Donald Duck

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دُونَالْد دَاك

→ Arabic: دُونَالْد دَاك (dūnāld dāk)

→ Arabic: دُونَالْد دَاك (dūnāld dāk)

→ Armenian: Դոնալդ Դաք (Donald Dakʻ)

→ Azerbaijani: Donald Dak

→ Bulgarian: Доналд Дък (Donald Dǎk)

→ Dutch: Donald Duck

→ French: Donald Duck

→ Georgian: დონალდ დაკი (donald daḳi)

→ German: Donald Duck

Ντόναλντ Ντακ

→ Greek: Ντόναλντ Ντακ (Ntónalnt Ntak)

→ Gujarati: ડોનાલ્ડ ડક (ḍonālḍ ḍak)

דוֹנָלְד דָאק

→ Hebrew: דוֹנָלְד דָאק (Dónald Dak)

→ Hindi: डोनाल्ड डक (ḍonālḍ ḍak)

→ Hindi: डोनाल्ड डक (ḍonālḍ ḍak)

→ Japanese: ドナルドダック (donarudo dakku)

ಡೊನಾಲ್ಡ್ ಡಕ್

→ Kannada: ಡೊನಾಲ್ಡ್ ಡಕ್ (ḍonālḍ ḍak)

→ Kannada: ಡೊನಾಲ್ಡ್ ಡಕ್ (ḍonālḍ ḍak)

→ Korean: 도널드 덕 (doneoldeu deok)

→ Latvian: Donalds Daks

ഡൊണാൾഡ് ഡക്ക്

→ Malayalam: ഡൊണാൾഡ് ഡക്ക് (ḍoṇāḷḍŭ ḍakkŭ)

→ Marathi: डोनाल्ड डक (ḍonālḍa ḍak)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: Donald Duck

→ Portuguese: Pato Donald (calque)

→ Romanian: Donald Duck

→ Russian: Дональд Дак (Donalʹd Dak)

→ Spanish: Pato Donald (calque)

โดนัลด์ ดั๊ก

→ Thai: โดนัลด์ ดั๊ก (doo-nalt dák)

→ Ukrainian: Дональд Дак (Donalʹd Dak)

Single-handed [sic] he swung the staid Western Union from its ordinary singing-telegram policy to the point where local patrons can request that their greeting be sung in Donald Duck voice.

1941 March 6, “Screwy Hall Of Fame Presents A Quack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

And then the most Donald Duck-like screaming and jabbering you ever heard.

1945, Ernie Pyle, edited by David Nichols, Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches, Touchstone Books, published 1987, page 399:

DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.

1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77:

Perched securely in the rafters and using a walkie-talkie to communicate with colleagues on the airdock's floor, Lachenmeier was amused to find his voice had risen into the Donald Duck register due to the bubble of escaping helium spreading along the ceiling.

1992 May, Sturat F. Brown, “Earthwinds Waits on the Weather”, in Popular Science, volume 240, number 5, page 80:

One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.

ഡൊണാൾഡ് ഡക്ക്

ḍoṇāḷḍŭ ḍakkŭ


Donald Duck

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «Donald Duck».ogg

From English Donald Duck, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.

Karakteren Donald Duck ble skapt i 1934 hos Walt Disney Productions.

The character Donald Duck was created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions.

Donald Duck er like oppbyggelig som han er bukseløs

2011 January 24, Bergens Tidende, page 2/3:

Donald Duck is as edifying as he is pantsless

et av barndommens Donald Duck-blad hvor speiderbevegelsen stadig ble ironisert med

1988, Knut Faldbakken, Bad boy, page 185:

one of the childhood Donald Duck magazines where the scout movement was constantly ironized

på barneværelset har vi festlige Donald Duck-tapeter

1958, Eva Ramm, Med støv på hjernen, page 13:

in the nursery we have festive Donald Duck wallpapers

aftensmaten til far ser ut som et av de smørbrødene Donald Duck lager når han skal flotte seg

Dad's dinner looks like one of the sandwiches Donald Duck makes when he's going great

med ujevne mellomrom inhalerer [de] helium og får sånne Donald duck-stemmer

at irregular intervals [they] inhale helium and get such Donald duck voices

gjennom Donald [Duck] blir vårt avkom indoktrinert, sies det

1977, Ebba Haslund, Født til klovn, page 149:

through Donald [Duck] our offspring are indoctrinated, it is said

(cartoon) Donald Duck (One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.)


spine

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

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The spine is the book's backbone. Because the spine is generally all you can see when a book is on the shelf, the spine displays the title and author of the book and is often ornately decorated.

1994–2014, “Rare Book Basics: Book Terms Illustrated”, in Powell's City of Books, archived from the original on 2014-07-05:

The narrow, bound edge of a book that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's and publisher's name.

The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail.

1871, Charles Darwin, “chapter 12”, in Descent of Man, page 331:

(zootomy, botany, mycology) A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needlelike structure on an animal, shell, mushroom or plant.

espina

rigid, pointed surface protuberance or needle-like structure

Spines are distinguished by the presence of globular tips called spine heads; when spines are present, the synapses innervating dendrites are made from these heads.

2008, Dale Purves, George J. Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, William C. Hall, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, James O. McNamara, Leonard E. White, Neuroscience, 4th edition, Sinauer Associates:

(neuroscience) Ellipsis of dendritic spine..


narrator

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.


narrator

pl-noun

narrator m pers (female equivalent narratorka, related adjective narratorski)

narratorka (feminine)
narratorski (adjective)
narrator (nominative singular)
narratorzy (nominative plural)
narratory (derogatory nominative plural)
narratora (genitive singular)
narratorów (genitive plural)
narratorowi (dative singular)
narratorom (dative plural)
narratora (accusative singular)
narratorów (accusative plural)
narratorem (instrumental singular)
narratorami (instrumental plural)
narratorze (locative singular)
narratorach (locative plural)
narratorze (singular vocative)
narratorzy (plural vocative)

(narratology) narrator (one who narrates or tells stories)


panel

From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.

cog

The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.

(comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.


panel

berpanel

panelled, having a panel; having a board

(comics) panel (an individual frame or drawing in a comic)


loup-garou

en-noun

loup-garou (plural loup-garous or loups-garous)

loup-garous (plural)
loups-garous (plural)

/ˌlu.ɡəˈɹuː/

In this respect, it is always a full moon for a loup-garou. They are never more than half-sane to begin with, and they tend to become increasingly unstable over time.


genre

Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.

The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.

This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.

The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.

One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:

A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.


genre

en-verb

genre (third-person singular simple present genres, present participle genring or genreing, simple past and past participle genred)

genres (present singular third-person)
genring (participle present)
genreing (participle present)
genred (participle past)
genred (past)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.

To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.


cenobite

cenobites (plural)
coenobite (alternative)
cœnobite (alternative)

From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

der

Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.

1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 418:

A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.

Coordinate term: eremite

A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.

cenobita

(fiction) A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.


Sindarin

Developed by J. R. R. Tolkien as a language in his fantasy works, in which the word Sindarin itself is not of Sindarin origin: it is a term in Quenya (another of Tolkien's constructed languages), derived from Sindar, the Quenya name for the people who spoke it, which in turn is derived from sinda (“grey”).

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language, partly inspired by Welsh, spoken by certain elves and others in J. R. R. Tolkien's works.


Gandalf

From Old Norse mythology Gandalfr (“elf familiar”).

Gundulf (alternative)
Gundulph (alternative)

A male given name from the Germanic languages known in history, and in the books of Tolkien, but not usually bestowed on children.


Disneyfication

From the US corporation Disney + -fication. Compare earlier Disneyfied and later Disneyfy.

disneyfication (alternative)
Disnification (alternative)

He may even be having his first doubts about the neon chrome artyfake Disneyfication of America.

1959, Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, Messner, pages 143–44:

Cultural diversity mirrors the biological and geographical diversity of our planet. ’Disneyfication’, like economic globalization, tends to ride roughshod over local variety. So baseball hats, blue jeans and running shoes become the uniform of teenagers in both Budapest and Bangalore while Western TV shows promote the illusion of limitless wealth.

1998 December 5, “A Reader's Guide To Disneyfication”, in New Internationalist:

The Disneyfication of Tibet
How tourism has become a tool of occupation.

2014 January/February, Pearl Sydenstricker, “The Disneyfication of Tibet”, in Washington Monthly, archived from the original on 2014-01-01, heading:

Given that Onward itself is a family-friendly project, the film thrives on these self-aware digs at Disneyfication; any good D&D mission should have a sense of real danger, so it’s worth pointing out how that’s missing from so much mainstream entertainment.

2020 February 21, David Sims, “Pixar Needs to Make More Movies Like ‘Onward’”, in The Atlantic:

The act or process whereby something is Disneyfied.


Gollum

A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".
The name, Sméagol, comes from Old English smeagan (“to burrow”).

A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.


Middle-earth

Middle Earth (alternative)
Middle-Earth (alternative)

Alternative form of Middle Earth: the Earth.


Biblia

From Latin biblia, from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “books”).


