Batnipples

The Batnipples are gone, but they should not be forgotten.

2012 August 5, Mason Krollig, “The Nipples that Batman Deserves, But Not the Ones He Needs Right Now”, in UniLife Magazine, number 20, University of South Australia, page 23:

As long as you don't get the George Clooney suit with the batnipples, you're golden.

2012 October 25, Tristan Cooper, “Cape down, sass up”, in Vanguard, volume 67, number 17, Portland State University, page 7:

Will the earth-inheriting geeks be assuaged that this super-suit is free of the Batnipples that helped make a mockery of George Clooney’s suit (“putting the ‘mocker’ in ‘Joel Schumacher’ since the mid-’90s”), which seemed to signal brightly, like some areola Borealis, that those Bat-films were troubled from the get-go, if not the get-up?

2014 May 13, Michael Cavna, “Ben Affleck’s Batman suit? Channing Tatum’s Gambit role? Welcome to the new (screen) world order…”, in The Washington Post:

(fandom slang) The molded nipples on the rubber suits worn by the characters Batman and Robin in the films Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.


ifs, ands or buts

ifs, ands, or buts
ifs, ands, or buts#English


stix

Citrus juice, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, cheese stix — 2 one ounce stix, plums, milk.

1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs: Hearings..., page 3711:

(informal) Alternative spelling of sticks (“batons”)


Loubs

Lexi passed Molly a pair of snakeskin, strappy sandals with five-inch stiletto heels. They had bright red leather soles. 'Louboutins,' she said. 'Every girl needs a pair of Loubs.' They were another eight hundred euros.

My fans know the words, while yours be humming. / My man buy me Loubs, why yours be bumming? / Got twice as many pairs as you; I'm doubling.

2013, Chanel West Coast (Chelsea Chanel Dudley), Alcoholic (rap song)

(slang) shoes designed by Christian Louboutin


Rouzhi

From Chinese 月氏, from the theory that 月 should be pronounced not as yuè but as ròu.


Wusun

From Mandarin 烏孫／乌孙 (Wūsūn) (lit. "Grandchildren/Descendants of the Crow/Raven").

zh-l

烏孫／乌孙 (Wūsūn)

An ancient nomadic steppe people who lived in western Gansu in northwest China, near the Yuezhi people, and were defeated by the Xiongnu circa 176 BCE.


Yuezhi

From Mandarin 月氏 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Clan”) or 月支 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Branch”).

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An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.


vokills

(slang, rare) vocals performed in the death growl style


intonarumori

A group of experimental musical instruments invented by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo in the early 20th century.


epsilontics

Now epsilontics is losing ground, and after one or two decennia we can expect the "great discovery" that, properly understood, the infinitesimal methods of a century ago are completely rigorous. Algorithms with differentials are already modern.

1973, Hans Freudenthal, Mathematics as an Educational Task, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 148:

In principle, we should not then have made any approximation at all; it is a rule of pure mathematics, hallowed by centuries of usage, and justified by the mysteries known to undergraduates as 'epsilontics', that a convergent series is as good as a simple finite algebraic expression for a solution — which is just as well, because almost every expression that appears in any formula in physics, such as a cosine, or a logarithm, is itself only definable algebraically as the sum of an infinite series.

1981, John M. Ziman, Puzzles, Problems and Enigmas: Occasional Pieces on the Human Aspects of Science, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:

Both Cauchy and Abel must have been aware that epsilontics is a general tool for making rigorous proofs in analysis, but neither of them, to say nothing of their contemporaries, used it consistently.

2009, Detlef Laugwitz, Bernhard Riemann 1826–1866: Turning Points in the Conception of Mathematics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 59:

mathematical analysis
mathematical analysis

(mathematics) An approach to mathematical analysis using the epsilon-delta definition of a limit, i.e. with explicit estimation of error bounds, as opposed to using infinitesimals.


cryptoflora

The flora that exist in protected or concealed microhabitats.


cryptofauna

The fauna that exist in protected or concealed microhabitats


Baily's beads

In honour of Francis Baily, who first fully explained the phenomenon in 1836.

(astronomy) A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.


Unami

A Native American people, one of the three main divisions of the Lenape Nation.


smallfolk

(fantasy, mythology) Small humanoid creatures, such as gnomes and halflings.


parachute panties

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distalia

The segments of an antenna of an insect, excluding the scape and pedicel


fistulous withers

It is now generally believed that fistulous withers are the result of a germ, probably picked up from the grass, although at one time they were thought to be caused by saddle or roller pressure.

1962, Catherine Harris, “Ailments”, in Practical Pony Keeping, London; Glagsow: Blackie, →OCLC, part 2 (Care of Your Pony), page 100:

The sooner fistulous withers is treated, the more likely that a cure is effected.

1997, Tony Pavord, Marcy Pavord, “Fistulous Withers”, in The Complete Equine Veterinary Manual: A Comprehensive and Instant Guide to Equine Health, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, published 1998, →ISBN, part III (A–Z of Diseases), page 154, column 2:

(veterinary medicine, pathology, equestrianism) Inflammation of the serous bursa of withers in horses which bursts outside, creating a fistula.


dogdays

A constellation called Sirius, or Canicula, rising and setting with the sun during the dogdays.

1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language:


Gelao

A people who live predominantly in southwest China (primarily Guizhou province) and Vietnam.


Otoe

A village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.


Arthuriana

From Arthurian + -ana or Arthur + -iana.

This chapter deals with the most complex geographic site in Arthuriana because of the intricate array of possibilities offered by clues, some supporting a link between Glastonbury and Arthur […]

1996, Frank D. Reno, The Historic King Arthur, page 221:

(Arthurian legend) Things relating to King Arthur.


peops

I'm going to see my peops.


spatia zonularia

(anatomy) lymph-filled spaces between the fibers of the ciliary zonule at the equator of the lens of the eye


bombachas

(historical) Baggy knee-breeches worn for horseriding in Brazil.


fors and againsts

I was privy to all the fors and againsts, I was the friend to whom he confided his hopes and plans, [...]

If the fors and againsts of any course of action were not so intrinsically mixed, [...]

We talked at length of the fors and againsts of each service [...]

As with his preface, Kang short-circuits the intellectual fors-and-againsts of aid-giving [...]

2012, Helena Grice, Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing: International Encounters:


rotatores

(anatomy) A group of muscles that lie beneath the multifidus. Somewhat quadrilateral in form, they are present in all spinal regions but most prominent in the thoracic region; they are eleven in number on either side.


sunlights

(colloquial) The lighter coloring of hair in the summertime due to exposure to sunlight.


eyes on the prize

[Abbas's] tenure would be taken as an opportunity by various Young Turks to cement their own claims. Men such as Gaza security chieftain Mohammed Dahlan and his former West Bank counterpart Jibril Rajoub may have their eyes on the prize.

2004 October 28, Tony Karon, “Mideast Braces for Life After Arafat”, in Time, retrieved 2018-01-21:

We like to think of ourselves as walking face forward into the future, eyes on the prize.

2006 January 15, David Colman, “Three Cheers for the Same Old Thing”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-21:

"It was an honor to watch the determination and focus as Sydney locked her eyes on the prize and shot a 5-under par 31," Cavaliers' coach Lee Smith said.

2015 May 4, “Athletes of the Week: Chris Navarro and Sydney Mills”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2018-01-21:

Clinton must weigh up the excitement of a rule-breaking all-female ticket against the cold, hard political calculation of how best to win the presidential race. She's a realist who has her eyes on the prize, and winning the White House will likely trump all other considerations.

2016 April 25, Sophy Ridge, “US election: Meet the savvy women vying to be Hillary Clinton's running mate”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2018-01-21:

(idiomatic) Concentration on one's goal; mindfulness of the desired outcome.


necropants

From necro- + pants, a calque of Icelandic nábrók.

Most of the occult practices they were accused of were simply old Viking traditions, though the necropants (see right) and grimoires (magic books) on display were proof enough for the local witch-hunters.

[…] make sure you wear your new necropants under your regular pants.

2013, Kathy Benjamin, Funerals to Die For, →ISBN, page 208:

These people do not know about the rich tradition of necropants, a wealth-attracting good-luck garment.

2016, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders, →ISBN:

(historical) A pair of pants made from the skin of the lower half (below the waist) of a dead man, used by medieval Icelandic sorcerers to obtain money.


evangelical counsels

en-noun

evangelical counsels pl (normally plural, singular evangelical counsel)

(Christianity) Chastity, poverty (or perfect charity), and obedience, given by Jesus of Nazareth in the Canonical gospels as advice for those who desire to become perfect.


Desposyni

From Ancient Greek δεσπόσυνοι (despósunoi), plural of δεσπόσυνος (despósunos, “belonging to the master or lord”).

The term Desposyni in Greek means 'Heir of the Lord', but seems to have been invented after the crucifixion of Jesus and relates specifically to those who were of the direct descent of Jesus or blood related through his mother. […] According to Father Martin, the Jerusalem Church only referred to direct descendants of Jesus as Desposyni, and they became known by this title throughout the Roman Empire.

2012, Miles Augustus Navarr, Forbidden Theology: Origin of Scriptural God, page 108:

(Christianity) Those people in the same family descent as Jesus Christ.


stringbacks

driving gloves with a string mesh on the back


creps

bibasal creps


tapochki

The first order of business upon arrival was to select a pair of tapochki (slippers) from the dozen or so scattered in messy stacks about the foyer.

1997, Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page 174:

Flat-soled, cloth house slippers, tapochki are worn by family members and guests alike. Upon entering homes, Russians remove their outer footwear, which could be muddy or wet from the harsh climate, and don tapochki, in order to protect […]

2007, Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 607:

Your introduction to this homely world will be a pair of tapochki — the slippers which Russians wear indoors to avoid tramping in mud — followed by a cup of tea or a shot of vodka.

2009, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Moscow, Penguin, →ISBN, page 334:

If you’ve played any of these, Night Witches will fit like a pair of comfortable old tapochki.

2015, Jason Morningstar, Night Witches, Bully Pulpit Games, →ISBN, page 2:


Eumenides

From Ancient Greek Εὐμενίδες (Eumenídes, “gracious ones”).


kissing kin

Pyrrhonic irony and humor are kissing kin in The Magic Mountain (1924), for example, where Mann, the Ironic German who preferred the title of humorist, deploys his extensive "equivocal" irony basically to reconcile the irreconcilable […]

1978, Maurice Charney, Comedy: New Perspectives, page 56:

(literal or figurative) Kissing cousins.


