looking

From Middle English lokinge, lokinde, lokande, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.

dorky-looking

By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.

1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226:

as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.


skanky

en-adj

skanky (comparative skankier, superlative skankiest)

skankier (comparative)
skankiest (superlative)

(slang) in the manner of a skank (disreputable woman)


безобразие

ru-noun+

безобра́зие • (bezobrázije) n inan (genitive безобра́зия, nominative plural безобра́зия, genitive plural безобра́зий)

безобра́зие (canonical)
bezobrázije (romanization)
безобра́зия (genitive)
безобра́зия (nominative plural)
безобра́зий (genitive plural)
безобра́зие (nominative singular)
безобра́зия (nominative plural)
безобра́зия (genitive singular)
безобра́зий (genitive plural)
безобра́зию (dative singular)
безобра́зиям (dative plural)
безобра́зие (accusative singular)
безобра́зия (accusative plural)
безобра́зием (instrumental singular)
безобра́зиями (instrumental plural)
безобра́зии (prepositional singular)
безобра́зиях (plural prepositional)

Ru-безобразие.ogg

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic безобразиѥ (bezobrazije). By surface analysis, без- (bez-) + о́браз (óbraz) + -ие (-ije).


telegenic

en-adj

telegenic (comparative more telegenic, superlative most telegenic)

more telegenic (comparative)
most telegenic (superlative)

From tele- + -genic, by analogy with photogenic.

The young politician was very telegenic.

Then again, TV politicking simply selects for politicians who are good at TV — charismatic-cool like Mr. Obama, provocative-hot like Mr. Trump — and being telegenic does not necessarily mean having good policy or judgment or decision-making instincts.

2024 July 22, James Poniewozik, “One Night of TV Canceled a President”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.

televisiu

having an appearance and exhibiting qualities attractive to television viewers


spruce up

en-verb

spruce up (third-person singular simple present spruces up, present participle sprucing up, simple past and past participle spruced up)

spruces up (present singular third-person)
sprucing up (participle present)
spruced up (participle past)
spruced up (past)

Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room.

Hu Yaobang was officially rehabilitated on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth in 2005 and his mausoleum in China Youth League City (Gongqingcheng) in Jiangxi province was spruced up.

2010, Bruce Gilley, “Deng Xiaoping and His Successors (1976 to the present)”, in William A. Joseph, editor, Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:

Here's an interesting effect of a global pandemic that has forced Americans to stay home for nearly 10 months: with less vacation and dine-out options, folks have more money saved up than usual and, given the virtually endless amount of time spent staring at their own four walls, they seem to be more willing than usual to shell out some extra cash to spruce up their abodes.

2020 December 3, Anna Rahmanan, “Christmas trees are, indeed, more expensive this year than last”, in Time Out:

(idiomatic) To refresh, revamp; to freshen or improve something, especially its appearance.


fett

de-adj

fett (strong nominative masculine singular fetter, comparative fetter, superlative am fettesten)

fetter (masculine nominative singular strong)
fetter (comparative)
am fettesten (superlative)
fett (masculine predicative singular)
fett (feminine predicative singular)
fett (neuter predicative singular)
fett (plural predicative)
fetter (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
fette (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
fettes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
fette (nominative plural strong without-article)
fetten (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
fetter (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
fetten (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
fetter (genitive plural strong without-article)
fettem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
fetter (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
fettem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
fetten (dative plural strong without-article)
fetten (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
fette (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
fettes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
fette (accusative plural strong without-article)
der fette (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die fette (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das fette (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die fetten (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des fetten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der fetten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des fetten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der fetten (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem fetten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der fetten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem fetten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den fetten (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den fetten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die fette (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das fette (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die fetten (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein fetter (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine fette (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein fettes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
fetten (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine fetten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines fetten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer fetten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines fetten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
fetten (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner fetten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem fetten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer fetten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem fetten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
fetten (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen fetten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen fetten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine fette (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein fettes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
fetten (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine fetten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
fetter (comparative masculine predicative singular)
fetter (comparative feminine predicative singular)
fetter (comparative neuter predicative singular)
fetter (comparative plural predicative)
fetterer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
fettere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
fetteres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
fettere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
fetteren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
fetterer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
fetteren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
fetterer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
fetterem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
fetterer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
fetterem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
fetteren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
fetteren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
fettere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
fetteres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
fettere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der fettere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die fettere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das fettere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die fetteren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des fetteren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der fetteren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des fetteren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der fetteren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem fetteren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der fetteren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem fetteren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den fetteren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den fetteren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die fettere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das fettere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die fetteren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein fetterer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine fettere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein fetteres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
fetteren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine fetteren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines fetteren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer fetteren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines fetteren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
fetteren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner fetteren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem fetteren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer fetteren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem fetteren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
fetteren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen fetteren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen fetteren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine fettere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein fetteres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
fetteren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine fetteren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am fettesten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am fettesten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am fettesten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am fettesten (plural predicative superlative)
fettester (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
fetteste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
fettestes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
fetteste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
fettesten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
fettester (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
fettesten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
fettester (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
fettestem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
fettester (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
fettestem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
fettesten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
fettesten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
fetteste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
fettestes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
fetteste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der fetteste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die fetteste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das fetteste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die fettesten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des fettesten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der fettesten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des fettesten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der fettesten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem fettesten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der fettesten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem fettesten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den fettesten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den fettesten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die fetteste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das fetteste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die fettesten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein fettester (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine fetteste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein fettestes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
fettesten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine fettesten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines fettesten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer fettesten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines fettesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
fettesten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner fettesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem fettesten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer fettesten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem fettesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
fettesten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen fettesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen fettesten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine fetteste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein fettestes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
fettesten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine fettesten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

From Middle Low German vet, from Old Saxon *fētid, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Doublet of feist. In the colloquial sense perhaps a calque of English phat via hip-hop culture.

Fette Menschen sind oft ungesund.


scharf

scharf (strong nominative masculine singular scharfer, comparative schärfer, superlative am schärfsten)

