micronation

From micro- (“very small”) + nation (“a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life or ethnicity”).

prefix

Careful groundwork had given Germany a highly unified micronation within the boundaries of Argentina, in many ways better prepared and better organized than the Argentine nation itself.

1943, Sax[tone] E. Bradford, The Battle for Buenos Aires, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 95

We are faced with micronationalisms that need be tamed, micronations that will have to be organized.

1961, Mamadou Dia, translated by Mercer Cook, The African Nations and World Solidarity, Frederick A. Praeger, page 143

Margery Perham once remarked that white Rhodesia was a micronation equivalent to a medium-sized British town. How has this micronation, about 80 per cent of whom live in the urban areas, been able to develop and retain control over the African population for so long?

1975, Patrick O'Meara, edited by Gwendolen M. Carter, Rhodesia: Racial Conflict or Coexistence?, Cornell University Press, page 55

Leaving aside micro-nations, the Soviet Union is a large Slavic nation state to which are attached some reluctant Europeans in the west.

1990 January 12, Martin Woollacott, “How the Soviet empire should be dismantled”, in The Guardian, page 10

(uncommon) A small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and manifested in a common culture”).


orchestral

/ˌɔɹˈkɛstɹəl/

The ABC would have top-billing for the orchestral concerts and Williamsons for the recitals; we would go for a three-guinea top for the orchestrals, at that time a record; the ABC would do the front of house and the banking; [...]

1984, Charles Buttrose, Words and Music, page 62

I also enjoy, still using music as an analogy, when Nature segues from quieter contemplative pieces featuring fog and overcast and rain to the full orchestrals of storms: booming tympani of thunder, cymbal crashes of lightning, full-brass of wind ...

2011, Dorien Grey, Short Circuits: A Life in Blogs: - Book 1

Classical composers like Alexander Reinagle, Rayner Taylor, and Susannah Haswell Rowson made their names in the 18th century, while the 19th century was given over to English opera, religious orchestrals, and gospel.

2017, Karrie Gavin, Moon Philadelphia: Including Pennsylvania Dutch Country


anarchic

en-adj

anarchic (comparative more anarchic, superlative most anarchic)

more anarchic (comparative)
most anarchic (superlative)

Lying is just another word for language at its most anarchic, free from any allegiance, or debt, to things as they are.

1979 April 28, Gerry McNamara, “Life for Art's Sake”, in Gay Community News, page 11

Frazer comments on this tendency of his text not only directly, in the preface already quoted, but also indirectly, by taking as one of his principal themes various saturnalian festivals that, in their glorification of "general license, during which the ordinary restraints of society are thrown aside" (ibid., p. 666), in effect bring the principle of free play to its supreme, virtually anarchic expression.

1995, Elazar Barkan, Ronald Bush, Prehistories of the Future, page 150

Wharton's anarchic celebration of a particular, “ illegitimate," passionate motherhood allows her to launch a devastating critique of "legitimate" family life within marriage and to reveal the centrality of female, sexual desire to her tales and the lives of her characters.

1997, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, Elizabeth Mahn Nollen, Family Matters in the British and American Novel, page 180

Revisiting The Wild Wigglers signified how anarchic, original and formative this work had been and how it informed and shaped our subsequent choreographic and performative language.

2006, Liz Aggiss, “Reconstruction: or why you can never step into the same river twice”, in Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie, editor, Anarchic Dance, page 145

Previously, jazz had encompassed a continual history of supposed death throes—be it the arrival of "sweet," white big-band music; militant bebop; softer cool jazz; or, finally, anarchic free jazz and rock-influenced fusion.

2013, Ajay Heble, Rob Wallace, People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!, page 121

(somewhat derogatory, uncommon) Free-spirited; not bound by the rigors or expectations of society.


tribune

From Middle English tribune, from Old French tribun, tribune, from Latin tribunus (“tribune, tribal leader”), from tribus (“tribe”).

der

The new magazine's goal is to give a tribune to unmarried mothers.

(uncommon) Synonym of pulpit, a platform, a place or opportunity to express one's opinion

مِنْبَر

place or an opportunity to speak; platform


bestir

id-noun

bêstir (first-person possessive bestirku, second-person possessive bestirmu, third-person possessive bestirnya)

bêstir (canonical)
bestirku (first-person possessive)
bestirmu (possessive second-person)
bestirnya (possessive third-person)

(colloquial, uncommon) management (the executives of an organisation)


polje

pọ̑lje (canonical)
poljẹ̑ (canonical neuter)
pọ̑lje (nominative singular)
pọ̑lji (dual nominative)
pọ̑lja (nominative plural)
pọ̑lja (genitive singular)
pọ̑lj (dual genitive)
pọ̑lj (genitive plural)
pọ̑lju (dative singular)
pọ̑lji (dative singular)
pọ̑ljema (dative dual)
pọ̑ljama (dative dual)
pọ̑ljem (dative plural)
pọ̑ljam (dative plural)
pọ̑lje (accusative singular)
pọ̑lji (accusative dual)
pọ̑lja (accusative plural)
pọ̑lju (locative singular)
pọ̑lji (locative singular)
pọ̑ljih (dual locative)
pọ̑ljah (dual locative)
pọ̑ljih (locative plural)
pọ̑ljah (locative plural)
pọ̑ljem (instrumental singular)
pọ̑ljema (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ljama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑lji (instrumental plural)
pọ̑lje (singular vocative)
pọ̑lji (dual vocative)
pọ̑lja (plural vocative)
poljẹ̑ (nominative singular)
pọ̑lji (dual nominative)
pọ̑lja (nominative plural)
poljȃ (genitive singular)
pọ̑lj (dual genitive)
pọ̑lj (genitive plural)
pọ̑lju (dative singular)
pọ̑lji (dative singular)
pọ̑ljema (dative dual)
pọ̑ljama (dative dual)
pọ̑ljem (dative plural)
pọ̑ljam (dative plural)
poljẹ̑ (accusative singular)
pọ̑lji (accusative dual)
pọ̑lja (accusative plural)
pọ̑lju (locative singular)
pọ̑lji (locative singular)
pọ̑ljih (dual locative)
pọ̑ljah (dual locative)
pọ̑ljih (locative plural)
pọ̑ljah (locative plural)
pọ̑ljem (instrumental singular)
pọ̑ljema (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ljama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑lji (instrumental plural)
poljẹ̑ (singular vocative)
pọ̑lji (dual vocative)
pọ̑lja (plural vocative)

From Proto-Slavic *poľe, probably from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).


-arian

Back-formation from various words ending in “arian”, some directly derived from Classical or Medieval Latin words ending in -arius by adding -an to the stem, other indirectly via Old French words ending in "arien(ne)" or "erien(ne)" or from English words ending in “ary” to which -an was suffixed; note the same phenomenon in -ary. Equivalent to -ary + -an.

(uncommon) A native or inhabitant of somewhere.


太極

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 太極 (MC thajH gik).
First cited to a text from roughly 1060, with the spelling 大極.
The main spelling in Japanese is 太極. The alternative with 大 instead of 太 appears to be largely obsolete, and is not listed in many dictionaries.

太極図

an image of the absolute, most commonly the yin-yang symbol

太極図門

a seal or crest using an image of the absolute

(uncommon) short for 太極拳 (Taikyokuken): Tai Chi


тот

head

тот • (tot) m (demonstrative, feminine та, neuter то, plural те)

table тот (canonical)
tot (romanization)
та (feminine)
то (neuter)
те (plural)
тот (masculine nominative)
то (neuter nominative)
та (feminine nominative)
те (nominative plural)
того́ (genitive masculine neuter)
той (feminine genitive)
тех (genitive plural)
тому́ (dative masculine neuter)
той (dative feminine)
тем (dative plural)
того́ (accusative animate masculine)
то (accusative neuter)
ту (accusative feminine)
тех (accusative animate plural)
тот (accusative inanimate masculine)
те (accusative inanimate plural)
тем (instrumental masculine neuter)
той (feminine instrumental)
то́ю (feminine instrumental)
те́ми (instrumental plural)
том (masculine neuter prepositional)
той (feminine prepositional)
тех (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”). Cognate with Old Polish tet, Latvian tas, Lithuanian tas, ta, Sanskrit स (sá), Sanskrit तत् (tat), Old English se (whence English the).

Так мно́го игру́шек... Я хочу́ вон ту.

So many toys... I want that one over there.

(uncommon, usually with вон (von)) that one, those ones (something distal to an observer)


diplomatist

Diplomatists have no right to complain of mere lies; it is their own fault, if, educated as they are, the lies deceive them; but they complain bitterly of traps.

1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams


功夫

ja-noun

功夫(カンフー) • (kanfū)

功夫 (canonical)
kanfū (romanization)
クンフー (alternative katakana)
kunfū (Rōmaji alternative katakana)

Borrowing from English kung fu, from Chinese 功夫 (gōngfu).

バーチャファイター
「あなたには功夫が足りないわ！」
“Anata ni wa kunfū ga tarinaiwa!”
"Your gongfu isn't enough!"


priceless

en-adj

priceless (comparative more priceless, superlative most priceless)

more priceless (comparative)
most priceless (superlative)

From price + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking, without’).

suffix

DeepMind, the British company discussed in chapter 2, was sold to Google for £400 million in 2014 without even a golden share for government. It is now priceless, almost certainly not for sale at any price.

