goral

Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.

The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China.

2004, A. J. T. Johnsingh, On Jim Corbett's Trail and Other Tales from Tree-tops, page 62:

The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.

2011, Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, page 251:

The goral is a ruminant (cud chewer) closely related to the serow, but it is distinguished from the serow by peculiarities in its skull form as well as by its smaller size, shorter horns, and absence of conspicuous preorbital glands.

2011, John P. Rafferty, Grazers, page 145:

A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.


hame

From Middle English ham, from Old English hām (“home”). More at home.

Scottish and Northern English form of home


quail hawk

Falco novaeseelandiae
Falco novaeseelandiae#Translingual

The New Zealand falcon, Falco novaeseelandiae, formerly also Hieracidea novae-hollandiae.


xiphioid

en-adj

xiphioid (comparative more xiphioid, superlative most xiphioid)

more xiphioid (comparative)
most xiphioid (superlative)

From ξιφία (xiphía), from ξίφος (xíphos, “sword”) + -oid.

(zoology) Resembling or related to the genus Xiphias (swordfish).

(zoology) Resembling or related to the family Xiphiidae (a group of fish).


xiphioid

(zoology) Any member of the genus Xiphias or family Xiphiidae.


ombre

(archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa


carrion crow

Coragyps atratus
Coragyps atratus#Translingual

The American black vulture Coragyps atratus.


drummer

From drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).

march to the beat of a different drummer

Bullock's liver will catch drummer.

1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:

Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.


great horned owl

en-noun

great horned owl (plural great horned owls)

Bubo virginianus
Bubo virginianus#Translingual

Any of species Bubo virginianus of large owls, resident in North America, having tufts on its ears.


hound dog

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time.
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time.
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine.

1956, “Hound Dog”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (revised by Elvis Presley) (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:

(Southern US, dialectal) Any hound, especially the bloodhound.


organista

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


wah

onom

Imitative

(gaming, Super Mario canon) A cry from Waluigi that constitutes his signature catchphrase; it signals any of a wide range of emotions including surprise, excitement, exhilaration, dismay, self-pity, and rivalry.


wah

Imitative


wah

Wah, you quite brave hor...

2005 October 30, Wong Kim Hoh, The Sunday Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English:

(Singlish, Manglish) Wow!; whoa! (expressing surprise or amazement)


scooter

→ Bengali: স্কুটার (skuṭar)

→ Catalan: escúter

→ Czech: skútr

→ Danish: scooter

→ Dutch: scooter

→ Finnish: skootteri

→ French: scooter

→ German: Scooter

→ Italian: scooter

→ Japanese: スクーター (sukūtā)

→ Korean: 스쿠터 (seukuteo)

→ Malay: skuter

→ Norwegian Bokmål: scooter

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: scooter

→ Polish: skuter

→ Portuguese: scooter

→ Romanian: scuter

→ Spanish: escúter; scooter

→ Swedish: skoter

سْكُوتَر

type of motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame — see also motor scooter

A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.

An electric version of the kick scooter.

A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.

інвалі́дная каля́ска

electric scooter for disabled — see also mobility scooter

An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.

Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.

Bow Pocket Scooter […] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, […]

2017, Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017, page 6:

With thoughtful details like shorts hidden under scooters, wrinkle-resistant, moisture-wicking fabrics, power knees and strength, stretch, and adjustability exactly where growing kids need it most, […]

2021, French Toast Catalog 2022, page 10:

A scooter skirt (skort), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.


scombroid

en-noun

scombroid (countable and uncountable, plural scombroids)

From Ancient Greek σκόμβρος (skómbros, “tuna, mackerel”) + -oid.

der

(countable) Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.


checkrein

A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks.


Bali tiger

Panthera tigris sondaica
Panthera tigris sondaica#Translingual

A species of tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica, that became extinct in the 1930s.


king penguin

From the belief that it was the largest of all penguin species—a belief that was overturned in 1884 when its close relative the emperor penguin, which can measure nearly a foot taller, was recognized as a separate species.

Aptenodytes patagonicus
Aptenodytes patagonicus#Translingual

a large penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus, that lives on the coast of Antarctica and nearby islands


garrot

A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.


mute swan

So called because it is not very vocal (though not entirely mute).

A species of white plumaged swan, Cygnus olor, having a distinctive orange bill with a black tip, native to Eurasia and widely introduced elsewhere as an ornamental waterbird.


emperor penguin

en-noun

emperor penguin (plural emperor penguins)

By analogy with the king penguin, which was believed to be the largest.

Aptenodytes forsteri
Aptenodytes forsteri#Translingual

The largest of penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), that inhabits Antarctica.


swan song

Calque of German Schwanenlied(from Schwan + Lied) or Schwanengesang; from the belief that the mute swan sings before dying.

Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VIII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age):

In no other way can be explained our sacrifices and martyrdoms. For no other reason did Rudolph Mendenhall flame out his soul for the Cause and sing his wild swan-song that last night of life.

1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"[…]—a pretentious volume which Mark Twain really considered his last. "It's my swan-song, my retirement from literature permanently," he wrote Howells, though certainly he was young, fifty-four, to have reached this conclusion.

1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain:

Je ne parle pas français. That was her swan song for me.

1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 114:

[…]McCartney III could mark the end of his recording career. For a musician as continually prolific as McCartney (this is his 18th solo record), that seems unlikely. But if it is indeed a swan song, McCartney III will stand as a proper coda for the singer-songwriter we’ve been listening to for fifty-odd years: sentimental yet strong, a bit wistful, but as always, looking ahead.

2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, in The A.V. Club:

Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]

2021 July 22, Philip Oltermann, “Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser”, in The Guardian:

[S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”

2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic) A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement.


coaster

From coast (“edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body, flank; side of a building; face of a solid figure; coast, shore; bay, gulf; sea; concavity, hollow; boundary, limit; land; country; district, province, region; locality, place; division of the heavens; compass direction; direction; location with reference to direction, side”) [and other forms], from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

navegador (de costas)

sailor who travels only in coastal waters

Salvelinus fontinalis
Salvelinus fontinalis#Translingual

(Canada, US) Short for coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).


coaster

Hollywood Dream – The Ride
Universal Studios Japan

From coast (“to glide along without adding energy; to make a minimal effort; to slide downhill (especially, to slide on a sled upon snow or ice)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) [and other forms] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
The sense 2.1 (“small stand or tray”) is from the fact that the object and the decanter or wine bottle on it “coast” or travel around a tabletop from person to person. The sense 2.2.2 (“useless compact disc or DVD”) refers to the fact that the object is only useful as a drink coaster.

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cost, costay, coste, costey, costie, coost, coostie, costen, costien

kelkka

something that coasts or is used to coast

(Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.

It was cold but still, and Polly trotted down the smooth, snow-covered mall, humming to herself, and trying not to feel homesick. The coasters were at it with all their might, and she watched them, till her longing to join the fun grew irresistible.

1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Polly’s Troubles”, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC, page 42:

(US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.

Something that coasts or is used to coast.


cocky

term-label

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, informal)

The noun is derived from cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun.

By that time, the white cockatoo—a beautiful bird, as large as a common fowl—would find out the family gathering-place, and waddle along, calling 'Pretty Cocky! Pretty Cocky!' […] Presently, Cocky ruffles his plumage till he looks half as large again as before; he throws his crest, with its double fan of brilliantly yellow feathers, as far forward as possible, and spreads and closes it rapidly.

1868 October, M. G. Sleeper, “Pets and Sports in Tasmania”, in Merry’s Museum, for Boys and Girls, volume 1 (New Series), number 10, Boston, Mass.: Horace B. Fuller, publisher, […], published 1869, →OCLC, page 399:

"Hello Cocky! What yer want?" This in a more-than-human voice from a fine sulphur-crested cockatoo. "Hello Cocky!" His thick black tongue worked in his narrow mouth. So absolutely human the sound, and yet a bird's.

1923, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Willie Struthers and Kangaroo”, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, page 229:

Visit the local store at Coles Bay and you're greeted by a talking cocky called Jim. […] [A]s we bid farewell to this environmental showpiece, Jim the talking cocky is again the centre of attention …

2005 August 5, Tim Jeanes, “Town Seeks Environmental Accreditation”, in The World Today, Australian Broadcasting Commission, archived from the original on 2017-10-01:

One afternoon a flock of glossy black cockatoos alights on a cluster of she-oaks in the western corner of the yard where they screech in ear-splitting decibels until dusk. […] [H]e tells her that the arrival of black cockies is a portent of rain. But the rain doesn't come.

2008, Amanda Lohrey, Vertigo: A Novella, Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc., Schwartz Publishing, →ISBN; Vertigo: A Pastoral, 2nd edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc., Schwartz Publishing, 2009, →ISBN, pages 57–58:

He smacked his lips a couple of times and grimaced. God, his mouth tastled like the bottom of a cockie’s cage. Probably smelt as appealing too.