scharfer (masculine nominative singular strong)
schärfer (comparative)
am schärfsten (superlative)
scharf (masculine predicative singular)
scharf (feminine predicative singular)
scharf (neuter predicative singular)
scharf (plural predicative)
scharfer (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
scharfe (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
scharfes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
scharfe (nominative plural strong without-article)
scharfen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
scharfer (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
scharfen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
scharfer (genitive plural strong without-article)
scharfem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
scharfer (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
scharfem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
scharfen (dative plural strong without-article)
scharfen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
scharfe (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
scharfes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
scharfe (accusative plural strong without-article)
der scharfe (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die scharfe (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das scharfe (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die scharfen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des scharfen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der scharfen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des scharfen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der scharfen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem scharfen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der scharfen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem scharfen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den scharfen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den scharfen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die scharfe (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das scharfe (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die scharfen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein scharfer (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine scharfe (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein scharfes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
scharfen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine scharfen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines scharfen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer scharfen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines scharfen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
scharfen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner scharfen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem scharfen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer scharfen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem scharfen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
scharfen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen scharfen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen scharfen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine scharfe (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein scharfes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
scharfen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine scharfen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
schärfer (comparative masculine predicative singular)
schärfer (comparative feminine predicative singular)
schärfer (comparative neuter predicative singular)
schärfer (comparative plural predicative)
schärferer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
schärfere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
schärferes (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
schärfere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
schärferen (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
schärferer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
schärferen (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
schärferer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
schärferem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
schärferer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
schärferem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
schärferen (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
schärferen (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
schärfere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
schärferes (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
schärfere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der schärfere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die schärfere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das schärfere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die schärferen (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des schärferen (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der schärferen (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des schärferen (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der schärferen (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem schärferen (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der schärferen (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem schärferen (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den schärferen (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den schärferen (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die schärfere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das schärfere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die schärferen (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein schärferer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine schärfere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein schärferes (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
schärferen (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine schärferen (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines schärferen (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer schärferen (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines schärferen (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schärferen (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner schärferen (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem schärferen (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer schärferen (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem schärferen (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schärferen (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen schärferen (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen schärferen (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine schärfere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein schärferes (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
schärferen (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine schärferen (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am schärfsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am schärfsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am schärfsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am schärfsten (plural predicative superlative)
schärfster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
schärfsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
schärfstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
schärfsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
schärfste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der schärfste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die schärfste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das schärfste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die schärfsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des schärfsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der schärfsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des schärfsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der schärfsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem schärfsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der schärfsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem schärfsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den schärfsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den schärfsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die schärfste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das schärfste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die schärfsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein schärfster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine schärfste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein schärfstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
schärfsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine schärfsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines schärfsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer schärfsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines schärfsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
schärfsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner schärfsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem schärfsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer schärfsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem schärfsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
schärfsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen schärfsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen schärfsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine schärfste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein schärfstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
schärfsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine schärfsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

From Middle High German scharpf, from Old High German scarf, from Proto-West Germanic *skarp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Compare Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, English sharps, Danish skarp.

sharp (criticism, perception, intellect)


two-bagger

(slang, derogatory) An extremely unattractive person (usually female), the insinuation being that one bag covering her face would not be adequate, but her partner would need to wear one too.


like the back end of a bus

Not really fighting over her (puns aside). When you get a current beau and an ex, full of booze and testosterone, meeting up, their common interest isn't much of an issue in the subsequent display of machismo. I think she looks like the back end of a bus but, to them, she was a 'possession'.

2001, "Richard", "A sign of our times...", demon.local http://groups.google.com/group/demon.local/browse_thread/thread/3e3e39af204c46cb/06729fc6d595ef98?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=21#06729fc6d595ef98

Must admit, I like the *original* 911s - the original, late-1960s ones back before they fitted bulgey wheelarches and silly tea-tray rear spoilers. They look much more like delicate, precision instruments compared with the later 'sledgehammer" versions [which IMHO are about as attractive as the back end of a bus].

2002, Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, “I drove a...”, in uk.rec.cars.modifications (Usenet):

You surely can't be comparing Alicia Witt with Sarah Fergusson? Alicia Witt looks stunning, while the duchess of Pork looks like the back end of a bus.

2004, David Platt, “DUCHESS OF YORK NUDE”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):

‘You’ve got a face like the back end of a bus,’ he spat, his eyes raw and burning. Then he grinned, his yellow-stained teeth spreading across his mush [...]

2005, Will Hadcroft, Anne Droyd And Century Lodge:

As I once told him, being British, looking like the back end of a bus or weighing 30 stone, was utterly irrelevant to the posting i made

2006, "sheelagh", "Bookie: Did you adopt the blind cat?", rec.pats.cats.health+behav http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.cats.health+behav/browse_thread/thread/d6ce604519cdefbb/a5f305d13e68a960?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=10#a5f305d13e68a960

(simile, colloquial, British, derogatory) Very unattractive.


gaudy

en-adj

gaudy (comparative gaudier, superlative gaudiest)

gaudier (comparative)
gaudiest (superlative)

From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Though, I confeſs, Paris has its Charms; but to me they are like thoſe of a Coquette, gay and gavvdy; they ſerve to amuſe vvith, but a Man vvould not chuſe to be marry'd to them.

1721, [Colley] Cibber, The Refusal; or, The Ladies Philosophy: A Comedy. […], London: […] B[arnaby Bernard] Lintot, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 2:

The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 19:

A large gaudy, flowing cravat, and an ill-used silk hat, set well back on the wearer's head, completed this somewhat noticeable costume.

Gaudy jewellery might offend some people's sense of style. But former heavyweight champion and grilling-machine entrepreneur George Foreman is philosophical about today's craze for bling-bling.

2005 January 9, Thomas Hauser, Marilyn Cole Lownes, “How Bling-bling Took Over the Ring”, in The Observer:

Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.


beautifully

en-adv

beautifully (comparative more beautifully, superlative most beautifully)

more beautifully (comparative)
most beautifully (superlative)

From beautiful + -ly, circa 17th century.

The intercom system worked beautifully, despite the fact that the ear plugs were designed for human rather than kzinti ears.

Tom Cleverley had one of his better games, the highlight being a beautifully weighted pass to send Walcott away for his goal, and Rooney probably did as well as might have been anticipated given this was his first start in a competitive match since April.

2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:


shininess

en-noun

shininess (usually uncountable, plural shininesses)

(computing) The coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being displayed.


hideous

en-adj

hideous (comparative more hideous, superlative most hideous)

more hideous (comparative)
most hideous (superlative)

From Middle English hidous, from Anglo-Norman hidous, from Old French hideus, hydus (“that which inspires terror”), from earlier hisdos, from Old French hisda (“horror, fear”), of uncertain and disputed origin. Probably from Proto-West Germanic *agisiþu (“horror, terror”), from Proto-West Germanic *agisōn (“to frighten, terrorise”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, fear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to frighten”). Cognate with Old High German egisa, egidī (“horror”), Old English egesa (“fear, dread”), Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (agis, “fear, terror”).
Alternative etymology cites possible derivation from Latin hispidosus (“rugged”), from hispidus (“rough, bristly”), yet the semantic evolution is less plausible.

der

I’m sorry to break it to you, but your dress looks truly hideous.

the Duke's army departed unmolested : but the highway along which he retired presented a piteous and hideous spectacle.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:


wæstm

wæstmes (plural)
wæstm (accusative nominative singular)
wæstmes (accusative nominative plural)
wæstmæs (accusative nominative plural)
wæstmes (genitive singular)
wæstmæs (genitive singular)
wæstme (genitive plural)
wæstme (dative singular)
wæstmen (dative plural)

From Old English wæstm, from Proto-Germanic *wastmaz.

The shape or look or something; the manner something exists in.


honestly

English: honestly

From honeste (“honourable, appropriate, excellent”) + -ly (adverbial suffix).


line of beauty

Every line is the line of beauty; it is only fumble and bungle which cannot draw a line. This only is ugliness. That is not a line which doubts and hesitates in the midst of its course.