Sherlockiana

From Sherlockian + -ana or Sherlock + -iana.

I collect Sherlockiana first and foremost because I am a Sherlock Holmes bug.

1954, Nathan L. Bengis, “Why I Collect Sherlockiana”, in Hobbies, volume 59, number 1, page 126:

McCutcheon has built up a small but extensive collection of Sherlockiana headed by a copy of Beeton's 1887 Christmas Annual, the publication in which Sherlock Holmes made his debut.

2007, Howard Burman, Paradise by Paradise, iUniverse, →ISBN:

On the ground floor there is a good collection of Sherlockiana. This includes the face-mask used for the Hound of the Baskervilles in the 1960s Hammer movie, complete with phosphorescent paint.

2011, Robin James, “The performance of power”, in Cath Phillips, editor, Time Out London Walks: 30 Walks by London Writers, Volume 1, Time Out Guides, →ISBN, page 30:

Memorabilia or writings related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.


Haudenosaunee

First used in 1851, a borrowing from Seneca Hodínöhšö:ni:h, an autonym shared among the Six Nations.


Apocrypha

That group of works which formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews, and which is considered by some Christians to form an authentic part of Scripture, but which is rejected by others (namely by Protestants).

外典

writings recognized by some but not all Christians


nematodesmata

The nematodesmata extend posteriorly to form the rhabdos or litostome cytopharyngeal apparatus. Dileptus species may have two rings of nematodesmata, the inner one of which is not associated with kinetosomes (Grain & Golińska, 1969).

2008, Denis Lynn, The Ciliated Protozoa:

Bundles of microtubules that support the oral cilia in some protozoa.


blood, sweat and tears

Popularized through a famous speech made by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons in 1940, with slight modification, but already present in earlier poetry.
More information
May be an extension of a much older Indo-European poetic formula “blood and tears”; compare e.g. Hittite 𒂊𒌍𒄩𒉌 𒅖𒄩𒄴𒊒𒌑𒄿 (e-eš-ḫa-ni iš-ḫa-aḫ-ru-ú-i, “in blood [and] in tear(s)”). It is common in Indo-European oral traditions to juxtapose three bodily substances pertaining to a certain theme, such as “flesh, bone and marrow” for the internal solids (cf. Calin (2017), pages 143–146).

noncog

[…] for if Princes could keep their own, and that which juſtly belongeth unto them, they could not be urged to draw ſuch extraordinary Subſidies from the blood, ſweat, and tears of their people-; […]

c. 1680 [1655], William Drummond of Hawthornden, “The History of the Reign of James the Firſt, King of Scotland”, in The History of Scotland […] , Tho. Fabian, page 29:

She concludes: "I have put blood, sweat and tears into this business. I am genuinely more excited now than I have ever been. I plan to stick around."

2021 October 20, Angie Doll explains to Paul Clifton, “We were absolutely at rock bottom...”, in RAIL, number 942, page 37:

(idiomatic) A person's determination and hard work.


cocaine bugs

(colloquial) Formication caused by cocaine use.


backs to the wall

Chelsea had set out like a team that was reluctant to blur the lines between adventure and leaving themselves open to the counterattack and, by the end, it was a full-on backs-to-the-walls operation.

2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian (London):

back to the wall
back to the wall#English


clams oreganata

An Italian-American dish of clams topped with breadcrumbs and oregano and baked.


clams casino

Uncertain; said to have been developed in 1917 in the Little Casino in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

(Rhode Island) A dish of clams made with breadcrumbs and bacon.


ladyfolk

(now chiefly dialectal and humorous) Women.


Physoclisti

(zoology) Fishes that lack a connection between the gas bladder and the alimentary canal, the bladder serving only as a buoyancy organ.


manties

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(plural only) A style of male underpant briefs that look similar to women's panties.

(plural only) A revealing male undergarment similar to a thong.


bocarones

And perhaps to begin we will have some gambas, crawfish, and bocarones, small fish prepared in vinaigrette. Is that all right?” “It sounds wonderful,” Kristen said. And it was.

2011, Barbara Faith, Happy Father's Day, →ISBN:

“I don't suppose you've ever had bocarones?” He returned her smile. “You'd be right.” “They're filletted anchovies pickled in vinegar, them and a plate of gueldes—you'd have had them here as whitebait, deep-fried herring fry […]"

2014, Patrick Taylor, An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War: An Irish Country Novel, →ISBN, page 260:

But this could complicate things. He would have to think about it. "Bocarones and rice," he answered, "your favourite, no?" "You're sounding quite the Spaniard now, Papa," she said affectionately, and together they began to prepare the meal.

2014, Carol Macfie Lange, Invisible Child: A Boy's Survival in Franco's Spain, →ISBN, page 33:

Anchovies or other small fish marinated in vinegar.


hard measles

To distinguish from the milder German measles


red measles

To distinguish from the milder German measles, which has paler spots


10-day measles

To distinguish from the milder German measles, also known as 3-day measles.


islamophobics

2006, David Sewell, [R] Ungodly Pratchett fans Group: alt.fan.pratchett
Mostly islamophobics (they're taking over our meat! waaaah! the end is near!).

2011, notme, Re: Islamophobia is a mental illness Group: uk.legal,
It does not follow that all islamophobics are schizophrenic or vice versa.

2013, Jim Higgins, There Is Only One Faith That Wants to Kill You - Bill Maher Group: soc.retirement
So now, the islamophobics are out in force in an attempt to explain what cannot otherwise be explained except to force that person into some ...


four treasures of the study

en-noun

four treasures of the study pl (plural only)

A translation of Chinese 文房四寶／文房四宝 (wénfángsìbǎo).

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文房四寶／文房四宝 (wénfángsìbǎo)

The brush, ink, paper and inkstone used in Chinese and other East Asian calligraphic traditions.


adespota

From New Latin adespota (“anonymous literary works”), substantivised neuter plural of the adjective adespotos (“anonymous; undedicated”, of books), from Ancient Greek ἀδέσποτος (adéspotos, “anonymous”, of rumours or writings), from ἀ- (a-, “without”, alpha privative) + δεσπότης (despótēs, “master”). Compare despot.

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adespota.

(bibliography) Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. (Originally used as a title of collections of anonymous Greek poetry.)


Southern Alps

A mountain range in the South Island, New Zealand


Garawa

A Garawan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Borroloola in the Northern Territory.


KoRT

Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table#English

(informal) Abbreviation of Knights of the Round Table.


Russias

This spirit first found vent in the wild survey across the Russias, was nourished by a journey across the Caucasus mountains, and a horse-back ride through Daghestan in 1870, and found its deep satisfaction among the convict life […]

"I recall my father saying that Prince Zergeyev—it must be the same family—was privy to the inner court of the tsar and one of the most powerful men in the Russias. Curious to find one here of all places, what?"

2008, James Clavell, Tai-Pan, Dell, →ISBN, page 372:

He paid brief tribute to the prolific Ioins of Rurik and the princely progeny they scattered across the Russias, and the Grand Princes of Kiev and Novgorod, the Khans of Krim Tartary and the Kagans of the Mongol Hordes.

2010, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(chiefly historical) The East Slavic states descended from the Rus collectively, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia or Kievan Russia); the Russian Empire. Especially in the title "Emperor (or Tsar or Czar) of All the Russias."


Suquamish

A Lushootseed-speaking Native American people, located in present-day Washington in the United States.

ʔitakʷbixʷ

member of a Coast Salishan-speaking people of Washington State


Quileute

A Native American people in western Washington state.


Quinault

A group of Native American peoples from western Washington in the United States.


shelltoes

(informal) A style of basketball shoe with a segmented rubber upper resembling a seashell.


kithfolk

Those that were kith-folk (?) to the great devil,

1860, Philological Society (London), Transactions of the Philological Society, digitized edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2011, page 37:

They seem instinctively to prefer their kith-folk of Russian Karelia.

1940, Eugenics Pamphlets, Issues 12-59, digital edition, Eugenics Society of Northern California, published 2008, page 46:

In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture.

1974, Albert Silversteen, Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations, →ISBN, page 205:

Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy.

1999, Poul Anderson, Starfarers, →ISBN, page 81:

After that, he forced himself to think of the Wërgas kithfolk rather than beasts.

2015, Robert Stanek, Guardians & Dragons, →ISBN:


big-boy pants

Coordinate term: big-girl pants

If Horwitz is planning on running for office again in the future (and it certainly looks that way), perhaps it's time he put on his big-boy pants and engage in civil discourse.

2011, David H. Hoffman, "Ugly election rhetoric" [letter to the editor], Suburban Life, 25 May 2011, page A8

He needs to put on his big boy pants and make the tough choice.

2012 April 12, Alissa Gulin, “Keystone Pipeline: It won't unlock the future”, in The Diamondback, volume 102, number 125, University of Maryland, page 4:

Even with a broken finger, Wach put on his big boy pants, wrapped his hand, and dominated on the offensive line all game.

2014, "Jewish Community Football League Playoffs and Championship!", The Baltimore Jewish Home, 11 December 2014 - 25 December 2014, Volume 1, Issue 21, page 19

(informal, figuratively) A notional pair of trousers or underwear worn by a male when acting maturely.


big-girl pants

Coordinate term: big-boy pants

I am very disappointed, but we did always say we wanted the best dog for her, so I will have to put my big girl pants on now and have faith that this will be the perfect dog for our family and for Ehlena.

2010, Stacy Fry, “Hope for Independence: A Diary Excerpt”, in Kathy Nimmer, editor, Two Plus Four Equals: Celebrating the Partnership of People with Disabilities and Their Assistance Dogs, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

So put on your big-girl pants and own up to what you and your stupidity caused.

2011, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Retribution, St. Martin's Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 95:

Oftentimes you're embarrassed and don't want other people to know about it. You likely feel like crap and wish you had never put yourself out there in the first place. Shake it off, my friend. It's time to pull on your big girl pants.

2015, Kelly Tonelli, Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl: Quotes, Inspiration and Advice for Women by Women, Morgan James Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, page 101:

(informal, figuratively) A notional pair of trousers or underwear worn by a female when acting maturely.


Zöllner's lines

Zöllner illusion
Zöllner illusion#English


Kachin

Some of the Yaw Yin people understand Kachin, but as would be natural, are more acquainted with Chinese, and will probably in time be reached through this language.