Biblia

Biblia (nominative singular)
Bibliat (nominative plural)
Biblia (accusative nominative singular)
Bibliat (accusative nominative plural)
Biblian (accusative genitive singular)
Bibliat (accusative genitive plural)
Biblian (genitive singular)
Biblioiden (genitive plural)
Biblioitten (genitive plural)
Bibliain (genitive plural rare)
Bibliaa (partitive singular)
Biblioita (partitive plural)
Bibliassa (inessive singular)
Biblioissa (inessive plural)
Bibliasta (elative singular)
Biblioista (elative plural)
Bibliaan (illative singular)
Biblioihin (illative plural)
Biblialla (adessive singular)
Biblioilla (adessive plural)
Biblialta (ablative singular)
Biblioilta (ablative plural)
Biblialle (allative singular)
Biblioille (allative plural)
Bibliana (essive singular)
Biblioina (essive plural)
Bibliaksi (singular translative)
Biblioiksi (plural translative)
Bibliatta (abessive singular)
Biblioitta (abessive plural)
Biblioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Bibliani (nominative singular)
Bibliani (nominative plural)
Bibliani (accusative nominative singular)
Bibliani (accusative nominative plural)
Bibliani (accusative genitive singular)
Bibliani (accusative genitive plural)
Bibliani (genitive singular)
Biblioideni (genitive plural)
Biblioitteni (genitive plural)
Bibliaini (genitive plural rare)
Bibliaani (partitive singular)
Biblioitani (partitive plural)
Bibliassani (inessive singular)
Biblioissani (inessive plural)
Bibliastani (elative singular)
Biblioistani (elative plural)
Bibliaani (illative singular)
Biblioihini (illative plural)
Bibliallani (adessive singular)
Biblioillani (adessive plural)
Biblialtani (ablative singular)
Biblioiltani (ablative plural)
Biblialleni (allative singular)
Biblioilleni (allative plural)
Biblianani (essive singular)
Biblioinani (essive plural)
Bibliakseni (singular translative)
Biblioikseni (plural translative)
Bibliattani (abessive singular)
Biblioittani (abessive plural)
Biblioineni (comitative plural)
Bibliasi (nominative singular)
Bibliasi (nominative plural)
Bibliasi (accusative nominative singular)
Bibliasi (accusative nominative plural)
Bibliasi (accusative genitive singular)
Bibliasi (accusative genitive plural)
Bibliasi (genitive singular)
Biblioidesi (genitive plural)
Biblioittesi (genitive plural)
Bibliaisi (genitive plural rare)
Bibliaasi (partitive singular)
Biblioitasi (partitive plural)
Bibliassasi (inessive singular)
Biblioissasi (inessive plural)
Bibliastasi (elative singular)
Biblioistasi (elative plural)
Bibliaasi (illative singular)
Biblioihisi (illative plural)
Bibliallasi (adessive singular)
Biblioillasi (adessive plural)
Biblialtasi (ablative singular)
Biblioiltasi (ablative plural)
Bibliallesi (allative singular)
Biblioillesi (allative plural)
Biblianasi (essive singular)
Biblioinasi (essive plural)
Bibliaksesi (singular translative)
Biblioiksesi (plural translative)
Bibliattasi (abessive singular)
Biblioittasi (abessive plural)
Biblioinesi (comitative plural)
Bibliamme (nominative singular)
Bibliamme (nominative plural)
Bibliamme (accusative nominative singular)
Bibliamme (accusative nominative plural)
Bibliamme (accusative genitive singular)
Bibliamme (accusative genitive plural)
Bibliamme (genitive singular)
Biblioidemme (genitive plural)
Biblioittemme (genitive plural)
Bibliaimme (genitive plural rare)
Bibliaamme (partitive singular)
Biblioitamme (partitive plural)
Bibliassamme (inessive singular)
Biblioissamme (inessive plural)
Bibliastamme (elative singular)
Biblioistamme (elative plural)
Bibliaamme (illative singular)
Biblioihimme (illative plural)
Bibliallamme (adessive singular)
Biblioillamme (adessive plural)
Biblialtamme (ablative singular)
Biblioiltamme (ablative plural)
Bibliallemme (allative singular)
Biblioillemme (allative plural)
Biblianamme (essive singular)
Biblioinamme (essive plural)
Bibliaksemme (singular translative)
Biblioiksemme (plural translative)
Bibliattamme (abessive singular)
Biblioittamme (abessive plural)
Biblioinemme (comitative plural)
Biblianne (nominative singular)
Biblianne (nominative plural)
Biblianne (accusative nominative singular)
Biblianne (accusative nominative plural)
Biblianne (accusative genitive singular)
Biblianne (accusative genitive plural)
Biblianne (genitive singular)
Biblioidenne (genitive plural)
Biblioittenne (genitive plural)
Bibliainne (genitive plural rare)
Bibliaanne (partitive singular)
Biblioitanne (partitive plural)
Bibliassanne (inessive singular)
Biblioissanne (inessive plural)
Bibliastanne (elative singular)
Biblioistanne (elative plural)
Bibliaanne (illative singular)
Biblioihinne (illative plural)
Bibliallanne (adessive singular)
Biblioillanne (adessive plural)
Biblialtanne (ablative singular)
Biblioiltanne (ablative plural)
Bibliallenne (allative singular)
Biblioillenne (allative plural)
Bibliananne (essive singular)
Biblioinanne (essive plural)
Bibliaksenne (singular translative)
Biblioiksenne (plural translative)
Bibliattanne (abessive singular)
Biblioittanne (abessive plural)
Biblioinenne (comitative plural)
Bibliansa (nominative singular)
Bibliansa (nominative plural)
Bibliansa (accusative nominative singular)
Bibliansa (accusative nominative plural)
Bibliansa (accusative genitive singular)
Bibliansa (accusative genitive plural)
Bibliansa (genitive singular)
Biblioidensa (genitive plural)
Biblioittensa (genitive plural)
Bibliainsa (genitive plural rare)
Bibliaansa (partitive singular)
Biblioitaan (partitive plural)
Biblioitansa (partitive plural)
Bibliassaan (inessive singular)
Bibliassansa (inessive singular)
Biblioissaan (inessive plural)
Biblioissansa (inessive plural)
Bibliastaan (elative singular)
Bibliastansa (elative singular)
Biblioistaan (elative plural)
Biblioistansa (elative plural)
Bibliaansa (illative singular)
Biblioihinsa (illative plural)
Bibliallaan (adessive singular)
Bibliallansa (adessive singular)
Biblioillaan (adessive plural)
Biblioillansa (adessive plural)
Biblialtaan (ablative singular)
Biblialtansa (ablative singular)
Biblioiltaan (ablative plural)
Biblioiltansa (ablative plural)
Biblialleen (allative singular)
Bibliallensa (allative singular)
Biblioilleen (allative plural)
Biblioillensa (allative plural)
Biblianaan (essive singular)
Biblianansa (essive singular)
Biblioinaan (essive plural)
Biblioinansa (essive plural)
Bibliakseen (singular translative)
Bibliaksensa (singular translative)
Biblioikseen (plural translative)
Biblioiksensa (plural translative)
Bibliattaan (abessive singular)
Bibliattansa (abessive singular)
Biblioittaan (abessive plural)
Biblioittansa (abessive plural)
Biblioineen (comitative plural)
Biblioinensa (comitative plural)


Biblia

Biblia (nominative singular)
Bibliák (nominative plural)
Bibliát (accusative singular)
Bibliákat (accusative plural)
Bibliának (dative singular)
Bibliáknak (dative plural)
Bibliával (instrumental singular)
Bibliákkal (instrumental plural)
Bibliáért (causal-final singular)
Bibliákért (causal-final plural)
Bibliává (singular translative)
Bibliákká (plural translative)
Bibliáig (singular terminative)
Bibliákig (plural terminative)
Bibliaként (essive-formal singular)
Bibliákként (essive-formal plural)
Bibliában (inessive singular)
Bibliákban (inessive plural)
Biblián (singular superessive)
Bibliákon (plural superessive)
Bibliánál (adessive singular)
Bibliáknál (adessive plural)
Bibliába (illative singular)
Bibliákba (illative plural)
Bibliára (singular sublative)
Bibliákra (plural sublative)
Bibliához (allative singular)
Bibliákhoz (allative plural)
Bibliából (elative singular)
Bibliákból (elative plural)
Bibliáról (delative singular)
Bibliákról (delative plural)
Bibliától (ablative singular)
Bibliáktól (ablative plural)
Bibliáé (singular)
Bibliáké (plural)
Bibliáéi (singular)
Bibliákéi (plural)
Bibliám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Bibliáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
Bibliád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Bibliáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
Bibliája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Bibliái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
Bibliánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Bibliáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
Bibliátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Bibliáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
Bibliájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
Bibliáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


Biblia

la-prop

Biblia n pl (genitive Bibliōrum); second declension

Bibliōrum (genitive)
Biblia (nominative plural)
Bibliōrum (genitive plural)
Bibliīs (dative plural)
Biblia (accusative plural)
Bibliīs (ablative plural)
Biblia (plural vocative)
biblia (alternative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῐβλῐ́ᾰ (bĭblĭ́ă, plural of βῐβλῐ́ον (bĭblĭ́on, “document; book”)).

bor+

plural of <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">βῐβλῐ́ον</i> (bĭblĭ́on, “document; book”)


Biblia

Biblia (nominative singular)
Biblii (genitive singular)
Biblii (dative singular)
Biblię (accusative singular)
Biblią (instrumental singular)
Biblii (locative singular)
Biblio (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin biblia, from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía).

