glabrous

en-adj

glabrous (comparative more glabrous, superlative most glabrous)

more glabrous (comparative)
most glabrous (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-glabrous.wav

From Latin glaber (“smooth; bald, hairless”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives, denoting possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance). Glaber is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth; bright, shining”), possibly from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).

ref

From the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

der

[T]he Vernacula or French Elm, whoſe leaves are thicker, and more florid, glabrous and ſmooth, delighting in the lower and moiſter grounds, where they will ſometimes riſe to above an hundred foot in height; […]

1670, John Evelyn, “. Chapter IV. Of the Elm.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 28:

[Crotalaria obtecta] Stems tall, erect, branched: stipules not decurrent: leaves simple, usually glabrous on the upper side: […] legumes oblong, many-seeded, glabrous or softly pubescent.

1834, Robert Wight, G[eorge] A[rnott] Walker-Arnott, “Order LVI.—Leguminosæ. Juss.”, in Prodromus Floræ Peninsulæ Indiæ Orientalis: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the Plants Found in the Peninsula of British India, Arranged According to the Natural System [Preliminary Publication of the Flora of the Peninsula of Oriential India], volume I, London: Parbury, Allen, & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 572, page 186:

'I am bound by precedent,' said the First Lord, turning a vast glabrous expressionless face from Harte to Sir Joseph.

1973, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 1, in HMS Surprise, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 2:

Adriaan rose, pulling out his limbering glabrous cock, his eyes happy.

1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 190:

The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.

1981, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Mo O Mo Inta Allo”, in Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series), New York, N.Y., London: Penguin Books, published 1983, →ISBN, part 1 (The Niger), page 143:

Pietro Perugino
Vallombrosa Abbey
Vallombrosa Altarpiece

أَمْلَس

bald, hairless — see also bald, hairless


electrolysis

en-noun

electrolysis (countable and uncountable, plural electrolyses)

Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday. From electro- + -lysis (“a loosening”). Originally of tumors, later (1909) of hair removal.

coin

But current leakage in a Tube tunnel can cause electrolysis to occur in steel retaining walls, which in turn causes them to rust; it could also damage the foundations of nearby buildings.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 136:

(chemistry) the chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt.


toll

head

toll m (genitive singular toill, nominative plural toill)

toill (genitive singular)
toill (nominative plural)
toll (indefinite nominative singular)
toill (indefinite nominative plural)
a thoill (indefinite singular vocative)
a tholla (indefinite plural vocative)
toill (genitive indefinite singular)
toll (genitive indefinite plural)
toll (dative indefinite singular)
toill (dative indefinite plural)
an toll (definite nominative singular)
na toill (definite nominative plural)
an toill (definite genitive singular)
na dtoll (definite genitive plural)
leis an toll (dative definite singular)
don toll (dative definite singular)
leis na toill (dative definite plural)

From Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”), from Proto-Celtic *tullom, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Welsh twll.


eyebrow

From Middle English eȝebreu, alteration of Old English ēaganbrū (“eyebrow”), equivalent to eye + brow. The corresponding Old English ēagbrǣw meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw (“eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow”), German Augenbraue (“eyebrow”).

The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.

minin

(construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.

A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.


eyebrow

en-verb

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

eyebrows (present singular third-person)
eyebrowing (participle present)
eyebrowed (participle past)
eyebrowed (past)

(intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.


wig

Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!

A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.

שייטל

specifically the sheitel worn by married Orthodox Jewish women


pizda

pizda (nominative singular)
pizdy (nominative plural)
pizdy (genitive singular)
pizd (genitive plural)
pizdě (dative singular)
pizdám (dative plural)
pizdu (accusative singular)
pizdy (accusative plural)
pizdo (singular vocative)
pizdy (plural vocative)
pizdě (locative singular)
pizdách (locative plural)
pizdou (instrumental singular)
pizdami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pizda, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīˀsdāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh₂.


pizda

pizda (nominative singular)
pizdy (nominative plural)
pizdy (genitive singular)
pizd (genitive plural)
piździe (dative singular)
pizdom (dative plural)
pizdę (accusative singular)
pizdy (accusative plural)
pizdą (instrumental singular)
pizdami (instrumental plural)
piździe (locative singular)
pizdach (locative plural)
pizdo (singular vocative)
pizdy (plural vocative)

(vulgar) pussy, cunt (female genitalia, especially the external genitalia)


pizda

pízda (canonical feminine)
пи́зда (Cyrillic)
pizda (nominative singular)
pizde (nominative plural)
pizde (genitive singular)
pizda (genitive plural)
pizdi (dative singular)
pizdama (dative plural)
pizdu (accusative singular)
pizde (accusative plural)
pizdo (singular vocative)
pizde (plural vocative)
pizdi (locative singular)
pizdama (locative plural)
pizdom (instrumental singular)
pizdama (instrumental plural)


pizda

pizda (nominative singular)
pizdy (nominative plural)
pizdy (genitive singular)
pízd (genitive plural)
pizde (dative singular)
pizdám (dative plural)
pizdu (accusative singular)
pizdy (accusative plural)
pizde (locative singular)
pizdách (locative plural)
pizdou (instrumental singular)
pizdami (instrumental plural)


pizda

From Proto-Slavic *pizda, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīˀsdāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *písdeh₂.

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


tendon

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.

der

I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.

2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78:

(anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.


голова

ru-noun+

голова́ • (golová) f inan (genitive головы́, nominative plural го́ловы, genitive plural голо́в, relational adjective головно́й, diminutive голо́вка or голо́вушка)

голова́ (canonical)
golová (romanization)
головы́ (genitive)
го́ловы (nominative plural)
голо́в (genitive plural)
головно́й (adjective relational)
голо́вка (diminutive)
голо́вушка (diminutive)
голова́ (nominative singular)
го́ловы (nominative plural)
головы́ (genitive singular)
голо́в (genitive plural)
голове́ (dative singular)
голова́м (dative plural)
го́лову (accusative singular)
го́ловы (accusative plural)
голово́й (instrumental singular)
голово́ю (instrumental singular)
голова́ми (instrumental plural)
голове́ (prepositional singular)
голова́х (plural prepositional)
голова́ (dated nominative singular)
го́ловы (dated nominative plural)
головы́ (dated genitive singular)
голо́въ (dated genitive plural)
головѣ́ (dated dative singular)
голова́мъ (dated dative plural)
го́лову (accusative dated singular)
го́ловы (accusative dated plural)
голово́й (dated instrumental singular)
голово́ю (dated instrumental singular)
голова́ми (dated instrumental plural)
головѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
голова́хъ (dated plural prepositional)

Inherited from Old East Slavic голова (golova), from Proto-Slavic *golva. Doublet of глава́ (glavá) (Church Slavonicism).

inh+

с головы́ до но́г

с головы́ до пя́т

в голова́х


sino

eo-head

sino (accusative singular sinon, plural sinoj, accusative plural sinojn)

sinon (accusative singular)
sinoj (plural)
sinojn (accusative plural)

From Latin sinus (“bosom; pocket, lap”). Compare Italian seno, French sein. Doublet of sinuso.

La knabo sidis sur la sino de sia avino.


hormone

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).

hormon

synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone

I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.

(LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.


nana

From Proto-Central-Pacific *nana, from Proto-Oceanic *nanaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

pus (fluid found in regions of infection)


nana

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.


nana

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.


joint

The noun is from Middle English joynt (attested since the late 13th century), from Old French joint (“joint of the body”) (attested since the 12th century). The adjective (attested since the 15th century) is from Old French jointiz. Both Old French words are from Latin iūnctus, the past participle of iungō. See also join, jugular.
The meaning of "building, establishment", especially in connection with shady activities, appeared in Anglo-Irish by 1821 and entered general American English slang by 1877, especially in the sense of "opium den". The sense "marijuana cigarette" is attested since 1935. The development to meaning "any thing" also happened to the Scots and Memphian form junt and the Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphian form jawn.

verbinding

point of a rigid joint, means of joining in carpentry

en:place of business or human activity
en:opium den

(chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).


hairy

en-adj

hairy (comparative hairier, superlative hairiest)

hairier (comparative)
hairiest (superlative)

From Middle English hery, heeri, hary, equivalent to hair + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian hierich (“hairy”), West Frisian hierrich (“hairy”), Dutch harig (“hairy”), German Low German harig (“hairy”), German haarig (“hairy”), Swedish hårig (“hairy”), Icelandic hárugur (“hairy”). Compare also Old English hǣriht (“hairy”) and ġehǣre (“hairy”).
The sense "terrifying, scary" possibly results from a blend of hair-raising and scary.

a hairy man

(of a person) Having a lot of hair on the body.


排泄

ja-noun

排(はい)泄(せつ) • (haisetsu) ^(←はいせつ (faisetu)?)

排泄 (canonical)
haisetsu (romanization)
faisetu (romanization)
はいせつ (hiragana historical)

excretion (The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility)


spine

From late Middle English spyne, from Old French espine (French épine) or its source, Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine; the backbone”). Doublet of spina.

der

If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls.

1851, Herman Melville, chapter 80, in Moby-Dick:

The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 266:

(anatomy, zootomy) A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen.

Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 409:

रीढ़ की हड्डी

rīṛh kī haḍḍī

ریڑھ کی ہڈی

rīṛh kī haḍḍī


willy

Originally northern British usage, from the 1960s. Probably the simple use of a proper name as a pet name; compare dick, fanny and peter. Unlikely to be a contraction of Latin membrum virile, male member (that is, the penis), a Latin term used in English in the nineteenth century.

Little Johnny got his willy stuck in his zipper.

Everybody knows your mum is a whore / Getting 'round Piccadilly looking for willy / Punters pull up and say "don't be silly"

2016 March 7, “Road Rage (Freestyle)”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate):

(hypocoristic, slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, childish) the penis.


dirk

Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk.
First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755.
Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word.
A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).

unk

unknown

The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"...

May 1964, Lawrence Poston, "Some Problems in the Study of Campus Slang", American Speech volume 39, issue 2

(Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.


shag

en-adj

shag (comparative more shag, superlative most shag)

more shag (comparative)
most shag (superlative)

From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.

der

Son. Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:


curls

Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.

kiharat

specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head


helmet

→ Korean: 헬멧 (helmet)

→ Palauan: hermet

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਹੈਲਮਟ (hailmaṭ)

Shahmukhi script: ہیلمٹ (hailmaṭ)

→ Swahili: helmeti

→ Welsh: helmed

From Middle English helmet, helmett, a borrowing from Old French helmet, heaumet, a diminutive of helme (Modern French heaume), equivalent to helm + -et. The Old French is itself of Germanic origin (whence Old English helm). Used in English since the 15th century, it has largely displaced helm as the general word.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter II, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(clothing) A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.

(heraldry) Such a helm when placed above a shield on a coat of arms.

That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.

Jarvo’s a stinky old helmet.

2021 September 3, MJowen174, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-01-14:

(by extension, derogatory) A contemptible or stupid person.


semen

en-noun

semen (usually uncountable, plural semens)

From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).

der

Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80:

In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:

A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.


semen

la-noun

sēmen n (genitive sēminis); third declension

sēmen (canonical neuter)
sēminis (genitive)
sēmen (nominative singular)
sēmina (nominative plural)
sēminis (genitive singular)
sēminum (genitive plural)
sēminī (dative singular)
sēminibus (dative plural)
sēmen (accusative singular)
sēmina (accusative plural)
sēmine (ablative singular)
sēminibus (ablative plural)
sēmen (singular vocative)
sēmina (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: semen

→ English: semen

→ Middle Irish: semen

Irish: seamhan

Galician: seme

Italian: seme

Romanian: sămânță

Portuguese: sêmen

Romansch: sem

→ Spanish: semen, ⇒ semilla

Venetian: sema

From Proto-Italic *sēmən, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥ (“seed”).

et ignis sēmina convolvunt ē nūbibus.

c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6

and the seeds of fire roll from the clouds.

(poetic) seed (of the elements of other bodies (of fire, water, stones, etc.))


chopper

Pomatomus saltatrix
Pomatomus saltatrix#Translingual

(Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).


afloat

1695, Edmund Gibson (translator), Camden’s Britannia, London: A. Swalle, “Staffordshire,”
[…] it [the River Dove] overflows and lays the meadows afloat in April, like another Nile.


gob

en-noun

gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)

From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).

der

He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.


gob

Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).

He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.

Oi, you, shut your gob!

She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.

Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs

2005, “Tango”, in Public Warning, performed by Lady Sovereign:

(countable, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.


gob

head

gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)

goib (genitive singular)
goba (nominative plural)
gob (indefinite nominative singular)
goba (indefinite nominative plural)
a ghoib (indefinite singular vocative)
a ghoba (indefinite plural vocative)
goib (genitive indefinite singular)
gob (genitive indefinite plural)
gob (dative indefinite singular)
goba (dative indefinite plural)
an gob (definite nominative singular)
na goba (definite nominative plural)
an ghoib (definite genitive singular)
na ngob (definite genitive plural)
leis an ngob (dative definite singular)
don ghob (dative definite singular)
leis na goba (dative definite plural)

From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”) (compare French gober (“gulp down”) and gobelet (“goblet”) from Gaulish) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”); compare Russian зоб (zob, “goitre”), jowl from Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).


complexion

From Middle English complexion (“temperament”), from Old French complexion (French complexion), from Medieval Latin complexiō (“complexion, constitution”), from complector, past participle complexus (“to entwine, encompass”).

der

Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

“Indeed, sir,” answered the lady, with some warmth, “I cannot think there is anything easier than to cheat an old woman with a profession of love, when her complexion is amorous; and, though she is my aunt, I must say there never was a more liquorish one than her ladyship. […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, medicine) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.


яс

mn-noun

яс • (jas) (definite plural яснууд); (hidden-n declension)

jas (romanization)
яснууд (definite plural)

Inherited from Classical Mongolian ᠶᠠᠰᠤ (yasu), from Middle Mongol ᠶᠠᠰᠤᠨ (yʾswn /yasun/), from Proto-Mongolic *yasun, compare Buryat яһан (jahan), Kalmyk ясн (yasn).


bristle

en-verb

bristle (third-person singular simple present bristles, present participle bristling, simple past and past participle bristled)

bristles (present singular third-person)
bristling (participle present)
bristled (participle past)
bristled (past)

dated, rural folk speech of New England and Upstate New York

From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from Proto-West Germanic *burstilu, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fastīgium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)), equivalent to brust + -le.

Your blatant attitude always bristles me.

Mr. Berman, you know me well enough to know that I—and it just bristles me when I hear agriculture thrown into one lump basket, that we’re a bunch of crooks and treat our workers bad, because that is not the case. I have—I wish you could talk to some of my farm workers.

1996, Guest Worker Programs: […], United States Government Publishing Office, page 116:

I scowl. “Pretty sure women are not explicitly forbidden in my contract.”
He lowers his voice. “No, but it’s good to be cautious when you're trying to rehab a public image.”
Something about the comment bristles me. “Hey, it’s not my image. I’ve always been good.”

2016 November 12, Lauren Blakely, Out of Bounds, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 65:

When we take on a new name, it can be hard for other people to get used to. […] But if someone new in my life calls me that old name, it bristles me. That’s not who I am.

2021 February, Phoenix LeFae, Gwion Raven, Life Ritualized: A Witch's Guide to Honoring Life's Important Moments, Llewellyn Worldwide, page 135:

‘No. I don’t believe in wasting my money on crap like that.’
‘It’s not your money, it’s mine.’ I can see the comment bristles him; he feels inadequate: his daughter is wealthier than he’s ever been.

