mi

Sino-Vietnamese word from 眉 (“eyebrows”). Doublet of mày. Probably unrelated to mí (“eyelid”).


mi

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwuːjᴬ (“pubic hair”). Cognate with Thai หมอย (mɔ̌ɔi), Lao ໝອຍ (mǭi), Shan မွႆ (mǎui), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜩 (moy).


weave

en-verb

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)

weaves (present singular third-person)
weaving (participle present)
weaved (participle past)
weaved (past)

From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.

The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.

Weave a circle round him thrice,
 And close your eyes with holy dread:
 For he on honey-dew hath fed,
 And drank the milk of Paradise.

1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 58:

(transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.

serpenter

to make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side


her

heres (plural)
er (alternative)
hair (alternative)
haire (alternative)
har (alternative)
hare (alternative)
hær (alternative)
hear (alternative)
heere (alternative)
heir (alternative)
here (alternative)
herre (alternative)
heyr (alternative)
hier (alternative)
hor (alternative)
hore (alternative)

English: hair

→ Russian: хаер (xajer)

→⇒ Russian: хайратник (xajratnik)

Scots: hair, hayr, hare

Yola: haar

Inherited from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.

Tho rad he me how sāpson lost his heeres

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

(countable) a hair (follicular growth on the skin)

But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.

a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3690–3691:

Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.

(uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)

Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)


peruke

perukes (plural)
perruque (alternative)
peruque (alternative)

From French perruque. Doublet of periwig.

To poſterity perhaps his prints vvill carry an idea of ſomething burleſque; perukes of outrageous length flovving over ſuits of armour compoſe vvonderfull habits.

1762–1771, Horace Walpole, “Mr. JOHN SMITH”, in A Catalogue of Engravers, Who Have Been Born, or Resided in England; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV, or Engravers), London: […] Thomas Farmer […], →OCLC, page 105:

But now at thirty years my hair is gray— / (I wonder what it will be like at forty? / I thought of a peruke the other day) […]

1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza CCXIII, page 109:

Let the long peruke succeed the godly cropt hair; the cravat, the ruff; […]

1834, Robert Southey, “Ante-preface”, in The Doctor, &c., volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, →OCLC, pages 35–36:

Every chair was filled, the line of assistants working like conjurors at the bizarre hairstyles, a splendid confusion of feathers and flared perukes, wings of back-brushed hair, like the plumage of an aviary.

1979, J.G. Ballard, chapter 19, in The Unlimited Dream Company:

With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.

1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 135:

A wig, especially one with long hair on the sides and back, worn mainly by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.


rat

From Middle English ratte, rat, rotte, from Old English rætt, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *rattō (compare West Frisian rôt, Dutch rat), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). However, the rat may have been unknown in Northern Europe in antiquity, and the Proto-Germanic word may have referred to a different animal; see *rattaz for more. Attestation of this family of words begins in the 12th century.
Some of the Germanic cognates show considerable consonant variation, e.g. Middle Low German ratte, radde; Middle High German rate, ratte, ratze. The irregularity may be symptomatic of a late dispersal of the word, although Kroonen accounts for it with a Proto-Germanic stem *raþō nom., *ruttaz gen., showing both ablaut and a Kluge's law alternation, with the variation arising from varying remodellings in the descendants. Kroonen states that this requires a Proto-Indo-European etymon in final *t and is incompatible with the usual derivation from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).

der

Our teenager has become a mall rat.

He loved hockey and was a devoted rink rat.

(slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.

завсегда́тай

a person who routinely spends time at a certain location


auburn

en-adj

auburn (comparative more auburn, superlative most auburn)

more auburn (comparative)
most auburn (superlative)

Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.

All were watching somebody in the garden with deep interest, their three faces close together: a jovial and round one, a pale one with dark hair, and a fair one whose tresses were auburn. “Don’t push! You can see as well as I,” said Retty, the auburn-haired and youngest girl, without removing her eyes from the window.

1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXI, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

[…]; nor was Miss Wilkinson the ideal: he had often pictured to himself the great violet eyes and the alabaster skin of some lovely girl, and he had thought of himself burying his face in the rippling masses of her auburn hair.

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

I never thought I'd meet a girl like you / Meet a girl like you / With auburn hair and tawny eyes

1982, “I Ran (So Far Away)”, performed by A Flock of Seagulls:


chestnut

en-noun

chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)

→ Gujarati: ચેસ્ટનટ (cesṭanaṭ)

Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ċisten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin castānea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia). Latin castānea also is the ultimate source of English castanet.

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire


haar

From Middle High German and Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Härre (alternative)
hoar (alternative)
hoor (alternative)
hàre (alternative)

(Formazza, anatomy) hair (the long hair on a person's head)


haar

From Middle High German hār, from Old High German hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”). Cognate with German Haar, English hair.

's haar stéet bòol gastréelt.


bal

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀮 (vāla), from Sanskrit वाल (vāla). Cognate with Hindi बाल (bāl), Punjabi ਵਾਲ (vāl, “hair”).

inh+

mire bala kale hin

2002 July 7, Milena Hübschmannová, “Origin of Roma”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database, archived from the original on 2014-10-27:


hair

en-verb

hair (third-person singular simple present hairs, present participle hairing, simple past and past participle haired)

hairs (present singular third-person)
hairing (participle present)
haired (participle past)
haired (past)

From Middle English her, heer, hær, from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hier (“hair”), West Frisian hier (“hair”), Dutch haar (“hair”), German Low German Haar (“hair”), German Haar (“hair”), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian hår (“hair”), Icelandic hár (“hair”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English cheveler, chevelere (“hair”), borrowed from Old French chevelëure (“hair, head-hair, coiffure, wig”).
The modern spelling with ai is not a regular representation of the vowel developed from Middle English. Rather, it is from Middle English here (haircloth) influenced by Old French haire.

noncog

He has haired up and healed over.

1863, Yankee-notions - Volume 12, page 312:

It has haired over nicely. There are no bad results from it in any way whatever that I can detect.

1887, National Stockman and Farmer - Volume 11, page 7:

The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.

1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, page 492:

(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

karvoittua

to grow hair where there was a bald spot


cebulka

cebulka (nominative singular)
cebulki (nominative plural)
cebulki (genitive singular)
cebulek (genitive plural)
cebulce (dative singular)
cebulkom (dative plural)
cebulkę (accusative singular)
cebulki (accusative plural)
cebulką (instrumental singular)
cebulkami (instrumental plural)
cebulce (locative singular)
cebulkach (locative plural)
cebulko (singular vocative)
cebulki (plural vocative)


haj

hajak (plural)
haj (nominative singular)
hajak (nominative plural)
hajat (accusative singular)
hajakat (accusative plural)
hajnak (dative singular)
hajaknak (dative plural)
hajjal (instrumental singular)
hajakkal (instrumental plural)
hajért (causal-final singular)
hajakért (causal-final plural)
hajjá (singular translative)
hajakká (plural translative)
hajig (singular terminative)
hajakig (plural terminative)
hajként (essive-formal singular)
hajakként (essive-formal plural)
hajban (inessive singular)
hajakban (inessive plural)
hajon (singular superessive)
hajakon (plural superessive)
hajnál (adessive singular)
hajaknál (adessive plural)
hajba (illative singular)
hajakba (illative plural)
hajra (singular sublative)
hajakra (plural sublative)
hajhoz (allative singular)
hajakhoz (allative plural)
hajból (elative singular)
hajakból (elative plural)
hajról (delative singular)
hajakról (delative plural)
hajtól (ablative singular)
hajaktól (ablative plural)
hajé (singular)
hajaké (plural)
hajéi (singular)
hajakéi (plural)
hajam (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
hajaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
hajad (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
hajaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
haja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
hajai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
hajunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
hajaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
hajatok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
hajaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
hajuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
hajaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Proto-Ugric *kajɜ (“hair”), from Proto-Uralic *kaje (“grass, stalk”).

