abattoir

desctree

→ Dutch: abattoir
→ Caribbean Hindustani: batwár
→ Indonesian: abatoar
→ Papiamentu: abatuar
→ Sranan Tongo: abatwar

→ English: abattoir

→ Moore: batoaare

→ Norwegian Bokmål: abattoir

From abattre (“to slaughter, butcher”) + -oir (suffix).

af

Cet abattoir est vaste et bien aéré.

This slaughterhouse is large and well-ventilated.

abattoir, slaughterhouse (place where animals are slaughtered)

aller à l’abattoir

envoyer à l’abattoir

(figuratively) abattoir, slaughterhouse (place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed)


CIA

desc

→ Japanese: シー・アイ・エー

→ Japanese: シー・アイ・エー

→ Korean: 시아이에이 (siaiei)

/ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/

Cleveland Institute of Art
w:Cleveland Institute of Art

Initialism of Cleveland Institute of Art.

Clark International Airport
w:Clark International Airport

(Philippines) Initialism of Clark International Airport.


CIA

/ˌsiːˌaɪˈeɪ/

Initialism of Circuit Interactive Analyzer.


CIA

Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency

(espionage) CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)


KGB

From Russian КГБ (KGB), acronym of Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности (Komitét gosudárstvennoj bezopásnosti, “State Security Committee”).

President Putin's KGB roots have sadly informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic. The common thread throughout his domestic and foreign policies is his effort to trade on fear -- the fears of Russians that their country is under attack from hostile external forces (Chechens, NATO or free marketeers); and the fears of Westerners that if not for a strong, pragmatic leader, Russia will again become unruly, unstable and potentially aggressive.

2001 January 4, Garry Kasparov, “The Russian President Trades on Fear”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-09, International:

But in 1967 Treholt's trenchant opposition to the Vietnam War attracted the attention of the KGB.

2019 [2018], Ben Macintyre, chapter 4, in The Spy and the Traitor, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 75:

security service
security service#English

(historical) The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).


KGB

KGB (canonical inanimate masculine)
KGB (canonical neuter)

(historical) KGB (the former Soviet State Security Committee)


subjectivism

en-noun

subjectivism (countable and uncountable, plural subjectivisms)

(ethics) The doctrine that values and moral principles come from attitudes, convention, whim, or preference.


big

Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.

der

(BDSM, ABDL) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.


company

en-noun

company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)

→ Hindi: कंपनी (kampnī)

desc

→ Hokkien: 公班衙 (kong-pan-gêe / kong-pan-gê)

→ Malay: kompeni

→ Scottish Gaelic: companaidh

→ Swahili: kampuni

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.

inh

who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl

you don't dip your pen in company ink

don't fish off the company dock, you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell, you don't fish off the company pier

As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.

A team; a group of people who work together professionally.

(espionage, informal) An intelligence service.


statutory rape

en-noun

statutory rape (countable and uncountable, plural statutory rapes)

Historically, statutory rape laws were enacted to protect the chastity and morality of young women. These statutes made it a crime for a man to have sexual intercourse with a young woman under a certain age (usually eighteen), even if the young woman consented to the act. (Today of, course, statuory rape provisions protect minors of both genders.)

1999, Raneta Lawson Mack, A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 72:

intellectual disability
intellectual disability

(law) An illegal act of sexual intercourse by an adult with a person under the legal age of consent for sex, or with another adult who is not able to consent because of intellectual disability.

lapsenraiskaus

under the legal age of consent; since 2023

under the legal age of consent; prior to 2023

törkeä lapsen seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö

törkeä seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö

with an adult who is not able to consent

fiatalkorú sérelmére elkövetett nemi erőszak


ROI

(military, espionage) Initialism of region of interest.


shadowing

shadowing (countable and uncountable, plural shadowings)

(espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.


ami

eo-head

ami (present amas, past amis, future amos, conditional amus, volitive amu)

amas (present)
amis (past)
amos (future)
amus (conditional)
amu (volitive)
amas (present)
amis (past)
amos (future)
amanta (active participle present singular)
amantaj (active participle plural present)
aminta (active participle past singular)
amintaj (active participle past plural)
amonta (active future participle singular)
amontaj (active future participle plural)
amantan (accusative active participle present singular)
amantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
amintan (accusative active participle past singular)
amintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
amontan (accusative active future participle singular)
amontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
amata (participle passive present singular)
amataj (participle passive plural present)
amita (participle passive past singular)
amitaj (participle passive past plural)
amota (future participle passive singular)
amotaj (future participle passive plural)
amatan (accusative participle passive present singular)
amatajn (accusative participle passive plural present)
amitan (accusative participle passive past singular)
amitajn (accusative participle passive past plural)
amotan (accusative future participle passive singular)
amotajn (accusative future participle passive plural)
amanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
amantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
aminto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
amintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
amonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
amontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
amanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
amantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
aminton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
amintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
amonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
amontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
amato (noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
amatoj (noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
amito (noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
amitoj (noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
amoto (future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
amotoj (future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
amaton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive present singular)
amatojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive plural present)
amiton (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past singular)
amitojn (accusative noun-from-verb participle passive past plural)
amoton (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive singular)
amotojn (accusative future noun-from-verb participle passive plural)
amante (active adverbial participle present)
aminte (active adverbial participle past)
amonte (active adverbial future participle)
amate (adverbial participle passive present)
amite (adverbial participle passive past)
amote (adverbial future participle passive)
ami (infinitive plural present)
amu (imperative past plural)
amus (conditional future plural)

From Italian amare, from Latin amō. Doublet of -ema.

Mi amas vin.

Mi estos amita.


love

en-noun

love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).

шӏу лъэгъун

šʷʼu lˢɛğʷun

Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.

2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution, →ISBN:

An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.


love

English: love

Scots: luve, lufe

Yola: loove

Inherited from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō.

Sexual or romantic desire (in humans and other animals)

Theosis, sanctification, or love as a means to attain it.

One who one loves; a loved individual:
A lover; a sexual or romantic partner.

A personification or embodiment of love.

(Christianity) The Holy Spirit (or less often, God generally).


proprietary

From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).

For all practical purposes, the proprietaries conduct their own financial affairs with a minimum of oversight from CIA headquarters.