2011, Barry Simiana, chapter 15, in A Touch of Evil, [Morrisville, N.C.?]: Nitewriter Media, →ISBN, page 131:

Next comes the rosellas and the cockatoos and the rest of the local parrots. Their singing is much heartier, and they begin to drown out their cousins. Finally Kate can hear a galah, his deep-throated song is interrupted by the cockies, but he is persistent in his welcome to the day.

2012, Samantha Carter, “Hard Won Rewards”, in All Secrets Told, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 61:

(informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo.


kha-nyou

A rodent species of the Khammouan region of Laos, Laonastes aenigmamus, first described in 2005


munchkin

en:Munchkin (disambiguation)
munchkin
munchkin (cat)

Coined by American author L. Frank Baum in 1900 in his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Perhaps reflective of German Mensch or munch + -kin. Compare Low German Menschken and Low German Minschken

coinage

(informal) A pet name one uses for something adorable like a pet, child, or a romantic partner


Jack Russell terrier

en-noun

Jack Russell terrier (plural Jack Russell terriers)

A type of small dog, usually brown and white in color, often used by farmers for rodent control.


gun dog

Any of various breeds of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game; an individual of such a breed.


morse

From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).

The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.


halfbeak

(zoology) Any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower, the balahoos or ballyhoos.

migbec

any slender, marine fish of the family Hemiramphidae


golden hamster

Mesocricetus auratus
Mesocricetus auratus#Translingual

A small rodent of species Mesocricetus auratus, popular as a pet and used for scientific research.


nibbler

A fish of the sea chub subfamily Girellinae.


grivet

An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face.


loris

From French loris, reportedly from obsolete Dutch loeris (“simpleton”).

If the stairs allow such room for thought it’s because Trudy is taking them at the pace of the slowest loris.

2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 135:

Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the family Lorisidae, found in India and southeast Asia.

National Museum of Singapore
William Farquhar
loris


douc

Borrowed from Muong dộc, probably via French.

A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.


lutung

Any of a group of Old World monkeys, making up the genus Trachypithecus, with a rather slim build and a long tail


gray langur

An Old World monkey endemic to the Indian subcontinent, Semnopithecus entellus, the only species in its genus, gray in color, with a black face.


dorado

From Spanish dorado, from the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”).

Coryphaena hippurus
Coryphaena hippurus#Translingual

A mahi-mahi or dolphin (Coryphaena hippurus), fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.


dreamer

From Middle English dremer, dremere, dremare, equivalent to dream + -er. Cognate with West Frisian dreamer (“dreamer”), Saterland Frisian Dröömer (“dreamer”), Dutch dromer (“dreamer”), German Träumer (“dreamer”), Danish drømmer (“dreamer”), Swedish drömmare (“dreamer”).

A swallow-wing puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)


rodeo

/ˈɹəʊ.di.əʊ/

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From Spanish rodeo, from rodear (“to surround”), which refers to a cattle roundup.

(sports) A North American sport involving skills with horses, cows and other livestock.


lunge line

(British) A rope-like piece of equipment, usually 20 feet or longer in length, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse to provide control while lungeing.


curb bit

(equestrianism) A type of bit used on a bridle, which works by leverage and has shanks and a curb chain.


bradoon

A type of snaffle bit, with small rings, usually used on a double bridle in conjunction with a curb bit.


surili

A small Old World monkey of the genus Presbytis, unlike other langurs in having bulges above the eyes.


mandrill

From man + drill (“Mandrillus leucophaeus”).

For the Mandrills live in society, and their bands are so powerful in point of numbers, and so crafty in point of management, that they are about as formidable neighbours as could be imagined.

1865, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia, George Routledge and Sons, page 76:

In both mandrills and drills, males have long muzzles with pronounced maxillary ridges and long tooth rows. Like baboons, mandrills and drills have forelimbs and hindlimbs of nearly equal length.

1999, John G. Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 200:

Mandrills occur in Gabon, Congo, Rio Muni and in Cameroon, to the south of the Sanaga River.

2003, Alan Dixson, Nancy Harvey, Marilyn Patton, Joanna Setchell, “2: Behaviour and reproduction”, in William V. Holt, Amanda R. Pickard, John C. Rodger, David E. Wildt, editors, Reproductive Science and Integrated Conservation, Cambridge University Press, page 26:

Mandrillus sphinx
Mandrillus sphinx#Translingual

A primate, Mandrillus sphinx, with colorful face and rump.


double bridle

(equestrianism) A Weymouth bridle, which uses both a bradoon, held by a sliphead, and a curb bit, and is used with two reins.


Pekingese

Pekingese (plural Pekingeses or Pekingese)

Pekingese A Pekingese dog (canonical)
Pekingeses (plural)
Pekingese (plural)

From Peking + -ese; Peking is the Postal Map romanization of Beijing.


potto

From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.

The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 147:

A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.


gelada

Any of species Theropithecus gelada of Old World monkeys, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests.


lunge

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.

A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.

An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.


retriever

A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.


caiman lizard

Any semi-aquatic lizard, of the genus Dracaena, found in South America


teiid

The teiids we know today are a New World family, ecological counterparts of Old World lacertids. Historically, teiids had a wider distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.

2003, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, published 2006, page 195:

As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).

2007, Lance D. McBrayer, Clay E. Corbin, “9: Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode”, in Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles, editors, Lizard Ecology, page 293:

The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.

2008, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Lizard Care from A to Z: From Anoles to Zonosaurs, page 146:


galago

Scientific Latin / translingual Galago (as a genus name), probably from Wolof golo (“monkey”).

From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 146:

Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the genus Galago, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes.


cat food

cat food (usually uncountable, plural cat foods)

Coordinate term: dog food

The cat ate the cat food.

A type of food specially formulated for the feeding of cats, typically composed of processed grain and meat byproducts as dry food or canned fish or meat as wet food.

القط الغذاء

type of food formulated for the feeding of cats


muskellunge

muskellunge (plural muskellunges or muskellunge)

muskellunges (plural)
muskellunge (plural)

From French masque allongé (“long mask”), a corruption of Ojibwe maashkinoozhe (“ugly pike”) or Algonquin maskinunga. Not related to German Muskel (“muscle”), Lunge (“lung”).

Esox masquinongy
Esox masquinongy#Translingual

A large freshwater gamefish of the pike family, native to the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America; Esox masquinongy.


greyhound

From Old English grīġhund, from a cognate or borrowing of Old Norse grøy (“bitch”) (whence Icelandic grey, thus not related to the colour grey) plus hund (“hound”). Altered by folk etymology to appear to be grey + hound.

Her young heart was full of love; and a world of kindly feelings were wasted on her delicate greyhound, her bright winged birds, and her favourite flowers.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 127:

A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.


wanderer

From Middle English wanderere, wandrere, wanderare, equivalent to wander + -er. Cognate with Scots wanderer, wandirer (“wanderer”), Dutch wandelaar (“walker, hiker”), German Wanderer (“wanderer”), Danish vandrer (“wanderer”), Swedish vandrare (“wanderer”), Norwegian vandrer (“wanderer”).

Diomedea exulans
Diomedea exulans#Translingual

(colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.


frog legs

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desert rat

gundi

one of various mouselike desert dwellers

One of various mouselike rodents species inhabiting deserts:

A kangaroo rat (genus Dipodomys) from North America

A jerboa, including those of species Jaculus orientalis and Jaculus jaculus (lesser Egyptian jerboa), which inhabit the desert regions of North Africa.

A British or Australian soldier who served in North Africa with the British 7th Armoured Division in 1941-42.

aavikkorotta

British or Australian soldier of 7th Armoured Division


breastplate

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From Middle English brestplate, equivalent to breast + plate. Displaced Old English brēostbeorg.

(Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.


perentie

From Dieri pirrinthi (or other Karnic language).

Joshua stuck his tongue in and out like a lizard's and, twisting his fingers into claws, dug them crabwise into the sand to imitate the perenty’s walk.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 153:

The largest Australian monitor lizard or goanna, Varanus giganteus.


anteater

Any of some other not closely related species that feed with ants, including pangolin (scaly anteater), echidna (spiny anteater), aardvark and numbat (banded anteater).


rock pipit

There are rock pipits here too, nervy little creatures streaked brown with a touch of olive green on the chest.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 46:

Anthus petrosus
Anthus petrosus#Translingual

A stocky bird, of species Anthus petrosus, somewhat smaller than a starling, that breeds on rocky beaches and winters on coastal salt marshes.


jako

Of parrots, little Jack only saw ash-gray jakos, with red tails, which abounded under the trees. But these jakos were not new to him.

