booba

Coined by 4chan in 2020, most likely as a typo, in response to an image of American actress Elizabeth Olsen, which then developed into an Internet meme.

(Internet slang, humorous, neologism) Deliberate misspelling of boobs.

(Internet slang, humorous, neologism) Deliberate misspelling of boba.


Shiwei

(historical) A Mongolic people once inhabiting far-eastern Mongolia, northern Inner Mongolia, northern Manchuria, and the area near the Okhotsk Sea beach.


Kumandy

The Kumandins (Turkic indigenous people of Siberia).


palacinke

Not knowing what anything was, we ordered half the options and filled our bellies with palacinke and sopska salad.

2019, Alexandra Ford, What Remains at the End:


brotherlocks

Sisterlocks (a kind of dreadlocks) when worn by a male.


sisterlocks

Coined as a trademark, from sister + locks.

As an example, are salons that do not offer sisterlocks, natural hair weaves, or micro-braids more efficient in terms of processing time for clients and do stylists of such salons have the same potential for revenues?

2011, Michael P. Johnson, Community-Based Operations Research: Decision Modeling for Local Impact and Diverse Populations, page 207:

The first time I saw someone with sisterlocks, the hair looked really nice, and I wanted to do the same for myself, but never got to do it. Sisterlocks are created by forming a woven pattern using hair.

2021, Lucy Wariara, The Sharp Entrepreneur, page 47:

The patient history may point to the use of tight hairstyles that put tension on the hair root or hair treatments that increase the vulnerability to traction-related damage. The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Oma N. Agbai, Jodie Raffi, “Hair Loss in Women of Color”, in Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, editors, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (Updates in Clinical Dermatology), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 154, column 2:

Small, thin dreadlocks that are woven into the hair using a special tool.


Hashashin

Although there were no real theological or religious differences between Shiites and Sunni Muslims, the Hashashin were implacably opposed to the Sunni rule and were working for the triumph of the Shia, which they believed would usher in a golden age.

1988, Karen Armstrong, Holy War, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 163:


nonarmaments

funds spent on nonarmaments


Weyanoke

(historical) An indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America.


noods

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-noods.wav

My cat saw me take noods now he won't stop judging me.

(Internet slang) Filter-avoidance spelling of nudes.


Pharaoh's beans

Found in ancient Egyptian building work.


Apaturia

From Ancient Greek Ἀπατούρια (Apatoúria).

(historical) Ancient Greek festivals held annually by most of the Ionian towns, with banqueting, discussions, etc.


Kizh

The Mission Indians of San Gabriel, California.


Unakhotana

(historical) A Native American tribe living on the right bank of the lower Yukon river.


Umpqua

An umbrella group of several distinct tribal entities of Native Americans of the Umpqua Basin in present-day south central Oregon, United States.


flyaway glasses

flyaway spectacles
flyaway spectacles#English


flyaway spectacles

A style of spectacles or sunglasses, popular in the 1950s, having approximately oval thick frames with wing-like protrusions at the top outer edges.


coochie cutters

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-coochie cutters.wav

Compound of coochie (“vulva”) + cutters. Attested from the 1990s; see quotations, below.

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Playing volleyball in my gray coochie cutters.

1995, For All the Right Reasons (yearbook), National City, CA: Sweetwater High School, page 94:

The kids played outside, and the hoes flaunted their bodies in their skin-tight skirts and coochie cutters.

2017, Bro. Lamont Charles McGee Bey, Free Da King Fate:

(US, slang) Very brief, skimpy shorts worn by a woman.


Koeksotenok

A certain subgroup of the Kwakwaka'wakw people.


Kowagmiut

A group of Eskimos living near the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska.


Fungor

The Benue-Congo language spoken by these people.


law-ways

en-noun

law-ways pl (normally plural, singular law-way)

We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material.

1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, University of Oklahoma Press, page 38:

Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.

1997, Irene Watson, “Indigenous Peoples' Law-Ways: Survival Against the Colonial State”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, page 45:

Communitarian justice generally employs local or indigenous law-ways and not state law; is bound up with attempts to create a new religious or utopian social order, advocates decentralization and the application of community norms instead of legal rules of procedure; and focuses on feelings and individual expression ...

2003, Randall Amster, “Restoring (Dis)order: Sanctions, Resolutions, and 'Social Control' in Anarchist Communities”, in Contemporary Justice Review, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 18:

A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.


some pumpkins

June 21, 1848, N.Y. Herald
General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.

I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins^([sic]); but this here town is five times as big.

1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business:

(US, idiomatic) A person or thing of consequence.


Though in many ways cold and remote, Richard was not without a capacity for friendship. From the days of his youth he had always cherished the company of a select group of male friends. His deep affection for Robert de Vere in the 1380s is well known. In the 1390s he apppears to have been on intimate terms with a number of the senior clerks in his service. The Evesham writer says that the bishops of Worcester and Carlisle were prominent among his boon companions in 1398. His friendships with other men were almost certainly close and intense; but it is possible that they were also fickle. His friendship with Thomas Mowbray, for example, in the early 1380s did not last. In the 1390s, as he moved from adolescence to adulthood, there are signs that he took a greater delight in female company.

1999 July 15, Liz Broadwell, “Richard II's licentiousness”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-26:

There is contemporary evidence that Duchess Cecily Neville's father-in-law Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge, was illegitimate, as historian T.B. Pugh discusses. His mother's affair with John Holland was reported in chronicles in the 1380s (when Richard was conceived and born), and Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, curiously makes no mention or provision at all in his will for his younger son.

2007 January 2, Mar...@aol.com, “Richard, Earl of Cambridge (d. 1415) - illegitimate??”, in soc.genealogy.medieval (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-26:

Some landlords started to make fundamental reassessments of their systems of estate management at varying points in the 1370s and 1380s. The 1380s saw the start of general leasing on the estates of the archbishopric of Canterbury, for example, and the same chronology fits Durham Cathedral Priory.³¹ In this respect, however, 1376 is an imprecise turning point. Most of the literature on this topic stresses the late 1380s and the 1390s, rather than the earlier 1380s, as a period of crisis in estate management. Regional circumstances allowed the recovery to be more prolonged in some regions than others. In the Breckland land values were rising into the later 1370s and 1380s.³²

2008, Ben Dodds, Richard Britnell, Agriculture and Rural Society After the Black Death: Common Themes and Regional Variations, page 26:

In a wave of persecution in the 1380s, an unprecedented number of Jews in Spain converted. Many of these were genuine conversions, or became so over time, but many were not.

2020 November 30, William Hyde, “[tears] The Tenth Planet by Edmund Cooper”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-26:

After c.1400 the scale of, and profits from, dairy farming declined greatly.⁶⁹ Similarly, in the 1390s cattle rearing began to level off in many parts of the country, but continued to expand until the early fifteenth century in certain areas of northern and southern England.⁷⁰ Chicken prices fell from the volatile highs of the 1350s and 1360s and remained stable throughout the 1380s and 1390s, albeit at a higher level than in the pre-plague period.⁷¹ In the 1380s demesne poultry rearing contracted and became less commercialized, perhaps due to a transfer of production to the peasant sector.⁷²

2021, Mark Bailey, After the Black Death, page 245:

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

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


The datings of great-grandsons, grandsons, etc, pin down it and mean that Vasilei cannot been born much later than the year 1400. Vasilei Hlazyna could quite plausibly been born in the 1390s, for example.

2010 July 8, M Sjostrom, “Puzyna”, in soc.genealogy.medieval (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-27:

Nonetheless Londoners' share of the credit recorded in the certificates rose in the 1390s to almost 50 per cent of the total as coin became even scarcer in the provinces.

2020, Pamela Nightingale, Mortality, Trade, Money and Credit in Late Medieval England (1285-1531):


mubble-fubbles

Not clear. Likely onomatopoeic. Possibly reduplication derived from the then-used verbs mumble (“to mix up”) and fubble (“to jumble up”), or perhaps the slang term fumble (“to sexually underperform”). Compare mumble-jumble.

Ile make him pull his powting croscloath ouer his beetle browes for melancholie, and then my next booke, shall be Martin in his mubble fubbles.

1589, Martin (pseudonym) Marprelate, Pappe with an hatchet:

Melancholy? Marry gup, is melancholy a word for a barber's mouth? Thou shouldst say, heavy, dull, and doltish. Melancholy is the crest of courtiers' arms, and now every base companion, being in his muble-fubles, says he is melancholy.

[…] when it is well beaten, mix it with the Braines of Booker, May, Wither, Mercurius Britannicus, Prinne, and two or three hundred Knaves Braines more, it is an approved medicine for the encrease of Rebellion, for the grumbling in the gizzard, the flux of the Tongue, or the melancholy mubble-fubbles, provided it be taken fasting (upon a full stomacke) at five of the clocke in the morning after Dinner.

1644, John Taylor, Being Yet unhanged, send greeting, to Iohn Booker:

He that hath read Seneca or Boethius, is well provided against any ordinary misfortune; and to have by heart the story of Argalus and Parthenia; the dolorous madrigals of old Plangus in the Arcadia; or the history of Pyramus and Thisbe, is a never failing remedy for the mubble-fubbles: For to be acquainted with sadness, besets familiarity, and familiars never kill one another, unless the devil is in them.

1654, Edmund Gayton, Festivous notes on the history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote:

(colloquial, obsolete) The doldrums; the blahs; a downer; a mood of depression, dejection or melancholy.


Frankliniana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.


Quaitso

Alternative form of Queets (“Native American tribe”)


Queets

A certain Native American tribe of Washington.


Kogi

A state of Nigeria in the North Central geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Lokoja.


Kogi

An indigenous people residing in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia.


Carmentae

(Roman mythology) The goddesses Antevorta and Postverta.


prns

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of pronouns.


sponge-bag pants

The Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court[…]

The spectacle of former Gov. Richard W. Leche, in claw-hammer coat and sponge-bag pants, solemnly lapping a Good Humor bar while prosecuting the diplomatic amenities with the President of Nicaragua, has been evoked by a wrangle over who pays for the hokey pokey.

1942 June 28, “Hotel Holds Bag for Long Gang’s Popsicle Shindig”, in Sunday News, volume 22, number 9, New York, N.Y., page 4:

Nevertheless, changing quickly from his old grey flannels to the diplomatic sponge-bag pants on learning of this season’s first assignment, Szold is in there pitching and will conduct a second try-out session at 7:30 p.m. Monday, same place.