hair (of the head, excluding facial hair)


do

en-verb

do (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing, simple past did, past participle done)

does (present singular third-person)
doing (participle present)
did (past)
done (participle past)
do (infinitive)

Brittonicisms in English
Do
Do-support
Early Modern English

From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”).
For senses 4 and 5, compare Old Norse duga, whence Danish du.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, an unexpected development from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē (the expected reflex would be *ded), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The meaningless use of do in interrogative, negative, and affirmative sentences (e.g. "Do you like painting?" "Yes, I do"), existing in some form in most Germanic languages, is thought by some linguists to be one of the Brittonicisms in English, calqued from Brythonic. It is first recorded in Middle English, where it may have marked the perfective aspect, though in some cases the meaning seems to be imperfective. In Early Modern English, any meaning in such contexts was lost, making it a dummy auxiliary, and soon thereafter its use became mandatory in most questions and negations.
Doublets include deed, deem, and -dom, but not deal.
Other cognates include, via Latin, English feast, festival, fair (“celebration”), via Greek, English theo-, theme, thesis, and Sanskrit दधाति (dadhāti, “to put”), धातृ (dhātṛ, “creator”) and धातु (dhātu, “layer, element, root”).

der

not used in Dutch (translated by inversion)

est-ce que (or translated by inversion of the verb and subject)

tun

in colloquial speech, certain dialects, baby-language

ay

positioned at the beginning of a sentence

do unto others as you would have them do unto you

never put off until tomorrow what you can do today

the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it

what does that have to do with the price of corn

what does that have to do with the price of fish

what does that have to do with the price of tea in China

who are you and what have you done with someone

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't

"Defender Kolo Toure admitted Given will be a loss, but gave his backing to Nielsen. 'I think he's done his shoulder,' said the Ivorian."

2010 April 24, “Given stretchered off with suspected broken shoulder”, in The Irish Times, retrieved 2015-07-21:

"Watto will spend the entire winter stretching and doing Pilates, and do a hamstring after bending down to pick up his petrol cap after dropping it filling his car at Caltex Cronulla."

2014 April 14, Matt Cleary, “What do Australia's cricketers do on holiday?”, in ESPNcricinfo, retrieved 2015-07-21:

"'I knew straight away I'd done my ACL, I heard the sound - it was very loud and a few of the boys said they heard it as well,' Otten said."

2014 August 13, Harry Thring, “I knew straight away I'd done my ACL: Otten”, in AFL.com.au, retrieved 2015-07-21:

(informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).


suka

suka (nominative singular)
suat (nominative plural)
suan (genitive singular)
sukkiin (genitive plural)
sukkaa (partitive singular)
sukkia (partitive plural)
sukkaa (illative singular)
sukkii (illative plural)
suas (inessive singular)
suis (inessive plural)
suast (elative singular)
suist (elative plural)
sualle (allative singular)
suille (allative plural)
sual (adessive singular)
suil (adessive plural)
sualt (ablative singular)
suilt (ablative plural)
suaks (singular translative)
suiks (plural translative)
sukanna (essive singular)
sukkaan (essive singular)
sukinna (essive plural)
sukkiin (essive plural)
sukant (exessive singular)
sukint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *suka. Cognates include Finnish suka and Estonian suga.


suka

suka (nominative singular)
sukas (nominative plural)
sukas (genitive singular)
suku (genitive plural)
sukai (dative singular)
sukām (dative plural)
suku (accusative singular)
sukas (accusative plural)
suku (instrumental singular)
sukām (instrumental plural)
sukā (locative singular)
sukās (locative plural)
suka (singular vocative)
sukas (plural vocative)

There are competing theories on the origin of this word. The first (and more probable) one assumes that it comes from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”) > derived form *suk- “pig” (masc., fem.), “coarse hair, bristle” (neut.). Originally suka was the neuter plural form, but it became feminine singular after the general loss of the neuter gender, with semantic change “bristles” > “brush” (compare German Bürste (“brush”), Borste (“bristle”)). Borrowings by Finnic languages from Baltic languages support this evolution (e.g., Finnish suka (“pig bristle (archaic), currycomb”)). The second theory considers suka cognate to Lithuanian šùkos (“brush”), Russian щётка (ščótka, “brush”), Sanskrit शूक (śūka, “needle”), all from Proto-Indo-European *ḱū- (“pointed”). A third theory attributes these words to Proto-Indo-European *kes-, *ks- (“to cut, to carve”).

cog

drēbju, apavu suka

matu suka

zobu suka

zirgu suka

saru, tērauda suka

tīrīt drēbes ar suku

brush (instrument made with flexible bristles attached to a handle, used especially for grooming hair)


kita

kitka (diminutive)
kita (nominative singular)
kity (nominative plural)
kity (genitive singular)
kit (genitive plural)
kicie (dative singular)
kitom (dative plural)
kitę (accusative singular)
kity (accusative plural)
kitą (instrumental singular)
kitami (instrumental plural)
kicie (locative singular)
kitach (locative plural)
kito (singular vocative)
kity (plural vocative)


kita

kíta (canonical feminine)
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kíta (nominative singular)
kíti (dual nominative)
kíte (nominative plural)
kíte (genitive singular)
kít (dual genitive)
kít (genitive plural)
kíti (dative singular)
kítama (dative dual)
kítam (dative plural)
kíto (accusative singular)
kíti (accusative dual)
kíte (accusative plural)
kíti (locative singular)
kítah (dual locative)
kítah (locative plural)
kíto (instrumental singular)
kítama (dual instrumental)
kítami (instrumental plural)


down

en-adj

down (comparative more down, superlative most down)

tlb

(chiefly predicative, but see usage notes)

more down (comparative)
most down (superlative)

From Middle English doun, doune, from Old English dūne (“down”), aphetic form of adūne (“down, downward”), from earlier ofdūne (“down”, literally “off the hill”), from of (“of, off of”) + dūn (“hill, mount, dune, down”). More at Etymology 2 below. For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“down, downwards”, literally “(in/to the) dale/valley”), whence German Low German dal (“down”). Compare also Saterland Frisian deel (“down”, literally “to/into the dale”).

ncog

a down cow

(veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.

I'm a TS who has been down for over 5 years and will be going up for parole in the next 1 to 3 years.

1988 February 7, Crystal Dawn Boyd, “Let's Start Caring About Ourselves”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 5:


braid

en-verb

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)

braids (present singular third-person)
braiding (participle present)
braided (participle past)
braided (past)
brayde (alternative)
breyde (alternative)
broid (alternative)

From Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

cog

Braid your locks with rosy twine.

1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.


braid

en-noun

braid (countable and uncountable, plural braids)

braids (plural)
brayde (alternative)
breyde (alternative)
broid (alternative)

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.

A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.

Geflecht

We introduce braids via their historical roots and uses, make connections with knot theory and present the mathematical theory of braids through the braid group.

2009, Mitchell A. Berger, Louis H. Kauffman, Renzo L. Ricca, Lectures on Topological Fluid Mechanics, page 1:

In order to characterise the structure and complexity of a braid different numbers or topological invariants can be calculated.

