abdominalia

(zoology) A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages.


current events

en-noun

current events pl (normally plural, singular current event)

Current affairs; those events and issues of interest currently found in the news.


apples and pears

Get up them apples and pears and into Uncle Ned!

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


ablution

ablution (countable and uncountable, plural ablutions)

From Middle English ablucioun (“cleansing of impurities”), from Old French ablution, and its source, Late Latin ablūtiō (“a washing away”), from abluō (“wash away”), from ab- (“away”) + lavō (“wash”).

ablutie

Roman Catholic Church: a small quantity of wine and water

(plural only, UK, military) The location or building where the showers and basins are located.


wares

The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.

I call on the Minister to ensure good regulation is applied to moneylenders and so-called independent money advisers, many of whom are former bankers peddling their wares

2011 October 26, “Report of the Interdepartmental Working Committee on Mortgage Arrears”, in Dáil Éireann:


abuttal

The land is set forth by bounds and abuttals.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

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(rare, plural only) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; buttals.


ppl

(linguistics) Abbreviation of participle.


acceptance

en-noun

acceptance (countable and uncountable, plural acceptances)

* First attested in 1574. From Middle French acceptance, from Old French accepter (“accept”). Equivalent to accept + -ance.

(horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.


accidental

From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.

(painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.


bollocks

bollocks pl (normally plural, singular bollock)

From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.

inh

plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">ballok</i>

nominative plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">bealluc</i>

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular)

That's a load of bollocks, mate!

All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks.

2014, Peter Smith, Confessions of a Dice Dealer, page 105:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.

放屁

slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead

Don't mind him; he's only an oul' bollocks!

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, used as singular) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.

the dog's bollocks
dog's bollocks#English

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) Ellipsis of the dog's bollocks.


bollocks

en-verb

bollocks (third-person singular simple present bollockses, present participle bollocksing, simple past and past participle bollocksed)

bollockses (present singular third-person)
bollocksing (participle present)
bollocksed (participle past)
bollocksed (past)

The telly's bollocksed.

(transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To break.


bollocks

Oh bollocks, I'm late for work!

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) An expression of anger, frustration, etc.

Bollocks! That never happened!

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) An expression of incredulity.


Bahamas

Disputed; probably from Spanish baja mar (“shallow sea”) or Taíno ba ha ma (“big upper middle land”), via Spanish.

der

Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Commonwealth of The Bahamas#English

An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.


french fries

en-noun

french fries pl (normally plural, singular french fry)

Clipping of earlier French fried potatoes (1856) and French-fried potatoes, potatoes supposedly prepared in the French style.

French fries are our specialty.

“What's the matter?” she asked quickly. “Haven't we had all the things before? Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”

1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292:

His first official act was to order dinner. “A nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.

1922, Robert C. Benchley, chapter XXII, in Love Conquers All, Henry Holt & Company, page 111:

(chiefly Canada, US) Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips).

nímasii ádaałtsʼóózígo niheeshgizhgo akʼah bee shibézhígíí


Faeroe Islands

the Faeroe Islands (canonical plural singular)


Falkland Islands

the Falkland Islands (canonical plural singular)

Name taken from the Falkland Sound, which was named for Viscount Falkland by John Strong, who landed on the islands in 1690.

An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, located in the South Atlantic.

جُزُر فُوكْلَانْد

overseas territory of the UK in the South Atlantic


Faroe Islands

the Faroe Islands (canonical plural singular)

/ˈfɛəɹəʊ ˌaɪləndz/

From Old Norse Færeyjar (“Faroe Islands”, literally “Sheep Islands”), a compound of fær (“sheep”) and eyjar (“islands”).

der

an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland; a self-governing dependent territory of Denmark.

Pulo-pulo Faroe

group of islands between Scotland and Iceland


academic

/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/

From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy.

(plural only) Academic dress; academicals.

Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’s academics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many autistic students commonly reported viewing academics to be the most important aspect of university life and had a strong sense of persistence and self-determination to succeed. […] However, while some autistic students viewed socialising to be a source of threat that could jeopardise their academic success if indulged in, others highlighted the importance of social connections at university beyond that of academics.

2021 July 25, Jiedi Lei, and Ailsa Russell, “Understanding the role of self-determination in shaping university experiences for autistic and typically developing students in the United Kingdom”, in Autism, volume 25, number 5, →DOI, pages 1262–1278:


smallgoods

He worked at a smallgoods manufacturer.

Some smallgoods are cooked to kill harmful micro-organisms, but cooking changes the taste and texture of the food.

2000, Peter Cerexhe, John Ashton, Risky Foods, Safer Choices: Avoiding Food Poisoning, page 47:

The Garibaldi incident has also been credited with a change in culture among smallgoods manufacturers in Australia.

2001, John Spriggs, Grant Isaac, Food Safety and International Competitiveness: The Case of Beef, page 112:

The types of smallgoods discussed include uncooked and cooked fermented meats, cured meats and fish, and some specialty products such as pâté.

2010, CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Make It Safe: A Guide to Food Safety, page 124:

(Australia, New Zealand, often attributive) Cooked, dried, cured and otherwise processed meat products, such as salami; manufactured meats.


smalls

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-smalls.wav

He reassured another questioner that B.R. were still deeply interested in smalls traffic, but said that there would have to be substantial changes in the mode of operation and that concentration of the traffic was essential.

1963 December, “News and Comment: Smalls rates to be increased?”, in Modern Railways, page 364:


Cayman Islands

From Spanish Caymanes, variant of earlier Spanish Lagartos in reference to the early prevalence of marine and freshwater crocodiles on the islands. Spanish caimán and Portuguese caimão are of uncertain etymology, being variously attributed to Taíno kaimán, Kari'na acayouman, and Kongo.


Netherlands

en-proper noun

the Netherlands (usually uncountable, plural the Netherlands)

the Netherlands (canonical)
the Netherlands (plural)

From nether (“lower”) + lands, the country being very low-lying, with a great part below sea level. Either a calque or a parallel formation to Dutch Nederland.

constituent countries
constituent country

A country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

Ҳоландиа

country in northwestern Europe — see also Holland


accent

en-noun

accent (countable and uncountable, plural accents)

From Middle English accent, from Medieval Latin accentus and Old French accent, acent, both from Latin accentus, past participle of accinō (“sing to, sing along”). The word accent had been borrowed into Old English already, but was lost and reborrowed in Middle English.

tongval

distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.

акце́нт

math: mark to distinguish magnitudes of similar kind

pilkku

geometry: mark indicating minutes and seconds of a degree

Winds! on your wings to Heaven her accents bear, / Such words as Heaven alone is fit to hear.

1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 3”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.


Dutch

PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
Derived from Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.
Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
The pejorative senses (Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle, etc.) are said to stem from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the accompanying rivalry.

cog

(archaic, fossil word) Pertaining to Germanic-speaking peoples on the European continent, chiefly the Germans (especially established German-speaking communities in parts of the USA), or the Dutch; Teutonic; Germanic.

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) Pertaining to Afrikaner culture (Cape Dutch).


Dutch

→ Hindi: डच (ḍac)

(archaic) German; the main language of the Holy Roman Empire (Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxembourg).

A male given name, more often given as a nickname to someone of Dutch or German ancestry than as an official given name


Dutch

(collective, South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch).


work

en-noun

work (countable and uncountable, plural works)

Pijin: waka

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
From Middle English work, werk, from Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.
Akin to Scots wark, Saterland Frisian Wierk, West Frisian wurk, Dutch werk, German Werk, German Low German Wark, Danish værk, Norwegian Bokmål verk, Norwegian Nynorsk verk, Swedish verk, yrke and orka, Icelandic verk, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌹 (gawaurki), Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (from ϝέργον (wérgon)), Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰 (vər^əz, “to work, to perform”), Armenian գործ (gorc, “work”), Albanian argëtoj (“entertain, reward, please”). English cognates include bulwark, boulevard, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright. Doublet of erg and ergon.

cog

all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Tell me you're using clean works at least.