1880, William Blake, “Public Address and Memoranda by Blake of his mode of Engraving”, in Life of William Blake, volume 2:

(fine arts) An abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth).


niechlujny

pl-adj

niechlujny (comparative bardziej niechlujny, superlative najbardziej niechlujny, derived adverb niechlujnie or (obsolete) niechlujno)

bardziej niechlujny (comparative)
najbardziej niechlujny (superlative)
niechlujny (masculine nominative singular)
niechlujna (feminine nominative singular)
niechlujne (neuter nominative singular)
niechlujni (nominative plural virile)
niechlujne (nominative plural)
niechlujnego (genitive masculine singular)
niechlujnej (feminine genitive singular)
niechlujnego (genitive neuter singular)
niechlujnych (genitive plural)
niechlujnych (genitive plural virile)
niechlujnemu (dative masculine singular)
niechlujnej (dative feminine singular)
niechlujnemu (dative neuter singular)
niechlujnym (dative plural)
niechlujnym (dative plural virile)
niechlujnego (accusative animate masculine singular)
niechlujny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
niechlujną (accusative feminine singular)
niechlujne (accusative neuter singular)
niechlujnych (accusative plural virile)
niechlujne (accusative plural)
niechlujnym (instrumental masculine singular)
niechlujną (feminine instrumental singular)
niechlujnym (instrumental neuter singular)
niechlujnymi (instrumental plural)
niechlujnymi (instrumental plural virile)
niechlujnym (locative masculine singular)
niechlujnej (feminine locative singular)
niechlujnym (locative neuter singular)
niechlujnych (locative plural)
niechlujnych (locative plural virile)

Alteration of earlier *niechludźny, from nie- + chludzić (“to clean thoroughly, to have high standards of cleanliness”) + -ny.
Related to Russian холя (xolja, “care, attention”), холуй (xoluj, “obsequious overattentive servant”), Silesian kludzić, and also Polish schludny (“neat, tidy”), from schludzić.

af

slovenly, scruffy, squalid, untidy, messy


shapely

en-adj

shapely (comparative shapelier or more shapely, superlative shapeliest or most shapely)

shapelier (comparative)
more shapely (comparative)
shapeliest (superlative)
most shapely (superlative)

From Middle English schaply, schappely (“well-shaped, beautiful, attractive”), perhaps from Old English *ġesċeaplīċ (“according to design, proper, fit”) (suggested by Old English ġesċeaplīċe (“properly, fitting, well”)), equivalent to shape + -ly.

cog

The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:

It used to be, whenever Frank passed a rival butcher’s window (and later the curved glass of a supermarket meat counter), he would peer in unjealously, looking for the subtleties that spoke of talent with a knife. Were their fillets shapely?

2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:

Having a pleasing shape, pleasant to look at.


snatched

en-adj

snatched (comparative more snatched, superlative most snatched)

more snatched (comparative)
most snatched (superlative)

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So she lifted her head and continued the trek. “See, that's more like it,” Norman said. “Walk like you own this motherfuckin' town. You are looking snatched in that dress.” Norman pretended as though he had yanked something up out of thin air.

2017, Shereé Whitfield, Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta, →ISBN, page 46:

“Everyone says that you should wait, because your body doesn’t fully come in until you’re like 30, and I’m 20 years old, and why am I going to wait until I’m 30 to be snatched?” Catera Northup, an exotic dancer from Rhode Island, said.

2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:


dreary

dreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary)

drearier (comparative)
more dreary (comparative)
dreariest (superlative)
most dreary (superlative)

From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).

cog

It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...

It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.

1818, Mary Shelley, chapter V, in Frankenstein, volume 1:


unsightly

en-adj

unsightly (comparative more unsightly, superlative most unsightly)

more unsightly (comparative)
most unsightly (superlative)

For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.

1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 252:

The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.

2021 October 20, “Network News: NR and NH tackle graffiti vandalism”, in RAIL, number 942, page 9:

“She had grown used to the quick speech of these people, but she wished he would not lick his lips that way. It did not make him any harder to understand, but it was unsightly."

1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 38: Hidden Faces”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 610:


stud muffin

From stud + muffin, perhaps with influence from beefcake. First use appears c. 1983 in Buffalo News.

Billboard magazine quoted an Oklahoma City radio program who described him as "a stud muffin" — "there was just a vibe on this guy out there, especially among women" (Stark 1992, 89)

1995, Curtis W Ellison, Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven, University Press of Mississippi, published 1995, page 44:

"I'm a total stud muffin. Can't you see it?" Simon joked.

1999, John W Milor, Apparition, page 106:

“A stud!” “A stud muffin!” In general, the students’ enthusiasm for Clinton was equalled by their disdain for George W. Bush.

(idiomatic, colloquial) A very attractive man.


nymphet

From nymph + -et (“diminutive”), first attested 1612. The second sense was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.

[…] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 19:

A sexually attractive girl or young woman.


cosmetic surgery

en-noun

cosmetic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural cosmetic surgeries)

The face lift is a classic example of cosmetic surgery.

I come from Africa – we celebrate getting older. A friend was telling me there’s been a rise in cosmetic surgery, all because [people]^([sic]) have been looking at themselves in Zoom meetings.

2022 December 14, Nadia Khomami, quoting Iman, “‘He’s not my “late” husband’: Iman speaks of grief over death of David Bowie”, in The Guardian:

Surgery (and related medical treatment) to improve appearance rather than for health reasons.


lepota

lepòta (canonical feminine)
лепо̀та (Cyrillic)
lepota (nominative singular)
lepote (nominative plural)
lepote (genitive singular)
lepota (genitive plural)
lepoti (dative singular)
lepotama (dative plural)
lepotu (accusative singular)
lepote (accusative plural)
lepoto (singular vocative)
lepote (plural vocative)
lepoti (locative singular)
lepotama (locative plural)
lepotom (instrumental singular)
lepotama (instrumental plural)


lepota

lepóta (canonical feminine)
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lepôta (nominative singular)
lepôte (genitive singular)
lepôti (dative singular)
lepôto (accusative singular)
lepôti (locative singular)
lepôto (instrumental singular)


лепота

ru-noun+

лепота́ • (lepotá) f inan (genitive лепоты́, uncountable)

лепота́ (canonical)
lepotá (romanization)
лепоты́ (genitive)
лепота́ (nominative singular)
лепоты́ (genitive singular)
лепоте́ (dative singular)
лепоту́ (accusative singular)
лепото́й (instrumental singular)
лепото́ю (instrumental singular)
лепоте́ (prepositional singular)

(archaic) beauty (quality of pleasing appearance)


лепота

лепо̀та (canonical feminine)
lepòta (romanization)
лепота (nominative singular)
лепоте (nominative plural)
лепоте (genitive singular)
лепота (genitive plural)
лепоти (dative singular)
лепотама (dative plural)
лепоту (accusative singular)
лепоте (accusative plural)
лепото (singular vocative)
лепоте (plural vocative)
лепоти (locative singular)
лепотама (locative plural)
лепотом (instrumental singular)
лепотама (instrumental plural)


bombe

→ Danish: bombe

→ English: bombe

→ German: Bombe

→ Lao: ບົມ (bom)

→ Persian: بمب (bomb)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: bombe

→ Vietnamese: bom

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”).


let go

en-verb

let go (third-person singular simple present lets go, present participle letting go, simple past and past participle let go)

lets go (present singular third-person)
letting go (participle present)
let go (participle past)
let go (past)

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antaa mennä

euphemistic: to fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance

(euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.