2020, Nick Timothy, chapter 5, in Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism, Cambridge: Polity Press, page 120

(literally, uncommon) Without a price assigned; unpriced.


periplus

en-noun

periplus (plural peripluses or peripli or periploi)

peripluses (plural)
peripli (plural)
periploi (plural)

/ˈpɛɹɪˌplʌs/

From Latin periplūs (“account of a voyage”) and Ancient Greek περίπλους (períplous, “voyage, naval manouver, account of a voyage”), from περί (perí, “peri-: around”) + πλοῦς (ploûs, “voyage”), from πλεῖν (pleîn, “to swim”). Cf. French périple, Spanish periplo, & Italian periplo.

der

(uncommon) Synonym of circuit: the path or distance around a coast.

All the four books and the photograph are, in various degrees of literality or metaphoricity, about a periplus, the circumnavigation of an entire world, be that Homer's Mediterranean, Dante's hell, purgatory and paradise, Joyce's Dublin, or the cosmos of The Cantos, stretching across all the continents and all periods of history, and they are, therefore, the logbook accounts of such a periplus.

1997, Manfred Pfister, “‘Sailing after Knowledge’: The Logbook Aesthetics of Pound's Cantos”, in Andreas Fischer, Martin Heusser, Thomas Herrmann, editors, Aspects of Modernism: Studies in Honour of Max Nänny, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, page 98

(uncommon) Synonym of circumnavigation: a voyage around an island or the world.


peetvader

nl-noun

peetvader m (plural peetvaders, diminutive peetvadertje n)

peetvaders (plural)
peetvadertje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of peet + vader. The sense “mob leader” is influenced by English godfather, in particular by The Godfather.


horologium

en-noun

horologium (plural horologiums or horologia)

/hɔɹəˈloʊd͡ʒiəm/

/hɔɹəˈloʊɡiəm/

/hɒɹəˈləʊd͡ʒɪəm/

/hɒɹəˈləʊɡɪəm/

From Latin horologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). In reference to Eastern Orthodoxy, via its Byzantine Greek development. See menologium. Doublet of horologe.

astronomical clock
astronomical clock#English

(uncommon) Synonym of astronomical clock.


lasagne

lasagne (countable and uncountable, plural lasagnes)

(uncommon, possibly nonstandard) Synonym of lasagna


개새끼

개 (gae, “dog”) + 새끼 (saekki, “young of an animal; bastard”)

affix

(uncommon, often humorous) puppy; an actual young dog


三味線

→ English: samisen

Sound shift from shamisen above, possibly influenced by the standard san reading of the initial 三 character.
This reading appears to be less common than shamisen.
First cited to a text from 1632.

(uncommon) a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking, vaguely similar to a banjo


smithy

en-verb

smithy (third-person singular simple present smithies, present participle smithying, simple past and past participle smithied)

smithies (present singular third-person)
smithying (participle present)
smithied (participle past)
smithied (past)

From Middle English smythy, from Old Norse smiðja, from Proto-Germanic *smiþjǭ. Cognate with Old English smiþþe (whence the obsolete modern doublet smithe). See the Proto-Germanic entry for further cognates.

"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace.
"Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]

So the old smith went out to his smithy and weighed out iron enough to make a stout staff a stone weight, and he smithied it well while his son looked on. […] So they weighed six stone of iron and smithied a great bent club like a shinny, and when that was made and cooled the smith's son said, "that will do."

1995, John Francis Campbell, The Celtic Dragon Myth, page 59


pocketbook

→ Gulf Arabic: بوك (būk, “wallet”)

→ Najdi Arabic: بوك (būk, “wallet”)

1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.

The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.

The kit is produced in three parts including a pocket book designed to fit into a shirt pocket for everyday on-the-job use, a more detailed guide and a training CD. The kit includes a hazard reporting and feedback notebook and hazard management process prompt cards to remind workers of common hazards they may encounter in day-to-day operations.

c. 2005, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Risk Management Pocket Guide

"I have now lost", he wrote in his pocketbook, "the last barrier between me and death..."

2011, Leslie Stephen, Swift, Cambridge University Press, page 10

Dave recorded the information in his pocketbook and looked Gibbs straight in the eye.

2015, Graham Ison, Whispering Grass, Hachette UK

(uncommon) A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).


why's

Why's he want to do that?


lefty

This pole gets whipped, I miss dishing it, putting red on the can like Pepsi
Govs said I defy, I never been right but my yank does love my lefty

2020 January 18, “Routine”, (CGE) Young Stacks (lyrics), 0:35

Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty

2022 April 14, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29


매

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 매〮 (Yale: máy).


armorist

"But for now, you can have your fun and glory amusing a mob. you'll die in the arena soon enough." He pauses and examines Kiyo' s armor. "It seems the smithy and the armorist have given you some gifts to prolong your short stay."

2010 January 14, Erik S. Johnson, Tenshi, Xlibris Corporation, page 132

Spud-bar, the Savage Legion's former armorist, is kneeling beside a repurposed wagon wheel, attending to its spoke.[…]

2021 July 20, Matt Wallace, Savage Bounty, Simon and Schuster, page 99

(uncommon) An armorer; one who produces arms and armor.


inclose

en-verb

inclose (third-person singular simple present incloses, present participle inclosing, simple past and past participle inclosed)

incloses (present singular third-person)
inclosing (participle present)
inclosed (participle past)
inclosed (past)

Vesalius (saith he) and others, make it a Peculiarity to Man, that the Pericardium, or Bag that incloses the Heart, should be fastned to the Diaphragm.

1727, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation, page 225

From the stock, as well as from the branches, rises a jonquil flower, the pistil of which contains the husk which incloses the fruit.

1776, Abbé Resnal, translated by J. Justamond, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, translation of original in French

The spores of the covered smut are often retained till harvest by a thin membrane inclosing the smutted kernel and chaff, while the naked smut is usually all blown away long before harvest.

1898, Walter Tennyson Swingle, The grain smuts: how they are caused and how to prevent them

(now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose


buta

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦸꦠ (buta, “giant”), from Old Javanese bhūta, from Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “demon”). Doublet of bota.


lifesaving

en-adj

lifesaving (comparative more lifesaving, superlative most lifesaving)

more lifesaving (comparative)
most lifesaving (superlative)

The lifesaving surgery is expensive, but so is a funeral.

(uncommon) Alternative form of life-saving


자지

Sino-Korean word from 紫 (“purple”) + 芝 (“herb”).

ko-etym-Sino

(uncommon) purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon)


자지

자주(紫朱) 자주#紫朱

(uncommon) Synonym of 자주(紫朱) (jaju, “violet; purple”)


embarazado

es-adj

embarazado (feminine embarazada, masculine plural embarazados, feminine plural embarazadas)

embarazada (feminine)
embarazados (masculine plural)
embarazadas (feminine plural)

El pescador llevaba, en lugar de su camisa de bayeta colorada, una blanca muy almidonada, y una chaqueta nueva de paño azul basto, con cuyas galas estaba tan embarazado que apenas podía moverse.

1836, Fernán Caballero, chapter XIV, in La gaviota

The fisherman wore, instead of his red cloth shirt, a very starchy white one, and a new jacket of coarse blue cloth, with whose clothes he was so uncomfortable that he could hardly move.

El conde que, embarazado con tanto ahogo y apretura, se había visto embarazado en la barbacana, pudo desprenderse en aquel momento crítico, […]

1844, Enrique Gil y Carrasco, chapter 26, in El Señor de Bembibre

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


muta

Deverbal from mutare (“to change”) + -a.

(uncommon) change (act of changing; act of replacing)


tump

Apheresis of mattump, metump, possibly from a Penobscot descendant of Proto-Algonquian *wetempi (“head”).


burn out

en-verb

burn out (third-person singular simple present burns out, present participle burning out, simple past and past participle burned out or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt out)

burns out (present singular third-person)
burning out (participle present)
burned out (participle past)
burned out (past)
burnt out (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt out (Commonwealth past)

I start my shift at three in the afternoon, and get to burn out at midnight.

(intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job.


대

First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 帶 (Yale: *tay).
In the hangul script, first attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 대〮 (Yale: táy).
Usually connected to Proto-Japonic *takay (“bamboo”), whence Japanese 竹(たけ) (take).


내

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean ᄂᆡ〮 (Yale: nóy).
Displaced by Sino-Korean 연기(煙氣) (yeon'gi), as the general word for "smoke".

내를 맡다/마시다

그 회견에서 내려다본 지구의 모습을 묻는 말에 『마치 연기에 가려진 것처럼 내가 잔뜩 끼여있다. 피나투보화산의 폭발 때문인지 쿠웨이트의 유전 연기 때문인지는 알 수 없지만 이제까지 세번에 걸친 우주여행에서 최악의 흐린 전망이다』고 했다.

1991 September 1, “孫(손)悟(오)空(공)과 宇(우)宙(주)船(선)”, in Chosun Ilbo

In the news conference, when asked about the view of Earth as seen from space, [Dr. Lucid] replied, "It was enveloped in an obscuring haze of smoke. I do not know if that is because of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo or smoke from the Kuwaiti oil fields, but it is so far the worst view I had in all of my three missions."

Geu hoegyeon-eseo naeryeodabon jigu-ui moseub-eul munneun mar-e machi yeon'gi-e garyeojin geot-cheoreom nae-ga jantteuk kkiyeoitda. Pinatubo-hwasan-ui pokbal ttaemun-inji Kuweiteu-ui yujeon yeon'gi ttaemun-inji-neun al su eop-jiman ije-kkaji se-beon-e geolchin ujuyeohaeng-eseo choeag-ui heurin jeonmang-idago haetda.