2021 April, Terry Westby-Nunn, The Artist Vanishes, Penguin Random House South Africa, page 159:

(transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.


casein

en-noun

casein (countable and uncountable, plural caseins)

From French caséine, formed from Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ine.

It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese. The whey proteins play a more minor role; they influence the texture of casein curds, and stabilize the milk foams on specialty coffees.

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

(biochemistry) A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants


spud

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.


coleus

la-noun

cōleus m (genitive cōleī); second declension

cōleus (canonical masculine)
cōleī (genitive)
cōleus (nominative singular)
cōleī (nominative plural)
cōleī (genitive singular)
cōleōrum (genitive plural)
cōleō (dative singular)
cōleīs (dative plural)
cōleum (accusative singular)
cōleōs (accusative plural)
cōleō (ablative singular)
cōleīs (ablative plural)
cōlee (singular vocative)
cōleī (plural vocative)

[ˈkoːɫ̪eʊs̠]

Uncertain. Possibly akin to cūleus, culleus (“sack”); caulis, cōlis (“stalk”); or cōlum (“sieve”).

(vulgar, in the plural) sack (scrotum or testicles)


bobble

* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).
* (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix).
Compare bauble.

(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie


hals

From Middle High German hals, from Old High German hals, from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck, throat”). Cognate with German Hals, archaic English halse.


hals

nl-noun

hals m (plural halzen, diminutive halsje n)

halzen (plural)
halsje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: hals

From Middle Dutch hals, from Old Dutch hals, from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz.

(narrow sense) the front side of the neck; throat


hals

halsen (definite singular)
halser (indefinite plural)
halsene (definite plural)

From Old Norse hals (“neck”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kólsos.
Cognate with English halse, Dutch hals, German Hals, Swedish hals and Danish hals.

tag grimen af min hals

1873, Henrik Ibsen, Kærlighedens komedie, page 125:

[Hedvig] lægger armen om hans hals

[kledd] i sort helt op til halsen

1888, Henrik Ibsen, Fruen fra havet, page 207:

[hun] tog hende om halsen

1907, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons fortællinger, page 156:

håret var satt opp, i halsen hadde hun et enkelt gullkjede med hjerte

1997, Gerd Brantenberg, Augusta og Bjørnstjerne, page 128:

her hair was up, around her neck she had a simple gold chain with a heart

hun har en blomstrete, V-ringet kjole på seg og et enkelt perlekjede i halsen

2021, Linn Ullmann, Jente, 1983, page 203:

she is wearing a floral V-neck dress and a simple pearl necklace around her neck

vi sitter i halsen i dette [hjernens belønningssystem som trigges av det uforutsigbare], og ingen slipper unna

2019, Nina Lykke, Full spredning, page 147:

we're stuck in this [brain's reward system triggered by the unpredictable] and no one escapes

de kastet seg om halsen på hverandre og klemte og gråt

they embraced each other and hugged and cried

kan du fatte det, sa Trine [Hattestad etter å ha blitt verdensmester i spydkast] og falt om halsen på sin trener

1993 August 23, Bergens Tidende, page 24:

can you imagine that, said Trine [Hattestad after becoming world champion in the javelin throw] and embraced her coach

kommunistene og de borgerlige falt om halsen på hverandre og stilte fellesliste ved valg til formannskapet

the communists and the bourgeois came to an agreement and put up a joint list in elections for the chairmanship

Dostojevskij … trodde at Russland og Europa ville falle om halsen på hverandre i kjølvannet av reformene og de store forandringene

Dostoevsky ... believed that Russia and Europe would come to an agreement in the wake of the reforms and the great changes

vi [burde] falt om halsen på innvandrerne og tryglet om tilgivelse

we [should] show great gratitude to the immigrants and beg for forgiveness

han [hørte] kjærrerne komme. Og nu gjorde han lang hals

1900, Vilhelm Krag, Isaac Seehuusen, page 283:

he [heard] the carts coming. And now he was stretching to get a good look

hun skjøt hals

[jeg] strekker hals for å se best mulig mellom hodene på dem som sitter foran

[I] stretch out my neck to see as best as possible between the heads of those sitting in front

partiprogrammerne vri’r halsen om på alle unge levedygtige sandheder

1882, Henrik Ibsen, En folkefiende, page 215:

the party programs kills all young viable truths

skrækken havde rystet Aline så forfærdelig stærkt. Brandlarmen, – udflytningen – så’n over hals og hode

1892, Henrik Ibsen, Bygmester Solness, page 116:

the terror had shaken Aline so horribly. The fire alarm, - the eviction - so hastily

markmus og kjøttmeiser flygted hals over hoved

1904, Jacob Breda Bull, Folkelivsbilleder II, page 243:

digter-komponisten havde over hals og hoved maattet flygte fra Østerriges hovedstad

1917, Clara Tschudi, Ludwig den anden, page 22:

the poet-composer had to hastily flee from Austria's capital

jeg er altså i Deres magt, assessor. De har hals og hånd over mig fra nu af

1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 232:

I am therefore in your power, assessor. You have power over my destiny from now on

sitte til halsen i

kaste seg om halsen på

falle om halsen på

to embrace; come to an agreement; be grateful

gjøre lang hals; strekke/skyte hals

vri/dreie halsen om på noen

hals over hode; over hode og hals

hastily and without time for further preparation

ha hals og hånd over

(anatomy, zoology) a neck (the part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.)

hans kejserdom er om en hals!

1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 137:

det var ikke frit for at jeg blev om en hals naar at hun saa paa mig

it was not free for me to be in a life-threatening situation when she looked at me

Nå, nå, nå! Ikke så ivrig! Det har været figurligt ment, det gi’er jeg min hals på

1874, Henrik Ibsen, De unges forbund, page 22:

Well, well, well! Not so eager! It was meant figuratively, I swear by it

jeg er folkets mand paa min hals

1899, Alexander Kielland, Garman og Worse, page 161:

være om en hals

gi sin hals på noe

være noe på sin hals

(chiefly literary) Used in fixed expressions related to execution by decapitation.

(anatomy) a nape (the back part of the neck.)

[en kunne] faa sygdom paa halsen

vil du endelig ha dig en forkjølelse paa halsen

1919, Kristian Elster, Av Skyggernes Slegt, page 191:

De hører jo hvad det gælder for mig, – enten at få pressen på halsen eller få den velvilligt stemt for mig

1877, Henrik Ibsen, Samfundets støtter, page 69:

After all, they hear what matters to me, - either to have the press after me or to have it benevolently voted for me

[vi] burde vel … see om vi kunde faae fra halsen hvad vi har [av eventyr]

1853, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Fra det nationale gjennembruds tid. Breve fra Jørgen Moe til P. Chr. Asbjørnsen og andre, page 273:

[we] should probably ... see if we could get off our necks what we have [of adventures]

havde jeg Ribbungerne vel fra halsen, så foer jeg selv vestover

1872, Henrik Ibsen, Kongs-Emnerne, page 43:

If I had the Ribb children off my neck, I would go west myself

få/ha noe(n) på halsen; skaffe seg noe(n) på halsen

ha noe(n) fra halsen; skaffe seg noe(n) fra halsen

Used in fixed expressions related to draft animals carrying something.


hals

halsen (definite singular)
halsar (indefinite plural)
halsane (definite plural)

From Old Norse hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz.


hals

hals (nominative singular)
halsa (nominative plural)
hals (accusative singular)
halsa (accusative plural)
halses (genitive singular)
halso (genitive plural)
halse (dative singular)
halsum (dative plural)
halsu (instrumental singular)

Middle High German: hals

Cimbrian: hals, haltz (Sette Comuni)

German: Hals

Luxembourgish: Hals

Yiddish: האַלדז (haldz)

From Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz. Cognate with Old English healh, Old Norse hals, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals).


hals

hals (genitive)
halsar (plural)
hals (indefinite nominative singular)
halsinn (definite nominative singular)
halsar (indefinite nominative plural)
halsarnir (definite nominative plural)
hals (accusative indefinite singular)
halsinn (accusative definite singular)
halsa (accusative indefinite plural)
halsana (accusative definite plural)
halsi (dative indefinite singular)
halsinum (dative definite singular)
hǫlsum (dative indefinite plural)
hǫlsunum (dative definite plural)
halss (genitive indefinite singular)
halssins (definite genitive singular)
halsa (genitive indefinite plural)
halsanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

hals

Icelandic: háls

Faroese: hálsur

Norn: hals, håls, hwåls

desc

Norwegian Nynorsk: hals; (dialectal) håls’e, hås

Old Swedish: hals

Swedish: hals

Danish: hals

Norwegian Bokmål: hals

Gutnish: hals

From Proto-Germanic *halsaz, whence also Old English heals, Dutch hals, Old Saxon hals, Old High German hals, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals).


cooter

Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”). Attested in English from the 19th century.