1975, Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, page 159:

The “operating proprietaries” actually do business as private firms. They are incorporated where they are officed, they file the applicable state and federal tax returns, and they obtain the licenses necessary to a legitimate business operation.

2013, Joseph Goulden, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak into English, page 175:

(espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.


ace

→ Japanese: エース (ēsu)

→ Korean: 에이스 (eiseu)

→ Russian: эйс (ejs)

→ Swedish: ess

(?) → Finnish: ässä

Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".

[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.

1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King, page 136:

If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.

1996, Arthur M. Smith, Robert Thomas King, Let's Get Going, page 65:


ace

en-adj

ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)

more ace (comparative)
most ace (superlative)

"Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual)."

2009 June 22, Anneli Rufus, “Asexuals at the Pride Parade”, in Psychology Today:

“I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”

2010, Amy Ebersole, "Asexuality, not to be confused with celibacy", The Daily Aztec (San Diego State University), 25 January 2010

“If you identify as ace [asexual] and you just don’t feel like having sex, then for me, sex-positive means, ‘That’s great! It’s fantastic you don’t want to have sex!’” says McGown.

2013 March 28, Andrea Garcia-Vargas, “Ourselves, our sex, our choices”, in The Eye:

(slang) Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.


wrong

English: wrong

Geordie English: wrang

Scots: wrang

Semantic loan from Old Norse rangr, while the form is from Old English wrang (“rough, uneven”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz.


aloha

Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa.

Traveling as the princess regent with a retinue that included Princess Ruth and Queen Kapi‘olani, Lili‘u was welcomed by enormous crowds and lavish outpourings of aloha, as her subjects clasped her knees and kissed her hands and feet to show their reverence.

2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 91:


dear

dear (comparative dearer or more dear, superlative dearest or most dear)

dearer (comparative)
more dear (comparative)
dearest (superlative)
most dear (superlative)

From Middle English dere, from Old English dīere (“of great value or excellence, expensive, beloved”), from Proto-West Germanic *diurī, from Proto-Germanic *diurijaz (“dear, precious, expensive”). Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“of great value or worth, highly valued, precious, beloved”), Saterland Frisian djuur (“precious, dear, costly, expensive”), Dutch duur (“costly, precious”), German teuer (“costly, precious”), German Low German düür, Danish dyr (“expensive”), Swedish dyr (“expensive”), Norwegian dyr (“expensive”), Icelandic dýr (“expensive”), Yiddish טייַער (tayer, “precious, expensive”).

cog

(used in translations) 親愛なる (しんあいなる, shin'ai-naru)

tcher (often under French-borrowed "chér")

عَزِيز

an informal way of addressing the recipient in a letter's opening line

(used in translations) 親愛なる (しんあいなる, shin'ai naru)

(mijn) beste

an ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior

"Yes, children dear, wait a bit till it turns itself," she answered - she ought to have said "till I turn it"[.]

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 62:

So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

"We shall have to put up with whitebait. And, of course, a dear little chicken with peas and roast potatoes."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 129:

"I've never met the kind of man I mean." "Tell me about him. What does he look like?" "Oh, he might look very much like you." "How dear of you to say that!"

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Such dear embrace tenderly comforts even in this dear sorrow.


dear

Pass me the salt, would you dear?

An affectionate, familiar term of address, such as used between husband and wife.


right

head

right (plural and weak singular righte, comparative rightre, superlative rightest)

righte (plural)
righte (singular weak)
rightre (comparative)
rightest (superlative)

desctree

English: right
→ Spanish: right
→ Welsh: reit

Scots: richt

Yola: reicht, riaught, ryaught

Morally or legally correct or justified.


car

head

car (present analytic carann, future analytic carfaidh, verbal noun carthain, past participle cartha)

carann (analytic present)
carfaidh (analytic future)
carthain (noun-from-verb)
cartha (participle past)
caraim (first-person indicative present singular)
carann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
carair (indicative present second-person singular)
carann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
caraimid (first-person indicative plural present)
carann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
carann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
caraid (indicative plural present third-person)
a charann (indicative present relative)
a charas (indicative present relative)
a gcarann (indicative present relative)
cartar (autonomous indicative present)
char mé (first-person indicative past singular)
charas (first-person indicative past singular)
char tú (indicative past second-person singular)
charais (indicative past second-person singular)
char sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
charamar (first-person indicative past plural)
char muid (first-person indicative past plural)
char sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
charabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
char siad (indicative past plural third-person)
charadar (indicative past plural third-person)
a char (indicative past relative)
ar char (indicative past relative)
caradh (autonomous indicative past)
charainn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
gcarainn‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
chartá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
gcartá‡‡ (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
charadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
gcaradh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
charaimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
charadh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
gcaraimis‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
gcaradh muid‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
charadh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
gcaradh sibh‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
charaidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
charadh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
gcaraidís‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
gcaradh siad‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a charadh (habitual indicative past relative)
a gcaradh (habitual indicative past relative)
chartaí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
gcartaí‡‡ (autonomous habitual indicative past)
carfaidh mé (first-person future singular)
carfad (first-person future singular)
carfaidh tú (future second-person singular)
carfair (future second-person singular)
carfaidh sé (future singular third-person)
sí (future singular third-person)
carfaimid (first-person future plural)
carfaidh muid (first-person future plural)
carfaidh sibh (future plural second-person)
carfaidh siad (future plural third-person)
carfaid (future plural third-person)
a charfaidh (future relative)
a charfas (future relative)
a gcarfaidh (future relative)
carfar (autonomous future)
charfainn (conditional first-person singular)
gcarfainn‡‡ (conditional first-person singular)
charfá (conditional second-person singular)
gcarfá‡‡ (conditional second-person singular)
charfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
gcarfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (conditional singular third-person)
charfaimis (conditional first-person plural)
charfadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
gcarfaimis‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
gcarfadh muid‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
charfadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
gcarfadh sibh‡‡ (conditional plural second-person)
charfaidís (conditional plural third-person)
charfadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
gcarfaidís‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
gcarfadh siad‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
a charfadh (conditional relative)
a gcarfadh (conditional relative)
charfaí (autonomous conditional)
gcarfaí‡‡ (autonomous conditional)
go gcara mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go gcarad (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go gcara tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go gcarair (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go gcara sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go gcaraimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go gcara muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go gcara sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go gcara siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go gcaraid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go gcartar (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá gcarainn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá gcartá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá gcaradh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá gcaraimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá gcaradh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá gcaradh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá gcaraidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá gcaradh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá gcartaí (autonomous past subjunctive)
caraim (first-person imperative singular)
car (imperative second-person singular)
caradh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
caraimis (first-person imperative plural)
caraigí (imperative plural second-person)
caraidh (imperative plural second-person)
caraidís (imperative plural third-person)
cartar (autonomous imperative)
carthain (noun-from-verb)
cartha (participle past)
car
char
gcar