Ziegel

de-noun

Ziegel m (strong, genitive Ziegels, plural Ziegel)

Ziegel (less common) f (genitive Ziegel, plural Ziegeln)

Ziegels (genitive)
Ziegel (plural)
Ziegel (genitive)
Ziegeln (plural)
Ziegel (nominative singular)
Ziegel (definite nominative plural)
Ziegels (genitive singular)
Ziegel (definite genitive plural)
Ziegel (dative singular)
Ziegeln (dative definite plural)
Ziegel (accusative singular)
Ziegel (accusative definite plural)
Ziegel (nominative singular)
Ziegeln (definite nominative plural)
Ziegel (genitive singular)
Ziegeln (definite genitive plural)
Ziegel (dative singular)
Ziegeln (dative definite plural)
Ziegel (accusative singular)
Ziegeln (accusative definite plural)

→ Serbo-Croatian: cígla

Inherited from Middle High German ziegel, from Old High German ziegal, ziagala, ziagal, from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā.

inh+

Mörtel auf den Ziegel klatschen

Das Dach ist mit gelben Ziegeln gedeckt.


vloed

nl-noun

vloed m (plural vloeden, diminutive vloedje n)

vloeden (plural)
vloedje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: vloed

Berbice Creole Dutch: flutu

Javindo: floed

From Middle Dutch vloet, from Old Dutch fluot, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz. Equivalent to vloeien (“to flow”) + -d (“verbal noun”).


排球

ja-noun

排(はい)球(きゅう) • (haikyū) ^(←はいきう (faikiu)?)

排球 (canonical)
haikyū (romanization)
faikiu (romanization)
はいきう (hiragana historical)

バレーボール バレーボール#Japanese

(uncommon) Synonym of バレーボール (barēbōru, “volleyball”)


바닥

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 바다ᇰ〮 (Yale: pàtáng). In the Early Modern era, the form was supplanted by modern 바닥 (badak), which may originally have been dialectal; Korean dialects often variably have coda /k~ŋ~j~h/, probably from ancestral */-k/.
바다 (bada, “sea, ocean”) may originally have been a semantic extension of this word. Beyond Koreanic, probably related to Manchu ᡶᠠᡨᠠᠨ (fatan, “sole of the foot”), which is quite possibly a Korean borrowing into Jurchen or Manchu given the apparent lack of clear Tungusic cognates.

바닥을 긁다

to be stuck in poverty or difficulty; to scratch the bottom

바닥을 기다

to be terrible (of scores, grades, etc.); to crawl the bottom

바닥이 드러나다

to be depleted; for the bottom to be revealed

바닥을 보다

to put at end to things; to see the bottom

바닥을 짚다

to mine a specific place for ore; to examine the bottom

바닥을 치다

to hit rock bottom; to strike the bottom

바닥나다

to become depleted; for the bottom to appear


какой

head

како́й • (kakój) m

table како́й (canonical)
kakój (romanization)

ме́бель и́ли ещё каки́е предме́ты

(colloquial, uncommon) some, some kind(s) of


blake

en-adj

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)

blaker (comparative)
more blake (comparative)
blakest (superlative)
most blake (superlative)

From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

inh

White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13

[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.

1859, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology: A - D, page 184

Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.

1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 271

Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.

1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 340


大鹿

ja-pos

大(おお)鹿(しか) • (Ōshika) ^(←おほしか (ofosika)?)

大鹿 (canonical)
Ōshika (romanization)
ofosika (romanization)
おほしか (hiragana historical)

Compound of 大 (ō, “big”) + 鹿 (shika, “deer”). Appears to be a variation from the ōjika reading.


طالب

head

طالب • (tâleb) (plural طالبان (tâlebân))


linage

en-noun

linage (countable and uncountable, plural linages)

(now uncommon) Alternative spelling of lineage


struthonian

/stɹuːˈθəʊnɪən/

Coined by Arthur Koestler in 1963, irregularly formed from Late Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”)

(uncommon) A person like an ostrich; someone who ignores facts or reality or someone who lacks responsibility.


dysania

(uncommon) A state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning.


testo

Borrowed from Latin testum (“earthenware pot, vessel”).


starnutare

it-verb

starnutàre (first-person singular present starnùto, first-person singular past historic starnutài, past participle starnutàto, auxiliary avére)

starnutàre (canonical)
starnùto (first-person present singular)
starnutài (first-person historic past singular)
starnutàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
starnutàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
starnutàndo (gerund)
starnutànte (participle present)
starnutàto (participle past)
starnùto (first-person indicative present singular)
starnùti (indicative present second-person singular)
starnùta (indicative present singular third-person)
starnutiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
starnutàte (indicative plural present second-person)
starnùtano (indicative plural present third-person)
starnutàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
starnutàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
starnutàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
starnutavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
starnutavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
starnutàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
starnutài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
starnutàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
starnutò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
starnutàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
starnutàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
starnutàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
starnuterò (first-person future indicative singular)
starnuterài (future indicative second-person singular)
starnuterà (future indicative singular third-person)
starnuterémo (first-person future indicative plural)
starnuteréte (future indicative plural second-person)
starnuterànno (future indicative plural third-person)
starnuterèi (conditional first-person present singular)
starnuterésti (conditional present second-person singular)
starnuterèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
starnuterébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
starnuterémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
starnuteréste (conditional plural present second-person)
starnuterèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
starnuterébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
starnùti (first-person present singular subjunctive)
starnùti (present second-person singular subjunctive)
starnùti (present singular subjunctive third-person)
starnutiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
starnutiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
starnùtino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
starnutàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
starnutàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
starnutàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
starnutàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
starnutàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
starnutàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
starnùta (imperative second-person singular)
starnùti (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
starnutiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
starnutàte (imperative plural second-person)
starnùtino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
starnutàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
starnùti (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
starnutiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
starnutàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
starnùtino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Latin sternūtāre, frequentative of sternuō.

(uncommon, intransitive) Alternative form of starnutire (“to sneeze”)


asal

Inherited from Malay asal, from Classical Malay اصل (asal), from Arabic أَصْل (ʔaṣl). Doublet of asli

(uncommon) from the beginning; from the start


asal

Early borrowing from Spanish asar (“roast”). Possible doublet of asar.

(now dialectal, uncommon) roasting (of food, etc.)


ibu

en-noun

ibu (countable and uncountable, plural ibus)


kasih

Inherited from Malay kasih, from Proto-Malayic *kasih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka-qasiq (“mercy; pity; affection”), *qasiq (“pity, compassion, affection, love, sympathy, forgiveness”).
The sense of "to give" may be semantic extension from the action of loving into repaying or providing reciprocal affection.

inh

love, often referring to unconditional and compassionate love.

a deep caring for the existence of another

a profound and caring affection towards someone


oleh

Inherited from Malay oleh, from Proto-Malayic *ulih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uliq.

(uncommon) due to (caused by; resulting from; because of)


oleh

by or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that

as is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that


rotan

Borrowed from Russian рота́н (rotán, “Amur sleeper”).

A single individual requires as much as 30 kg of other fish (including its own species) to gain 1 kg of weight. The resilience of the rotan, which requires 20 times less oxygen than other species, is best illustrated by its ability to revive a day after being left in open air. In one such instance, the first individual to rebound in a group ate up the others, according to Itar-Tass news agency.

1998, Dianne Louise Draper, Our Environment: A Canadian Perspective, 1st edition, Toronto: ITP Nelson, page 5b

2007, Volodymyr I. Lushchak, Tetyana V. Bagnyukova, “Hypoxia induces oxidative stress in tissues of a goby, the rotan Perccottus glenii”, in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, volume 148, number 4, →DOI, pages 390–397:

(uncommon) Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii)


dolos

(South Africa, uncommon) The bones that are thrown when throwing the bones for divination.

(South Africa, uncommon) The ankle bones of sheep or goats formerly used by children as playthings.


ratu

ms-noun

ratu (Jawi spelling راتو, plural ratu-ratu, informal 1st possessive ratuku, 2nd possessive ratumu, 3rd possessive ratunya)

راتو (Jawi)
ratu-ratu (plural)
ratuku (first-person informal possessive)
ratumu (possessive second-person)
ratunya (possessive third-person)

Indonesian: ratu

From Old Javanese ratu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datu. Cognate to Fijian ratu and Javanese ratu. Doublet of datuk, datu, and datung.


seri

id-noun

séri (first-person possessive seriku, second-person possessive serimu, third-person possessive serinya)

séri (canonical)
seriku (first-person possessive)
serimu (possessive second-person)
serinya (possessive third-person)


vulgarization

en-noun

vulgarization (countable and uncountable, plural vulgarizations)

(sciences, uncommon) The process of making something accessible and attractive to the general public; the popular-science presentation of a topic, its popularization.


autogyro

(less common) Official spelling of autogiro.


krap

head

krap (plural krappe, diminutive krappie)

From Dutch krab, from Middle Dutch crabbe, from Old Dutch *krabba.

(botany, uncommon) devil's claw (plant of the genus Harpagophytum), especially when referring to the seeds


siko

Borrowed from Hokkien 四哥 (sì-ko) as per Manuel (1948).