A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys.


curl

From metathesis of Middle English crulle (“curled, curly”), from Middle Dutch crul, crulle (“curl”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruzlǭ (“bent or crooked object, curl”), of unknown origin; possibly from Pre-Germanic *grus-, contracted from Proto-Indo-European *gurus- (“twist, curl”), same source as Persian گرس (gors, “braid of hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Krulle (“curl, lock”), West Frisian krul (“curl”), Dutch krul (“curl”), German Low German Krull (“curl”), dialectal German Krolle (“curl”), Danish krølle (“curl”), Norwegian krull (“curl”). Related also to Saterland Frisian Kruus (“curl”), German kraus (“frizzy, crumpled, curly”), Danish krus (“curl”), Swedish krusa (“to crimp, curl”). Compare also Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to grind, crush, gnash”).

unk

unknown

cog

[…]she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.

1866, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 7, in Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power:

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.

2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health, page 54

(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.

The one-piece back is of a medium curl.

(music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.

loimukuvio

music: light and dark figure seen in wood


curl

en-verb

curl (third-person singular simple present curls, present participle curling, simple past and past participle curled)

curls (present singular third-person)
curling (participle present)
curled (participle past)
curled (past)

straighten

antonym(s) of “to make into a curl or spiral”

straighten

antonym(s) of “to assume the shape of a curl or spiral”

→ Kashubian: kurlowac (Canada)

unk

unknown

She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.

2004, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Twelve Times Blessed, page 249:

(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.

Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.


haw

en-noun

haw (countable and uncountable, plural haws)

Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.

nictitating membrane
nictitating membrane

(countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.


distal

en-adj

distal (comparative more distal, superlative most distal)

more distal (comparative)
most distal (superlative)

(dentistry) Facing the wisdom tooth or temporomandibular joint on the same side of the jaw.


cervix

nl-noun

cervix m (plural cervixen or cervices, diminutive cervixje n)

cervixen (plural)
cervices (plural)
cervixje (diminutive neuter)

the cervix between the uterus and the vagina


fibrin

en-noun

fibrin (usually uncountable, plural fibrins)

From fibre + -in (“used to form chemical names of proteins, etc”).

suffix

A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood.

An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein produced by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen and forming an interlacing fibrous network in the coagulation of blood.

An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.


fibrin

en-verb

fibrin (third-person singular simple present fibrins, present participle fibrining, simple past and past participle fibrined)

fibrins (present singular third-person)
fibrining (participle present)
fibrined (participle past)
fibrined (past)

To apply fibrin sealant to a surgical site to either stop bleeding or for surgical flap closure.


spy

spyr (present)
spydde (past)
spytt (participle past)
spydd (participle past)
spyast (infinitive passive)
spyande (participle present)
spy (imperative)

From Old Norse spýja. The noun is derived from the verb.

(intransitive, about blowflies) to lay eggs


goer

From Middle English goere, equivalent to go + -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).

[…] a double Mantle cast
A’ thwart his Shoulders, his faire goers g[r]ac’st
With fitted shooes; and in his hand, a Dart

c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 13, p. 202:


cusp

From Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology.

bor

(dentistry) Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.


flange

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.

der

[The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.

1998, Mr MI Pennington, “Can the Players be Trusted?”, in rec.games.frp.live-action (Usenet):

2007, "balor", Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7 https://web.archive.org/web/20071014193135/http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx
'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'

(roleplaying games) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.


lima

lima (nominative singular)
limat (nominative plural)
lima (accusative nominative singular)
limat (accusative nominative plural)
liman (accusative genitive singular)
limat (accusative genitive plural)
liman (genitive singular)
limojen (genitive plural)
limain (genitive plural rare)
limaa (partitive singular)
limoja (partitive plural)
limassa (inessive singular)
limoissa (inessive plural)
limasta (elative singular)
limoista (elative plural)
limaan (illative singular)
limoihin (illative plural)
limalla (adessive singular)
limoilla (adessive plural)
limalta (ablative singular)
limoilta (ablative plural)
limalle (allative singular)
limoille (allative plural)
limana (essive singular)
limoina (essive plural)
limaksi (singular translative)
limoiksi (plural translative)
limatta (abessive singular)
limoitta (abessive plural)
limoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
limani (nominative singular)
limani (nominative plural)
limani (accusative nominative singular)
limani (accusative nominative plural)
limani (accusative genitive singular)
limani (accusative genitive plural)
limani (genitive singular)
limojeni (genitive plural)
limaini (genitive plural rare)
limaani (partitive singular)
limojani (partitive plural)
limassani (inessive singular)
limoissani (inessive plural)
limastani (elative singular)
limoistani (elative plural)
limaani (illative singular)
limoihini (illative plural)
limallani (adessive singular)
limoillani (adessive plural)
limaltani (ablative singular)
limoiltani (ablative plural)
limalleni (allative singular)
limoilleni (allative plural)
limanani (essive singular)
limoinani (essive plural)
limakseni (singular translative)
limoikseni (plural translative)
limattani (abessive singular)
limoittani (abessive plural)
limoineni (comitative plural)
limasi (nominative singular)
limasi (nominative plural)
limasi (accusative nominative singular)
limasi (accusative nominative plural)
limasi (accusative genitive singular)
limasi (accusative genitive plural)
limasi (genitive singular)
limojesi (genitive plural)
limaisi (genitive plural rare)
limaasi (partitive singular)
limojasi (partitive plural)
limassasi (inessive singular)
limoissasi (inessive plural)
limastasi (elative singular)
limoistasi (elative plural)
limaasi (illative singular)
limoihisi (illative plural)
limallasi (adessive singular)
limoillasi (adessive plural)
limaltasi (ablative singular)
limoiltasi (ablative plural)
limallesi (allative singular)
limoillesi (allative plural)
limanasi (essive singular)
limoinasi (essive plural)
limaksesi (singular translative)
limoiksesi (plural translative)
limattasi (abessive singular)
limoittasi (abessive plural)
limoinesi (comitative plural)
limamme (nominative singular)
limamme (nominative plural)
limamme (accusative nominative singular)
limamme (accusative nominative plural)
limamme (accusative genitive singular)
limamme (accusative genitive plural)
limamme (genitive singular)
limojemme (genitive plural)
limaimme (genitive plural rare)
limaamme (partitive singular)
limojamme (partitive plural)
limassamme (inessive singular)
limoissamme (inessive plural)
limastamme (elative singular)
limoistamme (elative plural)
limaamme (illative singular)
limoihimme (illative plural)
limallamme (adessive singular)
limoillamme (adessive plural)
limaltamme (ablative singular)
limoiltamme (ablative plural)
limallemme (allative singular)
limoillemme (allative plural)
limanamme (essive singular)
limoinamme (essive plural)
limaksemme (singular translative)
limoiksemme (plural translative)
limattamme (abessive singular)
limoittamme (abessive plural)
limoinemme (comitative plural)
limanne (nominative singular)
limanne (nominative plural)
limanne (accusative nominative singular)
limanne (accusative nominative plural)
limanne (accusative genitive singular)
limanne (accusative genitive plural)
limanne (genitive singular)
limojenne (genitive plural)
limainne (genitive plural rare)
limaanne (partitive singular)
limojanne (partitive plural)
limassanne (inessive singular)
limoissanne (inessive plural)
limastanne (elative singular)
limoistanne (elative plural)
limaanne (illative singular)
limoihinne (illative plural)
limallanne (adessive singular)
limoillanne (adessive plural)
limaltanne (ablative singular)
limoiltanne (ablative plural)
limallenne (allative singular)
limoillenne (allative plural)
limananne (essive singular)
limoinanne (essive plural)
limaksenne (singular translative)
limoiksenne (plural translative)
limattanne (abessive singular)
limoittanne (abessive plural)
limoinenne (comitative plural)
limansa (nominative singular)
limansa (nominative plural)
limansa (accusative nominative singular)
limansa (accusative nominative plural)
limansa (accusative genitive singular)
limansa (accusative genitive plural)
limansa (genitive singular)
limojensa (genitive plural)
limainsa (genitive plural rare)
limaansa (partitive singular)
limojaan (partitive plural)
limojansa (partitive plural)
limassaan (inessive singular)
limassansa (inessive singular)
limoissaan (inessive plural)
limoissansa (inessive plural)
limastaan (elative singular)
limastansa (elative singular)
limoistaan (elative plural)
limoistansa (elative plural)
limaansa (illative singular)
limoihinsa (illative plural)
limallaan (adessive singular)
limallansa (adessive singular)
limoillaan (adessive plural)
limoillansa (adessive plural)
limaltaan (ablative singular)
limaltansa (ablative singular)
limoiltaan (ablative plural)
limoiltansa (ablative plural)
limalleen (allative singular)
limallensa (allative singular)
limoilleen (allative plural)
limoillensa (allative plural)
limanaan (essive singular)
limanansa (essive singular)
limoinaan (essive plural)
limoinansa (essive plural)
limakseen (singular translative)
limaksensa (singular translative)
limoikseen (plural translative)
limoiksensa (plural translative)
limattaan (abessive singular)
limattansa (abessive singular)
limoittaan (abessive plural)
limoittansa (abessive plural)
limoineen (comitative plural)
limoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *lima, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *slīmą.