1957 August 19, “Casting Starts As Szold Returns”, in The Victoria Advocate, 112th year, number 104, Victoria, Tex., page 1:


spongebag pants

The town’s best dressed doorman is outside the Silver Dollar in East Fifty-fourth street, wearing gray top hat and racing coat and spongebag pants.

1934 July 1, Lucius Beebe, “This New York”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 86, number 299, St. Louis, Mo., page 3B:

[…]the formidable old Charles Soames—who scared even me, when I met him later on, with his wall eye, monocle and spongebag pants.

1966, Marguerite Steen, Looking Glass: An Autobiography, Longmans, page 8:

John the Baptist would have been horrified at the beautifully cut dark, double-breasted jacket and the natty gray sponge bag pants.

1967, Lewis W. Gillenson, Billy Graham and Seven Who Were Saved, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, →ISBN, page 11:

‘Bishops, flood-lit Highlanders dancing reels under the palm-trees, Matrons, Maids, Saris, Sarongs, Black faces, White uniforms, and the hero of the party, Prince Mohammed Aly, in spongebag pants, red Tarboosh and carnation, and an emerald in his tie the size of a golf ball,’ observed Coats.

2006, Victoria Schofield, Wavell: Soldier and Statesman, Pen & Sword Military, published 2010, →ISBN:

The ceremony was a formal affair and the men were expected to wear morning suits. So I dutifully pulled out my black tailcoat from Hackett, my black-and-white dogtooth-check “spongebag” pants, a Cornish cream hopsack waistcoat, a nice cornflower blue shirt with a stiff white collar, my silver tie from Ralph Lauren and a pair of highly polished, black Oxford shoes by New & Lingwood of Jermyn Street.

2008 April 9, Simon Mills, “Traditional elegance under fire”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,540, page 29:


french fried potatoes

french fried potatoes pl (normally plural, singular french fried potato)

“Waiter, you may bring me a nice thick steak, and waiter, bring me some french fried potatoes and some sliced tomatoes, and waiter, bring me a demi-tasse.”

1912, Proceedings, Natural Gas Association of America, page 148:

Add a few slices of fresh tomato, or a few french fried potatoes, or small quantities of green lima beans, diced celery, small whole boiled onions, green peas, sliced green pepper, or cooked carrots and turnips to the serving platter.

1935, The Army Cook (Training Manual No. 2100-152), Washington, D.C.: War Department, page 96:

Later she said that she had a piece of steak and some french fried potatoes in addition to the corn.

1943, Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 216:

French-fried potatoes
French-fried potatoes#English

Alternative form of French-fried potatoes


toxitabellae

As in cases of the injections, the amount of ingredients are not prescribed or dose in any table given except in the toxitabellae Hydrargyri Chloridi (Tablets of mercuric bichloride.)

1945, New York Legislative Documents, volume 2, page 81:

Two classes of tablets are now official, the Toxitabellae and the Tabellae. The former appellation is reserved solely for tablets of mercuric chloride […]

1945, Rufus Ashley Lyman, American Pharmacy, page 442:

(medicine, dated, historical) Tablets of mercuric chloride or mercuric bichloride, formerly used to treat syphilis.


Biden bucks

(derogatory, humorous) Stimulus payments provided to US citizens during the Biden presidency.


Zenú

A pre-Columbian culture in Colombia from about 200 BCE to about 1600 CE, whose ancestral territory comprises the valleys of the Sinú and San Jorge rivers as well as the coast of the Caribbean around the Gulf of Morrosquillo.


Vokkaliga

A community, or a group of closely related castes, from the Indian state of Karnataka, also present in Tamil Nadu.


Ofo

Synonym of Mosopelea (“a Native American people”)


breezers

This comment indicates that for this player, the protective function of the breezers is secondary to their looks.

2001, Maura Beth Rosenthal, Body Culture of Women's Ice Hockey: A Participant Observation, page 106:

“My earliest memory is going to see them play the [Minnesota] North Stars one year, and they had those green breezers on,” Zach Parise,a first-round draft pick of the Devils in 2003 who eventually became the franchise's captain on October 5, 2011, said of New Jersey's pants at the time.

2012, Tim Sullivan, Battle on the Hudson:

Breezers are padded to offer extra midsection protection.

2014, Jeff Hawkins, Playing Pro Hockey, page 59:

(plural only) Padded shorts worn as protective gear by ice hockey players.


Fem&M's

It's the little things while you are pre everything. Hopefully not for long though because I go on Thursday to hopefully get my Fem&m's

2017 September 24, ccbarber1014, “I got my belly button pierced!”, in Reddit, MtF, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

2019 April 19, Fraih, “MRW I got a prescription for fem&m's after my first endo appointment without any gatekeeping.”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Congrats Hun! Enjoy the Titty Skittles, Fem&M's, Breast Mints, Tit Tacs, Galtoids, Anticistamines

2019 February 9, Syn-the-Guardian, “I started on E!!!”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

THREE GODDAMN YEARS OF FEM&M’S TODAY AND IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER HELLLL YEA

2019 December 8, SomeBWord, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Good luck! Get them Fem&M's, Girl!

2019 December 9, ThatEdgyOne, “Got my first appointment in 2 hours for hrt so so so so soooooo excited but also super nervous hope you all have an amazing day today <3”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

I'm still only on Fem&M's and Antidudeimines.

2020 April 23, Riggy_Minus, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

At the pharmacy waiting to pick up my titty skittles, fem&ms and anticistamines 💜💙

2022 March 1, Selenaissapphic, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

(transgender slang, humorous) Estrogen pills taken as part of hormone replacement therapy.


Wenrohronon

(historical) An Iroquoian indigenous nation of North America, originally residing in present-day western New York (and possibly fringe portions of northern and northwestern Pennsylvania).


Mosopelea

(historical) A Siouan-speaking Native American people who historically inhabited the upper Ohio River.


Deori

One of the major ethnic groups of northeast India, found especially in the plain areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.


Metoac

A group of Native Americans: the Munsee-speaking Lenape (west), Quiripi-speaking Unquachog (center) and Pequot-speaking Montaukett (east) American Indians on what is now Long Island in New York state.


VMT

virtual method table
w:virtual method table

(programming) Initialism of virtual method table.


Harry Potter glasses

From the style of glasses worn by the character Harry Potter in the eponymous novel series and films.

Tears trapped behind the lenses of her Harry Potter glasses magnified the fear in her eyes.

"When are you handing out your books?" asked the man with the Harry Potter glasses.

2007, Maddy Hunter, Norway to Hide, page 7:

Sweat trickled down his forehead, steaming up his round Harry Potter glasses.

2014, Julie Garwood, Fast Track, page 290:

(plural only) A pair of spectacles (glasses) with round lenses.


Harry Potter spectacles

Harry Potter spectacles pl (plural only)

His lower lip trembled as he blinked up at her from behind his round, Harry Potter spectacles.

2003, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's, page 101:

There an assistant D.A., a thirtyish young man sporting Harry Potter spectacles and prematurely thinning hair, […]

2006, Erica Spindler, Copycat, pages 146–147:

The door to one of the cubicles opened to reveal an elderly woman with curly grey hair and Harry Potter spectacles.

2010, Jill Barry, The House Sitter, page 200:

Harry Potter glasses
Harry Potter glasses#English

(plural only) Synonym of Harry Potter glasses.


Derbet

Learned borrowing from Russian дербе́т (derbét).

lbor

Alternative spelling of Dörbet (“subgroup of Mongol people in Mongolia”)


Dörbet

From Learned borrowing from Kalmyk Дөрвд (Dörvd).

A subgroup of Mongol people in Mongolia.


Teko

A Tupi-Guaraní-speaking people in French Guiana, living on the banks of the Camopi and Tampok rivers.


Qurti

(historical) A people mentioned on ancient Sumerian tablets as having lived in the land of Karda, and who are held to be related to the modern Kurds.


kneppars

en-noun

kneppars pl (normally plural, singular kneppar)

(Northern England) Long-shafted pincers.


natural parts

These islanders were naked except their natural parts, some were painted black.

1774, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 22 June


Femme&M's

(transgender slang, humorous) Alternative spelling of Fem&M's.


air crew

The crew of a passenger plane; the flight crew


Napoleoniana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Napoleon Bonaparte.


Nuba

The various indigenous inhabitants of central Sudan.


Kipsigis

Their tonal language, part of the Kenyan Kalenjin dialect cluster.


Mishikhwutmetunne

A Native American group, the Upper Coquille Indians.


Blackfolk

Alternative letter-case form of blackfolk.


whitefolk

Coordinate term: blackfolk

Francine’s stolid, accommodating husband Albert (Damon Gupton) completes the picture, and soon we’re in purgatory, with a passel of well-meaning whitefolk raucously debating the limits of liberty (vis a vis the superseding priority of property value) as the black folks stand quietly by, biting (through) their tongues.

2012 April 20, Scott Brown, “Theater Review: Clybourne Park Is a Mighty Racial Cage Match”, in Vulture:

The movie joins an impressive list of recent films obsessed with Bay Area redevelopment and the high cost of living where you used to live, or want to live, surrounded by pre-approved whitefolk of means.

2019 June 11, Michael Phillips, “'Last Black Man in San Francisco' review: This old house tells a story”, in Chicago Tribune:


blackfolk

Coordinate term: whitefolk

Most Integrationists do not see America as a powerful but degenerate world imperialist. Those Integrationist[s] who do see this feel that by injecting blackfolk into the existing American framework they will cool out the degeneracy.

1968 September–October, S. E. Anderson, “Roads to Black Liberation: The Fragmented Movement”, in Negro Digest, volume 17, numbers 11–12, page 5:

All forced conversations in America about race, sex and celebrity are inevitably framed by horror and absurdity, history and the modern day. Because of this, many of my people – as in American born Blackfolk – refuse to countenance moral or legal absolutes when allegations of our stars committing sexual assault hit the news.

2019 March 1, Greg Tate et al., “'Too big to cancel': can we still listen to Michael Jackson?”, in The Guardian:


bicycle Irish

So named because the seat of a bicycle often causes a pain in the rear, i.e. a "pain in the ass".

(slang, derogatory, offensive, uncommon) Contemptible or unpleasant individuals of Irish heritage.


cents on the dollar

Many disabled people are legally paid cents on the dollar, those who get hired at all.