2012, A. T. Skjeltorp, Tamas Vicsek, Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales, page 144:

(mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.


braid

braids (plural)
brade (alternative)
brad (alternative)
bread (alternative)
bred (alternative)
breid (alternative)
breyd (alternative)

From Middle English brede, bræd, bred, from Old English bred (“board, plank, tablet, table”), from Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą (“board, plank”), e-grade byform of *burdą (“board, plank”). Cognate with Scots bred, braid, brad (“board, plank, wooden tablet”), Saterland Frisian Brääd (“board, plank”), West Frisian bret (“board, plank”), Dutch bred, berd (“plank, table”), German Low German Bredd (“board, plank”), German Brett (“board, plank”), Danish bræt (“board, plank”)..

cog

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.


eyelash

eyelashes (plural)
eye-lash (alternative)
eye lash (alternative)

(anatomy, dermatology) One of the hairs which grows along the edge of eyelids.


blew

blewen (singulative)
blew (unmutated)
vlew (soft)
plew
flew (mixed)
vlew (after-th mutation-mixed)

Cognate with Breton blev and Welsh blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”). Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).


blew

blewyn (singulative)
blew
flew (soft)
mlew

From Middle Welsh blew; cognate with Breton blev and Cornish blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”). Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).

achub y blewyn a cholli’r bwrn

to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, to falsely economise


blond

en-adj

blond (comparative blonder or more blond, superlative blondest or most blond)

blonder (comparative)
more blond (comparative)
blondest (superlative)
most blond (superlative)
blonde (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). More at blend.
Alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).

cog

“She was so blond, that where it said 'sign here,' she wrote Gemini.” He had given her only the weakest of smiles.

2010, Mariah Stewart, Moon Dance, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

Katelyn's laugh was nearly uncontrollable. “You are so blond sometimes,” she said with a long laughing sigh, but then calmed herself down.

2002, Michael Jay, The Altherian Code, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 118:

Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”)


blond

nl-adj

blond (comparative blonder, superlative blondst)

blonder (comparative)
blondst (superlative)
blond (adverbial positive predicative)
blonder (adverbial comparative predicative)
het blondst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het blondste (adverbial predicative superlative)
blonde (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
blondere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
blondste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
blond (indefinite neuter positive singular)
blonder (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
blondste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
blonde (indefinite plural positive)
blondere (comparative indefinite plural)
blondste (indefinite plural superlative)
blonde (definite positive)
blondere (comparative definite)
blondste (definite superlative)
blonds (partitive positive)
blonders (comparative partitive)

→ Papiamentu: blònt

From Middle Dutch blont, from Old French blond, Medieval Latin blondus, from Germanic.

Hij heeft mooi blond haar.

Mijn moeder drinkt graag sterke blonde trappistenbieren.

My mother likes to drink strong blonde trappist beers.

blond, fair; of light color (usually said about light hair color, but it can also refer to beer)


blond

pl-adj

blond (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

Borrowed from French blond, from Middle French blond, from Old French blond, blont, blund, from Medieval Latin blondus, from Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

blond kolor

blond odcień

blond modelka

blond piękność

blond czupryna

blond peruka

blond loki

blond warkocze

blond wąsy

blond włosy

farbowany/przefarbowany/ufarbowany na blond

zrobiony na blond

ciemny blond

jasny blond

platynowy blond

popielaty blond

naturalny blond

tleniony blond


blond

(colloquial) blond (which has a color intermediate between golden and light brown)


blonde

Alternative form of blond (person of fair hair). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)


hold

en-verb

hold (third-person singular simple present holds, present participle holding, simple past held, past participle held or (archaic) holden)

holds (present singular third-person)
holding (participle present)
held (past)
held (participle past)
holden (archaic participle past)

Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
Cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).

der+

hold with the hare and run with the hounds

one can't hold two watermelons in one hand

(tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.


hold

(tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.

(aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.


hår

hår (indefinite nominative singular)
hårs (genitive indefinite singular)
håret (definite nominative singular)
hårets (definite genitive singular)
hår (indefinite nominative plural)
hårs (genitive indefinite plural)
håren (definite nominative plural)
hårens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish hār, from Old Norse hár, from Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”).


wool

en-noun

wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)

→ Japanese: ウール (ūru)

From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Norwegian ull; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana.
The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ‹wu› in favour of ‹wo›, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation).

wool of bat and tongue of dog

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

(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

(British, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.

(Liverpool, derogatory) A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.

The object of your affection is the treetop connection / Where basically you love to smoke your wools

1991 March 29, “Slow Down” (0:25 from the start), in One for All, performed by Brand Nubian:

He rocked Caesar's chains, he pushed Caesar's Range / Smokin' mad wools all day, with Caesar's change

2003 June 24, “Sabotage” (0:40 from the start), in The Ownerz, performed by Gang Starr:

Lopez said the shooter's name was Lou, known on the street as Wool Lou, because he sold "wools," which were cigarettes rolled up with crack cocaine.

2012, Chris Berdik, Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations, New York, N.Y.: Current, →ISBN, page 149:

(slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.


brush

brush (countable and uncountable, plural brushes)

From Middle English brusshe, from Old French broisse (Modern French brosse), from Vulgar Latin *brustia, from Frankish *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (“bristle”), or also Vulgar Latin *bruscia, from Proto-Germanic *bruskaz (“tuft, thicket, underbrush”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusgo-.

der

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

brush with death

He has had brushes with communism from time to time.

The usual visual grammar was in place – a carpet in the street, people in paddocks awaiting a brush with something glamorous, blokes with earpieces, birds in frocks of colliding colours that if sighted in nature would indicate the presence of poison.

2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in The Guardian:

A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.


brush

en-verb

brush (third-person singular simple present brushes, present participle brushing, simple past and past participle brushed)

brushes (present singular third-person)
brushing (participle present)
brushed (participle past)
brushed (past)

Her scarf brushed his skin.

Some spread their sails, some with strong oars sweep / The waters smooth, and brush the buxom wave.

1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:

Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings.

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

Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.

1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Further to Fly”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:

(ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.


coat

en-noun

coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)

Sranan Tongo: koto

→ Swahili: koti

(South Wales) Welsh: cot

(North Wales) Welsh: côt

From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).
Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Middle Dutch cote (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

cog

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

(countable, clothing) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.ᵂᵖ

pallto

(portata eksterdome, vintre aŭ ĝenerale en malvarma vetero) palto


combover

combovers (plural)
comb over (alternative)
comb-over (alternative)

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

With his funny comb-over and shy manner he was a strange man but she knew that he was a good man, and it is goodness that counts.

2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 191:

A manner of combing hair from one side to the other in an attempt to conceal a medial bald patch.

přehazovačka

a manner of combing hair to conceal a bald spot


shear

en-noun

shear (countable and uncountable, plural shears)

From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

inh

(metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.

(physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.


shorn

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]

1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8:


shed

en-verb

shed (third-person singular simple present sheds, present participle shedding, simple past and past participle shed or (nonstandard) shedded)

sheds (present singular third-person)
shedding (participle present)
shed (participle past)
shed (past)
shedded (nonstandard participle past)
shedded (nonstandard past)

From Middle English scheden, schede, from Old English scēadan, scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between; remove from association or companionship; distinguish, discriminate, decide, determine, appoint; shatter, shed; expound; decree; write down; differ”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (compare West Frisian skiede, Dutch and German scheiden), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.
See also Irish scian (“knife”), Lithuanian skėsti (“to spread”), skíesti (“to separate”), Old Church Slavonic цѣдити (cěditi, “to filter, strain”), Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”), Old Armenian ցտեմ (cʻtem, “to scratch”), Sanskrit च्यति (cyáti, “he cuts off”)). Related to shoad, shit, sheath.

cog

You must shed your fear of the unknown before you can proceed.