From Old Irish caraid, from Proto-Celtic *karāti (“to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).


good

en-adj

good (comparative better or (nonstandard, humorous) gooder, superlative best or (nonstandard, humorous) goodest)

better (comparative)
gooder (comparative humorous nonstandard)
best (superlative)
goodest (humorous nonstandard superlative)

bad

antonym(s) of “having positive attributes”

desc

Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)

Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), "year", via "suitable time".
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).

cog

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

it's an ill wind that blows no one any good

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

let the perfect be the enemy of the good

nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people

nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public

there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

the road to hell is paved with good intentions

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

good intentions

c. 1525, The Example of Euyll Tongues, page a3 rectoː
Yf ony man wolde begynne his synnes to reny / Or ony good people that fro vyce dyde refrayne / What so euer he were that to vertue wolde applye / But an yll tonge wyll all ouer throwe agayne
If any man would begin to renounce his sins, / Or any good people who refrained from vice, / Whatsoever he who wished to apply himself to virtue might be, / Still an ill tongue would overthrow it all again.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 6, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.

шӏу

acting in the interest of good; ethical good intentions


good

head

good (plural and weak singular gode, comparative bettre, superlative best)

gode (plural)
gode (singular weak)
bettre (comparative)
best (superlative)

desctree

English: good, goode (obsolete)
Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)

Scots: guid

Yola: gooude, gude, gayde

Inherited from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue


taupe

Inherited from Old French taupe, inherited from Latin talpa.

(figuratively) (espionage) mole (undercover agent)


friend

stranger

antonym(s) of “person with whom you are acquainted”

enemy

antonym(s) of “person who provides assistance”

Jamaican Creole: fren

Krio: frɛn

→ Cantonese: friend (fen¹)

→ Finnish: frendi

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: frȅnd

Cyrillic script: фре̏нд

→ Spanish: friend

From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving[-one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free + -nd.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”). More at free.
Other cognates include Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend”) and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).

kámo

(sarcastic) form of address used to warn someone

with friends like these who needs enemies

Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]

spring-loaded camming device
spring-loaded camming device

(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.


AP

A placename:
Abbreviation of Arabian Plate.


MG

en-noun

MG (countable and uncountable, plural MGs)

(uncountable, pornography) Initialism of weight gain.

myasthenia gravis
myasthenia gravis#English

(countable, pathology) Initialism of myasthenia gravis.


MG

Initialism of Morris Garages, a British sports-car manufacturer.

Initialism of Minas Gerais, a state of Brazil.


AB

AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)

In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— A.B. means an able-bodied seaman […]

Section 2(1), Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance (Cap. 478)

Initialism of able seaman; able-bodied seaman.

(Australia, Adelaide, countable) A kind of halal snack pack.


CI

CI (countable and uncountable, plural CIs)

(espionage) Initialism of counterintelligence.


AR

AR (countable and uncountable, plural ARs)

Coordinate term: AP

(pornography) Initialism of age regression.


miłość

miłość (nominative singular)
miłości (nominative plural)
miłości (genitive singular)
miłości (genitive plural)
miłości (dative singular)
miłościom (dative plural)
miłość (accusative singular)
miłości (accusative plural)
miłością (instrumental singular)
miłościami (instrumental plural)
miłości (locative singular)
miłościach (locative plural)
miłości (singular vocative)
miłości (plural vocative)

/ˈmi.ɫɔɕt͡ɕ/

Inherited from Old Polish miłość, from Proto-Slavic *milostь, from *milъ (“sweet, dear”) + *-ostь. By surface analysis, miły + -ość.


virtue

virtue (countable and uncountable, plural virtues)

/ˈvɜː.t͡ʃuː/

From Middle English vertu, virtue, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertu, virtu, from Latin virtus (“manliness, bravery, worth, moral excellence”), from vir (“man”). Doublet of vertu. See virile. In this sense, displaced Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.

der

Without virtue, there is no freedom.

There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 1, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XV:

“Virtue is an inner light that can prevail in every soul.”

2004 October 1, “Eight-and-a-Half-Tails”, in Champions of Kamigawa, Wizards of the Coast:

(uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.

Some men are modest, and seem to take pains to hide their virtues; and, from a natural distance and reserve in their tempers, scarce suffer their good qualities to be known […].

1766, Laurence Sterne, Sermon, section XLIV:

A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.

though she did not suppose Lydia to be deliberately engaging in an elopement without the intention of marriage, she had no difficulty in believing that neither her virtue nor her understanding would preserve her from falling an easy prey.

(uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.