mucus (slippery secretion from mucous membranes)

phlegm (viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing)

(historical) phlegm (one of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus)

slime (mucus-like substance that exudes from the bodies of some animals, e.g. snails and slugs)


lima

From Proto-Polynesian *lima. Cognates include Hawaiian lima and Samoan lima.


marcel

Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style.


niacin

in 1942 derived from nicotinic + acid + vitamin, chosen to dissociate it from nicotine, to avoid the perception that vitamins or niacin-rich food contains nicotine, or that cigarettes contain vitamins.

Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.

E375 when used as a colour retention agent


gam

Uncertain but surely formed within English; etymons may include game or gammon.

But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. Gam. NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats’ crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 53”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean […]

1916, Harry B. Turner, “Nantucket's Early Telegraph Service”, in Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, page 50:

If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.

1997, Gillies Ross, Margaret Penny, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country, →ISBN, page 14:

Twice each year, the Russian Navy sent out such ships to provision Russian whalers in the Sea of Okhotsk. In sailing toward the supposed Russian ship, the Abigail’s captain, Ebenezer Nye, was hoping for a gam with the ship's officers […]

2007, Tom Chaffin, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, →ISBN, page 230:

(by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).


mouser

From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache.

inh

He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 20:

the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street


mouser

Apparently an extended usage of English mouser (“a cat”), hence a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings, possibly with influence from moustache.


kemp

en-adj

kemp (comparative more kemp, superlative most kemp)

more kemp (comparative)
most kemp (superlative)

From Middle English kempe, campe (“shaggy, rough”).


phloem

First attested in 1872. From German Phloëm, coined by Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli in 1858 from Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “husk, bark”) + a Greek-sounding ending -em (cf. System).

der

(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.


amo

amó (canonical feminine)
amoomá (feminine plural)
amó (absolutive)
amó (predicative)
amó (subjective)
amó (genitive)
amól (l-case with-postposition)
amók (k-case with-postposition)
amót (t-case with-postposition)
amóh (h-case with-postposition)


hackle

en-noun

hackle (countable and uncountable, plural hackles)

From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.

Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.


nob

Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.

One for his nob.

(cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.)

trunfo

(slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.)

(by extension) (vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) The penis; dick. (Also spelled knob.)

The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.

1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth:

(slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) A wealthy or influential person; a toff.


tweeze

en-verb

tweeze (third-person singular simple present tweezes, present participle tweezing, simple past and past participle tweezed)

tweezes (present singular third-person)
tweezing (participle present)
tweezed (participle past)
tweezed (past)

Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.

1929 September 2, “Philatelists”, in Time:

He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm.

1930, Virginia Woolf, “Beau Brummell”, in The Common Reader: Second Series, published 1932:

(transitive) To pluck or grasp using tweezers.

Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows.

1950, Anya Seton, chapter 1, in Foxfire, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 4:

He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […]

1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

(transitive) To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers.

Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs.

2012 November 16, Adriana Ermter, “How to get the perfect eyebrows: Four reasons to enlist a professional”, in Chatelaine:

(intransitive) To pluck out hairs using tweezers.


stasis

en-noun

stasis (usually uncountable, plural stases)

From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.

His company was sized for growth, not stasis.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.

1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Or will Americans remain hunkered forever—as confused and anxious and paralyzed as we were before 2020—descend into digital feudalism, and retreat back into our cocoons of nostalgia and cultural stasis, providing the illusion that nothing much is changing or ever can change?

2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:

(figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.


jigger

→ Catalan: gigre

From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

“an air-brush is a big thing-a-ma-bob or whatcha-callit, full of gas, and when you turn on a little jigger, it causes compressed air to squeeze out, which, in turn, going through a needle—” “That wasn't part of the contract, Mr. Jones,” […]

(US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.


muff

Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).

(vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.


pomade

pomade (countable and uncountable, plural pomades)

From French pommade, from Italian pomata (“ointment, pomade”), from pomo (“apple”) + -ata (“-ade, -ate: forming nouns”), from Latin pomum (“fruit, apple”) and -atum. Doublet of pomatum, pomate, and pomace. Early pomades tended to be various kinds of fat mixed with apples for a more pleasing scent.

So saying, Lady Mandeville turned to the toilette, and mercilessly tied up in her handkerchief the various brushes, combs, oils, pomade, and rouge, with which the table was profusely covered.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 44:

The rain beat my hair, run down my face and into my mouth so that I can taste the coconut oil pomade from my hair.

2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 94:

A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.

With this excellent Pomade you may Anoint your Face at night, and waſh it off the next day in the morning with Rain-water.

1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , Of Medicines and other Remedies which are appropriated to the Skin, Hair, and Teeth, page 9:

(obsolete or historical) Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.


pomade

en-verb

pomade (third-person singular simple present pomades, present participle pomading, simple past and past participle pomaded)

pomades (present singular third-person)
pomading (participle present)
pomaded (participle past)
pomaded (past)

(transitive, obsolete or historical) Synonym of anoint, to apply ointment.


xylem

From German Xylem, from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”).

(botany) A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.


nib

From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.

One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.


cue

Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).

Fat, short, radiant, General Chattesworth—in full, artillery uniform—was there, smiling, and making little speeches to the ladies, and bowing stiffly from his hips upward—his great cue playing all the time up and down his back, and sometimes so near the ground when he stood erect and threw back his head, that Toole, seeing Juno eyeing the appendage rather viciously, thought it prudent to cut her speculations short with a smart kick.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

(obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.


winkle

There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica).

1912, Daniel Melancthon Tredwell, Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island:

The conchs or winkles, Busycon carica (fig. 204, opp. p. 216) and B. canaliculata, ... He gave the estimate of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy a bushel of oysters in a single hour.