Coordinate term: sitse

(uncommon) term of address for the fourth eldest brother


kalo

ms-noun

kalo (Jawi spelling کالو, plural kalo-kalo, informal 1st possessive kaloku, 2nd possessive kalomu, 3rd possessive kalonya)

کالو (Jawi)
kalo-kalo (plural)
kaloku (first-person informal possessive)
kalomu (possessive second-person)
kalonya (possessive third-person)


sealion

The verb is from “The Terrible Sea Lion”, a 2014 strip in the webcomic Wondermark, in which a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a passing sea lion repeatedly, intrusively asks the character to justify this.


banna

head

banna (present bannar, preterite bannade, supine bannat, imperative banna)

bannar (present)
bannade (preterite)
bannat (supine)
banna (imperative)
banna (active infinitive)
bannas (infinitive passive)
bannat (active supine)
bannats (passive supine)
banna (active imperative)
bannen (active archaic imperative plural)
bannar (active indicative present)
bannade (active indicative past)
bannas (indicative passive present)
bannades (indicative passive past)
banna (active archaic indicative plural present)
bannade (active archaic indicative past plural)
bannas (archaic indicative passive plural present)
bannades (archaic indicative passive past plural)
banne (active dated present subjunctive)
bannade (active dated past subjunctive)
bannes (dated passive present subjunctive)
bannades (dated passive past subjunctive)
bannande (participle present)
bannad (participle past)

From Old Norse banna, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną.

svära och banna


chatterbot

From chatter + -bot, coined by Michael Maudlin in 1994.

Since it has been shown that it is very important for a Talking Head interface to appear human and humane—it is instructive to see how a chatterbot is perceived by someone interfacing with them (Foner, 1993).

2001, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Robert J. Bignall, editors, Internet Commerce and Software Agents: Cases, Technologies, and Opportunities, IGI Global, page 301


kindergartener

(less common) Alternative form of kindergartner


silicones

“Oh, G,” said the siren, leaning over the booth, shaking her silicones in Grand's grill. “Did you see my new tattoo?” Pulling her halter aside, the flirt revealed her new tat, Grand scrawled across her breast.

2003, J Sebastian, The Bridge is Over, page 26

His thirty year younger wife, Monica, has apparently graduated with a magna cum laude honors degree from an Ivy League, but obviously lost it somewhere down the line when she visited her plastic surgeon; double D silicones and Botoxed face!

(informal, uncommon) Breasts that have been enhanced or reconstructed with silicone breast implants.


queerly

en-adv

queerly (comparative more queerly, superlative most queerly)

more queerly (comparative)
most queerly (superlative)

Queer Pedagogy
Kevin C. Franck
Queer pedagogy is less concerned with integrating gay and lesbian content [... and is rather] an attempt to destabilize pedagogical practice and to develop guidelines for teaching and learning queerly.

2005, James Thomas Sears, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: K-Z, page 680

(uncommon) In a queer way (a way not conforming to conventional heterosexual norms), or in a way consistent with queer theory.


Efeu

de-noun

Efeu m or (uncommon) n (strong, genitive Efeus, no plural)

Efeus (genitive)
Efeu (definite nominative singular)
Efeus (genitive singular)
Efeu (dative singular)
Efeu (accusative definite singular)

From Middle High German ephöu, from Old High German ebhouwi, derived through popular association with houwi (“hay”) from older ebah. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *ibahs, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ-. The spelling and pronunciation in modern German used to be Epheu [ˈeːpˌhɔʏ̯]. The contemporary -f- is a spelling pronunciation that emanated from the North, reinforced by forms in Central and Low German dialects with original -f- (compare Middle Low German īflōf, ifflōf, Ripuarian Effche). Akin to English ivy.


drama queen

en-verb

drama queen (third-person singular simple present drama queens, present participle drama queening, simple past and past participle drama queened)

drama queens (present singular third-person)
drama queening (participle present)
drama queened (participle past)
drama queened (past)

Stop the drama queening. Stop the pity parties. You've maxed out. Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see.

2017, David Montgomery, Thoughts on the Abundant Life, Primitive Baptist Heritage Corporation / Lulu.com, page 337

(informal, intransitive, uncommon) To behave in an exaggerately dramatic fashion.


läka

head

läka (present läker, preterite läkte, supine läkt, imperative läk)

läker (present)
läkte (preterite)
läkt (supine)
läk (imperative)
läka (active infinitive)
läkas (infinitive passive)
läkt (active supine)
läkts (passive supine)
läk (active imperative)
läken (active archaic imperative plural)
läker (active indicative present)
läkte (active indicative past)
läks (indicative passive present)
läkes (indicative passive present)
läktes (indicative passive past)
läka (active archaic indicative plural present)
läkte (active archaic indicative past plural)
läkas (archaic indicative passive plural present)
läktes (archaic indicative passive past plural)
läke (active dated present subjunctive)
läkte (active dated past subjunctive)
läkes (dated passive present subjunctive)
läktes (dated passive past subjunctive)
läkande (participle present)
läkt (participle past)

From Old Norse lækna, from Proto-Germanic *lēkinōną. Cognate with Icelandic lækna.

Tiden läker alla sår.

(transitive, less common) to heal; to make better


cruse

From Middle English crouse, from Old English crūse (“jar, cruse”), from Proto-West Germanic *krūsā, from Proto-Germanic *krūsǭ, *krūsaz (“jar, pot, collar, jug”). Cognate with German Krause (“pot with a lid”), Icelandic krús (“jar, jug”). Merged with Middle English croo (“pot, pitcher”), from Old English crōg (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). More at crock.


Achab

1808, Charles Thomson, The Old Covenant, Commonly Called Old Testament; translated from the Septuagint, Jane Aitken (publ.), IV Kings (II Kings) VIII, 26.
And he walked in the way of Achab and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Achab.

1857, The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate, James Duffy (publ.), III Kings (I Kings) XXI, 2, page 260.
And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and joining to my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard; or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

1875, Liévin de Hamme (OFM), Guide to the Holy Places and Historical Sites in the Holy Land, C. Poelman (publ.), page 407.
Achab called on all the prophets of Baal to prophesy, and they were unanimous in saying he would be victorious.

1995, Fabrizio Lomonaco, "Huguenot Critical Theory and "Ius Maiestatis" in Huber and Althusius", in John Christian Laursen (ed.), New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge, E. J. Brill (publ.), page 180.
Achab, king of Samaria, was punished by God for being possessed unjustly of the vineyard of Naboth (Kings III, 21), but was still allowed under the constitution to commit an iniquitous act: […]

The Talmud in Tractate Sandhedrin lists King Achab as one of three kings who have forfeited their share in the World to Come for the sin of proliferating idolatry in the extreme.

2007, Yechezkel Hirshman, One Above and Seven Below: A Consumer's Guide to Orthodox Judaism from the Perspective of the Chareidim, Mazo Publishers, page 107

(possibly dated, now less commonly used by native speakers) Alternative form of Ahab.


mura

Univerbation of mao ra (“just the same”).

(uncommon) Short for mao ra (“that's all; the same”).


msg

en-verb

msg (third-person singular simple present msgs, present participle msging, simple past and past participle msged)

msgs (present singular third-person)
msging (participle present)
msged (participle past)
msged (past)


SDR

One Sunday evening, after a long and discordant weekend, SDR wrote to “Dearest Franklin and dearest Eleanor” about her views regarding “noblesse oblige” and “honneur oblige.”

1993, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, volumes 1: The Early Years, 1884–1933, Penguin

(uncommon) Initialism of Sara Delano Roosevelt.


primi

ro-verb

a primi (third-person singular present primește, past participle primit) 4th conj.

a primi (canonical)
primește (present singular third-person)
primit (participle past)
a primi (infinitive)
primind (gerund)
primit (participle past)
primesc (first-person indicative present singular)
primești (indicative present second-person singular)
primește (indicative present singular third-person)
primim (first-person indicative plural present)
primiți (indicative plural present second-person)
primesc (indicative plural present third-person)
primeam (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
primeai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
primea (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
primeam (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
primeați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
primeau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
primii (first-person indicative perfect singular)
primiși (indicative perfect second-person singular)
primi (indicative perfect singular third-person)
primirăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
primirăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
primiră (indicative perfect plural third-person)
primisem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
primiseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
primise (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
primiserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
primiserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
primiseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să primesc (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să primești (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să primească (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să primim (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să primiți (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să primească (plural present subjunctive third-person)
primește (imperative second-person singular)
primiți (imperative plural second-person)
nu primi (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu primiți (imperative negative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic примати (primati), variant of приимати (priimati, “to accept”).


Christmasy

en-adj

Christmasy (comparative more Christmasy, superlative most Christmasy)

more Christmasy (comparative)
most Christmasy (superlative)


Kiste

de-noun

Kiste f (genitive Kiste, plural Kisten, diminutive Kistchen n or Kistlein n)

Kiste (genitive)
Kisten (plural)
Kistchen (diminutive neuter)
Kistlein (diminutive neuter)
Kiste (nominative singular)
Kisten (definite nominative plural)
Kiste (genitive singular)
Kisten (definite genitive plural)
Kiste (dative singular)
Kisten (dative definite plural)
Kiste (accusative singular)
Kisten (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German kiste, from Old High German kista, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”).

inh

(informal, now uncommon) coffin wherein one is interred

Eine Untersuchung der Auburn University im US-Bundesstaat Alabama ergab, dass Schulterverletzungen seltener auftreten, wenn du beim Werfen den Po anspannst. Wenn du also höher und/oder weiter hinaus willst, weißt du, was zu tun ist – hoch mit der Kiste!
Research from Auburn University, in the US state of Alabama, found that shoulder injuries were less likely if you tense your buttocks while throwing. So if you want to go higher and / or further out, you know what to do – up with the box!