dua

desha (aorist)
dashur (participle)
dashur (participle)
duke dashur (gerund)
për të dashur (infinitive)
dua (first-person indicative present singular)
do (indicative present second-person singular)
do (indicative present singular third-person)
duam (first-person indicative plural present)
doni (indicative plural present second-person)
duan (indicative plural present third-person)
doja (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
doje (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
donte (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
donim (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
donit (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
donin (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
desha (aorist first-person indicative singular)
deshe (aorist indicative second-person singular)
deshi (aorist indicative singular third-person)
deshëm (aorist first-person indicative plural)
deshët (aorist indicative plural second-person)
deshën (aorist indicative plural third-person)
kam dashur (first-person indicative perfect singular)
ke dashur (indicative perfect second-person singular)
ka dashur (indicative perfect singular third-person)
kemi dashur (first-person indicative perfect plural)
keni dashur (indicative perfect plural second-person)
kanë dashur (indicative perfect plural third-person)
kisha dashur (first-person indicative past perfect singular)
kishe dashur (indicative past perfect second-person singular)
kishte dashur (indicative past perfect singular third-person)
kishim dashur (first-person indicative past perfect plural)
kishit dashur (indicative past perfect plural second-person)
kishin dashur (indicative past perfect plural third-person)
pata dashur (first-person indicative singular)
pate dashur (indicative second-person singular)
pati dashur (indicative singular third-person)
patëm dashur (first-person indicative plural)
patët dashur (indicative plural second-person)
patën dashur (indicative plural third-person)
do të dua (first-person future indicative singular)
do të duash (future indicative second-person singular)
do të dojë (future indicative singular third-person)
do të duam (first-person future indicative plural)
do të doni (future indicative plural second-person)
do të duan (future indicative plural third-person)
do të kem dashur (first-person future indicative perfect singular)
do të kesh dashur (future indicative perfect second-person singular)
do të ketë dashur (future indicative perfect singular third-person)
do të kemi dashur (first-person future indicative perfect plural)
do të keni dashur (future indicative perfect plural second-person)
do të kenë dashur (future indicative perfect plural third-person)
të dua (first-person present singular subjunctive)
të duash (present second-person singular subjunctive)
të dojë (present singular subjunctive third-person)
të duam (first-person plural present subjunctive)
të doni (plural present second-person subjunctive)
të duan (plural present subjunctive third-person)
të doja (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
të doje (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
të donte (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
të donim (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
të donit (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
të donin (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
të kem dashur (first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
të kesh dashur (perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
të ketë dashur (perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
të kemi dashur (first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
të keni dashur (perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
të kenë dashur (perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
të kisha dashur (first-person past perfect singular subjunctive)
të kishe dashur (past perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
të kishte dashur (past perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
të kishim dashur (first-person past perfect plural subjunctive)
të kishit dashur (past perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
të kishin dashur (past perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
do të doja (conditional first-person imperfect singular)
do të doje (conditional imperfect second-person singular)
do të donte (conditional imperfect singular third-person)
do të donim (conditional first-person imperfect plural)
do të donit (conditional imperfect plural second-person)
do të donin (conditional imperfect plural third-person)
do të kisha dashur (conditional first-person past perfect singular)
do të kishe dashur (conditional past perfect second-person singular)
do të kishte dashur (conditional past perfect singular third-person)
do të kishim dashur (conditional first-person past perfect plural)
do të kishit dashur (conditional past perfect plural second-person)
do të kishin dashur (conditional past perfect plural third-person)
daça (first-person optative present singular)
daç (optative present second-person singular)
dantë (optative present singular third-person)
dançim (first-person optative plural present)
dançit (optative plural present second-person)
dançin (optative plural present third-person)
paça dashur (first-person optative perfect singular)
paç dashur (optative perfect second-person singular)
pastë dashur (optative perfect singular third-person)
paçim dashur (first-person optative perfect plural)
paçit dashur (optative perfect plural second-person)
paçin dashur (optative perfect plural third-person)
dashkam (admirative first-person present singular)
dashke (admirative present second-person singular)
dashka (admirative present singular third-person)
dashkemi (admirative first-person plural present)
dashkeni (admirative plural present second-person)
dashkan (admirative plural present third-person)
dashkësha (admirative first-person imperfect singular)
dashkëshe (admirative imperfect second-person singular)
dashkësh (admirative imperfect singular third-person)
dashkëshim (admirative first-person imperfect plural)
dashkëshit (admirative imperfect plural second-person)
dashkëshin (admirative imperfect plural third-person)
paskam dashur (admirative first-person perfect singular)
paske dashur (admirative perfect second-person singular)
paska dashur (admirative perfect singular third-person)
paskemi dashur (admirative first-person perfect plural)
paskeni dashur (admirative perfect plural second-person)
paskan dashur (admirative perfect plural third-person)
paskësha dashur (admirative first-person past perfect singular)
paskëshe dashur (admirative past perfect second-person singular)
paskësh dashur (admirative past perfect singular third-person)
paskëshim dashur (admirative first-person past perfect plural)
paskëshit dashur (admirative past perfect plural second-person)
paskëshin dashur (admirative past perfect plural third-person)
duaj (imperative present second-person singular)
doni (imperative plural present second-person)

From Old Albanian duo, from either:
* Proto-Albanian *dāusnja, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeus- (compare English choose, Greek γεύση (géfsi, “taste”), Italian gustare (“to taste”)); or
* *duām, from Proto-Albanian *duēs-mi, from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (compare English tire, Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”)).


fortitude

en-noun

fortitude (countable and uncountable, plural fortitudes)

From Middle English fortitude, from Old French, from Latin fortitūdō (“bravery, strength”), from fortis (“brave, strong”).

I am able now (me thinkes) / (Out of a Fortitude of Soule, I feele) / To endure more Miſeries, […]

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 223, column 1:

I shall soon have need for all my fortitude, as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.

c. 1794, Jane Austen, “[Lady Susan.] I. Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. Vernon.”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, pages 203–204:

She [the ship] may be saved by your efforts, by your resource and fortitude bearing up against the heavy weight of guilt and failure.

1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “The Grip of the Land”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC, page 123:

Mitt Romney […] charges that [Barack] Obama is an appeaser who apologizes for America, lacks fortitude and is "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."

2012 January 30, Fareed Zakaria, “The Strategist”, in Time, archived from the original on 2012-07-26:

The proper fans might also expend time—about twenty hours—trying to visit every Tube station as quickly as possible. […] But to visit every station in record time—which people have been attempting since at least 1960—requires real fortitude. You must get up before dawn, you must drink or eat almost nothing, so niggardly is the Underground with toilet provision.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 267:

Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.


vapor

la-noun

vapor m (genitive vapōris); third declension

vapōris (genitive)
vapor (nominative singular)
vapōrēs (nominative plural)
vapōris (genitive singular)
vapōrum (genitive plural)
vapōrī (dative singular)
vapōribus (dative plural)
vapōrem (accusative singular)
vapōrēs (accusative plural)
vapōre (ablative singular)
vapōribus (ablative plural)
vapor (singular vocative)
vapōrēs (plural vocative)

Asturian: vapor

Catalan: vapor

→ English: vapor

French: vapeur

Galician: vapor

Italian: vapore

Portuguese: vapor

Romanian: vapor

Spanish: vapor

From Proto-Italic *kwapōs, of uncertain ultimate origin, but possibly related to Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *kʷep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar.