When we found the snake, it was in the process of shedding its skin.

White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.

2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02:

(ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of.

afwerpen

to cast off, to let fall, be divested of

vedlik

hair, feathers, skin, etc., as an animal


shed

sheds (plural)
shode (alternative)
shead (alternative)
shede (alternative)

From Middle English sched, schede, schad, from a combination of Old English scēada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ġesċēad (“distinction, reason”).

der

Coordinate term: barn

(nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.


shed

→ Scottish Gaelic: seada

→ Welsh: sièd

Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.

Never saw that but we did stand and watch a pair of Sheds (156 and 165) speed north on a loaded steel.

2000 November 12, Bruce Garbutt, “Re: DRS to Cardiff (was Re: Tractor via Eddiestown)”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

(British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.


comb

From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb.
Cognates
Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm); also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).

cog

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].

A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.

A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.

A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

A toothed implement:
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.

(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.

(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.

(algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.


comb

en-verb

comb (third-person singular simple present combs, present participle combing, simple past and past participle combed)

combs (present singular third-person)
combing (participle present)
combed (participle past)
combed (past)

I need to comb my hair before we leave the house.

(transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.

kreh

to groom the hair with a toothed implement

Police combed the field for evidence after the assault.

(transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

претърсвам

to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb


comb

combes (plural)
combe (alternative)
kombe (alternative)
camb (alternative)
kambe (alternative)
cambe (alternative)

English: comb

Scots: camb, came, kame, kaim, kem

Yola: cowm, khime

From Old English camb, comb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.

A comb (toothed tool for holding or grooming hair)


beaver

en-noun

beaver (countable and uncountable, plural beavers or (senses 1 and 4) beaver)

beavers (plural)
beaver (plural)
Beaver (alternative)

From Middle English bever, from Old English befer, from Proto-West Germanic *bebru, from Proto-Germanic *bebruz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”).
Cognate with West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur. Non-Germanic cognates include Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian bẽbras, Russian бобр (bobr), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬭𐬀 (bauura), and Sanskrit बभ्रु (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”).
Slang use to refer to a woman evolved from use to refer to pubic hair, which evolved from use to refer to beards, which evolved from use to refer to the furry animal or its fur.

cog

The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.

(countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.

(uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.

Finally it came on. It was a beauty, a beaver flick made in the late 1970s. It was called Big Black Leather Splits.

1969, Harlan Ellison, “A Boy and His Dog”, in The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, New York: Open Road Media, published 2014, →ISBN:

Between you and me, uh, she might have been fifteen, but when you get that little red beaver right up there in front of you, I don’t think it's crazy at all and I don’t think you do either.

1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, directed by Miloš Forman, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (motion picture), spoken by Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson):

Let’s get some of that Saturday night beaver.

1997, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights (motion picture), spoken by Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly):

The store sold beaver books, fuck-suck books, homo books, novels, films, slides, playing cards, dildoes, cock rings, S&M gear, and French ticklers.

2004, James Ellroy, Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, pages 127–128:

[…] once she wore none at all, swears to this day that he saw her beaver that fateful Friday night.

2010, Dennis McFadden, Hart’s Grove: Stories:

(chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.


snow

en-noun

snow (countable and uncountable, plural snows)

The noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”), from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).
The verb is derived from Middle English snouen (“to snow; (figurative) to shower”), from snou, snow (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Displaced Old English snīwan, whence English snew (obsolete).
Verb sense 2.3.2 (“to convince or hoodwink (someone)”) probably refers to a person being blinded or confused by a snowstorm.
Cognates
* Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”) (dialectal)
* Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha)
* Danish sne (“snow”)
* Dutch sneeuw (“snow”)
* German Schnee (“snow”)
* Icelandic snjór (“snow”)
* Latin nix (“snow”)
* Norwegian snø (“snow”)
* Russian снег (sneg)
* Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”)
* Scots snaw (“snow”)
* Swedish snö (“snow”)
* West Frisian snie (“snow”)

сы

partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; falling of such flakes; accumulation of them as a white layer

there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley

there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]

1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Earlier Poems.] Burial of the Minnisink.”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 53:

The path by which we twain did go, / Which led by tracts that pleased us well, / Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, / From flower to flower, from snow to snow: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXII, page 37:

(uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.

(countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter.

lumi

something resembling snow in appearance or color


shock

en-noun

shock (countable and uncountable, plural shocks)

→ Bulgarian: шок (šok)

→ Chinese: 休克 (xiūkè)

→ Czech: šok

→ Italian: shock

→ Japanese: ショック (shokku)

→ Korean: 쇼크 (syokeu)

→ Macedonian: шок (šok)

→ Polish: szok

→ Russian: шок (šok)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: шо̏к

Latin: šȍk

→ Slovak: šok

→ Spanish: shock

From Middle Dutch schokken (“to push, jolt, shake, jerk”) or Middle French choquer (“to collide with, clash”), from Old Dutch *skokkan (“to shake up and down, shog”), from Proto-Germanic *skukkaną (“to move, shake, tremble”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *skakaną (“to shake, stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”); see shake.
Cognate with Middle Low German schocken (“collide with, deliver a blow to, move back and forth”), Old High German scoc (“a jolt, swing”), Middle High German schocken (“to swing”) (German schaukeln), Old Norse skykkr (“vibration, surging motion”), Icelandic skykkjun (“tremulously”), Middle English schiggen (“to shake”). Doublet of shog.

cog

shark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

(medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.


beard

PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart). Cognate further to Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá): the word may date to Proto-Indo-European as *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂. Doublet of barb.

Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.


beard

en-verb

beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)

beards (present singular third-person)
bearding (participle present)
bearded (participle past)
bearded (past)

Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?

1765, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:

No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.

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

Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...

1943 December 6, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby:

. . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.

1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, page 92:

(transitive) To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.


beard

beard (nominative singular)
beardas (nominative plural)
beard (accusative singular)
beardas (accusative plural)
beardes (genitive singular)
bearda (genitive plural)
bearde (dative singular)
beardum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: berd, bard, bærd, beord, burd
English: beard
Scots: berd, berde, beird
Yola: bearde
→ Anglo-Norman: berd
→⇒ Anglo-Norman: barder (verb) (merged with Old French barbier)

From Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)).


mustache

“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, “Zollenstein”, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:


brew

brew (nominative singular)
brwi (nominative plural)
brwi (genitive singular)
brwi (genitive plural)
brwi (dative singular)
brwiom (dative plural)
brew (accusative singular)
brwi (accusative plural)
brwią (instrumental singular)
brwiami (instrumental plural)
brwi (locative singular)
brwiach (locative plural)
brwi (singular vocative)
brwi (plural vocative)


lash

en-adj

lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)

more lash (comparative)
most lash (superlative)

We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!

That Chinese (food) was lash!


櫛

Daijisen
Extended shinjitai
Kyūjitai
Shinjitai
ja:松村明
ja:櫛


毛

Second grade kyōiku kanji (romanization)


毛

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE. Ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kay. Cognate with Proto-Ryukyuan *ke (“hair, fur”).


