jed

jed (nominative singular)
jedy (nominative plural)
jedu (genitive singular)
jedů (genitive plural)
jedu (dative singular)
jedům (dative plural)
jed (accusative singular)
jedy (accusative plural)
jede (singular vocative)
jedy (plural vocative)
jedu (locative singular)
jedech (locative plural)
jedem (instrumental singular)
jedy (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech jěd, from Proto-Slavic *ědъ; either from *ěsti (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *ēd-, or related to Middle High German eitar (“pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *oid-.


jed

jedový (adjective)
nominative
jed (singular)
jedy (plural)
genitive
jedu (singular)
jedov (plural)
dative
jedom (plural)
accusative
locative
jede (singular)
jedoch (plural)
instrumental
jedom (singular)
jedmi (plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *(j)ědъ, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-u-, an extension of Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).


fine

a number of high grade French brandies (usually AOC certified)


sack

en-noun

sack (countable and uncountable, plural sacks)

From earlier (wyne) seck from Middle French (vin (“wine”)) sec (“dry”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).

Wilt pleaſe your Lord drink a cup of ſacke? […] I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: I ne're drank ſacke in my life: […]

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 209, column 1:

Giue me a Cup of Sacke, Rogue. Is there no Vertue extant?

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 56, column 2:

How cam'ſt thou hither? / Sweare by this Bottle how thou cam'ſt hither: I eſcap'd / vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued o'reboord, by this Bottle which I made of the barke of a Tree, with mine owne hands, since I was caſt a'ſhore.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 10, column 1:

The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

1848 January, Charles M. Westmacott, “The Stage of Life”, in The Sporting Review, volume 15, page 23:

"He's got a venison pastry and a flagon of sack in that cupboard behind him."

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35:

(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.


-ium

Reanalysis of ammonium or from -onium of the same source.

Alternative form: -onium

quaternary ammonium compound
quaternary ammonium compound#English

neuromuscular blocking agent
w:neuromuscular-blocking drug

(pharmacology) Used to form names of quaternary ammonium compounds used as neuromuscular blocking agents, cholinergic agents, anticholinergic agents, antibacterials/antiseptics, or other agents.


jeden

jeden (nominative singular)
jedni (nominative plural)
jednego (genitive singular)
jednych (genitive plural)
jednemu (dative singular)
jednym (dative plural)
jednego (accusative singular)
jedne (accusative plural)
jednym (instrumental singular)
jednymi (instrumental plural)
jednym (locative singular)
jednych (locative plural)
jeden (singular vocative)
jedni (plural vocative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Balto-Slavic *edīˀnas
Proto-Slavic *edinъ
Old Polish jeden
Polish jeden
Inherited from Old Polish jeden.


cocaine

en-noun

cocaine (countable and uncountable, plural cocaines)

From coca + -ine, from Quechua kuka. First use appears c. 1874.

Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker-street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC:

All I get, uh, is this cup of cold coffee and cocaine / And your ugly face, look out

1983, “Cold Coffee & Cocaine”, performed by Prince:

Cocaine’s awfully expensive stuff, isn't it? Is it worth it?

1990, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Frank Urquhart (Ian Richardson):

(uncountable, organic chemistry, pharmacology) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.


chai

Borrowed from French chai, from Occitan.

The Kanon era lasted a mere 10 years, yet he had the château constructed, invested substantially in the vineyard and chais, and established the wine as one of the leading labels in the area.

2004, Clive Coates, The Wines of Bordeaux, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 302:

(winemaking) A place above ground for storing wine casks.


chai

Mis en bouteille dans nos chais.


bean

→ Fiji Hindi: biin

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”),
Swedish böna (“bean”),
Danish bønne (“bean”), Norwegian bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A toe bean.


twist

twist (nominative singular)
twisty (nominative plural)
twista (genitive singular)
twistów (genitive plural)
twistowi (dative singular)
twistom (dative plural)
twist (accusative singular)
twisty (accusative plural)
twistem (instrumental singular)
twistami (instrumental plural)
twiście (locative singular)
twistach (locative plural)
twiście (singular vocative)
twisty (plural vocative)

jar with a threaded neck and a screw cap allowing airtight sealing


smash

smash (countable and uncountable, plural smashes)

→ Czech: smeč

→ Serbo-Croatian: smeč

→ Turkish: smaç

From a blend of smack + mash. Compare Swedish smask (“to smack with the lips”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).

cog

A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.


mild

From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”).
Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), Saterland Frisian milde (“mild”), West Frisian myld (“mild”), Dutch mild (“mild”), Low German milde (“mild”), German mild (“mild”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål mild (“mild”), Icelandic mildur (“mild”), Latin mollis (“soft, gentle”), Lithuanian malonus (“pleasing, pleasant, kind”), Old Norse mildr.

cog

'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild.

1998, Robert Rankin, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, page 112:

But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong.

2011, Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind:

(British) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale


snit

Likely related to Proto-Germanic *snidaz, i.e. a a little, a bit. Also perhaps from obsolete German Schnitt which is a small amount of beer served in a larger glass.

The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.

(US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.


cider

en-noun

cider (countable and uncountable, plural ciders)

→ Bulgarian: са́йдер (sájder)

→ Finnish: siideri

→ Jersey Dutch: sâiter

→ Japanese: サイダー (saidā)

→ Korean: 사이다 (saida)

[ˈsʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Ancient Greek σίκερα (síkera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār, “liquor”). Doublet of cyser. Displaced native English apple wine.

der

Apfelsaft (may be specified as trüber Apfelsaft)

са́йдер

non-alcoholic sparkling beverage (apple)

サイダー

non-alcoholic sparkling beverage (lemon-lime)

The procedures for cyser are identical to cider with a notable exception: honey is a much more complex sugar than cane or corn sugars, meaning honey takes a long time to clear and an even longer time (at least six months) to ferment out[…]

1995, Paul Correnty, The Art of Cidermaking, Brewers Publications:

(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider.

She liked an aged cider. He liked a harder cider.

(US, Canada) A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice).

(Australia) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples or pears.

(Japan, South Korea) A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage.

(countable) A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.


tun

From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, barrel”), from Proto-Germanic *tunnǭ, *tunnō (“tun, barrel, cask”), from Latin tunna, probably of Gaulish origin.
Cognate with North Frisian tenn (“tun, barrel, cask”), Dutch ton (“tun, barrel, cask”), German Tonne (“tun, barrel, drum”), Danish tønde (“barrel”), Swedish tunna (“barrel, cask, tun”), Icelandic tunna (“barrel”). Compare also Old French tonne, French tonneau (“ton, barrel”), Medieval Latin tunna (“cask”), Middle Irish tunna (“cask”), Welsh tynell (“tun, barrel”). It is uncertain whether the Germanic or the Celtic forms are the original.


rack

en-verb

rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)

racks (present singular third-person)
racking (participle present)
racked (participle past)
racked (past)

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

The Darwin administrator, J.C. Archer, with great ceremony, turned on the flow to rack the precious golden stuff into casks.

1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 108:

(brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

klaren

brewing: to clarify by draining or siphoning from the dregs


porter

en-noun

porter (countable and uncountable, plural porters)

→ Irish: pórtar

From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Coordinate term: stout

(countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.

“Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.” The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.

1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 107:


LC

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

lethal concentration
lethal concentration#English

(toxicology) Initialism of lethal concentration.


lush

en-adj

lush (comparative lusher, superlative lushest)

lusher (comparative)
lushest (superlative)

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskw, from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”).
Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.


lush

en-noun

lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)

Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.

Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols.

1973 December 8, A. Nolder Gay, “Coping With Christmas”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 3:

(slang, derogatory) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

Am I humble or am I a lush?

(Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.


lush

en-verb

lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

lushes (present singular third-person)
lushing (participle present)
lushed (participle past)
lushed (past)

(transitive, intransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.


alcopop

en-noun

alcopop (usually uncountable, plural alcopops)

Blend of alcohol + pop (“sweetened carbonated drink”).

blend

However, the media soon went too far in playing the story up, claiming that underage drinkers drank only alcopop (actually they preferred cheap cider).