1878, Jules Verne, “A Hundred Miles in Two Days”, in [anonymous], transl., Dick Sand; or, A Captain at Fifteen. […], New York, N.Y.: George Munro, […], →OCLC, part I, page 145:

Very little is known of these birds in their wild state, although they are brought to Europe in far greater numbers than any other species. We learn from Henglin that the habitat of the Jako extends from the western coast of Africa deep into the heart of that continent […]

1882, Rev. P. B. Power, The Home Visitor and District Companion:

The Jako, or gray parrot of Africa, has the capacity for speaking best developed, and the yellow-headed green parrot of Mexico stands second in the list.

1908, Chandler Belden Beach, The Students' Reference Work:

Psittacus erithacus
Psittacus erithacus#Translingual

An African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, commonly kept as a cage bird.


Dobermann

Borrowed from German Dobermann, from the name of Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, who first developed this breed. Dobermann was born "Tobermann." Tobermann is derived from "Tober" (an Ashkenazic variant of Tauber) plus a suffixal -mann. Tauber is both the name of a river in Germany, and the German word for a pigeon (variant of Taube (“dove, pigeon”), formed [perhaps] to distinguish meaning.) The former is derived from Celtic, the latter from Proto-Germanic. See Dover, dove.

A large breed of guard dog bred in Germany.


birk

From Middle English birk, birke, byrke, a northern variant of Middle English birche (“birch”). More at birch.
(tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56:


husky

Shortening of husky dog, where husky is ultimately from the same Old Montagnais root as Eskimo.

Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.

хъски

any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs


squirrel monkey

squirrel monkey (plural squirrel monkeys)

(zoology, primatology) Any of several small New World monkeys, of the genus Saimiri, that live in Central and South America.


Kirtland's warbler

Kirtland's warbler (plural Kirtland's warblers)

Named after Jared P. Kirtland, an Ohio doctor and amateur naturalist.

a small songbird, Setophaga kirtlandii, that nests in Michigan, United States and winters in the Bahamas


beluga

Borrowed from Russian белу́га (belúga), from бе́лый (bélyj, “white”).
In modern standard Russian, белу́га (belúga) denotes the fish Huso huso only, while белу́ха (belúxa) denotes the cetacean.

Delphinapterus leucas
Delphinapterus leucas#Translingual

A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.

A fish, Huso huso, that is a source of caviar, which is found in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.


wittol

From Middle English witewold; likely a blend of witen (“to know”) + cockewold (“cuckold”), equivalent to wit + cuckold.

To see […] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […]

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

So the Ifrit cried at her, "Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.

1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!

(archaic) A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.

marit còmode

man who knows and tolerates his wife’s infidelity


angora

angora (countable and uncountable, plural angoras)

From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).


pull up

en-verb

pull up (third-person singular simple present pulls up, present participle pulling up, simple past and past participle pulled up)

pulls up (present singular third-person)
pulling up (participle present)
pulled up (participle past)
pulled up (past)

In this May 20, 2006, Barbaro is steadied[sic, "by" is missing] a track worker as jockey Edgar Prado looks on after he pulled up the horse with a fractured right rear leg during the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

2016 May 19, Paul Vigna, “Barbaro's ill-fated run 10 years ago in the Preakness: A look back”, in PennLive:

(transitive, horse racing) To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).


sitatunga

/sɪtəˈtʌŋɡə/

‘There's plenty here,’ he grunts, nodding at the bloated carcasses of two hartebeests and a sitatunga.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 148:


bare-eared squirrel monkey

en-noun

bare-eared squirrel monkey (plural bare-eared squirrel monkeys)

A squirrel monkey endemic to Brazil, Saimiri ustus.


juvenal

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.


talapoin

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

A monkey from one of two species of Old World monkeys, of the genus Miopithecus, distinguished by a short-snouted head with a hairless face.


clownfish

clownfish (plural clownfish or clownfishes)

Any of colorful fish of genera Amphiprion and Premnas in subfamily Amphiprioninae of family Pomacentridae, native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, notable for their mutual relationship with sea anemones.

小丑魚

fish of the genera Amphiprion or Premnas


guenon

An Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus.


whaling

whaling (countable and uncountable, plural whalings)


puffer

From puff + -er.
The cellular automata definition is a clipping of puffer train.

Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.


shoo-in

From a sense of the verb shoo, where racehorses would fall back and allow a chosen rider to win a fixed race. See 1910 quotation.

Little Pete was a member of the delegation that were in on the "shoo" in the third race. He had several commissioners placing his coin on Model. If the race was to have been a "shoo-in" for Model, there must have been one or two owners that were not in on the deal.

1895, “Pointers from the Paddock”, in The San Francisco Call:

Most of the "regulars" are deeply suspicious of all steeplechase races of late years, and, whenever the favorite falls at one of the obstacles and a long priced leaper wins the race, they loudly call the race a "shoo-in" (a fixed affair, that is, in which the steeplechase racers have arranged to drop to the rear of the "meant" jumper and "shoo" him to the wire, they previously, of course, having got their money down on the horse thus generously treated).

1910, “Vernacular of the Race Track”, in New-York Tribune:

[it was] wondered whether Chris Chenery's Virginia flyer would be a shoo-in for the Belmont Stakes […]

(horse racing) The winner of a fixed race, a fixed race.


weaverbird

Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.

The family Estrildidae, better known as estrildid finches or weaver finches


take the field

en-verb

take the field (third-person singular simple present takes the field, present participle taking the field, simple past took the field, past participle taken the field)

takes the field (present singular third-person)
taking the field (participle present)
took the field (past)
taken the field (participle past)

(horse racing) To stake one's money against the favourite, taking the chances of the field against the chance of one horse.


zebra finch

A small Australasian weaverbird (Taeniopygia guttata) that has markings similar to a zebra.


evet

(US) Any of several species of aquatic salamanders.


tenrec

From French tanrec, from Malagasy tàndraka or trandraka related to Malay landak (“porcupine”); English from 18th century.

Any of several diverse small mammals, of the family Tenrecidae, many native to Madagascar.


golden mole

Any of several small, insectivorous burrowing mammals of the family Chrysochloridae, native to southern Africa.


elephant shrew

For many years elephant shrews, represented here by the rock elephant shrew, were placed wifhin the Order Insectivora. Today they are separated from that group by virtue of their long snouts, heibivotous dentition and different digestive tract.

1997, M. G. L. Mills, Lex Hes, The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals, page 62:

The recognition of elephant shrews as a distinct clade of eutherian mammals and the discovery of their earliest representatives has not simplified the problem of their higher-order affinities.

2007, Patricia A. Holroyd, Jason C. Mussell, “6: Macroscelidea and Tubulidentata”, in Kenneth D. Rose, J. David Archibald, editors, The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades, page 73:

Like treeshrews, elephant shrews are active for half of the twenty-four-hour day, implying that this type of general invertebrate gleaning requires long foraging times in both families. Certain elephant shrews are nearly entirely insectivorous (95-100%; Rathbun 1979), and they are cursorial, not scansorial, so they are in some ecological aspects quite unlike treeshrews.

2011, Louise H Emmons, Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews, page 221:

Any of several small, insectivorous long-nosed mammals, of the family Macroscelididae, native to Africa; more closely related to elephants than to true shrews.


terrier

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French chien terrier (“terrier dog”), from chien (“dog”) + Old French terrier (“of earth”, adjective), from Medieval Latin terrarius (“of earth”), from Latin terra (“earth”).

der

A dog from a group of small, lively breeds, originally bred for the hunting of burrowing prey such as rats, rabbits, foxes, and even otters; this original function is reflected in some of their names (e.g. rat terrier).


hind

Wikispecies
From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, Proto-West Germanic *hindu, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.


teg

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.

(UK, dialectal, dated) A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.


maha

The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]

1896, Richard Lydekker, A Geographical History of Mammals:

(archaic) A kind of monkey; the wanderoo.


flying lemur

Flying lemurs do not fly (they glide) and are not lemurs: the nature of their relationship to primates (and to bats and treeshrews, with which they also share characteristics) is the subject of ongoing debate and research.

A colugo (family spp.), having membranes between the front and hind legs similar to those of flying squirrels.


rasbora

Any similar fish formerly classified in that genus.


mala

From Western Desert Language, as Pitjantjatjara mala.

A species of hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus, of arid Australia.


colugo

Colugos, our closest living non-primate relatives, are able to glide as much as 150 metres (more than 490 feet) between trees.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:

An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae native to Southeast Asia.


lionfish

en-noun

lionfish (plural lionfish or lionfishes)

Any of the venomous fish of the Scorpaenidae family, notable for their long and separated spines


nide

Uncertain; possibly from Middle French nid (modern French nid (“nest”)), or its etymon Latin nīdus (“nest”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”)).

refn

From William T[homas] Shaw (1908) The China or Denny Pheasant in Oregon: With Notes on the Native Grouse of the Pacific Northwest, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC, plate 6.