He gave me a sour look. “All right is it? Well, you shoot some then.” I cooked up a grain and got out my works ready to take the shot.

1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

If you buy new works, clean them before using them. If you share works, clean them before you or the next person uses them. Blood may be in your works even if you can't see it. Clean your works either with rubbing alcohol (available in drugstores), a household bleach solution (three tablespoons of bleach in a cup of water), or boiling water.

1996, Paul Harding Douglas with Laura Pinsky, The Essential AIDS Fact Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 25:

While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.

2009, Gillian G. Gaar, The Rough Guide to Nirvana, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN:

(slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)


handcuffs

1775, from hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”).
Possibly influenced by Old English handcops, from hand + cops (“fetter, chains”), but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention.

Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.

2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.


computer graphics

(computing) The representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer.

компю́търна гра́фика

representation and manipulation of pictures by computer

(computing) The various technologies used to create and manipulate such pictorial data.

(computing) A sub-field of computer science which studies methods for digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content.


pajamas

en-noun

pajamas pl (normally plural, singular pajama)

→ Korean: 파자마 (pajama)

→ Japanese: パジャマ (pajama)

→ Tagalog: padyama

Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US

From Urdu پاجامہ (pājāma) / Hindi पाजामा (pājāmā), from Classical Persian پَاجَامَه (pājāma, “trousers, drawers”), from پَا (pā, “leg”) + جَامَه (jāma, “garment”).

шалва́ри

loose-fitting trousers worn in South Asia

pyjamas

borrowed from Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā); Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma), using Classical Persian پَای (pāy) instead of پَا (pā)

Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.

pizhamë

clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in


men

From Middle English men, from Old English menn (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *manniz, nominative plural of Proto-Germanic *mann- (“person”). Cognate with German Männer (“men”), Danish mænd (“men”), Swedish män (“men”). More at man.

"Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.

(collective, military) Enlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).


stamina

en-noun

stamina (usually uncountable, plural staminas)

(obsolete, uncountable, plural only) The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.


RS

Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul#English

Initialism of Rio Grande do Sul. (a state of Brazil)


AR

AR (countable and uncountable, plural ARs)

accounts receivable
accounts receivable#English

(accounting, uncountable or plural only) Initialism of accounts receivable.


OH

(Internet slang) Initialism of other half: a husband, wife, partner, etc.


huevos

I dig into my huevos.

2007 January 7, Charles Baxter, “Breakfast of Champions”, in New York Times:

Huevos rancheros, a Mexican breakfast dish


acanthopteri

Via translingual Acanthopteri, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”) + πτερόν (pterón, “feather”).

(zoology) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.


pants

pants pl (plural only, attributive pant)

desctree

→ Japanese: パンツ (pantsu)
→ English: pantsu
→ Mandarin: 胖次 (pàngcì)
→ Korean: 빤스 (ppanseu)

Etymology tree
Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḯmon)bor.
Spanish Pantaleónder.
Italian Pantaloneder.
French pantalonbor.
English pantaloon
English pantaloons
English pants
Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun.

by the seat of one's pants

drive by the seat of one’s pants, fly by the seat of one’s pants

“But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”

1933, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, published 1996, page 220:

It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner.

1970 June 5, traditional (lyrics and music), “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span:

Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.[…]In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.

1989, Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One, Penguin, published 2006, page 427:

Look for pants with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.

2010, Ronald C. Eng, editor, Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 8th edition, US: The Mountaineers Books, page 24:

I rolled up the legs of the pants, then I went back into the trees.

2005, Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling, page 12:

The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).

2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Taylor was seen nearby and had a three foot machete down his pants.

2014 January 13, “Blackburn man hid machete down his trousers”, in The Lancashire Telegraph:

(chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Philippines, Singapore, Northern England) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.

broek

garment covering the body from the waist downwards


trousers

en-noun

trousers pl (plural only, attributive trouser)

→ Gamilaraay: tharrawurra

→ Irish: treabhsar

→ Jersey Dutch: trāuzer (from the singular)

→ Marshallese: jedo̧ujij

→ Welsh: trowsus, trowser, trywsus

Attested since the 1610s, from the earlier form trouzes (attested since the 1580s), extended from trouse (1570s), with plural ending typical of things in pairs, from Middle Irish triubhas (“close-fitting shorts”), of uncertain origin. The unexplained intrusive second -r- is perhaps due to the influence of drawers.

der

The trousers need to be shortened.

Why can women wear trousers when men can’t wear skirts?

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 3:

The effect the apparition had on me was to make me start violently, and we all know what happens when you start violently while holding a full cup of tea. The contents of mine flew through the air and came to rest on the trousers of Aubrey Upjohn, MA, moistening them to no little extent. Indeed, it would scarcely be distorting the facts to say that he was now not so much wearing trousers as wearing tea. [...] "I see you have not changed since you were with me at Malvern House," he said in an extremely nasty voice, dabbing at the trousers with a handkerchief. [...] "Frightfully sorry," I said. "Too late to be sorry now. A new pair of trousers ruined. It is doubtful if anything can remove the stain of tea from white flannel."

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles or knees, and is divided into a separate part for each leg.

pyjamas / pajamas - Derived from Persian for "leg clothing"


fallen

(plural only) Casualties of battle or war.


British

en-adj

British (comparative more British, superlative most British)

more British (comparative)
most British (superlative)

From Middle English Brittish, from Old English Brettisċ.
The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.
In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).
As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.

brythonik

history: of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain


Cornish

From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.

A habitational surname from Old English referring to someone from Cornwall.


goggles

Probably from goggle, from the appearance it gives the wearer.

Goggles must be worn in the swimming pool.

We had to put on our goggles as it was snowing outside.

Regretted that I had not provided myself with goggles, as the road is so constantly traveled that the dust became a most serious nuisance.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 31:

Protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face.


cattle

en-noun

cattle pl (normally plural, singular cattle)

From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitāle, from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee. Also compare Russian поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje, “total number of livestock”) from Russian голова́ (golová, “head”). Doublet of capital and chattel.

m+

Do you want to raise cattle?

Domesticated animals of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc).


brain

en-noun

brain (countable and uncountable, plural brains)

Template:Wiktionary:Picture dictionary/en:head
From Middle English brayn, brain, from Old English bræġn (“brain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną (“brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom (“skull, brain”), from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“marrow, sinciput”) + *-mn̥ (“nominal suffix”).
Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).

ᦀᦸᧅᧈᦶᦀᧅᧈ

˙ʼoak¹˙ʼaek¹

He is the brains behind the scheme.

(plural only) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.


plate

→ Maori: pereti

→ Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

der

He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.

(especially Australia; metonymically, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.


academicals

(British) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities, typically on special occasions such as graduation.


academical

(plural only) Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown.


errata

Borrowed from Latin errāta (“mistaken things, mistakes”), neuter plural of errātus (“mistaken”).

bor

An added page in a printed work where errors which are discovered after printing and their corrections (corrigenda) are listed.

fe d'errates

added page listing the errors which were discovered after printing


scissors

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).

Those scissors are sharp. (indicating singular or plural scissors)

That scissors is sharp. (less commonly to indicate singular scissors)

Scissors are used to cut the flowers.

Use scissors to cut them if you don't have proper shears.