1999, Stanton Peel, Marcus Grant, editors, Alcohol and Pleasure: a health perspective:

The breweries began to develop alcopops with names and advertising drawn from drug culture.

2003 January 23, Dave Haslam, London Review of Books:

Over on cheap flights from Prestwick and Stansted, these boys were often to be found floating trouserless in the Liffey at dawn, or staggering up Grafton Street, their T-shirts clinging to them with alcopops and spilled Sambuca.

2004 June 3, Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books:

(British, Ireland, Australia) An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.


kamikaze

[ˌkʰɑmɪˈkʰɑːzɪi̯]

Borrowed from Japanese 神風(かみかぜ) (kamikaze, “divine wind”).

A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.


ビール

ja-noun

ビール • (bīru)

→ Hakka: 啤露 (pi-lú)

desc

→ Hokkien: 米魯／米鲁 (bì-lù / bì-luh / bih-luh)

→ Korean: 비르 (bireu)

→ Jeju: 비르 (bireu)

Borrowing from Dutch bier.
First cited to a text from 1724 with the kanji spelling 麦酒 (literally “barley liquor”).

日本麦酒

Beer
Daijisen
Kōjien
Shinmura Izuru
ja:ビール
ja:松村明


achondroplasia

en-noun

achondroplasia (countable and uncountable, plural achondroplasias)

From a- (“not”) + chondro- (“cartilage”) + -plasia (“growth”).

affix

(teratology) A genetic disorder, the most common form of short limb dwarfism.


barb

Coordinate term: benzo

The benzos, it turns out, are just as highly addicting as the barbs, but they do have a much lower potential to cause death by overdose. […] The barbs became one of the most widely abused classes of drugs in the 1960s and 1970s.

1998, Jerry Dorsman, How to Quit Drugs for Good: A Complete Self-Help Guide, New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 50:


stengah

“Push the boat out, Adams,” said Hart. “Stengah for me.”

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 77:


stoned

en-adj

stoned (comparative more stoned, superlative most stoned)

more stoned (comparative)
most stoned (superlative)

From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed.

'He could be a mean drunk,' said saxophonist Artie Drelinger. '[…] Booze was his priority, and when he was stoned he could be a son of a bitch.'

2002, Frederick J. Spencer, Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats:

(slang, now rare) Drunk; intoxicated by alcohol.

We got stoned and ate four bags of potato chips.

Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars / Out here we is stoned, immaculate

1971, Jim Morrison (lyrics and music), “The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)”, in L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors:

And me, I'm flying in my taxi / Taking tips, and getting stoned / I go flying so high, when I'm stoned

1972, Harry Chapin (lyrics and music), “Taxi”, in Heads & Tales:

Stoned in the mall the kids play / And in this way wish away each day

2008, Steven Wilson (lyrics and music), “Normal”, in We Lost The Skyline, performed by Porcupine Tree:

"Hey babe. Claire and her mom got way too stoned and a random borzoi wandered into the house and we need an adult. ... Yeah that's pretty much how I expected today to go too."

2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3879: Pointy Boi:

(slang) High on drugs, especially cannabis.

одуре́вший

от нарко́тиков

"I am stoned on Jesus! He turns me on and gives me something drugs never could!"

1972, John W. Drakeford, Children of Doom: A Sobering Look at the Commune Movement, Nashville: Broadman Press:

I had told them my sailing plans—a few voyages and then Palmyra—but learned almost nothing about them except they were stoned on life. They were so in love with each other and so enamored with their six-month-old baby, […]

2014, Susan Scott, Call Me Captain: A Memoir of a Woman at Sea, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 112:

Perhaps I even looked stoned on life with that ever-present smile on my face […]

2016, Heidi Patullo, Imperfukt: ...And Never Happier!, iUniverse, →ISBN:

(slang) Exhilarated; intoxicated by something (such as love) other than drugs or alcohol.


speedball

en-verb

speedball (third-person singular simple present speedballs, present participle speedballing, simple past and past participle speedballed)

speedballs (present singular third-person)
speedballing (participle present)
speedballed (participle past)
speedballed (past)

(intransitive, slang) To take heroin and cocaine at the same time.


dochód

dochód (nominative singular)
dochody (nominative plural)
dochodu (genitive singular)
dochodów (genitive plural)
dochodowi (dative singular)
dochodom (dative plural)
dochód (accusative singular)
dochody (accusative plural)
dochodem (instrumental singular)
dochodami (instrumental plural)
dochodzie (locative singular)
dochodach (locative plural)
dochodzie (singular vocative)
dochody (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish dochód. By surface analysis, deverbal from dochodzić.

surf

(obsolete) fusel oil (mixture of several higher-order alcohols (alcohols with more than two carbon atoms) formed as byproduct in the normal fermentation process)


hormone

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

hormon

synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.

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

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

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


cannabis

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of chanvre.


cannabis

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).


cannabis

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See also cáñamo.


cannabis

cannabis (indefinite nominative singular)


hemp

en-noun

hemp (countable and uncountable, plural hemps)

From Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.

Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa#Translingual

A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.


ouzo

ouzo (countable and uncountable, plural ouzos)

From Greek ούζο (oúzo), either from Turkish üzüm (“grape”) or from the Italian uso in Marsiglia (“for use in Marseille”) stamped on selected silkworm cocoons exported from Tyrnavos in the 19th century, standing for “superior quality”. Other: from the ancient Greek word ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”) - ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) because of the strong smell of the drink.

der

Jai went in and poured out two glasses of ouzo, throwing a splash of water. He stuck his finger into each and stirred; the liquor swirled and got foggy.

2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, →ISBN, page 122:

(uncountable) An anise-flavoured aperitif, originating in Greece.


ouzo

nl-noun

ouzo c (plural ouzo's, diminutive ouzootje n)

ouzo's (plural)
ouzootje (diminutive neuter)


joint

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

verbinding

point of a rigid joint, means of joining in carpentry

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

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


joint

jointuri (plural)
joint (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
jointul (accusative definite nominative singular)
jointuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
jointurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
joint (indefinite singular)
jointului (definite singular)
jointuri (indefinite plural)
jointurilor (definite plural)
jointule (singular vocative)
jointurilor (plural vocative)

Hai să fumăm un joint.


marijuana

en-noun

marijuana (usually uncountable, plural marijuanas)

→ Italian: marijuana

/ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/

/ˌmæɹɪˈwɑː.nə/

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish marihuana, from mariguana. First attested in 1874 in the publications of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Altered by influence of a folk etymology involving the proper name María Juana (“Mary Jane”).

After smoking a bowl of that fine marijuana, they ate some brownies.

You could smell tea, weed, I mean marijuana, floating in the air, together with the chili beans and beer.

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.”

2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.


marijuana

Borrowed from English marijuana, from Mexican Spanish marihuana.


marijuana

marijuana (accusative nominative uncountable)
marijuanei (dative genitive uncountable)

Unadapted borrowing from French marijuana, from Spanish marihuana.


repeat

en-verb

repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)

repeats (present singular third-person)
repeating (participle present)
repeated (participle past)
repeated (past)

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).

(transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).


repeat

ҡабатлау

rerun of a television broadcast — see also rerun

(medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.


molto

molto (nominative singular)
moltě (dual nominative)
molta (nominative plural)
molta (genitive singular)
moltu (dual genitive)
moltъ (genitive plural)
moltu (dative singular)
moltoma (dative dual)
moltomъ (dative plural)
molto (accusative singular)
moltě (accusative dual)
molta (accusative plural)
moltъmь (instrumental singular)
moltomь (instrumental singular)
moltoma (dual instrumental)
molty (instrumental plural)
moltě (locative singular)
moltu (dual locative)
moltěxъ (locative plural)
molto (singular vocative)
moltě (dual vocative)
molta (plural vocative)

East Slavic:

Belarusian: мо́лат m (mólat)

desc

⇒? Russian: мо́лодь (mólodʹ), молоди́зна (molodízna)

Ukrainian: мо́лот m (mólot)

South Slavic:

Bulgarian: мо́лът m (mólǎt)

Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: мла̏та f, мла́та f, мла̑т m or f, млато n

Latin script: mlȁta f, mláta f, mlȃt m or f, mlato n

Slovene: mláta, mlátọ

West Slavic:

desctree

Old Czech: mláto, młáto (alternative writing)
Czech: mláto

Old Polish: młoto

Polish: młoto, młóto, młóta

Slovak: mláto

Unknown whether from the past passive participle of *melti (“to grind”) + *-o, respectively from *melti (“to grind”) + *-to—neuter form of *-tъ—, or borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *malt; but rather the latter, considering that the term is only strong in West Slavic and otherwise, though so only in Sorbian, one employs *soldъ.
See also Ancient Greek βύνη (búnē, “malt”), Iranian borrowing, and in recent modernity Arabic مَلْت (malt) and Persian مالت (mâlt) had to be borrowed from English for the concept—though, or corresponding to the circumstance, that most other Arabic terms for beer and wine are also of loan origin, to illustrate the prevalence of such occurrences.


bira

Borrowed from Italian birra, from German Bier. Doublet of bir.


bira

head

bira (definite accusative birayı, plural biralar)

birayı (accusative definite)
biralar (plural)
bira (nominative singular)
biralar (nominative plural)
birayı (accusative definite singular)
biraları (accusative definite plural)
biraya (dative singular)
biralara (dative plural)
birada (locative singular)
biralarda (locative plural)
biradan (ablative singular)
biralardan (ablative plural)
biranın (genitive singular)
biraların (genitive plural)


bock

en-noun

bock (countable and uncountable, plural bocks)

A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.


orgasm

orgasm (countable and uncountable, plural orgasms)

/ˈɔː.ɡæ.zəm/

From French orgasme or New Latin orgasmus, from Ancient Greek ὀργασμός (orgasmós, “excitement, swelling”), from ὀργάω (orgáō, “to swell with moisture”).

der

A creamy white alcoholic cocktail containing amaretto, Irish cream, and coffee liqueur.


bor

borok (plural)
bor (nominative singular)
borok (nominative plural)
bort (accusative singular)
borokat (accusative plural)
bornak (dative singular)
boroknak (dative plural)
borral (instrumental singular)
borokkal (instrumental plural)
borért (causal-final singular)
borokért (causal-final plural)
borrá (singular translative)
borokká (plural translative)
borig (singular terminative)
borokig (plural terminative)
borként (essive-formal singular)
borokként (essive-formal plural)
borban (inessive singular)
borokban (inessive plural)
boron (singular superessive)
borokon (plural superessive)
bornál (adessive singular)
boroknál (adessive plural)
borba (illative singular)
borokba (illative plural)
borra (singular sublative)
borokra (plural sublative)
borhoz (allative singular)
borokhoz (allative plural)
borból (elative singular)
borokból (elative plural)
borról (delative singular)
borokról (delative plural)
bortól (ablative singular)
boroktól (ablative plural)
boré (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
boroké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
boréi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
borokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
borom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
boraim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
borod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
boraid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bora (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
borai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
borunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
boraink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
borotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
boraitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
boruk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
boraik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Old Uyghur 𐽼𐽳𐽾 (bor, “wine”), ultimately from Middle Persian bōr (“reddish-brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”). Compare Ossetian бур (bur, “yellow”), Northern Kurdish bor (“grey”).

wine (an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes)

wine (an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable)

A bor beszél belőle.

It must be the wine. (literally, “The wine is talking out of him/her.”)

(figuratively) wine (intoxication caused by wine)


cocktail

→ Catalan: còctel

→ Czech: koktejl

→ Dutch: cocktail

→ Esperanto: koktelo

→ Finnish: cocktail

→ French: cocktail

→ Galician: cóctel

→ German: Cocktail

→ Greek: κοκτέιλ (koktéil)

→ Hungarian: koktél

→ Italian: cocktail

→ Japanese: カクテル (kakuteru)

→ Korean: 칵테일 (kakteil)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: cocktail

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: cocktail

→ Polish: koktajl

→ Portuguese: coquetel

→ Russian: кокте́йль (koktéjlʹ) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: cóctel, coctel

→ Swedish: cocktail

→ Thai: ค็อกเทล (kɔ́k-teel)

→ Turkish: kokteyl

→ Vietnamese: cocktail

Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a simulant (gingering), hence a simulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit.

They visited a bar noted for its wide range of cocktails.

[...] a certain candidate has placed in his account of Loss and Gain, the following items:-- LOSS [...] 411 glasses bitters[,] 25 do. cock-tail

1806 May 6, “Rum! Rum! Rum!”, in Balance and Columbian Repository, volume v, number 18, New York: Hudson, page 142:

Cock tail, then, is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called bittered sling, and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.

1806 May 13, “Communication”, in Balance and Columbian Repository, volume v, number 19, New York: Hudson, page 146:

Deane opened the fray by declaring, à propos of dinners, that the only proper way to create a cocktail of the genus Martini was to add a half-spoonful of sherry after the other ingredients had been satisfactorily mixed, if at all.

1904, Charlotte Bryson Taylor, “Chapter VI”, in In the Dwellings of the Wilderness:

He moved majestically down to mix the cocktails. As he chipped ice, as he squeezed oranges, as he collected vast stores of bottles, glasses, and spoons at the sink in the pantry, he felt as authoritative as the bartender at Healey Hanson's saloon.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, “Chapter 8”, in Babbitt:

The cocktail in Britain is a rigidly-defined social institution: each has its own particular meaning—the G & T is the alcoholic equivalent of the interview suit; Pernod and black is an alternative to glue sniffing for repentant trendies, etc.

2011, Mark Polonsky et al., USSR: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, page 32:

A “cock-tail” is a horse not purely bred, but with only one-eighth or one-sixteenth impure blood in his veins

1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, volume ii, John Murray, page 11:

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.

A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.


cocktail

en-verb

cocktail (third-person singular simple present cocktails, present participle cocktailing, simple past and past participle cocktailed)

cocktails (present singular third-person)
cocktailing (participle present)
cocktailed (participle past)
cocktailed (past)

(transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.

He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.

(transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.


cocktail

nl-noun

cocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje n)

cocktails (plural)
cocktailtje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.