毛

ja-noun

毛(もう) • (mō)

one thousandth of a 寸 (sun) (approximately 0.0303 mm)

one thousandth of a 匁 (monme) (exactly 3.75 mg)

one thousandth of a 割 (wari) (0.01 percent)


毛

From Proto-Ryukyuan *ke, from Proto-Japonic *kay. Cognate with Japanese 毛 (ke).


las

lȃs (canonical feminine inanimate masculine)
lȃs (nominative singular)
lȃsa (dual nominative)
lasjẹ̑ (nominative plural)
lasȗ (genitive singular)
lás (dual genitive)
lás (genitive plural)
lȃsu (dative singular)
lȃsi (dative singular)
lȃsoma (dative dual)
lȃsama (dative dual)
lasẹ̑m (dative plural)
lȃs (accusative singular)
lȃsa (accusative dual)
lasẹ̑ (accusative plural)
lȃse (accusative plural)
lȃsu (locative singular)
lȃsi (locative singular)
lasẹ́h (dual locative)
lasẹ́h (locative plural)
lȃsom (instrumental singular)
lȃsoma (dual instrumental)
lȃsama (dual instrumental)
lasmí (instrumental plural)
lȃs (singular vocative)
lȃsa (dual vocative)
lasjẹ̑ (plural vocative)
lȃs (nominative singular)
lȃsa (dual nominative)
lási (nominative plural)
lȃsa (genitive singular)
lás (dual genitive)
lás (genitive plural)
lȃsu (dative singular)
lȃsi (dative singular)
lȃsoma (dative dual)
lȃsama (dative dual)
lásom (dative plural)
lȃs (accusative singular)
lȃsa (accusative dual)
láse (accusative plural)
lȃsu (locative singular)
lȃsi (locative singular)
lásih (dual locative)
lásah (dual locative)
lásih (locative plural)
lásah (locative plural)
lȃsom (instrumental singular)
lȃsoma (dual instrumental)
lȃsama (dual instrumental)
lási (instrumental plural)
lȃs (singular vocative)
lȃsa (dual vocative)
lási (plural vocative)
lȃs (nominative singular)
lasȋ (dual nominative)
lasȋ (nominative plural)
lasȋ (genitive singular)
lasī (dual genitive)
lasī (genitive plural)
lási (dative singular)
lasẹ̄ma (dative dual)
lasẹ̄m (dative plural)
lȃs (accusative singular)
lasȋ (accusative dual)
lasȋ (accusative plural)
lási (locative singular)
lasẹ́h (dual locative)
lasẹ́h (locative plural)
lasjọ́ (instrumental singular)
lasẹ̄ma (dual instrumental)
lasmí (instrumental plural)
lȃs (singular vocative)
lasȋ (dual vocative)
lasȋ (plural vocative)
laſ (alternative)

sl-infl-noun

no

ending -u in genitive singular, ending -je in nominative plural, null ending in genitive dual/plural, special endings in plural from former i-stem declension, special accent changes

no

no

*chiefly western dialects, often uncountable

From Proto-Slavic *volsь. Compare with obsolete vlas.


眉

/majo/ → /maju/
From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū poetry anthology of the mid-700s with the reading mayo. The ma element is very likely 目 (ma, “eye”, ancient combining form of modern me reading), but the derivation of the yo element is unclear.

眉毛: eyebrow

more explicitly refers to the hair of the eyebrow


簪

Compare perhaps 針 (OC *kjum, *kjums, “needle”) (STEDT).

兂
簮
篸
𥯓
𦻳
𥸢
𬖂
𮆪


簪

/kamusaɕi/ → /kanzaɕi/
Originally a compound of 髪 (kamu, “hair, hair of the head”, Old Japanese combining form) + 挿し (sashi, “sticker-through (something that sticks through)”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”). The sashi changes to zashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

compound

the <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">連用形</i> (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 挿す sasu “to stick through, to insert”

a hairpin, particularly a fancy decorative hairpin used in Japanese women's hairstyles


put up

en-verb

put up (third-person singular simple present puts up, present participle putting up, simple past and past participle put up)

puts up (present singular third-person)
putting up (participle present)
put up (participle past)
put up (past)

(transitive) To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.

Be sure to put up the tools when you finish.

“As for your money,” replied Partridge, “I beg, sir, you will put it up; I will receive none of you at this time; for at present I am, I believe, the richer man of the two. […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:

Butty Sugrue put up £300,000 for the Ali–Lewis fight.

This is why I can guarantee to start drilling and to put up the cash to back my word.

2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:

(transitive) To provide funds in advance.

(transitive, printing, historical) To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.


縰

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *srelʔ): semantic 糸 + phonetic 徙 (OC *selʔ).

Han compound

(alt. form 纚／𫄥) (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) silk cloth used to fasten hair


cop

cop (nominative singular)
copy (nominative plural)
copu (genitive singular)
copů (genitive plural)
copu (dative singular)
copům (dative plural)
cop (accusative singular)
copy (accusative plural)
cope (singular vocative)
copy (plural vocative)
copu (locative singular)
copech (locative plural)
copem (instrumental singular)
copy (instrumental plural)


flor

ro-adj

flor m or n (feminine singular floară, masculine plural flori, feminine and neuter plural floare)

floară (feminine singular)
flori (masculine plural)
floare (feminine neuter plural)
flor (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
floară (feminine indefinite singular)
flori (indefinite masculine singular)
floare (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
florul (definite masculine neuter singular)
floara (definite feminine singular)
florii (definite masculine singular)
floarele (definite feminine neuter plural)
floare (feminine indefinite singular)
florului (definite masculine neuter singular)
floarei (definite feminine singular)
florilor (definite masculine singular)
floarelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

(rare) blond, or with reddish-blond hair


natural

en-noun

natural (countable and uncountable, plural naturals)

naturals (plural)
naturall (alternative)
nat'ral (alternative)

/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, nature + -al.

Chinosole, who stopped straightening her hair and cut it into a natural while at a predominantly white college, was quite uneasy with the style

2002, Maxine Leeds Craig, Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

I wanted to do it for so long — throw out my chemically relaxed hair for a natural.

2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture One Story at a Time, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Third, it insinuates that black afro hairstyles (e.g., naturals) relate to African cultural heritage, which is largely untrue.

2015, Carmen M. Cusack, HAIR AND JUSTICE: Sociolegal Significance of Hair in Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law, and Public Policy, Charles C Thomas Publisher, →ISBN, page 155:

(US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.


dag

From Middle English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh. The sense "dangling lock of wool, matted with dung" (originally from the dialect of Kent) is also termed "daglock" (derived from the "hanging end" sense of "dag") or "daggle-lock" and some sources consider the sense a shortening of that longer word rather than a mere evolution of the "hanging end" sense.

A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.


dag

Perhaps a back-formation of daggy, or, a specialised sense of British dialect dag, a daring feat amongst boys.

(Australia slang, New Zealand, obsolete) An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.


dag

Abbreviations
* Initialism of directed acyclic graph.
* Clipping of dagwood.

partial ordering relation
partial ordering relation

(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.


dag

Mickey: Dags! D' ya like dags?

2000, Guy Ritchie, Snatch, quoted in, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino, Translation and Localisation in Video Games: Making Entertainment Software Global, Routledge →ISBN, page 68

There it was again, that old Gaelic verb pronounced 'scriss,' that those involved in fighting talk apparently exuded on occasion. It could have been 'D'ya wanna buy a dag?' it was all the same.

2014, John P Brady, Back to the Gaff, Roadside Fiction, →ISBN, page 131:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog.


髪

Japanese shinjitai. Simplified from 髮 (犮 → 友).

前髪

bangs, fringe, hair in front of the forehead


髭

Originally a pictogram (象形) depicting a man with a prominent mustache.
Later written 頿 or 頾, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔse): semantic 須 (“beard”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ), where 須 is the original form of 鬚.
In the modern form, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔse): semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ).