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.

Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.

2013, Vanessa Kier, Vengeance: The SSU Book 1:

(transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).

"How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]


fling

From Middle English fling, from the verb (see below). Compare Icelandic flengur (“a fast sprint”).

I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.

A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.


polygamy

en-noun

polygamy (countable and uncountable, plural polygamies)

Recorded since 1591, from Late Latin polygamia, from Ancient Greek πολυγαμία (polugamía), itself from πολύγαμος (polúgamos, “married to many”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). Relates to modern prefix and suffix poly- + -gamy.

تَعَدُّدُ الأَزْوَاج

the having of a plurality of socially bonded sexual partners at the same time

usually understood as “polygyny”, but may include “polyandry”, unlike تَعَدُّدُ الزَّوْجَات (taʕaddudu z-zawjāt)

Though Islam allows polygamy, it is frowned upon in many contemporary Muslim societies.

Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America […]

1991, Kathryn M Daynes, Plural wives and the nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system, page 16:

(often, especially in common use) Synonym of polygyny (“marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time”)


lie

en-verb

lie (third-person singular simple present lies, present participle lying, simple past lay or (colloquial) laid, past participle lain or (colloquial) laid or (obsolete) lien)

lies (present singular third-person)
lying (participle present)
lay (past)
laid (colloquial past)
lain (participle past)
laid (colloquial participle past)
lien (obsolete participle past)
lie (infinitive)

From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luí, Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”).
As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.

cog

a corresponding transitive version of this word

The Wind is lowd, and will not lie till the Ship be cleard of the dead.

c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.


lie

From Middle English lie, from Old English lyġe (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Germanic *lugiz (“lie, falsehood”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to tell lies, swear, complain”). Cognate with Old Saxon luggi (“a lie”), Old High German lugī, lugin (“a lie”) (German Lüge), Danish løgn (“a lie”), Bulgarian лъжа́ (lǎžá, “а lie”), Russian ложь (ložʹ, “а lie”), Czech lež (“a lie”), Middle Polish łeż (“a lie”), Serbo-Croatian laž (“a lie”).

der

I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.

Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies.

1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 4:

An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.


make

English: make (dialectal)

Scots: make, maik, mak

From Old English maca, ġemaca, from Proto-West Germanic *makō, *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *makô. Compare macche (“bride, equal”).


wet

wet (nominative singular)
wety (nominative plural)
wetu (genitive singular)
wetów (genitive plural)
wetowi (dative singular)
wetom (dative plural)
wet (accusative singular)
wety (accusative plural)
wetem (instrumental singular)
wetami (instrumental plural)
wecie (locative singular)
wetach (locative plural)
wecie (singular vocative)
wety (plural vocative)

(obsolete except in set phrases) compensation (something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss)

(archaic, in the plural) dessert (sweet dish or confection served as the last course of a meal)


wet

wet (nominative singular)
wetowie (nominative plural)
wety (derogatory nominative plural)
weta (genitive singular)
wetów (genitive plural)
wetowi (dative singular)
wetom (dative plural)
weta (accusative singular)
wetów (accusative plural)
wetem (instrumental singular)
wetami (instrumental plural)
wecie (locative singular)
wetach (locative plural)
wecie (singular vocative)
wetowie (plural vocative)
wety (derogatory plural vocative)

Clipping of weterynarz. Compare English vet.


crush

crush (nominative singular)
crushowie (nominative plural)
crushy (derogatory nominative plural)
crusha (genitive singular)
crushów (genitive plural)
crushowi (dative singular)
crushom (dative plural)
crusha (accusative singular)
crushów (accusative plural)
crushem (instrumental singular)
crushami (instrumental plural)
crushu (locative singular)
crushach (locative plural)
crushu (singular vocative)
crushowie (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English crush, from Middle English cruschen, from Old French croissir, from Late Latin *crusciō, from Frankish *krostjan.


cover

en-noun

cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)

→ Hijazi Arabic: كَڤَر (kavar)

→ Portuguese: cover

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

cumhdach

A cloth or similar material used to protect underlying items from dust, sunlight, insects etc. when not being used.

throw nickels around like manhole covers

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.

peitetarina

espionage: persona maintained by an operative


mole

From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).
Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian смолжь (smolžʹ, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).
Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.

der

(espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.


heart

en-noun

heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)

Torres Strait Creole: at

→ Bengali: হার্ট (harṭ)

→ Cantonese: heart

→ Cebuano: Heart

→ Irish: hart

→ Japanese: ハート (hāto); ハツ (hatsu) (from hearts)

→ Korean: 하트 (hateu)

→ Tagalog: Heart

PIE word
 *ḱḗr
From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core.
Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.
The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ❤ NY advertising campaign.

the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart

Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, / And in his eies the furies of his heart, / That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, / And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

Calm and deep peace in this wide air,
These leaves that redden to the fall;
And in my heart, if calm at all,
If any calm, a calm despair: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XI:

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

قَلْب

seat of affections, understanding or will


tail

Sranan Tongo: tere

From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

hali

of cattle, in addition to reptiles, amphibians, and basically all animals that do not fall into the other categories; also used for inanimate objects and figuratively

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it

trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail


courage

en-noun

courage (usually uncountable, plural courages)

From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

1942, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters:

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

1993, Stanley P. Cornils, The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely:

2008, Maya Angelou, address for the 2008 Cornell University commencement
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

2008, Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay:

The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.


asset

Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.