cocktail

cocktail (nominative singular)
cocktailit (nominative plural)
cocktail (accusative nominative singular)
cocktailit (accusative nominative plural)
cocktailin (accusative genitive singular)
cocktailit (accusative genitive plural)
cocktailin (genitive singular)
cocktailien (genitive plural)
cocktailia (partitive singular)
cocktaileja (partitive plural)
cocktailissa (inessive singular)
cocktaileissa (inessive plural)
cocktailista (elative singular)
cocktaileista (elative plural)
cocktailiin (illative singular)
cocktaileihin (illative plural)
cocktaililla (adessive singular)
cocktaileilla (adessive plural)
cocktaililta (ablative singular)
cocktaileilta (ablative plural)
cocktailille (allative singular)
cocktaileille (allative plural)
cocktailina (essive singular)
cocktaileina (essive plural)
cocktailiksi (singular translative)
cocktaileiksi (plural translative)
cocktailitta (abessive singular)
cocktaileitta (abessive plural)
cocktailein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
cocktailini (nominative singular)
cocktailini (nominative plural)
cocktailini (accusative nominative singular)
cocktailini (accusative nominative plural)
cocktailini (accusative genitive singular)
cocktailini (accusative genitive plural)
cocktailini (genitive singular)
cocktailieni (genitive plural)
cocktailiani (partitive singular)
cocktailejani (partitive plural)
cocktailissani (inessive singular)
cocktaileissani (inessive plural)
cocktailistani (elative singular)
cocktaileistani (elative plural)
cocktailiini (illative singular)
cocktaileihini (illative plural)
cocktailillani (adessive singular)
cocktaileillani (adessive plural)
cocktaililtani (ablative singular)
cocktaileiltani (ablative plural)
cocktaililleni (allative singular)
cocktaileilleni (allative plural)
cocktailinani (essive singular)
cocktaileinani (essive plural)
cocktailikseni (singular translative)
cocktaileikseni (plural translative)
cocktailittani (abessive singular)
cocktaileittani (abessive plural)
cocktaileineni (comitative plural)
cocktailisi (nominative singular)
cocktailisi (nominative plural)
cocktailisi (accusative nominative singular)
cocktailisi (accusative nominative plural)
cocktailisi (accusative genitive singular)
cocktailisi (accusative genitive plural)
cocktailisi (genitive singular)
cocktailiesi (genitive plural)
cocktailiasi (partitive singular)
cocktailejasi (partitive plural)
cocktailissasi (inessive singular)
cocktaileissasi (inessive plural)
cocktailistasi (elative singular)
cocktaileistasi (elative plural)
cocktailiisi (illative singular)
cocktaileihisi (illative plural)
cocktailillasi (adessive singular)
cocktaileillasi (adessive plural)
cocktaililtasi (ablative singular)
cocktaileiltasi (ablative plural)
cocktailillesi (allative singular)
cocktaileillesi (allative plural)
cocktailinasi (essive singular)
cocktaileinasi (essive plural)
cocktailiksesi (singular translative)
cocktaileiksesi (plural translative)
cocktailittasi (abessive singular)
cocktaileittasi (abessive plural)
cocktaileinesi (comitative plural)
cocktailimme (nominative singular)
cocktailimme (nominative plural)
cocktailimme (accusative nominative singular)
cocktailimme (accusative nominative plural)
cocktailimme (accusative genitive singular)
cocktailimme (accusative genitive plural)
cocktailimme (genitive singular)
cocktailiemme (genitive plural)
cocktailiamme (partitive singular)
cocktailejamme (partitive plural)
cocktailissamme (inessive singular)
cocktaileissamme (inessive plural)
cocktailistamme (elative singular)
cocktaileistamme (elative plural)
cocktailiimme (illative singular)
cocktaileihimme (illative plural)
cocktailillamme (adessive singular)
cocktaileillamme (adessive plural)
cocktaililtamme (ablative singular)
cocktaileiltamme (ablative plural)
cocktailillemme (allative singular)
cocktaileillemme (allative plural)
cocktailinamme (essive singular)
cocktaileinamme (essive plural)
cocktailiksemme (singular translative)
cocktaileiksemme (plural translative)
cocktailittamme (abessive singular)
cocktaileittamme (abessive plural)
cocktaileinemme (comitative plural)
cocktailinne (nominative singular)
cocktailinne (nominative plural)
cocktailinne (accusative nominative singular)
cocktailinne (accusative nominative plural)
cocktailinne (accusative genitive singular)
cocktailinne (accusative genitive plural)
cocktailinne (genitive singular)
cocktailienne (genitive plural)
cocktailianne (partitive singular)
cocktailejanne (partitive plural)
cocktailissanne (inessive singular)
cocktaileissanne (inessive plural)
cocktailistanne (elative singular)
cocktaileistanne (elative plural)
cocktailiinne (illative singular)
cocktaileihinne (illative plural)
cocktailillanne (adessive singular)
cocktaileillanne (adessive plural)
cocktaililtanne (ablative singular)
cocktaileiltanne (ablative plural)
cocktailillenne (allative singular)
cocktaileillenne (allative plural)
cocktailinanne (essive singular)
cocktaileinanne (essive plural)
cocktailiksenne (singular translative)
cocktaileiksenne (plural translative)
cocktailittanne (abessive singular)
cocktaileittanne (abessive plural)
cocktaileinenne (comitative plural)
cocktailinsa (nominative singular)
cocktailinsa (nominative plural)
cocktailinsa (accusative nominative singular)
cocktailinsa (accusative nominative plural)
cocktailinsa (accusative genitive singular)
cocktailinsa (accusative genitive plural)
cocktailinsa (genitive singular)
cocktailiensa (genitive plural)
cocktailiaan (partitive singular)
cocktailiansa (partitive singular)
cocktailejaan (partitive plural)
cocktailejansa (partitive plural)
cocktailissaan (inessive singular)
cocktailissansa (inessive singular)
cocktaileissaan (inessive plural)
cocktaileissansa (inessive plural)
cocktailistaan (elative singular)
cocktailistansa (elative singular)
cocktaileistaan (elative plural)
cocktaileistansa (elative plural)
cocktailiinsa (illative singular)
cocktaileihinsa (illative plural)
cocktailillaan (adessive singular)
cocktailillansa (adessive singular)
cocktaileillaan (adessive plural)
cocktaileillansa (adessive plural)
cocktaililtaan (ablative singular)
cocktaililtansa (ablative singular)
cocktaileiltaan (ablative plural)
cocktaileiltansa (ablative plural)
cocktaililleen (allative singular)
cocktailillensa (allative singular)
cocktaileilleen (allative plural)
cocktaileillensa (allative plural)
cocktailinaan (essive singular)
cocktailinansa (essive singular)
cocktaileinaan (essive plural)
cocktaileinansa (essive plural)
cocktailikseen (singular translative)
cocktailiksensa (singular translative)
cocktaileikseen (plural translative)
cocktaileiksensa (plural translative)
cocktailittaan (abessive singular)
cocktailittansa (abessive singular)
cocktaileittaan (abessive plural)
cocktaileittansa (abessive plural)
cocktaileineen (comitative plural)
cocktaileinensa (comitative plural)


cocktail

Unadapted borrowing from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.


cocktail

cocktailen (definite singular)
cocktailer (indefinite plural)
cocktailene (definite plural)


cocktail

cocktailen (definite singular)
cocktailar (indefinite plural)
cocktailane (definite plural)


cocktail

cocktailuri (plural)
cocktail (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cocktailul (accusative definite nominative singular)
cocktailuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
cocktailurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
cocktail (indefinite singular)
cocktailului (definite singular)
cocktailuri (indefinite plural)
cocktailurilor (definite plural)
cocktailule (singular vocative)
cocktailurilor (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English cocktail or French cocktail.


cocktail

cocktail (indefinite nominative singular)

Borrowed from English cocktail. First attested in 1847.

blanda en cocktail


ligand

Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”).

ربيطة

something that binds to another chemical entity

(inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:

(biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, medicine) Such an entity that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.


chit

From chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure.

bor

(pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.


popper

en-noun

popper (countable and uncountable, plural poppers)

From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop + -er (suffix forming agent noun).
(capsule of amyl nitrite): From the popping sound when the capsule is broken open.

Coordinate term: popper up

If a person inhales a popper on the brink — the very brink — of climax, then the orgasm is much more powerful.

1986, Mary Bringle, The Senator's Daughter, page 55:

Against all this was the counter-rhythm of the hip-flask and the drugs, that steady resorting at every pause for breath, to the swig of the secret drinker; or, high in his excitement, the burst of a popper and then the sucking sound of Cullen inhaling.

1986, Stephen Koch, The Bachelors' Bride, page 240:

Then, suddenly, Vince sagged — light-headed. Too many poppers.

1996, Patricia Nell Warren, Harlan's Race, page 58:

Looks like she's had too many poppers.

1999, Greg Kramer, Hogtown Bonbons, page 8:

When she heard Tuercas snap open a popper, she raised her own eyes instinctively. / His face was flushed red with the drug as he held the ampule to his nose

1999, Ted Mooney, Singing Into the Piano, page 328:

I guess he was tricking with some other hustler a couple of days later and OD'd on one too many poppers—a heart attack in his sleep.

2002, Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, Adam Parfrey, Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, page 195:

The annex still stood, and from inside came the grunting sounds of Eskimos and GIs in rut. Lavone was sitting near Rudy. He cracked an amyl popper.

2002, John Griesemer, No One Thinks of Greenland:

Sucio paused in his dress-down of Barney's lineage, sexuality and potty habits to sample an amyl nitrate popper, which snapped his focus clear with cardiac paddle speed.

2008, David J. Schow, Gun Work, page 91:

Too low. Must get higher! He cracked open a popper, inhaling deeply. Then another. For a brief but thankful moment, a faint high lifted through him. He clicked on the Internet icon, then his email. At that moment the marijuana, coke, and amyl nitrite collided in his bloodstream.

2010, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Ghosted, page 130:

(informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.

Ryan knelt up in bed with his knees against Kick's side. "You okay?" Ryan asked. / "Too much popper," he said. “Maybe I have jet lag.