(Christianity) the Bible (Christian holy book)


Tolkien

Likely from Middle Low German Tolkin (literally “son of Tolk”), which is probably also related to Polish Tołkiny and German Tolksdorf, names for a Prussian town; the nickname Tolk is connected to Middle Low German tolk (“interpreter”), from Proto-Slavic *tъlkъ. J. R. R. Tolkien subscribed to a folk etymology that connected the name with German tollkühn (“foolhardy”).

der

(countable) A surname.
British author J. R. R. Tolkien


Tolkien

Tolkien (nominative singular)
Tolkiena (genitive singular)
Tolkienowi (dative singular)
Tolkiena (accusative singular)
Tolkienem (instrumental singular)
Tolkienie (locative singular)
Tolkienie (singular vocative)


Indy

Clipping of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Independent + -y.

But while Dial may have all the right pieces on the board to make for another classic entry in the saga, Indy’s latest adventure is a lackluster attempt at reconciling the old with the new.

2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:

(informal) The fictional character Indiana Jones.

Alternative form: Indie

(UK, informal) The Independent, a British newspaper.


rampant

fr-adj

rampant (feminine rampante, masculine plural rampants, feminine plural rampantes)

rampante (feminine)
rampants (masculine plural)
rampantes (feminine plural)


hentai

en-noun

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

→ Cebuano: hentai

→ Finnish: hentai

→ French: hentai

→ German: Hentai

→ Indonesian: hentai

→ Italian: hentai

→ Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)

→ Polish: hentai

→ Portuguese: hentai

→ Russian: хентай (xentaj)

→ Spanish: hentai

→ Swedish: hentai

→ Tagalog: hentai

→ Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

ja-r

へんたい せいよく-しゃ

There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love

2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:

X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".

2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia:

A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.

hentai

a work of anime that contains sexual art (esp. manga or anime)


hentai

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

hentai (a work of anime or manga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)


conceit

en-noun

conceit (countable and uncountable, plural conceits)

conceits (plural)
conceipt (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-conceit.wav

From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto. Akin to Portuguese conceito.

The “cyberspace” conceit allows him to dramatize computer hacking in nontechnical language, although I wonder how much his somewhat florid descriptions of the “bodiless exultation of cyberspace” will mean to readers who have not experienced the illusion of power that punching the keyboard of even a dinky little word-processor can give.

1985 November 24, Gerald Jonas, “Science Fiction”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the next and final stanza, Donne expands the conceit of world exploration to present us with a further distinction between the spirituality of the lovers and the “map reader” and “sea-discoverers.”

2009, Harold Bloom, John Donne, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:

Jones and Palin wrote and starred in The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) for LWT. Its conceit was to relate historical incidents as if TV had existed at the time.

2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.

metafora

ingenious expression or metaphorical idea as a literary device


chronicle

From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

der

Also a choice cachinatory chronicle, entitled "How to Laugh, and what to Laugh at."

Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:

A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.


leonine

Léonin
Pope Leo II
Pope Leo IV
San Clemente al Laterano

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English leonin, leonine (“of or pertaining to a person named Leo; specifically Pope Leo IV”), from Latin leōnīnus, from Leo (“man’s name”) (from leo (“lion”): see etymology 1) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Sense 2 (“being or relating to a kind of verse with internal rhyme”) is said to refer to a (possibly apocryphal) medieval monk named Leo or Leonius who composed verse with this characteristic; his identity is uncertain, but the composer Léonin (also known as Leo, Leoninus, or Leonius; flourished 1135–1201) has been suggested. Alternatively, the word may refer to Pope Leo II (c. 611–683): see the c. 1760–1761 quotation.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

leonine rhyme

In the Church of St. Dominick is a ſmall Picture of the Bleſſed Virgin, vvith the Infant JESUS in her Arms, vvell painted, and yet, appears to have been done in the Iron Age of Painting and other Arts, by the follovving verses, vvrit under it. […] Theſe Leonine Verſes, as plainly appears by them, expreſs a Senſe contrary to the Intention of the VVriter.

1712, [Bernard de] Montfaucon, “My Journey to Siena; […]”, in [John Henley?], transl., The Travels of the Learned Father Montfaucon from Paris thro’ Italy. […], London: […] D. L. for E[dmund] Curll […], E[gbert] Sanger […], R[obert] Gosling […], and W. Lewis […], →OCLC, page 403:

Observe, that, if the date of this poem be true, the general opinion, that the Leonine verse owes its name to Leonius, seems to be false; […] It is not therefore very likely, as Leonius flourished in 1154, that he should give name to such Latin verses upwards of thirty years before. Indeed some people have thought that it was called after Leo, probably the Second, who lived in 684, a pope who is said to have reformed the hymns and the music of the church.

c. 1760–1761 (date written; published 1814), Thomas Gray, “[Essays. Metrum.] Observations on the Pseudo-Rhythmus.”, in Edmund Gosse, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray in Prose and Verse. […], volume I (Poems, Journals, and Essays), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, pages 374–375:

[T]he Latin poetry, instead of Leonine rhymes, or attempts at regular hexameters almost equally bad, becomes, in the hands of Gunther, Gualterus de Insulis, Gulielmus Brito, and Joseph Iscanus, to whom a considerable number of names might be added, always tolerable, sometimes truly spirited; […]

1837–1839, Henry Hallam, “On the General State of Literature in the Middle Ages to the End of the Fourteenth Century”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 84, page 100:

(poetry) Being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also (by extension), of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme.

leoniininen

being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse; of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme


leonine

A[llen]. The Clink of Syllables call'd Rymes, / Brought in ith' barb'rous Runick times, / To ſober Criticks ſeems to be / A paultry part of Poetry, / Becoming Monkiſh dull Divines, / VVho traded much in Leonines. / J[ohn]. Altho' to ſpoil I ſhould be ſorry, / An undergraduate Antiquary, / Yet I'll produce a Line or tvvo / Of Leonines in Cicero, / Before the Monks long time ago.

1715, “Canto III”, in The Miller of Trompington: being an Exercise upon Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, London: […] Jonas Brown, […]; and sold by J[ames] Roberts […], →OCLC, pages 44–45:

[F]rom the jingling of the Greek couplet juſt before, and ſimilar inſtances of his taſte, I am perſuaded Sir VVilliam intended theſe as Leonines perfect in their kind.

1771 December, “Illustration of the Inscription on Sir W[illiam] Browne’s Monument. […] Continued from Our Last. The Notes.”, in The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume III, London: […] A[rchibald] Hamilton Junr. […]; [a]nd sold by Robinson and Roberts, […], →OCLC, page 648, column 1:

The manuscript of Trinity College, Cambridge, which we have already mentioned, was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and the proverbs which it contains are translations into Latin leonines of some of the more popular English, and, in one or two instances, Norman proverbs of that time.

1835 March, “Art. V.— […] 4. Collection of English Proverbs of the Twelfth Century, Translated into Latin Leonines. MS. Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 2. 45. (Unpublished.) [book review]”, in Cochrane’s Foreign Quarterly Review, volume I, number II, London: Whittaker & Co. […]; Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 395:

(poetry) Chiefly in the plural: synonym of Leonine verse (“a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme)”)


-o

اَوُرَكِيْبُوُ جُوَ نِمَاسِ ، كَكُلَ خَسَرَ اُخَسِرِيِ

18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi, stanza 13:

The one who rides it, know you are a rebel; you harm yourself.

Aurakibuo jua ni-mwasi, kwa-kula khasara ukhasiriye.