Wow, dude! You've really let yourself go this time!

(euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.


figura

figura (nominative singular)
figury (nominative plural)
figury (genitive singular)
figur (genitive plural)
figurze (dative singular)
figurom (dative plural)
figurę (accusative singular)
figury (accusative plural)
figurą (instrumental singular)
figurami (instrumental plural)
figurze (locative singular)
figurach (locative plural)
figuro (singular vocative)
figury (plural vocative)

(anatomy) figure (human figure; shape of human body)


postura

posturka (diminutive)
postura (nominative singular)
postury (nominative plural)
postury (genitive singular)
postur (genitive plural)
posturze (dative singular)
posturom (dative plural)
posturę (accusative singular)
postury (accusative plural)
posturą (instrumental singular)
posturami (instrumental plural)
posturze (locative singular)
posturach (locative plural)
posturo (singular vocative)
postury (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French posture, from Italian postura, from Latin positūra. Doublet of pozytura (“pose, posture”).

build, frame, physique, stature (the natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person)


bootylicious

en-adj

bootylicious (comparative more bootylicious, superlative most bootylicious)

more bootylicious (comparative)
most bootylicious (superlative)

I don't think you ready for this jelly / I don't think you ready for this / 'Cause my body too bootylicious for ya, babe

2001, “Bootylicious”, in Survivor, performed by Destiny's Child:

Is it OK for a chunky, 40-something white guy to feel bootylicious? Oh, how I hope it's acceptable, because if feeling bootylicious is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

2003, Dale Alderman, Being a Dad, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 104:

He lingered for a few minutes, vacantly watching a bootylicious black girl bump and grind to Pink’s catchy smash, “Get the Party Started.”

2004, Jon Jeffrey, Boyfriend Material, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 93:

It’s your daughter with a tank top that says porn star, hot pants that say bootylicious and, of course, underneath ... the kiddie thong.

2005, Glenn Beck, The Real America, Pocket Books, →ISBN:

(slang) Callipygous or otherwise appealingly voluptuous.


apariencia

From older aparencia, borrowed from Latin apparentia.

appearance (semblance, or apparent likeness)


foedus

la-adj

foedus (feminine foeda, neuter foedum, comparative foedior, superlative foedissimus, adverb foedē); first/second-declension adjective

foeda (feminine)
foedum (neuter)
foedior (comparative)
foedissimus (superlative)
foedē (adverb)
foedus (masculine nominative singular)
foeda (feminine nominative singular)
foedum (neuter nominative singular)
foedī (masculine nominative plural)
foedae (feminine nominative plural)
foeda (neuter nominative plural)
foedī (genitive masculine singular)
foedae (feminine genitive singular)
foedī (genitive neuter singular)
foedōrum (genitive masculine plural)
foedārum (feminine genitive plural)
foedōrum (genitive neuter plural)
foedō (dative masculine singular)
foedae (dative feminine singular)
foedō (dative neuter singular)
foedīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
foedum (accusative masculine singular)
foedam (accusative feminine singular)
foedum (accusative neuter singular)
foedōs (accusative masculine plural)
foedās (accusative feminine plural)
foeda (accusative neuter plural)
foedō (ablative masculine singular)
foedā (ablative feminine singular)
foedō (ablative neuter singular)
foedīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
foede (masculine singular vocative)
foeda (feminine singular vocative)
foedum (neuter singular vocative)
foedī (masculine plural vocative)
foedae (feminine plural vocative)
foeda (neuter plural vocative)

Asturian: feu

Italian: fedo

Old Galician-Portuguese: feo

Galician: feo

Portuguese: feio

Spanish: feo

From Proto-Italic *foiðos (“afraid”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to frighten; be afraid”).

der

(physically) filthy, foul, disgusting, loathsome, ugly, unseemly, detestable, abominable, horrible


bootilicious

en-adj

bootilicious (comparative more bootilicious, superlative most bootilicious)

more bootilicious (comparative)
most bootilicious (superlative)

Beautiful Betty “BeBe” Brown. / Bamboozled, but bedazzled by big, / Bold, bodacious, bootilicious, boy bods / Became baby-bound.

2003, Syieve Locklair, “'bout B”, in Sayings of a Soul: A Collection of Poetry:

Off the Hook is Friday's bootilicious Gatehouse hip hop night.

2004, Jonathan Rich, The Push Guide to Which University:

If you weren't born with Cameron Diaz's lanky body or with Beyoncé's bootilicious features ...

2005, Jennifer Musselman, Patti Degregori, Hip Girl's Handbook For The Working World:

Bootilicious body language for saying goodbye

2005, Eve Marx, Read My Hips: The Sexy Art of Flirtation:

Bootilicious benefit ... I’m going to see Destiny’s Child tonight ... not close enough for a stage dive toward Beyonce but I guess we’re all better off for that.


奇麗

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ li⁵¹/

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ li⁵¹/

singularly beautiful; strange and wonderful


snazzy

snazzy (comparative snazzier, superlative snazziest)

snazzier (comparative)
snazziest (superlative)

Unknown but perhaps a blend of snappy + jazzy, or from Irish snas (“polish; good appearance”).

a snazzy dresser

One particularly snazzy outfit consisted of vertically striped pants paired with a horizontally striped and sequined top.

2000 September 23, Alev Aktar, “TAILOR MADE GOES: Fashion week closes with Calvin, Donna and Vera”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2009-01-08:

Their interiors will also be repainted, while the non-instrumented area of the coach, which contains only a few seats, will be made to "look snazzy".

2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, number 966, page 61:

(informal) Elegant in manner of dress; stylish, modern or appealing in appearance; flashy.


binden

binden (infinitive)
to binden (infinitive)
binde (infinitive)
binde (first-person present singular)
band (first-person past singular)
bond (first-person past singular)
bound (first-person past singular)
bindest (present second-person singular)
bounde (past second-person singular)
bonde (past second-person singular)
band (past second-person singular)
bindeth (present singular third-person)
band (past singular third-person)
bond (past singular third-person)
bound (past singular third-person)
binde (present singular subjunctive)
bounde (past singular subjunctive)
bonde (past singular subjunctive)
binde (imperative present singular)
binden (plural present)
binde (plural present)
bounden (past plural)
bounde (past plural)
bonden (past plural)
bonde (past plural)
bindeth (imperative plural present)
binde (imperative plural present)
bindynge (participle present)
bindende (participle present)
bounden (participle past)
bounde (participle past)
ybounden (participle past)
ybounde (participle past)

English: bind

Scots: bind

From Old English bindan, from Proto-West Germanic *bindan, from Proto-Germanic *bindaną; equivalent to bynde + -en (infinitival suffix).

