Policy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

When human beings bond—by hugging, kissing, touching, having sex, eating together, giving massages, or even when singing together or speaking reassuring words—oxytocin brings us “in from the cold,” warming us—quite literally—as it redirects blood flow into hands, feet, chests and cheeks.

2012, Giles Slade, “World without oxytocin”, in Big Disconnect, Prometheus Books, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) A hormone that stimulates contractions during labor, and then the production of milk; also plays a role in social bonding.


oxytocin

oxytocin (indefinite nominative singular)
oxytocinet (definite nominative singular)
oxytociner (indefinite nominative plural)
oxytocinerna (definite nominative plural)
oxytocins (genitive indefinite singular)
oxytocinets (definite genitive singular)
oxytociners (genitive indefinite plural)
oxytocinernas (definite genitive plural)


rutter

(now chiefly Scotland) A tool used in peat cutting or for marking off ground.


squint

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.


knob

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob; knot in wood”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knuttô (“knot”).
Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop.

բռնակ

rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch

A hot and strong sexual odour emanated from her fanny. I extended my head and pressed my nose between her lips. I pushed my tongue into her crack and lapped up the juices. [...] Then I moved up and grasped her long clitoris in my lips and began to suck and play with it with my tongue. She thrashed around, sometimes grasping my head with her thighs, sometimes opening her legs as wide as she could, pushing my away while gripping my head in her hands and urging me on. Through it all I kept my grip on her knob until her orgasm began to subside.

2009 July, Angela Meadows, The Education of Victoria, Headline, →ISBN:

He was seriously talented, and his fingers were now sliding back and forth over her wet knob, and she was losing her mind. Almost gasping for air from the pleasure, she felt the undeniable need for her release. […] Then his fingers quickened their strokes against her swollen rose bud, […]

2011 April, Angelica Rose, Labyrinth of Passions, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 133:


canine

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

In many respects she made me an admirable wife. Her affection for me was canine—positively.

1891, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands,”, in Noughts & Crosses:

I look for reflections, in your face
Canine devotion, time can't erase
Out on the corner, locked in your room
I never believe them and I never assume

2000, Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri (lyrics and music), “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”, in Rated R, performed by Queens of the Stone Age:

Then his upper lip may be seen to be raised, especially at the corners, so that his huge canine teeth are exhibited.

1872, Charles Darwin, chapter 10, in Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals:

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.

(medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.


canine

Whatever the case, the pair’s adventure certainly became famous in 2016, when a large dating program of fossils and artefacts from Chauvet Cave, which included the smear of charcoal discarded by the child, confirmed that the tracks constitute the oldest unequivocal evidence of a relationship between humans and canines.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 187:

Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.

You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.

2005, Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, page 270:

(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.


cavity

Mid 16th century borrowing from Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix).

af

Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday.

(dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

кариес

hole and soft area in tooth caused by caries


tea-bag

The old lady had a pile of tea-bags, quarter pounds of butter, cheese, in a bag under the bed.

1990, Iain Crichton Smith, “The Old Woman, the Baby and Terry”, in Selected Stories, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 144:

There was a table in the corner with an urn of hot water on it, and a bowl of tea-bags.

1991, Frank Ronan, A Picnic in Eden, London: Sceptre, published 1992, →ISBN, book 2, pages 114–115:

She put a tea-bag into a mug and poured on boiling water. He slid off her suit jacket and she stirred her tea-bag gently and then threw it in the bin.

1999, Susan Sallis, chapter 7, in The Keys to the Garden, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 105:


tea-bag

en-verb

tea-bag (third-person singular simple present tea-bags, present participle tea-bagging, simple past and past participle tea-bagged)

tea-bags (present singular third-person)
tea-bagging (participle present)
tea-bagged (participle past)
tea-bagged (past)

(chiefly water sports) To dunk into the sea or another body of water


John Thomas

* 17th century. From the forenames John and Thomas.
* (penis): Compare dick, peter, willy and johnson.

We are disposed to think servants an ill-used class. Not only the parlor, not only querulous masters and mistresses, but the press, is against them, and finds its account in ringing the changes on flunkeys, menials, servant-girls, and John Thomases, confident in a sure topic, and safe from reprisal.

(slang, archaic) A flunkey; a male servant.


cakehole

Shut your cakehole! We've heard enough!

He shoved another sandwich down his cakehole.


ricin

It had to be one of three things: A hoax. Or anthrax, which meant I’d have to go on Cipro for a month. Or if it was ricin, I was dead, so bye-bye.

2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(biochemistry, toxicology) An extremely toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean.


actinidin

en-noun

actinidin (countable and uncountable, plural actinidins)

(biochemistry) A protein-digesting enzyme present in kiwi fruit. It is also an allergen.


ogle

17th century. Probably from Low German ögeln (“to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”), from Middle Low German ö̂gelen, frequentative of Middle Low German ö̂gen, from Old Saxon ōgian, from Proto-West Germanic *augijan (“to show”). Alternatively from an equivalent Dutch *ogelen, but this seems unattested (only the simplex ogen). In both cases equivalent to English eye + -le.

der

Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.

2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:


toothbrush

From tooth + brush. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskebäärsel (“toothbrush”), West Frisian toskboarstel (“toothbrush”), Dutch tandenborstel (“toothbrush”), German Zahnbürste (“toothbrush”), Danish tandbørste (“toothbrush”), Swedish tandborste (“toothbrush”), Icelandic tannbursti (“toothbrush”).

cog

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.


partial

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

der

(dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth


chino

es-adj

chino (feminine china, masculine plural chinos, feminine plural chinas)

china (feminine)
chinos (masculine plural)
chinas (feminine plural)

Use of enchinar (“to pave”), from en- + china.


ramrod

(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.


fáinne

head

fáinne m (genitive singular fáinne, nominative plural fáinní)

fáinne (genitive singular)
fáinní (nominative plural)
fáinne (indefinite nominative singular)
fáinní (indefinite nominative plural)
a fháinne (indefinite singular vocative)
a fháinní (indefinite plural vocative)
fáinne (genitive indefinite singular)
fáinní (genitive indefinite plural)
fáinne (dative indefinite singular)
fáinní (dative indefinite plural)
an fáinne (definite nominative singular)
na fáinní (definite nominative plural)
an fháinne (definite genitive singular)
na bhfáinní (definite genitive plural)
leis an bhfáinne (dative definite singular)
don fháinne (dative definite singular)
leis na fáinní (dative definite plural)
fáinne (mutation mutation-radical)
fháinne (lenition mutation)
bhfáinne (eclipsis mutation)

→ English: fainne, phoney, phony

→ Romani: foni

From Middle Irish fáinne, form Old Irish áinne, from Proto-Celtic *ānniyos (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂n- (“ring”). Possibly cognate with Latin ānus and Old Armenian անուր (anur). The initial f comes from a reinterpretation of áinne as fháinne in leniting environments, leading to fáinne as a back-formation in nonleniting environments. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàinne.


mina

minka (diminutive)
mina (nominative singular)
miny (nominative plural)
miny (genitive singular)
min (genitive plural)
minie (dative singular)
minom (dative plural)
minę (accusative singular)
miny (accusative plural)
miną (instrumental singular)
minami (instrumental plural)
minie (locative singular)
minach (locative plural)
mino (singular vocative)
miny (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French mine, from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”).


grin

en-verb

grin (third-person singular simple present grins, present participle grinning, simple past and past participle grinned)

grins (present singular third-person)
grinning (participle present)
grinned (participle past)
grinned (past)

Before 1000 CE - From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, of Germanic origin and probably related to groan. Compare to Old High German grennan (“to mutter”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”)

cog

He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result.

He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.

(transitive) To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.


martello

From Late Latin martellus, diminutive of martulus, variant of Latin marculus, diminutive of marcus, or from malleus (“hammer”). Compare Portguese martelo and Catalan martell.


ligament

From Middle English ligament, from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”).