(archaic, Northern Swahili, poetry) relative marker for any noun class


tempus

la-noun

tempus n (genitive temporis); third declension

temporis (genitive)
tempus (nominative singular)
tempora (nominative plural)
temporis (genitive singular)
temporum (genitive plural)
temporī (dative singular)
temporibus (dative plural)
tempus (accusative singular)
tempora (accusative plural)
tempore (ablative singular)
temporibus (ablative plural)
tempus (singular vocative)
tempora (plural vocative)
temporī (locative singular)
tempore (locative singular)
temporibus (locative plural)

Eastern Romance:

Megleno-Romanian: timp

Romanian: timp

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: tempu

Dalmatian: tiamp

Istriot: tenpo

Italian: tempo (see there for further descendants)

Neapolitan: tiempo

Sicilian: tempu

Venetan: tenpo, tempo, tènp

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: timp

Ladin: tëmp

Romansch: temp, taimp, tains

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: tempo

Lombard: temp

Piedmontese: temp

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: temps

Old French: temps (see there for further descendants)

Occitano-Romance:

Old Catalan: temps

Catalan: temps

desctree

Old Occitan: tems
Occitan: tèms, tems, temps

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: tiempu

Old Galician-Portuguese: tempo

Galician: tempo

Portuguese: tempo

Spanish: tiempo

Borrowings:

→ Finnish: tempus

→ Middle Welsh: tymhor

Welsh: tymor

→ Norwegian Bokmål: tempus

→ Russian: темп (temp)

→ Sardinian: tempus

→ Swedish: tempus

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tempula, *templa

Catalan: templa

Italian: tempia

Old French: temple
French: tempe
→ Middle English: temple
English: temple

Romanian: tâmplă

⇒ Asturian: tenllera

⇒ Galician: tempas

→ Basque: denbora

→ Italian: tempora

→ Portuguese: têmpora

→ Sicilian: tèmpura

→ Spanish: témpora

From Proto-Italic *tempos. Two ultimate roots/origins have been proposed:
* From Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the extension *temp- of the root *ten- (“to stretch, string”), with meaning development "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion".
* From Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”), thus "a section (of time)", this root also giving Latin temnō, tondeō, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō); compare the etymology of English time. templum is a possible cognate that has also been assigned to both roots.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek τὰ καίρῐᾰ (tà kaírĭă, “the vital or fatal place (on the body)”), from καιρός (kairós, “time, opportunity, etc.”), and is less frequent in singular form. Compare Old English þunwang (“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge (“forehead, temples”).
As seen from the adverb temperī, the noun would originally have declined like genus.

cog

(poetry, rhetoric) time; measure, quantity


shuffle off this mortal coil

en-verb

shuffle off this mortal coil (third-person singular simple present shuffles off this mortal coil, present participle shuffling off this mortal coil, simple past and past participle shuffled off this mortal coil)

shuffles off this mortal coil (present singular third-person)
shuffling off this mortal coil (participle present)
shuffled off this mortal coil (participle past)
shuffled off this mortal coil (past)

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil.

For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe.

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 III, scene i], page 265, column 2:

But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered.

2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:

Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare. Whenever he required the skeleton of some exotic beast to compare with his fossil bones, he would visit Basel Zoo and stare at the appropriate animal, which would soon thereafter shuffle off its mortal coil.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 81:

(euphemistic, idiomatic) To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.


pathos

en-noun

pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)

From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).

uder

(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.


vanhurskas

fi-adj

vanhurskas (comparative vanhurskaampi, superlative vanhurskain)

vanhurskaampi (comparative)
vanhurskain (superlative)
vanhurskas (nominative singular)
vanhurskaat (nominative plural)
vanhurskas (accusative nominative singular)
vanhurskaat (accusative nominative plural)
vanhurskaan (accusative genitive singular)
vanhurskaat (accusative genitive plural)
vanhurskaan (genitive singular)
vanhurskaiden (genitive plural)
vanhurskaitten (genitive plural)
vanhurskasten (genitive plural rare)
vanhurskasta (partitive singular)
vanhurskaita (partitive plural)
vanhurskaassa (inessive singular)
vanhurskaissa (inessive plural)
vanhurskaasta (elative singular)
vanhurskaista (elative plural)
vanhurskaaseen (illative singular)
vanhurskaisiin (illative plural)
vanhurskaihin (illative plural rare)
vanhurskaalla (adessive singular)
vanhurskailla (adessive plural)
vanhurskaalta (ablative singular)
vanhurskailta (ablative plural)
vanhurskaalle (allative singular)
vanhurskaille (allative plural)
vanhurskaana (essive singular)
vanhurskaina (essive plural)
vanhurskaaksi (singular translative)
vanhurskaiksi (plural translative)
vanhurskaatta (abessive singular)
vanhurskaitta (abessive plural)
vanhurskain (instructive plural)
vanhurskaine (comitative plural)
vanhurskaani (nominative singular)
vanhurskaani (nominative plural)
vanhurskaani (accusative nominative singular)
vanhurskaani (accusative nominative plural)
vanhurskaani (accusative genitive singular)
vanhurskaani (accusative genitive plural)
vanhurskaani (genitive singular)
vanhurskaideni (genitive plural)
vanhurskaitteni (genitive plural)
vanhurskasteni (genitive plural rare)
vanhurskastani (partitive singular)
vanhurskaitani (partitive plural)
vanhurskaassani (inessive singular)
vanhurskaissani (inessive plural)
vanhurskaastani (elative singular)
vanhurskaistani (elative plural)
vanhurskaaseeni (illative singular)
vanhurskaisiini (illative plural)
vanhurskaihini (illative plural rare)
vanhurskaallani (adessive singular)
vanhurskaillani (adessive plural)
vanhurskaaltani (ablative singular)
vanhurskailtani (ablative plural)
vanhurskaalleni (allative singular)
vanhurskailleni (allative plural)
vanhurskaanani (essive singular)
vanhurskainani (essive plural)
vanhurskaakseni (singular translative)
vanhurskaikseni (plural translative)
vanhurskaattani (abessive singular)
vanhurskaittani (abessive plural)
vanhurskaineni (comitative plural)
vanhurskaasi (nominative singular)
vanhurskaasi (nominative plural)
vanhurskaasi (accusative nominative singular)
vanhurskaasi (accusative nominative plural)
vanhurskaasi (accusative genitive singular)
vanhurskaasi (accusative genitive plural)
vanhurskaasi (genitive singular)
vanhurskaidesi (genitive plural)
vanhurskaittesi (genitive plural)
vanhurskastesi (genitive plural rare)
vanhurskastasi (partitive singular)
vanhurskaitasi (partitive plural)
vanhurskaassasi (inessive singular)
vanhurskaissasi (inessive plural)
vanhurskaastasi (elative singular)
vanhurskaistasi (elative plural)
vanhurskaaseesi (illative singular)
vanhurskaisiisi (illative plural)
vanhurskaihisi (illative plural rare)
vanhurskaallasi (adessive singular)
vanhurskaillasi (adessive plural)
vanhurskaaltasi (ablative singular)
vanhurskailtasi (ablative plural)
vanhurskaallesi (allative singular)
vanhurskaillesi (allative plural)
vanhurskaanasi (essive singular)
vanhurskainasi (essive plural)
vanhurskaaksesi (singular translative)
vanhurskaiksesi (plural translative)
vanhurskaattasi (abessive singular)
vanhurskaittasi (abessive plural)
vanhurskainesi (comitative plural)
vanhurskaamme (nominative singular)
vanhurskaamme (nominative plural)
vanhurskaamme (accusative nominative singular)
vanhurskaamme (accusative nominative plural)
vanhurskaamme (accusative genitive singular)
vanhurskaamme (accusative genitive plural)
vanhurskaamme (genitive singular)
vanhurskaidemme (genitive plural)
vanhurskaittemme (genitive plural)
vanhurskastemme (genitive plural rare)
vanhurskastamme (partitive singular)
vanhurskaitamme (partitive plural)
vanhurskaassamme (inessive singular)
vanhurskaissamme (inessive plural)
vanhurskaastamme (elative singular)
vanhurskaistamme (elative plural)
vanhurskaaseemme (illative singular)
vanhurskaisiimme (illative plural)
vanhurskaihimme (illative plural rare)
vanhurskaallamme (adessive singular)
vanhurskaillamme (adessive plural)
vanhurskaaltamme (ablative singular)
vanhurskailtamme (ablative plural)
vanhurskaallemme (allative singular)
vanhurskaillemme (allative plural)
vanhurskaanamme (essive singular)
vanhurskainamme (essive plural)
vanhurskaaksemme (singular translative)
vanhurskaiksemme (plural translative)
vanhurskaattamme (abessive singular)
vanhurskaittamme (abessive plural)
vanhurskainemme (comitative plural)
vanhurskaanne (nominative singular)
vanhurskaanne (nominative plural)
vanhurskaanne (accusative nominative singular)
vanhurskaanne (accusative nominative plural)
vanhurskaanne (accusative genitive singular)
vanhurskaanne (accusative genitive plural)
vanhurskaanne (genitive singular)
vanhurskaidenne (genitive plural)
vanhurskaittenne (genitive plural)
vanhurskastenne (genitive plural rare)
vanhurskastanne (partitive singular)
vanhurskaitanne (partitive plural)
vanhurskaassanne (inessive singular)
vanhurskaissanne (inessive plural)
vanhurskaastanne (elative singular)
vanhurskaistanne (elative plural)
vanhurskaaseenne (illative singular)
vanhurskaisiinne (illative plural)
vanhurskaihinne (illative plural rare)
vanhurskaallanne (adessive singular)
vanhurskaillanne (adessive plural)
vanhurskaaltanne (ablative singular)
vanhurskailtanne (ablative plural)
vanhurskaallenne (allative singular)
vanhurskaillenne (allative plural)
vanhurskaananne (essive singular)
vanhurskainanne (essive plural)
vanhurskaaksenne (singular translative)
vanhurskaiksenne (plural translative)
vanhurskaattanne (abessive singular)
vanhurskaittanne (abessive plural)
vanhurskainenne (comitative plural)
vanhurskaansa (nominative singular)
vanhurskaansa (nominative plural)
vanhurskaansa (accusative nominative singular)
vanhurskaansa (accusative nominative plural)
vanhurskaansa (accusative genitive singular)
vanhurskaansa (accusative genitive plural)
vanhurskaansa (genitive singular)
vanhurskaidensa (genitive plural)
vanhurskaittensa (genitive plural)
vanhurskastensa (genitive plural rare)
vanhurskastaan (partitive singular)
vanhurskastansa (partitive singular)
vanhurskaitaan (partitive plural)
vanhurskaitansa (partitive plural)
vanhurskaassaan (inessive singular)
vanhurskaassansa (inessive singular)
vanhurskaissaan (inessive plural)
vanhurskaissansa (inessive plural)
vanhurskaastaan (elative singular)
vanhurskaastansa (elative singular)
vanhurskaistaan (elative plural)
vanhurskaistansa (elative plural)
vanhurskaaseensa (illative singular)
vanhurskaisiinsa (illative plural)
vanhurskaihinsa (illative plural rare)
vanhurskaallaan (adessive singular)
vanhurskaallansa (adessive singular)
vanhurskaillaan (adessive plural)
vanhurskaillansa (adessive plural)
vanhurskaaltaan (ablative singular)
vanhurskaaltansa (ablative singular)
vanhurskailtaan (ablative plural)
vanhurskailtansa (ablative plural)
vanhurskaalleen (allative singular)
vanhurskaallensa (allative singular)
vanhurskailleen (allative plural)
vanhurskaillensa (allative plural)
vanhurskaanaan (essive singular)
vanhurskaanansa (essive singular)
vanhurskainaan (essive plural)
vanhurskainansa (essive plural)
vanhurskaakseen (singular translative)
vanhurskaaksensa (singular translative)
vanhurskaikseen (plural translative)
vanhurskaiksensa (plural translative)
vanhurskaattaan (abessive singular)
vanhurskaattansa (abessive singular)
vanhurskaittaan (abessive plural)
vanhurskaittansa (abessive plural)
vanhurskaineen (comitative plural)
vanhurskainensa (comitative plural)