1931, Bureau of Fisheries Document, volume 922, page 217:

In Connecticut, the so-called "winkle" chowder is made from B. [Busycon] canaliculatum.

1969, Frank E. Firth, The encyclopedia of marine resources, page 139:

Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.


cheek

en-noun

cheek (countable and uncountable, plural cheeks)

From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).

der

There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper, / That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek: / Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world / Could turn so much the constitution / Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

(anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.

(anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.

(biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.

One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.

(nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down

mik

nautical: a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened


taring

id-noun

taring (first-person possessive taringku, second-person possessive taringmu, third-person possessive taringnya)

taringku (first-person possessive)
taringmu (possessive second-person)
taringnya (possessive third-person)

From Malay taring,
from Classical Malay taring.


oblique muscle

(anatomy) A muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles, applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.


lien

Borrowed from Latin liēn (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen.

Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.

1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine:

The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, …

1914, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, volume 1, page 312

(uncommon, possibly obsolete) The spleen.


lien

la-noun

liēn m (genitive liēnis); third declension

liēn (canonical masculine)
liēnis (genitive)
liēn (nominative singular)
liēnēs (nominative plural)
liēnis (genitive singular)
liēnum (genitive plural)
liēnī (dative singular)
liēnibus (dative plural)
liēnem (accusative singular)
liēnēs (accusative plural)
liēne (ablative singular)
liēnibus (ablative plural)
liēn (singular vocative)
liēnēs (plural vocative)

desc

→ English: lien, lieno-; ⇒ lienal, lienic

→ Esperanto: lieno

→ Romanian: lien

From Proto-Indo-European, reflecting a form *(s)li(ǵʰ)-ēn-, from the root *spelǵʰ- (“spleen”), heavily distorted in all of its descendants, likely for tabooistic reasons, making the exact original PIE form hard to pin down. The newly introduced -i- is seemingly also found in the Sanskrit cognate प्लीहन् (plīhán), the fall of *-h- < *-ǵʰ- is also observed in Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), while the loss of *-p- is also visible in Proto-Slavic *selzenь.
Other cognates include Middle Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʻaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥- (spər^əzan-). Doublet of splēn.


serum

(rare) serum (yellowish fluid obtained from blood)


ret

ret (nominative singular)
rty (nominative plural)
rety (literary nominative plural)
rtu (genitive singular)
retu (genitive literary singular)
rtů (genitive plural)
retů (genitive literary plural)
rtu (dative singular)
retu (dative literary singular)
rtům (dative plural)
retům (dative literary plural)
ret (accusative singular)
rty (accusative plural)
rety (accusative literary plural)
rte (singular vocative)
rete (literary singular vocative)
rty (plural vocative)
rety (literary plural vocative)
rtu (locative singular)
retu (literary locative singular)
rtech (locative plural)
retech (literary locative plural)
rtem (instrumental singular)
retem (instrumental literary singular)
rty (instrumental plural)
rety (instrumental literary plural)

Inherited from Old Czech ret, from Proto-Slavic *rъtъ. Compare Russian рот (rot, “mouth”).


milt

en-noun

milt (countable and uncountable, plural milts)

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.

inh

we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.

(countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish


milt

nl-noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

milten (plural)
miltje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch milte, from Old Dutch *milta, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ.


rumen

In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809). As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.

2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:

The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants.


rumen

El amoniaco procede de las heces y la orina de los animales; el CO₂ de su respiración y el metano lo expulsan los rumiantes por la boca, no por las ventosidades, como se dice frecuentemente, debido a la fermentación de los alimentos en su rumen, que es una de las partes del aparato digestivo de los rumiantes.

2022 November 10, María Teresa Paramio, “¿Es nueva la producción de alimentos en macrogranjas?”, in El País:


lac

la-noun

lac n sg (genitive lactis); third declension

lactis (genitive)
lac (nominative singular)
lactis (genitive singular)
lactī (dative singular)
lac (accusative singular)
lacte (ablative singular)
lac (singular vocative)

Late Latin: lactis (see there for further descendants)

→⇒ English: lactic, lact(o)-

→ Esperanto: lakto

Ido: lakto

→ Interlingua: lacte

From lact by simplification of a word-final sequence of two plosives (the variant nominative/accusative form lacte shows the addition of a vowel as an alternative). The etymology is controversial: there is no consensus on the cognate set, the manner of descent (inheritance vs. borrowing), or the form and ultimate origin of the etymon. Possible cognates include Ancient Greek γάλα, γᾰ́λᾰκτ-/γᾰ́λᾰκ- (gála, gálakt-/gálak-, “milk”), Old Armenian կաթն (katʻn, “milk”) (or perhaps only its variant form Old Armenian *կաղց (*kałcʻ), reconstructed as the ancestor of modern dialectal Armenian կախց (kaxcʻ)) Hittite 𒂵𒆷𒀝𒋻 (galaktar, “balm, resin”), Albanian dhallë (“buttermilk”), Romanian zară (“buttermilk”) and Waigali zōr (“milk”).
More information
Pokorny reconstructs the Latin and Greek words as inherited from Proto-Indo-European *glakt n from a root *glag- or *glak-. De Vaan derives the Latin, Greek and Armenian forms from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥gt-, and follows Meiser in explaining the loss of initial *g- in Latin as a result of long-distance dissimilation. Per Nielsen, the Latin and Greek words can be derived from *glakt-, Old Armenian *կաղց (*kałcʻ) can be derived from *g(a)l(ḱ)t- (requiring an initial non-palatal velar), and Albanian dhallë can perhaps be derived from *ǵal(K)- (requiring an initial palatal velar); on the basis of the variability in the initial consonant and the unusual root structure, Nielsen considers the root to be non-Indo-European in origin.
There have been attempts to derive the word instead from the root *h₂melǵ- (“milk”).
* Garnier, Sagart and Sagot 2017 cite Garnier 2016's reconstruction of a verb *ambĭ-blactāre (“to milk with both hands”) > *amblactāre, supposing this was subsequently reanalyzed as *amb-lactāre and lost the prefix to yield the attested verb lactāre. The noun lac(t) would then derive by back-formation from the verb lactāre.

cog

γάλα, γᾰ́λᾰκτ-/γᾰ́λᾰκ-

Lac herbae.

cum lacte veneni.

c. 1st century BCE, Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux
Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
nec mala sunt ulli nostra futura bono.
As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,

my future fruits are not good to anyone.


tibia

Borrowed from Latin tībia (“shin bone, leg”).

(anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone

(entomology) The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.

(arachnology) The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.

The musician on the left is playing the zampogna, a bagpipe with two chanters and two drones. The zampogna is thought to be the bag-provided descendant of the ancient mouth-blown divergent pipes of the Romans, known as the tibia.

1975, Francis M. Collinson, The bagpipe: the history of a musical instrument, page 188:

A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.


tibia

Borrowed from Latin tībia. Compare the inherited doublet tige.


tibia

Attested since 1409 (tiva). Learned borrowing from Latin tībia.


manhood

en-noun

manhood (countable and uncountable, plural manhoods)

From Middle English manhode, also manhede (> obsolete English manhead), equivalent to man + -hood. Cognate with Middle Dutch manheit (“manhood”), Middle Low German manheit (whence German Low German Mannheit (“manhood”)), German Mannheit (“manhood”).

She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.

In the course of a journey the Rabbis [...] came across a young man who had been robbed of his manhood and made a eunuch by a certain witch.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:

A Thai man was taken to hospital to have a sex toy removed with bolt cutters after it got stuck on his penis. He was using the device at home but was left in agony when he could not detach it from his manhood.