Roses will last longer if a knife rather than a scissors is used to cut the blooms.

1947 June 22, “Around the Garden”, in New York Times:

(countable, usually construed as plural) A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed.

They executed a perfect scissors.

(countable, rugby) An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.

(countable, skating) A method of skating with one foot significantly in front of the other.

(rock paper scissors) A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

剪

hand with the index and middle fingers open in the game of rock paper scissors


poor

non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular

Inherited from Middle English povre, povere, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) povre, poure, from Latin pauper, from Old Latin *pavo-pars (literally “getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). Doublet of pauper.
Displaced native arm, wantsome, Middle English unlede (“poor”) (from Old English unlǣde), Middle English unweli, unwely (“poor, unwealthy”) (from Old English un- + weliġ (“well-to-do, prosperous, rich”)).

cog

...when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might haue bin sold for much, and giuen to the poore. When Iesus vnderstood it, he said vnto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good worke vpon me. For ye haue the poore alwayes with you, but me ye haue not alwayes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 26:8-11:

Harry Truman used to say that 13 or 14 million Americans had their interests represented in Washington, but that the rest of the people had to depend on the President of the United States. That is how I felt about the 35 million American poor. They had no voice and no champion. Whatever the cost, I was determined to represent them. Through me they would have an advocate and, I believed, new hope.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

Then there have not always been proletarians?
No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.

1972, Anonymous translation of Friedrich Engels as "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith", International Publishers

He is glad to see me and tells me that during his absence from the parish one of the women beggars died. Usually in these cases the state comes and takes the body away in a bag, to incinerate, but this time, because of his teachings, the other poor decided that she deserved a real funeral.

1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:

This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like Brooks for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting—this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire Atlas to Shrug his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically Brooks's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"—but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.

2010 Jan. 27, Matt Taibbi, "Populism: Just Like Racism!", True/Slant

The sun shines on the rich and the poor alike but, come the rain, the rich have better umbrellas.

The poor are always with us.

The rich are often so insulated from reality that they think the poor have extra money they could save for more than a short time.

(plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

armes

the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society


best regards

I look forward to finally meeting you in person. Best regards, Peter.

(idiomatic) Used as a polite closing of a letter

宜しくお願い致します

よろしくおねがいいたします


feces

From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.

2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times:

Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.


bowels

down in the bowels of the Earth

O momentary grace of mortal men, / Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! / Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, / Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, / Ready, with every nod, to tumble down / Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

Here we cannot suppress a pious Wish, that all Quarrels were to be decided by those Weapons only, with which Nature, knowing what is proper for us, hath supplied us; and that cold Iron was to be used in digging no Bowels, but those of the Earth.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 264:

At length, when the last pint is casked, and all is cool, then the great hatchways are unsealed, the bowels of the ship are thrown open, and down go the casks to their final rest in the sea.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 98:

The station was half deserted, half rowdy, several fellows were drunk, shouting and crowing. Down there in the bowels of London, after midnight, everything seemed horrible and unnatural.

1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 6, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 69:

Some say the plague was brought by Hattie;
There was talk of a hangin’, too.
But the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles
From the bowels of the Black bayou.

1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:

the project’s bowels

The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.


extreme

Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French extreme, from Latin extrēmus, the superlative of exter.

(obsolete, plural only) One of the last moments of life.

a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,
With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,
Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,
And might, if my extreames had ful euents,
Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

(obsolete, plural only) Hardships, straits.


TM

en-noun

TM (countable and uncountable, plural TMs)

translation memory
translation memory#English


mer

There are mermaids and mermen everywhere. They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways. It's impossible not to stare. The mer are as diverse as humans—all ages, size, shape, and color.

2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65:


WSW

Western Sydney Wanderers FC
w:Western Sydney Wanderers FC

(soccer) Initialism of Western Sydney Wanderers FC.


things

Have you brought all your things with you?

Get your hands off my things!

Ole Golly just had indoor things and outdoor things.... She just had yards and yards of tweed which enveloped her like a lot of discarded blankets, which ballooned out when she walked, and which she referred to as her Things. —Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (1964)

One's clothes, furniture, luggage, or possessions collectively; stuff


wealthy

wealthy (countable and uncountable, plural wealthies)

From Middle English welthy, welþi, equivalent to wealth + -y. Cognate with Middle Dutch weldech, weeldech (“magnificent, luscious, lavish”).

... whether consumption patterns of the wealthy are more or less polluting than those of the poor depends on the contaminant in question.

2009 Oct., Rachel A. Bouvier, "Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Per Capita Income", Environment & Development Economics, Vol. 14, No. 5

The wealthy pay most of the taxes but the uberwealthy hardly pay any at all: they hold stock and property and live off debt borrowed against that collateral.

(plural only) Synonym of rich: the wealthy people of a society or of the world collectively.


po

Yoruba: póò

‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.

1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 67:

There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.

1989, Leonard Woolf, edited by Frederic Spotts, Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86:

Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.

2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 44:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.


tapas

tapas pl (normally plural, singular tapa)

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From Spanish tapas, the plural of tapa (“appetizer, tapa; cap, lid (cover of a container)”) (from the fact that plates of tapas were originally placed on the tops of glasses of alcoholic beverages as lids), from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐍀𐍀𐌰 (*tappa), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug; tap”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”). Doublet of tap.

der

The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.

1986, Jeff Smith, “The Tapas Buffet (Spain)”, in The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 88:

Most food scholars agree that the tapas tradition originated in the wine-growing regions of Andalusia, eventually spreading throughout the country. The Moors (Muslim Arabs), who dominated Spain from the beginning of the eighth century until the end of the fifteenth century, settled in the same area, and their meze tradition undoubtedly had an influence on the rise of the tapa.

2013, Joyce Goldstein, “Introduction”, in Tapas: Sensational Small Plates from Spain, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 8:

A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.

տապաս

variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well


drawers

From draw (“to pull”), hence that which is pulled onto the body. Attested from the late 16th century. Compare drawer.

Question. Where did they strike you?
Answer. Struck me in the face once, and struck four times across the legs.
Question.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before?
Answer. After I had taken my drawers off.

1871 October 21, [US] House of Representatives, quoting John Pool and Mary Neal, “Conditions of affairs in the southern states. Georgia sub-committee”, in Reports of Committees, page 386:

(archaic) Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches.


way

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via.

don't let the door hit you on the way out

have one's head screwed on the right way

his driveway doesn't go all the way to the road

one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

the real treasure is the friends we made along the way

there's more than one way to cook an egg

there's more than one way to crack an egg

there's more than one way to peel an orange

the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time.

1912, Fredrick A. Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World, page 36:

(plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.

ramppi

(plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.


wee small hours

en-noun

wee small hours pl (normally plural, singular wee small hour)

From Scots wee sma' hours (first attested in 1819).

He worked into the wee small hours to get everything perfect for the opening day.


Urim and Thummim

From Biblical Hebrew אוּרִים (ʾûrîm) and תומים / תֻּמִּים (tummîm). Traditionally the Hebrew has been understood, and sometimes translated, as “Light and Truth” owing to the similarity to אוֹרִים (ʾôrîm, “lights”) and תָּמִים (tāmîm, “complete, morally upright, in accordance with truth”), an interpretation that has contributed to the terms’ association with clairvoyance. There is no consensus on the validity of this reading in the original biblical context, particularly for Thummim.

he-m

תומים / תֻּמִּים (tummîm)

Should Kings and Nations from thy mouth conſult, / Thy Counſel would be as the Oracle / Urim''' and Thummim, those oraculous gems / On Aaron’s breaſt: or tongue of Seers old / Infallible; […]

1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 55, lines 12–16:

If the description of the ephod and of the ‘breast-plate’ of the high priest in Ex 28: 6-30 comes (basically) from the last years of the monarchy, it was no longer an instrument for giving oracles; it is significant that the Urim and Thummim are mentioned there, but not described in minute detail, as all the other ornaments of the high priest are; they are probably mentioned to give an archaic touch, and the writer himself probably did not know exactly what they were.[…]
Esd 2:63=Ne 7:65 says that after the Exile there was no priest to handle the Urim and Thummim; this is confirmed by the Jewish tradition which often repeats that there was neither Urim nor Thummim in the second Temple. One text of the Talmud (Sota 48a) even asserts that there had been no Urim and Thummim since the death of the ‘first prophets’, i.e. Samuel, David and Solomon.