1896, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Annual Report (volume 82, page 92)


stiff peaks

en-noun

stiff peaks pl (normally plural, singular stiff peak)

Whisk your egg whites until you have stiff peaks and then the bowl can be held upside down over your head and the egg whites stay put.

(cooking) Firm tips (of whipping cream or egg whites) which have been beaten and are so aerated that they stand up straight.


Wari

A civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about AD 500 to 1000.


Killke

A culture that occupied the South American region around Cuzco, Peru from 900 to 1200 AD, prior to the arrival of the Incas in the 13th century.


Nobert's lines

After F. A. Nobert, German manufacturer.

Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to test the power of a microscope.


Nobili's rings

After Leopoldo Nobili, the Italian physicist who first described them in 1826.

Coloured rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.


Hyksos

From Ancient Greek Ὑκσώς (Huksṓs), Ὑξώς (Huxṓs), from Egyptian ḥqꜣ-ḫꜣst (“foreign ruler, Hyksos”), from ḥqꜣ (“ruler”) + ḫꜣst (“foreign land”).

der

But in the New Kingdom, after the invasion of the Hyksos in their horse-drawn chariots, the horse became a more powerful image.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 238:

(historical) A mixed group of Asiatic people from Western Asia who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt and initiating the Second Intermediate Period.


fast times

Popularized by usage in the title of the 1981 novel Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the 1982 film of the same name.

McCourtney, however, recognizes the need for more urgency in these euphoric days of dot.com stock offerings. Underscoring the fast times, Venrock just lost one of its three Silicon Valley partners.

2000 April 3, Robert Lenzner, “Personality Change”, in Forbes, retrieved 2015-04-07:

The book was said to contain salacious details about the fast times of Danielle Staub, one of the principals on “Real Housewives.”

2009 July 15, Virginia Heffernan, “Bibliovision”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Prosecutors say Mandell treated his brokers to fast times in London, spending $1.3 million at the nicest hotels in Europe and bringing plenty of petty cash for strip clubs and prostitutes.

2012 May 3, “'Bad boy' ex-investment manager sentenced in NYC”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2015-04-07:

(chiefly US, set phrase) A period of time characterized by quickly-paced activity, especially involving extravagant or risky conduct, sexual behavior, or other exciting events.


Brass Ankles

(anthropology, historical) A triracial isolate group that developed in colonial South Carolina.


ouns

Tare an' ouns, man! And is it meself that'll be caring what ye may or may not be?

2009, Georgette Heyer, The Black Moth, →ISBN, page 119:

For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.

Thunder an' tear an' ouns," said he

1831, Thomas Crofton Croker, Killarney Legends: Arranged as a Guide to the Lakes, page 173:

Tundher-an-ouns, Sir, give it to us, or you'11 be afther stroking it into a wran at last, so you will.

1826, O'Hara family pseud, Tales by the O'Hara family, page 2:

(archaic, dialectal) Wounds, especially the wounds of Christ on the cross.


blood and ouns

Stephen watches Mulligan from the staircase as he mockingly blesses his surroundings and offers to an imaginary congregation the "body and soul and blood and ouns" (wounds) of a female Christ, "christine", […]

1996, Harry Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, →ISBN, page 3:

(archaic, dialectal) The blood and wounds of Christ on the cross.


vagina lips

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Diadochi

From a Latinization of Ancient Greek διάδοχοι (diádokhoi, “successors”).

uder

(history) The rival generals of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BCE.


peace talks

A series of formal discussions between two or more nation-states or groups of people held to resolve existing conflict between them.

sülh danışıqları

discussions between nation-states held to resolve conflict


Chicagoese

[…] almost everybody had wandered out into what would be called the "frunchroom" in Chicagoese.

2020, Gerard Lafond, “Big Brother: One Last Try”, in Mom's Dead, →ISBN:

The dialect of English spoken in Chicago.


contrafibularities

From contra- + fibular + -ity + -s. From a 1987 episode of the British television comedy Blackadder, after Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts about his newly completed dictionary containing every word in the English language. Blackadder wishes Dr. Johnson his "most enthusiastic contrafibularities", upsetting Johnson, who quickly adds the alleged word to his manuscript.

I was a bit obscure with that one. Please accept my most sincere contrafibularities...

2005 November 15, Tsugumi Niyamoto, “Separate Ways”, in alt.games.resident-evil (Usenet):

My most enthusiastic contrafibularities go to the world-class HarperCollins construction team.

2011, Neil Strauss, Rules of the Game, →ISBN, page 194:

If you don't have time to watch the show itself, here is a taste of Stephen Fry's hosting patter: "the creamily edible Rosamund Pike". A few new words from the Fry lexicon include: "arsewash" and "amazian". Contrafibularities all round!

2015 September 2, Ali Plumb, “BAFTAs 2015: The Winners In Full”, in Empire:

pulling someone's leg
pull someone's leg

(humorous, rare) False congratulations, sounding congratulatory while actually pulling someone's leg.

A Dictionary of the English Language
Blackadder the Third
Samuel Johnson


hipster glasses

“I think we totally need to talk about the StarMart thing,” a girl with chunky hipster glasses and a blunt, black bob says, and rapidly the rest of the council agrees.

2012, Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me, Viking, →ISBN:

He had these watery blue eyes behind a pair of black hipster glasses and was holding a fancy camera.

2012, Emily Ecton, Project Jackalope, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 79:

He was wearing hipster glasses, jeans, a red-and-white striped shirt, and red sneakers.

2014, Heather Vogel Frederick, Absolutely Truly, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 137:

Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.


Heavenly Witnesses

the Heavenly Witnesses (canonical plural)

The Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8.


hornrims

Tonight after carefully plaiting my hair, and putting on the cute tweed suit […] I grabbed my horn-rims and rushed down to a staff meeting of the GCN.

1973 August 25, Rita, “Excerpts From The Journal Of Mzzz. Rita Digest”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 10, page 3:


Knights of Pythias

en-noun

Knights of Pythias pl (normally plural, singular Knight of Pythias)

Founded by Justus H. Rathbone, who had been inspired by a play by the Irish poet John Banim about the legend of Damon and Pythias, illustrating the ideals of loyalty, honour, and friendship.


acini di pepe

From Italian acini di pepe, literally "peppercorns."


Skoptsy

(religion) An underground religious movement in Russia, known for practising castration and mastectomy in accordance with their teachings. The movement was active to the mid 20th century.


Tears of St. Lawrence

The Perseid meteor shower, which typically occurs every year in mid-August, on or near the feast day of St. Lawrence.


Hoa

A minority ethnic group of Vietnam, regarded as Chinese.


working poor

(economics) Working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line.


Underwood's septa

First described in 1910 by Arthur S. Underwood, an anatomist at King's College in London.

(anatomy) fin-shaped projections of bone sometimes found in the maxillary sinus


Onge

An Ongan language spoken by the Onge people.


flea's eyebrows

Glutamine is the flea's eyebrows for quick recovery from workouts. Add 5 mg along with 5 mg creatine to your post-workout beverage and blend in a banana for the healing properties of potassium.

2008, Jason S. Comely, Zero to Superhero, page 42:


O&D

(aviation, abbreviation) origin and destination


Jarawa

Borrowed from Aka-Bea [Term?] (“foreigner”).

bor+

An Ongan language spoken by the Jarawa people of Andaman Islands.


lares and penates

A calque of Latin lares et penates. See lar and penates.

The particular gods of the household were its lares and penates.

1995, Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction, page 87:

(Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms.


Tonkawa

From Wichita tonkaweya (“those who stay together”), compare Tonkawa Tickanwa•tic (“(a) genuine people”).

cog

A city in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States.


diddledees

I found 'em way hidden under the pine diddledees.

2011, John Rogers, The Cut of Her Jib, page 61:

(US, New England, regional) Pine needles.


shaps

The Century
A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins.


fuctuplets

Blend of fucked up and the nonce suffix -tuplet, taken from septuplet, octuplet, etc.

Why is it NOT okay if a smoker gets sick because of his/her CHOICE to smoke and racks up $100,000 in hospital bills, but it IS okay if a couple CHOOSES to recklessly and irresponsibly pop out a litter of fuctuplets and rack up over 2 million dollars (SO FAR) in hospital bills?

1999 April 3, Patrice, “Re: Fertility drugs should be banned (was Re: Midway thru the broadcast)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

The Chukwu fuctuplets are about to turn 1, and the eyes of the media will be turning toward Texas.

1999 December 2, Gutterboy [username], “The octopi turn one year old”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

I'd like to know more about those kids' health status, especially compared to the McCaughey fuctuplets.

2002 October 1, Stella Hackell, “Re: News: Mother of Texas octuplets gives birth again”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A set of higher-order multiples, especially one produced through fertility treatments.


kinderspullen

Borrowed from Dutch kinderspullen (“children's things”), from kind + -er- + spullen.

bor+

[…] wiping up crayon and markers from the walls, handprints, thick mud tracks, picking up kinderspullen, etc.

2002 April 23, Nina Paley, “Re: Some tart words about women and marriage{longish}”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Now, I'm not a morning person, but at least it doesn't take me 2 hours or more to get the k!dz rustled out of bed in the morning and all the kinderspullen packed, so I can *make* a 7:30am flight.

2002 August 15, Sixkats [username], “Re: Save the Date - KatsCon 2003”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

We also don't have to pack a bunch of useless kinderspullen and stinky juices and cereals to keep the kiddies entertained while at daycare.

2003 March 7, Kari Levstik, “Re: how come you are obsessed with children?”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) Items (such as toys) associated with a child.


chivarras

From Spanish chivarras, from chivo (“goat”).

(US) Leather leggings of a sort worn by people in or from Mexico and the Southwestern United States.


friends in high places

"Herr Freudenberg himself has great friends here, friends in high places. He will see that nothing happens."

1913, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 10, in The Mischief Maker:

In recent years he was protected by friends in high places.

1987 November 30, “War Crimes: Long Road To Justice”, in Time, retrieved 2015-05-18:

In Petrograd they were in great danger but had many friends in high places, and with money for bribes they avoided arrest.