2022 January 16, Alison Stine, “Frank deserves better than "Station Eleven." So do disabled stories”, in Salon:

pennies on the dollar
pennies on the dollar#English

Alternative form of pennies on the dollar


haluski

From Czech halušky, Polish hałuski, Slovak halušky, Ukrainian галу́шки (halúšky).

Kay bought two bowls of haluski—or cabbages and noodles—a festival staple in western Pennsylvania.

1996, Craig Kennedy, Pennsylvania Fairs and Country Festivals, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 73:

Stir in the crumbled bacon, the noodles, the remaining garlic salt, and the pepper, and let the haluski cook for 5 more minutes or so.

2009, Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America’s Finest and Funkiest Joints, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 74:

The church is only a few miles down and across the Ohio from our house, but rarely have I remembered to drive there on Friday mornings, or to swing across the street for the haluski that came from heaven by way of the St. John the Baptist Ukranian^([sic]) Catholic Church. (Fridays were once more competitive than Sundays on Olivia Street, but I hear St. John’s no longer has the people for haluski.)

2009, Brian O’Neill, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

If the water wasn’t boiling hard enough the haluski sank to the bottom and stuck.

2009, Fran Cirbo, Working the Land: Building a Life, [Denver, Colo.]: FELLTTA Books, →ISBN, page 69:

He imagined a dot marking Olbinski’s, where he’d taken Trish Jaskula on their second date because she said the haluski was just like her grandma’s.

2013, Laura Hemphill, Buying In, Boston, Mass.: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 71:

Don had the Haluski Special and it had arrived swimming in a pool of yellow grease.

2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 464:

A traditional variety of thick, soft noodles or dumplings found in many Central and Eastern European cuisines.


Semiahmoo

A Coast Salish indigenous people whose homeland is in the Lower Mainland region of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.


Ejagham

Synonym of Ekoi (“ethnic group of Nigeria”)


Mbuti

One of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa.


Kangeanese

Synonym of Kangean (“a language of Indonesia”)


Lwo

Alternative form of Luo (“Nilotic language”)


Querendi

(historical) A Native American group of eastern Buenos Aires.


Querendis

Synonym of Querendi (“Native American group”)


loanable funds

(economics) A theory of the market interest rate, where the interest rate is determined by the demand for and supply of all forms of credit (including loans, bonds, and savings deposits).


bro globes

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bro globes.wav

I'll admit, I've no idea what lies beyond the bridge, but I tell him it's fine to pack his skimpy swimwear. Mainly because I've cut a hole in them so his 'bro globes' can get some fresh air.

2016, Ben Phillips, Sorry Bro!, page 110:


pili torti

Plural form of Latin pilus (“hair”) + tortus (“twisted”).

(medicine) A condition of the skin appendage, characterized by short and brittle hairs that appear flattened and twisted when viewed through a microscope.


Extravagantes

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Christianity) Within the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, those papal decretals not contained in certain canonical collections which possess a special authority.


hearts on sleeves

As they have avoided the consequences of one defeat in Standing Committee, we are trying to get another opportunity for the House to consider the matter in order to bring home to the Government that it is no use Ministers coming here with hearts on sleeves and being full of good intentions aimed at the electorate and anybody else who cares to listen.

1975 June 11, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 453:

Played with all hearts on sleeves. With angst. angst. angst.

2002 July 23, Greil Marcus, “Real Life Rock Top 10”, in Salon; quoted in Greil Marcus, “Salon, 1999–2003”, in Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986–2014, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, 2015, →ISBN, page 314:

THE SCHIAVO CASE: THE SCENE; Protesters With Hearts on Sleeves and Anger on Signs

2005 March 28, Rick Lyman, The New York Times, section A, page 15:

Well, you’re not bothered – hearts on sleeves and all that – touché.

2009, Hazel Wheeler, Crackers at Christmas: The Festive Trials of a Yorkshire Housewife, Amberley Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN:

It is a time for reflection, for hearts on sleeves and for dedications.

2010, Luca Caioli, Messi: The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend, Icon Books, →ISBN:

On our last trip, hearts on sleeves and neighbourly love in spades had been replaced by clubs in hand and diamond geezers in warring gangs.

2012, Sam Bleakley, “Getting Traction in Haiti”, in Surfing Tropical Beats, Alison Hodge Publishers, →ISBN, page 28:

What I love about bluegrass is that it’s hearts on sleeves, and getting everyone involved, and rocking out.

2013, Chloe Govan, The Incredible Rise of Mumford & Sons, Omnibus Press, →ISBN:

Hearts on sleeves as Scotland faces moment of truth

2014 September 19, Matthew Fisher, The Vancouver Sun, page B1:

With hearts on sleeves and sparklers in hand, may we all see glittering lights in the darkness.

2016, Mandy Arioto, Starry-Eyed: Seeing Grace in the Unfolding Constellation of Life and Motherhood, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 14:

Instead of hearts on sleeves, expect caution, philosophical doubt, a bland smile.

2019, Andrew Beatty, “Java: Emotions Analyzed”, in Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, part I (Groundings), page 77:

It’s as you would expect, all love and longing, hearts on sleeves and happily ever afters.

2021, Victoria McFarlane, I Don’t Want You, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) Transparent, open, or forthright emotions.


Jakun

An ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula in Malaysia.


drunchies

Free midnight breakfast at Rastall is put on once a block (which is fantastic for people with drunchies, or just people who could use some pancakes without using dining dollars).

2011, Cobun Keegan, Greg Lestikow, Jennifer Small, Colorado College 2012:

We begin our trek home, still drinking Sternburg Export […] and the remaining Mate-Wodka. […] These soldiers are extremely hungry so we stop not once, not twice, but five times for cheap street food. Serious drunchies.

2013, Reece Gesumaria, Memoirs of an American Gypsy, page 109:

(slang) A craving for food as a result of alcohol consumption.


Pacoh

A minority ethnic group, part of the Katuic peoples, found mostly in the mountains of Laos.


Makaraka

The Adio ethnic group of Central Africa.


Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes

Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes pl (plural only)

(idiomatic) One's best or most presentable clothes.


manavelins

Unknown, probably related to manarvel (“To steal food or supplies from a ship's store”). Possibly related to minnow (“A relatively small and insignificant person or organization”).

A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and 'menavelings' from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.

1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories, page 34:

For many of the maize farms where, by reason of the “menavelings” from the grain crop, it is possible to get good supplies of pig grain at little cost, such a system would be admirable.

1901, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, page 512:

He efficiently loaded our bicycles and manavelins onto a waiting Volkswagen bus.

2011, V. Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 183:

(nautical slang) Odds and ends, leftovers, or scraps of food.


Furfooz

Named after the village of Furfooz, Wallonia, where a prehistoric lower jaw was discovered in 1866.

The first anatomically modern humans of the European Upper Palaeolithic, alongside the Cro-Magnon and Grimaldi Man.


Wahinda

A clan or class of Eastern Africa, especially Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.


monkey points

Attributed to American actor Eddie Murphy.

participation points
participation points

(slang, derogatory) participation points


Wuikinuxv

An Indigenous First Nations people of the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located around Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake, to the north of Queen Charlotte Strait.


participation points

A percentage of net income (rather than gross income) paid to somebody who has contributed to the making of a film.


Twainiana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Mark Twain (1835–1910), American writer and humorist.


Harvardiana

For many years he has been particularly concerned with the Library's collection of Harvard records and other Harvardiana.

1929, The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, page 77:

This historic and fragrant tobacconist of old still today is decorated with team pictures and other Harvardiana […]

2000, Raymond Rhinehart, Princeton University: The Campus Guide, page 131:

Documents and other items associated with Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Clintoniana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Bill Clinton (born 1946), the 42nd president of the United States.


Nixoniana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Richard Nixon (1913–1994), the 37th president of the United States.


windmills in one's head

windmills in one's head pl (plural only)


poorsies

One male friend said, “Marion likes to compare poorsies,” but when I talked to her she was nonrevealing about her background to the point of being both petty and hostile.

1975, Myra MacPherson, The Power Lovers: An Intimate Look at Politics and Marriage, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 37:

My sister Cathy had a character simply known as the Rich Girl who would emerge from the fireplace and call us names, like Dirty Poorsies.

1991, Nora Dunn, Nobody’s Rib: Pat Stevens, Liz Sweeney, Babette, and Some Other Women You Know, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 174:

Mona-Lisa: [shrieks] What? Excuse me. You’re broke? / Tom: Uh, yeah, super broke. Are you upset about that? / Mona-Lisa: Mm, yeah, ’cause I don't eff with poorsies.

2013 April 25, Joe Mande, Alan Yang, “Swing Vote”, in Parks and Recreation, season 5, episode 21:

“Poorsies need never be seen in the daytime. They are for the night.” It was a common reaction of the rich upon seeing the poor in the light of day.

2020, Russell Nohelty, Worst Thing in the Universe, Wannabe Press, →ISBN:

Recently, he purchased a vacation home in Hawaii to get away from the “negativity” he’s surrounded by at UCSB, brought on by all the “annoying poorsies that keep nagging me,” he said.

2022 January 27, Sam Franzini, “$580k Not Enough: Generous Students Start GoFundMe for Needy Yang”, in Daily Nexus:


fuzzy dice

fuzzy dice pl (normally plural, singular fuzzy die or fuzzy dice)

fuzzy die (singular)
fuzzy dice (singular)

An automotive decoration, first used in the 1950s, consisting of two oversized (usually six-sided) plush dice which hang from the rear-view mirror.

karvanoppa

automotive decoration consisting of two oversized (usually six-sided) plush dice


pee shivers

post-micturition convulsion syndrome
post-micturition convulsion syndrome

(informal) post-micturition convulsion syndrome


WaChaga

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


Chaga

Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans comprising the third-largest ethnic group in Tanzania.


Nambé

From Spanish Nambé (“Nambé”), from Tewa Nąngbeʼe (“rounded earth”).

A federally recognized tribe of Tewa-speaking Pueblo people in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.


Cambridges

“I then spoke with Lord Melbourne,” wrote the Queen on September 8, 1838, “about the Cambridges, and about George, and if I ought to ask him to stay, which Ma hinted at.”

1838 September 8, Giles St. Aubyn, editor, The Royal George, 1819-1904: The Life of H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, published 1963, page 33:

The Cambridges are here, the whole family, Duke and Duchess, Prince George and Princess Mary, the latter really very pretty; […]

1848 January 5, Eleanor Stanley, Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862, pages 162–163:

The first significant moment in the Cambridges’ diary was their son’s Christening on 23 October 2013.