It so chanced that at this juncture the decayed ligaments of the skeleton gave way, and the dry bones fell together in a heap, thus causing the dusty wreath of cypress to drop upon the table.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Christmas Banquet”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

(anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.

ligament

band of strong tissue that holds the bones of an animal in position


bainne

bainne (genitive singular)
bainne (indefinite nominative singular)
a bhainne (indefinite singular vocative)
bainne (genitive indefinite singular)
bainne (dative indefinite singular)
an bainne (definite nominative singular)
an bhainne (definite genitive singular)
leis an mbainne (dative definite singular)
don bhainne (dative definite singular)
bainne (mutation mutation-radical)
bhainne (lenition mutation)
mbainne (eclipsis mutation)


ocular

en-adj

ocular (comparative more ocular, superlative most ocular)

more ocular (comparative)
most ocular (superlative)

Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

The medication may have adverse ocular side effects.

It took some time after he lost his eye for him to receive his ocular prosthesis.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

1860, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Behavior”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 156:

Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight

ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly

Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
Or by the worth of man’s eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

For as Thomas was an ocular Witness of Christ’s Death and Burial, so were the other Disciples of his Resurrection; having actually seen him after he was risen.

1692, Robert South, “A Discourse concerning Our Saviour’s Resurrection”, in Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volume V, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 171:

[…] I should have been apt to think, that the young gentlewomen and Mr. Lovelace were of longer acquaintance than yesterday. For he, by stealth, as it were, cast glances sometimes at them, which they returned; and, on my ocular notice, their eyes fell, as I may say, under my eye, as if they could not stand its examination.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 300:

Captain Lincoln proceeded to relate some of the strange fables and fantasies, which, as it was impossible to refute them by ocular demonstration, had grown to be articles of popular belief, in reference to this old picture.

1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Edward Randolph’s Portrait”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe, page 32:

Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, […]

1849 October 20, Nathaniel Parker Willis, “Death of Edgar Poe”, in Home Journal:

Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual.


ocular

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument.

Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.


tassel

From Middle English tassel, from Old French tassel, from Latin taxillus (“small cube”), from tālus (“ankle”).

(botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.


laine

From Old French lainne, leine, from Latin lāna.


evil eye

/ˌiːvl̩‿ˈaɪ/

From Middle English ivel eie (“evil eye; envy”), from Old English eage yfel, a calque of Latin oculus malus, from oculus (“eye”) + malus (“bad, evil, wicked; destructive, hurtful, injurious; unfavourable, unlucky”).

nb...

Edited with Introduction and Glossary from the Royal MS. 7 C iv. in the British Museum by E. W. Rhodes, M.A. Langton Fellow of the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester

Each of the young men, in saluting the new-comer, made mechanically, and with care to conceal it from him, a slight gesture or sign with their fingers; for Arbaces, the Egyptian, was supposed to possess the fatal gift of the evil eye.

1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Blind Flower-girl, and the Beauty of Fashion.—The Athenian’s Confession.—The Reader’s Introduction to Arbaces of Egypt.”, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book I, page 25:

The ὀφθαλμὸς βάσκανος, or evil eye, is frequently mentioned by ancient writers. […] Various amulets were used to avert the influence of the evil eye. The most common of these appears to have been the phallus, called by the Romans fascinum, which was hung round the necks of children (turpicula res).

1842, Charles Anthon, “FA′SCINUM”, in edited by William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities […], 3rd American edition, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh.: American Book Company, published 1843, →OCLC, pages 431–432, column 1:

A common dread was the evil eye, and the chief charm against it was in the form of a knotted cord woven by a "wise woman".

1936, Rollo Ahmed, “The Ancient Magic of the East”, in The Black Art, London: Senate, Studio Editions, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.

syri i keq

wicked look conveying dislike or envy believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look

Isma laughed, but Hira drew her shoulders in tighter, reached out to touch the evil eye that hung on her wall and which Isma had always assumed to be merely decorative.

2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 11:

The charm used to ward off the evil eye; a nazar.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 7:21–23, column 1:

[A] Noble Venetian, vvho is ſtill a Merchant, told me, they vvill ſpeedily find out ſome Method to redreſs it; probably by making a free Port, for they look vvith an Evil Eye upon Leghorne, that dravvs to it moſt of the Veſſels bound for Italy.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Venice”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 84:

If you tell me, "Good morning" / I'm gonna tell you, "That's a lie" / If you say I'm old, baby / I'm gonna give you the evil eye

1964 February 18, Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather (lyrics and music), “Evil Gal Blues”, in Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, performed by Aretha Franklin, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC:

(often humorous) A look conveying disapproval, envy, hostility, etc.


yearning

en-noun

yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥-néw-ti, from *h₃er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.

m+

(Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).


crown jewels

The whole crowd cringed as he got kicked in his crown jewels.


rufus

la-adj

rūfus (feminine rūfa, neuter rūfum); first/second-declension adjective

rūfus (canonical)
rūfa (feminine)
rūfum (neuter)
rūfus (masculine nominative singular)
rūfa (feminine nominative singular)
rūfum (neuter nominative singular)
rūfī (masculine nominative plural)
rūfae (feminine nominative plural)
rūfa (neuter nominative plural)
rūfī (genitive masculine singular)
rūfae (feminine genitive singular)
rūfī (genitive neuter singular)
rūfōrum (genitive masculine plural)
rūfārum (feminine genitive plural)
rūfōrum (genitive neuter plural)
rūfō (dative masculine singular)
rūfae (dative feminine singular)
rūfō (dative neuter singular)
rūfīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
rūfum (accusative masculine singular)
rūfam (accusative feminine singular)
rūfum (accusative neuter singular)
rūfōs (accusative masculine plural)
rūfās (accusative feminine plural)
rūfa (accusative neuter plural)
rūfō (ablative masculine singular)
rūfā (ablative feminine singular)
rūfō (ablative neuter singular)
rūfīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
rūfe (masculine singular vocative)
rūfa (feminine singular vocative)
rūfum (neuter singular vocative)
rūfī (masculine plural vocative)
rūfae (feminine plural vocative)
rūfa (neuter plural vocative)

>? Catalan: rúfol

→ English: rufous

Italian: rufo

Spanish: rufo

From Proto-Italic *rouðos. The medial -f- indicates a borrowing from a Sabellic language such as Oscan 𐌓𐌖𐌚𐌓𐌉𐌉𐌔 (rufriis), Umbrian 𐌓𐌖𐌚𐌓𐌖 (rufru), or from a sister variety such as Faliscan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). It might have penetrated urban Latin by virtue of the fact that it was used as an attribute for oxen sold in the markets in Rome. The word rōbus, which ended up being limited to oxen instead, represents the regular outcome of the same etymon.


sanguinary

en-adj

sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)

more sanguinary (comparative)
most sanguinary (superlative)

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.

We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview)

"[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."

1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XIII, in Allan Quatermain:

It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year A.D. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.

1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years A.D. 645-50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty, Cambridge University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:


glutelin

A minor protein (along with gluten and gliadin) in wheat.


blink

en-verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.


blink

en-noun

blink (countable and uncountable, plural blinks)

(video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances


gliadin

gliadin (countable and uncountable, plural gliadins)

Coordinate term: glutenin

Most of the gluten proteins, the gliadins and the glutenins, are around a thousand amino acids long. The gliadin chains fold onto themselves in a compact mass, and bond weakly with each other and with the glutenin proteins.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

A minor protein (along with gluten and glutelin) in wheat; it may cause a toxic reaction in some people.


cornetto

From corno (“horn”, from Latin cornū) + -etto (diminutive suffix).

suffix

from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">cornū</i>


maltase

en-noun

maltase (countable and uncountable, plural maltases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose; often associated with amylase.

maltáza

an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose


haired

en-adj

haired (comparative more haired, superlative most haired)

more haired (comparative)
most haired (superlative)

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.

1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:

He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.

1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:

Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.

2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:

Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.


agog

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

more agog (comparative)
most agog (superlative)

From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).

Cotton Mather came galloping down
All the way to Newbury town,
With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;

1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads:

. . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.

1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale, page 41:

People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .

1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:

Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.

1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190:


crusty

From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.

Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.

1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation,, →ISBN, page 155:

Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?