2006 April 1, Phillip Alder, “On a Day Made for Tricks, Lots of Ways to Get Them All”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-05-18:

I walk into the corner of my room / See my friends in high places / I don't know which is which or who is whom / They've stolen each other's faces

2008, “More News From Nowhere”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

(idiomatic) Friends who have authority or influence and who can ensure that one's interests will be protected or furthered.


zoodles

With their mild taste and excellent slurpability, zoodles are an amazingly adaptable stand-in for pasta, soaking in the flavors of your favorite sauces and broths.

2013, Michelle Tam, Henry Fong, Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans:

To enjoy zoodles throughout the week, prepare a double or triple batch of spiral-sliced zucchini by completing Steps 2 and 3.

2016, Maria Emmerich, Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking: Meal Plans and Time Saving:

(colloquial) Zucchini sliced into thin strips so as to resemble noodles.


Nyimang

A sub-ethnic group of the Nuba peoples living in northern Sudan.


haxx

Nobody is that good! He must have been using haxx!


Musqueam

A First Nations group in the Canadian province of British Columbia that speaks the Salishan language known as Halkomelem.


Paropamisadae

From Latin Paropamisadae, from Ancient Greek Παροπαμισάδαι (Paropamisádai).

der

Παροπαμισάδαι

(historical demography) The people of Paropamisus in ancient Afghanistan.


Fengu

A Bantu people, originally closely related to the Xhosas.


donkey's

I knew Bogs, like, that's how I got this job, knew him for donkey's, but didny work for him.

2012, John Callaghan, My Name Is Never Was, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 319:

'Known her for donkey's. Why –got your eye on her?'

2015, Anthony Quinn, Curtain Call, Random House, →ISBN:

Site's been closed for donkey's, but CCTV's got Merrick heading in there at 1.35 p.m.

2015, Sarah Hilary, No Other Darkness (DI Marnie Rome 2), Hachette UK, →ISBN:


The period from a year 100x to a year 100x + 9, mostly referring to 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties


beaux-arts

The fine arts, especially in reference to the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.


ear drops

A liquid medical product in a small bottle, which can be inserted into the ear using a dropper (usually provided). See also eardrop.


Scachtacook

(rare) Alternative form of Schaghticoke (“tribe; town where they historically resided”)


Rade

Borrowed from Bahnar Rađe or Eastern Mnong Rađê.

The Austronesian language of the Chamic branch spoken by the Rade people.


Wagogo

From Gogo Wagogo, from wa- (“class prefix”) + -gogo (“noun stem pertaining to the Gogo people”).

The Wagogo think that if a person kills or eats the in effects animal which is the totem of his clan, he thereby endangers his relations, but not himself.

1910, James George Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy:


Wagogo

Hukwe Zawose, who has died aged 65, was the most prominent musician in the international appreciation of Tanzania's complex musical traditions; at home, he was renowned for championing traditional Wagogo musical culture.

2004 February 27, Ken Hunt, The Guardian:


Hainanese

I needed an interpreter in only one interview, that with an elderly Hainanese from Kompong-Trach.

1970, William E. Willmott, The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia, Athlone Press, page v:

The inhabitants of the island of Hainan.


Hainanese

Mr. MELROSE, though engaged in the study of the Hainanese language, has found time to open and give daily supervision to a Boy's School.

1892, Report of the American Presbyterian Mission in Canton, China for the Year 1891, Canton, page 48:

It is not easy to decide from which dialect of Chinese some of the loanwords derive, and this may explain why Philip Leo does not list any as coming from Hainanese nor Tiociu.

1984, NUSA: Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, volume 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:

A group of Min Chinese dialects spoken on the island of Hainan.


newes

Theſe newes (my Lords) may cheere our drooping ſpirits: / ’Tis said, the ſtout Pariſians do reuolt, / And turne againe vnto the warlike French.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 115, column 1:

This ſtrange vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, / Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniuſt, / That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land, / Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde, / Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, / That now vnleſſe ſome better tidings come, / Vnto my ſonne their true annointed King.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

This newes is old enough, yet it is euerie daies newes.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 74, column 2:

With what joy theſe newes were well-commed, when they came to Carthage, we may eaſily conjecture; […]

1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the first Punicke Warre”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 5th book, §. VIII (The Romans preuaile in Africk. Atilivs the Consull propoundeth intolerable conditions of peace to the Carthaginians. He is vtterly beaten, and made prisoner.), page 356:


octosyllabics

The use of octosyllabic lines in poetry.


Sand Papago

(historical) A group of Native Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwestern Mexico, who are today known as the Hia C-ed O'odham; closely related to the Tohono O'odham.


Hia C-ed O'odham

From O'odham hia (“sand”) + -c'eḑ (“locative suffix”) + o'odham (“people”), thus "sand people".

A group of Native Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwestern Mexico; closely related to the Tohono O'odham.


reading glasses

Any type of spectacles intended chiefly to deal with the effects of presbyopia by magnifying details such as fine text.

نظارة طبية

spectacles to deal with the effects of presbyopia


kneidlach

Borrowed from Yiddish קניידלאַך (kneydlakh).


nostalgia goggles

blinded by nostalgia
blinded by nostalgia

(slang) A nostalgic perspective (which obscures the reality of something); to be blinded by nostalgia.


international waters

Beijing claims sovereignty over Taiwan despite China's ruling Communist Party never having controlled the island -- and considers the strait part of its "internal waters."
The US Navy, however, says most of the strait is in international waters.

2022 August 28, Brad Lendon, “US sends two warships through Taiwan Strait, in first transit since Pelosi trip”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-08-28:

(international law) Those parts of the ocean that are not legally recognized as being under the jurisdiction of any national government.


nerd glasses

The conference room is full of teenagers who are being addressed by a middle-aged man with a beard and a Hawaiian-style black-and-yellow shirt with Asian letters in lieu of tropical flowers. He has translucent brown nerd glasses, and he wears a pair of furry bear ears on top of his head.

2008, Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, part 2, 133:

This is where grassroots trends like fedoras, graffiti prints, plaid shirts, nerd glasses, messenger bags, and granny boots originated.

2012, Lois Joy Johnson, The Wardrobe Wakeup: Your Guide to Looking Fabulous at Any Age, Running Press, →ISBN, page 254:

Steven also acknowledged that his presentation of self—wild locs, nerd glasses, and holey hipster jeans for our first interview—encourages whites to speak to him.

2014, Zandria F. Robinson, chapter 3, in This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 111:

Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by nerds and members of the hipster subculture.


cow eyes

"... And you were making cow eyes at him, snotty attitude and all."
"I was not making cow eyes at him," Despreaux insisted firmly.
"Call it what you want, girl," the older woman said with a grin. "I call it cow eyes."

2001, David Weber, John Ringo, March Upcountry, Baen Books, page 272:

"Cow eyes?" Brett's gaze shot to Suzanne. "You were making cow eyes at me?" Not that he knew what cow eyes were, but from the fierceness of Mama Jessup's expression and the way Suzanne blushed, cow eyes definitely counted as the non-contact version of a butt squeeze.

2011, Ruth Jean Dale, Kimberly Raye, One in a Million & Love, Texas Stlye, Harlequin, page 173:

"What makes you think I am worried about Lucas?"
"All you ever do is make cow eyes at him ..."

2013, Caroline B. Cooney, An April Love Story, Open Road Media, page 122:

(US, informal) A wide-eyed expression meant to discreetly signal otherwise unstated romantic attraction to the one it is directed at.

kaihoisa katse

a secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance

гла́зки m or pl (glázki) (a flirting look, lit.: "little eyes")


joint operations

a military strategy employing combined arms to accomplish a specified objective.


combined arms

(military) The amalgamation and implementation of the armed forces for joint operations.


merfolks

Merfolks were graceful creatures which exhibited an imaginative ability to play among themselves, whereas sharks were viewed with horror […]

1990, Robert F. Marx, The History of Underwater Exploration, page 3:

[…] merfolks were ready to strike and Laguans willing to die to protect their home, yet if only they knew that today she meant no harm.

2017, A. J. Martinez, Blood of Mages, page 91:


eyebags

Dark circles under the eyes, caused by lack of sleep etc.

眼袋

dark circles under the eyes, caused by lack of sleep etc.


the bogs

I get to know some other girls while waiting to use the bogs.

2005, Valerie Mason-John, Borrowed Body, page 225:

It's a bit like urinal etiquette in which, upon entering the bogs you are obliged to choose the Urinal of Conspicuous Heterosexuality.

2011, Sam Holden, Diary of a Hapless Househusband, →ISBN, page 198:

Dave walks over to the urinal and unzips his fly. 'Remember the bogs in the Captain Marlow?'

2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 234:


Piccadilly weepers

(dated) Synonym of Dundrearies (type of sideburns)


engifted

en-adj

engifted (comparative more engifted, superlative most engifted)

more engifted (comparative)
most engifted (superlative)

Can we conceive a body of men, engifted with a mightier privilege than that of being salvation to hundreds of thousands of crushed and trampled human beings?

1851, Vegetarian Messenger - Volumes 2-10, page 36:

The new knowledge of faith also gives the gift of Love, now understood to be pervasive of all reality within which we, as thus engifted to love, now understand the possibility to love beyond even our best actualities.

1999, Francis J. Ambrosio, The Question of Christian Philosophy Today, →ISBN, pages 153–154:

Whose hand above this blaze is lifted Shall be with magic touch engifted

2009, Luther Gulick, Camp Fire Girls, →ISBN, page 1:

... were I engifted with the Promethean art of that Michael Angelo of literature, Sir Walter Scott, then should this picture of my romantic and incomparable friend, and his “delightful home,” exist for ever -- its coulouring should never fade, but bloom immortal, as the hues of Guido, and the tints of Titian.

1830, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction:

Come, Goddesses! engifted with ten millions Of charms, ne'er yet expressed or understood By Bard of earthly mould, -- quick! mount your pillions, and goad your donkies of Medusian blood;

1833, The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature. Volume 2:

Not to be learnt in a day, by those engifted with genius, Nor by the common-place herd can Art be acquirt in a life-time ;

1868, Compton Reade, Basilissa; the free of a secret craft. A poem, page 8:

God's kids are waking up, and those who are engifted with management skill and understanding are especially aroused.

1996, Peacock, Doing Business God's Way, →ISBN, page 6:

Possessing a special and desirable trait.


engifted

In both instances this goal toward which the gift is directed dissociates the engifted from the gift, whereas his opponents would identify the two.

2007, John Howard Schütz, Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority, →ISBN, page 258:

But not just any old soul will do: only the souls of the engifted can be decanted.