2005, Jack Fritscher, Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-novel of San Francisco, 1970-1982, page 340:

Maybe he has some popper—that's a gay drug, right? Nicholas Nugent should at least have some popper . . . Art, leaning into the gaggle. Nicholas Nugent, shaking his pretty head. No popper. Do you think it's possible to popper yourself gay?

2019, Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and the Burbs, page 38:


popper

From Popper (“a brand name”), a brand name owned by Queensland United Foods; from 1978.

Again buy your own food - for lunch you get some tomato, some Jambon Fume (proscuitto) and a baguette along with some poppers and your^([sic]) have a feast.

1997 September 5, Richard Harrowell, “Advice on Skiing Europe”, in aus.snow (Usenet):


ponce

From Latin pūmex (via a Late Latin pōmex).

(Quebec) hot alcoholic beverage made with gin or rum


coca

Erythroxylum coca
Wikispecies:Erythroxylum coca


tannin

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tannin.wav

From French tannin, from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”). Related to tan.

(chemistry) Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.


tannin

tannin (indefinite nominative singular)
tannins (genitive indefinite singular)
tanninet (definite nominative singular)
tanninets (definite genitive singular)
tanniner (indefinite nominative plural)
tanniners (genitive indefinite plural)
tanninerna (definite nominative plural)
tanninernas (definite genitive plural)


hock

hock (countable and uncountable, plural hocks)

That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.

1891 [1887], Oscar Wilde, “The Model Millionaire”, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories:

The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand for it in a beer-drinking community.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 158:

A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.


marc

marc (usually uncountable, plural marcs)

From Middle French marc, from Old French marcher (“to trample”).

The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.


jigger

A slang term of unknown origin, originally meaning prison. Oxford English Dictionary suggests that its origin might be the same as Etymology 1, above.


dram

desctree

→ Danish: dram
→ Faroese: drammur
→ Norwegian: dram

→ Scottish Gaelic: dràm

From Middle English dragme, dramme, from Old French dragme, drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”). Doublet of drachma, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.

doublet

(units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:

(pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“One eighth of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).

units of measurement; pharmacy; pharmacy


dram

head

dram m (genitive singular drama, plural dramannan)

drama (genitive singular)
dramannan (plural)
dram
dhram

dram (small amount of alcoholic drink, usually whisky)


tipper

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper

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

A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.


pomade

en-noun

pomade (countable and uncountable, plural pomades)

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

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

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

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


mull

mull (countable and uncountable, plural mulls)

(uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.


mull

the Mull of Kintyre

A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.


luge

luge (countable and uncountable, plural luges)

The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh.
Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Irish slaod (“raft, float”)
* Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”))
* Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”)

der

(countable) A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.


sparge

Borrowed from Middle French espargier, from Latin spargō (whence English sparse), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- (“to scatter, to jerk”).


widget

Coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in 1924 in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924).

coin

A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.


scat

en-noun

scat (countable and uncountable, plural scats)

Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin".

They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.

2014 September 22, James Gorman, “For polar bears, a climate change twist [print version: For hungry polar bears, a climate change twist, International New York Times, 24 September 2014, p 12]”, in The New York Times:

2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.

(biology) Animal excrement; droppings, dung.


scat

en-verb

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

scats (present singular third-person)
scatting (participle present)
scatted (participle past)
scatted (past)

(music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.


wino

wino (nominative singular)
winje (dual nominative)
wina (nominative plural)
wina (genitive singular)
winowu (dual genitive)
winow (genitive plural)
winoju (dative singular)
winu (dative singular)
winoma (dative dual)
winam (dative plural)
wino (accusative singular)
winje (accusative dual)
wina (accusative plural)
winom (instrumental singular)
winoma (dual instrumental)
winami (instrumental plural)
winje (locative singular)
winoma (dual locative)
winach (locative plural)

From Proto-Slavic *vino, borrowed from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

wine (alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes)


wino

pl-noun

wino n (diminutive winko, augmentative wińsko)

winko (diminutive)
wińsko (augmentative)
wino (nominative singular)
wina (nominative plural)
wina (genitive singular)
win (genitive plural)
winu (dative singular)
winom (dative plural)
wino (accusative singular)
wina (accusative plural)
winem (instrumental singular)
winami (instrumental plural)
winie (locative singular)
winach (locative plural)
wino (singular vocative)
wina (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish wino, from Proto-Slavic *vino.

wino słodkie

wino półsłodkie

wino półwytrawne

wino wytrawne

wino białe

wino czerwone

wino różowe


purl

Unknown; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl (“twist, ripple, whirl, spin”), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetan pirlo, an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.

A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.


purl

en-verb

purl (third-person singular simple present purls, present participle purling, simple past and past participle purled)

purls (present singular third-person)
purling (participle present)
purled (participle past)
purled (past)

From Old Norse purla (“to babble”), possibly ultimately from an imitative Germanic base related to Dutch polder, Norwegian puldra (“to gush”) and pulla (“to bubble”), Old English polr (“marsh”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

thin winding breath which purled up to the sky

1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.


purl

imitative

Whose streame an easie breath doth seeme to blowe; Which on the sparkling grauell runns in purles, / As though the waues had been of siluer curles

1591–1619, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the page)”, in J[ohn] Payne Collier, editor, Poems by Michael Drayton. […], London: […] J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Sons, […] [for the Roxburghe Club], published 1856, →OCLC:

Whatsoever had a beginning, can also have an ending; and it shall die, unless it be daily watered with the purls flowing from the fountain of life, and refreshed with the dew of heaven, and the wells of God: […]

1668, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-seven Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […]: Sermon VIII. A Funeral Sermon, &c.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume VI, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 453:

A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.


purl

Possibly from the pearl-like appearance caused by bubbles on the surface of the liquid.

A double mug of purle.

(archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.


flabby

en-adj

flabby (comparative flabbier, superlative flabbiest)

flabbier (comparative)
flabbiest (superlative)

From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).

My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen.

1867 December 28, John Wades, “External Manual Pressure during Labour”, in The British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 601:

A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 210:

The strings of some violins when up to pitch are loose and flabby; some are very taut and hard.

1961, The Violin Makers' Journal - Volume 5, page 71:

Chassis of 1950s-1970s bikes are flabby tubular structures, often weak to the point of lacking straight-line stability!

2008, Kevin Cameron, Sportbike Performance Handbook, →ISBN, page 135:

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.


grisette

Borrowed from French grisette, from gris (“grey”) + -ette, named after the color of the fabric associated with low value or bad quality.

Alternative form: grizette

‘What a fuss is here, indeed, about a little grisette: why, one would think Beresford had carried off an heiress.’

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263:

The anticipations of the shopkeeper were realized, and his rooms soon became notorious through the charms of the sprightly grisette.

1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:

he enjoyed the immense luxury not only of lovemaking but also of sleeping and drowsing beside this gentle and composed and somewhat melancholy woman, who was not a fille de joie in the professional sense but more like a grisette.

1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1015:

A (chiefly French) girl or young married woman of the lower class; especially, a young working-class woman of perceived easy morals.


fermentation

en-noun

fermentation (countable and uncountable, plural fermentations)

From Middle English fermentacioun, from Latin fermentātiō, fermentātiōnem.

(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide


crisp

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

kale crisps

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


molly

(India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

(video games) A similar device used as a game controller.


shroomer

(informal) A person who gathers wild mushrooms.


swipe

en-verb

swipe (third-person singular simple present swipes, present participle swiping, simple past and past participle swiped)

swipes (present singular third-person)
swiping (participle present)
swiped (participle past)
swiped (past)

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swipen (“to move violently”), from Old English swipian, sweopian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swerve, sway, swing, sweep”). Cognate with German schwippen (“to whip”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“to whip; move swiftly”). Related to sweep, swoop.

cog

Coordinate term: scroll

Swipe left to hide the toolbar.

This is the iPhone lock screen with its default Earth wallpaper. To unlock your phone, swipe the slider from left to right.

2008, Erica Sadun, Taking Your iPhone to the Max, Apress, →ISBN, page 27:

But really, she is just over it all: the swiping, the monotonous getting-to-know-you conversations and the self-doubt that creeps in when one of her matches fizzles.

2022 August 31, Catherine Pearson, “‘A Decade of Fruitless Searching’: The Toll of Dating App Burnout”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(transitive, intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.