2014, Robert Jobson, The New Royal Family: Prince George, William and Kate, The Next Generation, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:

(informal) The family of the Duke of Cambridge.


daily necessities

Everyday items required for personal hygiene; everyday toiletries.


bare necessities

The most basic items required in order to live or to do something.


Monongahela

From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).

bor

Allegheny Plateau
Allegheny Plateau#English

A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.


Ts and Cs

So ayo, me no watch nothing apart from my Ps / Check out the Ts and Cs, I’m involved

2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon ft. Manga Saint Hilare:


brass balls

You've got a lot of brass balls, you know that. I do all the work, you take all the credit. You know what your problem is? Your face.

1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):

Gentlemen, do you know what it takes to sell real estate? (Picks up a physical pair of brass balls and holds them at groin height.) It takes brass balls to sell real estate.

1992, David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, spoken by Blake (Alec Baldwin):

(slang) Shamelessness, cheek, brazenness.


Waregga

Like the Waregga, the Asama wore caps of lemur, monkey, otter, goat, red buffalo and antelope skin, with long strips of fur or the tails dropped behind.

1878, Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent, page 308:

The Waregga, the natives of that district, although living secluded lives, could boast of a fair amount of comfort in their dwelling-places.

1883, Robert Cochrane, Lives and Discoveries of Famous Travellers, page 186:


Bighorn Mountains

Calque of Crow Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua (literally “bighorn sheep's mountains”).

calque

A mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States.


bubble guts

en-noun

bubble guts pl (normally plural, singular bubble gut)

So named from the bubbling and churning feeling that occurs in one's stomach and digestive tract.

Every time I eat at that restaurant I wake up the next day with bubble guts.

(informal) A condition where one experiences discomfort, bloating, and cramping in the stomach or digestive tract due to gases caused by extreme hunger or explosive pre-diarrhea.


digital electronics

(electronics, technology) A field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.


Gallinazo

Sun-dried adobe bricks were used as the primary building material by the Gallinazo.

2020, Bethany L. Turner, Haagen D. Klaus, Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru, page 55:

(historical) A pre-Columbian, pre-Inca culture that flourished in the Virú Valley on the northwest coast of Peru around 200 BCE.


OKRs

Alternative form: OKR

As an OKRs coach, you help your client translate milestone key results like “produce a demo of product X” into aspirational outcomes like “three customers sign an agreement for product X” that move a metric rather than simply represent completion of a task.

2022, Ben Lamorte, The OKRs Field Book: A Step-by-Step Guide for Objectives and Key Results Coaches, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 68:

objectives and key results
w:w:objectives and key results

(business) Initialism of objectives and key results.


allcomers

As regards accommodation, there is plenty of room for allcomers.

1895, Report of the Minister ... Upon the Condition of Public Schools, page 162:

The product of a period of intense creative ferment, Mute engaged boldly with allcomers.

2008, Pauline Van Mourik Broekman, Simon Worthington, Damian Jaques, Mute Magazine Graphic Design, page 145:

In particular, the Web 2.0 phenomena spawned a “do-it-yourself celebrity” that opened up Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame to allcomers.

2019, James R. Harrison, Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit, page 333:


mergers and acquisitions

mergers and acquisitions pl (plural only)

Business transactions in which the ownership of companies are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization.


spex

If a patient feels that you are trying to sell a pair of spex, he will freeze up on you.

1935, Ralph Merrill Barstow, Build a Better Practice, Doctor, page 15:

If you state flatly that your fee is $5 or $20, they take it for granted that this fee covers everything you must do to "fit a pair of spex." They know that you are an optometrist, that you must have gone to college, […]

1955, The Optometric Weekly and the Optometrist & Optician, page 491:

(colloquial, plural only) Dated form of specs (“spectacles”).


dragon's teeth

dragon's teeth pl (normally plural, singular dragon's tooth)

Coordinate term: shark's teeth

The new line markings – known internationally as dragon's teeth – are designed to make sure motorists know they are entering a 40kmh school zone. […] "It's our aim to get these new dragon's teeth out on our streets as quickly as possible, which is why we'll be enlisting the help of several different crews around the state to get started on this massive rollout."

2009 May 24, Lisa Carty, “Dragon's teeth to guard school zones”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, road transport) A series of triangular road surface markings painted on each side of a traffic lane, used for traffic calming or to alert drivers to a speed limit.


Unquachog

(historical) A Quiripi-speaking group of Native Americans who inhabited what is now Long Island, New York.


Bradford Hill criteria

Bradford Hill criteria pl (normally plural, singular Bradford Hill criterion)

Established by Austin Bradford Hill (1897–1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, in 1965.

(epidemiology) A group of nine principles, widely used in public health research, that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.


gutterbrains

(informal, rare) A state of mind which finds sexual innuendo in innocent things.


friends in low places

(idiomatic, humorous) Friends who have underworld connections or are involved in shady underdealings.


summer blues

Seasonal affective disorder
seasonal affective disorder

(informal, psychology) Seasonal affective disorder during the summer season.


rookie numbers

A reference to Matthew McConaughey's character Mark Hanna in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, who advises protagonist Jordan Belfort to masturbate more frequently: "You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket."

Compared to Bezos, Zoom's insider dumps are rookie numbers.

2020 September 28, David Canellis, “Zoom execs dumped $580M of stock as its share price rose 622%”, in TNW:

Garfield recently discussed how he got into character as a Jesuit priest for the movie Silence by being celibate for half a year. But Barrymore's reaction? Those are rookie numbers!

2022 September 21, Brenden Morrow, “The daily gossip: Tom Hardy won a Jiu-Jitsu competition, Shakira is in the 'darkest hour of my life,' and more”, in The Week:

As the protector of Wallachia and Transylvania, [Vlad Dracula] was a far more bloodthirsty ruler than the infamous Queen Mary I, Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary; she burned 280 religious dissenters at the stake during her reign. Those are rookie numbers to Dracula.

2022 October 23, Tony Sokol, “Dracula Stands Above All Other Vampires and Horror Icons”, in Den of Geek:

(slang, humorous) Low numbers or a small amount of something, especially seen as signaling one's inexperience or naïveté.

Matthew McConaughey
The Wolf of Wall Street


today's lucky 10,000

Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2012 in his webcomic xkcd, based on a calculation that given four million yearly births in the United States, about ten thousand people learn something that "everyone knows" every day.

coinage

Don't make fun of people who don't know something; they're one of today's lucky 10,000!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:today's lucky 10,000.

A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.


yabos

Boon: You going out tonight, Otter?
 Otter: Uh-huh.
 Boon: Norma?
 Otter: No, let me give you a hint. She's got a couple of major-league yabos.

1978 July 28, National Lampoon's Animal House:

"Max likes your yabos," Dani said. "In fact, he loves them."

2018, A. W. Jantha, Hocus Pocus and The All-New Sequel, Disney Book Group, →ISBN:

Pigboy was watching and asked. "He who was that? Holy shit, she was hot and the size of her yabos!"

2022, Lt.Colonel Jefferson Azgard Davis, Strawman Returneth!, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:


End Times

1999, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Are We Living in the End Times?, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN:

2004, Bruce David Forbes, Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series, Macmillan, →ISBN:

2005, James M. Efird, Left behind?: What the Bible Really Says about the End Times, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, →ISBN:

2007, Hank Hanegraaff, The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible Really Says About the End Times and Why It Matters Today, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:

Alternative letter-case form of end times


end-times

End-times thinking has a long and rather unimpressive history as prediction, but Žižek adopts it anyway (perhaps as a useful lie), […]

2010 June 25, Steven Poole, “Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek”, in The Guardian:

I gazed from the railing with a contemporary Alaskan’s gloom, a pilgrim bearing witness to end-times in the temple of the glaciers.

2022 November 22, Tom Kizzia, “End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers”, in The New York Times:


Taeguk Warriors

Derived from Korean 태극전사 (taegeukjeonsa)


Purasati

(historical) A great confederation from north Syria, Asia Minor and the Levant, which threatened Egypt in the XXth Dynasty.


Reformati

(Christianity) A certain order of Franciscans.


Uwharries

A forested mountain range in central North Carolina in the United States, formerly a coastal mountain range, now located far inland.


Imbangala

(historical) 17th-century groups of Angolan warriors and marauders who founded the Kasanje Kingdom.


committee rooms

en-noun

committee rooms pl (normally plural, singular committee room)

Hats were thrown in the air at the west end committee rooms when when victory seemed certain and the crowds surged up and down the stairs in the west end committee rooms to offer congratulations to the victorious candidate.

a. 1946, The Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers Journal, International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers:

One of the factors in the success of the party in Verdun in polling a sizable vote was the role played by these voluntary workers in canvassing, distributing literature, and staffing committee rooms.

1946, Herbert F. Quinn, The Quebec Provincial Election of 1944: An Analysis of the Role of the Election in the Democratic Process (master’s thesis), Montreal: McGill University, →OCLC, retrieved 2022-12-07, page 44:

With the party candidate in Winnipeg North, he shared a cramped committee room in the northern district, across the street from the Conservative auxiliary office.[…]

1964, T. Peterson, I. Avakumovic, “A Return to the Status Quo: The Election in Winnipeg North Centre”, in John Meisel, editor, Papers on the 1962 Election: Fifteen Papers on the Canadian General Election of 1962, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, pages 94–95, 100:

COMMITTEE ROOMS:
1915 Osler Street

1975, NDP... Keeping Saskatchewan Alive, Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan NDP; republished Quebec City, Quebec: Centre for Public Policy Analysis, c. 2006, retrieved 2022-12-06, page 17:

When I came to Moosomin 30 years ago, the Liberals, NDP and Conservatives all had active local constituencies, all had well known supporters, all would set up committee rooms during the election, get their lawn signs out and work for their candidate.

2019 October 7, Kevin Weedmark, “Canadian Politics Is No Longer Right Versus Left, It’s Urban Versus Rural”, in The World-Spectator, Moosomin, Saskatchewan, retrieved 2022-12-06:

(Canada, UK, dated) One or more election campaign offices.


fecalia

At the same time, one of the sources of enteroviruses in the environment are the fecalia and the daily-economic sewage.

Unfortunately, fecalia and urine contain many factors favorable for microbial growth, as well as for the life of the snails in which part of the cycle of schistosomes takes place.