va(a)n- + hurskas; the initial component is a contracted genitive form of vaka.


Babel

From Latin Babel, from Biblical Hebrew בָּבֶל (bāḇel, “Babylon”), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim); in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. Doublet of Babylon.

der

Therefore is the name of it called Babel[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 11:9, column 2:

(biblical) The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.


Babel

de-proper noun

Babel n (proper noun, genitive Babels or (optionally with an article) Babel)

Babels (genitive)
Babel (genitive with-article)
Babel (definite nominative singular)
Babels (definite genitive singular)
Babel (definite genitive singular with-article)
Babel (dative definite singular)
Babel (accusative definite singular)


Babel

Learned borrowing from Latin Babel. Doublet of Babilon and Babilonia.

(biblical) Babel (city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible)


canto

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.


corona

A favorite and most attractive combination is that of the corona or series of sonnets, employed to frame or develop some one theme. A list of these corone is given by Biadene, who selects and publishes from among them a series of three by Petrarch, and the famous corona of the months by Folgore da San Gemignano.

1889 May, F. M. Warren, “The Sonnet. Morfologia del Sonetto nei secoli xiii e xiv. L. Biadene [Studj di Filologia Romanza, Fasc. 10.]”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume IV, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins University Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 308:

But the poets of Siena, and particularly the Academy of the Intronati, found the proper way of constructing coronas—since the ones mentioned above should really be called sequences ['catene'] rather than coronas.

1997, Michael R. G. Spiller, The Sonnet Sequence: A Study of Its Strategies (Studies in Literary Themes and Genres; 13), New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:

[Lady Mary] Wroth alludes to these contexts as the corona of sonnets that crowns the sequence opens: "In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?" (Wroth, Poems 127).

2000, Mary B. Moore, “The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism”, in Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, Carbondale, Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

Both sets of echoes derive from the poets' first poems, and since first poems in Petrarchan sequences set stylistic, tonal, and thematic expectations, Robert [Sidney]'s double allusion to first poems should color readings of this, the first poem of his corona.

2015, Mary B. Moore, “Robert Sidney’s Poetry”, in Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Ellen Lamb, Michael G. Brennan, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700, volume 2 (Literature), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part VI (Poetry), page 250:

(poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.


dactyl

dactyls (plural)
dactyle (alternative)
dactile (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables.

der

Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]

1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanzas XC–XCI, page 33:

—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 4:

A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.


duma

duma (nominative singular)
dumy (nominative plural)
dumy (genitive singular)
dum (genitive plural)
dumie (dative singular)
dumom (dative plural)
dumę (accusative singular)
dumy (accusative plural)
dumą (instrumental singular)
dumami (instrumental plural)
dumie (locative singular)
dumach (locative plural)
dumo (singular vocative)
dumy (plural vocative)

dumka (individual composition in the genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine)

dumka (literary work based on such a composition)


elegy

From Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).

poem but with more emphasis on bitterness and impending doom

requiem

a piece of music played at a mass for the dead

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

(music) A composition of mournful character.

A classical poem written in elegiac meter


haiku

Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bˠɛi, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”).

senryū: a short humorous poem similar to the haiku

Some of the results resemble haikus.

2009 January 25, Colin Moynihan, “A Project Documents Inauguration Day, in Washington and Across the Globe”, in New York Times:

A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.

Haiku, a poem

five beats, then seven, then five

ends as it began.

A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.


haiku

From English haiku, from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (bˠɛi, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”).


haiku

haikuk (plural)
haiku (nominative singular)
haikuk (nominative plural)
haikut (accusative singular)
haikukat (accusative plural)
haikunak (dative singular)
haikuknak (dative plural)
haikuval (instrumental singular)
haikukkal (instrumental plural)
haikuért (causal-final singular)
haikukért (causal-final plural)
haikuvá (singular translative)
haikukká (plural translative)
haikuig (singular terminative)
haikukig (plural terminative)
haikuként (essive-formal singular)
haikukként (essive-formal plural)
haikuban (inessive singular)
haikukban (inessive plural)
haikun (singular superessive)
haikukon (plural superessive)
haikunál (adessive singular)
haikuknál (adessive plural)
haikuba (illative singular)
haikukba (illative plural)
haikura (singular sublative)
haikukra (plural sublative)
haikuhoz (allative singular)
haikukhoz (allative plural)
haikuból (elative singular)
haikukból (elative plural)
haikuról (delative singular)
haikukról (delative plural)
haikutól (ablative singular)
haikuktól (ablative plural)
haikué (singular)
haikuké (plural)
haikuéi (singular)
haikukéi (plural)
haikum (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
haikuim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
haikud (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
haikuid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
haikuja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
haikui (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
haikunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
haikuink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
haikutok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
haikuitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
haikujuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
haikuik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

haiku (a Japanese form of poetry consisting of seventeen syllables: five for the first line, seven for the second, and five for the third)


haiku

nb-noun

haiku m or n (definite singular haikuen or haikuet, indefinite plural haiku, definite plural haikuene)

haikuen (definite singular)
haikuet (definite singular)
haiku (indefinite plural)
haikuene (definite plural)

Ultimately borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).

Det opprinnelige haikuet er japansk


haiku

haikuen (definite singular)
haikuet (definite singular)
haikuar (indefinite plural)
haiku (indefinite plural)
haikuane (definite plural)
haikua (definite plural)

der finst ikkje så mange ord i eit haiku

Paal-Helge Haugen sette om japanske haikuar til norsk[.]

1998, Hadle Oftedal Andersen, editor, Poesiens pil, [Oslo]: Cappelen, page 170:

Paal-Helge Haugen translated Japanese haikus into Norwegian.


haiku

(poetry) haiku (Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)

(poetry) haiku (three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)


haiku

(poetry) haiku (type of poem used in Japanese poetry)


iris

head

iris f (genitive singular irise, nominative plural irisí)

irise (genitive singular)
irisí (nominative plural)
iris (indefinite nominative singular)
irisí (indefinite nominative plural)
a iris (indefinite singular vocative)
a irisí (indefinite plural vocative)
irise (genitive indefinite singular)
irisí (genitive indefinite plural)
iris (dative indefinite singular)
irisí (dative indefinite plural)
an iris (definite nominative singular)
na hirisí (definite nominative plural)
na hirise (definite genitive singular)
na n-irisí (definite genitive plural)
leis an iris (dative definite singular)
don iris (dative definite singular)
leis na hirisí (dative definite plural)


iris

iris f (genitive singular irise, plural irisean)

irise (genitive singular)
irisean (plural)
iris
n-iris
h-iris
t-iris


lien

And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.”

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:10:

And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 5:19:

(biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain


motif

From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.

(music) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.

мотив

music: short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work


motif

→ Danish: motiv

→ English: motif

→ German: Motiv
→ Romanian: motiv

→ Norwegian Bokmål: motiv

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: motiv

→ Swedish: motiv

→ Turkish: motif

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mōtīvus.

lbor

pour des motifs qui échappent à tout le monde, à toute logique, à notre appréciation

for motives that escape everyone, all logic, our appreciation

Pour un motif qui m’échappe, un certain merdeux s’est mis à feindre de s’intéresser à mon bien-etre.