1961, Roland de Vaux, “The Priestly Office”, in Ancient Israel, volume 2, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 353:

With the aid of ‘George’, the disembodied spirit of an executed felon, Wharton and Wildman looked for treasure at Somerset House, exorcised four devils (Wildman heard one of them ‘hiss’), and embarked on a quest for the Urim and Thummim from the breastplate of the high priest of the Temple (Wildman calculated that the jewels alone would be worth £25,000).

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 230:

I decided to return to the ancients. The Bible says the high priest of the ancient Hebrews relied on oracular doodads called the Urim and Thummim. Nobody these days knows precisely what they were or how they were used, and there are only a handful of mentions in the Bible. The problem is that the Urim and Thummim have disappeared.
That is, unless somebody isn’t telling.[…]
This brought me back to Mr. Buffett. While his record isn’t perfect, his investing prowess is legendary. Could he be getting some help from the ancient oracular doodads?
I called Omaha. A woman with a friendly and professional voice answered the phone at Mr. Buffett’s office. I explained that I was a reporter from The New York Times, and that I was searching for the Urim and Thummim.
“I don’t even know what you’re referencing,” she said.
No problem. Nobody knows what the Urim and Thummim were, I explained. This didn’t seem to help, and her tone went from confused to cool.
I asked her name. “I don’t think I’m going to tell you,” she said.
Could she at least let me know if Mr. Buffett might have left the Urim and Thummim just, you know, lying around?
“I’m going to have to let you go, sir. Thank you.” And with that  you might find this hard to believe  she hung up on me.

2009 July 11, John Schwartz, “There’s No Future in Being an Oracle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26, The U.S. Economy Today:

Certain sacred objects (whose precise form and nature is unknown) that were worn on the breastplate of the Jewish high priest, as described in the Bible, and used in divination or casting lots.

(Mormonism) Instruments by which divine revelation can be understood; often specifically the tools that Joseph Smith, Jr. said he had found on the hill Cumorah and used to interpret the golden plates.


Dodecanese

From Greek Δωδεκάνησα (Dodekánisa, “twelve islands”), from δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).


pliers

→ Cebuano: playis

→ Tagalog: plais

→ Tok Pisin: plais

→ Yakan: palayes

I need a pair of pliers to get a good grip on that broken screw.

A pincer-like gripping tool that multiplies the strength of the user's hand, often used for bending things.

pincë

gripping tool which multiplies the strength of the user's hand


Atlas Mountains

Calque of Arabic جِبَال الأَطْلَس (jibāl al-ʔaṭlas), from Berber ⵉⴷⵓⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵟⵍⴰⵙ (idurar n waṭlas), both ultimately from the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone.

calque

جِبَال الأَطْلَس

A mountain range in northwestern Africa, occupying portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.


Ionian Islands

A group of islands in the Ionian Sea – one of the 13 peripheries of Greece. The main islands are Cephalonia, Corfu, Ithaca, Kythira, Lefkada, Paxoi and Zante.


spades

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.


diamonds

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.

دِينَارِيّ

one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦


hearts

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.

(card games) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.


underpants

en-noun

underpants pl (plural only, attributive underpant)

The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.

1994, Marketing in Europe, Issues 380-385, page 77:

She takes off her fatigue pants and throws them in the washer and the surgical greens and her bloodstained bra and turns on the machine. She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.

He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.

2011, Les Roberts, The Cleveland Creep: A Milan Jacovich Mystery, page 87:

Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.

'Calzones' in Mexico is applied to both sexes : see 'Underwear')


labia

labia pl (normally plural, singular labium)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).

ubor

(anatomy) The folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.


cornflakes

en-noun

cornflakes pl (normally plural, singular cornflake)


Nahuatl

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From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).

The polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people of Mexico.

naŭatla lingvo

with the definite article ⦃⦃t+¦eo¦la¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦⦄⦄


Murrinh-Patha

A small tribe of Australian Aboriginal people living in Australia's Northern Territory.


Shona

I didn’t know anyone who spoke fluent Shona in the area.

2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 225:

A language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.


Luo

The Nilotic language spoken by this group, also known as Dholuo.


Sioux

From French Sioux, shortening of Nadouessioux, from Ojibwe naadawesiwag (“little snakes”), which could refer to the massasauga snake (Sistrurus catenatus), a small rattlesnake.

Various formerly nomadic Native American tribes of the North American Great Plains.


teeth

From Middle English teth, plural of tothe, from Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ, from earlier *tœ̄þ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþiz, nominative plural of *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntes, nominative plural of *h₃dónts.

The international community's sanctions against the regime had some teeth to them this time around.

(informal) The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.

the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature

weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth


neen

And mar her milk, Ise greet out bath my Neen.

1683, George Meriton, A Yorkshire Dialogue:


natural numbers

natural numbers pl (normally plural, singular natural number)

(mathematics, computer science) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.


clothes

Sranan Tongo: krosi

From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.


statistics

The statistics from the Census for apportionment are available.

Sufficient statistics for a given estimation problem are a collection of statistics or, equivalently, a collection of functions of the random sample, that summarize or represent all of the information in a random sample that is useful for estimating any #x5C;textbf#x7B;q#x7D;(#x5C;#x21;#x5C;boldsymbol#x5C;Theta#x5C;#x21;).

1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, Springer, page 389:

A systematic collection of data on measurements or observations, often related to demographic information such as population counts, incomes, population counts at different ages, etc.


eyeglasses

Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].

2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC:


glasses

He had his Zeiss glasses in his hand. "I focused it before it got over the trees," said he.

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


headphones

headphones pl (normally plural, singular headphone)

Circumaural headphones enclose the ear, supra-aural headphones rest on the ear's surface, and earbuds are placed inside the ear.

A pair of cushioned speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound.

kufje

pair of speakers worn over or in the ears so only the wearer can hear the sound


directions

Please follow the attached directions when assembling these shelves.

I got so lost on my way downtown I had to ask for directions.

Instructions for how to reach a destination or how to do something


manacles

From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula, diminutive form of manus (“hand”).


overalls

/ˈoʊvəɹɔːlz/

(UK) A loose-fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them.

工裝褲

loose fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them

That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(US, Canada, Australia) Loose-fitting pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.

(UK, military) Trousers traditionally worn by cavalry.


aged

the aged

health insurance and retirement income for the aged

see also Thesaurus:old person § Holonyms

(with definite article, collective) Old people, collectively.


amenities

"I trust that you are as comfortable as circumstances permit," said Holmes, when the final arrangements were made. "Should I be guilty of a liberty if I lit a cigar and placed it between your lips?"
But all amenities were wasted upon the angry German.

1917 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes”, in His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published October 1917, →OCLC, page 306:

When we got to Sullivan Street Mrs. Ricci was waiting in front with a glare in her eye that made me decide not to stop for any amenities.

1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 24:

The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, disposition etc.