髮

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pod): semantic 髟 (“long hair”) + phonetic 犮 (OC *boːd).
However, the original form 𩠙 was composed by 首 and 犬 (according to Takashi Takada 高田忠周, it's the contraction of 犮).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-pu. Alternatively, it may be derived from 發 (OC *pad, “to sprout”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

頭髮

头发


鬘

鬘 (canonical)
kazura (romanization)
kadura (romanization)
かづら (hiragana historical)

五十日鬘

五十日鬘 ごじゅうにちかずら

百日鬘

百日鬘 ひゃくにちかずら


鬚

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *so): semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 須 (OC *so, “beard”).
Originally written 須, see there for more.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nwat ~ *s-nut (“mouth”) (Schuessler, 2007).

inh

剃鬚

剃须

虎鬚

虎须


dok

English: dock

Scots: dock

From Old English *docce, *docca, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ.


hairnet

From hair + net. Compare Dutch haarnetje, German Haarnetz, Danish hårnet, Swedish hårnät.

A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

(firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.

(slang, metonymically) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.


bang

From Middle English *bangen, from Old English *bangian or borrowed from Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”); both from Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, hit, injure”). Cognate with Scots bang, bung (“to strike, bang, hurl, thrash, offend”), Icelandic banga (“to pound, hammer”), Old Swedish bånga ("to hammer"; whence modern Swedish banka (“to knock, pound, bang”)), Danish banke (“to beat”), bengel (“club”), Low German bangen, bangeln (“to strike, beat”), West Frisian bingel, bongel, Dutch bengel (“bell; rascal”), German Bengel (“club”), bungen (“to throb, pulsate”).
In the sense of a fringe of hair, from bang off.
In the sense of abrupt left turn, from Boston left and associated risk of a crash.

gl

"to hammer"; whence modern Swedish <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">banka</i> (“to knock, pound, bang”)

Audio (US)

Tiffany has long hair and bangs.

his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang

1880, William Dean Howells, The Undiscovered Country:

She was not much to look at. Her red hair hung in an uncurled bang over her forehead

1902, Barbara Baynton, Squeaker's Mate; reprinted in Carmel Bird, editor, The Penguin Century of Australian Stories, 2000, →ISBN:

(US, archaic) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.


bald

en-adj

bald (comparative balder, superlative baldest)

balder (comparative)
baldest (superlative)

From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare with Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
Alternate etymology has Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”) (from Proto-Germanic *bēlą), Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).

cog

The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.

1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Porn didn't revolutionize our pubic hair overnight […] but the general gist is that the vast majority of porn performers in film and magazines had full bushes until Hustler magazine printed a bald vulva, a so-called ‘pink shot’, in 1974.

2019, Lynn Enright, Vagina: A Re-Education, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

a bald man with a moustache

“I am getting balder and balder trying to figure these things out,” he said at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday where he acknowledged – as he has before – that he would not run outside the Democratic party establishment.

2015 February 10, Dan Merica, quoting Bernie Sanders, “The Democratic presidential nominee that doesn’t have to be a registered Democrat”, in CNN:

There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.

2021 March 14, Michael Segalov, “It can leave your self-image fractured”, in The Guardian:

(specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.


bald

(Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.


bald

en-verb

bald (third-person singular simple present balds, present participle balding, simple past and past participle balded)

balds (present singular third-person)
balding (participle present)
balded (participle past)
balded (past)


koper

koperek (diminutive)
koper (nominative singular)
kopru (genitive singular)
koprowi (dative singular)
koper (accusative singular)
koprem (instrumental singular)
koprze (locative singular)
koprze (singular vocative)

peach fuzz (sparsely grown hair, especially facial hair of a teenager)


beehive

beehives (plural)
bee-hive (alternative)

From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.

An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.

A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.

Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'

2004, Nicholas Tarling, International Students in New Zealand, →ISBN, page 114:

In New Zealand, this approach is taken one step forward in that Ministers physically sit together up in the beehive, as their building is known, rather than being based in the Departments.

2010, David Halpern, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, →ISBN, page 216:

As with other major buildings the beehive demonstrated the need for a standardized building drawing practice which could be applied — and understood

1977, New Zealand Libraries - Volumes 40-42, →ISBN, page 30:

(nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive

By the way, what happens to a beehive which is under attack by one or two gliders such as pictured:

1989 December 22, Norbert Roestel, “CA-LETTER”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf.

1992 October 22, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 6a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

Unfortunately, a beehive (a common six cell still life) was also created close to the block, and its position made it impossible to eliminate with conventional methods using still lifes (anything placed to destroy it would be damaged by earlier activity).

1996 November 16, Paul Callahan, “Still-life glider reflector found”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.


ginger

en-noun

ginger (countable and uncountable, plural gingers)

→ Greek: τζίντζερ (tzíntzer)

→ Japanese: ジンジャー (jinjā)

→ Maltese: ġinġer

→ Manx: jinshar

→ Welsh: sinsir

→ Zulu: újínja

Inherited from Middle English gingere, alteration of gingivere, from Old English gingifer, gingiber (influenced by Old French gingembre), from Medieval Latin gingiber, zingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Late Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera), ultimately from Dravidian, compare Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (iñcivēr) and Tamil இஞ்சிவேர் (iñcivēr) from இஞ்சி (iñci, “ginger”) + வேர் (vēr, “root”).

/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɚ/

(colloquial, often derogatory, countable) A person with reddish hair; a redhead.

Can you buy dry ginger in Croatia? If not what is an alternative?

(colloquial, countable and uncountable) Ginger ale, or can or bottle of such (especially if dry).


lock

Tok Pisin: lok

→ Hawaiian: laka

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.


barber

→ Indonesian: barber

→ Polish: barber

PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

never ask the barber if you need a haircut

There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.

2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:

A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.

berber

person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards


barber

pl-noun

barber m pers (female equivalent barberka)

barberka (feminine)
barber (nominative singular)
barberzy (nominative plural)
barbery (derogatory nominative plural)
barbera (genitive singular)
barberów (genitive plural)
barberowi (dative singular)
barberom (dative plural)
barbera (accusative singular)
barberów (accusative plural)
barberem (instrumental singular)
barberami (instrumental plural)
barberze (locative singular)
barberach (locative plural)
barberze (singular vocative)
barberzy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English barber. Doublet of balwierz.

barber (person whose profession is cutting male customers' hair and beards)


horn

hornes (plural)
horne (alternative)
orn (alternative)

English: horn

Scots: horn

Yola: hoorn

From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).


alopecia

en-noun

alopecia (countable and uncountable, plural alopecias)

alopecias (plural)
alopecy (alternative)

/ˌæl.əʊˈpiː.ʃə/

Borrowed from Latin alopecia, from the Ancient Greek ἀλωπεκία (alōpekía, “fox-mange”), from ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -ία (-ía, a formative ending used in Ancient Greek, especially used in naming diseases).

af

(pathology) Deficiency of the hair, which may be caused by failure to grow or loss after growth.

“Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” Rock said in an apparent reference to her shaved hair, which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia.

2022 March 28, Nadia Khomami, “‘Violence instead of words’: Will Smith condemned for hitting Chris Rock at the Oscars”, in The Guardian:

(medicine) Loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers, whether natural or caused by disease.


alopecia

alopecias (plural)
alopécia (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin alopecia, from Ancient Greek ἀλωπεκία (alōpekía).


da

From child language; compare dad and dada.

Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?

2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 55:

Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.