[A] nide of pheasants are sometimes collected in a very small space, and in the middle of the day conceal themselves very close.

1809, William Nicholson, “SPORTING”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume VI (S … Z), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 2:

[W]e were highly entertained with the antics of two stoats, who had left their hiding places to commence nocturnal depredations; [...] in the course of a few minutes the whirring of a nide of pheasants convinced us these little vermin had marked them as prey.

1818, J[ohn] Hassell, “Brentwood”, in Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, Thirty Miles Round the British Metropolis; Illustrated in a Series of Engravings, Coloured after Nature; […], volume II, London: Printed [by W. Flint] for J. Hassell, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:

[I]f a hen pheasant takes to new ground, at such a late period of the season, she may be likely to stay and build her nest there, and thus a nide may be lost in the following October.

1833 January, N. O., “Shooting in January”, in The New Sporting Magazine, volume IV, number XXI, London: Published by Baldwin & Cradock, […], →OCLC, page 173, column 1:

Reynard [i.e., a fox], in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.

1852 May, “Latitat” [pseudonym], “Anecdotes of Foxes”, in The Sportsman, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 347:

The breeding season of the present year has been favourable to young pheasants. The most glowing accounts are from Devon, Cornwall, some of the Midland counties, and from Yorkshire, where the wild nides are strong and healthy, and keepers have been very successful with the hand-reared stock.

1876 October 7, “The First of October”, in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: A High-class Weekly Journal of Sport, Art, Literature, Music, and the Drama, volume VI, number 138, London: Published by George Maddick, Junr., […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:


Siamese fighting fish

en-noun

Siamese fighting fish (plural Siamese fighting fishes or Siamese fighting fish)

Siamese fighting fishes (plural)
Siamese fighting fish (plural)

Betta splendens
Betta splendens#Translingual


fops

Knife set, Hoover, soaps, leatherman, lego and....... FOPS KIGU! My mother knows something.

2013 December 25, @touchtheboop, Twitter:

Back to school tomorrow! Little fops in a big world~ <3

Ugh what a cute FOPS!

2019 December 30, @HellaHoundAD, Twitter:

saw a fops on my walk again

2021 October 13, @MythicalRedFox, Twitter:

Henmlooo
It's your good morning fops 💜🦊💜

Your Fursona vs The Animal they're based on.
Fops 🦊🧡

2024 April 25, @Fox_Den_Of_Sin, Twitter:

(Internet slang, furry fandom, childish, endearing) A fox.


corsair

Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of courser and hussar.

der

A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).


Friesian

[...] the more expensive and creamier Jersey or South Devon milk, for example, is kept apart from Friesian milk, with its low butter content.

1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:

A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any indiviual cow of that breed.


froggy

en-adj

froggy (comparative froggier or more froggy, superlative froggiest or most froggy)

froggier (comparative)
more froggy (comparative)
froggiest (superlative)
most froggy (superlative)

Absolutely voiceless and baggy-eyed from hours of sour singing, no sleep, and a froggy throat from yelling in ego to be heard atop the rest.

frog in one's throat
frog in one's throat

Suffering from a frog in one's throat; hoarse.


butterball

The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.

1917, Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37:

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.


bullock

en-verb

bullock (third-person singular simple present bullocks, present participle bullocking, simple past and past participle bullocked)

bullocks (present singular third-person)
bullocking (participle present)
bullocked (participle past)
bullocked (past)

From Middle English bullok, from Old English bulluc, from Proto-West Germanic *bulluk, corresponding to bull + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Old Dutch bullok (“bullock”).

Yes, you villain, you have defiled my own bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the truth.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 47:

So you never knew when you were gonna fall foul of a furious bullocking. So it became a case of bullocking management, basically. You know, how can I stave off the stress and the bullying for another few days.

2017, podcast "Untold - The Daniel Morgan Murder", episode "Master of the Dark Arts", from minute 11:18


Campbell

* As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”).
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell.
* As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above.
* (duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.

Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A city in Santa Clara County, California.

A minor city in Wilkin County, Minnesota.

Former name of Kintyre, Emmons County, North Dakota.


chippy

In due time a nest-full of little chippies appear to be nourished with insectiverous^([sic]) food from a parental beak until fledged and able to look after themselves.

1902, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire magazine devoted to history, biography, literature, and state progress, volume 32, page 385:

Surely no young chippy was ever so stout and so emphatic as this bird.
The funny part of it all is that the starling appears to make the chippies do whatever it pleases.

1908, Alice Lounsberry, chapter I, in The Garden Book for Young People, page 139:

How early in the season does the chippy appear and where does it spend the winter?

1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 88:


scops owl

From Latin scops, from Ancient Greek σκώψ (skṓps, “a type of small owl”), from σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “I look at”).

der

A small European migratory owl, Otus scops, that winters in sub-Saharran Africa.


mog

Get that mog out of here!

The more I hear about Larry the Downing Street cat, the more his story becomes an allegory for our time. As previously reported, the reputation of this mog was trashed by Downing Street spin doctors after he was brought in to clear the Prime Minister’s workplace of mice in 2011.

2013 October 18, Andy McSmith, “Andy McSmith's Diary: Even Larry the cat is not safe from factions in Downing Street”, in The Independent, London: Independent Digital News & Media Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-15:

Ulysses the cat is the real breakout star of the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis. He's not the first feline scene-stealer, though - here are ten other great cats in film (animated mogs excluded)

2014 January 24, Fiona Wilson, The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-09:

A few months before she died, Winefride had started setting food out for a brindled mog named Sally who lived in their neighborhood. She was always feeding local cats, but she especially loved this mog, and eventually, Sally grew enormous.

2016, Bill Broun, Night of the Animals, New York, N.Y.: Ecco, →ISBN, page 172:

They two gorgeous mogs even have their own teddy bear and blanket to make their snuggling.

2017 June 6, Luke Barnes, “Sleeping cuties! Adorable brother and sister kittens can't sleep unless they cosy up together in bed”, in The Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-21:

Many pet owners have taken up cat-walking in recent years, encouraged by others on social media and by the growing range of outdoorsy cat kit on offer. But for most mogs, the RSPCA suggests, "an indoor environment with plenty of opportunities to be active and mentally stimulated is likely to be more beneficial for the cat's welfare than walking them on a lead."

2017 August 14, Tim Walker, “Should you take your cat out on a lead?”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-05:


schnauzer

A dog of a particular breed originating in Germany.


kissing gourami

en-noun

kissing gourami (plural kissing gouramis or kissing gouramies)

kissing gouramis (plural)
kissing gouramies (plural)

A large tropical freshwater fish (Helostoma temminckii), commercial food fish which are farmed in their native Southeast Asia and are also popular with aquarists for the fish's peculiar "kissing" behaviour.


lambskin

lambskin (countable and uncountable, plural lambskins)

The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. A very fine form of leather.


Cro-Magnon

From French Cro-Magnon, from Occitan Cròs-Manhon.
Named after Abri de Cro-Magnon, a rock shelter in the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Dordogne, France, where the first skeletons were found in 1868.

The rock shelter in Les Eyzies, France, where the first Cro-Magnon Man specimens were found.


Cro-Magnon

Cro-Magnon (plural Cro-Magnons or Cro-Magnon)

Cro-Magnons (plural)
Cro-Magnon (plural)

The Cro-Magnons may have been one important step beyond the Neanderthals in social organization.[…]That the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals encountered each other is probable. There seems to be no more than a five-thousand-year interval between the general occupation of home sites by the Neanderthals and their replacement by Cro-Magnon tools and fossils.

1994, Seymour W. Itzkoff, The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal, Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), page 14:

The Cro Magnon came to live in Europe around forty thousand years ago and most educated people have heard of them. The Cro Magnon are the ones who created the remarkable cave paintings found in southern France and Spain at Lascaux and Altamira.

2006, Lyndall Baker Landauer, The Learning Pool: Basic Science Everyone Needs to Know, Xlibris, page 85:

In addition, the latest evidence suggests that the "agricultural revolution" occurred sometime during the second half of the Cro-Magnon era. Anatomically, the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon brains were approximately the same overall size.

2009, Anthony Scioli, Henry B. Biller, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Oxford University Press, page 44:

(archaeology) The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.

кроманьо́нец

earliest known form of modern human, in Europe

(derogatory) A backward and stupid person, a knuckle-dragger or troglodyte.


Rhode Island Red

Rhode Island Red (plural Rhode Island Reds)


Light Sussex

“It is only since the first world war that the Light Sussex has beeen developed as a commercial egg-producer.” See ref. p38.


Indian Game

”Valueless for commercial egg production, the Indian Game is essentially a table breed. See ref. p41.


Marans

The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs.