2003, Mary O'Connell, “Saint Anne”, in Living with Saints, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 209:

I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.

2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, Contemporary Press, page 51


nads

Do you really have the ’nads to go through with this?


biondo

it-adj

biondo (feminine bionda, masculine plural biondi, feminine plural bionde, superlative biondissimo)

bionda (feminine)
biondi (masculine plural)
bionde (feminine plural)
biondissimo (superlative)

Medieval Latin blondus, of Germanic origin: probably from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-. Compare French blond.

der

blond (man, man's hair), blonde (woman, woman's hair), fair-haired


amylase

en-noun

amylase (countable and uncountable, plural amylases)

egg yolk amylase

Egg yolks contain a starch-digesting enzyme, amylase, that is remarkably resistant to heat. Unless a starch-egg mix is brought to a full boil, the yolk amylase will survive, digest the starch, and turn the stiff cream into a pourable one.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 2, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) Any of a class of digestive enzymes, present in saliva and also contributed to the gut by the exocrine pancreas, that break down complex carbohydrates such as starch into simpler sugars such as glucose.

amilasa

enzyme, present in saliva, that breaks down carbohydrates such as starch


bollock

From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.

You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.

(British, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.


Ohr

de-noun

Ohr n (mixed, genitive Ohres or Ohrs, plural Ohren, diminutive Öhrchen n)

Ohres (genitive)
Ohrs (genitive)
Ohren (plural)
Öhrchen (diminutive neuter)
Ohr (nominative singular)
Ohren (definite nominative plural)
Ohres (genitive singular)
Ohrs (genitive singular)
Ohren (definite genitive plural)
Ohr (dative singular)
Ohre (dative singular)
Ohren (dative definite plural)
Ohr (accusative singular)
Ohren (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German ôre, from Old High German ōra, from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from the voiced Verner alternant of Proto-Germanic *ausô.
Akin to Dutch oor, English ear, West Frisian ear, Swedish öra, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ows-.
Further Indo-European cognates: Latin auris, Lithuanian ausis, Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Russian у́хо (úxo), Old Armenian ունկն (unkn), Albanian vesh, Persian هوش (huš)

(anatomy, countable) the ear; the auditory organ

(anatomy, countable) the ear; the external visible part of the organ, the auricle

a highway interchange which is ear-shaped or ribbon-shaped


dead end

Cut the ends of the hair once a month certain — no matter if you do cut but just the tips of a fourth of an inch, cut it. Cut off the dead ends every month as regularly as the new moon comes round.

1890, The Young Lady's Private Counselor, page 208:


Nase

head

Nase f (plural Nase, diminutive Näsli or Näsi)

Nase (plural)
Näsli (diminutive)
Näsi (diminutive)

From Middle High German nase, from Old High German nasa, from Proto-West Germanic *nasu.
Cognate with German Nase, Plautdietsch Näs, Icelandic nös. Dutch neus and English nose derive from an alternative Proto-Germanic form.

(northeast and southwest Switzerland) nose


Nase

de-noun

Nase f (genitive Nase, plural Nasen, diminutive Näschen n or Näslein n)

Nase (genitive)
Nasen (plural)
Näschen (diminutive neuter)
Näslein (diminutive neuter)
Nase (nominative singular)
Nasen (definite nominative plural)
Nase (genitive singular)
Nasen (definite genitive plural)
Nase (dative singular)
Nasen (dative definite plural)
Nase (accusative singular)
Nasen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German nase, from Old High German nasa, from Proto-West Germanic *nasu, from Proto-Germanic *nasō, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.
Compare Low German Nees, Norwegian nese, English nose.


jizz

(vulgar slang) Male ejaculate; sperm, semen.


spunk

en-noun

spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)

→ Irish: sponc

1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).
Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).

der

We are welcomed by 20 year old spunks, as we make a last valiant attempt with our bodies - gasp, gasp - and try to get back in shape.

2005, Sue Austin, Women′s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, UK: Routledge, page 166:

(countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).


albumin

en-noun

albumin (countable and uncountable, plural albumins)

Borrowed from French albumine, from Latin albumen. Compare albumen.

(biochemistry) Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.


fuil

head

fuil f (genitive singular fola, nominative plural fola)

fola (genitive singular)
fola (nominative plural)
fuil (indefinite nominative singular)
fola (indefinite nominative plural)
a fhuil (indefinite singular vocative)
a fhola (indefinite plural vocative)
fola (genitive indefinite singular)
fola (genitive indefinite plural)
fuil (dative indefinite singular)
fola (dative indefinite plural)
an fhuil (definite nominative singular)
na fola (definite nominative plural)
na fola (definite genitive singular)
na bhfola (definite genitive plural)
leis an bhfuil (dative definite singular)
don fhuil (dative definite singular)
leis na fola (dative definite plural)

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil, from Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.


fuil

fola (genitive)
fuil (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟuil (lenition mutation)
fuil (mutation mutation-nasal)

Irish: fuil

Manx: fuill

Scottish Gaelic: fuil

From Old Irish fuil, from Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.


fuil

folo (genitive)
fuil (nominative singular)
fuil (dual nominative)
fuili (nominative plural)
fuil (singular vocative)
fuil (dual vocative)
fuili (plural vocative)
fuil (accusative singular)
fuil (accusative dual)
fuili (accusative plural)
folo (genitive singular)
fola (genitive singular)
folo (dual genitive)
fola (dual genitive)
fuile (genitive plural)
fuil (dative singular)
fuilib (dative dual)
fuilib (dative plural)
fuil (mutation mutation-radical)
ḟuil (mutation mutation-nasal)
fuil (mutation)

desctree

Middle Irish: fuil
Irish: fuil
Manx: fuill
Scottish Gaelic: fuil

From Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to strike, wound”).


fuil

head

fuil f (genitive singular fala, no plural)

fala (genitive singular)
fuil (indefinite nominative singular)
fala (genitive indefinite singular)
fuil (dative indefinite singular)
fhuil (definite nominative singular)
an fhuil (definite nominative singular)
fala (definite genitive singular)
na fala (definite genitive singular)
fhuil (dative definite singular)
an fhuil (dative definite singular)
fhuil (definite singular vocative)
a fhuil (definite singular vocative)
fuil (mutation mutation-radical)
fhuil (lenition mutation)


bile

en-noun

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.

1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:

He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:

Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.


bile

en-verb

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling or bileing, simple past and past participle biled)

biles (present singular third-person)
biling (participle present)
bileing (participle present)
biled (participle past)
biled (past)

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy, page 130:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


bile

sq-noun

bile f (plural bile, definite bilja, definite plural bilet)

bile (plural)
bilja (definite)
bilet (definite plural)
bile (indefinite nominative singular)
bilja (definite nominative singular)
bile (indefinite nominative plural)
bilet (definite nominative plural)
bile (accusative indefinite singular)
bilen (accusative definite singular)
bile (accusative indefinite plural)
bilet (accusative definite plural)
bileje (dative indefinite singular)
biles (dative definite singular)
bileve (dative indefinite plural)
bileve (dative definite plural)
bileje (ablative indefinite singular)
biles (ablative definite singular)
bilesh (ablative indefinite plural)
bileve (ablative definite plural)

Either related to bolle pl (“testicles”), or a singularized plural of *bilë, from Proto-Albanian *beila, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike, beat”), in which case close to Proto-Germanic *bilją (“spike, peg, nail, axe, sword, blade”). Compare English bill, German Bille (“axe”).


bile

English: bill


bas

bas (nominative singular)
bass (nominative singular)
bais (dual nominative)
bois (dual nominative)
boiss (dual nominative)
bassa (nominative plural)
bas (singular vocative)
bass (singular vocative)
bais (dual vocative)
bois (dual vocative)
boiss (dual vocative)
bassa (plural vocative)
bais (accusative singular)
bois (accusative singular)
boiss (accusative singular)
bais (accusative dual)
bois (accusative dual)
boiss (accusative dual)
bassa (accusative plural)
baise (genitive singular)
boise (genitive singular)
bas (dual genitive)
bas (genitive plural)
bais (dative singular)
bois (dative singular)
boiss (dative singular)
bassaib (dative dual)
bassaib (dative plural)

Irish: bos
→ Yola: baush, bash

Scottish Gaelic: bas

From Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *gʷost-eh₂ ~ *gʷosdʰ-eh₂ (“branch”).


dipstick

en-verb

dipstick (third-person singular simple present dipsticks, present participle dipsticking, simple past and past participle dipsticked)

dipsticks (present singular third-person)
dipsticking (participle present)
dipsticked (participle past)
dipsticked (past)

If one of the fuel gauges is inoperative (flight is not permitted if both have failed), the tanks have to be dipsticked before and after each fueling to confirm the aircraft's fuel status.