1966, Oscar Felsenfeld, The Epidemiology of Tropical Diseases, page 50:

When there is a large lice population on underclothing, a patient can be infected with typhus by means of louse fecalia, which dry rapidly; when such articles of clothing are moved or put on, dry louse fecalia are pulverized and readily inhaled by man, leading to inhalational infection with typhus of bronchioli.

1966 April 29, Natural Foci of Transmissible Diseases as Related to Territorial Epidemiology of Zooanthroponoses, page 58:

Development work is now in progress on this type of toilet aimed at the separation of fecalia and urine and separate treatment of these two types of waste.

1980, Human Settlements in the Arctic: An Account of the ECE Symposium on Human Settlements Planning and Development in the Arctic, Godthåb, Greenland, 18-25 August 1978, page 60:

Diseased and dead fish in the pens, together with fecalia and uneaten food, will also release lipid droplets.

1992, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, page 1052:


arse antlers

(UK, Australia, derogatory, slang) A tattoo on a person's lower back, especially one with a horizontally spreading design.


ram's horns

(linguistics) The IPA letter ɤ, which represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel.


letters requisitory

letters rogatory
letters rogatory#English


Mirasi

In North India and Pakistan, a group comprising the genealogists and traditional singers and dancers of a number of communities.


agrarian scissors

Primarily a calque of Hungarian agrárolló. See price scissors, scissors crisis.

For a time it looked as if even ideological protests against the ruling system had been discredited. But the traditional wounds of the country were still there, and they soon began to bleed again, partly because of the stopping of emigration to America, partly because of the “agrarian scissors” which put the living standard of the people on a starvation level.

1938, Oscar Jászi, “Feudal Agrarianism in Hungary”, in Foreign Affairs, volume 16:

The price of wheat was down now to 7.76 gold francs per quintal, opening the “agrarian scissors” to the extraordinary angle of 70.4 per cent. […]

1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 118:

The agrarian scissors were set at an angle of 59.4% as late as 1940, and the living standard was 33% to 64% lower than it had been in 1916.

1998, Nicholas Nagy-Talavera, Nicolae Iorga: A Biography, page 356:

(chiefly Hungary) The disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.


winds of change

Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.

coinage

The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.


cement shoes

(crime, euphemistic) A largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).


Rilkeana

/ˌɹɪl.keɪˈɑːnə/

In the first decades of the 20th century, the famous German poet Rainer Maria Rilke spent extended periods in Ronda, where he kept a permanent room at the Hotel Reina Victoria (built in 1906). His room remains to this day as he left it: a mini-museum of Rilkeana.

2018 January 9, La Cazalla de Ronda, Tajo del Abanico, Ronda, Malaga, “Things to Do in Ronda”, in Ronda: An Inspiration for Writers and Artists, and La Cazalla: The Perfect Writer’s Retreat:

Belongings, manuscripts, and other items reminding of the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

'Rilkeana: variações elegíacas' ('Rilkeana: Elegiac Variations') is a 1999 collection of poems by w:Ana Hatherly first published in Lisbon by w:pt:Assírio & Alvim.

Poetry composed in a manner reminiscent of Rainer Maria Rilke, or else dealing with themes similar to those of Rilke's poetry.


neoprns

By surface analysis, neo- + prns (“pronouns”).

surf

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of neopronouns.


Austrian Netherlands

CHINEY, a city of the Auſtrian Netherlands on the confines of the biſhopric of Liege, about twelve miles ſouth-eaſt of Namur...

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192

(plural only, historical) The southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg) during their period of Austrian rule (1714–1797), ending with their annexation by France during the Napoleonic Wars.


Amangu

An indigenous Yamatji people of the mid-western region of Western Australia.


Kumaoni

The Indo-Aryan language of these people.


anticistamines

Blend of antihistamine + cis (“cisgender”).

blend

Super excited for you to finally get those anticistamines

2017 September 7, @JackRoyce, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

(cw meds) tfw you're on the train to pride and you realize the one thing you forgot to pack is your anticistamines

2019 June 8, @concavetriangle, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

9 months on anticistamines ✨🖤 trans joy is ~everything~

2021 February 27, @__jajaja___, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

(transgender slang, humorous) Medication used for transgender hormone replacement therapy.


FMQs

Coordinate term: PMQs

First Minister's Questions
w:First Minister's Questions

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


morbs

Perhaps from morbid, ultimately from Latin morbus (“malady (of body or mind), distress”).

der

As a whole, New York audiences are the most responsive because they are made up largely of the happy, care-free transients, the human beings who come to New York to laugh. […] They are not wise as the morbs are, they are just happy, and natural and alive.

1919, Bert Williams, quotee, “Keeping up with the new laughs”, in Theatre Magazine, page 346:

(archaic, informal) One who suffers from melancholia or depression.


Thronds

Adapted borrowing of Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr m pl. Compare Old English Þrowendas pl, German Drönter m pl, and Norwegian trønder m or m pl. Doublet of Throwends.

Throndish

of or pertaining to Trøndelag or Thronds


Beethoveniana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.


active measures

Calque of Russian активные мероприятия (aktivnyje meroprijatija)

calque

активные мероприятия

Political warfare conducted by the Soviet or Russian government since the 1920s to advance foreign policy, including espionage, propaganda, sabotage, and assassination.


Hartman Hips

Coined by TV Tropes in 2008. Named after animator Butch Hartman, who frequently drew women with exaggerated proportions in cartoons such as The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom.

Her thighs suddenly seemed to push together so she looked down and watched as her hips and ass started to enlarge, reaching almost cartoonish proportions, especially when her waist shrunk until she could almost encircle it with both of her hands.
“Looks like someone’s into Hartman Hips,” she thought. “I wonder if I look more like a cartoon vamp or a cartoon mom now…”

2018 December 1, Broken Arrow - MasterLoveHurts, “Holocade: Mollie’s First Play”, in alt.sex.erotica.market.place (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-27:

(fandom slang) Extremely wide hips, especially on a female cartoon character.

Butch Hartman
Danny Phantom
The Fairly OddParents


multicourses

As demonstrated by Raynor and Epstein (2001), given multicourse meals, each with a different variety of foods, people consume 44 percent more than they do when the multicourses each contain the same foods.

2003, Peter J. McCusker, Conversation, page 29:


multigrains

Healthy grains, multigrains, and the like are not part of this low-carb approach.

2016, Robert D. Lesslie, 60 Ways to Lose 10 Pounds (or More), page 87:

Multiple types of grain, usually in processed form.


Garha

A Muslim community or caste found in the Indian states of Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and Uttarakhand.


Pamlico

(historical) A group of American Indians of North Carolina.


tradesies

But such tricks are inconsequential alongside the boundless and varied delights of the lunch hour. These range from the simple fun of “doing tradesies” (you give me your brown paper bag lunch, I’ll give you mine, we’ll both be surprised), to the more grownup game of business lunch dates with men which, Mrs. Brown crows, are “sex at high noon!”

1964 August 28, Jane Howard, “Secretary’s Guide to Sex at High Noon: Sex and the Office by Helen Gurley Brown (Bernard Geis Associates) $4.95”, in Life, page 8:

Then quickly, not giving him a chance to answer, she leavened it, using the language of long-past childhood games. “You mean for keeps. No backsies. No tradesies. No do-overs.”

2005, Lynne Kaufman, Taking Flight, MIRA, →ISBN, page 191:

At first, I tried to trade for someone more normal, but Mr. Martins said, “No tradesies! In real life, you’ve got to work with who you’re stuck with. So suck it up and get to work!”

2011, Chris McMahen, Box of Shocks, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 72:

“Tradesies?” Macy smiled and held up her small bottle of strawberry milk, pointing it at EJ’s juice box. “Yeah, totally!” EJ smiled, and the girls swapped drinks.

2013, Annie Tipton, Diary of a Real Payne: True Story, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN:

I held up my basket to Freddie. “I’ll trade you this for your ax?” “No tradesies,” he said.

2018, Auralee Wallace, Haunted Hayride with Murder: An Otter Lake Mystery, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:

“Will you please rub my shoulders? My neck is killing me from carrying around that stupid bag. I'll rub yours, too, if you want.” Emerson smiled. “Of course. And yes, tradesies.”

2020, LJT, Bitter Herbs, ANTIBOOKCLUB, →ISBN:

“So, like I said, you’re Oak Camp, Cabin Group A. No tradesies, no takesy-backsies, no transfers. Learn it, love it, get used to it!”

2020, Josh Berk, Saundra Mitchell, Camp Murderface, Harper, →ISBN:

I was going to beg them to stay where they were, ’cause we didn't have time for tradesies, but in one fluid routine, Risk tossed the paddle in the air and rolled to the center of the raft, while Reign took a long stride and caught the paddle before it could land in the lake. The whole exchange happened in a heartbeat.

2021, Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth, Levine Querido, →ISBN, page 73:

“Pastrami on whole wheat, again. What do you have?” Greg laid his handheld on the grass and opened his briefcase, extracting a sandwich. “Peanut butter and jelly.” “What type of jelly?” “I don’t know. It’ss red.” “Tradesies?” “With pleassure. I have got to make time to do the sshopping, but with the editing and ssorting the data from the Sswitchboard Sstation…”

2021, Stephen B. Pearl, Freedom’s Law, Brain Lag Publishing, →ISBN:

“You want some of my ginger ale?” She held up the clear plastic cup. “Tradesies for that bag of pretzels.”

2022, Cat Wynn, Partner Track, Carina Press, →ISBN:


WOCBP

Inclusion of women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) into clinical trials generally requires the completion of reproductive toxicity and genotoxicity studies.

2009, Lutz Müller, Anke Lühe, “Preclinical safety testing”, in John P. Griffin, editor, The Textbook of Pharmaceutical Medicine, 6th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 118:

(medicine) Initialism of women of child-bearing potential; also WoCBP.


Throwends

[ˈθɹʷəʊ̯(ə)ndz]

Learned borrowing from Old English Þrōwendas pl, from Proto-Germanic *þrōwōną (“to grow, prosper”) + *-ndz. Compare Proto-Norse *þrōwendīʀ pl, whence Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr. Cognate with Norwegian trønder, Icelandic Þrændir and German Drönter.

lbor

Through North Mere pierces the great inland sea of the Throwends, with its numerous creeks and headlands, such as Agda-ness, Nith’s oyce or Nidaros, Frosta the mootstead of the Throwends, each notable from some event in Norwegian history.