homosexual

homosexual (absolutive indefinite)
homosexuala (absolutive indefinite singular)
homosexualak (absolutive indefinite plural)
homosexualek (ergative indefinite)
homosexualak (ergative indefinite singular)
homosexualek (ergative indefinite plural)
homosexuali (dative indefinite)
homosexualari (dative indefinite singular)
homosexualei (dative indefinite plural)
homosexualen (genitive indefinite)
homosexualaren (genitive indefinite singular)
homosexualen (genitive indefinite plural)
homosexualekin (comitative indefinite)
homosexualarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
homosexualekin (comitative indefinite plural)
homosexualengatik (causative indefinite)
homosexualarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
homosexualengatik (causative indefinite plural)
homosexualentzat (benefactive indefinite)
homosexualarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
homosexualentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
homosexualez (indefinite instrumental)
homosexualaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
homosexualez (indefinite instrumental plural)
homosexualetan (indefinite inessive)
homosexualean (indefinite inessive singular)
homosexualetan (indefinite inessive plural)
homosexualetako (indefinite locative)
homosexualeko (indefinite locative singular)
homosexualetako (indefinite locative plural)
homosexualetara (allative indefinite)
homosexualera (allative indefinite singular)
homosexualetara (allative indefinite plural)
homosexualetaraino (indefinite terminative)
homosexualeraino (indefinite singular terminative)
homosexualetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
homosexualetarantz (directive indefinite)
homosexualerantz (directive indefinite singular)
homosexualetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
homosexualetarako (destinative indefinite)
homosexualerako (destinative indefinite singular)
homosexualetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
homosexualetatik (ablative indefinite)
homosexualetik (ablative indefinite singular)
homosexualetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
homosexualik (indefinite partitive)
homosexualtzat (indefinite prolative)


homosexual

ca-adj

homosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural homosexuals)


homosexual

ca-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuals)


homosexual

O comportamento homosexual obsérvase con frecuencia entre os mamíferos.

Homosexual behaviour is frequently observed among mammals.


homosexual

gl-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuais)


homosexual

es-adj

homosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural homosexuales)

homosexuales (feminine masculine plural)

El comportamiento homosexual se observa con frecuencia entre los mamíferos.


homosexual

es-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuales)


wire

en-noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

(slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.

Wanze

slang: hidden listening device on the person


evil

en-noun

evil (countable and uncountable, plural evils)

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). See -le for the supposed suffix.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).

cog

sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

the love of money is the root of all evil

The evils of society include murder and theft.

Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.

The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 9:3:

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 XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

IS ANYTHING more obvious than the presence of evil in the universe? Its nagging, prehensile tentacles project into every level of human existence. We may debate the origin of evil, but only a victim of superficial optimism would debate its reality. Evil is stark, grim, and colossally real.

1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Death of Evil upon the Seashore”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 71:

Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.


mash

en-verb

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

mashes (present singular third-person)
mashing (participle present)
mashed (participle past)
mashed (past)

Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:
: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.

der

To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.


彎

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (彎):
* → Japanese: 彎(わん) (wan)
* → Korean: 만(彎) (man)
* → Vietnamese: loan (彎)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qroːn): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons).
May be cognate with 迂 (OC *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa).
; “homosexual”

Han compound

Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.


戀

Japanese: 恋 (こい, koi)

The 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis form”) and 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 戀ふ (ko₁pu, “to love, yearn”).

, text here
八百日徃濱之沙毛吾戀二豈不益歟奥嶋守
yapoka yuku hama no₂ manago₁ no₂ aga ko₁pi₂ ni ani masarazi oki₁ tu simamori
On so vast a shore―that one could walk eight hundred days―would the grains of sand number greater than my love, o guardian of the outer isles?


queer

en-adj

queer (comparative queerer, superlative queerest)

queerer (comparative)
queerest (superlative)

→ German: queer, Queer

→ Russian: квир (kvir)

→ Swedish: queer

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.

der

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism

An old long-faced, long-bodied servant, gave a queer look

1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.”

1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 23–24:

One thing has struck me as a bit queer. During my two terms of office the whole Democratic press, and the morbidly honest and 'reformatory' portion of the Republican press, thought it horrible to keep U.S. troops stationed in the Southern States, and when they were called upon to protect the lives of negroes–as much citizens under the Constitution as if their skins were white–the country was scarcely large enough to hold the sound of indignation belched forth by them for some years. Now, however, there is no hesitation about exhausting the whole power of the government to suppress a strike on the slightest intimation that danger threatens.

1877, Ulysses S. Grant, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: November 1, 1876-September 30, 1878, page 252:

It looked queer to me to see boxes labeled "His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America." The packages so labeled contained Bass ale or Cognac brandy, which cost "His Excellency" less than we Yankees had to pay for it. Think of the President drinking imported liquors while his soldiers were living on pop-corn and water!

1885, David Dixon Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War, page 274:

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

“’Tis a queer book - here, leave me git on my spectacles - ” The old man fumbled among his rags, producing a pair of dirty and amazingly antique glasses (...)

1920, H. P. Lovecraft, w:The Picture in the House:

1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “Possible Worlds” in Possible Worlds and Other Papers, London: Chatto & Windus,
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

A queer look came over John Arable's face. He seemed almost ready to cry himself.

1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, page 3:

Though it may seem very queer,
we've got no jobs to give you here,
so we are sending you to Vietnam.

1965, “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”, Tom Paxton (lyrics), Tom Paxton (music):

(dated outside UK, Ireland, Scotland) Weird, odd, or different; whimsical.


queer

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.

janet

slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity


queer

en-verb

queer (third-person singular simple present queers, present participle queering, simple past and past participle queered)

queers (present singular third-person)
queering (participle present)
queered (participle past)
queered (past)

If I go, for instance, to the history of the church in Latin America, and decide to queer the history of the Jesuitic Missions, I may find that, in many ways, the missions were more sexual than Christian.

2003, Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God, page 9:

Jonathan Goldberg further explores the implications of queering history in his essay in the same volume.

2006, Carla Freccero, Queer/Early/Modern, page 80:

We might say that there has been a ‘queering’ of urban studies insofar as the metropolitan lives, subcultures and social movements of gays and lesbians are now seen as valid objects of study.

2013, Mark Davidson, Deborah Martin, chapter 8, in Urban Politics: Critical Approaches, SAGE, →ISBN:

(social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender, as by applying queer theory.


queer

queer (not conforming to traditional sexuality)


直

desc

→ Old Turkic: tik (vertical, straight, straightforward)

Oghuz: دیك

Azerbaijani: dik

Turkish: dik

Turkmen: dik

Turkmen: dikan (honest, straight, direct)

Oracle bone script: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 目 (“eye”) + 丨 (“vertical stroke”) – vertical stroke above the eye; looking straight ahead. Then, a black dot was drawn inside the vertical stroke and this point later became a horizontal stroke (hence getting a shape similar to 十).
The line on the side appears in bronze script and subsequently stretched under the 目 shape, while the traditional form appears in seal script.
A conservative version is used inside the character 𢛳 (> 德), while the modern version is used inside its variant 惪. Unrelated to 具 and 真.
; "simply; only"
; "straight; right"
; “heterosexual”

Han compound

順直／顺直 ― shùnzhí ― cishet


cop

* (cop): Borrowed from English cop.
* (friend): Clipping of copain.