1962, C. Arthur Pearson, Pictorial Poultry-Keeping, 2nd edition, Cox & Wyman, page 39:

A small breed of chicken originating in France popular for poultry shows and its eggs, rather than for its meat.


aurochs

aurochs (plural aurochs or aurochses or aurochsen)

aurochs (plural)
aurochses (plural)
aurochsen (plural)

Borrowed from German Aurochs, an early variant of Auerochse, from Middle High German ūrochse (“aurochs”), from Old High German ūrohso (“aurochs”), a compound consisting of ūro (“aurochs”) (from Proto-Germanic *ūraz, *ūrô (“aurochs”)) + ohso (“ox”). Akin to Old English ūr (“aurochs”), Old Norse úrr (“aurochs”), Middle Low German ūrosse (“aurochs”), Old English oxa (“ox”). More at ox.

Bos primigenius
Bos primigenius#Translingual

An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.


oblique-swimming triplefin

oblique-swimming triplefin (plural oblique-swimming triplefins)


pace egg

A hard-boiled coloured egg traditionally made at Easter, often given to relatives and friends as a token of goodwill. It was traditional to jarp with the eggs before eating them.

County Durham website dedicated to preservation of dialect terms


copperhead

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.

A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.


Wyandotte

Wyandotte County
Wyandotte County#English

A placename:
Ellipsis of Wyandotte County.


lambkin

A lambkin's snowy fleece

1781, Richard Hole, Homer's Hymn to Ceres, Exeter: B. Thorn & Son, p. 38

There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.

1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:

She has no real cognisance, dear lambkin, of anything at all.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, page 28:


tippler

From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.

A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.


jarp

Borrowed from Scots jaup (“(noun) dash or splash of mud, water, etc.; broken piece, fragment; light blow, slap; (verb) of water: to dash; to splash; to cause a splash by striking the surface of or throwing water; to bespatter or splash (mud, water, etc.); (obsolete) to knock about, manhandle”), perhaps from jalp, jilp (“to spill, splash, squirt”), probably originally imitative of a splash.

bor

Making these Easter or anytime decorated hard-boiled eggs is a tradition in northern England where they are known as paste eggs (or pace eggs as they are called in other areas). They are used in jarping competitions, in which each child holds an egg pointy end up and tries to crack their opponent's egg with one jarp, without breaking their own. Then everyone eats the eggs.

2017, Linda Tubby, “Flower-power Paste Eggs”, in Cracked: Creative and Easy Ways to Cook with Eggs, London: Kyle Books, →ISBN:

(Cumbria, Ireland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, games) The act of knocking one's pace egg (“a coloured hard-boiled egg traditionally made at Easter”) against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one's own intact, an Easter custom in many countries.

pääsiäismunien yhteen napautus

act of knocking one’s pace egg against that of an opponent, with the aim of cracking the other's egg and leaving one’s own intact, an Easter custom in many countries


Amami rabbit

Pentalagus furnessi, a dark-furred, nocturnal rabbit found on the islands of Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima in southern Japan.


snook

A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes.


snook

en-verb

snook (third-person singular simple present snooks, present participle snooking, simple past and past participle snooked)

snooks (present singular third-person)
snooking (participle present)
snooked (participle past)
snooked (past)


snook

From the 19th century. Unknown origin, possibly related to snoot or snout.


straddle

straddle (third-person singular simple present straddles, present participle straddling, simple past and past participle straddled)

straddles (present singular third-person)
straddling (participle present)
straddled (participle past)
straddled (past)

As a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.

Wanting to please both sides, he straddled the issue.

(transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.

tasapainoilla

to consider or favor two apparently opposite sides

(poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).


straddle

(finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.

(poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.

sokkokorotus

poker: raise made prior to receiving cards


capon

From Middle English capoun; partly from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon) and partly from Old English capūn, both from Latin capo, caponem (Vulgar Latin *cappo), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”).

der

[…] You cannot feed capons so.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.


saurian

From Sauria (suborder of lizards) + -an (suffix forming adjectives), under influence from earlier French saurien.

compound

I took heart, however, as I recalled a conversation between Challenger and Summerlee upon the habits of the great saurians.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(properly) A reptile of the suborder Sauria.


scolder

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tantalus

From Latin Tantalus, from Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos, “Tantalus”), a Phrygian king in Greek mythology who was condemned to stand in a pool of water which receded every time he tried to drink, and with overhanging branches of fruit which pulled back whenever he tried to eat.

uder

Mycteria americana
Mycteria americana#Translingual

A stork of the genus Mycteria (formerly Tantalus), especially the American wood stork, Mycteria americana.


mackinaw trout

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

The lake trout or North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush.


erne

From Middle English ern, erne, earn, from Old English earn (“eagle”), from Proto-West Germanic *arō, from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) (whence also Arnold), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“large bird, eagle”).
Cognate with Dutch and Low German arend (“eagle”), Norwegian and Danish ørn (“eagle”), Swedish örn (“eagle”), German Aar (“eagle”), Ancient Greek ὄρνεον (órneon), ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) (whence -ornis and ornitho-), Proto-Slavic *orьlъ (“eagle”).

inh

Ahoi! come kite! Ahoi! come erne from off the fen!

1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 274:

[T]his is an in-depth study of the Erne (to use the old Anglo-Saxon name for this eagle).

1985, Amadon, Dean, “Review of The Return of the Sea Eagle”, in The Auk, volume 102, number 1, pages 218-19:

Haliaeetus albicilla
Haliaeetus albicilla#Translingual

A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)


pysanka

Borrowed from Ukrainian пи́санка (pýsanka), from писа́ти (pysáty, “to write”), referring to writing on an egg with a stylus in a wax-resist dyeing process, from Proto-Slavic *pьsati, related to *pьstrъ (“feathered”), + feminine ending -ка (-ka).

A hand-decorated Ukrainian Easter egg with intricate designs.

пі́санка

Easter egg decorated with intricate designs


brach

Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke. More at brachet.

FOOL: Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], lines 109-111:

Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, / Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym […].

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:

A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”

(archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.


Old World monkey

en-noun

Old World monkey (plural Old World monkeys)

Coordinate term: New World monkey

A member of a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini.

舊世界猴

primates falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea


bichir

From the species epithet of Polypterus bichir taken over in 1802/1803, the years of its collection and description, after Arabic بَشِير (bašīr).

Any of a group of ray-finned fish of the family Polypteridae in the order Polypteriformes.


vendace

Coregonus albula
Coregonus albula#Translingual

Either of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius.


huso

From German Hausen and English isinglass.

A large European sturgeon (Huso huso), inhabiting the Black Sea and Caspian Sea; the beluga.


clingfish

clingfish (plural clingfish or clingfishes)

A small marine fish of the family Gobiesocidae which has a sucking disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed.


poitrine

From French poitrine or a Middle or Old French predecessor.

2018, Jerome Bixby, Devilish Tales: A collection of droll, teasing and very wicked fantasies, Digital Parchment Press
Full red lips and a patrician nose, and a delicately formed but ample poitrine that curled Pierre's hands into iron hooks beneath the counter. "Forgive me, kind sir," she said, in a voice like music in a bedroom, […]

Her bodices fully covered her ample poitrine right up to her nonexistent neck.

2008, Leslie Carroll, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, Penguin, →ISBN, page 326:

(She points to her ID badge, situated on her ample poitrine, allowing my next unforgivable remark.) DC: Men don't have those.

2010, Dick Cavett, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, Macmillan, →ISBN:


barramundi

Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language. Said to be from a language spoken in the Rockhampton area in Queensland, but this cannot be confirmed.

Lates calcarifer
Lates calcarifer#Translingual

A diadromous fish of species Lates calcarifer, of the Centropomidae family, order Perciformes, widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific; a popular food fish.

For other English common names see barramundi at Fishbase

(Australia) Either of two fish, Scleropages leichardti and S. jardinii, of the family Osteoglossidae.

(Australia, obsolete) The fish Neoceratodus forsteri of the family Neoceratodontidae; the Australian lungfish.


quinella

From American Spanish quiniela (“sporting bet or pool”); US from 1942.

bor

1954, Michigan Department of State Compilation Commission, 1954 Michigan Administrative Code, page 38,
All tickets on the quinella will be calculated in an entirely separate pool.

A few tracks offer exactas and quinallas on the same races.

1989, Charles S. Romanelli, How to Make Money in One Day at the Track, page 166:

The track quinella paid $38.00 for a $2 wager, the track exacta paid $70.60 for a $2 wager.

2004, Jim Kilby, Jim Fox, Anthony F. Lucas, Casino Operations Management, page 355:

(gambling, horse racing) A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing.


pashmina

en-noun

pashmina (countable and uncountable, plural pashminas)

From Persian پشمینه (pašmine). Compare پشمین (pašmin).

Cashmere: the fine wool that grows under the hair of this goat.


ankylosaur

/ˈæŋkəloʊˌsɔːɹ/

In a study published Wednesday in Nature, Chilean researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ankylosaur, a family of dinosaurs known for their heavy armor, from subantarctic Chile.