To decorate or adorn; to add ornaments on.


délicat

fr-adj

délicat (feminine délicate, masculine plural délicats, feminine plural délicates)

délicate (feminine)
délicats (masculine plural)
délicates (feminine plural)

→ Alemannic German: delekat

→ Danish: delikat

desctree

→ German: delikat
→ Polish: delikatny
→ Russian: деликатный (delikatnyj)

→ Norwegian: delikat

→ Romanian: delicat

→ Swedish: delikat

Inherited from Middle French delicat, borrowed from Latin dēlicātus.


cutie

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

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


prettify

en-verb

prettify (third-person singular simple present prettifies, present participle prettifying, simple past and past participle prettified)

prettifies (present singular third-person)
prettifying (participle present)
prettified (participle past)
prettified (past)

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Old-fashioned bosses see their role as prettifying the office and forming a pool of potential marriage partners for male employees.

2011 November 5, “Land of the wasted talent”, in The Economist:

To make pretty or prettier, to make more attractive, especially only in a superficial way.


portly

en-adj

portly (comparative portlier, superlative portliest)

portlier (comparative)
portliest (superlative)

From an archaic sense of port (“manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage”) + -ly.

af

He ſends this Souldans daughter rich and braue,
To be my Queene and portly Empereſſe, […]

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 I, scene ii:

Portly his person was, and much increast
Through his Heroicke grace and honourable gest.

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

Be studious well to imitate
My portly motion, mien, and gait

1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy:

(now rare) Having a dignified bearing; handsome, imposing.


radiance

en-noun

radiance (countable and uncountable, plural radiances)

Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned.

1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

You who live in radiance
hear the prayers of those of us who live in skin

1998, “Hard to Get”, performed by Rich Mullins:

The quality or state of being radiant; shining, bright or splendid.

փայլ

the quality of being radiant, shining, bright or splendid


loveliness

loveliness (countable and uncountable, plural lovelinesses)

From Middle English luflynes; equivalent to lovely + -ness.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–5:

Then, seated in her barbaric chair above them all, with myself at her feet, was the veiled white woman, whose loveliness and awesome power seemed to visibly shine about her like a halo, or rather like the glow from some unseen light.

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

(uncountable) The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.


cosmetologist

A person who advises people (normally women) on cosmetics and other beauty treatments; a beautician.

skoonheidskundige

person who advises people on cosmetics and other beauty treatments


cosmetology

From French cosmétologie. By surface analysis, cosmetics + -ology.


dishy

en-adj

dishy (comparative dishier, superlative dishiest)

dishier (comparative)
dishiest (superlative)

From dish (“attractive person”) + -y (forming adjectives).

suf

(British, slang) Attractive; good-looking; sexy.


tidiness

en-noun

tidiness (usually uncountable, plural tidinesses)

The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class "4" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in present circumstances.

1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274:


イケメン

Chinese: 池面

From イケてる (iketeru, “cool”) and メンズ (menzu, “men”).


belleza

Probably borrowed from Catalan bellesa or Old Occitan belhesa, from Vulgar Latin *bellitia. By surface analysis, bello + -eza. Compare Italian bellezza, Portuguese beleza.


dreamy

en-adj

dreamy (comparative dreamier, superlative dreamiest)

dreamier (comparative)
dreamiest (superlative)

I love the doctor in that American TV show: he is so dreamy!

He is dreamy, sex-bomb cute.

1999, Shana Larsen, 200 Cigarettes (motion picture), spoken by Lucy (Courtney Love):

(colloquial) Sexy; handsome; attractive.


careworn

careworn (comparative more careworn, superlative most careworn)

more careworn (comparative)
most careworn (superlative)

/ˈkɛəɹˌwɔɹn/

The weeks of working hard to look after his sick family left him looking careworn.

At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 139:

The effect upon his personal appearance of this wear and tear of his intellect was striking and manifest. The hue of youth and health entirely departed from his cheeks, and he looked so sad and careworn, that it was quite a terrible thing to look upon a young lad so, as it were, upon the threshold of existence, and in whom anxious thoughts were making such war upon the physical energies.

1846–1847, attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and/or Thomas Peckett Prest, “The String of Pearls: A Romance”, in Edward Lloyd, editor, The People’s Periodical and Family Library, London: E. Lloyd, →OCLC, chapter 14 (“Tobias’s Threat, and Its Consequences”); republished as Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls: The Original Victorian Classic, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2015, →ISBN, page 121:

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 10:

I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 35:

Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson's parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds – were leant^([sic – meaning lent]) an eerie gravitas, while Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down sounded heartbreakingly careworn and poignant.

2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 Verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and More”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-11-12:

Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.

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presentable

presentable (comparative more presentable, superlative most presentable)

more presentable (comparative)
most presentable (superlative)

From Middle French presentable, from Old French, as if present + -able.

Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable.

Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

In good enough shape to be shown or offered to other people; tidy; attractive.


clamorous

clamorous (comparative more clamorous, superlative most clamorous)

more clamorous (comparative)
most clamorous (superlative)

From clamor + -ous; compare Latin clāmōrōsus and French clamoreux (obsolete), from Latin clāmōrem.

She led them along a path edged with round, whitewashed stones and equally rounded basils of a clamorous green.

1970, Patrick White, chapter 6, in The Vivisector, New York: Avon, published 1980, page 376:

It was impossible to overlook the clamorous parrots on the new missionary’s Hawaiian shirt.

2015, John Irving, chapter 9, in Avenue of the Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 99:

Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.


centerfold

(by extension) Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.


momma

Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.

My momma’s so great: she bakes me cookies every week.

Whoa, that chick in the bikini is a real momma!


momma

No spitting of momma here.

(Philippines, chiefly Cordillera) A betel nut plus other ingredients (like areca nut, betel leaves, slaked lime, and tobacco) to be chewed on.


good-lookingness

According to the criteria of good-lookingness, Uncle Pete deserved an A.

2001, James Hutchison, James' Journey: From the Scottish Highlands Via New York and Texas to Mars and Beyond, page 150:

Last, in acknowledgment of his even better good-lookingness, I remember that I can't claim the same.

2016, Liora Blake, First Step Forward, page 61:

The quality or state of being good-looking; attractiveness, beauty.


grody

grody (comparative grodier, superlative grodiest)

grodier (comparative)
grodiest (superlative)

From groady, apparently a clipping of grotesque + -y (intervocalic /t/ and /d/ are similar in American English). Compare British grotty, of the same origin, and gro.
Popularized by Moon Unit Zappa in song "Valley Girl" (1982) in phrase "grody to the max", as archetypal Southern California Valleyspeak; song also popularized "gag me with a spoon".

I wouldn't set foot in that bar; the floor looks grody.

And the lady, like, goes / "Oh, my god, your toenails are, like, so grody" / […] / It’s like grody / Grody to the max / […] / Gross!

1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa (lyrics and music), “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch:

Oh wait. It's just grody and rotten. The Cheat, will you please freaking clean up after yourself?

2002 October 31, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #48: ghosts”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

(US, informal) Nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.


debonair

debonair (comparative more debonair, superlative most debonair)

more debonair (comparative)
most debonair (superlative)

From Old French debonaire, from the phrase de bon aire (“of good stock, noble”).

Let be that Ladie debonaire, / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell […].

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


cutesy

cutesy (comparative cutesier, superlative cutesiest)

cutesier (comparative)
cutesiest (superlative)

The couple called each other cutesy pet names, like "honeypot" and "smoochie-poochie" that disgusted everyone else.