1908, W. G. Collingwood, Scandinavian Britain (Early Britain), London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC, page 18:

Frey and Tew were the chief gods of the Swedes and Franks, Thunder (Thórr) of the Reams and Throwends in West Norway.

1892, Frederick York Powell, “Teutonic Heathendom”, in Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion, page 281:

With the Thyrings I was, and with the Throwends,
And with the Burgends—there I a beigh got,

1882, Edwin Guest, “The Traveller’s Song”, in A History of English Rhythms, page 381:


chicken and egg

From the proverbial question of whether the chicken or the egg came first, attested as early as Aristotle (4th century BCE).

From present observation, A and B are needed to make C, and C is needed to make A and B. This chemical cycle has, again, a “chicken and egg” character.

2012, Charles H. Langmuir, Wally Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 419:

Every other show on TV has a guest panel of comics, so why can’t a drag queen tell the latest Apprentice contestant: “You’re fired”? Or a mime taste the cakes on the Bake Off’s An Extra Slice? The answer is usually that we aren’t in the same network because of cabaret’s lack of presence outside of the live space – the classic chicken-and-egg of TV success.

2014 October 27, Michael Twaits, “How can we make cabaret a sustainable career in the performing arts?”, in The Guardian:

When it comes to fighting for democracy and climate change – two of Jamie Raskin’s top priorities – the whole thing feels a bit like a game of chicken and egg to the Democratic congressman.

2022 April 18, Ankita Rao, “Jamie Raskin on the climate crisis: ‘We’ve got to save democracy in order to save our species’”, in The Guardian:

(usually attributively) A situation or case in which it is difficult to distinguish cause and effect, having a circular character.


chatts

From chattels (“cattle”), apparently because lice is a beggar’s livestock.


jahoobies

Larry was alone in his office when Straker came in; his part-time secretary, a Falmouth girl with the most delectable set of jahoobies you ever clapped an eye to, worked for a Gates Falls lawyer on her afternoons.

1975, Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 93:

"Bountiful babes, dawg. Wouldn't you like to see more jiggling jahoobies in 3D? You know..." Coop lunges at me with two cupped hands. "Comin' at ya!"

2012, Don Calame, Call the Shots, Candlewick Press, →ISBN:

His eyes widened at the sight of her generous bosoms. "Crikes, what gorgeous jahoobies!" he exclaimed.

2013, Jon Sharpe [credited; ghostwritten], New Mexico Madman (The Trailsman; 376), Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 20:

On the day she arrived in Sydney, she checked into a private clinic and ordered the biggest pair of jahoobies they had in the place, then phoned her old pair and told them she needed another ten Ks - unless they wanted their youngest daughter sleeping rough in King's Cross.

2014, Paul Howard, Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs (Ross O'Carroll-Kelly; 14), Penguin Books, →ISBN:


TofR

terms of reference
terms of reference#English


terms of reference

(management) A set of terms that define the purpose of a project, its development, and how it can be evaluated.


Kuri

An Austronesian language of the Bomberai Peninsula of New Guinea.


glias

In the human brain, there are roughly nine glias for every neuron.

2013, Marko B. Popovic, Biomechanics and Robotics, page 117:


Mang'anja

A Bantu people of central and southern Africa, particularly around Chikwawa in the Shire River valley of southern Malawi, speaking a dialect of the Nyanja language.


Mangue

An extinct Oto-Manguean language of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica.


meat sweats

Some dieticians^([sic]) and health care providers may claim meat sweats has to do with something called the thermic effect of food, in which eating large amounts of protein causes your body temperature to increase, thus making your body sweat to cool you down. However, others will counter how even eating pounds of food would only slightly raise body temperature, but not enough to cause excessive sweating.

2022 December 2, “Are Meat Sweats Real?”, in INTEGRIS Health, archived from the original on 2023-01-26:

(slang, humorous) Excessive perspiration resulting from eating large quantities of meat.


friendsies

“Piers and I became friendsies in our way,” Maurice continued, smiling implacably, “two, three times a week. Always the same format in the hall.[…]”

1981, Dotson Rader, Beau Monde, Random House, →ISBN, page 59:

Wave bye-bye to our friendsies, Mr. Babbitt, and think naughty bunny thoughts all day.

2009, John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground (An Historical Romance 1973), Viking, →ISBN:

“No biscuits,” snapped the proprietress. “Your military friendsies scarfed ’em all up. For ’emselves.”

2011, Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz (The Wicked Years), William Morrow, →ISBN, page 50:

“Listen,” he hesitated, “about what I said before. I didn’t mean to offend you,” he said, not exactly apologizing. But before he could finish, she interjected. “Friendsies?” she winked, coyly.

2013, Joe DeMono, Ciro, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 19:

We’re gonna meet up with our friendsies.

2013, P. D. Skelton, Renascence: A Story of Christianity in an Atheistic Future, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 4:

The entire book writing process would have been miserable if I could not regularly hang out with my friendsies (as I call them).

2014, Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, “Acknowledgments”, in A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media, Princeton, N.J., Oxford: Princeton University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 258:

This lunch is peaches and cream. Best friendsies.

2014, Alex Berenson, The Counterfeit Agent, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN:

I SAID I’M DONE PLAYING “FRIENDSIES.”

2015, Ken Akamatsu, UQ Holder!, volume 5, Kodansha Comics, →ISBN:

First, she’s held hostage, put on the menu, knocked up, forced to play friendsies with a family of blood sucking creatures, engaged to… whatever Drakon was and now she’s turning into something that isn’t even human!

There. All cozy. Twinsy friendsies! Since we’re BFFs now, how ’bout telling me why you tried to kill my brother.

2017, Stuart R. West, Nightmare of Nannies, Crossroad Press, published 2022:

Go in and make friendsies with the locals, or play cool and see about tailing him when he gets out?

2018, Michael Pool, Texas Two-Step, Down & Out Books:

I would think, since he’s friendsies with that stepchild of yours, you’d prefer that.

2019, Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever, Raven Books, →ISBN, page 148:

WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR DAYS FOR YOU AND YOUR FRIENDSIES AND THE PROMISE OF A REAL FIGHT.

2020, Ed Brisson, Avengers of the Wastelands, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:

So, you two really haven’t made friendsies yet?

I don’t know how yet, but I prommy-wom that I will find a way for us to be friendsies.

2022, Jack Meggitt-Phillips, Battle of the Beast, Aladdin, published 2023, page 189:

Instead, I will note one of my favorite lines from the movie. “Stop working yourself up into one of your frenzies!” says Bud. To which Lou replies: “I ain’t makin’ friendsies with nobody in here!”

2023, Matthew Coniam, Nick Santa Maria, The Annotated Abbott and Costello: A Complete Viewer’s Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 76:


Moingona

(historical) A Miami-Illinois tribe, ultimately assimilated by the Peoria around 1700.


Moluche

An indigenous people of Chile who spoke a dialect of Mapudungun.


workpants

When workpants or bluejeans start to look like cheesecloth in the seat, that’s a good time to wear them in an enduro.

1970, Thomas Firth Jones, Enduro, Chilton Book Company, →ISBN, page 102:

He pushed the door open and saw Jud’s splayed feet, his old green workpants, his checked flannel shirt.

1983, Stephen King, Pet Sematary, Signet, published 1984, →ISBN, page 398:

On his head he wore a knit cap, pulled down onto his narrow forehead; on his lower body, khaki workpants; on his feet, rubber boots from Sears, Roebuck.

2012, Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman, Ecco, →ISBN, page 61:


dress pants

[…] this ended in a sad catastrophe happening to his blue dress pants, which could not stand the repeated tests of strength they were put to.

1849, H[enry] F. MᶜKillop, Reminiscences of Twelve Months’ Service in New Zealand as a Midshipman, During the Late Disturbances in That Colony, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 38:

I wore a pair of buckskin moccasins coming up to my knees, and a smock frock of Kentucky jeans, as did the most of us, except Montmery, who had been making visits that day, and came off in a hurry with a pair of black doeskin dress pants, strapped down over patent leather pumps; […]

1851 October, “Reedyrill. V.—The Pigeon Roost.”, in Thomas Prentice Kettell, editor, The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, volume XXIX, New York, N.Y.: Kettell & Moore, page 337:

When your Reactor is in jeans, you should wear dress pants or a casual dress. When your Reactor is in dress pants, you should be wearing a nice suit or a more tailored dress, and so on.

2007, Jeanette Henderson, Roy Henderson, There’s No Such Thing as Public Speaking: Make Any Presentation or Speech as Persuasive as a One-on-One Conversation, →ISBN:


Spokan

Alternative form of Spokane (“Native American tribe”)


dresspants

Her entry was a dresspants-coat costume.

1969 May 12, “Dress Designing Is Her Aim”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 109, number 43, San Rafael, Calif., page 14, column 3:

When I was young, he owned gray tweed dresspants he called his "ice cream britches," and when he wore them, every other Sunday or so, he bought us ice cream.

1979, Dorothy Marie Wilson, Re-membering: Pieces from My Life, page 78:

For a week’s stay on the plantation Uncle Antonio took with him: workpants and shirt, dresspants and shirt, suitcoat, hat, socks, sandals, bacon, corn flour, beans, rice, coffee, sugar, salt, bread, tobacco, a spoon and knife, and one candle.

And the blazer and dresspants bring to my view the pastures of England, where the farmer shears the wool he must clean before he can bring it to market.

1987, Another Chicago Magazine, page 143:

(Men’s Dresspants and Workwear)

1992, International Register of Telegraphic and Trade Addresses, page 862:

This could be described as partially combed hair loose fitting sweaters and a worn or comfortable pair of jeans or dresspants.

1996, James D. Zamagias, Writing the College Essay: A Handbook and Workbook in Composition, Research, and Grammar, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 341:

“Pete Impala said something about that last Saturday at Stone’s,” I said, replaying Impala, in gray dresspants instead of jeans, squinting at me through his Lucky Strike haze, the first time he ever went out of his way to sit next to Brod and me at Stone’s: […]

2000, Vernon Frazer, Relic’s Reunions, Beneath the Underground Books, →ISBN, page 107:

Once or twice he reached down and checked that he was wearing pants, not pajamas but the brown polyester trousers they wanted him to wear at Tabor Home because you can wash polyester in the machine and woolen dresspants stink.

2004, Anne Konrad, And in Their Silent Beauty Speak: A Mennonite Family in Russia and Canada, 1790-1990, →ISBN, page 5, column 1:

Top looks: Wool dresspants with elasticized bottoms, a fur-trimmed cardigan.