NSA

National Security Agency
w:en:National Security Agency

National Surveillance Agency
w:en:National Security Agency

(government, US) Initialism of National Security Agency.

(government, US, humorous) Initialism of National Surveillance Agency.

(government, US, humorous, nickname) Initialism of No Such Agency.

Initialism of National Security Agency.
Initialism of No Such Agency.

Alternative forms: N.S.A., N. S. A.


philia

en-noun

philia (countable and uncountable, plural philias)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía).


polygyny

polygyny (countable and uncountable, plural polygynies)

From Ancient Greek πολύ (polú, “many”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, wife”). By surface analysis, poly- + -gyny.

The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.


crazy

en-adj

crazy (comparative crazier, superlative craziest)

crazier (comparative)
craziest (superlative)

From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”).

Why is she so crazy about him?

In love; experiencing romantic feelings.


gut

de-adj

gut (strong nominative masculine singular guter, comparative besser, superlative am besten)

guter (masculine nominative singular strong)
besser (comparative)
am besten (superlative)
gut (masculine predicative singular)
gut (feminine predicative singular)
gut (neuter predicative singular)
gut (plural predicative)
guter (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
gute (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
gutes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
gute (nominative plural strong without-article)
guten (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
guter (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
guten (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
guter (genitive plural strong without-article)
gutem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
guter (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
gutem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
guten (dative plural strong without-article)
guten (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
gute (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
gutes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
gute (accusative plural strong without-article)
der gute (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die gute (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das gute (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die guten (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des guten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der guten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des guten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der guten (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem guten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der guten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem guten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den guten (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den guten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die gute (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das gute (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die guten (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein guter (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine gute (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein gutes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
guten (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine guten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines guten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer guten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines guten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
guten (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner guten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem guten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer guten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem guten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
guten (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen guten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen guten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine gute (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein gutes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
guten (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine guten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
besser (comparative masculine predicative singular)
besser (comparative feminine predicative singular)
besser (comparative neuter predicative singular)
besser (comparative plural predicative)
besserer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
bessere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
besseres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
bessere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
besseren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
besserer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
besseren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
besserer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
besserem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
besserer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
besserem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
besseren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
besseren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
bessere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
besseres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
bessere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der bessere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die bessere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das bessere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die besseren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des besseren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der besseren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des besseren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der besseren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem besseren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der besseren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem besseren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den besseren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den besseren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die bessere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das bessere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die besseren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein besserer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine bessere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein besseres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
besseren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine besseren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines besseren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer besseren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines besseren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
besseren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner besseren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem besseren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer besseren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem besseren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
besseren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen besseren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen besseren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine bessere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein besseres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
besseren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine besseren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am besten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am besten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am besten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am besten (plural predicative superlative)
bester (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
beste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
bestes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
beste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
besten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
bester (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
besten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
bester (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
bestem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
bester (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
bestem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
besten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
besten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
beste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
bestes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
beste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der beste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die beste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das beste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die besten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des besten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der besten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des besten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der besten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem besten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der besten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem besten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den besten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den besten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die beste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das beste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die besten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein bester (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine beste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein bestes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
besten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine besten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines besten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer besten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines besten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
besten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner besten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem besten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer besten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem besten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
besten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen besten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen besten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine beste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein bestes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
besten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine besten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

Inherited from Middle High German guot, from Old High German guot, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognates
Cognate to Luxembourgish gutt, Silesian East Central German gutt, Dutch goed, West Frisian goed, Saterland Frisian goud, English good, Danish god, Norwegian god and Swedish god.

der

Wir müssen gut sein, um uns gut zu fühlen.

good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)


friendly

From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”).

This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.

Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.

2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News:

(sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.


slash

Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.

Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).

2013, Katherine Arcement, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 5:

(fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.


slash

en-verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

slashes (present singular third-person)
slashing (participle present)
slashed (participle past)
slashed (past)

Having read slash for other fandoms (mainly X-Files and Sentinel), I can say the whole gay issue gets dealt with more often in that slash than it does in Trek slash. That's not to say that all the slashers who slash in a "modern-era" show deal with AIDS, homophobia and other gay issues, but some of them do.

1997 December 17, ASCEM, quoting Ruth Gifford, “Re: An Interesting Question, re Slash vs. Gay Fiction”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.


kiss

kiss (third-person singular simple present kisses, present participle kissing, simple past and past participle kissed)

kisses (present singular third-person)
kissing (participle present)
kissed (participle past)
kissed (past)

From Middle English kissen, kussen, from Old English cyssan (“to kiss”), from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną (“to kiss”).
Cognates include Saterland Frisian küsje, Dutch kussen, German Low German küssen, German küssen, Danish kysse, Swedish kyssa, Norwegian kysse, Icelandic kyssa. Compare Proto-Indo-European *ku-, *kus- (probably imitative), with byspels including Ancient Greek κύσσω (kússō), poetic form of κύσω (kúsō, “to kiss”), and Hittite [script needed] (kuwassanzi, “they kiss”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

ncog

you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth

you kiss your grandfather with that mouth

you kiss your grandmother with that mouth

He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subject.

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

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

I kissed a girl and I liked it / The taste of her cherry chapstick / I kissed a girl just to try it / I hope my boyfriend don't mind it

2008 April 28, Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, “I Kissed a Girl”, in One of the Boys, performed by Katy Perry:

(transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.

The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.

His ball kissed the black into the corner pocket.

Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:

Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss, / Kiss, kiss; and make her a bower / All of flowers, and drop me a flower, / Drop me a flower.

1867–1870 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “No. II. At the Window.”, in The Window: Or, The Songs of the Wrens […], London: Strahan & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC:

Night hath fled away into the valleys. The dawn kisseth the mountain tops.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.

We're kissing in the moonlight / Love was shining so bright and true

1990, Norell Oson Bard (lyrics and music), “Kissing in the Moonlight”performed by The Boppers:

(reciprocal) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.


kiss

From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

With some satisfaction, Gergory read this through twice, signed it and added kisses[.]