2016, Rory Tingle, “Thai man has a sex ring removed with bolt cutters after it became stuck on his penis”, in Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers:

(euphemistic) The male genitalia, especially the penis.


tensor

tensor (plural tensors or (muscle) tensores)

Borrowed from New Latin tensor (“that which stretches”), equivalent to tense + -or. Anatomical sense from 1704.
Introduced in the 1840s by William Rowan Hamilton as an algebraic quantity unrelated to the modern notion of tensor.
The contemporary mathematical meaning was introduced (as German Tensor) by Woldemar Voigt (1898) and adopted in English from 1915 (in the context of general relativity), obscuring the earlier Hamiltonian sense. The mathematical object is so named because an early application of tensors was the study of materials stretching under tension. (See, for example, Cauchy stress tensor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)

tenzor

image of a tuple under a tensor product map

(anatomy) A muscle that tightens or stretches a part, or renders it tense.


depilation

en-noun

depilation (countable and uncountable, plural depilations)

Hair had appeared in greater quantities where I didnʼt want it, and I couldnʼt keep up with the demands of depilation.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, pages 150–151:

Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing; hair removal.


vamp

en-verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

vamps (present singular third-person)
vamping (participle present)
vamped (participle past)
vamped (past)

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

cog

Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!

She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.

(intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.


labial

Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.

af

(dentistry, of an incisor or canine) On the side facing the lips. See mesial.


crier

Probably from Latin cerebrum through a Vulgar Latin root *crebrum or possibly from the diminutive form cerebellum through a root *crebellum (compare the variant form, also found in Megleno-Romanian, which seems to still preserve the -l-). Compare Romanian creier.


biceps

en-noun

biceps (plural biceps or bicepses or bicipites)

biceps (plural)
bicepses (plural)
bicipites (plural)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Latin biceps (“double-headed, two peaked”), from bis (“double”) + caput (“head”). See there for more details.

der

The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.

1901, Michael Foster, Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners, page 73:

The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps.

1996, Robert Kennedy, Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms, page 21:

Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.

Today, Stonewall's flexed biceps measure 18 inches around.

1964 Dec, “Muscles are His Business”, in Ebony, volume 20, number 2, page 147:

Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.

2005, Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas, page 144:

Odin examined the arm-ring, then pushed it onto his arm, up high on his biceps.

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 42:

(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.

Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ˘ ˘ ) — ˘ ˘ — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.

1987, Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre:

This means that in the metrical sequence[…] recited in ordinary speech rhythm, the princeps occupied a slightly shorter time than the biceps (5:6), and if a long syllable was used to fill the biceps it had to be dragged a little[…]

2000, James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future, page 347:

(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)


biceps

nl-noun

biceps m (plural bicepsen, diminutive bicepsje n)

bicepsen (plural)
bicepsje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: biseps

Borrowed from Latin biceps (“two-headed”).


biceps

(anatomy) biceps (any two-headed muscle)


biceps

biceps (nominative singular)
bicepsy (nominative plural)
bicepsa (genitive singular)
bicepsu (genitive singular)
bicepsów (genitive plural)
bicepsowi (dative singular)
bicepsom (dative plural)
biceps (accusative singular)
bicepsy (accusative plural)
bicepsem (instrumental singular)
bicepsami (instrumental plural)
bicepsie (locative singular)
bicepsach (locative plural)
bicepsie (singular vocative)
bicepsy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Bizeps. First attested in 1810.

prężyć bicepsy

I właśnie wtedy przyszło mi na myśl uratowanie prasy powstańczej, którą bardzo troskliwie zbierałem do 2 września, to jest do dnia podpalenia naszego domu, a jednocześnie dnia, kiedy zostałem ranny w prawy biceps.

1970, Stanisław Lorentz, Walka o Dobra Kultury, Warszawa 1939-1945, volume 2, page 27:

And that's exactly when I had the idea to save the uprising press that I very carefully collected until the second of September, that's before the day when our house caught fire, and simultaneously the day when I was injured in my right biceps.

Podwija rękaw i napina starczy biceps.
LEO: Dziękuję, stąd widzę.
STARZEC (klepie się po bicepsie): Niebywałe!

1994, “Dialog: Miesięcznik Poświęcony Dramaturgii Współczesnej”, in Związek Literatów Polskich, page 13:

He [Starzec] rolls up his sleeve and tenses elderly biceps.
LEO: Thanks, I see it from here.
STARZEC (taps himself on the biceps): Unheard of!


askance

Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).

cog

I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.

1896, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The Island of Doctor Moreau:

...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.

1878, Henry James, chapter 1, in The Europeans:


gall

en-noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural galls)

From Middle English galle, from Old English ġealla, galla, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.
The figurative senses (e.g., impudence, brazenness, chutzpah) are related to the literal sense (i.e., bile) via the lasting linguocultural effects of humorism, which governed Western medicine for many centuries before the advent of scientific medicine.
Related to Dutch gal, German Galle, Swedish galle, galla, Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ). Also remotely related with yellow.

(physiology, archaic, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.


ere

English: ear
Tok Pisin: ia

Scots: ear

From Old English ēare, from Proto-West Germanic *auʀā, from Proto-Germanic *ausô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

The ear (organ that receives sound):
The auricle; the outside of the ear.

The level of attention given to someone speaking.


iris

irises (plural)
iris (plural)
irides (plural)

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”). Presuming an earlier form *ϝῖρις (*wîris), possibly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *w(e)ih₁-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). If so, it would be cognate to English wire.

der

(anatomy) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, which adjusts to control the amount of light reaching the retina, and which forms the colored portion of the eye (See Iris (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).


iris

Learned borrowing from Latin īris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris).


eyeball

en-verb

eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)

eyeballs (present singular third-person)
eyeballing (participle present)
eyeballed (participle past)
eyeballed (past)

From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).

A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.

Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.

(transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.


fascia

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.

der

(architecture) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.

palkki

architecture: one of the three bands which make up the architrave

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

The deepest layer of cervical fascia consists of two main subdivisions: the alar and prevertebral fasciae.

2006, Dennis E. McDonnell, Steven J. Harrison, “10: Retropharyngeal Approach to the Occipitocervical Junction”, in Richard G. Fessler, Laligam N. Sekhar, editors, Atlas of Neurosurgical Techniques: Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Thieme Medical Publishers, page 89:

Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.

2017, David Lesondak, Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, Handspring Publishing, page 3, Figure 1.1

2017, Andrea Pasini, Antonio Stecco, Carla Stecco, 19: Fascial Anatomy of the Viscera, Torsten Liem, Paolo Tozzi, Anthony Chila (editors), Fascia in the Osteopathic Field, Handspring Publishing, page 173,
This is evidence that the insertional fasciae are the ones that provide the connections between internal fasciae and muscular fascia, and between the different organs. The same pattern can be applied to the fasciae that surround the glands.

(anatomy) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis.


buzz

en-noun

buzz (countable and uncountable, plural buzzes)

From Middle English *bussen, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle English bunning (“buzzing”), Middle English hossing (“buzzing”), Middle English bissen (“to hush”).

Mr. Hall? The buzz on Christian is that his parents have joint custody, so he'll be spending one semester in Chicago and one semester here.

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):

I wasn't performing with Pimp and Smoove that much no more, but I had a solo deal with Ruthless Rap and a brand new mixtape that was creating a big buzz.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:

In Detroit, the buzz is that he's too nice a guy, unwilling to impose draconian job cuts at the risk of angering the UAW.

2006 September 6, Daren Fonda, “Ford Motor's New Chief: "I Think It's a Tough Situation"”, in Time:

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Who's he?
Patrick: He's only the most popular kid in school.
Allen Gregory: Ah, the two heavyweights finally meet. Sure you're tired of all the buzz. Allen Gregory DeLongpre.

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

(informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.


hemoglobin

hemoglobin (countable and uncountable, plural hemoglobins)

hēʹmōglōʹbĭn

hēʹməglōʹbĭn

Originally hematinoglobulin, from hematin (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -in) + -o- + globulin (from Latin globus (“ball, sphere”) + -in).

(American spelling) The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre).

