arrogate

en-verb

arrogate (third-person singular simple present arrogates, present participle arrogating, simple past and past participle arrogated)

arrogates (present singular third-person)
arrogating (participle present)
arrogated (participle past)
arrogated (past)

From Latin arrogātus, perfect passive participle of adrogō, arrogō (“ask of, adopt, appropriate, assume”), from ad (“to”) + rogō (“ask”).

Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.

1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith

Unfortunately, certain capitalists have arrogated to themselves monopolies and privileges which are quite sufficient to account for this [commotion of the populace against capitalists].

1874, Patrick James Stirling, What is Money?, Putnam, translation of original by Frédéric Bastiat, page 169

What is remarkable about the challenged statute and rules is not that they address medical treatments with both risks and benefits but that they arrogate to the state the right to make that decision.

May 30, 2023, Judge Robert L. Hinkle, Doe v. ladapo, Case No. 4:23cv114-RH-MAF, Federal District Court, Northern District of Florida

Britain has spent 40-plus years arrogating more and more power to its centre – and now its centre has no idea of how to wield that power. That I think is the fundamental political and economic crisis we face today.

2019 March 14, Aditya Chakrabortty, “The problem is not so much Theresa May – it’s that Britain is now ungovernable”, in The Guardian

(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

arogi

to appropriate or lay claim to something without right


hej

Derived from Old Norse hei, likely from Low German hei or German hei. First attested in 1541.

Vi syns, hej.

Hej hej.


lyst

head

lyst c (singular definite lysten, plural indefinite lyster)

lysten (definite singular)
lyster (indefinite plural)
lyst (indefinite nominative singular)
lysten (definite nominative singular)
lyster (indefinite nominative plural)
lysterne (definite nominative plural)
lysts (genitive indefinite singular)
lystens (definite genitive singular)
lysters (genitive indefinite plural)
lysternes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Danish lyst, lust, from Middle Low German lust, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu. Cognate with English lust and German Lust. A different stem in Old Norse losti.

”Til Lyst for mig og Verden gid jeg kunde hensynge saa mit Liv:” C.Frimann.

1833, Christian Molbech, Dansk Ordbog (etc.), page 436

"Would that I could, for the delight of myself and the world, thus spend my life in song:" C.Frimann.

(now uncommon) delight, pleasure, revelry


sur

Borrowed from Spanish sur, from French sud, from Middle French sud, from Old French su, sud (“south”), a Germanic borrowing, from Old English sūþ (“south”).

At, sa angkan naman ng ating First Lady, si Kokoy, na siyang governor ng Leyte, Ay embahador pa sa lahat ng parte - Sa este't oeste, sa sur at sa norte!

1985, Francisco Soc Rodrigo, Mga tula at tilamsik ng diwa

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


-muche

Ménilmuche

(slang, uncommon) Suffix added to the end of any word to make it more incomprehensible.


dazzle

en-noun

dazzle (countable and uncountable, plural dazzles)

if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull

We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]

1958, Laurens Van der Post, The lost world of the Kalahari: with the great and the little memory (1998 David Coulson edition)

Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]

2009, Darren Paul Shearer, In You God Trusts, page 176

I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.

2010, Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa, page 22


subkingdom

(uncommon) A kingdom that is part of another kingdom, ruled by a subking.


nervous

English: nervous

Borrowed from Latin nervōsus; equivalent to nerve + -ous.

(uncommon) Pertaining to nerves or tendons.


gutter

en-verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

gutters (present singular third-person)
guttering (participle present)
guttered (participle past)
guttered (past)

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

The students' performance guttered after the school event.

The patient's state would soon gutter.

(transitive, uncommon) To make worse; to show emphasis that something has gotten worse.


elderly

He lives next door to an elderly.

He lives next door to some elderlies.


Tommy

Sono fuggiasco, perché attendo di essere liberato al più presto dai Tommy.

1945, Bruno Caloprisco, edited by Alessandro Caloprisco, Per qualche foglia di cavolo, Youcanprint, published 2016, page 120

I’m a fugitive, because I’m waiting to be liberated as soon as possible by the Tommies.

(dated, informal, uncommon) Tommy, redcoat


cut and dry

Just because it is all cut and dry. Just because it is ready-made. Just because it lies there in reliable, convenient and logical propositions. The moment you appropriate truth in such a shape you appropriate a form. You cannot cut and dry truth. You cannot accept truth ready-made without it ceasing to nourish the soul as the truth.

1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World

Nowadays, thanks to the irrepressible rise of content marketing, SEO's cut and dry quantitative approach is evolving to incorporate its opposite number: quality.

2013 May 10, Jonathan Piggins, “Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

(less common) Alternative form of cut and dried


zoophilia

en-noun

zoophilia (countable and uncountable, plural zoophilias)

/ˈzəʊ.əʊfɪliə/

For quotations using this term, see Citations:zoophilia.

(uncommon, chiefly derogatory) Excessive fondness for animals.


toponym

Back-formation from toponymy. By surface analysis, topo + -nym.

‘Tangerine’ is a toponym of Tangier.

The name Rūmī, by which he is widely known in the West, is a toponym referring to the fact that he lived in the province of Rūm (Anatolia), the country now known as Turkey.

2010, Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, Rumi's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi, Book One, page 1

Next time you go out for a hamburger, ask your sixth grader to find the toponyms. They are words that come from the names of places, like hamburger comes from Hamburg, Germany.

2012, Suzanne Barchers, Sixth Grade Parent Guide for Your Child's Success

During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), English officers who had done badly were sent to the British military base at Stellenbosch, without losing rank, to look after horses there. Eventually, the term came to refer to relegating or reassigning someone considered incompetent or incapable to a position of lower responsibility, and is thus a demotion, even though there may be no loss of rank or pay. It generally, though not always, arises in connection with military affairs. The word is therefore known as a toponym (see place-name).

2015, Peter E. Meltzer, The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words

Those husbands with toponyms such as “d'Incisa,” “da Montelupo,” “da Volterra,” and the like we classify as non-Florentine.

2015, Julius Kirshner, Marriage, Dowry, and Citizenship in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy

(less common) A word derived from the name of a place.


Beijing

de-proper noun

Beijing n (proper noun, genitive Beijings or (optionally with an article) Beijing)

Beijings (genitive)
Beijing (genitive with-article)

Als im September die deutsche Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock im US-Fernsehen Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Xi Jinping unverhüllt als Diktator bezeichnete, bestellte Beijing umgehend den deutschen Botschafter ein.

2023 December 3, Shi Ming, “Chinas neue Westpolitik: Lieber zweimal hinsehen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN


grocer

en-verb

grocer (third-person singular simple present grocers, present participle grocering, simple past and past participle grocered)

grocers (present singular third-person)
grocering (participle present)
grocered (participle past)
grocered (past)

From Old French grossier (“wholesaler”) Compare gross.

(uncommon) To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.


aubade

→ Indonesian: aubade

Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.

(uncommon, chiefly historical) An aubade, a morning love song.


gerundive

/dʒəˈɹʌndɪv/

From Latin gerundīvus (“of a gerund”), from gerundium (“gerund”), from gerundus (“which is to be carried out”), future passive participle (gerundive) of gerō (“carry, bear”).

(less commonly, in English grammar) a verbal adjective ending in -ing, also called a "present participle".

gerundi

verbal adjective — see also present participle


Wikiwörterbuch

de-proper noun

Wikiwörterbuch n (proper noun, strong, genitive Wikiwörterbuchs)

Wikiwörterbuchs (genitive)
Wikiwörterbuch (nominative singular)
Wikiwörterbuchs (genitive singular)
Wikiwörterbuch (dative singular)
Wikiwörterbuch (accusative singular)