1966, Brian W. Aldiss, The Saliva Tree, published 1968, page 67:

An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message, signifying the bestowal of a kiss from the sender to the receiver.

(aviation) A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.


ship

(fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.


ship

en-verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

ships (present singular third-person)
shipping (participle present)
shipped (participle past)
shipped (past)

→ Spanish: shippear, shipear

→ Portuguese: shippar

I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”.

I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”.

I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky.

2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

(fandom slang, transitive) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.


ship

Unadapted borrowing from English ship, clipping of relationship.

(Brazil, fandom slang) ship (a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional)


mate

From Middle English mate, a borrowing from Middle Low German mate (“messmate”) (replacing Middle English mette (“table companion, mate, partner”), from Old English ġemetta (“sharer of food, table-guest”)), derived from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) (related to German and Dutch ge-) + *matjô (from *matiz (“food”)), related to Old English mete (“food”)). From the same Middle Low German source stems German Low German Maat (“journeyman, companion”), German Maat (“naval non-commissioned officer”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Moat (“friend, buddy, comrade, mate”), Dutch maat (“mate, partner, colleague, friend”). More at Old English ġe-, English co-, English meat. Doublet of maat.

cog

Excuse me, mate, have you got the time?

(colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.


probity

en-noun

probity (countable and uncountable, plural probities)

From Middle French probité, from Latin probitās (“uprightness, honesty”), from probus (“good, excellent, honest”); see probe, prove.

[…] they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour […]

1748, [David Hume], Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

[W]hen the interests or reputation of their own nation come into collision with those of another, they go to the opposite extreme, and forget their usual probity and candour, in the indulgence of spleen, and an illiberal spirit of ridicule.

1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “English Writers on America”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 102:

Distilled to its essence, it is by no means clear that the ‘Cablegate’ disclosures were intended to support freedom of information, transparency, probity in government, or defence of the public interest.

2013, Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 464:

The veterans add in their letter, which was partly coordinated by the campaign group Republic: “Officers of the British armed forces must adhere to the very highest standards of probity, honesty and honourable conduct. […]

2022 January 13, Ben Quinn, “Queen strips Prince Andrew of military roles and royal patronages”, in The Guardian:

Integrity, especially of the quality of having strong moral principles; decency and honesty.


shadow

en-verb

shadow (third-person singular simple present shadows, present participle shadowing, simple past and past participle shadowed)

shadows (present singular third-person)
shadowing (participle present)
shadowed (participle past)
shadowed (past)

From Middle English schadowen, from Old English sċeadwian, from sċeadu (“shadow; shade”) + -ian (suffix forming verbs).

Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.

2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

(particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.


Cutest family ever. ❤ [subtitle]

2024 July 12, Mehera Bonner, “Serena Williams's Daughter Olympia Made an Adorable Appearance on the ESPYS Red Carpet!”, in Cosmopolitan:


♥ (third-person singular simple present ♥s or ♥'s, present participle ♥ing or ♥'ing, simple past and past participle ♥ed or ♥'ed or ♥'d)

♥s (present singular third-person)
♥'s (present singular third-person)
♥ing (participle present)
♥'ing (participle present)
♥ed (participle past)
♥ed (past)
♥'ed (participle past)
♥'ed (past)
♥'d (participle past)
♥'d (past)

I♥NY ― I love New York.

I ♥ U. ― I love you.

"My karma ran over your dogma" is well regarded by these gentlemen, though the baffling "I ❤ Quisp" is more singular.

2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, “Travel”, in The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition, A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, part 4 (The Wayfaring Gentleman), page 271:

Stylistic substitution for the word love.


treff

The Moscow experts on treffs perform their duty with ponderous, often ridiculous, awkwardness. Before the atomic spy Allan Nunn May left Canada to go to London, a treff in London had to be arranged for him and another agent.

1955, David J. Dallin, Soviet Espionage, page 495:


ambisexual

en-adj

ambisexual (comparative more ambisexual, superlative most ambisexual)

more ambisexual (comparative)
most ambisexual (superlative)

From ambi- + -sexual; in modern senses relating to human sexuality, influenced by bisexual.

(slang) Of ambiguous sexual orientation.


Achillean

Achillean (comparative more Achillean, superlative most Achillean)

more Achillean (comparative)
most Achillean (superlative)

/ˌækɪˈliːən/

Historically, there was indeed an Achillean, homosexual flavor of the declassé bachelorhood out of which Hitler and others formed the advance guard of National Socialism.

1980, Douglas Fowler, A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rainbow, page 169:

Thus, he exalts as a means of republican cohesion, as the unshakeable basis of the modern nation what he calls "manly love," a sort of Achillean friendship, but at the same time it is this love, this passionate friendship that he sings.

1995, Gay Wilson Allen, Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman & the World, →ISBN, page 254:

For Theocritus Idyll 29.34 the sexual love between Achilles and Patroclus was so uncontroversial that it could be referred to in a pederastic poem by means of the shorthand "Achillean friends".

2007, Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Pat Wheatley, Alexander's Empire: Formulation to Decay, page 87:

Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.


liar

From Middle English lier, liere, lyere, liȝer, lieȝer, legher, from Old English lēgere, lēogere (“liar, false witness, hypocrite”), from Proto-West Germanic *leugārī, from Proto-Germanic *leugārijaz (“liar”), from *leuganą (“to lie”) + *-ārijaz, equivalent to lie + -ar. More at lie.

The Swabber is to keep the Cabbins, and all the Rooms of the Ship clean within board, and the Liar to do the like without board. The Liar holds his Place but for a week; and he that is first taken with a Lie upon a Monday morning, […] for that week he is under the Swabber, and meddles not with making clean the Ship within board, but without.

1703, Sir William Monson, Sir William Monson's Naval Tracts in Six Books, page 348:

The swabber, perhaps the lowliest position on the ship, was responsible for cleaning the decks. By tradition, each Monday a new crewmember was appointed the liar—the first person caught telling a lie the previous week.

2005, Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, page 35:

(nautical, obsolete) A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.


cos

English: kiss

Scots: kis

Yola: kesse

From Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz. Forms with /i/, /u/ and /ɛ/ are influenced by Old English cyssan.