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.


red blood cell

(hematology, cytology) A type of cell in the blood of vertebrates that contains hemoglobin and transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; an erythrocyte.

كُرَيَّةُ دَمٍ حَمْرَاء

haemoglobin-carrying blood cell in vertebrates


liath

From Old Irish líath, from Proto-Celtic *ɸleitos, from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“grey”).

(hair color) grey-haired, grizzled, gray-headed


buildup

en-noun

buildup (countable and uncountable, plural buildups)

Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e).

2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 103:

(dentistry) The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth.


dubh

From Old Irish dub (“black”), from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black”).
Cognates within Celtic include Breton du (“black”), Welsh du (“black”), Cornish duv or du (“black”), Gaulish river name Dubis, now Doubs. Cognates outside Celtic include Ancient Greek τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌱𐍃 (daubs, “deaf”), German taub (“deaf”), English deaf, English dumb.

Tha Dòmhnall Dubh an Dòmhnallaich a-nochd a' tòir air Mòraig.

Black-haired Donald MacDonald is chasing after Morag tonight.


bell-end

(UK, Ireland, slang, vulgar) The glans penis.

I don't care who he is: he's acting like a bell-end.

is that onion badgies, you meant. or perhaps you are referring to that infamous collection of bellends, known as w.b.a. (win bugger all). it seems they are doing quite well, although they are playing against part-timers. quit

1992 September 28, A. Dowson, “Re: West Bromwich Albion”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 2017-08-03, message-ID <92272.160610ADOWSON@ESTEC.BITNET>:

(UK, Ireland, slang, offensive, vulgar) A stupid or contemptible person.


butterface

Ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her face, great body but her face, etc., under the influence of butter (perhaps also with connotation of “plainness”, grease, etc.) and buttface, which see. Compare summerteeth.

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

I can’t even look at her, she’s such a butterface.

Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...

2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 76:

(slang, derogatory) A person who has an attractive body but a less attractive face.

背影殺手

attractive person with unattractive face


letti

letti (nominative singular)
letit (nominative plural)
letti (accusative nominative singular)
letit (accusative nominative plural)
letin (accusative genitive singular)
letit (accusative genitive plural)
letin (genitive singular)
lettien (genitive plural)
lettiä (partitive singular)
lettejä (partitive plural)
letissä (inessive singular)
leteissä (inessive plural)
letistä (elative singular)
leteistä (elative plural)
lettiin (illative singular)
letteihin (illative plural)
letillä (adessive singular)
leteillä (adessive plural)
letiltä (ablative singular)
leteiltä (ablative plural)
letille (allative singular)
leteille (allative plural)
lettinä (essive singular)
letteinä (essive plural)
letiksi (singular translative)
leteiksi (plural translative)
letittä (abessive singular)
leteittä (abessive plural)
letein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lettini (nominative singular)
lettini (nominative plural)
lettini (accusative nominative singular)
lettini (accusative nominative plural)
lettini (accusative genitive singular)
lettini (accusative genitive plural)
lettini (genitive singular)
lettieni (genitive plural)
lettiäni (partitive singular)
lettejäni (partitive plural)
letissäni (inessive singular)
leteissäni (inessive plural)
letistäni (elative singular)
leteistäni (elative plural)
lettiini (illative singular)
letteihini (illative plural)
letilläni (adessive singular)
leteilläni (adessive plural)
letiltäni (ablative singular)
leteiltäni (ablative plural)
letilleni (allative singular)
leteilleni (allative plural)
lettinäni (essive singular)
letteinäni (essive plural)
letikseni (singular translative)
leteikseni (plural translative)
letittäni (abessive singular)
leteittäni (abessive plural)
letteineni (comitative plural)
lettisi (nominative singular)
lettisi (nominative plural)
lettisi (accusative nominative singular)
lettisi (accusative nominative plural)
lettisi (accusative genitive singular)
lettisi (accusative genitive plural)
lettisi (genitive singular)
lettiesi (genitive plural)
lettiäsi (partitive singular)
lettejäsi (partitive plural)
letissäsi (inessive singular)
leteissäsi (inessive plural)
letistäsi (elative singular)
leteistäsi (elative plural)
lettiisi (illative singular)
letteihisi (illative plural)
letilläsi (adessive singular)
leteilläsi (adessive plural)
letiltäsi (ablative singular)
leteiltäsi (ablative plural)
letillesi (allative singular)
leteillesi (allative plural)
lettinäsi (essive singular)
letteinäsi (essive plural)
letiksesi (singular translative)
leteiksesi (plural translative)
letittäsi (abessive singular)
leteittäsi (abessive plural)
letteinesi (comitative plural)
lettimme (nominative singular)
lettimme (nominative plural)
lettimme (accusative nominative singular)
lettimme (accusative nominative plural)
lettimme (accusative genitive singular)
lettimme (accusative genitive plural)
lettimme (genitive singular)
lettiemme (genitive plural)
lettiämme (partitive singular)
lettejämme (partitive plural)
letissämme (inessive singular)
leteissämme (inessive plural)
letistämme (elative singular)
leteistämme (elative plural)
lettiimme (illative singular)
letteihimme (illative plural)
letillämme (adessive singular)
leteillämme (adessive plural)
letiltämme (ablative singular)
leteiltämme (ablative plural)
letillemme (allative singular)
leteillemme (allative plural)
lettinämme (essive singular)
letteinämme (essive plural)
letiksemme (singular translative)
leteiksemme (plural translative)
letittämme (abessive singular)
leteittämme (abessive plural)
letteinemme (comitative plural)
lettinne (nominative singular)
lettinne (nominative plural)
lettinne (accusative nominative singular)
lettinne (accusative nominative plural)
lettinne (accusative genitive singular)
lettinne (accusative genitive plural)
lettinne (genitive singular)
lettienne (genitive plural)
lettiänne (partitive singular)
lettejänne (partitive plural)
letissänne (inessive singular)
leteissänne (inessive plural)
letistänne (elative singular)
leteistänne (elative plural)
lettiinne (illative singular)
letteihinne (illative plural)
letillänne (adessive singular)
leteillänne (adessive plural)
letiltänne (ablative singular)
leteiltänne (ablative plural)
letillenne (allative singular)
leteillenne (allative plural)
lettinänne (essive singular)
letteinänne (essive plural)
letiksenne (singular translative)
leteiksenne (plural translative)
letittänne (abessive singular)
leteittänne (abessive plural)
letteinenne (comitative plural)
lettinsä (nominative singular)
lettinsä (nominative plural)
lettinsä (accusative nominative singular)
lettinsä (accusative nominative plural)
lettinsä (accusative genitive singular)
lettinsä (accusative genitive plural)
lettinsä (genitive singular)
lettiensä (genitive plural)
lettiään (partitive singular)
lettiänsä (partitive singular)
lettejään (partitive plural)
lettejänsä (partitive plural)
letissään (inessive singular)
letissänsä (inessive singular)
leteissään (inessive plural)
leteissänsä (inessive plural)
letistään (elative singular)
letistänsä (elative singular)
leteistään (elative plural)
leteistänsä (elative plural)
lettiinsä (illative singular)
letteihinsä (illative plural)
letillään (adessive singular)
letillänsä (adessive singular)
leteillään (adessive plural)
leteillänsä (adessive plural)
letiltään (ablative singular)
letiltänsä (ablative singular)
leteiltään (ablative plural)
leteiltänsä (ablative plural)
letilleen (allative singular)
letillensä (allative singular)
leteilleen (allative plural)
leteillensä (allative plural)
lettinään (essive singular)
lettinänsä (essive singular)
letteinään (essive plural)
letteinänsä (essive plural)
letikseen (singular translative)
letiksensä (singular translative)
leteikseen (plural translative)
leteiksensä (plural translative)
letittään (abessive singular)
letittänsä (abessive singular)
leteittään (abessive plural)
leteittänsä (abessive plural)
letteineen (comitative plural)
letteinensä (comitative plural)

(colloquial) Hair (collection of human head hair).


mentono

eo-head

mentono (accusative singular mentonon, plural mentonoj, accusative plural mentonojn)

mentonon (accusative singular)
mentonoj (plural)
mentonojn (accusative plural)

Ido: mentono

From French menton, from Latin mentum. Compare Italian mento.


mentono

Borrowed from Esperanto mentono (“chin”), French menton, Spanish mentón and Italian mento.


womanhood

en-noun

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.