If each subject attracts roughly the same amount of attention (and with a judgmental adjustment to drop the more cutesy papers), that's roughly 100 papers per topic.

2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 231f:

Overly, affectedly or unnecessarily cute; too cute to be taken seriously.


splendour

en-noun

splendour (usually uncountable, plural splendours)

If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.

1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:

British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.


decor

Borrowed from Latin decōrum. Doublet of decòrum.


decor

la-noun

decor m (genitive decōris); third declension

decōris (genitive)
decor (nominative singular)
decōrēs (nominative plural)
decōris (genitive singular)
decōrum (genitive plural)
decōrī (dative singular)
decōribus (dative plural)
decōrem (accusative singular)
decōrēs (accusative plural)
decōre (ablative singular)
decōribus (ablative plural)
decor (singular vocative)
decōrēs (plural vocative)

desctree

→ French: décor
→ Dutch: decor
Afrikaans: dekor
→ Indonesian: dekor
→ English: decor, décor
→ German: Dekor
→ Polish: dekor
→ Greek: ντεκόρ (ntekór)
→ Italian: decoro
→ Norwegian Bokmål: dekor
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: dekor
→ Romanian: decor
→ Russian: декор (dekor)
→ Turkish: dekor


looker

One having a specific look or appearance.


dreamboat

From dream + boat, probably suggesting a person “carrying” or embodying the dreams of another; the term appeared in some 1930s and 1940s love songs, referring to a metaphorical boat carrying a lover’s dreams, such as “When My Dream Boat Comes Home” (1936) written by the Canadian-American bandleader Guy Lombardo (1902–1977) and “Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat” (1941) by the American songwriters Otis (1898–1970) and Leon René (1902–1982), and Emerson Scott.

My new fella is such a dreamboat. He can dance, can sing, and is the captain of the school hockey team.

(informal, dated or humorous) An exceptionally good-looking and sexually attractive person, particularly a man.


scruffy

en-adj

scruffy (comparative scruffier, superlative scruffiest)

scruffier (comparative)
scruffiest (superlative)

A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.

scruffy clothes

scruffy man

scruffy outfit

"So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.

1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “Rock Against Sexism”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 16:


mignon

fr-adj

mignon (feminine mignonne, masculine plural mignons, feminine plural mignonnes)

mignonne (feminine)
mignons (masculine plural)
mignonnes (feminine plural)

→ English: mignon

→ Italian: mignon

→ Portuguese: mignon

→ Turkish: minyon

Inherited from Middle French mignon, from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German minna (“love, care, affection, desire, memory”), Old Saxon minnia (“love”), Old Dutch minna (Dutch min). More at mind.


turpis

la-adj

turpis (neuter turpe, comparative turpior, superlative turpissimus, adverb turpiter); third-declension two-termination adjective

turpe (neuter)
turpior (comparative)
turpissimus (superlative)
turpiter (adverb)
turpis (feminine masculine nominative singular)
turpe (neuter nominative singular)
turpēs (feminine masculine nominative plural)
turpia (neuter nominative plural)
turpis (feminine genitive masculine neuter singular)
turpium (feminine genitive masculine neuter plural)
turpī (dative feminine masculine neuter singular)
turpibus (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
turpem (accusative feminine masculine singular)
turpe (accusative neuter singular)
turpēs (accusative feminine masculine plural)
turpīs (accusative feminine masculine plural)
turpia (accusative neuter plural)
turpī (ablative feminine masculine neuter singular)
turpibus (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
turpis (feminine masculine singular vocative)
turpe (neuter singular vocative)
turpēs (feminine masculine plural vocative)
turpia (neuter plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

→ Albanian: turp

Italo-Romance:

>? Gallurese: tulpi

Italian: turpe

Padanian:

Romansch: tuorp

Ibero-Romance:

Galician: torpe

Portuguese: torpe

Spanish: torpe ⇒ estorpar

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: turpe (obsolete), tzurpu (doubtful)

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exturpiāre

Italian: storpiare, stroppiare (Old Lucchese)

→ French: estropier

→ German: struppieren (regional)

→ Portuguese: estropiar

→ Spanish: estropear

Piedmontese: stropiè

desc

Romansch: strupiar, strupchiar, strupchier, strupchá

Borrowings:

→ English: turpid

→ French: turpide, turpe

→ Hungarian: turpisság

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”) (with the word interpreted as "turning away" > "repelling" > "disgusting"), and compared with Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō, “to turn, divert”), Sanskrit त्रपते (trapate, “to be ashamed”). De Vaan is skeptical of the semantics of this derivation, and prefers, albeit with trepidation, to compare the word with torpeō (“to be stiff”).

cog

Attributed to Ennius by Cicero in Dē nātūrā deōrum, Book I, Chapter XXXV

How similar to us is that most vile beast, the ape!

Sīmia quam similis turpissima bēstia nōbīs!


pulcher

la-adj

pulcher (feminine pulchra, neuter pulchrum, comparative pulchrior, superlative pulcherrimus, adverb pulchrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

pulchra (feminine)
pulchrum (neuter)
pulchrior (comparative)
pulcherrimus (superlative)
pulchrē (adverb)
in -er (masculine nominative singular)
pulcher (masculine nominative singular)
pulchra (feminine nominative singular)
pulchrum (neuter nominative singular)
pulchrī (masculine nominative plural)
pulchrae (feminine nominative plural)
pulchra (neuter nominative plural)
pulchrī (genitive masculine singular)
pulchrae (feminine genitive singular)
pulchrī (genitive neuter singular)
pulchrōrum (genitive masculine plural)
pulchrārum (feminine genitive plural)
pulchrōrum (genitive neuter plural)
pulchrō (dative masculine singular)
pulchrae (dative feminine singular)
pulchrō (dative neuter singular)
pulchrīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
pulchrum (accusative masculine singular)
pulchram (accusative feminine singular)
pulchrum (accusative neuter singular)
pulchrōs (accusative masculine plural)
pulchrās (accusative feminine plural)
pulchra (accusative neuter plural)
pulchrō (ablative masculine singular)
pulchrā (ablative feminine singular)
pulchrō (ablative neuter singular)
pulchrīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
pulcher (masculine singular vocative)
pulchra (feminine singular vocative)
pulchrum (neuter singular vocative)
pulchrī (masculine plural vocative)
pulchrae (feminine plural vocative)
pulchra (neuter plural vocative)

→ Catalan: pulcre

French: poucre (dialectal)

→ Italian: pulcro

→ Portuguese: pulcro

→ Spanish: pulcro

Uncertain. The earlier form polcer is traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *porkros, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱ-ró-s or Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-ro-, from the root *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation of the first *-r- into *-l-, though this has been challenged. Connection with poliō (“to polish, smooth”) or polleō (“to be strong”) is to be excluded.
The aspiration is often considered secondary when the word would have been made to derive from Ancient Greek πολύχροος (polúkhroos, “multicolor”) by folk etymology, while an Etruscan borrowing is usually discarded.

ref

For this compare triumphus, Carthāgō, and also English anthem, author, Anthony, etc.