Aymara

From Spanish aymara, possibly from Aymara or a Quechuan language. Attested in English since the mid 18th century.

In Potosi, Aymara is spoken in the Llica region, located north of the saltpan, and in the provinces comprising the region known as Norte de Potosi

1988, Xavier Albó, “Bilingualism in Bolivia”, in Christina Bratt Paulston, editor, International Handbook of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, page 97:


Tswana

From Tswana Tswana, the stem of Motswana/Batswana/Setswana. See Botswana for more.

A Bantu people living in Botswana and South Africa.


ally

From Middle English allie, alie [and other forms], probably partly:
* from allien (verb): see etymology 1; and
* from Anglo-Norman allié, alié, alyé, allyé, Middle French allié, alié, allyé (“associate, supporter; friend; relative; person, state, etc., associated or united with another by alliance or treaty”), and Old French alliiet (“military or political ally”) (modern French allié), a noun use of the past participle of Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allier, and Old French alier (verb): see etymology 1.

der

People, groups, states, etc., which are associated or united with each other for a common purpose; confederates; also, the state of being allied; alliance, confederation.


lapsi

(Christianity, historical) Apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Ancient Roman authorities.


kluski

Noodles prepared in an ethnic Polish manner; specifically, thin strips of dough, as opposed to filled shells.


Thatcher's children

She has not begun to stem the tide of British ugliness—the yobbish teenagers shivering in their torn gear; the shoddy streets littered with fast-food packaging; the drunks urinating on London's tube platforms; the drug culture. It is facile to call those concerned “Thatcher's children”: she is not responsible for their actions.

London's financial district, like New York's, had its “big bang,” after which, as though from dragon's teeth, Yuppies sprang up, armed with Porsches and mobile telephones. They included, inevitably, some unattractive specimens, and much of their wealth has proved evanescent. To call them “Thatcher's children” is both unfair and unhistorical. Just the same corner-cutting, money-obsessed types can be found in the novels of Trollope and Galsworthy. At the other end of the scale are the workers in moribund industries, the unmarried mothers, and the feckless young, all those who have come to expect more from the welfare state than the welfare state could ever provide: They too are called “Thatcher's children”: but their problems would have existed whatever government was in power.

1990, Anthony Lejeune, “Class”, in National Review, volume 42, number 21, pages 81–84:

Negus (2002), for example, characterizes intermediaries in the music industry in London as “public schoolboys”; in Manchester they have been seen as “Thatcher's children,” the unemployed and disaffected.

2005, Justin O'Connor, “Cities, Culture and ‘Transitional Economies’: Developing Cultural Industries in St. Petersburg”, in John Hartley, editor, Creative Industries, Wiley-Blackwell, page 255:

The social group in Britain that came to be known as ‘Thatcher's children’ (benefiting from the right-wing monetarist policies of Margaret Thatcher's government) were also called ‘yuppies’ (young, upwardly-mobile professionals, especially those working in money markets and the Stock Exchange). They often originated in the south-east of England and their profit motives were legitimised by government policy in favour of free market economics.

2007, Nikolas Coupland, Style: Language Variation and Identity, Cambridge University Press, page 96:

Non-unionism was now the norm across swathes of the private sector so that only an estimated 16% of employees were organised by trade unions by 2006. Increasingly younger workers aged between sixteen and twenty-four – known as Thatcher's children – saw little point in being trade union members.

2007, Anthony Seldon, Blair's Britain, 1997–2007, Cambridge University Press, page 228:

People who grew up or were born in the United Kingdom during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and who adopted the ideology of Thatcherism.


greens

From Middle English grenes, equivalent to green + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Gräinieten (“vegetable”), West Frisian grienten (“vegetables, greens”), Dutch groenten (“vegetables, greens”), German Low German Gröönten (“vegetables, greens”), Danish grøntsager (“vegetables”), Swedish grönsaker (“vegetables”).

cog

Some years ago, moths ruined my greens, and my son, a career Army man, sensed my loss.

(military) The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.

բանջար

any vegetable eaten by humans, regardless of colour


integers

(mathematics) The set of all integers; the set {... -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 ...}.


real numbers

(mathematics) The smallest set containing all limits of convergent sequences of rational numbers.


small caps

1856. Compare caps (“capitals”), 1856; small capitals, 1770.

Because small caps are smaller than full size caps—slightly larger than the x-height—they are less obtrusive and do not overwhelm the upper and lower case type as full size capitals would.

2006, Nigel French, chapter 3, in InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(typography) Capital letters shown in the same form but in small size (typically of the same size as lower-case letters).


noughties

From nought (“zero”) + -ies (“plural of -y”), in imitation of the names of other decades (twenties, thirties, etc).

Our readers — and contributors — are apt to elect a good deal according to years. The seventies and eighties, we may suppose, are concerned for the large educational and cultural interests of their Alma Mater; the nineties are deep in the practical and business activities; the noughties are not naughty, but still young enough to sport a fantastic costume at reunion and let the college wag as it will; the oneties are the really wise as to what the college ought to be, especially on its athletic side, but as contributors modest.

1914, Amherst College, “Amherst graduates' quarterly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 4, page 6:

I doubt if any modern poet can boast of as loud acclaim or as liberal reward as Longfellow received for Evangeline or Tennyson for the Idylls, but his fate today is somewhat kinder than that of Poe or Whitman, and much gentler than the stony dole dealt out to poets in the nineties and noughties.

1933, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume 43, Chicago, page 36:

During the Naughty Noughties, Jim was worth between ten and twelve million dollars and his income was more than even he could reasonably spend.

1934, Parker Morell, Diamond Jim: The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady, page 219:

Every young woman with "advanced" ideas must live in Paris during the decade of the "noughties," as they were dubbed by some wit.

1966, Jean Gould, Modern American playwrights, page 30:

2009 [2006], Naomi Rosh White, “Tertiary education in the noughties: the student perspective”, in Malcolm Tight, editor, The Routledge international handbook of higher education:

2008, Cunningham, Gleeson, Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Painting in the noughties: 21st century British and Irish abstract painting:

An obsession with designer handbags, at ever-spiralling prices, became a phenomenon of the mid-noughties, driven principally by Louis Vuitton.

2009, Brenda Polan, Roger Tredre, The Great Fashion Designers, page 237:

The noughties are the bridge between the pre-internet era, and the life we live now.

2021 November 5, Jess Cartner-Morley, “The noughties are back – but do they warrant a revival?”, in The Guardian:

(UK, sometimes capitalized) The decade consisting of the last year of the previous century and the first nine years of the next: from 1900 to 1909, 2000 to 2009, etc.

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

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


fish and chips

head

fish and chips sg or pl (countable and uncountable, attributive fish and chip or fish-and-chip)

fish and chip (attributive)
fish-and-chip (attributive)

Let's go to Sophie's by the sea; they have the most delicious fish and chips.

“Perfectly splendid,” Miss Flower burbled on. “And a perfect contrast to Doris, who’s so pale and thin.” / “Too many fish and chips and not enough proper vitamins,” said Mrs. Smethers.

1974, Pamela Sykes, Phoebe’s Family, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN, page 52:

I manage to swallow a few chips just to convince them I’m not going to die of malnutrition but it’s hard going, I can tell you. Though normally fish and chips is my favourite.

1984, Frances Thomas, chapter 22, in Zak (New Windmill Series), Oxford, Oxon: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, published 1988, →ISBN, page 117:

Jeez, Will, you’ve definitely had too much fish and chips. Or maybe it was all those potato chips.

1992, Gloria Hatrick, Masks, New York, N.Y.: Orchard Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5:

Newspaper wrapping is old news; most fish and chips are now served wrapped in plain white paper.