же́нственост

qualities considered typical for a woman

Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.

2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds, page 264:

(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.


stretcher

The jointed stretcher is used in place of the sectional bottom board, with two sideboards, one each side of stretcher. The boat set up this way only weights 20 pounds, and makes a very convenient boat for trout-fishing, duck-hunting, or exploring in ponds or streams where the paddle will do as well as the oars.

1884, J. W. Collins, Bulletin of the United States National Museum: Great International Fisheries Exhibition, page 703:

Directly the oar has been disengaged from the water, all pressure on the stretcher ceases, and the strain of the recovery of the body is eased by a slight pull with the feet on the straps of the stretcher.

1900, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Young Sportsman, page 479:

Betwean each beam of the boat is also fastened a piece of timber called a stretcher or footspur, against which they place their feet when rowing, to enable them to have a more complete command of their oar.

1909, Samuel McSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, from the Earliest Records Till 1839, page 362:

Each rower's feet are set in shoes which are secured in the boat in a stretcher (or foot board) set into a fixed position to suit the length of the rower's legs.

2003, J. Alswang, The South African Dictionary of Sport, page 203:

[…] these seem to indicate a thwart, foot-timber (stretcher), thole-pin combination for rowing.

2014, Sean Mcgrail, Ancient Boats in North-West Europe, page 80:

(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.

jalkatuki

nautical: board against which a rower places his feet


haka

hǫku (genitive)
hǫkur (plural)
haka (indefinite nominative singular)
hakan (definite nominative singular)
hǫkur (indefinite nominative plural)
hǫkurnar (definite nominative plural)
hǫku (accusative indefinite singular)
hǫkuna (accusative definite singular)
hǫkur (accusative indefinite plural)
hǫkurnar (accusative definite plural)
hǫku (dative indefinite singular)
hǫkunni (dative definite singular)
hǫkum (dative indefinite plural)
hǫkunum (dative definite plural)
hǫku (genitive indefinite singular)
hǫkunnar (definite genitive singular)
hakna (genitive indefinite plural)
haknanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

haka

Icelandic: haka

Faroese: høka

Norwegian: hake

Swedish: haka

Danish: hage

Related to the root of haki (“hook, pick”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô, referring to something pointing out.


dandruff

en-noun

dandruff (usually uncountable, plural dandruffs)

The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare Yorkshire dialect, dander (skin scurf). The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian term huff or hruff, hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3).

Dandruff is on my collar again.

scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis


hard-on

Look at this place! I'm in hell! I may never get a hard-on again!

1997, Face/Off, spoken by Castor Troy (John Travolta):

(slang, vulgar) An erection of the penis.

... and corporations duke it out with the kind of military tactics and apparatus that would give anybody who appreciates the Navy SEALs a hard-on.

2012 August 27, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Capitalism, Weaponized: Sun Tzu Gets Cyberpunk’d”, The Austin Chronicle, section Daily Chronolog

(slang, vulgar, figurative) A desirous arousal based on a fascination or obsession.


vulva

vulva (plural vulvas or vulvae or vulvæ)

vulvas (plural)
vulvae (plural)
vulvæ (plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, earlier volva (“womb, female sexual organ”), probably from volvō (“to turn, wrap around”). Akin to Sanskrit उल्ब (úlba, “womb”).

The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:

Many of the less-sophisticated works are sexual in nature. Among the most common images are stylised vulvas, whole flocks of which appear on some cave walls.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 216:

(anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.

vulvë

collectively the external female sexual organs


anca

From Vulgar Latin *hanca (“hip”), from Frankish *hanka, from Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ (“joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- (“joint”). Cognates include Italian anca (“hip”) and French hanche (“hip”).


haha

From Proto-Polynesian *fafa. Cognates include Hawaiian waha and Tahitian vaha.


rictus

His face was a rictus of sheer delight.

Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible.

1899, Victor Hugo, translated by Paul Maurice, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:

A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.

1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

Sword and shield, bone and steel / Rictus grin / Deaf forever to the battle's din

1986, “Deaf Forever”, performed by Motörhead:

Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.

1990, “Nothingface”, performed by Voivod:

The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.

1993, Wolfenstein 3D, scene: after defeating Hitler (episode 3), level/area: 9:

It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.

2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 56:

The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.

2008, Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, page 81:


donn

duinne (comparative)
donn (masculine nominative)
dhonn (feminine nominative)
donna (nominative plural)
dhuinn (genitive masculine)
duinne (feminine genitive)
donna (genitive plural)
donn (dative masculine)
dhuinn (dative feminine)
donna (dative plural)
dhuinn (masculine vocative)
dhonn (feminine vocative)
donna (plural vocative)
donn (mutation mutation-radical)
dhonn (lenition mutation)

From Old Irish donn, from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *dusnos-, *donnos- (“dark”), from *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”).


flip

en-verb

flip (third-person singular simple present flips, present participle flipping, simple past and past participle flipped)

flips (present singular third-person)
flipping (participle present)
flipped (participle past)
flipped (past)

Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).

inh

The mafioso flipped on his superiors to get a lighter sentence.

(intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.

The district attorney was able to strengthen his case against the bank robber by flipping the getaway driver.

(transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.


widow's peak

en-noun

widow's peak (plural widow's peaks or widows' peaks)

widow's peaks (plural)
widows' peaks (plural)

“I like your hair,” Grace said, gently pulling at the clump standing armed sentinel over my widow's peak. “It's honest.”

2010, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, Random House, →ISBN, page 154:

A descending V-shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.


nook

From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”).
If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”) or Dutch hoek (“corner”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”). Also cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”).

cog

i NEEEEEEEED A NICE BIG HIGH8LOODED 8ULGE UP MY NOOK THIS SECOND!

2012 April 29, lucretiasgf (@furiosasgf), Twitter:

Vriska is too trashy to shave her nook.

2012 December 22, Harveh (@TemporalHipster), Twitter:

the vriska i roleplay specifically just has a nook because i like drawin vaginas.

(Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.


tawny

en-noun

tawny (countable and uncountable, plural tawnies or tawnys)

From Middle English tauni, tawne (“brownish-orange colour; cloth of this colour; sweet beverage of this colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“tan colour; cloth of this colour”), from tané (verb): see further at etymology 1.
Sense 2.1 (“Eurasian bullfinch”) is due to the brown colour of the female.

kellanruskea

something of a light brown or brownish orange colour


wick

From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”).

cog

Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.


wick

en-verb

wick (third-person singular simple present wicks, present participle wicking, simple past and past participle wicked)

wicks (present singular third-person)
wicking (participle present)
wicked (participle past)
wicked (past)

The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.

(transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.


villus

la-noun

villus m (genitive villī); second declension

villī (genitive)
villus (nominative singular)
villī (nominative plural)
villī (genitive singular)
villōrum (genitive plural)
villō (dative singular)
villīs (dative plural)
villum (accusative singular)
villōs (accusative plural)
villō (ablative singular)
villīs (ablative plural)
ville (singular vocative)
villī (plural vocative)

→ English: villus

Italian: villo, vello

Spanish: vello

Dant famulī manibus lymphās, Cereremque canistrīs

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid I.701–702

The servants give the hands waters, and corn from wicker baskets
they deal, and bring towels of smooth hair.

expediunt, tōnsīsque ferunt mantēlia villīs.


tackle

en-noun

tackle (countable and uncountable, plural tackles)

From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel (“ship's rigging”), perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp, seize”). Akin to Danish takkel (“tackle”), Swedish tackel (“tackle”). More at take.