2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, pages 435–436:


kourai

Assumably from Ancient Greek κοῦραι (koûrai), if so, then it would be a doublet of korai?

On view from the sixth century B.C. are two small Attic representations of kourai, dressed statues of maidens, said to represent the Athenian aristocracy in rites celebrating the goddess Athena.

2007 January 5, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:

animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods


articles of incorporation

en-noun

articles of incorporation pl (plural only)

articles of association
articles of association


articles of association

articles of association pl (plural only)

memorandum of association
memorandum of association

A document which, along with the memorandum of association, forms a company's constitution, defines the responsibilities of the directors, the kind of business to be undertaken, and the means by which the shareholders exert control over the board of directors.

章程

document which forms a company's constitution


bodytights

The dancers in Ian Falconer’s striking costumes — black or red suits of cards on white tutus and bodytights — create lovely geometries, either alone or behind the coquettish duos for the principal pairs.

2007 February 16, Roslyn Sulcas, “Adventures in Geometry and Color, as Well as Dancing”, in New York Times:


A founder of Unapack, Lydia Eccles, 43, said she was a Boston artist who had long been concerned with "totalitarian tendencies in technology." She said the group included anarchists, hard-core punk rockers, 60's types, eco-leftists, pacifists, militants and primativists.^([sic – meaning primitivists])

1997 December 27, William Glaberson, “A Star on Your Computer Screen”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-02-05:


kybp

In H 2, the recent colonization model, population 2 is modeled as being colonized from refugial population 1 subsequent to the LGM (0 to 20 kybp; Fig. 3A ).

2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 785–789:


businessfolk

His co-committee member, Alex Mahon, is a former chief executive of Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group, connecting her to the exciting world of government-friendly media businessfolk, Cotswold kitchen-supper snafflers, and police horse-sharers, and to those most likely to monetise the vacant space left in broadcasting should she and her colleagues have, regrettably, to reform the BBC out of existence.

2015 July 19, Stewart Lee, “The government’s witch-hunters are ready to reform the BBC to death”, in The Observer:


haptophyta

Likewise, in the haptophyta Emiliania huxleyi five different paralogs are observed, of which two pairs may have raised by recent duplications, rendering the paralogous couples Ehux1-Ehux2 and Ehux3-Ehux4.

2015 July 11, “The Origin and Evolution of Baeyer—Villiger Monooxygenases (BVMOs): An Ancestral Family of Flavin Monooxygenases”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


butt-huggers

Eva, for example, reveals how the uniform is a status symbol, but also how the uniform presupposes a certain body: I love the butt-huggers. I convinced my high school team to get them because I saw the college kids wearing them, people in my state were wearing them, the good teams, like high-status teams that were traditionally good had them...I mean, we had a real skinny cross country team, so nobody complained.

1999, Jeffery Sobal, Donna Maurer, Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, →ISBN:

She must be a knockout in the patent leather butt-huggers and spiked heels.

2006, Ray Bates, Blue Butterfly: A Detective John Bowers Mystery, →ISBN, page 115:

By the time our waitress (clad in those humiliating orange polyester butt-huggers for which Hooters is renowned) comes by to take our order, I am nodding my head in earnest to Badlands' personal recipe for gurgitory success.

2006, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, →ISBN:


karakia

(New Zealand) Māori incantations and prayers, used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection.


adfolk

The Mamas and Papas hit is the latest in a string of old tracks which have been reissued by record companies, a trend which owes a lot to the consideration paid by adfolk to the choice of music for commercials.

2015 July 21, Belinda Archer, “Blame it on the grapevine: from the archive, 21 July 1997”, in The Guardian:


pudenda muliebria

(anatomy, euphemistic) Vagina; female genitals.


braccae

Borrowed from Latin bracae, plural of braca, from Gaulish *brāca, of Celtic origin, cognate with Proto-Germanic *brōks; akin to Old High German bruoh (“pair of breeches”) and to Dutch broek (“pair of trousers”).

cog

(historical) Shapeless trousers of wool or skin tied at the waist and ankles by cords, worn chiefly by the ancient Gauls.


spilings

(archaic) The dimensions of the twist or curvature of a plank, measured from the edge of a batten or rule-staff.


mokopuna

(New Zealand) In Māori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally


Yenish

A group of nomadic people in Europe, living mostly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Wallonia, and parts of France. They often claim to be descendants of the Celtic Helvetii.


Thanatophidia

/θəˌnætəˈfɪdiə/

There are fifty known varieties of these dreaded creatures, all classified under the general title of Thanatophidia.

1902, Current Opinion, volume 33, number 1, page 66:


jibbings

The last milk drawn from a cow at one time; the afterings.


xenophya

(biology) Foreign particles found within an organism, such as sand grains.


aldynoglia

In addition, a spectrum of unique CNS glia, collectively introduced under the term aldynoglia share the expression of p75 NTR [62, 63, 64, 65 ].

2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Specialised glia that are able to survive and proliferate when cultured from adult tissue


Wakamba

Alternative form of Kamba (“Bantu people of Kenya”)


Wachagga

Alternative form of Chaga (“Bantu-speaking ethnic group”)


Wanyamwezi

Synonym of Nyamwezi (“a people of Tanzania”)


flowers of tan

Fuligo septica
Fuligo septica#Translingual

scrambled egg slime mold
scrambled egg slime mold

Fuligo septica (scrambled egg slime mold)


Scorps

You remember the heshers. Those guys who hung out in the back corner of the high-school parking lot, listening to the Scorps on the stereo in their souped-up Chevy Nova with the mag wheels and dual overhead cams.

1994, SPIN, volume 9, number 12, page 30:

(colloquial) Scorpions, a German rock band founded in 1965.

(colloquial) The South Australian Scorpions, a cricket team.


Yamnaya

From Russian Ямная (Jamnaja), short for я́мная культу́ра, using the feminine form of я́мный, an adjective formed from я́ма (jáma, “pit”), referring to the culture's pit-grave burial practices. The alternative form Yamna is the corresponding form of the Ukrainian adjective я́мний.

Although European Late Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures such as Corded Ware, Bell Beakers, Unetice, and the Scandinavian cultures are genetically very similar to each other (Fig. 2), they still display a cline of genetic affinity with Yamnaya, with highest levels in Corded Ware, lowest in Hungary, and central European Bell Beakers being intermediate (Fig. 2b and Extended Data Table 1).

2015, Nature, Allentoft et al., Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

A late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dniester, and Ural rivers (the Pontic steppe), dating to 3300–2600 BCE.


chhing

A chhing player holds one cymbal in each hand and strikes them together.

2010, Henry Spiller, Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia, page 27:

Alternative form of ching (“Thai cymbals”)


nihonga

paintings made in a traditional Japanese style, typically executed with brushes on washi paper or silk


boy bits

(childish, informal) The male genitalia.


Pericú

(historical) A people who lived in the Cape Region in the southernmost portion of Baja California Sur until the 18th century.


dangly bits

Mummy is playing with the boy's dangly bits, polishing them with soapy water, and rubbing them up and down.

1993, Sarah Miles, A right royal bastard (Page 32)

(informal, euphemistic, childish) Male genitalia, usually of a baby, child, or of a smaller than usual size.


flexicuffs

The inquiry’s chair, Alex Gallacher, later looked up flexicuffs on an electronic device, and described them as “basically cable ties”, noting it would be very easy for Nichols to mistake them as such.

2015 August 20, Helen Davidson, “Former Nauru guard says he did not see waterboarding of asylum seekers”, in The Guardian:

disposable plastic handcuffs similar in appearance to cable ties


trials and tribulations

en-noun

trials and tribulations pl (plural only)

Unpleasant experiences that put one's endurance and strength to the test.


microinfauna

Any infauna that are too small to be seen with the naked eye.


zeroies

From zero and the ending from eighties, nineties, etc.

(rare, humorous) The period between the years 2000 and 2009, inclusive.


paidakia

Borrowed from Greek παϊδάκια (païdákia).

A definite hit is the paidakia, four excellent small Colorado lamb chops, cooked medium-rare as requested, accompanied by a deep-fried potato patty.

2015 August 21, Patricia Brooks, “Restaurant Review: Lithos in Darien Is Built on a Greek Tradition”, in New York Times:


British teeth

> Man oh man, does Marcus Flint need to get his teeth fixed! I think
> that is the W*O*R*S*T case of British teeth I have E*V*E*R
> seen in my life! Get thee to an orthodontist, child!!!

2002 November 19, Fish Eye no Miko [username] (quoting Frenchy), “Re: Bad teeth: Spoiler, if you've never actually seen British teeth...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

LOL! I just noticed this comment. Austin Powers comes to mind. It's true though. Some people have "British teeth" and god help those people.

2005 March 6, Fett, “Re: The Visitation DVD R1”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):

Today, it seems that nearly all the women under about 30 are doing this mouth-hiding thing. And it's not because they're chewing with their mouths open, or that they have British teeth, or anything.

2006 February 10, Tim May, “Why do so many young women eat with one hand in front of their mouth?”, in ba.food (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory, of humans) Imperfect or unattractive teeth.


Patidar

A caste found primarily in the state of Gujarat, India.


Dönmeh

From Turkish Dönme, from Ottoman Turkish دونمه (dönme), of a root prefix meaning "turn" or "convert".

(historical) A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret.


three togethers

If management personnel do not go into the shops and sections to take part in the three togethers and to learn one or more manual skills from the teachers, then they are liable to spend their whole lives in sharp struggle against the working class.

1970, Translations on People's Republic of China, page 23:

Acting under strict orders to practice the "three togethers" with the peasants, the work team personnel (generally one to three workers per production team) took up residence in the homes of these peasant roots.

1970, Richard Baum, Revolution and Reaction in Rural China:

While these studies were not themselves carried out by social scientists, professional social scientists were involved in training and advising the PKI/BTI cadres who carried out the field studies, practicing the "three togethers," the four don'ts," and the "four musts" in a remarkable forerunner of today's fashionable "bottom-up," "participatory action researh" strategies (White 1993).

2005, Hans Antlöv, Jörgen Hellman, The Java that Never was: Academic Theories and Political Practices, →ISBN:

(Maoism) A policy stating that peasants should eat together, live together, and labour together.