(uncommon) Wiktionary, wiktionary (dictionary produced by cooperative online project)


gustar

es-verb

gustar (first-person singular present gusto, first-person singular preterite gusté, past participle gustado)

gusto (first-person present singular)
gusté (first-person preterite singular)
gustado (participle past)
gustar (infinitive)
gustando (gerund)
gustado (masculine participle past singular)
gustada (feminine participle past singular)
gustados (masculine participle past plural)
gustadas (feminine participle past plural)
gusto (first-person indicative present singular)
gustas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
gustás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
gusta (indicative present singular third-person)
gustamos (first-person indicative plural present)
gustáis (indicative plural present second-person)
gustan (indicative plural present third-person)
gustaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
gustabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
gustaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
gustábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
gustabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
gustaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
gusté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
gustaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
gustó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
gustamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
gustasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
gustaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
gustaré (first-person future indicative singular)
gustarás (future indicative second-person singular)
gustará (future indicative singular third-person)
gustaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
gustaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
gustarán (future indicative plural third-person)
gustaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
gustarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
gustaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
gustaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
gustaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
gustarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
guste (first-person present singular subjunctive)
gustes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
gustés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
guste (present singular subjunctive third-person)
gustemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
gustéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
gusten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
gustara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
gustaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
gustara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
gustáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
gustarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
gustaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
gustase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
gustases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
gustase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
gustásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
gustaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
gustasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
gustare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
gustares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
gustare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
gustáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
gustareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
gustaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
gusta (imperative informal second-person singular)
gustá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
guste (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
guste (imperative singular third-person)
gustemos (first-person imperative plural)
gustad (imperative plural second-person)
gusten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
gusten (imperative plural third-person)
gustes (imperative negative second-person singular)
guste (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
guste (imperative negative singular third-person)
gustemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
gustéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
gusten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
gusten (imperative negative plural third-person)
gustarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
gustarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
gustarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
gustarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
gustarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
gustaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
gustarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
gustarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
gustarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
gustarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
gustarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
gustarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
gustarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
gustarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
gustaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
gustarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
gustarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
gustarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
gustándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
gustándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
gustándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
gustándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
gustándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
gustándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
gustándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
gustándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
gustándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
gustándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
gustándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
gustándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
gustándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
gustándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
gustándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
gustándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
gustándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
gustándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
gústame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
gústate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
gústale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
gústanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
gústales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
gústame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
gústate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
gústalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
gústala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
gústanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
gústalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
gústalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
gustame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
gustate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
gustale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
gustanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
gustales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
gustame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
gustate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
gustalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
gustala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
gustanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
gustalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
gustalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
gústeme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
gústele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
gústese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
gústenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
gústeles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
gústeme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
gústelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
gústela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
gústese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
gústenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
gústelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
gústelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
gustémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
gustémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
gustémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
gustémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
gustémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
gustémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
gustémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
gustémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
gustémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
gustémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
gustémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
gustémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
gustadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
gustadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
gustadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
gustaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
gustadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gustadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
gustadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
gustadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
gustadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
gustaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
gustadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gustadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gústenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
gústenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
gústennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
gústenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gústense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gústenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
gústenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
gústenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
gústennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
gústenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gústenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
gústense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

→ Mecayapan Nahuatl: quigustarohua

Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico

Borrowed in this form from Latin gustāre. Replaced the inherited Old Spanish form gostar. See gusto. The use of this verb to mean "like" is a uniquely Ibero-Romance development. Compare Portuguese gostar.

Gustaba de reunirse con amigos en su casa.

He liked to meet up with friends in his house.

(intransitive, uncommon or formal) to like, to enjoy (+ de)


Afrika

(African-American Vernacular, uncommon) Alternative spelling of Africa


rapture

en-verb

rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)

raptures (present singular third-person)
rapturing (participle present)
raptured (participle past)
raptured (past)

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.

1885, Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, page 158

Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.

2003, Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams, page 75

They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.

2003, Beverly Adam, Irish Magic, page 121

(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.


widow

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves.

2016 June 23, Traciy Reyes, “‘The Wedding March’: Hallmark Movie — June Bride Unwittingly Hires Wedding Singer Who Is Her Ex, Starring Josie Bissett, Jack Wagner”, in The Inquisitr News

(uncommon) A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).


D.M.

(uncommon) Doctor of Medicine, a higher education degree.


wheal

wheal (third-person singular simple present wheals, present participle whealing, simple past and past participle whealed)

wheals (present singular third-person)
whealing (participle present)
whealed (participle past)
whealed (past)

From Middle English whele (“boil”), from Old English *hwele (“boil”); related to Old English hwelian (“to fester, ulcerate”). Compare also Old English hwelca, hwylca (“an inflamed swelling, pustule”).


uso

Inherited from Latin ūsus (“use, employment”), from Proto-Italic *oissos.


juicy

en-adj

juicy (comparative juicier, superlative juiciest)

juicier (comparative)
juiciest (superlative)

From juice + -y. Compare Middle English jowsy, jousy (“of a drunkard’s head: full of liquor”).

Coordinate term: glancing

“Your head feels funny, doesn't it?”
“It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.

1960, (P. G. Wodehouse, “chapter V”, in Jeeves in the Offing

Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, “chapter I”, in Jeeves in the Offing

(of a blow, strike, etc., uncommon) Strong; thus, also painful.


petit

petit (comparative more petit, superlative most petit)

more petit (comparative)
most petit (superlative)

From Middle English petit, from Old French petit, from Latin *pitittus, diminutive of Latin *pit-, possibly from Proto-Celtic *pett- (“part, bit, piece”). Compare also Latin pitinnus (“small”), pitulus. Doublet of petty.

der

And by what small, petit Hints does the Mind catch hold of, and recover a vanishing Notion?

1684 or 1685 February 22, Robert South, A Sermon preached at Westminster-Abbey

(now uncommon, of size) Petite: small, little.

(now uncommon, of objects) Unimportant; cheap; easily replaced.

Petty, in its various senses:
Unimportant; cheap; easily replaced.


corrispondere

it-verb

corrispóndere (first-person singular present corrispóndo, first-person singular past historic corrispósi, past participle corrispósto, auxiliary avére)

corrispóndere (canonical)
corrispóndo (first-person present singular)
corrispósi (first-person historic past singular)
corrispósto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
corrispóndere (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
corrispondèndo (gerund)
corrispondènte (participle present)
corrispósto (participle past)
corrispóndo (first-person indicative present singular)
corrispóndi (indicative present second-person singular)
corrispónde (indicative present singular third-person)
corrispondiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
corrispondéte (indicative plural present second-person)
corrispóndono (indicative plural present third-person)
corrispondévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
corrispondévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
corrispondéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
corrispondevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
corrispondevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
corrispondévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
corrispósi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
corrispondésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
corrispóse (historic indicative past singular third-person)
corrispondémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
corrispondéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
corrispósero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
corrisponderò (first-person future indicative singular)
corrisponderài (future indicative second-person singular)
corrisponderà (future indicative singular third-person)
corrisponderémo (first-person future indicative plural)
corrisponderéte (future indicative plural second-person)
corrisponderànno (future indicative plural third-person)
corrisponderèi (conditional first-person present singular)
corrisponderésti (conditional present second-person singular)
corrisponderèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
corrisponderébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
corrisponderémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
corrisponderéste (conditional plural present second-person)
corrisponderèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
corrisponderébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
corrispónda (first-person present singular subjunctive)
corrispónda (present second-person singular subjunctive)
corrispónda (present singular subjunctive third-person)
corrispondiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
corrispondiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
corrispóndano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
corrispondéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
corrispondéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
corrispondésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
corrispondéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
corrispondéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
corrispondéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
corrispóndi (imperative second-person singular)
corrispónda (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
corrispondiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
corrispondéte (imperative plural second-person)
corrispóndano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
corrispóndere (imperative negative second-person singular)
corrispónda (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
corrispondiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
corrispondéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
corrispóndano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin correspondēre, from Latin cum + respondeō.

bor+

(intransitive, uncommon) to correspond (to be in communication) [with con ‘with someone’] [auxiliary avere]


sunshine

en-noun

sunshine (usually uncountable, plural sunshines)

In the Coverdale Bible in 1535, in Genesis and Exodus about 1250 as Middle English sunnesine; synchronically sun + shine. Compare isolated Old English sunsċīn (“mirror”).

(slang, uncountable, uncommon) Ellipsis of orange sunshine.


dita

(uncommon) speech, saying (that which is said)


secede

en-verb

secede (third-person singular simple present secedes, present participle seceding, simple past and past participle seceded)

secedes (present singular third-person)
seceding (participle present)
seceded (participle past)
seceded (past)

From Latin secedere, from se- (“apart”) + cedere (“to go”).

At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America.

2002, Darryl E. Brock, “José Agustín Quintero: Cuban Patriot in Confederate Diplomatic Service”, in Cubans in the Confederacy: José Agustín Quintero, Ambrosio José Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Ed. Phillip Thomas Tucker, publ. McFarland, page 103

A Spanish Supreme Court probe into last year's attempt to secede Catalonia from Spain wraps up Friday with the judge expected to charge 28 regional politicians and separatist leaders with offenses that may include rebellion.

2018, “The Latest: Europe arrest warrants for 6 Catalan separatists”, in ABC News, The Associated Press

(transitive, uncommon) To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.


up in arms

From a now-obsolete sense of up (“in revolt”).

(literal, now uncommon) Armed for battle; prepared for or engaged in warfare.


cat's-paw

en-noun

cat's-paw (plural cat's-paws or cats'-paws)

From cat + paw. In most senses, due to a resemblance of shape. In its senses as a pawn to another's interests or analysis, variant of earlier cat's-foot, derived from European tales of a monkey (attested as early as 1456 but sometimes misattributed to the 16th-century monkey of Pope Julius II) who used a sleeping puppy or cat's foot to rake hot chestnuts out of a fire, taken as a metaphor for rulers' ill use of their subjects. Now usually understood in light of Jean de La Fontaine's 1679 fable of the "The Monkey and the Cat" (sometimes misattributed to Aesop), in which the monkey fools the cat into removing the chestnuts through flattery and promises of shared reward. The cat removes the chestnuts one by one, burning his paw while the monkey eats each in turn. A maid then enters and chases them both away. La Fontaine's moral concludes that princes should not endure real losses for mere flattery from their king.

dupe

one unwittingly used for another's purposes

an unrelated metaphor from a separate story

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

(figuratively, uncommon) Someone or something that comes down quickly upon a victim in the manner of a cat's paw.


