jenny

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

A female creature of certain kinds:
(Australia) a female crab.

A female creature of certain kinds:
a female crab.


wren

From Middle English wrenne, wranne, from Old English wrenna, wrænna, werna, wærna, wrenne (“wren”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrandijō, from Proto-Germanic *wrandijô (“wren”).
Cognate with Old Saxon wrendilo (“wren”), Old High German rento, rentilo (“wren”), Danish rindel (“wren”), Icelandic rindill (“wren”).

acáam ccaa

lit. the one who is looking for her husband

Troglodytes troglodytes
Troglodytes troglodytes#Translingual

Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).


sally

en-verb

sally (third-person singular simple present sallies, present participle sallying, simple past and past participle sallied)

sallies (present singular third-person)
sallying (participle present)
sallied (participle past)
sallied (past)

Borrowed from French saillie, from sailli, the past participle of the verb saillir (“to leap forth”), itself from Latin salīre (“to leap”).

So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to.

Adverse comment begins with uncomplimentary observations on the somewhat harder seats, then reaches a crescendo when it is discovered that the perverse and unhurried train is actually going to wait for another connection which is running late, instead of sallying forth at once for the benefit of those already on board and leaving latecomers stranded.

1942 July-August, “The Country Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 194:

Along the Manchurian frontier was a 160km strip of land the US pilots dubbed 'MiG Alley'. Beyond it lay the North Korean, Chinese and Russian squadrons. From those airbases, MiGs sallied forth to attack the bombers striking North Korea.

2007 September 30, Andrew Salmon, “Dogfights and daring in Korea's deep blue yonder”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03, Latest:

(intransitive) To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth").


sally

(New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.


sally

(slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.


stag

en-noun

stag (countable and uncountable, plural stags)

From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic *staggijô, *staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-, *stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.

a stag dance; a stag party; a stag bar

(countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.

The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom.

(countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.

(countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.


stag

en-verb

stag (third-person singular simple present stags, present participle stagging, simple past and past participle stagged)

stags (present singular third-person)
stagging (participle present)
stagged (participle past)
stagged (past)

(transitive) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.


troglodyte

/ˈtɹɒɡləʊdaɪt/

/ˈt͡ʃɹɑɡlədaɪt/

/ˈt͡ʃɹɑɡloʊdaɪt/

From Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”), from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + δύω (dúō, “I get into”).

af

(computing) A person who chooses not to keep up to date with the latest software and hardware.


tidy

en-adj

tidy (comparative tidier, superlative tidiest)

tidier (comparative)
tidiest (superlative)

From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).

cog

if weather be fair and tidy

1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry:

(obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.


creeper

From Middle English crepere, from Old English crēopere, equivalent to creep + -er. Slang usage derived from phrase give the creeps or creep out (distinct from merely one who creeps).

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.

Throwing it in creeper and then getting out to work alongside is strictly forbidden because it is too dangerous if anything goes wrong.

The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.


nuthatch

From Middle English nutthache, notehache, nuthake, nuttehake, nothak, equivalent to nut + hatch. Compare English nutcracker.

Nuthatches have rather a habit of entering houses through open windows, probably out of curiosity; and we owed to this habit a pet nuthatch, which became extremely tame, and used to take flies from our finger.

1895, Richard Lydekker, editor, The Royal Natural History, Volume 3, Frederick Warne & Co., page 440:

The bird was in very faded plumage with only a slight rusty wash to the underparts, and had I not heard the call, I might have mistaken it for a Pygmy Nuthatch.

1996, The Nebraska Bird Review, Volumes 64-69, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, page 156:

Considered a resident bird, the red-breasted nuthatch usually winters in the coniferous forests within its breeding range.

1998, George Adams, Birdscaping Your Garden, Rodale Press, page 65:

Any of various small passerine birds from the family Sittidae (and its single genus Sitta), found throughout the northern hemisphere and noted for their unusual proclivity for climbing down trees head first.


treecreeper

Any of various small passerine birds of the family Certhiidae which live in woodlands throughout the Northern hemisphere.


organista

(archaic) Any of several South American wrens of the order Troglodytidae, noted for the sweetness of their song.


gnatcatcher

A member of any of various species of small passerine birds in the family Polioptilidae found in North America and South America, close relatives of the wrens.