2021 December 1, Asher Elbein, “This Dinosaur Found in Chile Had a Battle Ax for a Tail”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


ankylosaurus

ankylosaurus (plural ankylosauri or ankylosauruses)

ankylosauri (plural)
ankylosauruses (plural)

/ˌæŋkəloʊˈsɔːɹəs/

From the genus translingual Ankylosaurus, from Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”); by surface analysis, ankylo- + -saurus. The word was coined in 1908 by Brown, who did not give any explanation. It may have been intended to refer to ankylosis, a medical condition in which bones fuse and can cause a deformity. Ankylosaurs have some rear ribs fused to their vertebrae.

der

A large herbivorous dinosaur, of genus Ankylosaurus, that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail.

aнкилозавър

large herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous


triggerfish

en-noun

triggerfish (plural triggerfish or triggerfishes)

triggerfish (plural)
triggerfishes (plural)

Any of several brightly coloured fish, of the family Balistidae, that inhabit tropical reefs and have an erectile spine on the dorsal fin.


humuhumunukunukuapuaa

I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii / Where the humuhumunukunukuapua'a goes swimming by

1933, “My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii”, Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison, Johnny Noble (music):

Rhinecanthus aculeatus
Rhinecanthus aculeatus#Translingual

Either of two species, Rhinecanthus aculeatus and Rhinecanthus rectangulus, of triggerfishes native to the reefs of Hawaii.


humpback

[…] Tom’s more specific and kindly impressions gradually melted into the old background of suspicion and dislike toward him as a queer fellow, a humpback, and the son of a rogue.

1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 2, Chapter 6:

[…] I stared up at the raw spots on his cheek and thought, there is no safety anywhere: a humpback, a cripple—they all have the trigger that sets love off.

1951, Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, Penguin, published 1975, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 81:

(derogatory, now offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.


humpback

en-verb

humpback (third-person singular simple present humpbacks, present participle humpbacking, simple past and past participle humpbacked)

humpbacks (present singular third-person)
humpbacking (participle present)
humpbacked (participle past)
humpbacked (past)

The captain of the James Rodgers […] was an old hand at humpbacking […]

1895, Charles Nordhoff, chapter 10, in Whaling and Fishing, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 191:

[…] the Alice Knowles […] did her whaling in the south Atlantic, by turns humpbacking off the African coast and cruising around Tristan in season.

1953, Emma Mayhew Whiting, Henry Beetle Hough, chapter 16, in Whaling Wives, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 240:


bird dog

bird dog (third-person singular simple present bird dogs, present participle bird dogging, simple past and past participle bird dogged)

bird dogs (present singular third-person)
bird dogging (participle present)
bird dogged (participle past)
bird dogged (past)


drawmaster

(horse racing) The person who determines the post positions for races.


horsemanship

en-noun

horsemanship (usually uncountable, plural horsemanships)

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The retired cowboy showed off his horsemanship by doing tricks in the saddle.

The skill of horseriding, and sometimes of training and managing horses.


calico

calico (countable and uncountable, plural calicos or calicoes)

From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).

af

One of them, a calico whose half-grown kittens he just fed, slow-blinks at him, an affectionate gesture.

2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 111:


pullus

(ornithology) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.


clapmatch

Borrowed from Dutch klapmuts (“hooded seal, hat with ear-flaps”).


hooded seal

An arctic seal, Cystophora cristata, notable for the fleshy bulge on its forehead and nose.


chickenhawk

/ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnˌhɔk/

From chicken + hawk. The political sense is derived from figurative meanings of "chicken" (coward) and "hawk" (militarist).

(US politics, derogatory) A draft dodger, especially in the Vietnam War, who nonetheless currently supports United States overseas military engagements.

knapenschenner

adult man who seeks out boys as his sexual partners


Île-de-France

A domestic sheep breed originally from the region.


four o'clock

Any of several plants, of the genus Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon.


Wilson's storm petrel

en-noun

Wilson's storm petrel (plural Wilson's storm petrels)

The name commemorates the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands

A small seabird of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae, breeding on the Antarctic coastlines and nearby islands such as the South Shetland Islands.

Kéyah Yistinídę́ę́ʼ níyol yiiʼ naatʼaʼígíí


grizzly

en-adj

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

grizzlier (comparative)
grizzliest (superlative)


snow petrel

A small, pure white fulmarine petrel with black underdown, coal-black eyes, small black bill and bluish gray feet.


Limousin

Borrowed from French Limousin, from Latin Lemovicinus, adjective form of Lemovices, name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.

A former region in France; since 2016, part of the region of New Aquitaine.


Araucana

Derived from Spanish Araucanía, the region of Chile where the breed was first documented by Europeans.

A type of poultry notable for laying blue or green eggs.


Plymouth Rock

The traditionally accepted landing site of the Mayflower settlers to America in 1620, on the shore of Massachusetts.


storm petrel

Nólsoy is home to one of the largest breeding colonies of storm petrels on earth.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 127:

Any of several small seabirds, of the families Hydrobatidae (northern storm petrels) or Oceanitidae (southern storm petrels or Austral storm petrels), having dark plumage and a white rump.


common loon

great northern diver
great northern diver

(US, Canada) The great northern diver (Gavia immer)


white-billed diver

en-noun

white-billed diver (plural white-billed divers)

Gavia adamsii
Gavia adamsii#Translingual

Gavia adamsii, the largest member of the loon or diver family, having a black head, white underparts and checkered black-and-white mantle.


Pacific diver

Gavia pacifica
Gavia pacifica#Translingual

Gavia pacifica, a medium-sized member of the diver family that breeds on deep lakes in the tundra region of Alaska and northern Canada, having a grey head, black throat, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.


poulter

From Middle English pulter, from Old French pouletier, from poulet (“fowl”).

(obsolete) A dealer in poultry; a poulterer.


red-throated loon

red-throated loon (plural red-throated loons)


Arctic loon

black-throated diver
black-throated diver

(Canada, US) The black-throated diver bird.


horned screamer

horned screamer (plural horned screamers)

Anhima cornuta
Anhima cornuta#Translingual

Anhima cornuta, a South American bird, member of the family Anhimidae, with black upper parts, head and breast and white speckles on the crown, throat and wing coverts.


southern screamer

southern screamer (plural southern screamers)

crested screamer
crested screamer#English


poulterer

From earlier poulter (with the addition of -er), from Middle English pulter, from Old French pouletier, from poulet (“fowl”).


black-necked screamer

black-necked screamer (plural black-necked screamers)

Chauna chavaria
Chauna chavaria#Translingual

Chauna chavaria, a species of the small family of birds Anhimidae, found in the northern regions of Colombia and Venezuela.


blue heeler

Shorty the Sixth, as he was sometimes called, had been a very winning puppy, and they had kept him at home until he began to exhibit the same tendencies that Duane's blue heelers always exhibited, that is, a tendency to herd children in the same way they would have herded cattle or sheep: they nipped their heels.

2003, Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed, page 75:

He always has his blue heeler dog in his office tucked away under his feet or near the door.

2007, Graham Greenwood, A Truckie's Dream: The Allan Scott Story : His Official Biography, page 113:

For some time, Dan and Pat had been at me to get a dog so we took a trip to the Yagoona RSPCA and came back with a blue heeler pup.

2008, Elizabeth Bruce, A Show Off, Just Like Your Father, page 92:

Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Cattle Dog

(Australia) A blue-coated variety of the Australian Cattle Dog breed.


northern screamer

northern screamer (plural northern screamers)

black-necked screamer
black-necked screamer

The black-necked screamer, Chauna chavaria.


crested screamer

crested screamer (plural crested screamers)

Chauna torquata
Chauna torquata#Translingual

Chauna torquata, a species of birds of the small family Anhimidae, found in South America.


poult

From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry. Doublet of pullet.

‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’

1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 82:

After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.

2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 19:

A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).


magpie-goose

Anseranas semipalmata
Anseranas semipalmata#Translingual

Anseranas semipalmata, the only non-extinct bird of the family Anseranatidae, resident breeder in northern Australia and southern New Guinea, having black and white plumage and yellowish legs.

naalʼeełítsoh yił aheełtʼéhii łizhin dóó łigaaígíí


great northern diver

great northern diver (plural great northern divers)

From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles).

(UK, Ireland) A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.


yellow-billed loon

yellow-billed loon (plural yellow-billed loons)

A duck, Gavia adamsii, found in the arctic and subarctic.


red-throated diver

red-throated diver (plural red-throated divers)

From the fact that the species is a diver with a red throat.

Gavia stellata
Gavia stellata#Translingual

Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.


wow-wow

From Malay wauwau or Javanese wâwâ, imitative of the animal's call.