/ˌtiː ˈθɹiː/

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of triiodothyronine.


pájaro

Inherited from Old Spanish páxaro, pássaro, from Vulgar Latin *passarum, alteration of Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro- (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare Portuguese pássaro. A distant doublet of peña.

inh

más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando

no hay pájaros en los nidos de ayer

youth passes quickly; there are no birds in the nests of yesterday

(colloquial, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela) penis

(colloquial, Spain) person of questionable or shady character, or involved in dubious affairs


neutral zone

(dentistry) That space in the oral cavity where the forces exerted by the musculature of the tongue are equal and balanced with the forces exerted by the buccinator muscle of the cheek laterally and the orbicularis oris muscle anteriorly.


brazo

Inherited from Old Spanish braço (compare Ladino braso), from bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).


fraise

→ Arabic: فَرَّاز (farrāz)

→ Dutch: frees

→ English: fraise

→ German: Fräse

→ Belarusian: фрэ́за (fréza)

→ Czech: fréza, frézka

desc

→ Bulgarian: фре́за (fréza), фрез (frez)

→ Macedonian: фреза (freza)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фре́за

Latin script: fréza

→ Slovak: fréz, fréza, frézka

→ Slovene: frẹ̄za

→ Ukrainian: фре́за (fréza)

⇒ German: Fräser

desctree

⇒ German: Fräsmaschine
→ Bulgarian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Russian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
→ Cyrillic script: фрезмашина
→ Latin script: frezmašina

→ Polish: frez

→ Portuguese: fresa

→ Romanian: freză

→ Russian: фреза́ (frezá)

→ Spanish: fresa

→ Swedish: fräs

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرازه (freze)
Turkish: freze

Related to fraiser, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *fresāre, from Latin fresum, past participle of frendō, or from a derived root *fresa. Compare Italian and Spanish fresa.


rua

head

rua m (genitive singular rua, nominative plural ruanna)

rua (genitive singular)
ruanna (nominative plural)
rua (indefinite nominative singular)
ruanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a rua (indefinite singular vocative)
a ruanna (indefinite plural vocative)
rua (genitive indefinite singular)
ruanna (genitive indefinite plural)
rua (dative indefinite singular)
ruanna (dative indefinite plural)
an rua (definite nominative singular)
na ruanna (definite nominative plural)
an rua (definite genitive singular)
na ruanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an rua (dative definite singular)
don rua (dative definite singular)
leis na ruanna (dative definite plural)

From Old Irish rúad, from Proto-Celtic *roudos (compare Welsh rhudd), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (compare Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá), Old English rēad).


pearly whites

The least you can do is keep your pearly whites squeaky clean with a cutting-edge electric toothbrush.

2009 July 31, Ben Patterson, “High-Tech Helpers: Philips Sonicare FlexCare”, in Time:


jock

Unknown. Suggested to be a hypocoristic for John (compare Jack).


lymph

en-noun

lymph (usually uncountable, plural lymphs)

Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (númphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.

der

(obsolete, literary) Pure water.
(archaic, botany) The sap of plants.

(physiology) A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.

She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268:

(immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.


uncut

From Middle English unkut, uncutte, unkyt, unkutt, equivalent to un- + cut.

All I'm saying is, uncut men are the best. They try harder. I should know. I've slept with five of them.

1999 August 1, Jenny Bicks, “Old Dogs, New Dicks”, in Sex and the City, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Samantha:


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).


perspire

en-verb

perspire (third-person singular simple present perspires, present participle perspiring, simple past and past participle perspired)

perspires (present singular third-person)
perspiring (participle present)
perspired (participle past)
perspired (past)

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.

bor

I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.

He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print.

2010, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Feeling:

(transitive, intransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.

A fluid perspires.

(intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

We shook hands, he looked surprised to see me topless. I stimulated his mind. ¶ “Nice to meet you. My workout jogging perspired me a lot, so I removed the T-shirt.”

2016, Pradip Chauhan, Love Stories, New Delhi: Educreation Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

(transitive, intransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.


thorax

la-noun

thōrax m (genitive thōrācis); third declension

thōrax (canonical masculine)
thōrācis (genitive)
thōrax (nominative singular)
thōrācēs (nominative plural)
thōrācis (genitive singular)
thōrācum (genitive plural)
thōrācī (dative singular)
thōrācibus (dative plural)
thōrācem (accusative singular)
thōrācēs (accusative plural)
thōrāce (ablative singular)
thōrācibus (ablative plural)
thōrax (singular vocative)
thōrācēs (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: tòrax

→ English: thorax

→ Esperanto: torako

→ French: thorax

→ Galician: tórax

→ German: Thorax

→ Ido: torako

→ Indonesian: toraks

→ Irish: tóracs

→ Lombard: torax

→ Malay: toraks

→ Occitan: torax

→ Portuguese: tórax, torace

→ Romanian: torace

→ Russian: то́ракс (tóraks)

→ Slovene: toraks

→ Spanish: tórax

→ Swedish: thorax

From Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).


CK

(biochemistry) Initialism of creatine kinase.


ud

уд (Cyrillic)
ud (nominative singular)
udovi (nominative plural)
uda (genitive singular)
udova (genitive plural)
udu (dative singular)
udovima (dative plural)
ud (accusative singular)
udove (accusative plural)
ude (singular vocative)
udu (singular vocative)
udovi (plural vocative)
udu (locative singular)
udovima (locative plural)
udom (instrumental singular)
udovima (instrumental plural)


ud

ȗd (canonical inanimate masculine)
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úd (nominative singular)
úda (dual nominative)
údi (nominative plural)
údje (nominative plural)
úda (genitive singular)
údov (dual genitive)
údov (genitive plural)
údu (dative singular)
údoma (dative dual)
údom (dative plural)
úd (accusative singular)
úda (accusative dual)
úde (accusative plural)
údu (locative singular)
údih (dual locative)
údih (locative plural)
údom (instrumental singular)
údoma (dual instrumental)
údi (instrumental plural)


back, crack and sack

en-noun

back, crack and sack (plural back, crack and sacks)

(informal) A beauty treatment for men in which hair is removed from the back, from between the buttocks ("crack") and from the scrotum ("sack").


salivate

en-verb

salivate (third-person singular simple present salivates, present participle salivating, simple past and past participle salivated)

salivates (present singular third-person)
salivating (participle present)
salivated (participle past)
salivated (past)

From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”).


histaminase

We suggest, however, that the substance, or system, which produces a change in structure responsible for the loss of physiological activity of histamine be designated histaminase.

1930 December 4, C. H. Best, E. W. McHenry, “The inactivation of histamine”, in The Journal of Physiology:

(biochemistry) A widely occurring flavoprotein enzyme that oxidizes histamine and various diamines.


perspiration

en-noun

perspiration (usually uncountable, plural perspirations)

/ˌpɜːspəˈɹeɪʃən/

/ˌpɝspəˈɹeɪʃən/

Borrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”)
Morphologically perspire + -ation

der

genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

A saline fluid secreted by the sweat glands; sweat.


histamine

en-noun

histamine (countable and uncountable, plural histamines)

Mellanby and Twort have isolated from the fæces a bacillus which is able to produce from one of the amino acids normally formed in digestion of proteins a highly active body, histamine.

1913 June 1, Henderson VE, “Res Judicatae: On the Colon and Ileocolotomy”, in The Canadian Medical Association Journal, volume 3, number 6, page 521:

The intake of food triggers a release of histamine, which activates the acid-secreting cells.