2019 June 28, “Mit diesen Übungen bekommst du einen Knackpo”, in Men’s Health

(informal, uncommon) fundament, buttocks


Markise

de-noun

Markise f (genitive Markise, plural Markisen)

Markise (genitive)
Markisen (plural)
Markise (nominative singular)
Markisen (definite nominative plural)
Markise (genitive singular)
Markisen (definite genitive plural)
Markise (dative singular)
Markisen (dative definite plural)
Markise (accusative singular)
Markisen (accusative definite plural)

(historical, uncommon) Alternative form of Marquise


Pfosten

Pfosten m (strong, genitive Pfostens, plural Pfosten or Pfösten)

Pfostens (genitive)
Pfosten (plural)
Pfösten (plural)
Pfosten (nominative singular)
Pfosten (definite nominative plural)
Pfösten (definite nominative plural)
Pfostens (genitive singular)
Pfosten (definite genitive plural)
Pfösten (definite genitive plural)
Pfosten (dative singular)
Pfosten (dative definite plural)
Pfösten (dative definite plural)
Pfosten (accusative singular)
Pfosten (accusative definite plural)
Pfösten (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German pfost, from Proto-West Germanic *post (“post, pedestal”).

inh

(less common) post; pole; pale (such an object used for purposes other than stabilisation)


headset

One member has this whole collection of 50s rockabilly by women. Like the blues, the lyrics reflect the headset of the time, so of course it's not all "non-sexist." But it's a great record, really connected to the roots of rock 'n roll.

1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, quoting Mary Ann Peacott, “Rock Against Sexism”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 6


spinace

(uncommon) Alternative form of spinacio (“spinach”)


nightstick

(slang, uncommon) A person who spends much time in bars and nightclubs, and generally indulges themsleves during the night.


advisory

en-noun

advisory (countable and uncountable, plural advisories)

Every morning, every 20 students on discipline, will [be under] the advisory of one teacher for 20 minutes.

1996 March 30, Michigan Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “School Discipline and the Community: Local School Districts, the Judicial System, and Community Programs”, in Discipline in Michigan Public Schools and Government Enforcement of Equal Education Opportunity, page 31

After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.

2017 December 4, Daniel Mann, “Appendix 3: Impressions from Liweta and Namatuhi”, in The smell of Ujamaa is still there[:] Tanzania's Path of Development between Grassroots Socialism and Central State Control in Ruvuma, Würzburg University Press, page 315

(uncountable, uncommon, possibly nonstandard) Supervision by an advisor.


kapel

nl-noun

kapel f (plural kapellen, diminutive kapelletje n)

kapellen (plural)
kapelletje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kapel

Berbice Creole Dutch: kampele

→ Indonesian: kapel

→ Papiamentu: kapèl, kapel

→ Sranan Tongo: kapelka

From Middle Dutch capelle, ultimately from Latin cappella.

waar God een kerk sticht, daar bouwt de duivel een kapel

(uncommon) shrine, small non-Christian temple or sanctuary


drago

From earlier draco, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Compare dragone, from the Latin accusative form.

(figurative, informal, uncommon) a violent or impetuous person


seriatum

From Latin seriatum, neuter of Medieval Latin or New Latin seriatus (“arranged in serial order”).

She named them — a seriatum not of causes but of symptoms. For a long time she made no suggestion as to any fundamental cure.

1934, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, editors, The American Mercury, volume 32, page 405

[…] perhaps now in present perception, but also reflexively to become identical with itself through the seriatum of time.

1986, The Life of the transcendental ego: essays in honor of William Earle (William Earle, Edward S. Casey, Donald V. Morano), page 205

Konkuvel depicts the marital proceedings of Vacavatattai and Utayanan in a seriatum: The astrologer computed the auspicious day for the wedding. The valluvan mounted on an elephant, beat the drum and announced […]

2000, A. Kiruṭṭin̲an̲, Tamil culture: religion, culture, and literature, page 294


wala

From Proto-Bisayan *wadaq, from Proto-Central Philippine *wadaq, from Proto-Philippine *wada (“to be, exist”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada.

(uncommon, only in certain contexts) zero, null


freshly

en-adv

freshly (comparative more freshly, superlative most freshly)

more freshly (comparative)
most freshly (superlative)

From Middle English freschely, freschliche (also as ferscheli, fersly, ferselich), equivalent to fresh + -ly.

(uncommon) In a rude or impertinent manner.


韓流

ja-noun

韓(かん)流(りゅう) • (kanryū) ^(←かんりう (kanriu)?)

韓流 (canonical)
kanryū (romanization)
kanriu (romanization)
かんりう (hiragana historical)


maté

en-noun

maté (countable and uncountable, plural matés)

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

Coordinate term: bombilla

The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position.

1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194

(countable, uncommon) The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.


whate'er

"[…] because I think ye will be rushing off to the nearest bed with whate'er woman is ogling ye at that moment."

2009, Hannah Howell, Highland Champion, page 254

(poetic, uncommon) Contraction of whatever.


mooncusser

From moon + cusser: the strategy would not work on a moonlit night, so the would-be pirate might be expected to curse the Moon.

(uncommon, historical, humorous) A land-based pirate who, on dark nights along dangerous coasts, would demolish any legitimate lighthouses or beacons, erect a decoy signal fire in a different, deliberately misleading location, and then, after having induced a shipwreck, subdue any survivors and plunder the wreckage for valuables.


oojamaflip

From oojah + -ma- (probably after thingamabob or whatchamacallit) + flip (perhaps initially with reference to the folding action of a type of collapsible trolley).

Have you got an oojamaflip for tracing system calls that you could use?

2001 January 31, Richard, “Re: Ingres II, unable to run mklicense”, in comp.databases.ingres (Usenet)

2003, HunkyMandrake, HunkyMandrake's Review of ‘Scrubs: My Lucky Night’, http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-lucky-night/episode/281544/reviews.html?review_id=19067&flag= TV.com, Episode 50, Season 3, First Aired: Thursday October 30, 2003,
"J.D. needs a recommendation for some hospital oojamaflip. Cox needs a recommendation for some other residency related oojamaflip. They both decide to vouch for each other."

"And if he gets a follow up call or email asking if everything is okay and did he get his 'ujamaflip' on time and in good condition? You will have an ecstatic customer who will stay with you forever."

2003, Michael Moore, The Kicking Fraud to Death: And Complaints While Your at It Handbook, page 18

"It's my computer. I can't seem to put the oojamaflips in!" [referring to diacritical marks]

2004, Emma, "Re: Moshe + Christianity" http://groups.google.com/group/alt.messianic/msg/adbcc38c794476ba, in alt.messianic

(informal, uncommon) Something that one does not know the name of.


Hanna

en-proper noun

Hanna (countable and uncountable, plural Hannas)

Variant spelling of Hannah or romanization of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥanâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥanâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oklahoman town, named for Hanna Bullett, one of the initial settlers. As a Polish village, named for the queen Anna Jagiellon.

(uncommon) A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Hannah.


hawkish

de-adj

hawkish (strong nominative masculine singular hawkisher, comparative hawkisher, superlative am hawkishsten)

hawkisher (masculine nominative singular strong)
hawkisher (comparative)
am hawkishsten (superlative)
hawkish (masculine predicative singular)
hawkish (feminine predicative singular)
hawkish (neuter predicative singular)
hawkish (plural predicative)
hawkisher (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
hawkishe (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
hawkishes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
hawkishe (nominative plural strong without-article)
hawkishen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
hawkisher (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
hawkishen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
hawkisher (genitive plural strong without-article)
hawkishem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
hawkisher (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
hawkishem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
hawkishen (dative plural strong without-article)
hawkishen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
hawkishe (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
hawkishes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
hawkishe (accusative plural strong without-article)
der hawkishe (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die hawkishe (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das hawkishe (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die hawkishen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des hawkishen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hawkishen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des hawkishen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der hawkishen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem hawkishen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hawkishen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem hawkishen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den hawkishen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den hawkishen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die hawkishe (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das hawkishe (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die hawkishen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein hawkisher (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine hawkishe (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein hawkishes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
hawkishen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine hawkishen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines hawkishen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hawkishen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines hawkishen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hawkishen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner hawkishen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem hawkishen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hawkishen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem hawkishen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hawkishen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen hawkishen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen hawkishen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine hawkishe (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein hawkishes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hawkishen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine hawkishen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
hawkisher (comparative masculine predicative singular)
hawkisher (comparative feminine predicative singular)
hawkisher (comparative neuter predicative singular)
hawkisher (comparative plural predicative)
hawkisherer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
hawkishere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
hawkisheres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
hawkishere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
hawkisheren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
hawkisherer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
hawkisheren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
hawkisherer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
hawkisherem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
hawkisherer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
hawkisherem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
hawkisheren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
hawkisheren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
hawkishere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
hawkisheres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
hawkishere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der hawkishere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die hawkishere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das hawkishere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die hawkisheren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des hawkisheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hawkisheren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des hawkisheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der hawkisheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem hawkisheren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hawkisheren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem hawkisheren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den hawkisheren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den hawkisheren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die hawkishere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das hawkishere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die hawkisheren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein hawkisherer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine hawkishere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein hawkisheres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
hawkisheren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine hawkisheren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines hawkisheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hawkisheren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines hawkisheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hawkisheren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner hawkisheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem hawkisheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hawkisheren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem hawkisheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hawkisheren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen hawkisheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen hawkisheren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine hawkishere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein hawkisheres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hawkisheren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine hawkisheren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am hawkishsten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am hawkishsten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am hawkishsten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am hawkishsten (plural predicative superlative)
hawkishster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
hawkishsten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishsten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
hawkishstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishsten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
hawkishsten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
hawkishste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der hawkishste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die hawkishste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das hawkishste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die hawkishsten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des hawkishsten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der hawkishsten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des hawkishsten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der hawkishsten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem hawkishsten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der hawkishsten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem hawkishsten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den hawkishsten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den hawkishsten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die hawkishste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das hawkishste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die hawkishsten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein hawkishster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine hawkishste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein hawkishstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
hawkishsten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine hawkishsten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines hawkishsten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer hawkishsten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines hawkishsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
hawkishsten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner hawkishsten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem hawkishsten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer hawkishsten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem hawkishsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
hawkishsten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen hawkishsten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen hawkishsten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine hawkishste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein hawkishstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
hawkishsten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine hawkishsten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