A gibbon, especially the silvery gibbon or the agile gibbon.


black-throated diver

black-throated diver (plural black-throated divers)

From the fact that the species is a diver with a black throat.

Gavia arctica
Gavia arctica#Translingual

Gavia arctica, a medium-sized member of the loon or diver family that breeds in Eurasia, with grey head, black throat, white underparts and chequered black-and-white mantle.

Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełídaakį́ bizééʼ halzhinígíí


taipan

From the name of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, or from Wik-Mungkan tay-pan (or dhayban).

Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.


Roosmalens' dwarf marmoset

Roosmalens' dwarf marmoset (plural Roosmalens' dwarf marmosets)

Named after Marc van Roosmalen, its discoverer.

A New World monkey (Callithrix humilis or Callibella humilis), about 5-6 inches tall at adulthood.


tind

From Middle English tind, tynd, from Old English tind (“tine, prong, tooth”), from Proto-West Germanic *tind, from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Dutch tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”). Cf. the related tine. Also more distantly related to Dutch tand (“tooth, tine”), English tooth.

cog

(UK dialectal, Scotland) A branch of a deer's antler; the horn of a unicorn; a tooth of a harrow; a spike.


topi

An antelope of the species Damaliscus korrigum syn. Damaliscus lunatus.


screamer

His screamer into the right field bleachers in the sixth with Scarborough and Viau on base put Hickory out in front 9 to 8 and the lead held for the rest of the game.

2006, R. G. Utley, Tim Peeler, Aaron Peeler, Outlaw Ballplayers: interviews and profiles from the Independent Carolina Baseball League:


shitepoke

From shite + poke, with reference to the birds' habit of defecating when disturbed.

Butorides virescens
Butorides virescens#Translingual


neon tetra

A swarm of thin neon tetra with red bellies and bright blue backs flash by.

2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 270:

Paracheirodon innesi (syn. Hyphessobrycon innesi), a small, tropical American fish, popular as an aquarium fish.


kob

Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.


dikkop

From Afrikaans dikkop, from dik (“thick”) + kop (“head”).

Dikkops, family burhinidae. Plover like birds with large heads and eyes, long legs without a hind claw and tawny colouring. 1983 Newmans Birds of Southern Africa. Kennith Newman. MacMillan →ISBN.

(South Africa) A bird of the family Burhinidae.


dire wolf

(fantasy) Synonym of warg (“type of wolf”)


dark horse

Originally an allusion to an unknown horse with a dark coat winning a race, as used in the 1831 novel The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881).

(horse racing) A horse whose capabilities are not known.


boomslang

en-noun

boomslang (plural boomslang or boomslangs)

From Afrikaans boomslang, from Dutch boomslang, composed of boom (“tree”) + slang (“snake”).

Dispholidus typus
Dispholidus typus#Translingual

(South Africa) A highly venomous snake found in sub-Saharan Africa, Dispholidus typus.

shádiʼááhjí Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tsinlátah tłʼiish


flat out

The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.

1952, Motor, volume 102, number 2654, page 31:

(motor racing, horse racing) A uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.


tur

Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.

Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90:

Either of two species of wild goat native to Caucasus, West Caucasian tur Capra caucasica or East Caucasian tur Capra cylindricornis.


faeder

Learned borrowing from Old English fæder (“father”). Doublet of ayr, father, padre, pater, and père.

doublet

Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’. Faeders are slightly larger than females and in late April have testes 2.5 time the size of testes of normal males.

2006 June 22, Joop Jukema, “Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird”, in Biology Letters:

Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.

2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae), page 49:

It has recently been discovered that a third mating strategy exists for males - the 'faeder' or 'sneaker', which number only about 1% of the Ruff population.

2009, Richard J. Chandler, Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide:

These “faeder” males, as they are called, were found to have testes 2.5 times larger than those of normal males during the peak breeding time of late April and are delightfully termed “sneakers.”

2016, Clifford B. Frith, Charles Darwin's Life With Birds: His Complete Ornithology:

Philomachus pugnax
Philomachus pugnax#Translingual

(ornithology) A male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.


eventer

(equestrianism) The rider of a horse used in eventing.


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, →ISBN, 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)


fat catshark

A shark (Apristurus pinguis) of the family Scyliorhinidae, closely related to the Japanese catshark (Apristurus japonicus).


champ at the bit

en-verb

champ at the bit (third-person singular simple present champs at the bit, present participle champing at the bit, simple past and past participle champed at the bit)

champs at the bit (present singular third-person)
champing at the bit (participle present)
champed at the bit (participle past)
champed at the bit (past)

From champ (verb) (“to chew noisily”) + bit (“part of horse's harness held in its mouth”); horses tend to chew their bits when impatient with waiting.

(intransitive, equestrianism) To bite the bit, especially when restless.


stirrup

From Middle English stirop, stirope, from Old English stiġrāp (“stirrup”), a compound of stiġe ("ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to stīġan (“to climb”)) and rāp (“rope”), equivalent to sty + rope.
Cognate with Dutch stegereep, stegelreep (“stirrup”), Old Saxon stigerēp (“stirrup”), Middle High German stereip, stegreif ("stirrup"; > German Stegreif (“improvisation”)), Icelandic stigreip (“stirrup”).

gloss

"ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">stīġan</i> (“to climb”)

"stirrup"; > German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Stegreif</i> (“improvisation”)

With what different feelings did he now put foot in stirrup to the last time when he sprung to horse?

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 36–37:

(equestrianism) A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.

(by extension) Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.

(climbing) A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:stirrup.

(nautical) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.

(construction) A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.


mistle thrush

It is supposed to be fond of the berries of the mistletoe.

Brian Cox as Logan Roy (2019), 31:28 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I saw a mistle thrush at the bandstand.”

Turdus viscivorus
Turdus viscivorus#Translingual

A large Eurasian thrush, Turdus viscivorus.


striped catfish

en-noun

striped catfish (plural striped catfish or striped catfishes)

striped catfish (plural)
striped catfishes (plural)

Plotosus lineatus, a type of eeltail catfish with a long, cylindrical body, black with horizontal white stripes and venomous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins, found in the Indian Ocean, the western Pacific, and invasive in the Mediterranean.


bee-eater

From the diet of these birds, which consists of flying insects, especially bees and wasps.

Merops apiaster
Merops apiaster#Translingual

Any of various brightly-coloured, insectivorous, near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae, especially the European bee-eater, Merops apiaster.


mara

Maras have a white patch of fur on the rump that they flash when running, an adaptation they share with several species of deer and antelopes.

1999, Michael A. Mares, editor, Encyclopedia of Deserts, Mara, page 349:

Although only Dolichotis, the Patagonian mara, is strongly cursorial, all caviids have certain features typical of cursorial mammals[…].

2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, 5th edition, page 228:

Maras (Dolichotis patagonum) are cursorial and prefer open areas with low vegetation for breeding and more barren sites for construction of communal dens (Taber and Macdonald 1992; Baldi 2007).

2013, R. L. Honeycutt, “Chapter 3: Phylogenetics of Caviomorph Rodents and Genetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Sociality and Mating Systems in the Caviidae”, in José Roberto Moreira, Katia Maria P.M.B. Ferraz, Emilio A. Herrera, David W. Macdonald, editors, Capybara: Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species, page 70:

Any caviid rodent of genus Dolichotis, common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina.


chinook

Borrowed from Lower Chehalis c̓inúk (“the name of a Chinook village on the Columbia River”).

bor+

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha#Translingual

The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).


horses for courses

/ˈhɔɹsəz fɚ ˈkɔɹsəz/

An allusion to the fact that a racehorse performs best on a racecourse to which it is specifically suited.

Not long ago, a group of Thames-side penthouses went up for sale with giveaway Ducati motorbikes worth £13,000 apiece. […] "In many cases giveaways are horses for courses, the inducements matching the styles of properties being marketed," he [David Hollingworth of London and Country Mortgages] adds.

2003 May 14, Christopher Browne, “Bonanza time for home buyers”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 2017-11-21:

Far be it from me to judge what anyone else finds attractive – each to their own, horses for courses, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and any number of similar well-meaning platitudes – but no one's going to start arguing forcefully that Mick [Hucknall]'s ever been 'classically handsome'.

2014 November 10, Helen Coffey, “What does Mick Hucknall have that other men lack?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2015-03-11:

Emailed greeting cards and digital photos may be more acceptable now, but are not a substitute for the post on every occasion. "People will still want to pour their heart out in letter or want that special photo of a grandchild. It's horses for courses," he [Alki Manias of NetValue] said.

2002 March 13, Sarah Left, “Email beats snail mail for residential use”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-05:

However intense music becomes, there's always a limit to how far it can go. And that limit is marked out by its genre or style. […] It's an age-old rule, this insistence on "horses for courses", but in the modern era many musicians have become impatient with it. They dream of a music that knows no limits, which can do everything, all at once.

2013 January 12, Ivan Hewett, “John Zorn: Master of all styles and none”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-15:

We must note, too, the good position (third) gained by Esmond as an undeniable instance of the "horses for courses" theory, for Esmond won the Peverill of the Peek Plate on this course two years in succession—1892–3.

1894 December, Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 62, London: Baily Brothers, →OCLC, page 417:

Almost immediately he went on to press for stricter standardisation in the future, saying that "horses for courses" was a luxury B.R. could not afford and that manufacturers must expect more detailed specifications from railway engineers in the future.

1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 385:

(chiefly British, idiomatic) Different people are suited for different jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in another.

適材適所 class yojijukugo

different people are suited for different jobs or situations


pinniped

From
Latin pinna (“fin”) + pes (“foot”).

Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the parvorder Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.


kenning

From ken (“to beget, bring forth”), from Middle English kennen (“to beget, conceive (offspring); to give birth to”), from Old English cennan, gecennan (“to beget (offspring); to give birth to; to bring forth, produce”); see further at etymology 1.

inh

The ſtreine or kenning of the egge.

1585, “Oui vmbilicus”, in Iohn Higins, transl., The Nomenclator, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Iunius, London: Ralph Newberie and Henrie Denham, page 54:

(zoology, obsolete, rare) A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.


kenning

A learned borrowing from Old Norse kenning, from kenna (“to know; to perceive”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to make known”); see further at etymology 1. Compare can, keen, ken.

der

[A]s we are all aware, the Skalds used all sorts of kennings from Jewels, Gold, Silver, &c., to betoken Women, &c. Gold is called "The Sea's Blink (Blik)", and so on, and a female is "Gold's Mistress", "The Goddess of the Golden Jewel", and so forth.

1867–1868, George Stephens, “Bracteates”, in The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Now First Collected and Deciphered, volume II, London: John Russell Smith; Copenhagen: Michaelsen and Tillge; printed by H. H. Thiele, →OCLC, pages 509–510:

I venture to say that a close study of the style of Piers Plowman would thoroughly dispose of alliteration as chief factor in the kenning-process.

1887 January, Francis B. Gummere, “Wilhelm Bode: Die Kenningar in der angelsächsen Dichtung. Mit Ausblicken auf andere Litteraturen. Darmstadt und Leipzig, 1886. [Strasburg Dissertation].”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume II, number 1, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 36:

If we now move to the second helmingr, Kock tries to unscramble the two kenningar[…], but this is over-zealous, since there are ample parallels for such braiding of kenning elements. Finnbogi interprets the kenning 'ǫrbeiðanda bǫðvar jǫkla' contextually, to mean 'the one who provoked the warrior into drawing his sword' (Orkneyinga saga, 202).

2006, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium: Brepols, →OCLC, page 149:

The original also makes frequent use of the circumlocutory type of poetic expression known as the kenning, which consists (in its simplest form) of a base-word (always a noun, sometimes the second of the two elements in a compound word) accompanied by a determinant (either a noun in the genitive or, in the case of a compound-word kenning, the first of the compound's two elements).

2007, Andrew Wawn with Graham Johnson and John Walter, editors, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey (Making in the Middle Ages; 9), Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN, page 172:

(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.

kenning

metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry


kenning

unknown

Origin unknown

In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.

1585–1586 January 18, “LXIII. Testamentum Johannis Ogle. [63. Will of John Ogle.]”, in [William Greenwell], editor, Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part II (The Publications of the Surtees Society; XXXVIII), Durham: Published for the Society by George Andrews, Durham; London: Whittaker and Co., 13 Ave Maria Lane; T. and W. Boone, 29 New Bond Street; Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, published 1860, →OCLC, page 132:

He called one day at Mr. Hepple's, of Needless Hall, in a forlorn condition, seeking his seed (a present of corn given at seed-time). […] After this conversation, Mr. Hepple served him with a kenning of oats, which was a much greater quantity than he usually gave on such occasions.

1828, chapter XXX, in E. Mackenzie, editor, compiled by James Thompson, A New, Improved, and Authentic Life of James Allan, the Celebrated Northumberland Piper; Detailing His Surprising Adventures in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, including a Complete Description of the Manners and Customs of the Gipsy Tribes. Collected from Sources of Genuine Authority, by James Thompson, with Explanatory Notes by E. Mackenzie, …, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent, St. Nicholas' Church-yard [...], →OCLC, page 460:

(Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.


rustler

(US, especially Western US, slang, dated) An alert, energetic, driving person.


coqui frog

Any of the genus Eleutherodactylus of frogs native to the Caribbean, but which have become invasive by introduction outside its natural range.


spitchcock

American Journal of Philology
Johns Hopkins University Press

The noun is derived from Middle English spiche-coke (“eel split lengthwise and broiled”). The further etymology is uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:
* From Middle English *speche, *spiche (“to split”) + cock, coken (“to allow (something) to cook; to cook”) (from cok (“person who cooks food, cook”), from Old English cōc (“a cook”)).
* From spik (“animal fat, especially lard”) (from Old English spiċ (“bacon; lard”)), spik, spike (“large nail; pointed stud”) (possibly from Old Norse spík, spíkr (“nail”)), or spit, spite (“rod for cooking meat, spit; pointed object”) (from Old English spitu, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point; stick”)) + cok (“male of the common domestic fowl, cock, rooster”) (from Old English coc, cocc).
The verb is probably derived from the noun.

inh

(obsolete) A method of cooking an eel (or occasionally some other fish) by splitting it along the back, cutting it into pieces, and broiling or frying it.

(by extension, archaic or obsolete) An eel (or other fish) prepared in this way.

змиорка на шиш

eel or other fish prepared by spatchcocking


spitchcock

en-verb

spitchcock (third-person singular simple present spitchcocks, present participle spitchcocking, simple past and past participle spitchcocked)

spitchcocks (present singular third-person)
spitchcocking (participle present)
spitchcocked (participle past)
spitchcocked (past)

(transitive, cooking, archaic or obsolete) To cook (an eel, or occasionally some other fish) by splitting it along the back, cutting it into pieces, and broiling or frying it.


sawyer

From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.


frittata

Borrowed from Italian frittata, from fritto (“fried”).

The classic Italian egg pie, the frittata is an attractive dish that requires no fancy rolling or split-second timing... Much of the preparation for most frittate can be done in advance[.]

1998, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything, page 740:

A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.


glaring

2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”
Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
Sheldon: Clowder.
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.


workhorse

A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse.


aholehole

en-noun

aholehole (plural aholehole or aholeholes)


beachsalmon

A fish (Leptobrama muelleri) native to the coasts of southern New Guinea, Queensland, and Western Australia.


hypural joint

The joint between the caudal fin of a fish and the last of its vertebrae.


widow bird

Any of several species of birds in the family Viduidae, incorporating whydahs and widow finches.


popeye blacksmelt

popeye blacksmelt (plural popeye blacksmelts)

A deep-water fish, Lipolagus ochotensis, with a slender compressed body and an anal fin base slightly shorter than its dorsal fin base.


robust blacksmelt

robust blacksmelt (plural robust blacksmelts)

An oviparous deep-water fish, Pseudobathylagus milleri, with an adipose fin far back on its caudal peduncle.


lourie

From Afrikaans loerie, ultimately from the same Malay word nuri, luri (“parrot”) as lory.

Any of several species of the family Musophagidae.


hadeda

A small formation of hadedahs, four or five of them, flew past overhead, shrieking their wild death-cries across the valley.

1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 204:


blackchin

Any of several species of fish with a black jaw, especially

in the species of the family Neoscopelidae, particularly;

A Pacific blackchin (Scopelengys tristis)


flagtail

A perciform fish, of genus Kuhlia, distinctive due to their scaly sheaths around the dorsal and anal fins.


airbreathing catfish

airbreathing catfish (plural airbreathing catfish or airbreathing catfishes)

airbreathing catfish (plural)
airbreathing catfishes (plural)

Any fish of the family Clariidae, which can breathe air for short periods.


go-away bird

Onomatopoeic from the sound of its call.

Corythaixoides concolor
Corythaixoides concolor#Translingual

Any of three African species of turaco of the genus Corythaixoides.

(South Africa) A bird of the species Corythaixoides concolor


Pacific blackchin

Pacific blackchin (plural Pacific blackchins)

A dark brown oceanodromous fish, Scopelengys tristis, of the family Neoscopelidae.


lateral line

A sense organ of a fish running lengthwise down each of its sides from the vicinity of the operculum to the base of the tail, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.


hepatopancreas

hepatopancreas (plural hepatopancreases or hepatopancreata)

hepatopancreases (plural)
hepatopancreata (plural)

An organ of the digestive tract of arthropods and fish, which provides the functions which in mammals are provided separately by the liver and pancreas.