2009, Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 157:

Co-owned by Ed Strojan and his step-father, Gary Coleman, who also has the English Gardener gift shop across the street, virtually everything here is made with an eye to authenticity, from the shortcakey scones with imported clotted cream to pastry-wrapped banger sausages, sides of mushy peas, Madras curry sauce, and, especially, those fish and chips.

2010 September 9, Craig LaBan, “GoodTaste”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 101, page F5:

Craig was feeling better and we ordered two fish and chips, only to be told that it would be at least an hour.

2013, Craig Stevenson, John Mackay, Inn Aff the Bar, East Kilbride: Cheapwayround Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:

‘You feeling hungry, Mike?’ Ah, back to normality! / ‘Oh yes. I’ll just have a fish and chips, Harry.’ / Two minutes later, he handed me the plate, and I retreated into my own private corner of the bar. The smell of warm potato chips and crumbed battered fish was welcoming, and it tasted nice as I washed it down with my third beer.

2014, Keith Greenwood, “Awakening”, in The Clueless Dead, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 34:

A meal of fish fried in batter and served with chips (fried potato pieces), popular throughout the Anglosphere, especially in coastal regions.


stability conditions

Time-span and prolongational reductions depend on stability conditions.

(music) Pitch configurations, as considered "out of time".


binoculars

en-noun

binoculars pl (normally plural, singular binocular)

He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:

A hand-held device consisting of a series of lenses and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.

verkyker

hand-held device for looking at a distance


tongs

tong ("tool for manipulating things in a fire") + -s

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.

(by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.


dynamics

(music) The volume with which music is to be performed, denoted by such terms as piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, or forte.


yonks

Unknown. First seen in print around 1960. One theory is that it comes from donkey's ears; another is that it is an abbreviation of years, months and weeks.

Haven’t seen him in yonks!

I’ve been a teacher for yonks–I should really try another career.

This egg is taking yonks to boil.

I rang singer Julie Driscoll […] She said: "I haven't heard from you for yonks[…]"

1968 August 27, Christopher Ward, “The Christopher Ward Page”, in Daily Mirror, London, page 7:

Alas, the comics for that age group have nearly all picture stories today—and of course the ones for younger readers have been that way for yonks (sorry, years).

1975 January 28, Bill Stewart, “Comic Cuts”, in Evening Chronicle, number 30393, Newcastle, page 7:

It's what Miss Brunskill calls ‘our little backwater’. We're more or less fixtures there and have been for yonks.

1982, Alan Bennett, “A Woman of No Importance”, in The Complete Talking Heads, Picador, published 2010, →ISBN, page 14:

“Yonks,” he replies when I ask how long he's been stateside. “It's not like I've become American. I'm in England every year.”

2024 February 17, John Wright, quoting John Lydon, “I terrified a nation. Not bad for an 18-year-old”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 16:

(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A long time (especially a longer time than expected); ages


pyjamas

desc

→ Arabic: بِيجَامَا (bījāmā)

→ Arabic: بِيجَامَا (bījāmā)

→ Bulgarian: пижа́ма (pižáma)

→ Catalan: pijama

→ Czech: pyžamo

→ Dutch: pyjama

→ Estonian: pidžaama

→ Finnish: pyjama

desctree

→ French: pyjama
→ Romanian: pijama
→ Turkish: pijama

→ German: Pyjama

→ Greek: πυτζάμα (pytzáma)

→ Lithuanian: pižama

→ Italian: pigiama

→ Norwegian: pysjamas

→ Persian:

Dari: پیژامه (pīžāma)

Iranian Persian: پیژامه (pižâme)

Tajik: пижома (pižoma)

→ Portuguese: pijama

→ Russian: пижама (pižama)
→ Azerbaijani: pijama
→ Kazakh: пижама (pijama)
→ Kyrgyz: пижама (pijama)
→ Tajik: пижама (pižama)
→ Turkmen: pijama
→ Uzbek: pijama

→ Spanish: pijama

→ Ukrainian: піжа́ма (pižáma)

→ Yiddish: פּיזשאַמע (pizhame)

/pɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/

/paɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/

From Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma), from Classical Persian پایجامه (pāyjāma), archaic form of پاجامه (pājāma).

bor

Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma)

The performer opens one of the small drawers and takes out two sets of pyjamas.

1973, John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini, Dover Publications, US, page 231

She wasn′t sure if Lena looked more surprised by her clobbering hug or the sight of her pyjamas on the bright New York City sidewalk.

2007, Ann Brashares, Summers of the Sisterhood: Forever in Blue, page 178:

British standard spelling of pajamas (clothes for sleeping in).


pronounce

en-verb

pronounce (third-person singular simple present pronounces, present participle pronouncing, simple past and past participle pronounced)

pronounces (present singular third-person)
pronouncing (participle present)
pronounced (participle past)
pronounced (past)

Recorded since c.1330 as Middle English pronouncen (“to utter, declare officially”), from Old French prononcier, from Latin prōnūntiō, itself from prō- (“forth, out, in public”) + nūntiō (“I announce”) from nūntius (“messenger”).

заявя́вам

to declare authoritatively or as formal opinion

shqiptoj

to sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate

The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd.


dreads

Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche.


specs

(colloquial, plural only) Abbreviation of spectacles.


locks

Alternative forms: 'locs, locs


Troubles

Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border.

2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in The Irish Times, page 4:

(Ireland, historical) The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s.

na Trioblóidí

violence in Northern Ireland, 1960s–1990s


belonging

en-noun

belonging (countable and uncountable, plural belongings)

When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.

1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter XXXIII, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 322:

As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.

1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part II, page 121:

(plural only, colloquial, dated) Family; relations; household.


lunettes

A particular kind of spectacles/glasses, consisting of two circles lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose.


sheeple

War protesters . . . did appear along Mr. Rumsfeld's path carrying signs saying "Bush is a Liar" and "Wake Up, Sheeple".

2005 September 11, Glen Justice, John Files, “Commemoration or Promotion? Walk Highlights Iraq Divide”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-21:

[F]ormer MP Garth Turner’s new book . . . is entitled Sheeple, a term apparently applied to people who often take on the characteristics—curly white hair covering most of the body, fondness for grazing, tendency to do as told—of sheep.

2009 August 27, Aaron Wherry, “The Commons: You bore us, Mr. Ignatieff”, in Macleans, Canada, retrieved 2014-08-21:

Harmless vapour trails left by planes? That's what they want you to think, sheeple.

2010 August 20, Richard Adams, “The American far-right's top 10 paranoid conspiracy theories (photo caption)”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2014-08-21:

He'll take himself down.
Yeah, history always proves that, right? Just wait for justice, you sheeple…

2016, Life Is Strange, spoken by Luke (Nik Shriner), Square Enix, via Dontnod Entertainment:

Being a sheeple isn't always dangerous. A lot of the time it can just make a person look foolish, more than anything.

Kaitlyn S. C. Hatch, Wise at Any Age (page 10)

I think it's the HYDRA, the group of whatevers that rule the world, those elitists that laugh at us, joke about their environmentalist sheeples doing their bidding while they sip the best wine on the planet, ride around in private jets, […]

2011, Carol Ann Lindsay, The Planet of Comet Sense, page 55:

(derogatory, slang) People who unquestioningly accept as true whatever their political leaders say or who adopt popular opinion as their own without scrutiny.


giblets

The internal organs of poultry birds, used as food.


einherjar

From Old Norse einherjar (plural, literally “lone fighters”) (rarely attested singular einheri).

bor

(Norse mythology) The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.


fax

→ Japanese: ファックス

Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.

OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.

You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.

Ellipsis of fax machine: the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides.

fax machine

A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.


fax

en-verb

fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)

faxes (present singular third-person)
faxxes (present rare singular third-person)
faxing (participle present)
faxxing (participle present rare)
faxed (participle past)
faxed (past)
faxxed (participle past rare)
faxxed (past rare)

Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.

1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82:

Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.

1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:

SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.

1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 1696; October 22, 1991, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, pages 140–141:

A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”

1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.

1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 737, column 1:

His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.

1994, Olga Elena Mattei, “Part One: Poetry [§] The Angel of the Millennium (Accident at the Nuclear Plant)”, in Roberta Fernández, editor, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 139:

He already has the copy of the other fingerprints that Leo faxxed to him for comparison.

1995, Lucha Corpi, Cactus Blood: A Mystery Novel, Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, page 151:

On May 12, 1995, Julie Hirshen (GAO) faxxed a draft portion of the GAO Cooperative Threat Reduction report dealing with MPCA.

1995 May 17, Ken Luongo, “Comments on GAO Report on CTR Program Concerning MPCA (note to Ken Sanders)”, in Weapons of Mass Destruction: Reducing the Threat From the Former Soviet Union: An Update (United States General Accounting Office, Report to Congressional Requesters), published June 1995, “Background”, page 76:

[162] / Faxxing from Israel / 03-695-0132 / [163] / Calling from abroad / 972-3-695-6868 / Faxxing from abroad / 972-3-695-0132

1996, Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session; September 20, 1995, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 25:

Please advise how one faxxes from the Pilot Pro. Faxxing would greatly enhance my use of the Pilot. / Thanks!

1997 May 18, Mike Story, “Confirmed....Pilot Modem Has FAX capability!!”, in alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):

Please have Georgia Dixon of Sen Craig’s office have a current copy of the Canadian Endangered Species list faxxed to her from Ottawa, Canada.

1999, Appendix E: Response to Public Comments: Final Environmental Impact Statement For Open Road and Open Motorized Trail Analysis (Motorized Road and Trail Travel Plan):


Abraum salts

a mixture of carnallite, kieserite and sylvite found in Prussia; chemically, mixed sulphates and chlorides of potassium, sodium and calcium


spectacles

(plural only, formal) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.


left-handed

From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed.

Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.

Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.

Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.

On the other hand, nearly all magic tends in time to the left-handed path; as being a devious means of attaining desires unobtainable by ordinary methods.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 23:

(occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path


left-handed

Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.

1992, Antonio E. Puente, Robert J. McCaffrey, Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment, →ISBN, page 147:


data

→ Turkish: data

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.

Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points, information

(collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.

Coordinate term: information

(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

run out of data

(mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data: digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.


undead

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-undead.wav

From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. Usage as a noun is attested from the early 20th century onwards.

Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.


SFX

From the initial letter of "special" or "sound", and the pronunciation of "effects".


two fat ladies

(bingo) A traditional call for the number eighty-eight.


actual occasions

"Actual entities--also termed Actual Occasions--are the final real things of which the world is made up. There is no going behind actual entities to find anything more real. ...The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience, complex and interdependent." Whitehead, A.N., Process and Reality: an essay in Cosmology, ed. by Griffin, D. and Sherburne, D., New York: The Free Press, 1978.

The final real things in the universe, that are "experiential" in nature rather than strictly material. The most basic thing or construct in the universe. Some Whitehead scholars would hold that trillions of Actual Occasions compose one quark. Actual occasions make up everything, even empty space:


gents

A clipped form of gentlemen. As a room, via misspelling of gents', a clipped form of gentlemen's room.

Where is the gents? I need a slash.

A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27:

London's first 'gents' public toilets were opened in Fleet Street in 1851, followed in 1852 by a 'ladies' toilet at 51 Bedford Street, Strand.

2000, Munroe Blair, Ceramic Water Closets, page 15:

One unidentified man spoke of how he was approached to "go to the Gents" with an MP at an event for young political activists while another man described how an MP invited his entire office staff to a gay bar.

2014 April 11, Charlotte Meredith, “The Palace of Sexminster”, in Huffington Post: United Kingdom:

(chiefly UK, informal euphemistic) A men's room: a lavatory intended for use by men.


rectangular coordinates

en-noun

rectangular coordinates pl (plural only)

Cartesian coordinates
Cartesian coordinates

(mathematics, less common) Cartesian coordinates.


Cartesian coordinates

perpendicular distance
perpendicular distance

(algebraic geometry) The coordinates of a point measured as its perpendicular distance to the right of a vertical axis (the y-axis) and its perpendicular distance above a horizontal axis (the x-axis).


polar coordinates

polar coordinates pl (normally plural, singular polar coordinate)

(mathematics) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.

(mathematics) A system of coordinates using such measurements to indicate position.

(mathematics) The coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin, the angle measured from the z-axis to a line joining the point to the origin, and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to this line.


mnemonics

From Ancient Greek μνημονικά (mnēmoniká, “mnemonics”), plural of μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “mnemonics”), neuter of μνημονικός (mnēmonikós, “mnemonic”); see mnemonic.

der

(plural only) The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.

記憶術

study of techniques for improving memory


faeces

en-noun

faeces pl (normally plural, singular faex)

This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis.

1968 May, W. B. Healy, “Ingestion of Soil by Dairy Cows”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, page 487:

The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating.

1984 April 19, David F. Chantrey, James B. Reid, C. E. Davie, “Dog Business”, in New Scientist, page 48:

Urine and faeces are complete fertilizers of high quality with low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals. Urine is rich in nitrogen, while faeces are rich in phosphorous, potassium and organic matter.

2004, Håkan Jönsson, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Richert Stintzing, Björn Vinnerås, Eva Salomon, Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop Production, page 1:

UK, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand standard spelling of feces.


banns

The Banes which are reade beefore the beginninge of the playes of Chester, 4 June, 1600.

Historically, any public announcement of a coming event.


hijinks

One could argue, of course, that most comedies about the risqué misadventures of teenagers are actually pretty wholesome. Horny hits like American Pie and last year's Blockers are, at heart, sweet coming-of-age stories, secretly reassuring everyone that the kids are all right—that no matter how many f-bombs they drop, no matter how raunchy their MPAA-antagonizing hijinks get, they're really just fumbling their inexperienced way through normal rites of passage.

2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-03-04:


But the families of the 96 still feel that justice has not been done, and fight on.

2001, Arabella McIntyre-Brown, Liverpool: The First 1,000 Years:

AS part of our Hillsborough Remembered coverage, we've been asking for your tributes to the 96 and messages of support for those still fighting for Justice twenty-two years on.

2011 May 11, Dan Kay, “Hillsborough remembered: Your tributes to the 96 and those still fighting for Justice”, in Liverpool Daily Echo:

There is euphoria at the utter vindication for the families prevailing in their dignified campaign and the complete achievement of the first objective, which was was to clear the names of the 96.

2012 September 14, Andy Burnham, “We have the truth, now we need justice for the 96”, in The Independent:

The 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster.


sweaty

From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

After lessons I went down town with O'Hara and William, we bought a bow and arrows and some sweaties, when we came home we practised with our bow and arrows and played marbles.

1962, Lois Winslow-Spragge, George Mercer Dawson, The Life of George Mercer Dawson, 1849-1901, page 26:

Designer Hanna Andersson specializes in comfortable, round-the-clock children's clothes: snugglies and “sweaties" (indefatigable sportswear) made of cotton trikā, a combed-cotton rib-knit in bright colors and bold stripes.