2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 46:

In a strongly ripened cheese, the casein proteins are broken down to amino acids, and the amino acids can be broken down into amines, small molecules that can serve as chemical signals in the human body. Histamine and tyramine are found in large quantities in Cheddar, blue, Swiss, and Dutch-style cheeses, and can cause a rise in blood pressure, headaches, and rashes in people who are especially sensitive to them.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) An amine, C₅H₉N₃, formed by decarboxylation of histidine, that causes dilatation of capillaries, contraction of smooth muscle, and stimulation of gastric acid secretion; it is released during allergic reactions.


wheal

From Middle English whele (“boil”), from Old English *hwele (“boil”); related to Old English hwelian (“to fester, ulcerate”). Compare also Old English hwelca, hwylca (“an inflamed swelling, pustule”).

cog

A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.

1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 80:

A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.


exsanguination

en-noun

exsanguination (countable and uncountable, plural exsanguinations)

Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.


tuli

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tuli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuli, from Proto-Austronesian *Culi.


tuli

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *turiq (cf. Bikol Central turi, Cebuano tuli, Hiligaynon tuli, Maranao tori', Malay toreh). Also possibly related to Katuri, a little settlement on the river just opposite Cotabato where circumcision ceremonies were held in Maguindanao.


undercut

From Middle English undercutten, equivalent to under- + cut.


profil

profil (nominative singular)
profile (nominative plural)
profilu (genitive singular)
profili (genitive plural)
profilów (genitive plural)
profilowi (dative singular)
profilom (dative plural)
profil (accusative singular)
profile (accusative plural)
profilem (instrumental singular)
profilami (instrumental plural)
profilu (locative singular)
profilach (locative plural)
profilu (singular vocative)
profile (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French profil, from Italian profilo.

(engineering) profile (hot rolled structural steel shape like an I-beam)


mons veneris

Borrowed from Latin mons veneris (literally “mount of Venus”).


yonic

en-adj

yonic (comparative more yonic, superlative most yonic)

more yonic (comparative)
most yonic (superlative)

From yoni + -ic, from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).

Many orchids are yonic.

1999, Perry Bathous, Clarissa Flanders, Swell-Wimp, page 107:

The Garden of Eden, the Ark, the Gate of the Temple, the Veil of the Mysteries, the vesica piscis or oval nimbus, and the Holy Grail are important yonic symbols[…]

2011, Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, page 226:

Porzecanski employs two recurrent phallic and yonic symbols in the narrative.

2012, Debora Cordeiro Rosa, Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels:


mons pubis

From Latin mōns (“mountain, mound”) + genitive of pūbes (“pubic area”).

A fleshy protuberance over the pubic bones that becomes covered with hair during puberty.


foxy

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

foxier (comparative)
foxiest (superlative)


mandible

From late Middle English, from Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”), from mandō (“to chew, masticate”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).

af

Coordinate term: maxilla

The jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.


monocle

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.


monocle

nl-noun

monocle m (plural monocles, diminutive monocletje n)

monocles (plural)
monocletje (diminutive neuter)


monocle

→ Greek: μονόκλ (monókl)

→ Dutch: monocle

→ English: monocle

From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).


mandibula

la-noun

mandibula f (genitive mandibulae); first declension

mandibulae (genitive)
mandibula (nominative singular)
mandibulae (nominative plural)
mandibulae (genitive singular)
mandibulārum (genitive plural)
mandibulae (dative singular)
mandibulīs (dative plural)
mandibulam (accusative singular)
mandibulās (accusative plural)
mandibulā (ablative singular)
mandibulīs (ablative plural)
mandibula (singular vocative)
mandibulae (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: mandíbula

→ English: mandibula

→ French: mandibule

→ Galician: mandíbula

→ Italian: mandibola

Middle English:

English: mandible

→ Portuguese: mandíbula

→ Romanian: mandibulă

→ Spanish: mandíbula

From mandō (“to chew, masticate”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).

[män̪ˈd̪ɪbʊɫ̪ä]


pubis

Genitive of Latin pubes (“pubes”); see pubes.

The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.


goes

goes (mutation unmutated)
woes (mutation mutation-soft)
koes (mutation)
hwoes (mutation mutation-mixed)
woes (after-th mutation mutation-mixed)

From Proto-Celtic *waytos, probably ultimately from the root of gwythi (“veins”), see that entry for cognates. Cognate with Breton gwad and Welsh gwaed.


ascorbic acid

(biochemistry) A white crystalline organic compound, C₆H₈O₆, found in citrus fruits and many vegetables; it is an antioxidant and an efficient scavenger of free radicals.

àcid ascòrbic

the white crystalline organic compound, C6H8O6


cock-up

In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.

2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 46:

(Commonwealth, mildly vulgar slang) A mistake.

The first word of every section or chapter is generally put in small capitals, after a small neat cock-up letter.

1824, John Johnson, Typographia, volume 2, page 33:

(obsolete, UK, Ireland, printers' slang) A superior letter. A lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations.

Cockernonie, a gathering up of the hair of women, after a fashion similar to that of the modern "chignon," and sometimes called a "cock-up." Mr. Kirkton, of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups"—of which chignons were the representatives a quarter of a century ago—said: "I have been all this year preaching against the vanity of women, yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now with as high a 'cock-up' as any one of you all."

1888, Charles Mackay, A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, page 30:

(obsolete, Scotland) A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.


vitamin C

The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid, a water-soluble nutrient essential for life, synthesized by most animals and plants but not humans, although used in our bodies for many purposes. It is plentiful in citrus fruits and many vegetables, and a deficiency causes scurvy.


afa

(vulgar) cunt, pussy, snatch (female genitalia)


goose bump

From the resemblance of goose bumps to the bumps on the skin of a plucked goose.

(chiefly in the plural) Raised skin, usually caused by the involuntary erection of hairs on the neck or arms caused by cold, excitement, or fear.

hoendervleis

raised skin caused by cold, excitement, or fear

мура́шки f pl (muráški, literally “small ants”)


pubes

From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.


fire hose

An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.


drool

en-verb

drool (third-person singular simple present drools, present participle drooling, simple past and past participle drooled)

drools (present singular third-person)
drooling (participle present)
drooled (participle past)
drooled (past)

From earlier drule, apparently a corruption of drivel (compare snool from snivel). Compare also Middle English drullen (“to stagger, drool”), Dutch druilen (“to be listless, snooze”).

cog

The alien beast drooled slime.

(transitive, intransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.


gibberellic acid

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) An organic compound, one of the gibberellins, obtained from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, that functions as a growth hormone in plants.


gibberellin

en-noun

gibberellin (countable and uncountable, plural gibberellins)

(biochemistry) Any of a class of diterpene plant growth hormones first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi.


pubic hair

pubic hair (countable and uncountable, plural pubic hairs)

(slang, also "excessive body hair") волосня́ f (volosnjá)

The method of the root's use was pure sorcery; the powder being burned over a fire, with some of the operator's pubic hair and characteristic secretions.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:

Negroes (teeth, fingers, toe nails and pubic hair gilded), Japanese boys smooth and white as china, Titian-haired Venetian lads, Americans with blond or black curls falling across the forehead (the guests tenderly shove it back), sulky blond Polacks with animal brown eyes, Arab and Spanish street boys, Austrian boys pink and delicate with a faint shadow of blond pubic hair, sneering German youths with bright blue eyes scream "Heil Hitler!" as the trap falls under them. Sollubis shit and whimper.

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 79:

It’s true. He’s become known there as the “Brazilian Trump”, which is both politically worrisome and also the grossest style to order at a pubic hair salon. “Oh, I’ll take the Brazilian Trump, please! I-It’s where you rip everything off the front area, but you comb some arse hair around to give the illusion of hair.”

2018, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Brazilian Elections”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 25, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

(collectively) The hair that grows in the pubic region from puberty.


oso

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os. Compare Italian osso.


pike

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English pīc (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.
The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, Danish pig, and possibly Old Irish pīk. It is a doublet of pique.
The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.
The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.
The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

cog

Each had a ſmall ax in the ſurcingle of his ſaddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged; […]

1790, James Bruce, chapter V, in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In Five Volumes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 117:

A few months after the murder of Don Carlos, the Counts de Horn and d'Egmonte, who had long been detained in prison, notwithstanding their innocence, were put to death by the cruel Alva in the market-place at Brussels, and the heads of these two patriotic martyrs were exposed upon pikes to the view of the populace.