2008 March 28, Gabriel Bell, “The Best Of NY Fashion Week: Video, Pics, Reviews”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-02-01:

“Hey Cheryl, hold on a second I just got back and need a second to spiffy up…” I replied as I stripped off my suit and dresspants and hastily began to pull back on the pair of jeans that I had been wearing in the morning.

2017, Ace Finlay, Poetry of Death & Black Horror Stories + Monster Labyrinth, →ISBN:


Pontifical States

en-proper noun

the Pontifical States pl (normally plural, singular Pontifical State)

the Pontifical States (canonical plural)
Pontifical State (singular)

After nearly a quarter of a century’s residence in Milwaukee, […] he was invited by President Lincoln, immediately after his inauguration, to take the appointment of Minister to the Pontifical States in Italy, […]

1891, George W. Cullum, “Rufus King”, in Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. […], 3rd edition, volume 1, page 538:


States of the Church

the States of the Church pl (normally plural, singular State of the Church)

the States of the Church (canonical plural)
State of the Church (singular)

It may be necessary to enquire into the origin and progress of the temporal authority of the Court of Rome—the means by which the aggrandizement of the States of the Church has been at different periods effected—and the only possible object with which a European congress can have replaced them under an antiquated subjection.

1832 July, “Political Condition of the Italian States”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 55, number 110, page 381:

On September 20, 1870, Victor Emmanuel captured Rome, and the inhabitants of the district voted one hundred and thirty-three thousand to one thousand five hundred for annexation to Italy. […] Thus came to an end the States of the Church, the oldest continuous secular sovereignty then existing in Europe.

1918, Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, 1st edition, page 671:


Fairchildren

From the company name, after founder Sherman Fairchild, with child humorously pluralized to children.

(informal) The corporate spin-offs founded by former employees of the American technology company Fairchild Semiconductor.


Binigura

An Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.


Kurrama

An Aboriginal Australian people from the Pilbara region of Western Australia.


soup beans

(US, regional) Slow-cooked beans, especially pinto beans, served as a main course or a side dish.


seven bells

If they told a boy they would knock seven bells out of him if he did a certain thing, when he did that thing, seven bells invariably were knocked out of him.

We beat seven bells out of each other, he broke my nose, I split open his eye, and I ended up winning on points.

(slang) Said to be beaten, knocked, etc. out of a person who is severely violently assaulted.


Saponi

A Native American tribe historically based in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia, part of the Monacan confederacies.


Soninke

A West African ethnic group found in Mali, Fouta Djallon, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, Guinea and the Gambia.


Scotch collops

From Scotch (“of Scotland”) + collop (“slice of meat”). Attested from the 17th century.

compound

To make Scotch Collops, either of Beef, Veal, or Mutton. CUt^([sic]) your meat very thin, hen beat it with a Rowling pin till it be very tender; then salt it a little, and fry it in a pan without any liquor

1664, Hannah Woolley, The cook's guide: or, Rare receipts for cookery, London: Peter Dring at the Sun in the Poultry, next door to the Rose-Tavern, page 67:

My Lady Diana Porte’s Scotch Collops.
Cut a leg or two of Mutton into thin slices, which beat very well. Put them to fry over a very quick fire in a pan first glased over, with no more Butter melted in it, then just to besmear a little all the bottom of the Pan.

1669, Sir Kenelm Digby, The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt., London: by E.C. for H. Brome, page 216:

Scotch-Collops with Mutton
TAke a leg of Mutton, take out of it the Pope's Eye, take off all the Skin; then cut your Pope’s Eye, with all the tender part, into small bits the bigness of the end of your Thumb and flatten them as much as possible

1733, Vincent La Chapelle, The Modern Cook, page 317:

To dress Scotch Collops. Take veal, cut it thin, beat it well with the Back of a Knife or Rolling-pin, and grate some Nutmeg over them

1758, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy, page 21:

The learned in cookery dissent from the Baron of Bradwardine, and hold the roe venison dry and indifferent food, unless when dressed in soup and Scotch collops.

(chiefly historical) Thin slices of meat pounded flat, often fried.

Some like the Scotch collops made thus: put the collops into the ragoo, and stew them for five minutes.

1824, Mary Holland, The Complete Economical Cook, and Frugal Housewife, page 72:

SCOTCH COLLOPS OF VEAL. They may be made of the nice parts of the rack, or cut from the fillet, rub a little salt and pepper on them, and fry them a light brown; have a rich gravy seasoned with wine, and any kind of catsup you choose, with a few cloves of garlic, and some pounded mace, thicken it.

1860, Mary Randolph, The Virginia Housewife, or, Methodical Cook, page 36:

scotch-collops, scotched-collops, scotcht-scollops, s. pl. A dish consisting of beef cut up into small pieces, beaten and done in a stew-pan with butter and some salt, pepper, and a finely-sliced onion.

[1894, Robert Hunter, John A. Williams, S.J. Heritage, editors, The American Encyclopedic Dictionary, page 3584:

(chiefly US) Pieces of beef or veal cut thin or minced, beaten flat, and stewed.


Semnones

(historical) A Suevian people who were settled between the Elbe and the Oder in the 1st century when they were described by Tacitus.


Semang

An ethnic minority of the Malay Peninsula.


selichot

(Judaism) Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holidays, and on fast days.


Shammar

A tribal Arab Qahtan confederation, descended from the Yemeni tribe of Tayy as they originated in Yemen before migrating into present-day Saudi Arabia.


Shelleyana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), English Romantic poet, or to Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English writer.


shopfolk

(archaic) People who work in shops: shopkeepers and shop assistants.


shopfolks

She gave herself a little treat, obedient to her husband's orders, and purchased a quantity of lady's gear, showing a great deal of taste and elegant discernment, as all the shopfolks said.

1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:


Shukria

A large Arab clan living in eastern Sudan.


Sihasapa

The Blackfoot Sioux, a division of the Lakota people.


hUTCs

(cellular biology) Initialism of human umbilical tissue derived cells.


againsts

fors and againsts
fors and againsts#English


Pathrusim

Coordinate term: Casluhim

(historical) Any of a group of descendants of Mizraim (i.e. Egypt), according to the genealogies in Genesis, who inhabited Pathros (Upper Egypt).


Payagua

(historical) An ethnic group of the Guaycuru peoples in the Northern Chaco of Paraguay.


Attawandaron

(historical) The Neutral Nation, a tribal confederation of Iroquoian peoples.


Atfalati

A certain tribe of the Kalapuya Native Americans.


Mdewakanton

A subtribe of the Isanti (Santee) Dakota (Sioux), historically inhabiting Mille Lacs Lake in central Minnesota.


Swampy Cree

A variety of the Cree language spoken by these people.


activities of daily living

en-noun

activities of daily living pl (plural only)

(healthcare) A set of common daily activities, including bathing, feeding, and relieving oneself. A person’s ability or inability to perform them is used as a measurement of their functional status.

أنشطة الحياة اليومية

a set of common daily activities specified in healthcare, such as bathing, feeding or relieving oneself


northern streamers

When the Kurnai of Victoria saw the Aurora Australis, which corresponds to the Northern Streamers of Europe, they exchanged wives for the day and swung the severed hand of a dead man towards it, shouting, "Send it away! do not let it burn us up!

1884, Alfred William Howitt, “On Some Australian Beliefs”, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, number 13, page 189:


Dendi

An ethnic group living in Benin and Niger.


Austeniana

J. Austen, Plan of a Novel and Other Notes, ed. R. W. Chapman, Oxford, 1926: which reprints, among other valuable Austeniana, the complete correspondence between Mr. Clarke and Jane Austen.

1949, Marvin Mudrick, The Achievement of Jane Austen: A Study in Ironic Process, page 40:

His [Henry G. Burke’s] wife, Alberta H. Burke, who died in 1975, had the greatest collections of Austeniana anywhere: every first edition, translation, American editions, all secondary source materials, and some manuscripts.

1999, Natalie Tyler, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense & Sensibility, Viking, →ISBN, page 245:

[D. W.] Harding (Regulated Hatred) accused some who disseminated Austeniana.

2023, June Durant, Searching for Words in Jane Austen, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:

Objects, materials, or documents relating to English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817).


Opo

An ethnic group of South Sudan and Ethiopia, speaking the Opuuo language.


Guaycuru

Any of a number of ethnic groups indigenous to the Gran Chaco region of South America, speaking related Guaicuruan languages.


Guaycura

(historical) A native nomadic hunter-gatherer people of Baja California Sur, Mexico, occupying an area extending south from near Loreto to Todos Santos.


kaleidoscopics

Brightly coloured patterns like those produced by a kaleidoscope.


Kenyah

An indigenous, Austronesian-speaking people of Borneo.


Masmuda

(historical) A Berber tribal confederation of Morocco and one of the largest in the Maghreb, along with the Zanata and the Sanhaja.


Znaga

An indigenously generated nexus of commercial relations extended all across these regions, as well as northward to the Znaga of the western Sahara.

2001, Michael Adas, Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History, page 261:


Sanhaja

(historical) One of the largest Berber tribal confederations, along with the Zanata and Masmuda.


Casluhim

bor

Hebrew כסלחים

(historical) An ancient Egyptian people mentioned in the Bible and related literature.


YOE

The use of YOE as a metric comes from the idea that the longer you do something, the better you get at it. Another way of putting that is "practice makes perfect." Talking about YOE makes it easy to quantify a candidate’s experience and compare it against others.

2020 August 10, Alex Karp, “Let’s Stop Talking About YOE”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2023-01-08:


subversive basics

(fashion) Closet essentials that are worn in unusual ways.


black guts

(dated, butchery) A cut of organ meat, a type of low-value bung guts due to improper handling, having blackened.


ground troops

Blair urged a reluctant President Bill Clinton to send American ground troops. […] His willingness to commit ground troops was not shared elsewhere.

2003, Earl Aaron Reitan, The Thatcher Revolution, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 200:


Taposa

(historical) An American Indian tribe in the south of the United States, originating from what is now Mississippi.


Taranchi

The Muslim sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang, China.


Tarkani

A Pashtun tribe mainly settled in Bajaur Agency, Lower Dir district of Pakistan, but originally from the Laghman province of modern-day Afghanistan.


Tenggerese

A dialect of the Javanese language spoken in Java, Indonesia.


Tenggerese

A Javanese subethnicity in eastern Java, mostly inhabiting the Tengger mountains.