Zac Efron needs a date. […] But would the actor resort to apps to find a partner? Joking, he said, “Amazingly, when I signed up for Tinder, nobody swiped me! They thought it was fake … That never happened.”

2016 August 2, Lindsay Kimble, “Zac Efron Opens Up About His Dating Woes and Jokes: 'When I Signed Up for Tinder, Nobody Swiped Me!'”, in People:

Yas (Vivian Oparah): That is your truth. And, by the way, your man swiped me on Tinder, like, a week ago. […]
Eric (Benjamin Sarpong-Broni): Mmm, no, I didn't. I didn't swipe you. […] Or anybody. […] I didn't swipe her.

2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane:

(transitive, informal) To swipe right on (someone) on a dating application.


swipe

en-noun

swipe (countable and uncountable, plural swipes)

Some New Yorkers are moving beyond the swipe to venture into flirtatious panel discussions and speed dating sessions.

2020 April 18, Alyson Krueger, “Virtual Dating Is the New Normal. Will It Work?”, in The New Yorker:

(countable, graphical user interface) An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.

Owning a car in New York City is seen as a liability by many, especially when a quick Uber ride or the swipe of a MetroCard can easily get you where you need to go.

2020 March 13, Ronnie Koenig, “Parking So Prime, the Car Is Optional”, in The New Yorker:

(countable) An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.

Woozy with swipe was the only way I could stay down with patience for work.

1984, Ronald T. Takaki, Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920, →ISBN, page 134:

JJ: Did a lot of people drink? KP: Down here, oh yeah, a lot of them made their own swipe, their own potato and pineapple swipe.

1990, Charles Langlas, James Ahia, The People of Kalapana, 1823-1950:

Sung Wha knows it's pineapple swipe they are drinking. Hoping that they might sell him some of the stuff, he approaches them with the dollar bill out. One worker, sucking on a fat, wet stub of a cigar, waves off the offer and shakes his head: no we aren't selling the swipe, the swipe is for us to drink and enjoy.

1998, Gary Pak, Pak: A Ricepaper Airplane, →ISBN, page 73:

Only the nights—of sitting out in the moonlight drinking the horrible tasting swipe and talking, the thinking about women —remained unchanged.

2012, James Jones, The World War II Trilogy, →ISBN:

(uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.


treacle

treacle (countable and uncountable, plural treacles)

From Middle English triacle, partly from Old French triacle, and partly from Old English tiriaca, both from Late Latin *triaca, *tiriaca, late form of theriaca, ultimately from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “antidote”), feminine form of θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”). Doublet of theriacle, equivalent to theriac + -le.

der

(historical, pharmacology) Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.

(obsolete, figurative, by extension) Synonym of cure: an all-powerful curative for some particular affliction.

cure

(obsolete, figurative, by extension) Synonym of cure-all: a panacea for all human ailments.

CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:


fret

en-verb

fret (third-person singular simple present frets, present participle fretting, simple past fretted or fret or frate, past participle fretted or (usually in compounds) fretten)

frets (present singular third-person)
fretting (participle present)
fretted (past)
fret (past)
frate (past)
fretted (participle past)
fretten (in-compounds participle past usually)

From Middle English frēten (“to eat (at), corrode, destroy, annoy”), from Old English fretan (“to eat up, devour; to fret; to break, burst”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraetan, from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to consume, devour, eat up”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (“for-, prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“forward, toward”)) + *etaną (“to eat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)).
The senses meaning “to chafe, rub” could also be due to sound-association with Anglo-Norman *freiter (modern dialectal French fretter), from Vulgar Latin *frictāre, frequentative of Latin fricāre, from fricō (“to chafe, rub”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut”); compare Old French froter (modern French frotter). The chief difficulty is the lack of evidence of the Old French word.
cognates
*Dutch vreten, fretten (“to devour, hog, wolf”)
*Low German freten (“to eat up”)
*German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”)
*Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fraitan, “to devour”)
*Swedish fräta (“to eat away, corrode, fret”)
*Danish fråse (“to gorge”)

cog

If their Cherries are full ripe and ſweet, they put only a Pound and an half of good Sugar to each gallon of Liquor, ſtir it well together, and cover it cloſe, and ſtir it no more till the next Day, then pour it carefully off the Lees as before; then let it ſtand again, and do the ſame the next Day into the Veſſel they keep it in: This may be repeated oftner, if they ſee the Lees are groſs, and like to make it fret when it is ſettled, then ſtop it up till ſeven or eight Months are paſs'd; at which time if perfectly fine, they bottle it; [...]

1725, [Noël] Chomel, “CHERRY-WINE”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC:

It is important to allow beer to flatten, after it has ceased working. This is accomplished by leaving the casks open, when the small floating particles of yeast part with their fixed air, lose their buoyancy, and sink to the bottom. [...] The beer having thus deposited its remaining yeast will not be liable to fret.

1856, “The Art of Brewing”, in The Brewer: A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Brewing, with Directions for the Selection of Malt and Hops, &c., &c.: Instructions for Making Cider and British Wines: Also, a Description of the New and Improved Brewing Saccharometer and Slide Rule, with Full Instructions for Their Use, London: William R[obert] Loftus, 6, Beaufoy Terrace, Edgeware Road, →OCLC, page 50:

secondary fermentation
secondary fermentation

(intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.


smack

en-noun

smack (countable and uncountable, plural smacks)

The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”).
The verb is from Middle English smaken.
Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.

cog

Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191:


tweak

en-verb

tweak (third-person singular simple present tweaks, present participle tweaking, simple past and past participle tweaked)

tweaks (present singular third-person)
tweaking (participle present)
tweaked (participle past)
tweaked (past)

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

inh

(intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.


claree

I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal.

1762 November 13, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter CCCLXIII, written from Bath, quoted in 1787, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 4, edition 9, page 182

At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.

2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3:

(archaic) A drink made of wine, honey, and spices.


stout

stout (canonical)
the malt brew stout (canonical)
stouts (plural)

From Middle English stoute, from Old French estout (“brave, fierce, proud”) (Modern French dialectal stout (“proud”)), from earlier Old French estolt (“strong”), from Frankish *stolt, *stult (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“bold, proud”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, stand”).
Cognate with Dutch stout (“stout, bold, naughty”), Low German stolt (“stately, proud”), German stolz (“proud, haughty, arrogant, stately”), Old Norse stoltr (“proud”) (Danish stolt (“proud”), Icelandic stoltur (“proud”)).
Meaning "strong in body, powerfully built" is attested from First attested in c. 1386, but has been to a large extent displaced by the euphemistic meaning "thick-bodied, fat and large," which is first recorded 1804. Original sense preserved in stout-hearted (1552).
The noun "strong, dark-brown beer" is first recorded 1677, from the adjective.

cog

Coordinate term: porter

Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.

(beer) A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.


crack cocaine

So named due to the crackling sound of the pieces when it is smoked.

A mixture of salt substitute, ether, and cocaine in a semi-liquid form, which is far more potent than if made with baking soda alone.


official

en-adj

official (comparative more official, superlative most official)

more official (comparative)
most official (superlative)

From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”), by surface analysis, office + -ial.

(pharmacology) Listed in a national pharmacopeia.


ODT

Controlled release (CR), modified release (MR), orally disintegrating tablets (ODT), and other innovative dosage forms are still of interest to both pharmaceutical producers and suppliers.

2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):8:

orally disintegrating tablet
orally disintegrating tablet#English

(pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of orally disintegrating tablet.


Kubanskaya

From Russian Куба́нская f (Kubánskaja), related to Куба́нь (Kubánʹ), Kuban, an area of southern Russian around the Kuban River and the Black Sea.

Russian flavoured vodka with a touch of honey


batu

methamphetamine hydrochloride
methamphetamine hydrochloride

(Hawaii, colloquial) The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, crystal meth.


tart

→ Cantonese: 撻／挞 (taat¹)

From Middle English tart, tarte, from Old French tarte, tartre (“flat pastry”) (compare Medieval Latin tarta), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old French torte, tourte, from Latin turta, perhaps from tŏrta f (“twisted”), in which case it would be cognate to torta.

unk

unknown

A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner).


adelantadillo

en-noun

adelantadillo (countable and uncountable, plural adelantadillos)

From Spanish adelantadillo, diminutive of adelantado (“early; not yet ready”).