1855, Jules Raymond Lamé Fleury, “The Death of Don Carlos. From the Year 1567 to 1570.”, in M. C. T., transl., Historical Chapters Relating to Many Lands. Adapted for Children. Translated from the French of M. Lamé Fleury, by a Lady, London: Jackson & Walford, […], →OCLC, page 110:

And now they begin to catch the pikes, and will ſhortly the trouts (pox on theſe miniſters), and I would fain know whether the floods were ever ſo high as to get over the holly bank or the river walk; if ſo, then all my pikes are gone; but I hope not.

1711 March 10, Jonathan Swift, J[ohn] Hawkesworth, “Letter LV”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin: […], new edition, volume XIII, London: Printed for Charles Elliot, Edinburgh, published 1784, →OCLC, pages 275–276:

Lord Erskine soon afterwards came to Brighton, and told Mrs. Coutts, if she would give him a dinner he would provide the fish from his own pond. She agreed; and his present proved to be an overgrown pike, weighing between thirty and forty pounds, and so hideous in its appearance that no guest touched it, the mere sight of it being perfectly disagreeable to many.

1839 November 2, “Memoirs of Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans. By Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson, Author of the ‘Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis.’ 2 vols. 12mo. London 1839. Colburn.”, in The Literary Gazette; and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 1189, London: Printed by Moyes and Barclay, […]; published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette office, […], →OCLC, page 694, column 1:

If you fish for pike with a live-bait, snap tackle, or spinning, it should always be with the hooks attached to gimp, in consequence of the several rows of sharp teeth with which the pike is armed, and which enable it to bite gut in two.

1879 (indicated as 1880), [Charles Dickens Jr.], “Pike”, in Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames: From Oxford to the Nore. … An Unconventional Handbook, London: Charles Dickens, […], →OCLC; republished as Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames, from Its Source to the Nore. … An Unconventional Handbook, London: Macmillan & Co., […], 1883, →OCLC, page 164, column 2:

Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.


pike

en-verb

pike (third-person singular simple present pikes, present participle piking, simple past and past participle piked)

pikes (present singular third-person)
piking (participle present)
piked (participle past)
piked (past)

Don’t pike on me like you did last time!

—But [Albert] Camus piked out, said Carole. [Jean-Paul] Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn't oppose it.

2002, Sylvia Lawson, How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia: Stories and Essays, Sydney, N.S.W.: UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 151:

[William] Holman accepted the challenge while [John] Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.

2006, Pip Wilson, “Biographies”, in Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.: Pip Wilson, →ISBN; 3rd edition, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.: Pip Wilson, January 2007, →ISBN, page 543:

If they didn't go ahead, it would look like they had piked, backed down.

2008, Chris Pash, The Last Whale, ReadHowYouWant edition, Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 36:

(intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.


indoleacetic acid

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) an auxin plant hormone, synthesized in leaves, that stimulates growth, especially in the presence of ethylene


coenzyme A

adenosine triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) A coenzyme, formed from pantothenic acid and adenosine triphosphate, that is necessary for fatty acid synthesis and metabolism.


pantothenic acid

(biochemistry) A water-soluble antioxidant vitamin, 3-[(2R)-2,4-dihydroxy-3,3-dimethylbutanamido]propanoic acid needed for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins; it is found in cereals, legumes, meat and other foods


transacetylase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an acetyl group from one molecule to another. It is produced by the ‘a’ structural gene of the lac operon.


adenosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) a nucleotide that is used as a source of energy in cellular reactions, in the synthesis of nucleic acids, and as a neurotransmitter recognised by purinergic receptors

アデノシン三リン酸

アデノシン三燐酸, アデノシンさんりんさん, adenoshin sanrinsan


coenzyme

(biochemistry) Any small molecule that is necessary for the functioning of an enzyme.


transaminase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination.

轉氨酶

biochemistry: any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination


anvil

From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.

der

(anatomy) The incus bone in the middle ear.


cornea

en-noun

cornea (plural corneas or corneae or (archaic) corneæ)

corneas (plural)
corneae (plural)
corneæ (archaic plural)

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”).

Or instead of treating them with the developing solution, the corneæ may be removed to a warm, concentrated solution of tartaric acid and remain there at the temperature of an incubating stove until the gold is fully reduced.

1885, Arthur Bolles Lee, chapter XI, in The Microtomist’s Vade‐Mecum, P. Blakiston, Son & Co, page 93:

In the lateral view (fig. 26) the corneae seemed very flat, their convexity not exceeding that of the bulbi (cornea plana?);

1969, P. P. H. Alkemade, Dysgenesis Mesodermalis of the Iris and the Cornea: A Study of Rieger’s Syndrome and Peter’s Anomaly, page 119:

The corneae were swollen without major infiltrates similar to longstanding disciform edema.

1981, R. Sundmacher, D. Neumann-Haefelin, A. Mattes, K. Cantell, “Connatal Monosymptomatic Corneal Endotheliitis by Cytomegalovirus”, in Herpetic Eye Diseases, J.F. Bergmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 501:

It is well known that in clinical practice the corneae from eyes enucleated for malignant melanoma of posterior choroid are usually utilized for corneal grafting. This research refers to cases of posterior melanomas which extended anteriorly, in which the utilization of the corneae for grafting was doubtful.

1983, A. Loffredo, G. Cennamo, A. De Lellis, A. Sammartino, A. Del Prete, “Echographic Pattern Evaluation of Eyes with Choroid Melanoma for Corneal Graft Utilization”, in Jeffrey S. Hillman, Malcolm M. Le May, editors, Ophthalmic Ultrasonography: Proceedings of the 9th SIDUO Congress, Leeds, U.K. July 20-23, 1982, Dr W. Junk Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, →ISBN, page 43:

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.


var

var (indefinite nominative singular)
varet (definite nominative singular)
var (indefinite nominative plural)
varen (definite nominative plural)
vars (genitive indefinite singular)
varets (definite genitive singular)
vars (genitive indefinite plural)
varens (definite genitive plural)
var (indefinite nominative singular)
varen (definite nominative singular)
varar (indefinite nominative plural)
vararna (definite nominative plural)
vars (genitive indefinite singular)
varens (definite genitive singular)
varars (genitive indefinite plural)
vararnas (definite genitive plural)

(uncountable) pus; a mixture of dead bacteria and white blood cells, occurring in areas of infections n


glib

Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.

1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:

But in the dead of njight, who should come in but James Desmond, sword in hand, with a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand.

1855, Charles Kingsley, “Clovelly Court in the Olden Time”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 163:

(historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.


transcriptase

(biochemistry) A polymerase that catalyzes the transcription of DNA to RNA.


reverse transcriptase

reverse transcriptase (plural reverse transcriptases)

(biochemistry) A polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template.


erosion

erosion (countable and uncountable, plural erosions)

Guy de Chauliac
Oliver Goldsmith
Robert Copland
The Questyonary of Cyrurygens
erosion

From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō.
The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote
: "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."

(dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.


polymerase

(biochemistry) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the formation of polymers of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of RNA or DNA respectively as a template.

聚合酶

enzyme that catalyses the formation of polymers


transhydrogenase

(biochemistry) A mitochondrial enzyme that transports protons across a cell membrane.


coi

coaie (plural)
coi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un coi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
coiul (accusative definite nominative singular)
coaie (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște coaie (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
coaiele (accusative definite nominative plural)
coi (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui coi (dative genitive indefinite singular)
coiului (dative definite genitive singular)
coaie (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor coaie (dative genitive indefinite plural)
coaielor (dative definite genitive plural)
coiule (singular vocative)
coaielor (plural vocative)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōleum n, from Latin cōleus m, of Ancient Greek origin. Compare Aromanian colj, coalji.

(vulgar, usually in the plural, referring to the testicles) ball(s)


transferase

(biochemistry) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a functional group, such as amine or phosphate from one molecule to another.

transferasa

enzyme which catalyses the transfer of a functional group