Nikes

Nikes pl (normally plural, singular Nike)

Every time I laced up my Nikes, they became my badge of honor. That swoosh became a shield I wore to protect my dreams, held inside a chest with lungs that were born tired.

2010, Dottie Lessard, Seven Letters That Saved My Life, page 31:

(colloquial) Sports shoes of the brand Nike.


mandlach

From Yiddish מאַנדלאַך (mandlakh, literally “little almonds”).

bor

Jewish food consisting of crisp mini croutons used as a soup accompaniment.


shkedei marak

From Yiddish שקדי מרק (shkedei marak, literally “soup almonds”).

A Jewish food consisting of crisp miniature croutons used as an accompaniment for soup.


ladies and germs

ladies and gentlemen
ladies and gentlemen#English

(humorous) Synonym of ladies and gentlemen


portzelky

From or related to Prussian German Low German Porzelke (see Porzelchen, porzelchen), diminutive of Porzel f or n (whence German Porzeln).

A Mennonite dish of raisin fritters — fried, roughly ball-shaped pieces of dough with raisins in them — eaten especially on New Year's Day.


Jola

An ethnic group found in Senegal (where they predominate in the region of Casamance), the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.


DMs

Abbreviation of the brand name Dr. Martens.

Lads talked about a new pair of DMs the same way those middle-class poofs talked about their new shiny Ford Cortina Mark 2, which had just come on to the market.

(colloquial) Dr. Martens-branded boots or shoes.


holibobs

Those bloody hippies want us all to stay indoors and only go on our holibobs to places we can walk to!

2011, Grace Dent, 04: Lost in Ibiza: Lost in Ibiza, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Because surely one of the best things about being an adult must be holidaying on your own. Going on holibobs with your parentals is just horrifico.

2012, Miranda Hart, Is It Just Me?, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

A mixed bag of sports-based news from Russia. First, manscaped president Vladimir Putin has released a set of high-camp photos of him working out on holibobs with his toy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev.

2015 September 2, Marina Hyde, “World Cup 2018: Michel Platini and co have to tackle Vladimir Putin”, in The Guardian:


curli

In order to identify the presence of gene sequences related to curli […] in the isolates studied, PCR assays were carried out, and curli expression and production of cellulose were determined according to Biscola et al. (2011).

2015 March 1, Maria C. Cergole-Novella, Antonio C.C. Pignatari, Beatriz E.C. Guth, “Adhesion, biofilm and genotypic characteristics of antimicrobial resistant Escherichia coli isolates”, in Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, volume 46, →DOI:

Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli#Translingual

Thin, coiled, proteinaceous fibres, on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli, by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds etc.


goings on

In short, what the theorist has given Smith is a new way of talking about some important goings on in the lives of others.


Darood

A Somali clan that primarily inhabits the central parts of Somalia.


Harti

A major subgroup of the Somali Darood clan.


filasterea

From the genus name, translingual Filasterea.

Choanoflagellates and filasterea are considered the closest unicellular organisms to metazoan animals.

2015 August 7, “The Evolution of the Secreted Regulatory Protein Progranulin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


lissotrichi

They are more like apes than the lissotrichi, or straight-haired men.

1891, Wood's Medical and surgical monographs, volume 9:

(anthropology, dated) Races of man with smooth hair.


guided notes

A method of note-taking where one receives a sheet that already has the key points of a presentation or lecture written on it. However, keywords are replaced by blanks that must be filled in while listening to the presentation.


Cornell notes

The method was devised by a professor at Cornell University.

Your notes must follow the Cornell notes format.

A note-taking method where a sheet of paper is divided into three sections: one for questions (taking a left half of the sheet), one for notes related to the question (taking a right half), and one for a summary of the page (taking up a bottom section).


returns to scale

(economics, idiomatic, plural only) a function describing how returns scale when production increases in the long run


Siyan

A Kurdish tribe who live in southern Arbil, as well as Mekhmur, Deshti-Qeraj, and Girdesor villages in Iraq.


multidimensions

Quasi-convexity broadens the con- cept of unimodality to multidimensions and allows for certain types of saddle points, which are a known hurdle for first-order optimization methods such as gradient decent.

2015, Elad Hazan, Kfir Y. Levy, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, “Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization”, in arXiv:


childern

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


hardgoods

Durable products manufactured from relatively hard materials, such as cars, TVs, and household appliances.


Bouyei

A language spoken by the Bouyei and Giáy people.


Ptolemies

‘The Persians have been gone from Egypt for nigh two thousand years, and since then the Ptolemies, the Romans, and many others have flourished and held sway upon the Nile, and fallen when their time was ripe,’ I said, aghast.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:


terminotics

Blend of terminology + informatics, or else coined from terminology + -ics (possibly influenced by informatics).

Terminography is the methodology-based practice of collecting, describing, and processing specialized terms, while terminotics refers to the practice of terminography assisted by computer tools and technologies, such as those designed for term extraction and parallel corpora creation.

c. 2011 "Terminology Studies," Translation Romani (website) (accessed 20 September 2015)


cycling shorts

A type of short skin-tight shorts designed for comfort and efficiency when cycling


BIXen

Humorous modern use of -en from Middle English; compare VAXen.

The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.

2014, Bruce Hoult, “Re: Mill CPU public talk 6:00 to 8:30PM September 22 at NNUG, Oslo, Norway”, in comp.arch (Usenet):

Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.

2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

(computing, slang) Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001.


spolia opima

The victor having won the Spolia Opima, granted him his life, on condition, that he would on his knees supplicate his pardon […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

He demanded his body therefore, and the spolia opima taken with him.

1832, Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving:

Within Augustus' new forum, which was dedicated in 2, the spolia opima also played a central role.

2014, James H. Richardson, Federico Santangelo, The Roman Historical Tradition, page 315:

(historical) The spoils taken by a Roman general from an opponent commander, originally after single combat.


charismatic megafauna

We might examine first the special nature of restoration or preservation issues as they relate to charismatic megafauna, the high-profile species of which wolves are a classic example.

2001, Daniel Kemmis, Wolves and Human Communities, page 9:

Of course, it's easier to raise money for something fluffy. Charismatic megafauna like the panda do appeal to people's emotional side, and attract a lot of public attention.

Conservationists often talk about the power of charismatic megafauna to get the public to care about the environment.

2011, Emma Marris, Rambunctious Garden, page 156:

Large animals with broad popular appeal, especially as used by activists to focus public opinion on environmentalist goals.


Parisi

Alternative form of Parisii (“ancient tribe”)


thaumarchaeota

The archaea that are members of the phylum Thaumarchaeota.


salatim

The custom of starting the meal with salatim originated with the Palestinians.

2015, Michael Solomonov, Steven Cook, Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking, page 78:

It is the genuine cooking that you find all over Israel in both restaurants and homes — cooking that bursts with freshly ground spices and complex flavors, from char-edged kebabs to tahini-rich sauces, chewy grains, fresh herbs and rainbows of vegetable salatim, or small cold salads that are the vivid starting point of every meal.

2015 October 6, Melissa Clark, “In ‘Zahav,’ Michael Solomonov Explores Israeli Food”, in New York Times:

Cold dishes served as a course in Israeli cuisine.


stalkarazzi

en-noun

stalkarazzi pl (normally plural, singular stalkarazzo)


Agapetae

He was instructed and assisted by Agape, an honourable woman, in carrying on the secret mysteries ; and she was the mother of the Agapetae, or love-feasters ; whose rites became by degrees so very scandalous, that St. Jerome tells Oceanus "you are exposed to the teeth of detractors, unless you dismiss the assemblies of the Agapetae."

1820, Polwhele, The enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists considered by .Bishop Lavington, page 298:

It describes the Agapetae as virgins who consecrated themselves to God with a vow of chastity and associated with laymen who like themselves had taken a vow of chastity.

2007, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Who Is This King of Glory?:, →ISBN, page 175:

The novel itself suggests that Huxley knew about this attempt to go beyond gender, that the earliest Christian priests had Agapetae, or female ritual lovers, and that both the early Christian Gnostics and the later Catholic moralists permitted a form of coitus reservatus, the latter "claiming that it was known to Adam in the Garden and therefore a part of Paradise."

2008, Jacob A. v Belzen, Jacob Adrianus Belzen, & Antoon Geels, Autobiography and the Psychological Study of Religious Lives, →ISBN:

Women of the early Christian church who cohabited in a state of "spiritual love" with clergy or laymen who had vowed chastity.


Querandí

From Guaraní [Term?], literally "men with fat", because they had a lot of fat in their diet.

A language that was once spoken by these people.


able whackets

Possibly from able, as in able seaman, and whack.

The chief amusement or game in use in the midshipmen's berth, was ‘able whackets’, a pastime in which cards, blasphemy, and hard knocks were agreeably mingled.

1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, section IV:

Instead of the usual sailors' games of cards and ablewhackets, there was the clicking of dice, with games of parcheesi unfolding on chequerboards of rope […].

2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 15:

(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games.


starry eyes

(chiefly anime and manga) Eyes with exaggerated starry highlights, with an expression of wonder or delight.


unbeatens

But to find the top team in football by this metric, we must look beyond the unbeatens.

2015 October 27, Victor Mather, “For the N.F.L.’s Most Potent Team, Look Past the Unbeatens”, in New York Times:

Those who have not been defeated in a contest.


stuffaroni

"I couldn't imagine how he could know his roommate was messy, but then I could and told him my Marx Brothers idea of two blind roommates—shaving cream on the spaghetti, slipping on spilled stuffaroni, etc."

2015, Lucia Berlin, Homesick: new & selected stories:


cyberscum

(informal, derogatory) People who use computers and computer networks for criminal or malicious purposes.


decomp

Shortening of decompile and decompilation.

(slang, hacking, plural only) The results of a decompilation (especially of a videogame).


mujahedin

We got on the wrong side in Afghanistan long ago by supporting the religious extremist mujahedin against a secular government favored by the Soviet Union — all because we had anti-Communism as a mental disease.

2015 October 29, “Gloria Steinem: By the Book”, in New York Times:


reginalds

Abbreviation of Australian rhyming slang Reg Grundys (“undies”), with forename given in full.


'mones

I've been facing the trans issue "face on" since about 2-3 years ago, having really admitted it to myself about 4 years ago (freshperson in college), [...] So you can see I'm very confused, yet 99% sure I want to take 'mones and see how far I really need to go to be happy. do I live FT?