For some motive that escapes me, some shit started pretending to be interested in my well-being.

Bien que la faim et le dénûment nous tourmentassent quelquefois, et même à peu près toujours, rien ne nous causait autant de tourment que d’être témoins des cruautés inouïes que mon maître exerçait sur les chrétiens. Chaque jour il en faisait pendre quelqu’un ; on empalait celui-là, on coupait les oreilles à celui-ci, et cela pour si peu de chose, ou plutôt tellement sans motif, que les Turcs eux-mêmes reconnaissaient qu’il ne faisait le mal que pour le faire, et parce que son humeur naturelle le portait à être le meurtrier de tout le genre humain.

1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XL, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cⁱᵉ, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

Even though hunger and destitution tormented us sometime, and even almost always, nothing caused us as much torment as being witnesses to the unheard-of cruelties that my master exercised on the Christians. Every day, he made someone hang; they impaled that one, they cut off this one's ears, and this for so little stuff, or rather so much without motive, that the Turks themselves recognized that he only did harm for the sake of it, and because his natural temperament brought him to be the murderer of the whole human race.


motif

From Dutch motief, from Middle Dutch motijf, from Old French motif (Modern French motif), from Late Latin mōtivus.

(music, literature) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.


rondo

rondko (diminutive)
rondo (nominative singular)
ronda (nominative plural)
ronda (genitive singular)
rond (genitive plural)
rondu (dative singular)
rondom (dative plural)
rondo (accusative singular)
ronda (accusative plural)
rondem (instrumental singular)
rondami (instrumental plural)
rondzie (locative singular)
rondach (locative plural)
rondo (singular vocative)
ronda (plural vocative)


rut

en-noun

rut (countable and uncountable, plural ruts)

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

der

Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat.

2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 36

All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.

2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 34

Early in Wicked Game, Steve goes into his first-ever rut.

2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23

(fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.


tome

From Middle French tome, from Latin tomus (“section of larger work”), from Ancient Greek τόμος (tómos, “section, roll of papyrus, volume”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut, separate”).

The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.

And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.

2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-22:

One senses, picking up Twenge’s tome — 515 pages before you get to the appendix — an attempt to quell past criticisms. “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.

2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post:

тухла

large or scholarly book — see also doorstop


Torah

the Torah (canonical)
Toráh (alternative)
Torāh (alternative)
Tōrāh (alternative)

From Hebrew תּוֹרָה (tōrā, “instruction, law or teaching”).

Tradition holds that the Torah was handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai.

The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, traditionally attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses.

اَلتَّوْرَاة

the Five Books of Moses - the full body of Jewish law


vamp

en-verb

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

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

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

cog

Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!

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

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


volta

(poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.


volta

volta (nominative singular)
volty (nominative plural)
volty (genitive singular)
volt (genitive plural)
volcie (dative singular)
voltom (dative plural)
voltę (accusative singular)
volty (accusative plural)
voltą (instrumental singular)
voltami (instrumental plural)
volcie (locative singular)
voltach (locative plural)
volto (singular vocative)
volty (plural vocative)


troop

nl-noun

troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)

tropen (plural)
troopje (diminutive neuter)


bait

Inherited from Malay bait, from Arabic بَيْت (bayt), from Proto-Semitic *bayt-.

(literature) couplet (a pair of lines in poetry)

(literature) stanza (a unit of a poem, often in the form of a paragraph)


bait

ms-noun

bait (Jawi spelling بيت, plural bait-bait, informal 1st possessive baitku, 2nd possessive baitmu, 3rd possessive baitnya)

بيت (Jawi)
bait-bait (plural)
baitku (first-person informal possessive)
baitmu (possessive second-person)
baitnya (possessive third-person)

→ Indonesian: bait

From Arabic بَيْت (bayt), from Proto-Semitic *bayt-.


damnation

en-noun

damnation (countable and uncountable, plural damnations)

From Middle English dampnacioun, from Old French dampnacion, from Latin damnatio.

The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.

проклятие

(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.


damnation

Oh damnation! The window doesn't shut!

Expressing annoyance or disappointment; damn; dammit.


extra

Extra, extra! Read all about it!

An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.


gazette

→ Kikuyu: ngathĩti

→ Maori: kāhiti

→ Swahili: gazeti

Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.

A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.

subsidiary legislation
subsidiary legislation

(law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.


gazette

en-verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

gazettes (present singular third-person)
gazetting (participle present)
gazetted (participle past)
gazetted (past)

Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

(UK) To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.


gazette

→ Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)

→ Belarusian: газе́та (hazjéta)

→ Breton: kazetenn

desctree

→ English: gazette
→ Kikuyu: ngathĩti
→ Maori: kāhiti
→ Swahili: gazeti

→ German: Gazette
→ Silesian: gazyta

→ Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet)

→ Polish: gazeta
→ Kashubian: gazéta

→ Russian: газе́та (gazéta)
⇒ Azerbaijani: qəzet
⇒ Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
→ Buryat: газетэ (gazjete)
⇒ Bezhta: газит (gazit)
→ Georgian: გაზეთ- (gazet-, stem), გაზეთი (gazeti, nominative singular)
⇒ Kazakh:
Arabic script: گازەت (gazet)
Cyrillic script: газет (gazet)
⇒ Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit)
⇒ Kildin Sami: газет (gazjet)
⇒ Skolt Sami: gaʹzaat, gaʹzeâʹt
⇒ Southern Altai: газет (gazet)
→ Tajik: газета (gazeta)
⇒ Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit)
⇒ Turkmen: gazet
⇒ Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
→ Uzbek: gazeta
⇒ Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)

→ Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa)

→ Ukrainian: газе́та (hazéta)

→ West Flemish: gazette


grail

From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).

The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?

1989, 1:06:54 from the start, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade^(https://archive.org/details/movie-hollywood-720p-sub-indonesia_202209/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade+(1989)+BR/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade.mp4) (Action-Adventure), spoken by Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery), →OCLC:


gritty

en-adj

gritty (comparative grittier, superlative grittiest)

grittier (comparative)
grittiest (superlative)

(film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

drsný

intense and starkly realistic, especially if violent


heroism

en-noun

heroism (countable and uncountable, plural heroisms)

/ˈhɛɹəʊɪzəm/

/ˈhɛɹoʊɪzəm/

From French héroïsme, equivalent to hero + -ism.

At the time, with the D-Day invasion of Europe going on, their heroism was hardly noticed. Plenty of other heroes were dying elsewhere. Plenty of bigger bits of history were being made.

2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 1948, page 43:

The qualities characteristic of a hero, such as courage, bravery, fortitude, selflessness, etc.; the display of such qualities.

heroizëm

the qualities characteristic of a hero, the display of them


notebook

notebooks (plural)
note book (alternative)

→ Czech: notebook

→ Portuguese: notebook

→ Spanish: notebook

For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 125, column 1:

With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.

1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69:

A book in which notes or memoranda are written.

We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM.

2016, David Ming, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt, Attainable Region Theory, page 317:

literate programming
literate programming

(computing, sometimes attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8:

notebook computer
notebook computer#English

(computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer. A laptop.


novelette

(literature) A short novel, synonymous with novella.

Best novella was Nnedi Okorafor’s African-flavoured space opera Binti (Tor), while best novelette was Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.

2016 November 30, Adam Roberts, “The best SF and fantasy books of 2016”, in The Guardian:

Nebula Awards® will be made in the following categories […] Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words[…]

2023 December 1, Nebula Awards, “Nebula Rules”, in Nebula Awards website:

(literature) A story longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella.


offend

en-verb

offend (third-person singular simple present offends, present participle offending, simple past and past participle offended)

offends (present singular third-person)
offending (participle present)
offended (participle past)
offended (past)

From Middle French offendre, from Latin offendō (“strike, blunder, commit an offense”), from ob- (“against”) + *fendō (“strike”).

uder

"If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."

1896, Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons, W. A. Wilde company, page 161:

"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:29:

(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.


proud

en-adj

proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)

prouder (comparative)
more proud (comparative)
proudest (superlative)
most proud (superlative)
prowd (alternative)

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”)), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride.
Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).

فَخُور

gratified, feeling honoured, feeling satisfied

嬉しい

happy, usually used with a sense of honour

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he ſhall not be vnpuniſhed.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 16:5:

Death be not proud; though ſome have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not foe, [...]

1609 February–August (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “[Holy Sonnets] Sonnet VI [Death Be Not Proud]”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 35:

Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!

1907, Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children, Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black:

(chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.

مَغْرُور

having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful


psalm

pl-noun

psalm m inan (related adjective psalmowy)

psalmowy (adjective)
psalm (nominative singular)
psalmy (nominative plural)
psalmu (genitive singular)
psalmów (genitive plural)
psalmowi (dative singular)
psalmom (dative plural)
psalm (accusative singular)
psalmy (accusative plural)
psalmem (instrumental singular)
psalmami (instrumental plural)
psalmie (locative singular)
psalmach (locative plural)
psalmie (singular vocative)
psalmy (plural vocative)

(biblical) psalm (one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship)


scan

en-verb

scan (third-person singular simple present scans, present participle scanning, simple past and past participle scanned)

scans (present singular third-person)
scanning (participle present)
scanned (participle past)
scanned (past)

⇒ Lithuanian: skenuoti

From late Middle English scanne (“to mark off verse to show metrical structure”), from earlier scanden, from Late Latin scandere (“to scan verse”), from Classical Latin scandō (“I climb, rise, mount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”).