հեմոգլոբին

the iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen


flap

From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.

cog

(slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.


crisp

en-adj

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

crisper (comparative)
crispest (superlative)

From Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crape and crepe.

crisp hair

(dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.


crisp

"When she’s not writing, Katie spends her time with her husband and two kids, and their dogs: Wotsit, the King Charles spaniel, and Skips, the three-legged rescue dog. (And yes, they are both named after crisps!)

2018, Katie Ginger, The Little Theatre on the Seafront, HQ:

(UK, Ireland, by extension, colloquial) A crunchy, savoury snack food made from potato starch, cornmeal or other starchy cereal grain, packaged and eaten similarly to the above.

kale crisps

(UK, Ireland, food) Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.


crisp

en-verb

crisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)

crisps (present singular third-person)
crisping (participle present)
crisped (participle past)
crisped (past)

[…] those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5,
[…] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:

1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p. 44,
The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes
Adornes his crisped Tresses:

[…] the well known rhubarb of our gardens, with roundish crisped leaves.

1800, Thomas Pennant, “China”, in The View of Hindoostan, volume 3, London: Henry Hughs, page 172:

For a time I was made to forget that my skin was dark and my hair crisped.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 23, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 360:

The mere story of their adventures […] on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair.

1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 7, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 176:

(transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).

[…] he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible rictus of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:

1741, Alexander Pope, chapter 10, in Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, Dublin: George Faulkner, page 82:

Phillotson saw his wife turn and take the note, and the bend of her pretty head as she read it, her lips slightly crisped, to prevent undue expression under fire of so many young eyes.

1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, New York: Harper, published 1896, Part 4, Chapter 3, p. 266:

[…] a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.

1914, Frank Norris, chapter 15, in Vandover and the Brute, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, pages 242–243:

Ah, here was a fellow coming! And instinctively he crisped his hands that were buried in his pockets, and ran over to himself his opening words.

1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 27, in The Freelands,, London: Heinemann, page 252:

They [the shark’s teeth] were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws.

1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Scribner:

(transitive, dated) To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).

[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.

1860, Nikolai Gogol, “The Night of Christmas Eve: A Legend of Little Russia”, in George Tolstoy, transl., Cossack Tales, London: Blackwood, page 1:

[…] the wheels [of the carriage] made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway.

1904, Harry Leon Wilson, chapter 10, in The Seeker, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 239:

1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39,
[…] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,

The same peculiar crisping or crackling sound […] was heard this morning in every direction […] the ‘noise accompanying the aurora,’

1915, Elisha Kent Kane, chapter 16, in Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack, New York: Outing Publishing Company, published 1916, page 291:

Jericho had placed in my hand a glass in which the bubbles broke with a crisping sound.

1948 November, Max Brand, “Honor Bright”, in The Cosmopolitan:

(intransitive, dated) To make a sharp or harsh sound.


crisp

English: crisp

From Old English crisp, cirps and Old French cresp, crespe, from Latin crispus.


intact

en-adj

intact (comparative more intact, superlative most intact)

more intact (comparative)
most intact (superlative)

From Middle French intact, from Latin intactus.

GM, 28, intact, atheist, 5'9", 140 lbs., seeks similar guy 20-30 for conversation and other forms of communication.

1985 August 17, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 13:

(usually of male persons, especially used by intactivists) Uncircumcised, having an intact foreskin.


bale

bale (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște bale (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
balele (accusative definite nominative plural)
bale (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor bale (dative genitive indefinite plural)
balelor (dative definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin root *baba. Compare French bave, Italian bava, Spanish and Portuguese baba. The normal result, *ba, is not used as the singular has been replaced with bală through analogy.


pica

piczka (diminutive)
pica (nominative singular)
pice (nominative plural)
picy (genitive singular)
pic (genitive plural)
picy (dative singular)
picom (dative plural)
picę (accusative singular)
pice (accusative plural)
picą (instrumental singular)
picami (instrumental plural)
picy (locative singular)
picach (locative plural)
pico (singular vocative)
pice (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish pica (“vulva”).


knacker

From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)), hur (“horse”) — the profession of saddlemaker.

Travelling Community
Travelling Community

(Ireland, British, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.

antoušek

one who separates animals for reuse — see also flayer

He looked like someone had put a 9mm full metal jacket round through his left scrotum. He even had his mouth open in some parody of a soundless scream, much as I imagined I would do if someone shot my left knacker off.

2013, Perry Gamsby, Never Be Unsaid, page 136:

(UK, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.


knacker

en-verb

knacker (third-person singular simple present knackers, present participle knackering, simple past and past participle knackered)

knackers (present singular third-person)
knackering (participle present)
knackered (participle past)
knackered (past)

Carrying that giant statue up those stairs completely knackered me.

(UK, slang, transitive) To tire out, exhaust.


grimace

grimace (third-person singular simple present grimaces, present participle grimacing, simple past and past participle grimaced)

grimaces (present singular third-person)
grimacing (participle present)
grimaced (participle past)
grimaced (past)

From French grimace, from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche, from grime (“mask”) (with the pejorative suffix -ace, from Latin -āceus), from Frankish *grīma, *grīmō (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet”). Cognate with Old English grīma (“mask, visor, helmet, spectre, apparition”). More at grime.

cog

(intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.


grimace

Inherited from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche (“a contorted or wry face, grotesque countenance”), from grime (“mask”) + -ace (pejorative suffix; from Latin -āceus), from Old Frankish *grīma, *grīmo (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet, cover, night”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrey- (“to strip, paint, smear”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grime (“mask”), Old Saxon grīma (“mask”), Old English grīma (“mask”), Old Norse gríma (“mask, helmet, night”). More at grime.

af

pejorative suffix; from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">-āceus</i>

der

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive


glans

Learned borrowing from Latin glāns (“an acorn”).

حَشَفَة

(anatomy) A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals.

Ellipsis of glans penis or penile glans.

glans clitoridis
glans clitoridis#English

Ellipsis of glans clitoridis or clitoral glans.

The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.


glans

Borrowed from Middle High German glanz, from Old High German glanz (“brilliance”). Cognate with modern German Glanz, Swedish glans.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]

1808, Thomas Batchelor, “Live Stock”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. […], London: […] [B. MᶜMillan] for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, section 2 (Sheep), page 541:

Senses relating to someone or something small.

(UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.

(specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)

teg

[…] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.

1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 454:

Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]

1733, Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, […], London [actually Edinburgh]: […] L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd […], E[lizabeth] Nutt […], →OCLC, page 13:

Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it.

1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLIII. Lady G. to Lady Grandison.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 211:

Or, is the Monkey sick, he takes his bed; / Old Slop is sent for, to prescribe for Pug.— […]

1812, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter: […]. Elegy.”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, G. Robinson, […]; and G. Goulding and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:

(specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.

[T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]

1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter VIII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume VI, London: […] [Heney] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:

That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.

1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 16:

Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.

1685 July (first performance), N[ahum] Tate, Cuckolds-Haven: Or, An Alderman No Conjurer. A Farce. […], London: […] J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole, […], published 1685, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:

Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.

1895, P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Shrew Mouse, or Rana, and Squirrels”, in Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 363:


heed

desctree

English: head
→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)
Sranan Tongo: ede
Aukan: ede
Saramaccan: hédi

Geordie English: heed

Scots: heid

Yola: heade, haade, hade

From Old English hēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”).

The head (top portion of an animal):
A head-covering; headwear or hair.

A start or origin:
The outermost extremity of something.


pas

pas (nominative singular)
pasy (nominative plural)
pasa (genitive singular)
pasów (genitive plural)
pasowi (dative singular)
pasom (dative plural)
pas (accusative singular)
pasy (accusative plural)
pasem (instrumental singular)
pasami (instrumental plural)
pasie (locative singular)
pasach (locative plural)
pasie (singular vocative)
pasy (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: пас (pas)

→ Yiddish: פּאַס (pas)

(Near Masovian) strap in a horse's harness that runs across the back