1985, New Age Journal - Volume 2, Issues 2-5:

As the rictal woman leaves the A & P for the oppressive heat of the streets, she is knocked sprawling by Grace Armstrong, a ridiculous figure in “sweat” clothing , or “sweaties,” who is just finishing her daily jogging stint.

1989, Gilbert Sorrentino, Misterioso, page 11:

Grey sweaties are our go-to and the rhinestones add a little something extra for the days when you actually make it out of the house.

2020 December 22, Alison Ives, “The Coziest, Comfiest Loungewear We're Living In This Winter”, in Brit & Co:

(plural only, informal) Informal sportswear, such as a sweatshirt, pair of sweatpants or a sweatsuit.


high jinks

/ˈhaɪ ˌd͡ʒɪŋks/

Probably related to jink (“(verb) to make a quick evasive turn; to whirl about when dancing, to dance; (noun) a quick evasive turn”), probably originally onomatopoeic, expressing quick movement.

Only one tutor has rooms here; and I should think, if he's a reading man, it wont be for long before he clears out; for all sorts of high jinks go on on the grass-plot, and the row on the staircases is often as bad, and not half so respectable, as it used to be in the middle passage in the last week of the half year.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “St. Ambrose’s College”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 10:

But given the funny hats and juvenile hijinx, it's hard to buy the play's more serious intentions.

1988 January 15, Tom Boeker, “A Night at Dykes Who Date/Crusaders [theatre review]”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-26:

Day of the Dead stretches the zombie film just about as far as it can go – and the film [George Andrew] Romero wanted to make could have been even more challenging – but the horror movie audience is more interested in the partying hi-jinx of trendy monsters like [Dan] O'Bannon's funky zombies, Freddy Krueger or Herbert West.

2011, Kim Newman, “Postscript: The Post-modern Horror Film”, in Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s, revised edition, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (Nightmare Movies), page 288:

Boisterous activity or behaviour; lively fun.

ilonpito

boisterous activity or behaviour, especially in sport


sunnies

From sunglasses + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), retaining the plural form.

She took off her sunnies and polished them, a little vigorously.

2005, Dave Franklin, Manic Streets of Perth, published 2011, unnumbered page:

With Heath wearing a black beanie and his trademark sunnies, the couple arrived in Perth at 12.20 p.m. after flying in from the US via Sydney.

2008, Janet Fife-Yeomans, Heath: A Family′s Tale, page 97:

2009, Susan Lyons, Sex Drive, Kensington Press, US, page 160,
“Sunscreen for you.” Her skin was a light golden brown. “And sunnies and a hat.” He slipped on his own sunglasses.

Bring the Prada sunnies, the papers and an appetite if you′re heading here for breakfast.

2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 525:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Sunglasses.


shades

His shades are by some famous designer.


sunglasses

It is impossible to know accurately how you look in your sunglasses.

1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun or other bright light. May also be worn as a fashion accessory.

syze dielli

tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun

તડકાનાં ચશ્માં

taḍkānā̃ caśmā̃

My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar

(colloquial) A person wearing sunglasses


hundreds and thousands

PIE word
 *ḱm̥tóm
From hundreds + and + thousands. Sense 2 (“tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar”) is from the fact that the confectionery is made up of numerous sugar pieces.

So there you have them - Onoda, Gund, Eclipse - all squidged together on the same spoon, their flavours intermingling under a bleeding crust of hundreds-and-thousands.

2003, Neil Wills, “Surfers′ Paradise”, in Third Way, page 12:

Hundreds and thousands, commonly yet boringly called “sprinkles” in North America, are enough to make any child smile. Sprinkled over a cookie and sandwiched around creamy ice cream makes for sheer bliss!

2007, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Cookies!, New Holland Publishers (UK), archived from the original on 2016-09-17, page 96:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Tiny balls or strands of multicoloured sugar, sprinkled over ice cream, desserts or party foods.


corn flakes

corn flakes pl (normally plural, singular corn flake)

→ Bulgarian: корнфле́йкс (kornfléjks)

→ Danish: cornflakes

→ German: Cornflakes

→ Greek: κορνφλέικς (kornfléiks)

→ Icelandic: kornflex

→ Norwegian Bokmål: cornflakes

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: cornflakes

→ Polish: kornfleksy

→ Russian: корнфле́кс (kornfléks)

→ Swedish: cornflakes

A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.


bingo wings

(derogatory or humorous, slang) Fatty, loose flaps of skin hanging from the upper arms.


Maler

A people of northern India who speak the Malto language.


cargo shorts

The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company's items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can't make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers

2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:

Casual short trousers with pockets, originally designed for outdoor activities.


enumerated articles

(historical) sugar, tobacco, cotton and indigo - the goods that the English colonies could export only to England in the 17th century.


Maritime Alps

Coordinate term: Cottian Alps

The city of Coni, from the nature of its ſituation, at the extremity of one of those three grand valleys, which I have heretofore claſſed as primitive, may be said to form a central point of union at the foot of the Cottian and Maritime Alps, to a number of ſecondary valleys which deſcend from theſe tremendous heights.

1795, Jean-François Albanis Beaumont, Travels Through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons Across the Col de Tende, by the Way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, Etc., London: T. Bensley, page 27:

A part of the Alps between France and Italy.


Alps

→ Hindi: ऐल्प्स (ailps)

→ Japanese: アルプス (Arupusu)

→ Urdu: الپس (alps)

From Middle English Alpes, from Old English Alpis, ultimately from Latin Alpēs; in later use partly via French. Compare German Alpen (“alps”, plurale tantum), German Alp (“mountainous pasture”).

(usually with "the") A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.


halver

Let's go halvers on the tab tonight.

like a Scotch schoolboy when he finds anything, "Nae halvers and quarters--hale o' mine ain and 'nane o' my neighbour's.

1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:


oats

Oats are in the north corner of the farm.

Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.

A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa).


earmuffs

earmuffs pl (normally plural, singular earmuff)

A headphone-like device designed to cover a person's ears for protection against cold or noise. They consist of a thermoplastic or metal head-band, that fits over the top of the head, and a pad at each end, to cover the external ears.


property rights

(law) The exclusive rights pertaining to the ownership and possession of a given piece of property.


rich

en-adj

rich (comparative richer or more rich, superlative richest or most rich)

richer (comparative)
more rich (comparative)
richest (superlative)
most rich (superlative)

From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source.

inh

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

All racists I grew up with have rich jobs.

2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 79:

rich soil or land; a rich mine

Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

The ETF is trading rich to NAV right now; we can arb this by selling the ETF and buying the underlying constituents.

(finance) Trading at a price level which is high relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.


Salvos

From Salv(ation Army) + -o (“diminutive suffix”), analysed as a plural.

Thank God for the Salvos. — marketing tagline

2006, Amanda Lohrey, Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia, Quarterly Essay, Issue 22, page 25,
At the Salvos, the writer claimed, she found emotional support and got her electricity bill paid. But the Salvos are often dealing with the desperate – “losers” – and their emergency needs for food and shelter, while the focus of the megachurches is unapologetically middle class […] .

At the bottom lay Betty Laurie, Mavis′s favourite battered doll. She was not going to the Salvos, she deserved better than that.

2007, Dominie Whyntie, Love and War and All that Stuff, page 173:

Some years before DW Griffith premiered the art of the feature film, the Salvation Army in Melbourne was inadvertently playing a truly unheralded pioneer role in the incipient Australian film industry. The Salvos were intent to spread their blend of Christianity to the Australian public and thus made Soldiers of the Cross, a series of Biblical re-enactments on film.

2010, Robert Cettl, Australian Film Tales, page 35:


dregs

(collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.