Die Zentralbankvertreter sind von ihrer hawkishen Rhetorik bislang so gut wie keinen Millimeter abgewichen […]

2022 July 13, Kornelius Purps, “EUR-USD: Parität hält, aber wie lange noch?”, in Wallstreet Online

Central bank representatives have distanced themselves from their hawkish rhetorics by no millimeter […]


galenite

en-noun

galenite (countable and uncountable, plural galenites)


섬

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 섬〮 (Yale: sém).

ko-etym-native

(uncommon in isolation) stone stairsteps (in traditional houses)


humourously

en-adv

humourously (comparative more humourously, superlative most humourously)

more humourously (comparative)
most humourously (superlative)

(UK, Canada, uncommon, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of humorously


Aad

(now less common) a female given name. Short form of Adriana, the Dutch equivalent of Adrienne.


galeophobia

From Ancient Greek γαλεός (galeós), a type of shark with weasel-like markings, derived from γαλῆ (galê), γαλέη (galéē, “weasel, cat”) + -phobia.

(uncommon) The irrational fear of cats or felines.


grasso

pt-adj

grasso (feminine grassa, masculine plural grassos, feminine plural grassas)

grassa (feminine)
grassos (masculine plural)
grassas (feminine plural)


보지

Sino-Korean word from 保持, from 保 (“to protect”) + 持 (“to sustain”).

ko-etym-Sino

(formal, uncommon) preservation, holding, retention


자주

Sino-Korean word from 自 (“oneself”) + 做 (“to do; to make”).


holographic

en-adj

holographic (comparative more holographic, superlative most holographic)

more holographic (comparative)
most holographic (superlative)

a holographic will or testament

(uncommon) Handwritten by a single writer.


सौम्य

hi-adj

सौम्य • (saumya) (indeclinable, feminine सौम्या)

Borrowed from Sanskrit सौम्य (saumya), vrddhi derivative of सोम (soma) with a -य (-ya) extension.

vrd-ya

(relational, uncommon) pertaining to the moon

(relational, uncommon) pertaining to the soma drink


軌道

/ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/kʷɐi̯³⁵ tou̯²²/

/kʰui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tɔ⁴¹/

/kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to³³/

/kui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɤ³³/

/kʰui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to³³/

/kʰui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to²²/

/kʰui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɤ³³/

/kʰui⁵²⁻³⁵ tau³⁵/

/ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/kʷɐi̯³⁵ tou̯²²/

/kʰui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tɔ⁴¹/

/kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to³³/

/kui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɤ³³/

/kʰui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to³³/

/kʰui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ to²²/

/kʰui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tɤ³³/

/kʰui⁵²⁻³⁵ tau³⁵/

諸侯軌道，兵革不動。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
诸侯轨道，兵革不动。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: Jia Yi (賈誼), c. 173 BCE. On the Government of Peace (《治安策》).

The Nobility abides by the laws, and martial implements are put to rest.

(archaic and uncommon, figurative) to abide by the laws and regulations; to follow the ways of propriety (literally, "to ride on the [correct, proper] track")


Michigander

[ˈmɪ.ʃə.ˌɡæn.dɚ]

]
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, in a speech of July 27, 1848, as pejorative reference to Lewis Cass, Michigan politician:
: There is one entire article of the sort I have not discussed yet; I mean the military tale you Democrats are now engaged in dovetailing onto the great Michigander.
Ostensibly coined as a blend of Michigan + gander (“male goose, simpleton”) (punning on “tale” and “(dove)tail(ing)”). Alternatively from and/or later reanalyzed as Michigan + -d- (epenthetic) + -er (“resident of”).

blend

Where is the little Michigander or Michigoose who is plugging along, so contentedly ensconced in his bi-valve surroundings as not to be touched by even an echo of the great state meeting of his profession?

1916, Moderator-topics, volume 36, page 165

From Dale E. Pasco of Owosso: "My parents were both one room school teachers and they taught it this way: I'm a Michigander, my wife is a Michigoose, our kids are Michigoslins, so what is the use."

1982, Michigan Natural Resources Magazine, volumes 51-52, page 77

(uncommon, humorous) In particular, a man from Michigan, contrasted with a Michigoose (“woman from Michigan”).


West Germany

From informal use describing the British-, French-, and American-occupied zones of Germany following World War II, under influence from existing German Westdeutschland and Westdeutscher used to describe those areas of German-speaking Europe since the 17th and 18th centuries.

(historical, uncommon, 1945–1949) Collectively, the British-, French-, and American-occupied zones of Germany, distinguished from the Soviet-occupied zone.


मूलाक्षर

hi-noun

मूलाक्षर • (mūlākṣar) m

mūlākṣar (romanization)
मूलाक्षर (direct singular)
मूलाक्षर (direct plural)
मूलाक्षर (oblique singular)
मूलाक्षरों (oblique plural)
मूलाक्षर (singular vocative)
मूलाक्षरो (plural vocative)

From मूल (mūl, “source; value”) + अक्षर (akṣar, “letter”). Compare Marathi मुळाक्षरे (muḷākṣare).


तोप

top (romanization)
توپ (Urdu)
तोप (direct singular)
तोप (direct plural)
तोप (oblique singular)
तोपों (oblique plural)
तोप (singular vocative)
तोपो (plural vocative)


amorously

English: amorously

Middle Scots: amorously


gushy

en-adj

gushy (comparative gushier, superlative gushiest)

gushier (comparative)
gushiest (superlative)

Spouting water: Early Hawaiians named this l l/2-mile strip of coast Waikiki, or “spouting water,” its inland part a swamp nurtured by descending mountain streams and gushy spring waters. As early as the 1400s, Hawaiians utilized this water ...

1994, Houghton Mifflin Company, Insight, Insight Guides, Insight Guide Hawaii, Insight Guides

Off with my beige bikini set, then he parted my legs and went straight for for the gushy pussy and gushy it was. I was seeping like a loose faucet.

2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books, page 112

Just as underground water wells up in a gushy spring, when a bore is sunk down to that depth, […]

2015, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 1, Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division

(uncommon) Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.


neuken

neuken (infinitive)
neuken (gerund neuter)
neuk (first-person present singular)
neukte (first-person past singular)
neukt (present second-person singular)
neuk (present second-person singular)
neukte (past second-person singular)
neukt (formal present second-person singular)
neukte (formal past second-person singular)
neukt (Flanders colloquial present second-person singular)
neukt (archaic formal majestic present second-person singular)
neukte (Flanders colloquial past second-person singular)
neukte (archaic formal majestic past second-person singular)
neukt (present singular third-person)
neukte (past singular third-person)
neuken (plural present)
neukten (past plural)
neuke (archaic present singular subjunctive)
neukte (archaic past singular subjunctive)
neuken (archaic plural present subjunctive)
neukten (archaic past plural subjunctive)
neuk (imperative present singular)
neukt (archaic imperative plural present)
neukend (participle present)
geneukt (participle past)

Afrikaans: neuk

→ English: nookie (possibly)

From Middle Dutch *noken, from Old Dutch *nuken, from Proto-Germanic *hnukāną (“to bend; flex; clump together”), with a special sense development in North Germanic, Old Dutch, and Old Saxon of "push, thrust, bump", from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to press; bend”), from *ken- (“to press; pinch”).
Related to German Low German nöken (“to have intercourse; have sex”). Cognate with Old Norse hnykkja (“to snatch; pull violently”), Danish nykke (“to thrust; bump”), Swedish dialectal nycka (“to bump; push”), Old English hnocc (“penis”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn up; pinched”). More at nook.
The sense “to disrespect” is borrowed from English fuck.

cog

Dat neukt niet.

(Southern, uncommon) to bother, to be annoying to

SOLDAAT: […] wel waarom neuken we ze dan niet na der moer?

1784, De rechten van den mensch, ontvouwd ten nutte van't gemeen, page 7

Soldier: […] Well why don't we beat them to pulp then?

Dat niet weet, dat Zorreth tegens hem gezegd heeft, dat hy Zorreth tegens de Soldaten, die, tyde der alhier plaats gehad hebbende Plundering, by 't huis van den Zilverſmit van den Berg geposteerd ſtonden, en alle moeite deden, om in het zelve te komen, zoude gezegd hebben, wat legt gyl. daar te neuken, moet je 'er in wezen, zyn er dan geen byllui te bekomen?