مَحَّصَ

to examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely

In such cases as these, almost any one with a good ear will "scan" the verse correctly enough without instruction. It is not proposed to give here a list of Shakspere's slurred and contracted words; […]

1886, Francis Barton Gummere, A Handbook of Poetics for Students of English Verse, page 218:

(poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.

escandir

to read or mark so as to show a specific metre

You're right, sir, it doesn't scan very well in the English, but in the Gaelic it's sheer poetry. Have you the Gaelic?

1998, Milton Acorn, Cedric Smith, edited by James Deahl, The Road to Charlottetown: A Play, UnMon Northland:

(poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.


stave

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

Back-formation of staves, the plural of staff.

Let us chaunt a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave:

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Ley, in his work on the Metrical Forms of Hebrew Poetry, 1866, has taken too little notice of these frequently occurring alliteration staves; Lagarde communicated to me (8th Sept. 1846) his view of the stave-rhyme in the Book[…]

1874, Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, page 73:

[The] stave that binds the two halves of the line together the on-verse must be classified as D in spite of the f-stave . . stave-rhyme (OED s.v. Stave sb.)

1974, John Collins Pope, Old English Studies in Honour of John C. Pope, page 193:

... consisting only of the two staves, folches . . . fehta. […] Line 63 contains the two-stave rhyme, aerist ... asckim; the suggested reduplicative rhyme [...] is technically doubtful according to the standards we have[…]

1975, Studies in Medieval Culture, page 11:

This may seem sparse and incomplete, but is reminiscent of the Old Norse stave rhyme technique in which one avoided two alliterating staves in one dipod – which the poets of that time considered superfluous.

(poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.


strain

From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).

cog

Yet Keats, though for so many years he has given nothing to the world, is understood to have devoted himself to the composition of an epic poem. Some passages of it have been communicated to the inner circle of his admirers, and impressed them as the loftiest strains that have been audible on earth since Milton’s days.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “P.'s Correspondence”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.

2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2024

(music, poetry) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.

напев

music, poetry: any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.


synecdoche

nl-noun

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

synecdoches (plural)
synecdochetje (diminutive neuter)

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”).


trope

Japanese: トロープ (torōpu)

Korean: 트로프 (teuropeu)

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to τροπή (tropḗ, “solstice; trope; turn”) and τρέπειν (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA [young adult] trope of a young female protagonist who leads the world into a new revolutionary era, they almost get there—largely thanks to newcomer [Sennia] Nanua, who presents her character's grappling with complex themes of identity and original sin with a childlike guilelessness.

2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The A.V. Club:

They have completely supported the Russians diplomatically, they’ve abstained in key votes at the United Nations, they’ve absolutely cynically repeated all the Russian tropes, particularly in places like Africa and Latin America – [by]^([sic]) blaming Nato and all of this stuff.

2023 July 20, Helen Davidson, quoting Richard Moore, “China complicit in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says MI6 chief”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Contrary to the familiar trope that regulation kills innovation, Harding argues that in fact the political, moral and legal clarity provided by the Warnock commission spurred investment and economic growth.

2024 May 11, John Thornhill, “More than human?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:

(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

троп

art, literature: something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature

Is not the trope of muſic, to avoid or ſlide from the cloſe or cadence, common with the trope of rhetoric, of deceiving expectation? Is not the delight of the quavering upon a ſtop in muſic, the ſame with the playing of light upon the water?

1765, Francis Bacon, “The Second Book of Francis Bacon: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 53:

If the antiphon comes to an end with the “Praeparatio” trope, a musical difficulty is presented by the trope’s cadence. Although the antiphon is in the E-plagal mode and the first three trope elements cadence on E, this trope cadences on G, a rare cadence tone in this mode.

1983, John G. Johnstone, “Beyond a Chant: ‘Tui sunt caeli’ and Its Tropes”, in Studies in the History of Music, volumes 1 (Music and Language), New York, N.Y.: Broude Brothers, →ISBN, pages 24–37; reprinted in Alejandro Enrique Planchart, editor, Embellishing the Liturgy: Tropes and Polyphony, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2016, →ISBN, page 138:

A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

troop

music: short cadence at the end of the melody

The eighty six-note segments were originally tabulated by Hauer and are the basis of his twelve-tone system. Each of [Josef Matthias] Hauer's tropes consists of two hexachords of mutually exclusive content, so that each pair of hexachords includes all twelve tones of the semitonal scale. Only eight hexachords may be associated in this way with their own transpositions. These generate the eight tropes illustrated in examples 141 and 128. Each of the remaining seventy-two hexachords must be paired with a dissimilar hexachord in order to form a trope.

1963, George Perle, “Simultaneity”, in Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 120:

twelve-tone technique
twelve-tone technique

A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.

The Torah was chanted in a loud and strong voice so that all could hear. This cantillation of the Torah—trope—is shown by musical notation which serves grammatical and exegetical functions, ta'amay hamikra or ta'amay n'ginah. They put down in a final form an oral tradition that had been maintained for centuries. The Ashkenazim today have six systems of cantillation, each reflective of the texts and time of chanting. For example, on Tishah B'av the tunes are sad and doleful; on Purim the trope resembles a speedy narrative; the readings of Yamim Nora'im are quite majestic, and so on.

1985, Steven M. Brown, “The Languages of Prayer”, in Stephen Garfinkel, editor, Higher and Higher: Making Jewish Prayer Part of Us, Department of Youth Activities, United Synagogue of America, →OCLC, section 3 (The Language of Music), page 45:

The trope does not appear on the handwritten Torah scroll, but the assignment of notes for each word was fixed long ago and is accepted by Jewish communities around the world; the trope now appears in nearly every Jewish printed Bible. […] The symbols that signify the trope for the Hebrew text were introduced at the end of the 10th century of the Common Era.

2006, Sara E. Karesh, Mitchell M. Hurvitz, “trope”, in Encyclopedia of Judaism (Encyclopedia of World Religions), New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 526, column 1:

(Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.

troop

music, Judaism: cantillation pattern or mark


trope

en-verb

trope (third-person singular simple present tropes, present participle troping, simple past and past participle troped)

tropes (present singular third-person)
troping (participle present)
troped (participle past)
troped (past)

"So clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fold" (4.192), [John] Milton writes, thus troping Satan's transgression as neither deception, seduction, nor disobedience, though he presents it in those terms elsewhere, but rather as robbery.

1999, Heather Dubrow, “'A Doubtfull Sense of Things': Thievery in The Faerie Queene 6.10 and 6.11”, in Patrick Cheney, Lauren Silberman, editors, Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (Studies in the English Renaissance), Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 204:

It suggests that the "masculine" (or exaggeratedly masculine) style of Death in the Afternoon [by Ernest Hemingway] is not a formal or immanent attribute of the text but must be "engendered" through acts of interpretation. And it suggests that what was at stake in this "engendering" was nothing less than the preservation of powerful forms of authentic masculinity in the face of a work that, puzzlingly, seemed to trope the very notions of masculinity and modernism.

2002, Thomas Strychacz, “'The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit': Ernest Hemingway's Aesthetic of Emotional Restraint”, in Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis, editors, Boy's Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S., New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 151:

(transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.


lament

lament (nominative singular)
lamenty (nominative plural)
lamentu (genitive singular)
lamentów (genitive plural)
lamentowi (dative singular)
lamentom (dative plural)
lament (accusative singular)
lamenty (accusative plural)
lamentem (instrumental singular)
lamentami (instrumental plural)
lamencie (locative singular)
lamentach (locative plural)
lamencie (singular vocative)
lamenty (plural vocative)

(poetry) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)


hexameter

en-noun

hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)

hexameters (plural)
hexametre (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- + meter.

The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.

1908, Walter Wilson Greg, “[Preface]”, in G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wives Tale, 1595, [Oxford, Oxfordshire]: […] [F]or the Malone Society by Horace Hart […], at the Oxford University Press, published 1965, →OCLC, page vi:

(countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet.


pentameter

pentameter (countable and uncountable, plural pentameters)

pentameters (plural)
pentametre (alternative)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.

The best verses, more especially pentameters, are written on the principle of attracting and fixing the attention to their close.

1822, Robert Bland, Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, third edition, London: John Robinson, page vi:

(poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.

(poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.


tetrameter

tetrameter (countable and uncountable, plural tetrameters)

tetrameters (plural)
tetrametre (alternative)

(poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.

tetrametër

a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)


trimeter

trimeters (plural)
trimetre (alternative)

/ˈtɹaɪmɪtəɹ/

A line in a poem having three metrical feet.


dimeter

dimeter (countable and uncountable, plural dimeters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.

(poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.


poem

poems (plural)
poëm (alternative)
poeme (alternative)

From Middle French poème, from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma), from ποιέω (poiéō, “I make”). Displaced native Old English lēoþ.

A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.


poem

From Middle French poème, from Latin poēma, from Ancient Greek ποίημα (poíēma), from ποιέω (poiéō, “I make”).

1985, John J. Graham, "E Wir ain aald language. Writin ida Shetland dialect", in Manfred Görlach, Focus on Scotland, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 193.
Hit wisna till weel trowe da nineteent century at Shetlanders tried der haand at writin ida dialect — maistly poems, wi a antrin story noo an dan.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

And Hugh MacDiarmid was and is A Brawli Makar, for as siccan folk hand tae 't as thrugaun as a poem itsel, he daes, an daes he no.

The pseudonym TSL first thocht on uisin stertin oot ti publish his wark wis Thrawn, an he uised this for whit we think micht be his first published poem in a Sooth African paper at haes (for nou) hidden itsel ower again amang the files.


poetry

poetry (usually uncountable, plural poetries)

From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.

der

More people write poetry than read it.

2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263:

Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.


poet

poets (plural)
poët (alternative)
poete (alternative)
poëte (alternative)

[ˈpʰoʊ̯ɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]

From Middle English poete, from Old French poete, from Latin poēta (“poet, author”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “creator, maker, author, poet”), from ποιέω (poiéō, “I make, compose”). Displaced native Old English sċop. Doublet of piyyut.

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.


literature

en-noun

literature (usually uncountable, plural literatures)

literatures (plural)
lit. (alternative)
literatuer (alternative)

[ˈlɪɾ.ɚ.ə.t͡ʃɚ]

/ˈlɪt.ɹə.t͡ʃɚ/

[ˈlɪt͡ʃ.ɹə.t͡ʃɚ]

From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English bōccræft.

der

The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

letterkunde

the collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture


vertaalwoordenboek

nl-noun

vertaalwoordenboek n (plural vertaalwoordenboeken, diminutive vertaalwoordenboekje n)

vertaalwoordenboeken (plural)
vertaalwoordenboekje (diminutive neuter)

From vertalen (“to translate”) + woordenboek (“dictionary”).

compound

translation dictionary
translation dictionary

translation dictionary; a dictionary that gives the translation for a given word in a given language


заглавная страница

ru-noun+

загла́вная страни́ца • (zaglávnaja straníca) f inan (genitive загла́вной страни́цы, nominative plural загла́вные страни́цы, genitive plural загла́вных страни́ц)

загла́вная страни́ца (canonical)
zaglávnaja straníca (romanization)
загла́вной страни́цы (genitive)
загла́вные страни́цы (nominative plural)
загла́вных страни́ц (genitive plural)
загла́вная страни́ца (nominative singular)
загла́вные страни́цы (nominative plural)
загла́вной страни́цы (genitive singular)
загла́вных страни́ц (genitive plural)
загла́вной страни́це (dative singular)
загла́вным страни́цам (dative plural)
загла́вную страни́цу (accusative singular)
загла́вные страни́цы (accusative plural)
загла́вной страни́цей (instrumental singular)
загла́вною страни́цею (instrumental singular)
загла́вными страни́цами (instrumental plural)
загла́вной страни́це (prepositional singular)
загла́вных страни́цах (plural prepositional)


dicționar

dicționare (plural)
dicționar (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
dicționarul (accusative definite nominative singular)
dicționare (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
dicționarele (accusative definite nominative plural)
dicționar (indefinite singular)
dicționarului (definite singular)
dicționare (indefinite singular)
dicționarelor (definite plural)
dicționarule (singular vocative)
dicționarelor (vocative)
дикционар (alternative)

→ Aromanian: dictsiunar

Borrowed from French dictionnaire, Medieval Latin dictionarium, from Latin dictio.


bibliophile

bibliophiles (plural)
bibliophil (alternative)

First attested in 1824. From French bibliophile, from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”). By surface analysis, biblio- + -phile.

uder

why buy a book when you can join a library

A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.

1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97:

[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...

2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:

bibliofiel

person who loves books — see also book lover

One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.


bibliophile

fr-noun

bibliophile m or f by sense (plural bibliophiles)


Star Wars

[ˈstɑɹ ˈwɔɹz]

[ˈstɑ˞ ˈwɔɹz]

From the original name of the science fantasy motion picture Star Wars (1977).

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative

(informal, military) The United States Strategic Defense Initiative.


había una vez

(used at the beginnings of fairytales) once upon a time


adultery

en-noun

adultery (countable and uncountable, plural adulteries)

With change of suffix, from the Old French adultere (“violation of conjugal faith”) (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), a learnèd borrowing from Latin adulterium, from adulterō. Replaced the older form avoutrie, from the inherited Old French forms avouterie or aoulterie, while keeping its suffix. Compare French adultère (“adultery”). Displaced Old English ǣwbryċe. Not related to adult.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

(biblical, loosely) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the sixth/seventh commandment; sinful sexual behavior as a category.

زِنىً

lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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

aviorikos

faithlessness in religion; as used in Jeremiah 3:9


science fiction

pl-noun

science fiction n (indeclinable, abbreviation s.f. or SF)

Unadapted borrowing from English science fiction.

ubor

elementy science fiction

(literature) science fiction (genre of fiction)


science fiction

pl-adj

science fiction (not comparable, no derived adverb)

opowiadanie science fiction

(literature, postpositive, relational) science fiction (genre of fiction)


speculative fiction

en-noun

speculative fiction (countable and uncountable, plural speculative fictions)

There are at least two principal ways to write speculative fiction—write about people, or write about gadgets.

1947, Robert A. Heinlein, On the Writing of Speculative Fiction:

And the speculation shows signs of turning into very sophisticated science fiction – science fiction in the purest sense; speculative fiction about science.

1987, Angela Carter, “Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 588:

Stephenson is one of speculative fiction’s most meticulous architects, and here he’s got sheets and sheets of blueprint.

2021 November 16, Omar El Akkad, “Neal Stephenson’s Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(uncountable) A class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural or futuristic elements, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction, dealing with worlds, themes, and characters not part of everyday life.


hors-d'œuvre

hors-d’œuvre (canonical masculine)
hors-d’œuvre (plural)

(literature) digression (act of straying from the main subject that could be removed from the text without detriment to the main plot)


hors-d'œuvre

(literature) off-topic, digressive (not relating directly to the subject at hand)


love triangle

/ˈlʌv ˌtɹaɪ.æŋɡəl/

La Battaglia di Legnano is a patriotic melodrama with a love triangle theme included.

1961 December 12, The Times, p.5 col. F:

By placing Max and Onno in a love triangle with Ada, Mr. Mulisch achieves an emotional depth that recalls Francois Truffaut's classic film “Jules and Jim.”

1997 January 5, Jack Miles, “On a Mission From God”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A situation in which two suitors vie or compete for the love of the same person.

liefdesdriehoek

situation in which two people vie for the love of a third


holocaust

holocaust (nominative singular)
holocausty (nominative plural)
holocaustu (genitive singular)
holocaustów (genitive plural)
holocaustowi (dative singular)
holocaustom (dative plural)
holocaust (accusative singular)
holocausty (accusative plural)
holocaustem (instrumental singular)
holocaustami (instrumental plural)
holocauście (locative singular)
holocaustach (locative plural)
holocauście (singular vocative)
holocausty (plural vocative)
holokaust (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos).

lbor

(biblical, historical, literary, religion) burnt offering, holocaust (slaughtered animal burnt on an altar)


Mickey Mouse

From Mickey, a diminutive of the given name Michael, + mouse, referring to the species of the character. The name Mickey Mouse was coined by American animator Walt Disney in 1928 after his wife, Lillian Disney, persuaded him to change the character's original name Mortimer Mouse to Mickey, deeming the former too formal for the playful character. "Mickey" was suggested by Lillian, who preferred its more approachable and lively sound.
The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low-quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.

"They are putting a Mickey Mouse operation on the ice," added Gretzky, who extended apologies to New Jersey goaltenders Ron Low and Chico Resch.

1983 November 21, “Rangers get past Quebec in Overtime”, in Miami Herald:

You mean, somebody who, for example, is a retired Army officer, has been teaching, as you do in the Army about half the time for about 30 years, you mean he couldn't go in and teach in the school' cause he didn't take some Mickey Mouse course in education at a state university?

California (78-67): This is no Mickey Mouse outfit, even though Disney is buying into the team. / The Angels didn't make many changes in personnel during the winter.

1996 February 11, Dave van Dyck, “Braves, Indians Are Teams to Beat Again; Series Repeat Appears Likely As Camps Open”, in Chicago Sun-Times, SPORTS, page 18:

(idiomatic) Of inferior quality, poorly-run; too easy to be taken seriously, trivial.


Mickey Mouse

1949, from English Mickey Mouse, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.

(cartoon) Mickey Mouse (One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic mouse who usually wears red shorts and is known for circular ears.)


Mickey Mouse

Unadapted borrowing from English Mickey Mouse.