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.


grappa

grappa (countable and uncountable, plural grappas)

Borrowed from Italian grappa. Doublet of grape.

(uncountable) An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace.


grappa

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *krappō (“hook”).

bor+

brace (arrangement for producing tension)


dross

en-noun

dross (usually uncountable, plural drosses)

From Middle English drosse, dros, from Old English drōs, from Proto-Germanic *drōhs (“dregs, sediment”).
Also compare Old English drōsna, drōsne (“a ground, sediment, lees, dregs, dirt, ear wax”), from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnǭ, *drōhsnō (“dregs, sediment”), derived from *drōhs. Alternatively, this may be from *dragjō + *-snō (“yeast, sediment”; compare *dragjō (“yeast”)), as if from *drēcg + -sn.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment, yeast”).
Cognate with Scots dros, drose, drosse (“small particles, fragments, dross”), Middle Dutch droes (“dregs”), Dutch droesem (“dregs”), German Drusen (“lees, dregs”), Latin fracēs (“grounds or dregs of oil”). Related also to drast, dregs.

gloss

“yeast, sediment”; compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro">*dragjō</i> (“yeast”)

cog

Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.

шлака

Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal

What thou lovest well remains,
 the rest is dross

(figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.

(slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.


qat

Alternative form of khat, a psychoactive stimulant obtained from the plant Catha edulis.


qat

khat, a psychoactive stimulant obtained from the plant Catha edulis


pil

id-noun

pil (first-person possessive pilku, second-person possessive pilmu, third-person possessive pilnya)

pilku (first-person possessive)
pilmu (possessive second-person)
pilnya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch pil (“pill”), from Middle Dutch pille, from Medieval Latin pilla, from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila (“ball”).

(medicine, pharmacy) pill: a small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.


khat

en-noun

khat (countable and uncountable, plural khats)

They are chewing on khat, a small serrated, bitter leaf with remarkable stimulative properties. […] One of the great things about khat[…] is that after a good chew you need to do something—walking, running, chopping wood, vigorously reciting a poem, throwing a grenade, anything that requires boldness and physical initiative.

1967 July 9, Lawrence Fellows, “East Africa Turns On With Khat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Of course he was an amateur of quat – hashish – which delighted the cops.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 31:

‘And skinny Arab beggars who chew qat all day long to kill their appetites and get high on the weed.’

2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 25:

Habitually munching on narcotic leaves of khat, they are easy enough to spot, their gleaming Toyota four-wheel-drives slicing paths around beaten-up wheelbarrows and pushcarts.

2011 May 24, Jay Bahadur, “Somali pirate: 'We're not murderers… we just attack ships'”, in the Guardian:

A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.


unctuous

en-adj

unctuous (comparative more unctuous, superlative most unctuous)

more unctuous (comparative)
most unctuous (superlative)

/ˈʌŋ(k)t͡ʃʊəs/

From Late Middle English unctuous [and other forms], borrowed from Medieval Latin ūnctuōsus (“greasy, oily, unctuous”), from Latin ūnctum (“ointment; rich banquet; rich savoury dish”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly’ forming adjectives from nouns). Ūnctum is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of unguō (“to anoint; to smear with oil, to grease or oil”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to anoint; to smear”).
cognates
* Italian untuoso
* Old French onctües, unctueus, unctuose (modern French onctueux)
* Portuguese unctuoso
* Spanish untuoso

nb...

unctouus, unctuos, unctuose, unctuouse, unctuus, ungtuous

мазен

of a person: profusely polite, especially in an insincerely earnest and unpleasant manner

"No bankers' books, or cheque books, or bill, or such tokens of wealth rolling in from day to day?" said old Sol, looking wistfully at his nephew out of the fog that always seemed to hang about him, and laying an unctuous emphasis upon the words.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “In which Some More First Appearances are Made on the Stage of These Adventures”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 27:

Then he thoroughly disliked the tone of Mr. Slope's letter; it was unctuous, false, and unwholesome, like the man.

1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mrs. Bold is Entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Grantly at Plumstead”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 23:

In superior circles, however, introduction becomes more elaborate, more flattering, more unctuous.

1919, Stephen Leacock, “The Art of Conversation”, in The Hohenzollerns in America and Other Impossibilities, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC, section I (How to Introduce Two People to One Another), page 172:

General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Doc Daneeka”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 32:

Profusely polite, especially in an insincere and unpleasant manner.

օծ

of a liquid, etc.: having the nature or properties of an unguent or ointment — see also oily, greasy


adjuvant

From Latin adiuvāns, present participle of adiuvāre (“to help”), from ad (“to”) + iuvāre (“to help”).

(pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. [from 19th c.]

adjuvans

pharmacology: additive that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient


attenuation

en-noun

attenuation (countable and uncountable, plural attenuations)

From Middle English attenuacioun, a borrowing from Latin attenuātiō (“a diminishing”). Equivalent to attenuate + -ion.

(brewing) The proportion of sugar that is converted to ethanol by a yeast.


narco-state

With the collapse of the government, there is a real danger the country will become a narco-state.

A state whose economy depends heavily on narcotics and other drugs.


booze

booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)

The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

She got caught between the shadows and the booze
And she surely did know how to have the blues

1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars

(colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).


dopamine

dopamine (countable and uncountable, plural dopamines)

“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”

2017 December 12, Amy B Wang, “Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’”, in Washington Post:

(biochemistry, pharmacology) A monoamine C₈H₁₁NO₂ that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.


piccolo

Western concert flute
Western concert flute

A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.


emetic

en-adj

emetic (comparative more emetic, superlative most emetic)

more emetic (comparative)
most emetic (superlative)

From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.

(pharmacology) Causing nausea and vomiting.


emetic

As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.

2022, Seth Garfield, Guaraná […] , Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN:

(pharmacology) An agent that induces vomiting.


moonshine

en-noun

moonshine (countable and uncountable, plural moonshines)

From Middle English mone schyne, mone-schyne, moone shone; equivalent to moon + shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from moonshiner.

They watered down the moonshine.

“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. […] I know she’d have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart:

My great grandpa was a blues lover / He'd be rockin' his moonshine to B.B. King and Jimmy Reed

1974, Betty Davis (lyrics and music), “They Say I'm Different”, performed by Betty Davis:

(informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.


barbie

Clipping of barbiturate + -ie (diminutive suffix).

“At nights,” she says, “we were both in our own little worlds, him with his alcohol and me with my barbies.”

1971, The Bulletin, volume 93, numbers 4762–4774, page 35:

Then one day the King said, / Jules, you're grounded. / Absolutely grounded. / This is it. So Jules took / barbies, you know, barbiturates, / and he stayed down. Way down. / Grounded like his father said.

1989, The Pembroke Magazine, volumes 21–23, page 162:


snakebite and black

snakebite and black (usually uncountable, plural snakebite and blacks)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-snakebite and black.wav

A drink made by accenting a snakebite (hard cider and lager) with a dash of blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis.


shrub

shrub (countable and uncountable, plural shrubs)

From Arabic شِرَاب (širāb, “a drink, beverage”), شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet, and sorbet.

der

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.


pomace

en-noun

pomace (countable and uncountable, plural pomaces)

[Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds]
From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum.
Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France).

bërsi

Sovv, as yet, Pomace of Cider-preſſings to raiſe Nurſeries; and ſet all ſorts of Kernels, Stones, &c.

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], “Kalendarium Hortense: Or, The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [December.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 80:

Next to the VVhite is the Black Thorne and the Crab, vvhich make a very good Fence, and is raiſed as the VVhite Thorne, only if you ſovv the Pummace vvith them, they vvill come up the firſt Year.

1708, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of Inclosing of Land”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:

The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.