2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 48:

(Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) Father.


da

(slang, Russian) Yes; an affirmative response.


da

Representing pronunciation of the in informal speech.

Da New York Times

Da Bears

"So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!" He seized the girl's wrist. "No, no, you don't run. Hey! Where is-a da cop?"

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11:

They are both holding onto their caps in the stiff breeze, and Zang is shouting, "Where is da main hotel going to be?"

2012, Jeffrey Arnold, Nobody's Laughing, page 157:


mane

From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”).
Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).

Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.


mane

English: mane

Scots: mane

Inherited from Old English manu, from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō; compare Middle Dutch mane, Old Frisian mana, mona, and Middle Low German mane.


pineapple

en-noun

pineapple (countable and uncountable, plural pineapples)

pineapples (plural)
pine-apple (alternative)

→ Japanese: パイナップル
→ Yami: pinapo

→ Welsh: pinafal, afal pin

→ Cornish: pinaval

→ Ojibwe: zhingwaako-mishiimin (calque)

From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”). Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pĳnappel, the Middle Low German pinappel, the Old High German pīnapful, the Middle High German pīnaphel, and the early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña. By surface analysis, pine + apple.

inh

pineapple strawberry Fragaria × ananassa)

A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.


hirsute

en-adj

hirsute (comparative more hirsute, superlative most hirsute)

more hirsute (comparative)
most hirsute (superlative)

A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 3, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 2, page 674:

[…] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.

1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 157:

Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy,
And had retained his boyish look beyond
The usual hirsute seasons which destroy,
With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond
Parisian aspect […]

1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto IX, stanza 53, page 31:

At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.

1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Jew Old-clothes Men”, in London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume II (The London Street-folk. Book the Second.), London: [Griffin, Bohn, and Company], →OCLC, page 129, column 2:

Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]

2008, Desmond Morris, chapter 2, in The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, London: Vintage, page 30:


rex

From the Latin rēx (“king”), referring originally to rabbits of the Belgian "castorrex" breed, so named because their fur was similar to that of beavers. Entered English around 1920. Doublet of rajah and roy.

An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.


rex

en-verb

rex (third-person singular simple present rexes, present participle rexing, simple past and past participle rexed)

rexes (present singular third-person)
rexing (participle present)
rexed (participle past)
rexed (past)

(transitive) To breed (an animal) to have this kind of hair.


Mohawk

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

From Dutch Mohawk.
An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”. The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanien'kehá:ka (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

Mohawk River, the largest tributary of the Hudson River, New York.


volo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (compare Malay bulu), from Proto-Austronesian *bulu.

(anatomy) hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)


top

toppes (plural)
toppe (alternative)
topp (alternative)
tope (alternative)
toop (alternative)

English: top

→ French: top

→ German: Top

→ Vietnamese: tốp

Scots: tap

From Old English topp, toppa, from Proto-West Germanic *topp.


naked

English: naked

Scots: nakit

From Old English nacod, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz. Compare naken.

nakid (alternative)
nakyd (alternative)
naaked (alternative)
naket (alternative)
nakit (alternative)
nakede (alternative)

Partially bodily uncovered or bald; uncovered in a specific area.

(often with an item specified) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:

Unvegetated; lacking plant growth or ground cover.

Referring to the core or substance of something.


crimp

→ Welsh: crimp

From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.

cog

(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.


root

roots (plural)
wrout (alternative)
rout (alternative)
wroot (alternative)

From Middle English wrōten (“to dig with the snout”), from Old English wrōtan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig out, to root”). Related to Old English wrōt (“snout; trunk”). Loss of initial w- probably due to influence from the related noun (Etymology 1).

inh

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.


sik

nl-noun

sik m (plural sikken, diminutive sikje n)

sikken (plural)
sikje (diminutive neuter)

Unclear, but assumed to be related to a descendant of Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“kid, goat”).


moustache

moustaches (plural)
moustaches (alternative)
mustache (alternative)
mustaches (alternative)

Used in English since the 16th century. Via Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.

A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.

1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”, in The Adventures of Gerard:

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.

1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:

Ivan, the confidential man with the scar and the moustaches, came out of the house like a cannon ball, and came racing across the lawn to Valentin like a dog to his master.

1910 September 3, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC:

Small, well-knit, fair, he sat stroking his slight blond moustache and looking at her with kindly, almost tender eyes; but he left it to his sister and the others to draw her out and fit her into the pattern.

1913 October, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

Crabbe caught the eye of the oboist, an ancient man with dignified moustaches, and mimed that they were going round to the front, to watch the real thing, the shadows.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 555:

A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.


kam

nl-noun

kam m (plural kammen, diminutive kammetje n)

kammen (plural)
kammetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kam

Berbice Creole Dutch: kam

Negerhollands: kam

Skepi Creole Dutch: kam

→ English: cam
→ Welsh: cam

→ French: came
→ Romanian: camă

→ Italian: camma

→ Sranan Tongo: kankan, kam, kamm

→ Aukan: kankan

→ Saramaccan: kán

From Middle Dutch kamp, from Old Dutch *kamb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth; row of teeth”).


Mohican

From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”).

bor

(British) A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair in the centre kept long and made to stand on end.


Fuchs

de-noun

Fuchs m (strong, genitive Fuchses, plural Füchse, diminutive Füchslein n or Füchschen n, feminine Füchsin)

Fuchses (genitive)
Füchse (plural)
Füchslein (diminutive neuter)
Füchschen (diminutive neuter)
Füchsin (feminine)
Fuchs (nominative singular)
Füchse (definite nominative plural)
Fuchses (genitive singular)
Füchse (definite genitive plural)
Fuchs (dative singular)
Fuchse (dative singular)
Füchsen (dative definite plural)
Fuchs (accusative singular)
Füchse (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German vuhs, from Old High German fuhs, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), from *puḱ- (“tail”). Cognate with English fox, Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha).

inh

Unser Paul ist ja ein kleiner Fuchs.

(informal) a red-haired person or horse.

Ich hatte nur vier Trümpfe und darunter beide Füchse.

I had only four trumps and among them were both aces of diamonds.

(card games) In Doppelkopf, the ace of diamonds, which earns a side of players an extra point if they win it from the other side

canids: Hund: Fuchs · Hund · Kojote · Schakal · Wolf [edit]


trichotillomania

From tricho- + Ancient Greek τίλλω (tíllō, “I pull out, pluck”) + -mania.

der

A medical disorder where someone compulsively pulls their own hair out.

trichomania

mania for hair or hairiness; not to be confused

trichophilia

paraphilic attraction to hair or hairiness; hair-fetishism


imperial

en-adj

imperial (comparative more imperial, superlative most imperial)

more imperial (comparative)
most imperial (superlative)

From Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperiālis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -ālis, from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”). Displaced Old English cāserlīċ.

der

Imperial pale ale, Imperial IPA, Imperial pilsner, Imperial milk stout, Imperial lager, Imperial mead

(in particular, of alcohol) Stronger than typical. (Derived from the name of Russian Imperial stout, a strong dark beer.)


imperial

en-noun

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.

(paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.

There are who say the sonnet's meted maze
Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,
Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers
Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.