House of Lords

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-House of Lords.wav

(Scotland, humorous euphemistic slang, uncommon) A urinal.


clerical

From Late Latin clēricālis (“clerical”), from clēricus (“clergyman, priest”).


headwind

en-verb

headwind (third-person singular simple present headwinds, present participle headwinding, simple past and past participle headwinded)

headwinds (present singular third-person)
headwinding (participle present)
headwinded (participle past)
headwinded (past)

From Middle English *hedwind, from Old English hēafodwind, equivalent to head + wind. Cognate with Old Norse höfuðvindr.

(transitive, uncommon) To blow directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship.

كَوْس

wind that blows directly against the course of a vessel

(idiomatic, uncommon) To impede or reverse progress.


frenzy

frenzy (third-person singular simple present frenzies, present participle frenzying, simple past and past participle frenzied)

frenzies (present singular third-person)
frenzying (participle present)
frenzied (participle past)
frenzied (past)

From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic.

Both goaded on to strife by frenzying hate.

1833, James Anthony Froude, Fraser's Magazine - Volume 7, page 456

Then there is the absorbing, not to say frenzying, interest, which attends our important elections.

1865, Gerrit Smith, Speeches and Letters of Gerrit Smith, page 14


transparence

en-noun

transparence (countable and uncountable, plural transparences)


archivist

nl-noun

archivist m (plural archivisten, diminutive archivistje n)

archivisten (plural)
archivistje (diminutive neuter)

Probably borrowed or from archief + -ist.


brune

By-the-way, we haven’t yet described our favorite Nettie. We will leave details to the reader’s imagination, and only say that she was neither blonde or brune, but a dangerous mixture of both, and able to wear pink or blue with impunity, and look bewitching in either.

1867 January, Daisy Ventnor [pseudonym; Jeanie Gould], “‘Only a Private’”, in Peterson’s Magazine, volume LI, number 1, Philadelphia, Pa., page 67, column 1

When I read of Helen and Cleopatra and Lucretia, and all the beauties of old times, it was always with the notion that each one, blonde or brune, must have looked like Katie Stuart.

1873, W[illiam] C[owper] Prime, “Sunday Morning and Evening”, in I Go A-Fishing, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 100

“[…] Lord Quallinghame, how do you think I should look as Cleopatra? Only fancy what gorgeous colouring you could get out of such a costume! Was Cleopatra blonde or brune, by the way? Not that it matters”—[…]

1877 April 14, “Edged Tools”, in Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information and Amusement, volume XXXVIII, number 1773, chapter XXV, page 378, column 1

The worker with “silken thread and needle fine,” the lover of deep rich colors, the one who adores the glowing tone of the scarlets and yellows, the golden browns and the emerald greens, the woman who can spend all the golden ducats she may wish and still have plenty left, as well as she who must think of how she can arrange so that all of last season’s stuffs can be utilized and everything look as it should, each woman, rich or poor, blonde or brune, old or young, ought surely be satisfied with the store of delights offered to her by la Mode this year. […] Seal and mode are seen well developed in a walking costume to be worn by a pretty woman, who is neither blonde or brune, but has dark brown hair, blue eyes and a clear complexion.

1884 November, “Dress Materials”, in The Delineator: A Monthly Magazine, Illustrating Metropolitan Fashions, volume XXIV, number 5, London, New York, N.Y.: The Butterick Publishing Co., Limited, pages 373–374

Not that Marie had ever starred in any such tragedy. She belonged to neither the one sort of Van Steynes nor the other. She was neither blonde nor brune. A dash of romance in her temperament was counterbalanced by a saving sense of the ridiculous, that kept her from ever quite making a fool of herself.

1894 December, Calista Halsey Patchin, “Marechal Niel. Romance of a Christmas Ball.”, in The Midland Monthly, volume II, number 6, page 450, column 1

The pose is necessarily graceful; the costume may be, and often is, so devised as to heighten the effect. Miss Morgan and Miss Boxall are as famous for this as for their playing. Whether the player be blonde or brune, the golden framework of the instrument is sure to blend; while the flashing ivory of the harpist’s arms, sweeping back and forth against the glistening strings, keeps time to the delicate harmonies woven by her fingers.

1896 December, Frederic Reddall, “American Woman Harpists”, in Godey’s Magazine, volume CXXXIII, number 798, New York, N.Y.: The Godey Company, page 567, column 1

“[…] It is from Lucille, a charming girl, with a most fascinating disregard for the first elements of orthography. We quarrelled, alas! six months ago.” / “Blonde or brune?” anxiously inquired the man of law. / “Blonde, of course,” I replied firmly—I am proud of my taste.

1896 December, Alfred Slade, “[The Editor’s Scrap-Book.] My Poetry and the Police.”, in The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume V, London: Ward, Lock & Company, […], published 1897, page 161, column 2

I had never seen you then, not even your picture. I didn’t know whether you were tall or short, blonde or brune.

1900 June, Elmore Elliott Peake, “The Captain of the ‘Aphrodite’”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XIX, number 114, London: George Newnes, Ltd., […], page 660, column 2

After the show had trouped I met an awfully nice girl--she was neither blonde nor brune, rather betwixt and between, but a corking looker.

1907 June, George V[ere] Hobart, Ikey’s Letters to His Father, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 44

“She’s a blonde,” decided de Fougueres. He was thinking of Eugenie, and Jeffries answered the unspoken words. / “Blonde or brune, she can keep a man true; and two years in the quarter, and Eugenie Latour![…]”

1908 November, Ednah Aiken, “Bill’s Wife”, in The Pacific Monthly, volume XX, number 5, Portland, Ore.: The Pacific Monthly Company, page 539, column 1

O’ER the footlights catch her glance, / Is she not most wondrous fair? / Mayhap blonde, or brune perchance? / Best of all—peroxide hair, / Then the belladonna stare.

1910, “Illusion”, in The Harvard Lampoon, page 183, column 2

Whitaker’s thin brown hand gesticulated vaguely. “She was tall, slender, pale, at the awkward age . . .” / “Blonde or brune?” / “I swear I don’t know. She wore one of those funny knitted caps, tight down over her hair, all the time.”

1912 October, Louis Joseph Vance, “Wilful Missing”, in The Destroying Angel, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 61

Of course the eternal question is, who will he be interested in? Does he like ’em tall or short, or blonde or brune?

We discussed solemnly whether the Queen should be blonde or brune. But though there is much to be said in favour of the dark-haired beauty, it was really settled long ago that the true type of Parisienne beauty is fair.

The delicate features were mignonne, except for the delicious, warm, lusciously cut mouth— Was she blonde or brune? he wondered. She died at forty-five. To David Lindsay at twenty-two, forty-five had seemed a respectable old age. To David Lindsay at twentyeight, it seemed almost young. She was dead, of course, when he began to read her. Oh, if he could only have met her!

1921, Inez Haynes Irwin, chapter III, in Out of the Air, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 94

For there was nothing madonna-like about the women. They differed in being blonde or brune, of various contours, and of all ages, but some subtle quality of spirit bound them together in a common sisterhood.

1922, Burton E[gbert] Stevenson, “The Countess Rémond”, in The Kingmakers, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 3

The rest is an attempt at persuasion. Richardson tells us scarcely so much, yet he persuades us so much the more. Is Clarissa blonde or brune? She is snow white and rose red, has “shining” hair, and wears blue and silver. Most of us would image a blonde, but black hair may shine, and set off a skin of lily and driven snow. […] If Athena was wise, she was a fool to compete, for who cares whether a learned lady is blonde or brune? One of the things every woman knows is that if she has charm it matters little what else she has, and if she hasn’t, nothing else will help.

1936 November, Robert Palfrey Utter, Gwendolyn Bridges Needham, “The Lass with the Delicate Air”, in Pamela’s Daughters, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, pages 179 and 194


brune

This conclusion is dangerous in the extreme; for fashion, and the love of display are two of the most dangerous enemies to woman’s empire, By their imperious laws, the blond, and the brune, the blooming girl, the finished woman, and the widow un peu passee, are all compelled to wear the same livery, whether it be becoming or not.

1828 September 22, “Female Dress”, in The Opera Glass. Devoted to the Fine Arts, Literature, and the Drama., volume I, number 3, page 18, column 1

Yes, I like Sunshine; it’s such fun to hear her talk. And you seem to like that dark-eyed sister of hers—eh, old boy? Well, she’s a very handsome girl, I grant you, but she’s too stately for me; besides, I don’t care for your brunes; tall women haven’t, generally, much fun in them.

1861, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “Our Corps’ Friends and Foes; or, How Randolph Trapped a Sunbeam, and I Turned a Medium”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XLIX, London: Chapman and Hall, […], section II (How Sunshine, Pearl, and Rosebud Shot at Bull’s-Eyes and Hit Other Marks), page 80

This most superior-looking fabric does not possess one deterrent quality. By many ladies who prefer plain to fancy materials this will be much admired, and the colourings are all of those soft undecided tones, which are so eminently becoming to either blonde or brune.

1877 May 1, “Royal Poplin”, in Myra’s Journal of Dress and Needlework, volume III, number 5, London: Goubaud & Son […]

And after all, we each one of us have personal experiences and personal preferences which bias our judgment in this respect; we love this man or that woman, and for the time we believe that just that style of beauty is the ideal we have always held. We haven’t, and by and by we shall smile at our own delusion and flatly contradict our fatuous theories; but while it lasts, and even perhaps in memory, we shall cling to the admiration of blonde or brune in general, because once in particular we loved a blonde or a brune. / Another point to be considered nowadays, however, is, what is her natural coloring? / For so many persons copy Queen Elizabeth, who had 100 wigs as well as 100 gowns, and wore whatever style of complexion she chose!

1896, Mrs. Frank Leslie [i.e., Miriam Leslie], “Angels Have Blonde Hair, but There Are Many Brunettes. The Two Types of Beauty.”, in Are We All Deceivers? The Lover’s Blue Book, London, New York, N.Y.: F[rank] Tennyson Neely, page 257

In the same lovely colour is a vine-leaf berthe mingled with copper-pink sequins; and last, though not least, is an inlaid bolero, pure white and palest green, which would be most becoming to either blonde or brune.

Oh! scold me, Pop, scold me and make me behave if ever again I bow the knee to a blonde or brune in Roch.

1907 June, George V[ere] Hobart, Ikey’s Letters to His Father, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 53

The competing goddesses were three, “golden” Aphrodite, “ox-eyed” Hera, and Athena, who was the very brain of Zeus until she outgrew her quarters. If Aphrodite deserves her epithet, she was a blonde. If Hera was ox-eyed, she was a brune (unless she was peroxide), for who ever heard of a blue-eyed ox? […] Paris may have been a shepherd, but he was the first gentleman, for with a blonde, a brune and a bluestocking come to judgment, he preferred the blonde. […] In The Broken Wedding Ring of Bertha M. Clay, the elder sister, Leah, is a brune, […] This leaves us free to infer that if she doesn’t show it so often as the brune, it is merely because she doesn’t have to. She has the delicate air by gift of nature, and if because of it we endow her not only with all worldly goods but all the graces of heaven, we do so at our own risk, not by the mandate of God. […] A check of many working-girl novels of the nineteenth century indicates that in every hundred heroines we have eighty blondes, ten brunes, and ten red-heads.

1936 November, Robert Palfrey Utter, Gwendolyn Bridges Needham, Pamela’s Daughters, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, pages 194, 204, 206, (The Lass with the Delicate Air) and 355 (Some Don’t)


subdivision

en-verb

subdivision (third-person singular simple present subdivisions, present participle subdivisioning, simple past and past participle subdivisioned)

subdivisions (present singular third-person)
subdivisioning (participle present)
subdivisioned (participle past)
subdivisioned (past)

(uncommon) To separate something into smaller pieces.


slop

Alteration of ecilop, from back slang for police.

Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. After hearing the slop tell his tale, he says to me: 'What do you know of this man? […]

1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers

Covey’s most stimulating impression on the sense of colour is in the blue of the police. He says he shouldn’t have thought that there were so many ‘slops’ in the world, and he seems to yield for a moment to the depressing conviction that we are too much governed.

1899, Richard Whiteing, chapter XXIV, in No. 5 John Street, page 240


viaggiare

it-verb

viaggiàre (first-person singular present viàggio, first-person singular past historic viaggiài, past participle viaggiàto, auxiliary avére)

viaggiàre (canonical)
viàggio (first-person present singular)
viaggiài (first-person historic past singular)
viaggiàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
viaggiàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
viaggiàndo (gerund)
viaggiànte (participle present)
viaggiàto (participle past)
viàggio (first-person indicative present singular)
viàggi (indicative present second-person singular)
viàggia (indicative present singular third-person)
viaggiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
viaggiàte (indicative plural present second-person)
viàggiano (indicative plural present third-person)
viaggiàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
viaggiàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
viaggiàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
viaggiavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
viaggiavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
viaggiàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
viaggiài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
viaggiàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
viaggiò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
viaggiàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
viaggiàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
viaggiàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
viaggerò (first-person future indicative singular)
viaggerài (future indicative second-person singular)
viaggerà (future indicative singular third-person)
viaggerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
viaggeréte (future indicative plural second-person)
viaggerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
viaggerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
viaggerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
viaggerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
viaggerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
viaggerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
viaggeréste (conditional plural present second-person)
viaggerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
viaggerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
viàggi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
viàggi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
viàggi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
viaggiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
viaggiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
viàggino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
viaggiàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
viaggiàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
viaggiàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
viaggiàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
viaggiàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
viaggiàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
viàggia (imperative second-person singular)
viàggi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
viaggiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
viaggiàte (imperative plural second-person)
viàggino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
viaggiàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
viàggi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
viaggiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
viaggiàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
viàggino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

Borrowed from Old French voyagier. By surface analysis, viaggio + -are.

(transitive, uncommon) to tour (a location)


Fata Morgana

pt-noun

Fata Morgana f or (less common) m (uncountable)

Borrowed from Italian fata Morgana (“Morgan le Fay”), from fata (“fairy”) + Morgana (“Morgan”).

Fata Morgana (form of mirage caused by temperature inversion)


oeste

At, sa angkan naman ng ating First Lady, si Kokoy, na siyang governor ng Leyte, Ay embahador pa sa lahat ng parte - Sa este't oeste, sa sur at sa norte!

1985, Francisco Soc Rodrigo, Mga tula at tilamsik ng diwa


norte

Borrowed from Spanish norte, from French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.


All Souls' Day

Tomb Sweeping Day
Tomb Sweeping Day#English

(uncommon) Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day, a Chinese holiday.

Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed


lifeguard

From life + guard, calque of Dutch lijfgarde, where life has the sense of Dutch lijf (“body”) (hence literally “bodyguard”). Compare German Leibgarde (“bodyguard”), Danish livgarde (“bodyguard”), Swedish livgarde (“bodyguard”). Compare also Old English līfweard (“guardian of life”).

cog

"The people's love is the king's lifeguard."

1776, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer

[I]n the reserve were the king's lifeguard, commanded by the earl of Lindsey, and prince Rupert's regiment of foot[.]

1843, Edward Hyde, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, page 553

Constantine the Great is known to have raised the five scholae of horsemen who formed the actual lifeguard of the prince, and followed his person whenever he went out to war.

2012, Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War: The Middle Ages

(uncommon) A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.


specialize

en-verb

specialize (third-person singular simple present specializes, present participle specializing, simple past and past participle specialized)

specializes (present singular third-person)
specializing (participle present)
specialized (participle past)
specialized (past)

He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all.

1628, John Earle, Micro-Cosmography: Or, A Piece of the World Characterized, Salisbury: E. Easton, published 1786, page 121

To make distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:

(uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.


escalate

escalate (third-person singular simple present escalates, present participle escalating, simple past and past participle escalated)

escalates (present singular third-person)
escalating (participle present)
escalated (participle past)
escalated (past)

Thus, actually a prior uncounselled misdemeanor conviction may often prove to be a boon to one escalating the ladder of crime to the point where he has been convicted of a major aggravated offense.

They escalated upstairs to the Mall coffee tables.

1977, Graham Jackson, The Coals of Juniper, Champion Publications, page 48

Firms move to higher and higher levels of conflict in each arena, as if they are escalating up a ladder with each rung representing the new level of competition introduced by the last competitive maneuver.

1994, Richard A. D’Aveni, Hypercompetition: Managing the Dynamics of Strategic Maneuvering, The Free Press

James worked through the basics, escalating up the ladder of complex moves.

2000, Chris R. Jamison, The Chesler Legacy, Writer’s Showcase, page 30

We were escalating up a few hundred feet into the canyon.

2002, V. William Barrett, Sticks and Shovels: A Modern Western Mystery, Writers Club Press, page 68

“Pretty soon, I ended up on the committee, and from there it was pretty much escalating up the ladder as district chair; sponsor chair; and two, two-year terms as ladies state chair,” Sandi says.

Unlike everybody else, I moved in the opposite direction, escalating the ladder leading to the roof-top, so I’d watch the fireworks.

2004, Solly Border, I Won 1000 Battles but Lost the War, Publish For Less, page 9

The soul’s hand was within a few feet from his hand as he had not noticed that the souls were escalating up to where he was and as his soul screamed at him to look away.

2010, George Harpen, The Forbidden Palace of the Wiseman, AuthorHouse, page 115

For needs of substantial natural resources such as oil, which can guarantee social peace in a majority of oil producing Arab States, Morocco would not be enjoying the position it has now on the international scene, had it not been for the fact that it has escalated the ladder in matters pertaining to democracy and economic liberalization.

2012, Abdelhak Azzouzi, Moroccan Yearbook of Strategy and International Relations 2012, L’Harmattan, page 14

Escalating up the ladder, she looked straight into Alex’s eyes.

2016, Steve Kuehn, The Viridian Path, AuthorHouse

In the eyes of many Americans, the Blacks have been associated with poverty, backwardness and violence, even though many of them have escalated the ladder of success into the Middle Class, having realized the American dream in terms of prosperity, education, jobs, social and political positions and even attained the presidency with Barack Obama (2008-16).

2020, Raphael Israeli, Black Upon White: White Racism and Black Dignity in America: A Comparison with Arabs in Israel, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co., page 2

I don’t waste any time escalating ladders; / I break their portal chains when invading their forts / And tumble down their walls just like a ram batters / And wrestle their towers, ignoring the blatter / Of the great many folks; they shield from my efforts.

2022, Jean René Bazin PierrePierre, When Hugo Meets Shakespeare, volume 1, Xlibris


Croat

en-noun

Croat (countable and uncountable, plural Croats)

From Medieval Latin Croata, from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ (“Croat”), the Croatian autonym. It, in turn, is probably of non-Slavic origin: it is probably from an Iranian or Germanic language. Doublet of cravat.

It almost made him laugh. What could he possibly do in Ohio? Did Cleveland have a pressing need for secret policemen who spoke Croat?

(uncountable, uncommon) The Croatian lect.


witching hour

/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ ˌaʊə/

/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ ˌaʊ(ə)ɹ/

From witching (“of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers”, adjective) + hour. Sense 1 (“midnight”) was popularized by the reference to the “witching time of night” in the play Hamlet (written c. 1599–1602; published 1603) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616): see the quotation.

compound

"Do you know what three a.m. is?" […] "It's called the witching hour. It's the reverse of the holy hour—three p.m.—when Jesus died on the cross.[…]"

2008 July 22, Claudia Mair Burney, chapter 4, in The Exorsistah, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, page 42

The witching hour is three a.m., in mockery of the Trinity and a perversion of the hour of his death.

2009 September 22, Rick Yancey, “The Devil’s Manger”, in The Monstrumologist, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster BFYR, page 349

By the way, the hour between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. is also known as the witching hour because it's thought that paranormal forces are at their strongest during that time.

2020 April 27, Pamela Humphrey, “Momma at Costco (Wind Chime Breaks)”, in My Sister’s Walk with God: The True Stories of a Prophetic Intercessor, Murrells Inlet, S.C.: Covenant Books, Inc.

(less common, occult) The hour between 3:00 a.m. and 3:59 a.m., associated with demons.


pearly

en-noun

pearly (countable and uncountable, plural pearlies)

pearly:

In nature we as often find the light cool as warm; also in the pictures of many of the Flemish and Dutch schools, where, as Sir Joshua himself mentions, " the silver gray or pearly is predominant, and are valued by the connoisseurs in proportion as they possess this excellence of a silver tint."

1830, John Burnet, A practical treatise on painting, page 3

Pearly is that silky and often coloured lustre which renders of such value

When (the scales are) more developed and thickened, the color (pearly) is deepened, shading

1899, St. Louis medical and surgical journal, page 126

(uncountable, uncommon, dated) A pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue.


chips

chips (nominative singular)
chipsit (nominative plural)
chips (accusative nominative singular)
chipsit (accusative nominative plural)
chipsin (accusative genitive singular)
chipsit (accusative genitive plural)
chipsin (genitive singular)
chipsien (genitive plural)
chipsiä (partitive singular)
chipsejä (partitive plural)
chipsissä (inessive singular)
chipseissä (inessive plural)
chipsistä (elative singular)
chipseistä (elative plural)
chipsiin (illative singular)
chipseihin (illative plural)
chipsillä (adessive singular)
chipseillä (adessive plural)
chipsiltä (ablative singular)
chipseiltä (ablative plural)
chipsille (allative singular)
chipseille (allative plural)
chipsinä (essive singular)
chipseinä (essive plural)
chipsiksi (singular translative)
chipseiksi (plural translative)
chipsittä (abessive singular)
chipseittä (abessive plural)
chipsein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
chipsini (nominative singular)
chipsini (nominative plural)
chipsini (accusative nominative singular)
chipsini (accusative nominative plural)
chipsini (accusative genitive singular)
chipsini (accusative genitive plural)
chipsini (genitive singular)
chipsieni (genitive plural)
chipsiäni (partitive singular)
chipsejäni (partitive plural)
chipsissäni (inessive singular)
chipseissäni (inessive plural)
chipsistäni (elative singular)
chipseistäni (elative plural)
chipsiini (illative singular)
chipseihini (illative plural)
chipsilläni (adessive singular)
chipseilläni (adessive plural)
chipsiltäni (ablative singular)
chipseiltäni (ablative plural)
chipsilleni (allative singular)
chipseilleni (allative plural)
chipsinäni (essive singular)
chipseinäni (essive plural)
chipsikseni (singular translative)
chipseikseni (plural translative)
chipsittäni (abessive singular)
chipseittäni (abessive plural)
chipseineni (comitative plural)
chipsisi (nominative singular)
chipsisi (nominative plural)
chipsisi (accusative nominative singular)
chipsisi (accusative nominative plural)
chipsisi (accusative genitive singular)
chipsisi (accusative genitive plural)
chipsisi (genitive singular)
chipsiesi (genitive plural)
chipsiäsi (partitive singular)
chipsejäsi (partitive plural)
chipsissäsi (inessive singular)
chipseissäsi (inessive plural)
chipsistäsi (elative singular)
chipseistäsi (elative plural)
chipsiisi (illative singular)
chipseihisi (illative plural)
chipsilläsi (adessive singular)
chipseilläsi (adessive plural)
chipsiltäsi (ablative singular)
chipseiltäsi (ablative plural)
chipsillesi (allative singular)
chipseillesi (allative plural)
chipsinäsi (essive singular)
chipseinäsi (essive plural)
chipsiksesi (singular translative)
chipseiksesi (plural translative)
chipsittäsi (abessive singular)
chipseittäsi (abessive plural)
chipseinesi (comitative plural)
chipsimme (nominative singular)
chipsimme (nominative plural)
chipsimme (accusative nominative singular)
chipsimme (accusative nominative plural)
chipsimme (accusative genitive singular)
chipsimme (accusative genitive plural)
chipsimme (genitive singular)
chipsiemme (genitive plural)
chipsiämme (partitive singular)
chipsejämme (partitive plural)
chipsissämme (inessive singular)
chipseissämme (inessive plural)
chipsistämme (elative singular)
chipseistämme (elative plural)
chipsiimme (illative singular)
chipseihimme (illative plural)
chipsillämme (adessive singular)
chipseillämme (adessive plural)
chipsiltämme (ablative singular)
chipseiltämme (ablative plural)
chipsillemme (allative singular)
chipseillemme (allative plural)
chipsinämme (essive singular)
chipseinämme (essive plural)
chipsiksemme (singular translative)
chipseiksemme (plural translative)
chipsittämme (abessive singular)
chipseittämme (abessive plural)
chipseinemme (comitative plural)
chipsinne (nominative singular)
chipsinne (nominative plural)
chipsinne (accusative nominative singular)
chipsinne (accusative nominative plural)
chipsinne (accusative genitive singular)
chipsinne (accusative genitive plural)
chipsinne (genitive singular)
chipsienne (genitive plural)
chipsiänne (partitive singular)
chipsejänne (partitive plural)
chipsissänne (inessive singular)
chipseissänne (inessive plural)
chipsistänne (elative singular)
chipseistänne (elative plural)
chipsiinne (illative singular)
chipseihinne (illative plural)
chipsillänne (adessive singular)
chipseillänne (adessive plural)
chipsiltänne (ablative singular)
chipseiltänne (ablative plural)
chipsillenne (allative singular)
chipseillenne (allative plural)
chipsinänne (essive singular)
chipseinänne (essive plural)
chipsiksenne (singular translative)
chipseiksenne (plural translative)
chipsittänne (abessive singular)
chipseittänne (abessive plural)
chipseinenne (comitative plural)
chipsinsä (nominative singular)
chipsinsä (nominative plural)
chipsinsä (accusative nominative singular)
chipsinsä (accusative nominative plural)
chipsinsä (accusative genitive singular)
chipsinsä (accusative genitive plural)
chipsinsä (genitive singular)
chipsiensä (genitive plural)
chipsiään (partitive singular)
chipsiänsä (partitive singular)
chipsejään (partitive plural)
chipsejänsä (partitive plural)
chipsissään (inessive singular)
chipsissänsä (inessive singular)
chipseissään (inessive plural)
chipseissänsä (inessive plural)
chipsistään (elative singular)
chipsistänsä (elative singular)
chipseistään (elative plural)
chipseistänsä (elative plural)
chipsiinsä (illative singular)
chipseihinsä (illative plural)
chipsillään (adessive singular)
chipsillänsä (adessive singular)
chipseillään (adessive plural)
chipseillänsä (adessive plural)
chipsiltään (ablative singular)
chipsiltänsä (ablative singular)
chipseiltään (ablative plural)
chipseiltänsä (ablative plural)
chipsilleen (allative singular)
chipsillensä (allative singular)
chipseilleen (allative plural)
chipseillensä (allative plural)
chipsinään (essive singular)
chipsinänsä (essive singular)
chipseinään (essive plural)
chipseinänsä (essive plural)
chipsikseen (singular translative)
chipsiksensä (singular translative)
chipseikseen (plural translative)
chipseiksensä (plural translative)
chipsittään (abessive singular)
chipsittänsä (abessive singular)
chipseittään (abessive plural)
chipseittänsä (abessive plural)
chipseineen (comitative plural)
chipseinensä (comitative plural)


Commonwealth English

North American English

antonym(s) of “variety of English used in the UK and former colonies, excluding North America”

The written form of the language universally taught in schools is Commonwealth English with a slight emphasis on a few words which might be more common in the specific areas than others.

2006, Namrata Palta, Preparing for Call Center Interviews, pages 80–81

Amnesia (or amnaesia in Commonwealth English) is a condition in which memory is disturbed.

2008, Icon Group International staff, Disturbances: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Icon Group International [entry adapted from “Amnesia” in Wikipedia], 2005, p 384

United States of America
United States of America

(uncommon) The generalised variety of English spoken and written primarily in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, sometimes excluding Canada (especially in the context of pronunciation); always excluding the United States of America. (i.e. non-American English)


sound engineering

This project is important, and must be based in sound engineering.

(less frequently) Engineering which is sound in the sense of being reliable.


Ar

de-noun

Ar m or n (strong, genitive Ar or Ars, plural Ar or Are)

Ar (genitive)
Ars (genitive)
Ar (plural)
Are (plural)
Ar (definite nominative singular)
Ar (definite nominative plural)
Are (definite nominative plural)
Ar (genitive singular)
Ars (genitive singular)
Ar (definite genitive plural)
Are (definite genitive plural)
Ar (dative singular)
Ar (dative definite plural)
Aren (dative definite plural)
Ar (accusative definite singular)
Ar (accusative definite plural)
Are (accusative definite plural)


Camboj

(uncommon, historical) Alternative spelling of Kamboja (the region inhabited by the Kambojas) or Cambodia.


Budda

(uncommon) Alternative spelling of Buddha


Cupido

(Roman mythology, uncommon) Cupid (god of love)


Episcopalian

(now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian.


Episcopalian

en-adj

Episcopalian (not generally comparable, comparative more Episcopalian, superlative most Episcopalian)

more Episcopalian (comparative)
most Episcopalian (superlative)


Erin

Cuthullin, Faͤltmarſkalk uti Erin (Irland), ſaknar, i det oͤgonblick då han wille framrycka mot Swaran, Lochlins Konung, ſom gjort en landſtigning på Oͤn, trenne af ſina tapprasſe hjeltar, Sergus, Duchomar och Cathbat.

1795 November 21, “Litteratur [Literature]”, in Stockholms Poſten, number 267, page 1

Cuthullin, Field Marshal of Erin (Ireland), misses, at the moment when he wished to advance against Swaran, King of Lochlin, who had landed on the island, three of his bravest heroes, Sergus, Duchomar, and Cathbat.

Man talar mycket mer om Pierre Bonaparte, revolvermannen, och om den franſka riksdagen, hwilket bewiſar att wi werkligen höra til Europa och ej kunna undgå att interesſera oß för hwad ſom händer på det ſtora faſtlandet, på halföarne och äfwen i det britiſka öriket, "gröna Erin" inbegripen, men framför allt för det ſom pasſerar i grannſkapet af Seine, ware sig i lagſtiftande corpſens palats eller i en ſalong i Auteuil, ſtrax bredwid der Molière hade ſin malmgård.

1870 January 22, “Kroͤnika [Column]”, in Stockholms Dagblad, number 17, page 2

One speaks much more about Pierre Bonaparte, the gunslinger, and about the French parliament, which proves that we truly belong to Europe and cannot avoid being interested in what happens on the great continent, on the peninsulas, and even in the British island kingdom, "green Erin" included, but above all in what transpires in the vicinity of the Seine, whether in the legislative corps' palace or in a salon in Auteuil, right next to where Molière had his suburban estate.

Erin, det är ju det keltiska namnet för Irland, den gröna ön […]

Erin, that's the Celtic name for Ireland, the green island […]

(uncommon) Erin, synonym of Irland (“Ireland”).


Dari

Borrowed from Classical Persian دری (darī), of disputed origin, probably from دربار (darbār, “royal court”). The term was adopted by the government of Afghanistan in 1964 as the official name of the varieties of Persian spoken in the country, which has become the most common usage of the term since.

bor+

(historical, now less common) A variety of Middle Persian which served as the court language of the late Sasanian Empire.


Heaven

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, I 254-255

(uncommon) Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed

(uncommon) A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Evan


Limo

de-noun

Limo f (genitive Limo, plural Limos or Limo)

Limo (uncommon) n (strong, genitive Limo or Limos, plural Limos or Limo)

Limo (genitive)
Limos (plural)
Limo (plural)
Limo (genitive)
Limos (genitive)
Limos (plural)
Limo (plural)
Limo (nominative singular)
Limos (definite nominative plural)
Limo (definite nominative plural)
Limo (genitive singular)
Limos (definite genitive plural)
Limo (definite genitive plural)
Limo (dative singular)
Limos (dative definite plural)
Limo (dative definite plural)
Limo (accusative singular)
Limos (accusative definite plural)
Limo (accusative definite plural)
Limo (nominative singular)
Limos (definite nominative plural)
Limo (definite nominative plural)
Limo (genitive singular)
Limos (genitive singular)
Limos (definite genitive plural)
Limo (definite genitive plural)
Limo (dative singular)
Limos (dative definite plural)
Limo (dative definite plural)
Limo (accusative singular)
Limos (accusative definite plural)
Limo (accusative definite plural)

[…] sie lobte Weine und empfahl Retsina mit Sprite, also diesen geharzten Wein mit süßer Limo (hm, na ja) und wies auf die Jahn-Reisen-Ausflüge zu Sehenswürdigkeiten hin („Lindos, ein Traum!“).

2019 September 28, Felix Zimmermann, “Wirklich alles inklusive”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 28


Kata

Kata (nominative singular)
Katat (nominative plural)
Kata (accusative nominative singular)
Katat (accusative nominative plural)
Katan (accusative genitive singular)
Katat (accusative genitive plural)
Katan (genitive singular)
Katojen (genitive plural)
Katain (genitive plural rare)
Kataa (partitive singular)
Katoja (partitive plural)
Katassa (inessive singular)
Katoissa (inessive plural)
Katasta (elative singular)
Katoista (elative plural)
Kataan (illative singular)
Katoihin (illative plural)
Katalla (adessive singular)
Katoilla (adessive plural)
Katalta (ablative singular)
Katoilta (ablative plural)
Katalle (allative singular)
Katoille (allative plural)
Katana (essive singular)
Katoina (essive plural)
Kataksi (singular translative)
Katoiksi (plural translative)
Katatta (abessive singular)
Katoitta (abessive plural)
Katoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Katani (nominative singular)
Katani (nominative plural)
Katani (accusative nominative singular)
Katani (accusative nominative plural)
Katani (accusative genitive singular)
Katani (accusative genitive plural)
Katani (genitive singular)
Katojeni (genitive plural)
Kataini (genitive plural rare)
Kataani (partitive singular)
Katojani (partitive plural)
Katassani (inessive singular)
Katoissani (inessive plural)
Katastani (elative singular)
Katoistani (elative plural)
Kataani (illative singular)
Katoihini (illative plural)
Katallani (adessive singular)
Katoillani (adessive plural)
Kataltani (ablative singular)
Katoiltani (ablative plural)
Katalleni (allative singular)
Katoilleni (allative plural)
Katanani (essive singular)
Katoinani (essive plural)
Katakseni (singular translative)
Katoikseni (plural translative)
Katattani (abessive singular)
Katoittani (abessive plural)
Katoineni (comitative plural)
Katasi (nominative singular)
Katasi (nominative plural)
Katasi (accusative nominative singular)
Katasi (accusative nominative plural)
Katasi (accusative genitive singular)
Katasi (accusative genitive plural)
Katasi (genitive singular)
Katojesi (genitive plural)
Kataisi (genitive plural rare)
Kataasi (partitive singular)
Katojasi (partitive plural)
Katassasi (inessive singular)
Katoissasi (inessive plural)
Katastasi (elative singular)
Katoistasi (elative plural)
Kataasi (illative singular)
Katoihisi (illative plural)
Katallasi (adessive singular)
Katoillasi (adessive plural)
Kataltasi (ablative singular)
Katoiltasi (ablative plural)
Katallesi (allative singular)
Katoillesi (allative plural)
Katanasi (essive singular)
Katoinasi (essive plural)
Kataksesi (singular translative)
Katoiksesi (plural translative)
Katattasi (abessive singular)
Katoittasi (abessive plural)
Katoinesi (comitative plural)
Katamme (nominative singular)
Katamme (nominative plural)
Katamme (accusative nominative singular)
Katamme (accusative nominative plural)
Katamme (accusative genitive singular)
Katamme (accusative genitive plural)
Katamme (genitive singular)
Katojemme (genitive plural)
Kataimme (genitive plural rare)
Kataamme (partitive singular)
Katojamme (partitive plural)
Katassamme (inessive singular)
Katoissamme (inessive plural)
Katastamme (elative singular)
Katoistamme (elative plural)
Kataamme (illative singular)
Katoihimme (illative plural)
Katallamme (adessive singular)
Katoillamme (adessive plural)
Kataltamme (ablative singular)
Katoiltamme (ablative plural)
Katallemme (allative singular)
Katoillemme (allative plural)
Katanamme (essive singular)
Katoinamme (essive plural)
Kataksemme (singular translative)
Katoiksemme (plural translative)
Katattamme (abessive singular)
Katoittamme (abessive plural)
Katoinemme (comitative plural)
Katanne (nominative singular)
Katanne (nominative plural)
Katanne (accusative nominative singular)
Katanne (accusative nominative plural)
Katanne (accusative genitive singular)
Katanne (accusative genitive plural)
Katanne (genitive singular)
Katojenne (genitive plural)
Katainne (genitive plural rare)
Kataanne (partitive singular)
Katojanne (partitive plural)
Katassanne (inessive singular)
Katoissanne (inessive plural)
Katastanne (elative singular)
Katoistanne (elative plural)
Kataanne (illative singular)
Katoihinne (illative plural)
Katallanne (adessive singular)
Katoillanne (adessive plural)
Kataltanne (ablative singular)
Katoiltanne (ablative plural)
Katallenne (allative singular)
Katoillenne (allative plural)
Katananne (essive singular)
Katoinanne (essive plural)
Kataksenne (singular translative)
Katoiksenne (plural translative)
Katattanne (abessive singular)
Katoittanne (abessive plural)
Katoinenne (comitative plural)
Katansa (nominative singular)
Katansa (nominative plural)
Katansa (accusative nominative singular)
Katansa (accusative nominative plural)
Katansa (accusative genitive singular)
Katansa (accusative genitive plural)
Katansa (genitive singular)
Katojensa (genitive plural)
Katainsa (genitive plural rare)
Kataansa (partitive singular)
Katojaan (partitive plural)
Katojansa (partitive plural)
Katassaan (inessive singular)
Katassansa (inessive singular)
Katoissaan (inessive plural)
Katoissansa (inessive plural)
Katastaan (elative singular)
Katastansa (elative singular)
Katoistaan (elative plural)
Katoistansa (elative plural)
Kataansa (illative singular)
Katoihinsa (illative plural)
Katallaan (adessive singular)
Katallansa (adessive singular)
Katoillaan (adessive plural)
Katoillansa (adessive plural)
Kataltaan (ablative singular)
Kataltansa (ablative singular)
Katoiltaan (ablative plural)
Katoiltansa (ablative plural)
Katalleen (allative singular)
Katallensa (allative singular)
Katoilleen (allative plural)
Katoillensa (allative plural)
Katanaan (essive singular)
Katanansa (essive singular)
Katoinaan (essive plural)
Katoinansa (essive plural)
Katakseen (singular translative)
Kataksensa (singular translative)
Katoikseen (plural translative)
Katoiksensa (plural translative)
Katattaan (abessive singular)
Katattansa (abessive singular)
Katoittaan (abessive plural)
Katoittansa (abessive plural)
Katoineen (comitative plural)
Katoinensa (comitative plural)


parade

en-noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

→ Hindi: परैड (paraiḍ)

→ Urdu: پریڈ (paraiḍ)

From French parade (“an ostentatious display, a military display”), from parer (“to beautify, prepare, take pride in”) + -ade probably under influence from earlier Italian parata (“preparation, a military parade, an ostentatious display”) and Latin magnō parātū (“with great preparation”). Various senses similarly influenced by earlier French and Italian uses. Doublet of pare.

der

An organized display of a group of people, particularly

(venery, uncommon) Synonym of gaggle: A group of geese when on the move, particularly a line of goslings shepherded by one or more adults.

gaggle

(venery, uncommon) Synonym of herd: A group of elephants when on the move.

Parade, is a Military word, signifying the Place where Troops usually draw together, in order to mount the Guards, or for any other Service.

1704, John Harris, Lexicon Technicum, Vol. I, s.v

When Barracks are occupied by Troops, the Yards and Parades are to be swept, rolled, and kept clean by them.

1844, The Queen's Regulations & Orders for the Army, page 240

A place reserved for such displays, particularly

(military, now uncommon) Synonym of parade ground: A place specially designated for such displays or for practicing close-order drills.

parade ground

His shop is located in Chester Pde.

(uncommon) Synonym of road, used in place names.

The Commanding Officer is then to direct the Parade to Order Arms.

1844, The Queen's Regulations & Orders for the Army, page 260

The people who make up such a display, particularly

(military, now uncommon) The body of soldiers thus assembled.

Most new shopping centres... have broken away from the old strip parades which usually face each other across heavy inter-town traffic.

1968, Roger Kenneth Cox, Retail Site Assessment, page 15

(UK, figurative, uncommon) A row of shops beside a street.

Scottish Programme Parade

Listen to your regional Programme Parade at 8.10 a.m. daily.

programme parade
programme parade#English

(UK, figurative, now uncommon) Short for programme parade: a description of the programming schedule formerly announced on the radio and various television channels.


parade

From French parade (“a parry”), from parer (“to parry, to defend oneself”) + -ade, from Italian parata. Doublet of parry.

...in case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his brest to caveat...

1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ecscybalauron (Εκσκυβαλαυρον), p. 228

[The Tutor] should accustom him to make as much as is possible a true Judgment of Men by those Marks which serve best to shew what they are, and give a Prospect into their Inside, which often shews it self in little Things, especially when they are not in Parade, and upon their Guard.

1699, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, §94, p. 152

(uncommon) Synonym of parry in both its literal and figurative senses.


papaw

Related to papa, or pa pa (one's fathers father).

(US, dialect, Southern US, less commonly) A father.


Pagan

Borrowed from Latin pāgānus (“rustic, rural”).

'I've always believed that one of the reasons she never named Pagan's father was to spare her a similar pain.' 'You don't know who he is?' 'No. And, at the risk of sounding like Candida, I'd give anything to find out.'

2011 April 19, Michael Arditti, Pagan and Her Parents, Arcadia Books

In 2012, author Pagan Kennedy was hired by The New York Times magazine to write a column titled “Who Made That?” She began to hunt the people down behind inventions like sliced bread, the 3-D printer, and lipstick.

(Can we date this quote?), QuickRead, Lea Schullery, Inventology by Pagan Kennedy (Summary), QuickRead.com


Atlas

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).


Atlas

de-noun

Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlanten)

Atlas (genitive)
Atlasses (genitive)
Atlanten (genitive)
Atlanten (plural)
Atlas (nominative singular)
Atlanten (definite nominative plural)
Atlas (genitive singular)
Atlasses (genitive singular)
Atlanten (genitive singular)
Atlanten (definite genitive plural)
Atlas (dative singular)
Atlasse (dative singular)
Atlanten (dative definite plural)
Atlas (accusative singular)
Atlanten (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).

(uncommon) atlas (figure of a man used as a column)


Aurora

Aurora f (genitive Aurora, plural Auroras)

Aurora (genitive)
Auroras (plural)
Aurora (nominative singular)
Auroras (definite nominative plural)
Aurora (genitive singular)
Auroras (definite genitive plural)
Aurora (dative singular)
Auroras (dative definite plural)
Aurora (accusative singular)
Auroras (accusative definite plural)

Auf nahezu allen Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem haben Forscher ähnlich entstandene Auroras beobachtet. Darüber hinaus jedoch war das Schauspiel noch nicht belegt.

2015 July 29, “Polarlichter auf fernem Himmelskörper entdeckt”, in Die Zeit, sourced from dpa


Orthodox

en-noun

Orthodox (plural Orthodox or Orthodoxes)

The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.

1891, John Scott Keltie, The Statesman's Year-Book, MacMillan and Co., page 854

1984, David Gillard (ed.), British documents on foreign affairs: Reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print, Part I: From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War, Series B: The Near and Middle East, 1856-1914, page 31.
The Greek Catholic priesthood, who proselytize among the Orthodoxes, are specially favoured, and donations are given for Masses in the churches of the Capuchin and the Franciscan Friars.


Voodoo

de-noun

Voodoo m or (less common) n (strong, genitive Voodoo, no plural)

Voodoo (genitive)
Voodoo (definite nominative singular)
Voodoo (genitive singular)
Voodoo (dative singular)
Voodoo (accusative definite singular)

Borrowed from English voodoo, from a West African language.

„Außerdem habe ich rausgefunden, wie Kasper wieder gesund wird. Ich ... Wir müssen nur das Voodoo zurücknehmen. Also, die Nadeln rausziehen und alles quasi umgekehrt machen.“

2015 July 17, Anne-Marie Donslund, Inez Gavilanes, Das magische Buch 3 - Voodoo, volume 3, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →OCLC, page 147

Mit der Zeit entwickelte sich das Voodoo, wie es heute praktiziert wird.

2018 August 24, Papa Nemo, Der Weg des Voodoo: Von den Grundlagen zur Praxis (überarbeitete Auflage), BoD – Books on Demand, →OCLC, page 13

Hierdurch sieht man, dass das haitianische Voodoo anders mit dem Element Wasser umgeht, als das Voodoo in den afrikanischen breiten.

2021 March 19, Frater Lysir, Voodoo, Hoodoo & Santería – Band 3 Hoodoo Theorie und Voodoo-Praxis – Arbeiten mit den Vodun und den Loas (Voodoo, Hoodoo und Santería), neobooks, →OCLC


Vi

(uncommon, very formal or polite) you (in the singular), to you (singular), yourself

with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects

Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects. Unlike the singular forms

the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language

and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead


March

en-proper noun

March (usually uncountable, plural Marches)

Bislama: maj

→ Bengali: মার্চ (marco)

→ Burmese: မတ် (mat)

→ Chichewa: Malichi

→ Dari: مارچ (mârč)

→ Hausa: Maris

→ Hawaiian: Malaki

→ Hindi: मार्च (mārc)

→ Malay: Mac

→ Maori: Māehe

→ Marshallese: M̧aaj

→ Tokelauan: Māti

→ Tongan: Maʻasi

From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.

der

Kendall told me about a man named March Flack. A radio actor who disappeared years ago. I assumed that was here.

2001, John Dunning, Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel, page 82

Alexander Garden Jr., the long-serving rector of South Carolina's St. Thomas parish, twice advertised in 1747 to offer a reward for the return of an enslaved Igbo man named March, who had run away from the parsonage house.

2012, Travis Glasson, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery

However, Patty seems to have been the only one of more than seventy slaves at Ossabaw Island who did not perform some duty on the plantation, which is evidence that elderly and disabled slaves were indeed put to work despite their impairments. The overseer's journals for Kollock's Ossabaw Island plantation allow us to trace the career of one disabled slave, a blind man named March, to demonstrate the utility of slaves with debilities. At the time Kollack was consolidating his assets on his new plantation, March was rated to be a "quarter hand," with no indication of what jobs he was expected to perform at that time. In the 1850 and 1851 journals, March is not included in tallies of cotton pickings by weight, unlike most other male slaves [...]

2013, Dea H. Boster, African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power

What suited her much better was a young man named March whom she had met at a friend's wedding in London. Both Linda and March Hancock had grown up far east of Eden, [...] March Hancock was born in 1944 [...]

2016, Mary V. T. Cattan, Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers, page 157

(uncommon) A male given name from English.


Nazi

Der Bossel vom Fischkal, der Nazi, het mer's gstekt, / Un noch zwai Beddelvögt.

1816, Johann Georg Daniel Arnold, Der Pfingstmontag: Lustspiel in Straßburger Mundart

(uncommon after the mid-1900s) a diminutive of the male given name Ignaz, from Latin


Nazi

1808 "und da bin ich auch mit gwallfahr't und nachher ist unser Nazi g'sund word'n." (August Hoch, Schiller's Todtenfeier, p. 22)


mata

id-noun

mata (plural mata-mata, first-person possessive mataku, second-person possessive matamu, third-person possessive matanya)

mata-mata (plural)
mataku (first-person possessive)
matamu (possessive second-person)
matanya (possessive third-person)

Inherited from Malay mata, from Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.
* The sense “a type of storm” is a semantic loan from English eye.


Urban

en-proper noun

Urban (countable and uncountable, plural Urbans)

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”). Doublet of Orban.


Afghani

From Afghan + -i, or directly from Persian افغانی (“Afghan (nonstandard)”).

This is not the way Afghanis conduct business. For the Afghans, time is not of the essence.

2003, Jean-Michel Monod, quoted in Intercultural Management →ISBN, page 182

(uncommon, proscribed) An Afghan; a native, inhabitant or national of Afghanistan.


Bison

de-noun

Bison m or (less common) n (strong, genitive Bisons, plural Bisons or (rare) Bisone)

Bisons (genitive)
Bisons (plural)
Bisone (plural rare)
Bison (definite nominative singular)
Bisons (definite nominative plural)
Bisone (definite nominative plural rare)
Bisons (genitive singular)
Bisons (definite genitive plural)
Bisone (definite genitive plural rare)
Bison (dative singular)
Bisons (dative definite plural)
Bisonen (dative definite plural rare)
Bison (accusative definite singular)
Bisons (accusative definite plural)
Bisone (accusative definite plural rare)

Learned borrowing from Latin bisōn, bisōnt-, at first also in forms with -t such as Bisont. Perhaps reinforced by French bison of the same source. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz and thus a doublet of Wisent.


hera

Apparently a feminization of hero, replacing -o (suffix implying masculinity) with -a (“suffix implying femininity”). Sometimes capitalized as if assumed to be related to Hera.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hera.

(uncommon) A female hero; a heroine, especially in lesbian or feminist circles.


arabic numeral

Coordinate term: roman numeral

(dated, uncommon, chiefly American typesetting, often proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of Arabic numeral.


abe

Let it abe, I say.

1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527

But if it amuses her I let it abe.

1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words, page 186

But let that abe.

1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight, page 154

(intransitive, infinitive, British, uncommon) To be.


lamia

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).


litar

es-verb

litar (first-person singular present lito, first-person singular preterite lité, past participle litado)

lito (first-person present singular)
lité (first-person preterite singular)
litado (participle past)
litar (infinitive)
litando (gerund)
litado (masculine participle past singular)
litada (feminine participle past singular)
litados (masculine participle past plural)
litadas (feminine participle past plural)
lito (first-person indicative present singular)
litas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
litás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
lita (indicative present singular third-person)
litamos (first-person indicative plural present)
litáis (indicative plural present second-person)
litan (indicative plural present third-person)
litaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
litabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
litaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
litábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
litabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
litaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
lité (first-person indicative preterite singular)
litaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
litó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
litamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
litasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
litaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
litaré (first-person future indicative singular)
litarás (future indicative second-person singular)
litará (future indicative singular third-person)
litaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
litaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
litarán (future indicative plural third-person)
litaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
litarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
litaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
litaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
litaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
litarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
lite (first-person present singular subjunctive)
lites (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
lités (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
lite (present singular subjunctive third-person)
litemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
litéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
liten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
litara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
litaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
litara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
litáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
litarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
litaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
litase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
litases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
litase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
litásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
litaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
litasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
litare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
litares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
litare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
litáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
litareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
litaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
lita (imperative informal second-person singular)
litá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
lite (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
lite (imperative singular third-person)
litemos (first-person imperative plural)
litad (imperative plural second-person)
liten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
liten (imperative plural third-person)
lites (imperative negative second-person singular)
lite (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
lite (imperative negative singular third-person)
litemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
litéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
liten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
liten (imperative negative plural third-person)

(transitive, uncommon) to make a sacrifice in order to please the gods


Dutch reckoning

As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch''' Reckoning of Allem-al?

1712, Roger Coke, A Detection Of The Court and State Of England During The Four Last Reigns, page 22

"You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey?" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.

1828, Death on Board-Wages, published in Tales of an Antiquary (volume 2 of 3) by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London

'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'

2009, Georgette Heyer, Frederica, page 75

(idiomatic, uncommon, archaic) A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.


zeeland

From Middle Dutch seelant. Equivalent to zee (“sea”) + land (“land”).

(uncommon) land adjacent to the sea, coastal land


friendo

“You got a name, Friendo?”
The Howler was crouched in the corner of his cell furthest from me. He was tensed and spidered, and I was certain he would leap for the opposite corner if I tried to get any nearer to him.

2016, Jeff Somers, The Shattered Gears Omnibus, page 28