(historical) Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer.


placebo effect

(pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.

placebo-effect

tendency for a substance to exhibit results due to belief of the recipient


antitussive

Coordinate term: protussive

(pharmacology) A cough suppressant or a drug that inhibits coughing.

antitusikum

a cough suppressant or a drug that inhibits coughing


antitussive

en-adj

antitussive (comparative more antitussive, superlative most antitussive)

more antitussive (comparative)
most antitussive (superlative)

Coordinate term: protussive

(pharmacology) Having cough suppressant abilities.


trip

trip (nominative singular)
tripy (nominative plural)
tripu (genitive singular)
tripów (genitive plural)
tripowi (dative singular)
tripom (dative plural)
trip (accusative singular)
tripy (accusative plural)
tripem (instrumental singular)
tripami (instrumental plural)
tripie (locative singular)
tripach (locative plural)
tripie (singular vocative)
tripy (plural vocative)

(slang) trip (period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations)


saké

en-noun

saké (countable and uncountable, plural sakés)

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine”), where the final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent in other senses of sake, as well as to differentiate it. Likely influenced by French saké.

bor+

(alcoholic beverages) Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.


saké

→ Romanian: sake n

→ Turkish: sake

Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine”).


bioaccumulate

en-verb

bioaccumulate (third-person singular simple present bioaccumulates, present participle bioaccumulating, simple past and past participle bioaccumulated)

bioaccumulates (present singular third-person)
bioaccumulating (participle present)
bioaccumulated (participle past)
bioaccumulated (past)

(often of a toxin) To accumulate in a biological system over time.


shiner

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).

cog

Shiners are a big part of the wine business. […] Shiners are finished, bottled wines that don’t have a label or typically any other identifying feature until a vintner purchases them and then places a label on the bottles. […] They’re called shiners because they are unlabeled and have a “shiny” appearance.

2008, James Laube, “Shiners Are a Secret Part of the Wine Business”, in Wine Spectator:

(wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.


薬学

[ja̠kɯ̟ɡa̠kɯ̟]


car bomb

An alcoholic beverage made by dropping a shot of liquor into a glass of beer.


flask

desctree

English: flask
→ Irish: fleasc
→ Welsh: fflasg

Scots: flask, flas

From Anglo-Norman flascon, from Frankish *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Reinforced by existing Old English flasce, from the same source.

A container for the storage of garments.


燒酒

ja-r

焼酎(しょうちゅう) (shōchū)

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (燒酒):
* → Japanese: 焼酎(しょうちゅう) (shōchū)
* → Korean: 소주(燒酒) (soju)

/ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯³⁵/

/ˈsɛu⁴² t͡ɕiu²¹³/

/siɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siu⁴¹/

/sɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕiɤ²¹/

/ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯³⁵/

/ˈsɛu⁴² t͡ɕiu²¹³/

/siɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siu⁴¹/

/sɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕiɤ²¹/

韓國燒酒

韩国烧酒

Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, mid-18ᵗʰ century CE

Wǒ chī le yī diǎnzǐ pángxiè, jiào dé xīnkǒu wēiwēi de téng, xū dé rè rè de chī kǒu shāojiǔ.

我吃了一點子螃蟹，覺得心口微微的疼，須得熱熱的吃口燒酒。

我吃了一点子螃蟹，觉得心口微微的疼，须得热热的吃口烧酒。


liqueur

en-noun

liqueur (countable and uncountable, plural liqueurs)

Unadapted borrowing from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.

A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.


cana

→ Old Tupi: kana
Nheengatu: kana

Etymology tree
Akkadian qanûmbor.
Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kánnā)bor.
Latin canna
Old Galician-Portuguese cana
Portuguese canaInherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kánnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.


wi

From Middle High German wīn, from Old High German wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.

(Gressoney, Carcoforo, Rimella and Campello Monti) wine


zibibbo

a variety of Muscat grape from Southern Italy


heroin

en-noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)

Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Said to have been called thus to evoke quick and sweeping effect as a painkiller and cough suppressant (its original uses). Alternatively explained as a reference to the heroic school of medicine.

Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank your God that I'm not aware / And thank God that I just don't care / And I guess I just don't know

1967, “Heroin”, in Lou Reed (music), The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground:

I saw a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins

1972, “King Heroin”, in Manny Rosen (lyrics), There It Is, performed by James Brown:

2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22ⁿᵈ of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.

2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Opiods”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 27, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

Okay, wel-, I’ll tell you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop?”, the answer is always fucking somewhere! You might let your kid have Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop?”!

2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

That’s because the second thing to know about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.

2019 January 21, Alex Hern, “‘Heroin for middle-class nerds’: how Warhammer conquered gaming”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria, classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world.


heroin

head

heroin c or n (singular definite heroinen or heroinet, uncountable)

heroinen (definite singular)
heroinet (definite singular)


heroin

heròīn (canonical masculine)
херо̀ӣн (Cyrillic)
heròīn (nominative singular)
heroína (genitive singular)
heroinu (dative singular)
heroin (accusative singular)
heroine (singular vocative)
heroinu (locative singular)
heroinom (instrumental singular)


heroin

Borrowed from German Heroin. Attested since 1898.

Min granne är beroende av heroin


dealer

From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.

That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!

One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.

تَاجِر

one who deals in things, e.g. automobiles

It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
 Who said they were through with dealing

1967, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “The Stranger Song”, in Songs of Leonard Cohen:

A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.

Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]

2018, Kate Stanley, Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson, page 90:


dealer

nl-noun

dealer m (plural dealers, diminutive dealertje n)

dealers (plural)
dealertje (diminutive neuter)

Audio

From English dealer. By surface analysis, dealen (“to deal drugs”) + -er. Doublet of deler.


dealer

pl-noun

dealer m pers (female equivalent dealerka, related adjective dealerski)

dealerka (feminine)
dealerski (adjective)
dealer (nominative singular)
dealerzy (nominative plural)
dealery (derogatory nominative plural)
dealera (genitive singular)
dealerów (genitive plural)
dealerowi (dative singular)
dealerom (dative plural)
dealera (accusative singular)
dealerów (accusative plural)
dealerem (instrumental singular)
dealerami (instrumental plural)
dealerze (locative singular)
dealerach (locative plural)
dealerze (singular vocative)
dealerzy (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.


unofficial

en-adj

unofficial (comparative more unofficial, superlative most unofficial)

more unofficial (comparative)
most unofficial (superlative)

(pharmacology) Not listed in a national pharmacopeia etc.


noble

noble (comparative nobler or more noble, superlative noblest or most noble)

nobler (comparative)
more noble (comparative)
noblest (superlative)
most noble (superlative)

From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”).
False cognate of Arabic نبيل (nabīl). Displaced native Middle English athel, from Old English æþele.

der

(winemaking) Belonging to a class of grape cultivars traditionally considered most favorable for winemaking, usually encompassing the six: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon blanc, Chardonnay, and Riesling.


magnum

From Latin magnum, neuter of magnus (“great”).
* (bottle): Ellipsis of magnum bonum.
* (handgun): Name registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.

So please don’t ask me when / There may be wine and roses / And magnums of champagne

2014, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “A Street”, in Popular Problems:

A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.

(firearms) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.

I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

1971, Harry Julian Fink et al., Dirty Harry, spoken by Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood):

(by extension) A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.


magnum

(wine) a bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle


ecky

en-noun

ecky (countable and uncountable, plural eckies)

Afterwards, Tom wanted to drive home. Francoise said he was in no state to. Tom said that he always drove home from clubs, and that the ecky wouldn't impair his driving.

1997, Barry Graham, Before: A Novel, page 45:

Penman and I have taken half an ecky each, but mair coke would be sound.

2008, Irvine Welsh, The Acid House, →ISBN:

We give you the ecky or skunk and tell you who to get it to.You get paid by them.

2014, Murray C. Morison, Time Sphere, →ISBN:


slammer

Margaret was also, by her own admission, a determined slammer of doors.

1989, Jane Howard, Margaret Mead: A Life, page 27:

The basic modern 'Pog' game is played thus. Each child tosses a pog into the arena, face-up or face-down, as agreed. Each player in turn takes his slammer and pitches it hard onto the accumulated pile of pogs.

1997, Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's Games with Things, page 120:

In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.

I was in Britain, wanting to take a train to Portsmouth, and I only needed a one-way ticket. I did love the English trains; we still had slammers then. A slammer is a train where you got to slam the door shut yourself.

2009, Claude Lambert, On Pets and Men, page 33: