run

runs (plural)
rin (alternative dialectal)
ren (alternative dialectal)

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal part of a step”

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal distance of a set of stairs”

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.

der

The military campaign near that creek was known as "The battle of Bull Run".

(chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)

chiefly eastern North Midland US; especially Ohio; chiefly eastern North Midland US; especially Ohio


sweep

en-verb

sweep (third-person singular simple present sweeps, present participle sweeping, simple past and past participle swept)

sweeps (present singular third-person)
sweeping (participle present)
swept (participle past)
swept (past)

From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). More distantly related to Old Norse sveipa (whence Swedish svepa). See also swoop.

cog

(Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana) To vacuum a carpet or rug.


dope

en-noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen.

смазка

viscous liquid used to prepare a surface


berm

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-berm.wav

From Dutch berm (“strip of roadside grass, verge”), probably via French berme, from Middle Dutch barm, baerm, barem (“verge, bank”), from Old Dutch *barm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“edge, border, seam”).

der

The sun soaked our street in hot yellow, and the berms were gasping for water.

2003, Emma Espiner, There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir, Penguin, page 15:

(Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.


sweeper

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

(US, regional, including Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania) A vacuum cleaner.

including Ohio; Indiana and Western Pennsylvania; including Ohio; Indiana and Western Pennsylvania


IR

en-noun

IR (countable and uncountable, plural IRs)

(Ohio, rare) Initialism of interstate route.


jojo

Reportedly coined on the spot by an employee of the Flavor-Crisp pressure fryer company at a Chicago trade show in the early 1960s. The potatoes were used to "clean the grease" between demonstrations of cooking chicken and fish, but customers unexpectedly started eating and enjoying them, leading someone to inquire what they were called.

If you're really hungry, be sure to try the wood-fired jojos (potato wedges).

2002, Karl Samson, Jane Aukshunas, Frommer's Washington State, page 288:

The cheesy jojos threaten to colonize every inch of my appetite but I hold back by only eating them once I am nearly full.

2011, Marissa Guggiana, Off the Menu: Staff Meals from America's Top Restaurants, page 223:

And perhaps George's best (un)kept secret is its fried chicken and jojos, which give Reel M Inn a run for its money.

2023, Andrea Damewood, "George's Corner Tavern", Willamette Week (Willamette, OR), 20 September 2023, page 11

(Ohio, Northwestern US, British Columbia, chiefly in the plural) A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.


bloviation

bloviation (countable and uncountable, plural bloviations)

/bləʊvɪˈeɪʃən/

For doing my duty, I claim no credit—I seek no “bloviations”—I ask for no sacrifices—I desire no ovations— [...]

1850 June 29, J. McCormick, J. V. Smith (official reporter), “[Report No. 1 on the Judiciary]”, in Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, 1850–51, Columbus, Oh.: S. Medary, printer to the Convention, published 1851, →OCLC, page 640, column 1:

Sects generally claim for their founders some successful speculators, who, whether deserving or not, had obtained reputations. Most commonly the reputation is dependant on the amount of bloviation that has been practiced, and certainly, in some instances, this has been extensive enough.

1857 January, G. W. L. Bickley, “History of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, and Its Ethical Peculiarities”, in R[obert] S. Newton, editor, The Eclectic Medical Journal, volume I (Fifth Series; volume XVI overall), number 1, Cincinnati, Oh.: Published by R. S. Newton, […], →OCLC, pages 13–14:

The members of this convention are neither fogies nor faddists nor men given to bloviation for the sole purpose of stimulating activities in real estate.

1909 December 7, J. W. Jeffrey, “Address”, in Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Convention of the California State Fruit Growers, Held under the Auspices of the State Commission of Horticulture, at Watsonville, December 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1909, volume II, Sacramento, Calif.: W. W. Shannon, […], published 1910, page 16:

As critics saw it, the inaugural address of the twenty-ninth president [Warren Gamaliel Harding] was full of bloviation. Official newspaper reaction was positive if restrained.

1993, John T. Morello, “President Warren G. Harding’s Inaugural Address, 1921”, in Halford Ryan, editor, The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-century American Presidents (Praeger Series in Political Communication), Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 53–54:

The [New York] Times itself, though, is very much alive. The newspaper is less stenographic, more relevant, and in some ways an even more assuring and indispenable morning touchstone in a nonstop torrent of breaking news and a bottomless pit of bloviation.

2009 November, Sam Roberts, “Introduction”, in Only in New York: An Exploration of the World’s Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 4:

(US, possibly originally Ohio, informal) A boastful or pompous manner of speaking or writing; a lengthy discourse delivered in that manner.

sõnavaht

lengthy discourse in a boastful or pompous manner


devil strip

devil strips (plural)
devil's strip (alternative)

From devil + strip, from the area’s status as a no man's land between private and public property, devil or devil's in place names meaning
“barren, unproductive and unused”.
Compare devil's lane (“narrow area between two parallel fences”), devil's footstep (“barren spot of land”).

(Akron, Ohio, US) The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street.


cabrewing

While “cabrewing” — consuming alcohol while canoeing — has become a popular pastime among Miami University students, it doesn't go without consequences that could include a night in jail and a DUI.

2010, Hunter Stenbeck, "Morgan's Canoe enforces alcohol rules", The Miami Student (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio), Volume 138, Number 8, 17 September 2010, page 1

After everyone left around one or two in the morning, we would crash for the night, get up in the morning to do something like “cabrewing” where we would take the remaining beers out in a boat, only to stop drinking for an hour or two before getting cleaned up to go to work.

2013, AnnE O'Neill, If You Want the Rainbow, Welcome the Rain: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery, Balboa Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:

"Oh, man. I wish you guys could come to Hocking Hills this year. It's such a blast. My friends in Columbus go every summer. It's our annual 'cabrewing' trip."

2013, Jake Warner, The Landlord's Shadow, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 231:

(Ohio, slang) The practice of consuming alcohol while canoeing.


Canadian soldier

Canadian soldier (plural Canadian soldiers)


carry-in

Ohio; Indiana; Chicago; Ohio; Indiana; Chicago


city chicken

You'll like city chicken a lot. What you've never heard of it? Why it's... well, here's the way McCanns prepare it: tender choice pieces of fresh veal and pork are cut into neat squares and alternated on skewers... four or five to the skewer. All you do, then, is dip the meat in egg and bread crumbs, brown quickly, add water, cover pan and simmer until tender and juicy. And boy, it sure is good.

2 November 1932, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, page 4

(Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana) Cubes of breaded pork loin and/or veal on a wooden skewer which has been fried or baked.

Ohio; Michigan; Indiana; Ohio; Michigan; Indiana