1795, Crimineele sententie tegens den gevangen Willem Cristoffel Zorreth. Ter executie gestelt binnen Arnhem den 9. December 1795, page 16

(Southern, uncommon) to hit, to ram, to push

(Southern, uncommon) to toss, to throw away


parapluie

It has poured all this Day withᵒᵘᵗ a moment’s interruption or even Abatement, but with yᵉ help of Pattins & Parapluies we got to yᵉ Well.

1781 September 30, Hester Newdigate, “1781”, in [Anne Emily,] Lady Newdigate-Newdegate, The Cheverels of Cheverel Manor […], London, New York, N.Y., Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], published 1898, page 35

St. Vincent Ferrier, who is ſaying maſs at Vannes, ſearches for his gloves and his parapluie in Rome, without his abſence being obſerved.

1801 March 1, “For the Monthly Magazine. Account of the Department of Finisterre in France, extracted from Cambray’s Voyage dans le Finisterre, ou Etat de ce Departement, en 1794 et 1795.”, in The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register. […], volume XI, part I. for 1801, number 70 / number 2 of volume II, London: […] Richard Phillips, […], page 135, column 1

Over this inscription, the parapluie or umbrella, usually held over the head of the Sovereign Pontiff in his processions, and below, the keys of Saint Peter, saltier.

1818, J[ohn] C. Laskey, “No. XLVIII. Visite du Pape Pie VII.”, in A Description of the Series of Medals Struck at the National Medal Mint by Order of Napoleon Bonaparte, Commemorating the Most Remarkable Battles and Events During His Dynasty, London: […] H. R. Young, […], page 87

I say sheltered, because, though that range of cypress trees through which it runs is deprived of all its lower branches, the topmost that are left form a canopy, excluding, by their luxuriance, wind, sun, and rain. / Besides these natural parasols and parapluies, he has erected others in the shape of elegant recesses, which are built of cedar and mahogany, and fitted up with benches, tables, and chairs, as we remember to have remarked and admired, some years ago, in the grounds at Claremont, in Surrey.

1819, [Adelaide] O’Keeffe, “Letter XIV. The Rev. Henry Clonmore to his Wife.”, in Dudley. […], volume I, London: […] Strahan and Spottiswoode, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], pages 194–195

At the corners of the streets it shot a curved torrent from the projecting spouts, flooding the channels, and drenching, with a sudden drum-like sound, the passing umbrellas, whose varied tints of pink, blue, and orange, like the draggled finery of feathers and flounces beneath them, only made the scene more glaringly desolate. Then came the rush and splatter of cabriolets, scattering terror and defilement. The well-mounted English dandy shews his sense by hoisting his parapluie; the French dragoon curls his mustachio at such effeminacy, and braves the liquid bullets in the genuine spirit of Marengo; the old French count picks his elastic steps with the placid and dignified philosophy of the ancien régime; while the Parisian dames, of all ranks, ages, and degrees, trip along, with one leg undraped, exactly in proportion to the shapeliness of its configuration.

1827 September, P., “Travelling Sketches: No. 1. Travelling in General: Bordeaux Diligence in particular.”, in The Monthly Magazine or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and the Belles-Lettres, volume IV, number 21, London: […] Geo[rge] B[yrom] Whittaker, […], page 242

So saying, he clutched more firmly his old weapon, the green umbrella, and gave it a flourish, as if deciding upon sticking to it; when suddenly he heard a low grumbling sound from the hedge, like the maundering of a cantankerous bull. He immediately halted, and spread open his parapluie, which is popularly supposed to be the best object in the world for scaring off cattle; but instead of a bull, an ungainly human animal came scrambling over a stile, and in a moment stood before Twigg like a lion in his path, and scowling upon him from under a pair of black shaggy eyebrows.

1834, Thomas Hood, chapter II, in Tylney Hall. […], volume II, London: A. H. Baily and Co., […], page 49

Their use has much increased of late years, and materially benefited our silk market: and we doubt whether a Frenchman carries his parapluie with greater regularity than an Englishman does his umbrella.

1835, “Umbrellas”, in The Weekly Visitor, for 1835, London: Religious Tract Society; sold by John Davis, […], page 391, column 2

Up went umbrellas and parasols; out came cloaks and Mackintoshes. An air of triumph seemed to pervade the company as they remarked that there were no means of shelter left for me. I let them enjoy their triumph for a while, and then I quietly unscrewed the top of my walking-stick umbrella. My walking-stick umbrella, did I say? Alas! I had brought my bamboo telescope instead. / Young Ariel Hicks, a young gentleman of fifteen years of age, and as many stones weight, now offered me a share of his parapluie; but, as Hicks was only four feet two inches in height, and I stood five feet ten in my shoes (or rather, in Miss Arabella’s), I was soon tired of doing penance in the form of a letter S, and boldly declared my utter contempt for all kinds of showers, and thunder-showers in particular.

1838 July, [William Makepeace] Thackeray, Albert [Richard] Smith, Gilbert [Abbott] a Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew [i.e., Henry Mayhew, Horace Mayhew], “That Mister Nubibus”, in The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities, first series (1835–1843), London: Chatto and Windus, […], published [1878?], →OCLC, pages 142–143

“Good morning, gentlemen; a fine broiling afternoon this,” chimed in Jonathan. / “To be sure it is, Master Jonathan; where did you spring from? To be sure it is; how can it help being a broiling day; don’t you see my umbrella is covered with new silk?” demanded the doctor, pointing to his parapluie, which maintained its usual position behind this light of science.

1841, [William Johnson Neale], “How Jonathan’s Protegee, Chawbacon, Contributed to the Entertainment of His Patron and Friend”, in Paul Periwinkle: or, The Pressgang. […], London: […] Thomas Tegg, […], page 48

Roger’s late persecution by his old loves, and the use he made of his parapluie in keeping them off has suggested to Sydney a new name for that article—a parafemme.

1843 January 19–20, Thomas Moore, “1843”, in Wilfred S. Dowden, Barbara G. Bartholomew, Joy L. Linsley, editors, The Journal of Thomas Moore, volume 6 (1843–1847), Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press; London; Toronto, Ont.: Associated University Presses, published 1991, page 2314

Meantime, the war of winds was quite as fierce as the war of waters—and while I could hardly maintain my seat, I could not help repeating the words of Lear:— / “Blow winds and crack your cheeks, rage, blow! / Ye cataracts and hurricanos spout, / Till ye have drenched the steeples—drown’d the cocks!” / Umbrellas, parasols, and parapluies were soon inverted, destroyed, or lost, and had it not been for a spare cap and cape, of Macintosh manufacture—which I supplied to my invalid fellow-passenger, I think her doom would have been sealed!

1844, James Johnson, “A Glengariff Shower”, in A Tour in Ireland; with Meditations and Reflections, London: S[amuel] Highley, […], page 127

Tim raised himself up in the bed, / And quickly hoisted o’er his head / His parapluie, or umbrella: / Kate sees the act, but can’t surmise / What it can mean, but with surprise / Asks, What can ail thee, fellow?

1858, J[oseph] A[ddison] Turner, “Preparing for a Storm”, in The Discovery of Sir John Franklin, and Other Poems, Mobile, New York, N.Y.: […] S. H. Goetzel & Co.; Athens, Ga.: William N. White, page 64

“When about five miles on our road, the sky got dark, and there came on in a short time heavy rain, which descended on us without mercy; up went umbrellas without loss of time, the little man unfolding one bearing a due proportion to the breadth of his brim. / “Before long, my friend the Baron began to be seriously annoyed by the outpourings on him of the man of malt’s eave-droppings; he expostulated with him upon the propriety of giving his parapluie a forward inclination, but passive resistance was at first doggedly presented to all his remonstrances. / “‘Sir,’ repeated the Baron, ‘you are inundating me with your umbrella.’

1860, Peter Paradox [pseudonym], chapter II, in The Land of the Kelt: A Tale of Ierne in the Days of the ’98. […], volume II, London: Saunders, Otley, & Co., […], pages 54–55

Louise, the lady’s maid, commenced her attendance on the Monday. She did not appear to relish the walk more than did her mistress, and displayed an enormous crimson parapluie, which she held between her face and the sun.

1866, Mrs. Henry Wood [i.e., Ellen Wood], “Taking a Portrait”, in St. Martin’s Eve. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 135

By some means he got again into his den on the night of a first representation with his big roll of papers, his cloaks, his parapluie, and his opera glass.

1868 December, “Parisian Eccentrics”, in Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume LXXII, number CCCCXXXII, Dublin: George Herbert, […]; London: Hurst & Blackett, page 610, column 2

A Mr. Bell left his umbrella one evening, which somebody claimed and carried off; whereupon the defrauded proprietor brought an action against the doorkeepers, and served the process himself, within the precincts of the House. Lord Chancellor Eldon called the attention of the Lords to this breach of privilege, and the offender was ordered to appear at the bar. Tom Moore seized upon the incident, and indited a rhymed version of Eldon’s speech: […] “What security have you, ye bishops and peers, / If thus you give back Mr. Bell his parapluie, / That he mayn’t with his stick come about all your ears, / And then where would your Protestant periwigs be?

1872 September 21, “The Umbrella”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. […], volume VIII, number 199, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], page 451, column 2

There was a rap on the window from outside. Dürten went to see who was there. Baker Schultsch stood there, with her skirt thrown over her head,—for in those days, even with the richest burgher’s wives, that was the substitute for parasols and parapluies,—“Dürten,” said she, “come, let me in. I came round, for it is raining cats and dogs.[…]”

1873 February 22, Fritz Reuter, anonymous translator, “His Little Serene Highness. […]”, in Littell’s Living Age, fifth series, volume I / from beginning, volume CXVI, number 1498, Boston, Mass.: Littell and Gay, page 466, column 2

Since the time when Jonas Hanway, in Queen Anne’s reign, walked down Cheapside with his parapluie above him, vast changes have been made in the manufacture of these goods, and no firm can be said to have displayed a greater fertility in this direction than Messrs. Aaron, Sons, & Co.