zor

zȏr (canonical masculine)
зо̑р (Cyrillic)
zor (nominative singular)
zorovi (nominative plural)
zora (genitive singular)
zorova (genitive plural)
zoru (dative singular)
zorovima (dative plural)
zor (accusative singular)
zorove (accusative plural)
zore (singular vocative)
zorovi (plural vocative)
zoru (locative singular)
zorovima (locative plural)
zorom (instrumental singular)
zorovima (instrumental plural)


bellus

la-adj

bellus (feminine bella, neuter bellum, adverb bellē); first/second-declension adjective

bella (feminine)
bellum (neuter)
bellē (adverb)
bellus (masculine nominative singular)
bella (feminine nominative singular)
bellum (neuter nominative singular)
bellī (masculine nominative plural)
bellae (feminine nominative plural)
bella (neuter nominative plural)
bellī (genitive masculine singular)
bellae (feminine genitive singular)
bellī (genitive neuter singular)
bellōrum (genitive masculine plural)
bellārum (feminine genitive plural)
bellōrum (genitive neuter plural)
bellō (dative masculine singular)
bellae (dative feminine singular)
bellō (dative neuter singular)
bellīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
bellum (accusative masculine singular)
bellam (accusative feminine singular)
bellum (accusative neuter singular)
bellōs (accusative masculine plural)
bellās (accusative feminine plural)
bella (accusative neuter plural)
bellō (ablative masculine singular)
bellā (ablative feminine singular)
bellō (ablative neuter singular)
bellīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
belle (masculine singular vocative)
bella (feminine singular vocative)
bellum (neuter singular vocative)
bellī (masculine plural vocative)
bellae (feminine plural vocative)
bella (neuter plural vocative)

Asturian: bellu

Catalan: bell

Corsican: bellu, beddu

Dalmatian: bial

Old Arpitan: bel, biau

Franco-Provençal: bel, biau

Bressan: biau

Brionnais-Charolais: biau

Old French: bel, bieu, biau, beu

Angevin: biau

Bourbonnais-Berrichon: biau

Bourguignon: bea

Champenois: bé, biau

Franc-Comtois: bia

Middle French: beau, bel

French: beau

→ English: beau

Norman: bel, biau

Picard: biau, bieu (Amiens)

Poitevin-Saintongeais: bia

Paydret: béou

Walloon: bea

→ Middle English: beau; bel

Friulian: biel

Galician: belo

Istriot: biel, bielo

Italian: bello

→ Sardinian: bellu

Ligurian: bèllo

Occitan: bel, beu

Occitan: bèl (Standard Lengadocian)

Gascon: bèth

Guardiol: bèll

Provençal: bèu

Portuguese: belo

Romansch: bel, bi

Sicilian: beḍḍu

Spanish: bello

Venetan: beło

From Old Latin *duenelos, diminutive of duonus (whence bonus).


àlainn

From Old Irish álaind (“lovely, fine, splendid”); *ad-lainn; See loinn. Stokes prefers referring it to áil (“pleasant”), *pagli-, English fair, root pag. But ra-laind (“pleasant”), *ad-pland (Holden).

inh

'S àlainn an gille bàn sin ann...!

Beautiful is that flaxen-haired lad over there...!


grinn

grinn (masculine nominative singular)
ghrinn (feminine nominative singular)
grinne (nominative plural)
ghrinn (masculine singular vocative)
ghrinn (feminine singular vocative)
grinne (plural vocative)
ghrinn (genitive masculine singular)
ghrinn (feminine genitive singular)
grinne (feminine genitive singular)
glan (genitive plural)
ghrinn (dative masculine singular)
ghrinn (dative feminine singular)
grinne (dative plural)
grinn
ghrinn

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”).

der

Abair gur grinn thusa!

sweet, delightful, beautiful, charming, elegant.


maiseach

head

maiseach (genitive singular masculine maisigh, genitive singular feminine maisí, plural maiseacha, comparative maisí)

maisigh (genitive masculine singular)
maisí (feminine genitive singular)
maiseacha (plural)
maisí (comparative)
nominative (positive)
maiseach (masculine singular)
maiseach
mhaiseach

From Old Irish maisech. By surface analysis, maise (“adornment, beauty; becomingness, comeliness”) + -ach.

surf

Synonym of maisiúil (“decorative, beautiful; elegant; becoming, comely”)


maiseach

head

maiseach (genitive singular masculine maisich, genitive singular feminine maisiche, comparative maisiche)

maisich (genitive masculine singular)
maisiche (feminine genitive singular)
maisiche (comparative)
maiseach (masculine nominative singular)
mhaiseach (feminine nominative singular)
maiseach (nominative plural)
mhaisich (masculine singular vocative)
maiseach
mhaiseach

From Old Irish maisech. By surface analysis, maise (“beauty, grace”) + -ach.


maise

maise (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
maise (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a mhaise (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an mhaise (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na maise (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an maise (definite singular)
don mhaise (definite singular)

From Old Irish maisse (“goodliness, comeliness, fineness”), from mass (“fine, handsome, goodly”).


maise

From Old Irish maisse (“goodliness, comeliness, fineness”), from mass (“fine, handsome, goodly”) (cognate to English measure, meet, mete, German mässig (“moderate”)).


heiß

de-adj

heiß (strong nominative masculine singular heißer, comparative heißer, superlative am heißesten)

heißer (masculine nominative singular strong)
heißer (comparative)
am heißesten (superlative)
heiß (masculine predicative singular)
heiß (feminine predicative singular)
heiß (neuter predicative singular)
heiß (plural predicative)
heißer (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
heiße (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
heißes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
heiße (nominative plural strong without-article)
heißen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
heißer (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
heißen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
heißer (genitive plural strong without-article)
heißem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
heißer (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
heißem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
heißen (dative plural strong without-article)
heißen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
heiße (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
heißes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
heiße (accusative plural strong without-article)
der heiße (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die heiße (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das heiße (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die heißen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des heißen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der heißen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des heißen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der heißen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem heißen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der heißen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem heißen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den heißen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den heißen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die heiße (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das heiße (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die heißen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein heißer (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine heiße (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein heißes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
heißen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine heißen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines heißen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer heißen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines heißen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
heißen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner heißen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem heißen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer heißen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem heißen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
heißen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen heißen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen heißen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine heiße (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein heißes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
heißen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine heißen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
heißer (comparative masculine predicative singular)
heißer (comparative feminine predicative singular)
heißer (comparative neuter predicative singular)
heißer (comparative plural predicative)
heißerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
heißere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
heißeres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
heißere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
heißeren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
heißerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
heißeren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
heißerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
heißerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
heißerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
heißerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
heißeren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
heißeren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
heißere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
heißeres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
heißere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der heißere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die heißere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das heißere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die heißeren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des heißeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der heißeren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des heißeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der heißeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem heißeren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der heißeren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem heißeren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den heißeren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den heißeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die heißere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das heißere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die heißeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein heißerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine heißere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein heißeres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
heißeren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine heißeren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines heißeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer heißeren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines heißeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
heißeren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner heißeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem heißeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer heißeren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem heißeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
heißeren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen heißeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen heißeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine heißere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein heißeres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
heißeren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine heißeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am heißesten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am heißesten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am heißesten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am heißesten (plural predicative superlative)
heißester (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
heißeste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
heißestes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
heißeste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
heißesten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
heißester (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
heißesten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
heißester (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
heißestem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
heißester (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
heißestem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
heißesten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
heißesten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
heißeste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
heißestes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
heißeste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der heißeste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die heißeste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das heißeste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die heißesten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des heißesten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der heißesten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des heißesten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der heißesten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem heißesten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der heißesten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem heißesten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den heißesten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den heißesten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die heißeste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das heißeste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die heißesten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein heißester (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine heißeste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein heißestes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
heißesten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine heißesten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines heißesten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer heißesten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines heißesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
heißesten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner heißesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem heißesten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer heißesten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem heißesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
heißesten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen heißesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen heißesten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine heißeste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein heißestes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
heißesten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine heißesten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

From Middle High German and Old High German heiz, from Proto-West Germanic *hait. Akin to Old Saxon het, Dutch heet, English hot.