1996 November 23, so...@triax.com, “not stereotypical”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

another bi m2f for a lesbian affair, but isn't on 'mones, looks pretty

1999 September 28, Tracy, quoting another user, “Transfans: you ladies were Right”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet):

Whether or not they are or how long they have been on 'mones?

2001 February 25, Loree Thomas, “Respecting Self-Definitions”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

(transgender slang) Hormones used as part of hormone replacement therapy, especially for transgender or gender variant individuals.


Singaporean core

Coined in the Singapore-government White Paper population policy in January 2013.

In his New Year’s Day Message 2013, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted the need to maintain a strong Singaporean core in the country’s population policy.

2013 December 1, Faizal Bin Yahya, National University of Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies Developing a Singaporean Core in our Workforce:

EP applications for selected firms with a “weaker Singaporean core of PMEs relative to others in their industry” will be scrutinised more closely.

2015 July 8, Adrian Tan, The Middle Ground: Keeping the Singapore core of PMEs employed:

In an interview published by Time magazine on Thursday, Mr Lee said the country must have a solid Singaporean core.

"And that is a very tricky balancing act to do, because you must not have so many people coming in from the outside that your own local, Singaporean core is eroded."

2015 September 18, Calvin Yang, The Straits Times (Singapore) Indranee: Building economy while keeping Singaporean core a “tricky balancing act”:

Singaporeans having birthright citizenship because they are descended from settlers in Singapore prior to independence in 1965.


bloodlands

From blood + lands, coined as the title of a book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), by Yale historian Timothy D. Snyder.

A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.


algedonics

From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + ἡδονή (hēdonḗ) ‘pleasure’.

The plant is adaptive to environmental changes (we have discussed how this could be done through algedonics). But the built-in control systems keep going wrong.

1994, Roger Harnden, Allenna Leonard, How many grapes went into the wine: Stafford Beer on the art and science of holistic management, →ISBN, page 138:

The final point introduces the idea of 'algedonics' (from the Greek 'aldos', meaning pain, and 'hedos', or pleasure), a signal produced by a statistically recognised event, which is so important that it bypasses the usual channels and gets sent directly to S5.

2011, Angela Espinosa, Jon Walker, A Complexity Approach to Sustainability, →ISBN, page 64:

The information is transferred from S3 to S4, in the form of “algedonics” (dashed line between S3 and S4 in Figure 3).

2012, Paolo Renna, Production and Manufacturing System Management, →ISBN, page 257:

(management) The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.


PMQs

Coordinate term: FMQs

For nine weeks Green sat by May’s side as serious allegations about his conduct emerged – and the Labour leader never raised a question at PMQs.

2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian:

David Davis tells Boris Johnson ‘in the name of God, go’ at chaotic PMQs [headline]

2022 January 19, Peter Walker, Rowena Mason, “David Davis tells Boris Johnson ‘in the name of God, go’ at chaotic PMQs”, in The Guardian:

Prime Minister's Questions
w:Prime Minister's Questions

(UK politics) Initialism of Prime Minister's Questions.


overclothes

Items of clothing worn as an outer layer.


special measures

(Scots law) Judicial systems to protect vulnerable witnesses in courts of law.


primary goods

Goods which are presumed to be desired by all rational individuals.

初級產品

goods which are presumed to be desired by all rational individuals


dueling banjos

From a scene in the 1972 film Deliverance in which a tourist with a guitar gets into a picking contest with a hillbilly on a banjo, both playing parts of the song "Dueling Banjos" (originally titled "Feuding Banjos") by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.

The current discussion of choice in education has been driven by this dueling banjos mentality in which scholars and other intellectual entrepreneurs compete for public and intellectual attention by describing the conditions they want to create.

1990, John F. Witte, William H. Clune, Choice and Control in American Education - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 217:

Their tools were computers and when three or four engineers surrounded a car and plugged in, the scene wasn't dueling banjos. It was dueling laptops.

1998, James Schefter, All Corvettes Are Red, →ISBN, page 311:

The nurse's fingers are pressing dental dough into my lower incisors, and she and the doctor are playing dueling banjos with funny stories about their kids, when in walks another dentist, dropping by to say hello.

2007, Walt Harrington, The Beholder's Eye, →ISBN, page 111:

Stick to music that has lots of harmony, and if you ever meet your mirror image, don't try to out-pick him and don't take him grouse hunting. It becomes dueling banjos.

2014, Ted Lundrigan, Grouse and Lesser Gods, →ISBN:

A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.


Bristlers

A calque of German Bürstenheimer, coined by Abt (secretary to the Bishop of Freiburg) and applied to the Workers' Educational Association in Geneva.

The manufacturers agreed not to maintain any relations with the Bristlers' Trade Union, and they also agreed to introduce piecework wages where such wages did not exist, and to reduce the scale of piece-work where they did exist.

1965, James Mavor, An economic history of Russia - Volume 2, page 431:

In the spring of 1851, then, the "lowest of the low" invented the "Bristlers", whom Vogt pilfered from his Field Marshal in the autumn of 1859.

1981, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works, page 39:

Large parts of the book dealt with police agents among the democratic and socialist Forty-eighters abroad, and much of this was connected to Marx, who appeared as a sinister figure in the background orchestrating the undoing of innocent workers attracted to the cause through the Brimstone Gang (Schwefelbande) or the Bristlers (Bürstenheimer), both named after groups of German refugees in Switzerland.

2006, Christine Lattek, Revolutionary Refugees: German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860, →ISBN, page 211:

(derogatory, slang, historical) A group of German refugees with Marxist leanings in 1849 who scattered to Switzerland, France and England.


household arts

For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships.

1855, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 23, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable:

The Vicar's wife was much the same,
In fairer form presented—
A lively, yet a quiet dame,
With home, sweet home, contented.
In parish, needs; and household arts,
A lesson to this glib age;
Well versed in pickles, jams, and tarts,
Piano, chess, and cribbage.

1895, R. D. Blackmore, "Buscombe; or, A Michaelmas Goose" in Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse

The Moroccan lady knows little of cooking, needlework or any household arts.

1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 5, in In Morocco:

The inventory collectively amounts to the ingredients of an ideally wholesome, happy home — tools for a set of forgotten skills, tastes and virtues I casually refer to as “the household arts” — a medium that includes warm sheets stacked on ironing boards, pies cooling on windowsills, Mason jars full of last summer’s gooseberries, and cans of Old Dutch Cleanser under the sink.

2011 January 19, Cintra Wilson, “A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-12-03:

(set phrase, dated) Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants.


these islands

Circumlocution to avoid the word British in the phrase British Isles.

Since the Lions only play outside the British Isles or these islands, the opportunity for Irish nationalists to insist that the former description should not be used has not been taken.

2001, John McGarry, Northern Ireland and the Divided World: Post-Agreement Northern Ireland in Comparative Perspective, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231:

In all documents jointly drawn up by the British and Irish governments, the archipelago is simply referred to as "these islands."

2010, World and Its Peoples, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 8:

The west coast from Kerry north to Donegal has high cliffs interspersed with sandy beaches and one major estuary, that of the Shannon, the largest river in these islands.

2010, Clive Hutchinson, Birds in Ireland, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 16:

Same-sex marriage proposals have been greenlit in Jersey and Guernsey - meaning that Northern Ireland is the only remaining part of these islands where marriage equality continues to be blocked.

2016 April 26, Nick Duffy, “Isle of Man finally passes same-sex marriage”, in Pink News:

(chiefly Ireland, UK) The archipelago in the North Atlantic comprising Great Britain, Ireland and surrounding islands.


Hammer pants

Popularised in the 1980s and 1990s by the rapper MC Hammer (Stanley Burrell).

Loose-fitting trousers inspired by harem pants.


Eupatridae

(historical) The ancient nobility of the Greek region of Attica.


illiterati

Also known as illiterati (people ignorant of Latin letters), the common run of people were defined intellectually by the limits of their idiom and by the type and "quality" of reading materials available to them.

2005, Jonathan Christian Petty, Wagner's Lexical Tonality, page 329:

Offering this address largely in the first person plural, Foxe identifies himself not with the illiterati, who were incapable of reading it, but with Latin-literate Protestants whose numbers must have included many who shared the compiler's ministerial vocation.

2006, John N. King, Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture, →ISBN, page 244:

Moreover, the fact that such listeners existed at all is a powerful testament to the cultural importance that Latin history enjoyed at the beginning of the twelfth century, and Rober's broad includsion of literati and illiterati alike even expands Baudri's decidedly inclusive sense of audience for Latin histories.

2007, Christopher Langdon Freeman, The Figure of a Hero, →ISBN, page 216:


microlepidoptera

Workers who study microlepidoptera have concluded that transverse bands, or fasciae, are primitive wing pattern elements for Lepidoptera and are constrained by venation [12 –14 ], whereas workers who primarily study macrolepidoptera have concluded that spots, either “erratic” [7 ] or constrained by venation [15 ], are primitive.

2015 October 6, “Color Pattern on the Forewing of Micropterix (Lepidoptera: Micropterigidae): Insights into the Evolution of Wing Pattern and Wing Venation in Moths”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Relatively small butterflies and moths; micromoths.


derbendcis

In 1576 the derbendcis near Yalova applied to the Porte, saying that it was not possible for them to perform their duties properly, unless they were permitted to bear the tiifeng (musket), for highway robbers were armed with this weapon.

1975, Vernon J. Parry, Malcolm Yapp, War, technology and society in the Middle East, page 195:

The service of the derbendcis was spread widely throughout Macedonia, consisting as it did of providing safe passage through gorges and other places where passage was difficult on the more important military and trade routes.

1979, A History of the Macedonian People, page 85:

In addition, they may have gained leadership skills and prominence over other tribes because it was they, as derbendcis, who maintained and probably came to control the trade routes throughout the northern mountains.

2015, Robert Elsie, The Tribes of Albania: History, Society and Culture, →ISBN, page 28:


derbendci

From Ottoman Turkish دربندجی (derbendçi).

The derbendci, some two thousand families of Rumelia, acted as guards of mountain passes, bridges, and other strategic locations in exchange for tax relief and represent a transition from real fighters to auxiliary forces.

1993, Peter F. Sugar, Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804, →ISBN, page 39:

The derbendci, inadequate in number, could not cope with the new situation.

1998, Tom Scott, The Peasantries of Europe, →ISBN, page 306:

In other areas self-rule resulted from the fact that certain occupational groups, such as miners, tar extractors, horse breeders, derbendci (guardians of mountain passes), saline workers or producers of gunpowder, had been exempted from certain taxes, and subsequently these 'privileges' were associated with their settlements as well.

2006, Suraiya Faroqhi, The Cambridge History of Turkey, →ISBN, page 161:

These exemptions were similar to those granted to the derbendci, men who guarded roads and mountain passes.

2007, Mark L. Stein, Guarding the Frontier: Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons, →ISBN, page 90:

Entire villages were often charged with the derbendci duty and consequently exempted from certain taxes.

2012, Michael Ursinus, Grievance Administration (Sikayet) in an Ottoman Province, →ISBN, page 41:

The guards charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief.


pascichnia

trace fossils of a distinctive kind indicating an animal grazing


three sisters

A calque from an Iroquoian language, compare Mohawk áhsen nikontatenò:sen, Oneida áshʌnaɂtekutahnú·tele, and Onondaga ahsę́ naˀdegųdęhnų́·dæ·ˀ.
First attested in 1850 in the context of Iroquoian mythology (see quote below). Use in reference to the plants themselves first attested in the 1890s (see also below).

One beautiful idea relates to the corn, beans and squashes, all indigenous plants which are called three sisters as well as their life or supporters. The thought is a happy one, for they grow together, and were always important in Indian life.

[1892, William M. Beauchamp, “Iroquois Stories”, in The Iroquois Trail, or Footprints of the Six Nations, […] , Fayetteville: H. C. Beauchamp, →LCCN, page 128:

The three sisters work together as companion plants in many ways. Growing wide-spreading pumpkin vine among vertically oriented corn and beans saves space.

2012, Gail Damerow, The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

She gave me specifics on what to plant and the layout of the garden. Traditional Native American plants, heirloom varieties only, no GMOs allowed. Use the three sisters approach for planting corn, squash and beans, ilito onions would ring the interior of the fence and sunflowers would stand tall.

2012, Kathleen O’Dwyer, Breathing Blue: Giving my life to Spirit and Spirit to my life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 151:

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

(US, Canada, agriculture, horticulture) The combination of maize (corn), pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris or climbing beans, string beans, etc.), and squash (i.e. pumpkin), especially when planted together in intertwined plantings.


streetfolk

In between swigs, workers and streetfolk grabbed for the leftovers of these huge royal suppers at special markets set up on the mornings thereafter […]

2014, Veronica Buckley, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV:

More than 400 of those performances have taken place among Mr. Zeffirelli’s naturalistic sets, depicting a Latin Quarter peopled with crowds of Parisian streetfolk, revelers, merchants and children.

2015 November 24, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Review: Franco Zeffirelli's 'La Bohème' Revisits a Take on Love and Loss”, in New York Times:

People who habitually spend time in the streets, such as public entertainers or the homeless.


Scotch-Irish

(US, Canada) The descendants of Scottish settlers in the Irish province of Ulster.


Ikhwan

From Arabic إِخْوَان (ʔiḵwān, “brothers”).

(historical) A Wahhabi religious militia of the early 20th century, made up of traditionally nomadic tribesmen, which formed a significant military force of the ruler Ibn Saud and played an important role in establishing him as ruler of most of the Arabian Peninsula in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


Rish

Indo-Aryan military rulers of the Kingdom of Mitanni


sheva brachot

From Hebrew שֶׁבַע בְּרָכוֹת (shéva' b'rakhót, literally “seven blessings”).

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שֶׁבַע בְּרָכוֹת

If at least 10 adults are present, grace after meals culminates with the recitation of the sheva b'rakhot (the seven blessings pronounced during the wedding ceremony) with the blessing over the wine recited last.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 172:

the seven blessings recited after grace after meals at a wedding feast, and at festivities during the week after or before the wedding.


boy parts

(informal) Pediatric-age male genitalia.


Eskimo brothers

Ultimately unknown, but various theories exist. Modern usage was popularized by American television show The League; the term itself likely stems from a misinterpretation or invented hoax about some Inuit and Aleutian peoples' cultural practices of polygamy and polyamory, especially among married women and their male guests.

Coordinate term: Eskimo sisters

“Are you ready to be Eskimo brothers?” Pete asked with as straight a face as possible.
“I guess,” Derek laughed. “Why? Did you bang her?”

2010, Douglas Lance, EFiction August, page 51:

“We'll finally be Eskimo brothers, mate! I've been looking forward to this day!”

(slang) Men who have had sexual intercourse with the same woman.

hulbror

men who have had sexual intercourse with the same woman


truck nuts

(automobiles, US, Canada) plastic or metal accessories for pickup trucks and other vehicles which resemble a pair of dangling testicles


eyes on the ground

We need to have eyes on the ground in Iraq.

One or more observers in an area of interest.


gentle and simple

gentle or simple
gentle or simple#English


Akashic Records

(esoterism, occult) Mythological records or archives, in a spiritual plane, containing information about everything that ever happened.

Arquivos Acásicos

spiritual records about everything that ever happened


gentle nor simple

Sir, cried the man, equally provoked, this is talking quite out of character ; for as to broken bones, there's ne'er a person in all England, gentle nor simple, can say he's a right to break mine, for I'm not a person of that sort, but a man of as good property as another man; and there's ne'er a customer I have in the world, that's more his own man than myself.

1820, Fanny Burney, Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an heiress - Volume 2, page 100:

I'm forbid to let anybody in, gentle nor simple, if you please.

1884, Plutus Adonis, a mythical hero - Volume 2:

(archaic, of a negated noun) Of any social standing.


gentle nor simple

The implements of his daily work, which was that of a jobbing gardener, stood in a corner, and seeing probably that she looked rural, he said, 'If you want me to undertake country work I can't come, for I never leave Casterbridge for gentle nor simple -- not I."

(archaic) No one, regardless of social standing.


gentle or simple

From gentle in the sense of "noble, well-born".

She is the sweetest-tempered, honestest, worthiest, young creature ; indeed, as to her beauty, I do not commend her on that account, though all men allow she is the handsomest woman, gentle or simple, that ever appeared in the parish.

Reader, gentle or simple, or whatever you be, how impatiently by this time must you expect this Preface, supposing it to be nothing but revengeful Invectives against the Author of the second Don Quixote.

1743, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha:

When a maiden, gentle or simple, intendeth marriage against her kinsmen's wishes, it is the way to wed first, and to write the letter and ask the blessing when the evil is done."

1840, James Fenimore Cooper, Mercedes of Castile: or, The voyage to Cathay - Volume 1, pages 38–39:

They did well, too, and moved with the times, and kept their heads high for more generations than I can call home; and then they comed to what all families, whether gentle or simple, always come to soon or late.

2011, Dorothy Scarborough, Humorous Ghost Stories, →ISBN:


Vindelici

(historical) A former Celtic people of Switzerland and southern Germany.


midshipman's nuts

(nautical, slang) Broken pieces of biscuit eaten as dessert.


heishe

Variously said to be from a word for "white shell", "shell", or "shell bead" in Eastern Keres [Term?].

Small disc- or tube-shaped beads made from shells or stones, primarily associated with the Kewa Pueblo.


Timbos

(slang) Shoes made by The Timberland Company.


stereoscopics

Even on my sadly outdated standard-def television, and even with the pronounced right-eye dominance that's generally kept me from fully appreciating 3D effects, the stereoscopics of G-Force come through.

2009 July 25, Darren Zenko, “When the fur flies - straight at you”, in Toronto Star:


symphonics

This neo-progressive British band gets better whenever it expands its ambitions, and for its fifth album, “The Resistance,” it is going all out: bombastic rock symphonics, dystopian electronic boogies, Chopin quotations, visions of pan-Eurasian political unification.

2009 September 13, The New York Times, “Hope and Regret, Recorded and Live”, in New York Times:


special rights

An undeserved right that grants a demographic an unfair advantage over the majority.


itchies

You've gotta get rid of the stinging itchies if you want to keep a man.

(colloquial) An itchy or fidgety condition.


big five

(ecology) The five major extinction events since the beginning of life on Earth.


biangbiang noodles

Partial calque from Mandarin 𰻞𰻞麵／𰻝𰻝面 (biángbiángmiàn).

A type of thick noodle from China's Shaanxi province, said to be named for the sound a noodle makes when slapped against the work surface while being made, and famed for the unusually complex Chinese character used in its name (𰻞／𰻝 (biáng)).


biscuit hooks

Every looked at his hands and said, ‘Them's right powerful-lookin biscuit hooks you got, my friend.’


vorlages

Not content with the table displays, Daddy covered the sofa with our new ski-ing clothes, our beanies, vorlages, ankle-length tomato coloured pants, Mummy's furry earmuffs, their anoraks and my parka.

1964, Caroline Glyn, Don't Knock the Corners Off, page 184:

Next came the vorlages, copied from the Austrian guides, which are almost similar to the first trousers Mr Symonds designed for women. The vorlages have held the slopes against all comers ever since.

1966, Allison Adburgham, View of Fashion, page 56:

Another example of the same trap is vorlages. These tight-fitting trousers are only necessary for championship ski-ing where aerodynamic resistance is important, and yet everybody wears them!

1966, Climber and Rambler, volume 5, page 137:

"Air suits me," she had remarked, for she had bought two pairs of black vorlages and matched them with a series of thick sweaters in black and orange patterns and an orange snood.

1966, David Benedictus, This Animal is Mischievous, page 12:

The main requirements of clothing are a suitable pair of trousers or vorlages and a waterproof windcheater jacket or anorak, and even these may be hired for the duration of one's holiday if desired.

1968, Howard Bass, Winter Sports, page 22:

A particular style of tight-fitting ski pants.


fullz

From full and slang pluralizing suffix -z; compare dox.

The hackers appeared to have used standard phishing and email attachments, some apparently directed at employees with high-level network access, to obtain unencrypted customer data that could complete a fullz.

2015, Aaron Wheeler, Michael Winburn, Cloud Storage Security: A Practical Guide:

(Internet slang) A compilation or package of information on a prospective fraud or identity theft victim.


Lungu

A people living on the southwestern shore of Lake Tanganyika.


two pennies to rub together

en-noun

two pennies to rub together pl (plural only)

(idiomatic) A minimal amount of money to live on; any money at all.


Zomi

The Zou people who speak the Zou language, a Northern Kukish language.