1888, “AARON, SONS, & CO., Umbrella Manufacturers, […]”, in Wyman’s Commercial Encyclopædia of Leading Manufacturers of Great Britain, and Their Productions; Being a Guide to Merchant Buyers All Over the World, London: Wyman & Sons, […], page 479

It is still raining & we are going to drive to Scotland Yard to ask for H[ester]’s umbrella. I am rather collapsy a mixture of Aunt Blanche & the concert proved too much for my digestion & I retired all yesterday & still feel rather squeamish: however a drive will get me up & Codge [i.e., Hester] will be glad to recover her parapluie.

c. 1900, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, “[1879–1900] To William Ritchie [Saturday. Rain cats dogs &ct]”, in Lillian F. Shankman, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom and John Maynard, Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University Press, published 1994, page 253

His speciality, by the way, was stealing of umbrellas, and when he entered a Latin Quarter café you saw everybody rush for his parapluie.

1903 September 4, Robert H[arborough] Sherard, “A Waif of the Latin Quarter”, in T[homas] P[ower] O’Connor, editor, T.P.’s Weekly, volume II, page 438, column 2

And, by the way, a French genius at Paris has constructed a device for the man who forgets his parapluie when he stops at a jag palace or any other place of call.

1905, Dry Goods Guide, volumes 15–16, page 11

As she looked at him the ship rolled just enough to bring the sunlight across his face, when up popped the comical umbrella, instantly turning its small bearer into a toadstool of enormous proportions. Cocking his parapluie at a rakish angle, he smiled up at the girl, a smile so sunny, so winning and trustful that she cried: / “Oh, I must find out who or what that funny little kid is!”

1912, Gabrielle E[milie] Jackson, “Sailing Toward the Promised Land”, in Peterkin, New York, N.Y.: Duffield and Company, pages 10–11

Eetlaire (Adolf Hitler to you) may be verbally lambasted by most of those fifty million Frenchmen who “can’t be wrong”, but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain is the man most discussed these days on the broad boulevards of Paris. / And it’s not entirely his pro-French policies, nor his drooping moustache, nor his buck teeth. It’s his parapluie—or umbrella, in plain English.

1939 March 1, Milton Bronner, “All Europe Rains Comment On Chamberlain’s Umbrella: In France, It’s Principal Topic of Conversation”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune: […], twenty-fifth year, number 7868, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page nine, column 6

At once, enraged, he quickly ran / Into the writers private den / And threatened with his parapluie / The author’s physiognomy.
[original: Sogleich in eigener Person / Fort stürmt er auf die Redaktion. / Des Autors Physiognomie / Bedroht er mit dem Paraplü.]

1965, Wilhelm Busch, translated by Max Born, Klecksel the Painter, New York, N.Y.: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, →LCCN, page 48

On the march, it began to rain, I had an umbrella, but at 5:51 we copped out for our dinner-date, when just in sight of the sidestreet leading to the U. N., solid with motionless people under their parapluies and bumbershoots; that’s the way it shone back to us, international.

1972, Hortense Calisher, “Seizures of Love and Work”, in Herself, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, page 274

Did you know that it is always the taller person who should carry the umbrella—regardless of whose umbrella it is, and regardless of sex? This seemingly sensible diktat creates as many problems as it solves. More than a few tall women might not like the idea of a five-foot-ten-inch male pointing out that actually they’re an inch higher off the ground and would they kindly tote that parapluie?

1999, The New Yorker, volume 75, page 103

In wet weather, my good wife used her parapluie to stay dry and keep the fire alive; we managed, thank you.

2009, Gerd Asche, chapter 1, in M.W. Fifer M.D.: Healer, Prophet, Fool, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing

Entering my labyrinth, the earliest memories of ‘History’ at my first school are associated with utter and profound boredom – a hateful redbound book with small print and lacking any illustrations. Goodness knows what we did with it: I can remember nothing (though I can still recall some of the French vocabulary, taught with contrasting imagination and with the help of flash-cards illustrating Madame Souris and her parapluie).

2013, Beverley Southgate, “In Search of Ariadne’s Thread”, in Alun Munslow, editor, Authoring the Past: Writing and Rethinking History, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 156


have-not

(uncommon) One who does not have some (contextually specified) thing.


mixy-matchy

en-adj

mixy-matchy (comparative more mixy-matchy, superlative most mixy-matchy)

more mixy-matchy (comparative)
most mixy-matchy (superlative)

(uncommon, of clothing or decor) Made from a blend of harmonious styles.


armo

eo-head

armo (accusative singular armon, plural armoj, accusative plural armojn)

armon (accusative singular)
armoj (plural)
armojn (accusative plural)


baten

enm-verb

baten (third-person singular simple present bateth, present participle batende, batynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle bated)

bateth (present singular third-person)
batende (participle present)
batynge (participle present)
bated (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
baten (infinitive)
to baten (infinitive)
bate (first-person present singular)
bated (first-person past singular)
batest (present second-person singular)
batedest (past second-person singular)
bateth (present singular third-person)
bated (past singular third-person)
bate (present singular subjunctive)
bated (past singular subjunctive)
bate (imperative present singular)
baten (plural present)
bate (plural present)
bateden (past plural)
batede (past plural)
bateth (imperative plural present)
bate (imperative plural present)
batynge (participle present)
batende (participle present)
bated (participle past)
ybated (participle past)

English: bat; bate

Scots: bat, batt

table
Borrowed from Old French batre, from Latin battere, for earlier battuere; doublet of bateren.

To batter; to forcefully or repetitively beat or whack.

To fight or strive; to be in conflict with.

(rare) To pat; to gently and lightly touch.

(rare, of an animal) To flap one's limbs.


baten

English: bate; bat

To dwindle or stop; to no longer occur (as much)

To halt or slow; to cause to lessen or abate.

To reassure or hearten; to free of worry.

(rare) To eliminate a collective irrational emotion.

(in negations) To eliminate a positive attitude.

To abase or humiliate; to break haughtiness.


bordare

it-verb

bordàre (first-person singular present bórdo, first-person singular past historic bordài, past participle bordàto, auxiliary avére)

bordàre (canonical)
bórdo (first-person present singular)
bordài (first-person historic past singular)
bordàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
bordàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
bordàndo (gerund)
bordànte (participle present)
bordàto (participle past)
bórdo (first-person indicative present singular)
bórdi (indicative present second-person singular)
bórda (indicative present singular third-person)
bordiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
bordàte (indicative plural present second-person)
bórdano (indicative plural present third-person)
bordàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bordàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bordàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bordavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bordavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bordàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bordài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
bordàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
bordò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
bordàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
bordàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
bordàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
borderò (first-person future indicative singular)
borderài (future indicative second-person singular)
borderà (future indicative singular third-person)
borderémo (first-person future indicative plural)
borderéte (future indicative plural second-person)
borderànno (future indicative plural third-person)
borderèi (conditional first-person present singular)
borderésti (conditional present second-person singular)
borderèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
borderébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
borderémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
borderéste (conditional plural present second-person)
borderèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
borderébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
bórdi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bórdi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
bórdi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bordiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bordiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bórdino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bordàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bordàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bordàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bordàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bordàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bordàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bórda (imperative second-person singular)
bórdi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
bordiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
bordàte (imperative plural second-person)
bórdino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
bordàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
bórdi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
bordiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
bordàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
bórdino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

(intransitive, uncommon) to work excessively [auxiliary avere]


balas

id-noun

balas (first-person possessive balasku, second-person possessive balasmu, third-person possessive balasnya)

balasku (first-person possessive)
balasmu (possessive second-person)
balasnya (possessive third-person)

From Malay balas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baləs (“to answer, retaliate; reciprocate good or evil”).


declina

ro-verb

a declina (third-person singular present declină or (obsolete) declinează, past participle declinat) 1st conj.

a declina (canonical)
declină (present singular third-person)
declinează (obsolete present singular third-person)
declinat (participle past)
a declina (infinitive)
declinând (gerund)
declinat (participle past)
declin (first-person indicative present singular)
declini (indicative present second-person singular)
declină (indicative present singular third-person)
declinăm (first-person indicative plural present)
declinați (indicative plural present second-person)
declină (indicative plural present third-person)
declinam (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
declinai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
declina (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
declinam (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
declinați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
declinau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
declinai (first-person indicative perfect singular)
declinași (indicative perfect second-person singular)
declină (indicative perfect singular third-person)
declinarăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
declinarăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
declinară (indicative perfect plural third-person)
declinasem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
declinaseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
declinase (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
declinaserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
declinaserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
declinaseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să declin (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să declini (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să decline (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să declinăm (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să declinați (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să decline (plural present subjunctive third-person)
declină (imperative second-person singular)
declinați (imperative plural second-person)
nu declina (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu declinați (imperative negative plural second-person)

Borrowed from French décliner, Latin dēclīnō.

Un soare ce declină din nou renaște soare!

1881 June 1, Vasile Alecsandri, “10 Maiu 1881”, in Convorbiri Literare, year 15, number 3, page 122

(intransitive, literary, uncommon, of heavenly bodies) to set

(intransitive, literary, uncommon) to wane