Carolina wren

A common species of wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) found throughout the eastern United States and nearby areas. It is the state bird of South Carolina.


nutjobber

From nut + jobber. Compare nuthacker, nutcracker.

(archaic, UK, dialect) A bird of family Sittidae; a nuthatch.


certhiid

(ornithology) Any bird in the family Certhiidae, the creepers.


sittid

(Ornithology) Any bird in the family Sittidae, the nuthatches.


troglodytid

(zoology) Any member of the Troglodytidae; a wren.


cactus wren

a wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus), native to the southwestern United States southwards to central Mexico.


house wren

Troglodytes aedon, a very small songbird of the wren family.


wallcreeper

A passerine bird of species Tichodroma muraria, closely related to the nuthatches, breeding in temperate Asia, found more widely in much of temperate Eurasia.


nutbreaker

Nucifraga caryocatactes
Nucifraga caryocatactes#Translingual

The nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes).


nuthacker

The common names nuthatch and nuthacker refer to the way the bird takes a nut in its claws and hacks at it with its bill or wedges it in the bark of a tree and hacks it with hard strokes to break it open.

2013, George Adams, George Martin Adams, Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-friendly Backyard - Page 346:


winter wren

A bird of the species Troglodytes hiemalis, of the coniferous forests of the cooler parts of North America, from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast.


wood nuthatch

Sitta europaea
Sitta europaea#Translingual

A nuthatch of the species Sitta europaea.


Eurasian nuthatch

en-noun

Eurasian nuthatch (plural Eurasian nuthatches)


Zapata wren

Ferminia cerverai, a medium-sized greyish-brown bird of Cuba.


rock wren

(Canada, US) A wren native to South America and western North America (Salpinctes obsoletus),

(New Zealand) A small wrenlike acanthisittid bird native to New Zealand (Xenicus gilviventris).


Eurasian wren

Eurasian wren (countable and uncountable, plural Eurasian wrens)


brown creeper

A North American species of treecreeper, Certhia americana, known for walking up tree trunks looking for insects in the bark.


gnatwren

Any of several birds of various genera in the family Polioptilidae which are browner and more thickset, and have proportionally shorter tails and longer bills, than their relatives the soft blue-grey gnatcatchers.


Eurasian treecreeper

Eurasian treecreeper (plural Eurasian treecreepers)

Certhia familiaris
Certhia familiaris#Translingual

Certhia familiaris, a species of bird in the family Certhiidae.


short-toed treecreeper

short-toed treecreeper (plural short-toed treecreepers)

Certhia brachydactyla
Certhia brachydactyla#Translingual

Certhia brachydactyla, a species of bird in the family Certhiidae.


marsh wren

A North American wren, Cistothorus palustris.


fasciated wren

Claque of, or possibly calqued by, its translingual name, Calque of translingual Campylorhynchus fasciatus, from Latin.

calque

Campylorhynchus fasciatus, a species of wren native to Ecuador and Peru.


jarbird

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bird of family Sittidae; a nuthatch.


black-bellied wren

en-noun

black-bellied wren (plural black-bellied wrens)

Pheugopedius fasciatoventris, a species of wren.


Bewick's wren

Named by John James Audubon after his friend Thomas Bewick, an engraver.

Thryomanes bewickii, a North American wren.


canyon wren

Catherpes mexicanus, a small North American songbird of the wren family.


white-breasted nuthatch

white-breasted nuthatch (plural white-breasted nuthatches)

A nuthatch found in North America, Sitta carolinensis


sedge wren

A species of bird, Cistothorus stellaris


short-billed marsh wren

short-billed marsh wren (plural short-billed marsh wrens)

(dated) The sedge wren Cistothorus stellaris


sooty-headed wren

sooty-headed wren (plural sooty-headed wrens)

From sooty + headed + wren, from the black head of the bird.

Pheugopedius spadix, a species of wren with a black head found only in Colombia and small parts of Panama.


nightingale-wren

Either of two wrens, Microcerculus philomela and Microcerculus marginatus of Central America and northern South America, correspondingly.