1816, John Freeman Milward Dovaston, The Sonnet:


bob

From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”).


bob

head

bob m (genitive singular bob, nominative plural bobanna)

bob (genitive singular)
bobanna (nominative plural)

(hair) bob
fringe (of hair over forehead)


bob

bob (genitive singular)
bobanna (nominative plural)
bob (indefinite nominative singular)
bobanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhob (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhobanna (indefinite plural vocative)
bob (genitive indefinite singular)
bobanna (genitive indefinite plural)
bob (dative indefinite singular)
bobanna (dative indefinite plural)
an bob (definite nominative singular)
na bobanna (definite nominative plural)
an bhob (definite genitive singular)
na mbobanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbob (dative definite singular)
don bhob (dative definite singular)
leis na bobanna (dative definite plural)
bob
bhob
mbob


bob haircut

A women's haircut in which both the bangs and back are cut in a straight line, with the back generally off the neck.


lok

nl-noun

lok f (plural lokken, diminutive lokje n)

lokken (plural)
lokje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: lok

From Middle Dutch locke, from Old Dutch lock, from Frankish *lokk, from Proto-Germanic *lukkaz.

one curl in hair of the head, confer goldilocks


lok

loczek (diminutive)
lok (nominative singular)
loki (nominative plural)
loku (genitive singular)
loków (genitive plural)
lokowi (dative singular)
lokom (dative plural)
lok (accusative singular)
loki (accusative plural)
lokiem (instrumental singular)
lokami (instrumental plural)
loku (locative singular)
lokach (locative plural)
loku (singular vocative)
loki (plural vocative)


redhead

I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.

2007, Matthew Weiner, “Red in the Face”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Roger Sterling:

Aythya americana
Aythya americana#Translingual

A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.

Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).

Red-headed vulture
red-headed vulture#English

Sarcogyps calvus
Sarcogyps calvus#Translingual

Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).


coma

la-noun

coma f (genitive comae); first declension

comae (genitive)
coma (nominative singular)
comae (nominative plural)
comae (genitive singular)
comārum (genitive plural)
comae (dative singular)
comīs (dative plural)
comam (accusative singular)
comās (accusative plural)
comā (ablative singular)
comīs (ablative plural)
coma (singular vocative)
comae (plural vocative)

Albanian: komë

Aragonese: coma

Aromanian: coamã

English: coma

Italian: coma, chioma

Portuguese: coma

Romanian: coamă

Spanish: coma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair of the head”). For sense 2, compare crīniō (“to cover with leaves, or hair”).

bor

foliage, ears, blades, stalks of trees, grass (as though resembling hair)


queue

From Middle English queue, quew, qwew, couwe, from Anglo-Norman queue, keu and Old French cöe, cue, coe (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin cōda, from Latin cauda. See also Middle French queu, cueue. Doublet of coda.

[…], there were seated astraddle the whole hundred of the baronet's musqueteers, each engaged in plaiting into a queue the hair of the man who sat in front of him.

1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XIX, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC:

A large number of loyal officials, rather than shave the front part of the head and wear the Manchu queue, voluntarily shaved the whole head, […]

1912, Herbert Allen Giles, China and the Manchus, Chapter III — Shun Chih

Caparisoned for a week in purple velvet knee-length pantaloons, a red silk jacket with buckles of shiny brass, and a white goat's-hair wig which culminated behind in a saucy queue, I must have presented an exotic sight […]

1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 176:

(now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.


carpet

en-noun

carpet (countable and uncountable, plural carpets)

→ Japanese: カーペット (kāpetto)

From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita/Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ (karpet, “carpet, rug”), earlier կապերտ (kapert).


deka

deka (nominative singular)
deky (nominative plural)
deky (genitive singular)
dek (genitive plural)
dece (dative singular)
dekám (dative plural)
deku (accusative singular)
deky (accusative plural)
deko (singular vocative)
deky (plural vocative)
dece (locative singular)
dekách (locative plural)
dekou (instrumental singular)
dekami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech deka, from Middle High German decke.


fin

Dutch language
German language
Latin language
Middle English language
Old English language
Old Irish language
Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Indo-European language
Swedish language
Tocharian A language
fin
fin (disambiguation)

From Middle English fin, from Old English finn, from Proto-Germanic *finnō, *finǭ (“dorsal fin”) (compare Dutch vin, German Finne, Swedish finne, fena), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pīn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”) (compare Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Latin pinna (“feather, wing, fin”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”).

der-lite

A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.


marchewka

pl-noun

marchewka f (diminutive marcheweczka, related adjective marchewkowy)

marcheweczka (diminutive)
marchewkowy (adjective)
marchewka (nominative singular)
marchewki (nominative plural)
marchewki (genitive singular)
marchewek (genitive plural)
marchewce (dative singular)
marchewkom (dative plural)
marchewkę (accusative singular)
marchewki (accusative plural)
marchewką (instrumental singular)
marchewkami (instrumental plural)
marchewce (locative singular)
marchewkach (locative plural)
marchewko (singular vocative)
marchewki (plural vocative)

(colloquial) redhead (person with red hair)


barf

From Proto-Brythonic *barβ, from Latin barba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂. Compare Cornish barv, Breton barv.


bun

From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.

bolletjie

a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced

couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery

Coordinate term: cake

A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.

A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.

Coordinate term: cake

(Northern England, especially Northumbria) Any bread roll.

Senses referring to baked goods.
Any bread roll.

Coordinate term: cake

Senses referring to baked goods.
(Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.

Senses referring to baked goods.
A cupcake.

nice buns;   tight buns

(Canada, US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.


haircut

haircuts (plural)
hair cut (alternative)

The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.


crop

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.

cog

She went from a ponytail to a crop.

Eton crop

From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.

1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 227:

Coordinate term: gizzard

A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
That day she had done her very best,
And had filled every one of their little crops.

1871, George MacDonald, “The Early Bird”, in At the Back of the North Wind:

The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.

1892 [January], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VII.—The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [13], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 84, column 2:

As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.

2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 2015-12-13:

(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.

حَوْصَلة

part of bird's or other animal's alimentary tract


bowl

Bislama: bol

→ Esperanto: bovlo

desctree

→ French: bol
→ Catalan: bol
→ Greek: μπολ (bol)

→ German: Bowle, → Bowl

→ Hungarian: bólé

→ Ido: bolo

→ Irish: bolla

→ Japanese: ボール (bōru)

→ Latvian: bole (probably via German)

→ Korean: 볼 (bol)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bòl

→ Swedish: bål

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

inh

A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.

(geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.

(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)


bowl

From Middle English bowle, boule, from Old French boule (“ball”), from Latin bulla (“bubble, stud, round object”). Doublet of poll.

der

(bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.


royal

en-adj

royal (comparative royaler or royaller, superlative royalest or royallest)

royaler (comparative)
royaller (comparative)
royalest (superlative)
royallest (superlative)
r. (alternative)
roial (alternative)
roiall (alternative)
royall (alternative)
royaler (alternative)

From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ.

mbretëror

of or relating to a monarch or his family

royal mast;  royal sail

(nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.

röijeli-

nautical: of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails


royal

royals (plural)
r. (alternative)
roial (alternative)
roiall (alternative)
royall (alternative)
royaler (alternative)

(paper) A standard size of writing paper, measuring 24 by 19 inches.

in ten days after we spoke the Solon, so rapid was his recovery, that, from lying helpless and almost hopeless in his berth, he was at the mast-heId, furling a royal.

1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:

(nautical, sailing) In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.

(card games) In auction bridge, a royal spade.


fleece

en-noun

fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)

From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.


fax

→ Japanese: ファックス

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.

You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.

Ellipsis of fax machine: the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides.


fax

English: fax (obsolete)

Scots: fax

From Old English feax, from Proto-West Germanic *fahs.


aba

head

aba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute taba, R1 raba, R2 saba)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *rap, from Proto-Mawé-Guaraní *t͡sap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé sap, Guaraní ague.