Tenggerese

en-adj

Tenggerese (comparative more Tenggerese, superlative most Tenggerese)

more Tenggerese (comparative)
most Tenggerese (superlative)

Of or relating to these people or their language.


Deadose

(historical) A Native American tribe formerly living in present-day Texas.


Aranama

The extinct language of these people, possibly a Coahuiltecan language.


Tenino

A grouping of Sahaptin Native American subtribes that historically occupied territory located in the North-Central portion of the American state of Oregon.


Thackerayana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to the English writer William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863).


maaveh

Borrowed from Pahari-Potwari مان٘ویں (māṉveṉ), plural form of مان٘واں (māṉvāṉ, “mother's young brother”).

bor+

For the young people in the youth clubs, the constant presence of local authorities was uncomfortable. At a Prevent funded youth club in Leeds, one of the boys complains to me: ‘Why is he [Danish] always letting the ‘maaveh’ (police) in here?’

2018 February 13, Fahid Qureshi, “The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities”, in Nature, retrieved 2024-04-20:


Thonga

Alternative form of Thongam surname of Meitei origin


Trollopeana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English novelist of the Victorian era.


Subu

A Bantu ethnic group who inhabit part of the coast of Cameroon.


snow pants

Hobbes: Super heroes wear snow pants?
Stupendous Man: When there's snow out, they do!

1990 February 13, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

Pants made of waterproof material to help keep the wearer dry, often flexible to accommodate thick winter clothing underneath, such as thermal underwear.


bed-clothes

Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.

1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: […] Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, […], London, pages 35–36:

This fidgettineſs, to uſe a vulgar expreſſion for want of a better, is occaſioned wholly by an uneaſineſs in the ſkin, owing to the retenſion of the perſpirable matter—the bed-clothes having received their quantity, and, being ſaturated, refuſing to take any more.

1793, Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator, Dublin: […] P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, page 185:

Most fortunately the exigence of despair prompted Georgiana to instant action—she seized the letter and thrust it under the bed-clothes, […]

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 8:

[…] comparatively speaking, few are convinced of, or perhaps acquainted with the fact, that not only do the bed-clothes intercept and retain a large proportion of this offthrow, but that it penetrates both beds and mattresses, which actually absorb a large proportion of it, […]

1848, Clifton Cleve, The Book of Inventions; or, The Practical and Economical Results of the Application of Art and Science in Aid of the General Requirements of Society […], London: Henry Hurst, […], page 20:

A few days afterwards the coroner’s jury sat on a coffinful of old brickbats and fragments of bed-clothes and boots and brace buttons and bits of Eli, and after a long discussion, came to the only conclusion possible, viz., that the deceased’s death was attributable to a general breaking up of the system.

1897, W[illiam] Carter Platts, Angling Done Here!, London: Jarrold & Sons, […], pages 24–25:

His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.

[1912], J[ohn] A[lexander] Hammerton, editor, Wonders of Animal Life, volume I, London: The Waverley Book Company Ltd. […], page 126, column 1:


screaming habdabs

screaming abdabs
screaming abdabs#English


underkecks

(Northern English dialect, Scotland) Underpants.


VKT

Initialism of vehicle kilometers travelled.


jarmies

“Nice jarmies, Tom,” he said with a smirk. Minutes later, he'd dropped off into the unconscious realm, but the smirk remained.

1981, Gerard Lee, True Love and How to Get It, page 104:

'Don't look at me! You were doing that. Only kids wear jarmies anyway.'

2014, Geoffrey Riddell, The Boy Made of Shining Happiness, page 92:

(UK, slang) Alternative form of jammies (“pyjamas”)


liggerati

Blend of ligger + literati; compare digerati, glitterati.

(slang) Freeloaders or hangers-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry.


Drougoubitai

From Ancient Greek Δρουγουβῖται (Drougoubîtai).

bor

Δρουγουβῖται

(historical) A South Slavic group who settled in the Balkans in the 7th century.


Enchelei

From Ancient Greek Ἐγχέλιοι (Enkhélioi), from ἔγχελυς (énkhelus, “eel”). Possibly from the Illyrian cognate of the word, itself closely related to Albanian ngjalë (“eel”). This is made further plausible by the word being found with a -γγ- (-ng-) in place of -γχ- (-nkh-) in Mnaseas. The demonym can be traced back to mythology, where Cadmus, become king of this people, turns into a serpent.

(historical) An ancient Illyrian tribe inhabiting Enchele.


American fried potatoes

en-noun

American fried potatoes pl (plural only)


Kaytetye

An Australian Aboriginal people who live around Barrow Creek and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.


aughties

Synonym of aughts (“first decade of a century”)


automobiliana

Items relating to automobiles, especially collectibles.


Meena

Borrowed from Hindi मीना (mīnā), from Sanskrit मीन (mīna, “fish, synonym of the patron deity Matsya”).


powersports

(US, Canada) The class of all powersports.

motorsports

a class of competition sports involving vehicles with engines or motors


barrier troops

The Russian president has also claimed Ukraine was using its own barrier troops, “shooting their own soldiers in the back”.

2023 March 27, Pjotr Sauer, “Russian soldiers say commanders used ‘barrier troops’ to stop them retreating”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Military units that are located in the rear or on the front line to maintain military discipline of the main forces by preventing desertion.


Wokerati

Here comes the California Wokerati —headquartered in Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Westwood, and the Castro, backed by Malibu and Menlo-Atherton money—to cancel you for being Literally Hitler.

2020, Michael Anton, The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, unnumbered page:

Toby Young piled in, applauding how [Laurence] Fox was “terrorising the Wokerati”, while the Sun last weekend branded Harry and Meghan “the oppressive King and Queen of Woke”.

2020 January 21, Steve Rose, “How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right”, in The Guardian:

I got cancelled by The Lemon Press Wokerati just for wanting long-term stable employment.

2021, "The Drectator", The Lemon Press (satirical newsmagazine of the University of York), Issue 47, page 27

(slang, derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of wokerati.


monkey lips

en-noun

monkey lips pl (normally plural, singular monkey lip)

Compare French museau de singe (literally “monkey’s snout”).

cog

Each monkey lips/dorsal bursae complex (MLDB) is associated with one (right and left) air passage. Each complex is composed of at least two fatty bursae that are embedded in the monkey lips along the airway, a cartilagenous “stiffening” rod, and a stout ligament.

1990, T.W. Cranford, “Components of a hypothetical odontocete biosonar signal generator”, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, →DOI, page S4:

This finding is not only excluding a laryngeal sound source, but also demonstrating that the sound source for click generation in sperm whales is indeed the monkey lips.

2003, Peter Madsen, D.A. Carder, Whitlow W.L. Au, P.E. Nachtigall, B. Møhl, Sam H. Ridgway, “Sound production in neonate sperm whales (L)”, in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 113, number 6, page 2990:

In the forefront of the skull, the spermaceti organ ends in a pair of black lips of connective tissue (monkey lips) that produce sounds by way of a pneumatic action. The monkey lips are also connected to the right side of the nasal passage and to the distal air sac, another ‘sound mirror’ at the front end of the head.

2015 December 16, Francesco Caruso, Virginia Sciacca, Giorgio Bellia, Emilio De Domenico, Giuseppina Larosa, Elena Papale, Carmelo Pellegrino, Sara Pulvirenti, Giorgio Riccobene, Francesco Simeone, Fabrizio Speziale, Salvatore Viola, Gianni Pavan, “Size Distribution of Sperm Whales Acoustically Identified during Long Term Deep-Sea Monitoring in the Ionian Sea”, in PLOS One, →DOI:

An anatomical structure in the heads of certain cetaceans involved in the production of clicks and other sounds.


whirling pits

I note with interest Paul Dawson's query as to whether or not one's direction of rotation during the alcohol induced phenomenon known as "the whirling pits" depends upon the hemisphere in which one is situated (Letters, 1 September, p 643).

1983, New Scientist, volume 100, number 1380, page 218:

I ended up with the whirling pits, being sick in the bathroom for hours. It should have put me off booze forever […]

2000, Alison Pressley, Changing Times: Being Young in Britain in the '60s, page 71:

That hideously addictive, ruinous mix of tobacco and hash, the violently, wrenching, contrasting, simultaneous expansion and depression of the senses can be truly horrible, the whirling pits.

2001, F. A. Casemore, Skylarks: For Myself, Lest I Forget, or Die Unsung, page 358:

(slang) An unpleasant sensation of spinning after consuming alcohol or other drugs.


kangaroos in the top paddock

en-noun

kangaroos in the top paddock pl (plural only)

a kangaroo loose in the top paddock#English

(Australia, slang) Alternative form of a kangaroo loose in the top paddock


eyesies

“Go to sleep, my darling, / Go to sleep, my pet, / Close your little eyesies, / All your cares forget.”

1902, Marshall Saunders, “A Lodge by the Sea”, in Beautiful Joe’s Paradise or The Island of Brotherly Love, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page and Company, page 115:

“Hide your little eyesies.” He felt the pressure of her hand and she led him into the room. The clammy touch was gone. “Now you can look around.”

1923, [Homer Croy], chapter XXI, in West of the Water Tower, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, page 324:

We saw them with our own little eyesies yesterday but didn’t ever expect we’d see the day when a major college stadium offered such rare ducats for public purchase.

1941 October 24, R. A. Lofstrom, “Right and Left in Sports”, in The St. Cloud Daily Times, eightieth year, number 113, St. Cloud, Minn., section “Along the Sports Trail”, page nine, column 1:

His eyesies are going to be hazel

1982, Slavic and East European Arts, page 135:

And he looked up at me with those eyesies of his.

1984, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated by Lanford Wilson, Three Sisters, Smith and Kraus, →ISBN, page 45:

“Oh Olympio, my little teddy bear, darling, honey baby, sweetie pie, let me kiss your eyesies, lovey dovey bunny buns, let me make you happy PLEEEASE!”

1995, Plautus, “Casina”, in Robert Wind, transl., Three Comedies, Lanham, Md., New York, N.Y., London: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 173:

Who’s my little mouse? Whose little nosy is this? Who has the biggest eyesies in Agramstadt?

2011, Miljenko Jergović, chapter IV, in Stephen M. Dickey, transl., Ruta Tannenbaum, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 25:


odds and bods

Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.

(chiefly UK, informal) Synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”)

(chiefly UK, informal) Synonym of odds and sods (“ordinary people who lack distinction”)