(of animals, otherwise informal) hot; horny (sexually aroused)


beauty salon

A shop that provides hairdressing and beauticians' work.


stunning

en-adj

stunning (comparative more stunning, superlative most stunning)

more stunning (comparative)
most stunning (superlative)

From Middle English stunnyng, stunnynge, stounyng, equivalent to stun + -ing.

That woman is stunning!

What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?

1923, Rachel Crothers, “Act III”, in Mary the Third[:] A Comedy in Prologue and Three Acts:

The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.

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

(informal) Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.


raunchy

raunchy (comparative raunchier, superlative raunchiest)

raunchier (comparative)
raunchiest (superlative)

Of unknown etymology. Originally U.S. Army Air Corps slang; origins among cadets in Texas suggest a possible connection to Mexican Spanish rancho (see ranch), which had connotations of animal filth by 1864.

unknown

Of unknown etymology


bòidheach

head

bòidheach (genitive singular masculine bòidhich, comparative bòidhche)

bòidhich (genitive masculine singular)
bòidhche (comparative)
bòidheach (masculine nominative)
bhòidheach (feminine nominative)
bòidheach (nominative plural)
bhòidhich (genitive masculine)
bòidhiche (feminine genitive)
bòidhich (feminine genitive)
bòidheach (genitive plural)
bòidheach (dative masculine)
bhòidhich (dative feminine)
bòidheach (dative plural)
bhòidhich (masculine vocative)
bhòidheach (feminine vocative)
bòidheach (plural vocative)
bòidheach
bhòidheach

From buaidheach (“having virtues”), from buaidh + -ach.


caol

caol (genitive singular masculine caoil, genitive singular feminine caoile, plural caola, comparative caoile)

caoil (genitive masculine singular)
caoile (feminine genitive singular)
caola (plural)
caoile (comparative)
nominative (positive)
caol (masculine singular)

From Old Irish cáel, from Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”) (compare Cornish and Welsh cul).

Caol le caol agus leathan le leathan. (rule in Irish spelling)

Slender (consonant) goes with slender (vowel) and broad (consonant) with broad (vowel).


caol

caol m (genitive singular caoil, nominative plural caolta)

caoil (genitive singular)
caolta (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
caol (indefinite singular)
caolta (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chaoil (indefinite singular)
a chaola (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
caoil (indefinite singular)
caol (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an caol (definite singular)
na caolta (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an chaoil (definite singular)
na gcaol (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcaol (definite singular)
don chaol (definite singular)
leis na caolta (definite plural)


feo

es-adj

feo (feminine fea, masculine plural feos, feminine plural feas, superlative feísimo)

fea (feminine)
feos (masculine plural)
feas (feminine plural)
feísimo (superlative)

From Latin foedus (“hideous”). Probably borrowed from other Ibero-Romance language, displacing native hedo. Cognate with Portuguese feio.


munter

Late 1990s, presumably from munt (“to vomit”) and munted (“inebriated; disgusting”) + -er, perhaps with influence from Turkish mantar (“mushroom”).

I'm never going to date her; she's a right munter.

(UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) An ugly person.


cera

Borrowed from Italian cera, from Latin cēra.

complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)


slovenly

en-adj

slovenly (comparative slovenlier, superlative slovenliest)

slovenlier (comparative)
slovenliest (superlative)

The same marks of indolence appeared in the care of his person; for every part of his dress was generally in disorder; and, though he was well made and handsome, yet his slovenly appearance made him disgustful to every one.

1796, “The Unexpected Reformation”, in The Blossoms of Morality, page 35:

Which would you sooner employ, a boy who was plainly, yet neatly clad, or one who had a slovenly appearance, though dressed in fine clothes?

1857, M[arcellus] F. Cowdery, “Lesson XVI. Be Neat.”, in Elementary Moral Lessons For Schools and Families, Philadelphia: H. Cowperthwait & Co., page 132:


lep

sl-adj

lẹ̑p (comparative lẹ̑pši, superlative nȁjlẹ̑pši)

lẹ̑p (canonical)
lẹ̑pši (comparative)
nȁjlẹ̑pši (superlative)
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lép (masculine nominative singular)
lépi (masculine nominative singular)
lépa (feminine nominative singular)
lépo (neuter nominative singular)
lépega (genitive masculine singular)
lépe (feminine genitive singular)
lépega (genitive neuter singular)
lépemu (dative masculine singular)
lépi (dative feminine singular)
lépemu (dative neuter singular)
nominativeⁱⁿᵃⁿ or (accusative masculine singular)
genitive (accusative masculine singular)
lépo (accusative feminine singular)
lépo (accusative neuter singular)
lépem (locative masculine singular)
lépi (feminine locative singular)
lépem (locative neuter singular)
lépim (instrumental masculine singular)
lépo (feminine instrumental singular)
lépim (instrumental neuter singular)
lépa (dual masculine nominative)
lépi (dual feminine nominative)
lépi (dual neuter nominative)
lépih (dual genitive masculine)
lépih (dual feminine genitive)
lépih (dual genitive neuter)
lépima (dative dual masculine)
lépima (dative dual feminine)
lépima (dative dual neuter)
lépa (accusative dual masculine)
lépi (accusative dual feminine)
lépi (accusative dual neuter)
lépih (dual locative masculine)
lépih (dual feminine locative)
lépih (dual locative neuter)
lépima (dual instrumental masculine)
lépima (dual feminine instrumental)
lépima (dual instrumental neuter)
lépi (masculine nominative plural)
lépe (feminine nominative plural)
lépa (neuter nominative plural)
lépih (genitive masculine plural)
lépih (feminine genitive plural)
lépih (genitive neuter plural)
lépim (dative masculine plural)
lépim (dative feminine plural)
lépim (dative neuter plural)
lépe (accusative masculine plural)
lépe (accusative feminine plural)
lépa (accusative neuter plural)
lépih (locative masculine plural)
lépih (feminine locative plural)
lépih (locative neuter plural)
lépimi (instrumental masculine plural)
lépimi (feminine instrumental plural)
lépimi (instrumental neuter plural)

Njegova hči je mlada in zelo lepa ženska.

His daughter is a young and very pretty woman.