shoesies

Water from your cap brim splashes on your nose, / Water in your shoesies, ticklin’ of your toes, / Spurting down your backbone like a leaky drain— / Bathing like a hobo, riding in the rain!

1898 October 27, “The Road Rider”, in The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, volume XXII, number 11 / 557, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., section “Mud Larking”, page 32, column 1:

And, girls, they were n’t even dressed warm—their toesies were almost out of their shoesies.

1910 December, Charlotte Sedgwick, “Judy’s Idea”, in St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXXVIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Frederick Warne & Co., published 1911, page 153, column 2:

THAT WAS SOME LINE DRIVE, CHARLIE BROWN… IT KNOCKED YOUR SHOESIES AND YOUR SOCKIES RIGHT OFF! MAYBE WE SHOULD COUNT TO SEE IF YOU STILL HAVE ALL YOUR TOESIES…

1979, Charles M[onroe] Schulz, Look Out Behind You, Snoopy: Selected Cartoons from Here Comes the April Fool, Volume 1 (Peanuts), New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Crest, published 1982 April, →ISBN:

“Oh, look, here are my sunflower shoesies.” She held them up. They were sandals decorated at the toes with huge sunflowers. “Remember when we went to the day spa in the Other Realm? These are the shoesies I wore.”

1999, Nancy Holder, Up, Up, and Away, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 77:

Here’s an example from one of these commercials: […] From the script: […] CHILD: (IN A SMALL WISTFUL VOICE) Did you bring me some new shoesies, Daddy? CLARK: Ummm … Daddy doesn’t have any money for shoesies these days … because the mean old grocers won’t stock Daddy’s foil.

2009, Ron Ploof, “Trust and Faith”, in Read This First: The Executive’s Guide to New Media—From Blogs to Social Networks, New York, N.Y., Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 56:

Well I’m going there this minute / to the Gramma who is in it / and the Doozie who is barking / and I’m bouncing bouncing bouncing / and I’m flipping off my shoesies / and I’m rolling down my socksies / and I’m sighing / and I’m singing / and I’m . . . / THERE!

2010, Barbara Joosse, Sleepover at Gramma’s House, New York, N.Y.: Philomel Books, →ISBN:

‘[…] Welcome. You’re soaked. Come in. Come in. Lucy will take your coat. And wet shoesies off, I think.’ Her handshake was bone-dry and feather-soft. The kind so cherished by the Vice Squad Gaffer. She did not acknowledge Suzy. And shoesies? Who says a word like that, these days? […] Mother helped him on with his shoesies and wet coat.

2010, Jonathan Lewis, Into Darkness, Arrow Books, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 233 and 241:


feeties

He will tire you till you fag, / And your little feeties lag— / So never be alone with the Wild Wind Wag.

1902 December 20, Eugenia O. Clark, “The Wind Wag”, in Collier’s Illustrated Weekly, volume XXX, number 12, page 16, column 3:

I wish you could hear her say her prayer, “Father-Mother, God loving me, / Watch me while I sleep; / Guide my little feeties up to Thee.”

1906 March, Margaret May Bulkeley, “Epistles”, in Wee Wisdom, volume 10, number 8, Kansas City, Mo., page 12, column 1:

Cheekies so chubby and feeties so fatty that I feared total strangers would be unable to resist eating her up when they passed by on the street.

1998, Lee Potts, Falling Flesh Just Ahead and Other Signs on the Road Toward Midlife, Longstreet Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:


Inughuit

The northernmost Greenlandic Inuit people, who speak the Inuktun language.


dog's dangly bits

(euphemistic) The dog's bollocks; something outstandingly good.


Muckleshoot

From Lushootseed bəqəlšuɬ (“"Muckleshoot"”).

A Lushootseed-speaking Native American tribe, part of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest.


legs all the way to one's neck

en-noun

legs all the way to one's neck pl (plural only)

(colloquial, humorous) Long, attractive legs on a woman.


papillae coronae glandis

papillae coronae glandis pl (plural only)

Borrowed from Latin papillae corōnae glandis (literally “papillae of the corona of the glans”).

bor+

pearly penile papules
pearly penile papules#English

(medicine) Synonym of pearly penile papules

hirsuties papillaris coronae glandis

papillary hirsutism of the corona of the glans


jockey pants

In frightened haste he takes clean Jockey pants, T-shirts, and socks from a drawer, three shirts in cellophane and blue cardboard from another, a pair of laundered suntans from a third, draws his two suits and a sports shirt from the closet, and wraps the smaller clothing in the suits to form a bundle he can carry.

1995, John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, page 86:


battleskies

Because military planes are worth more than their weight in gold when they're badly needed — and such is usually the case in the battleskies of the world today — Uncle Sam has developed the world's best masters of improvisation in his globe-covering Army Air Forces Air Service Command, the outfit that literally "keeps 'em flying."

1944, The Curtiss Flyleaf, volumes 27-28, page 3:

War Production Board poster
Production is your Protection - Back Up Our Battleskies!

(military) The portions of airspace in which a military conflict is taking place.


Yangshao

Because this painted pottery culture was first discovered at Yangshao village in Mienchih county, Honan province, it is called Yangshao culture.

1973 June, Hsia Nai, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle — Exhibition of Archaeological Finds in New China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:

Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.

1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:

(historical) The members of a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC.


Yangshao

A village in Mianchi, Sanmenxia, Henan, China.


modern greats

(historical, education) A degree course at the University of Oxford comprising philosophy, politics, and economics, introduced in the 1920s as a modern alternative to classics or "greats".


Ogalala

Alternative form of Oglala (“Lakota subtribe”)


Orang Laut

/ˈoʊɹəŋ ˌlɑːuːt/

Any of several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands.


piss shivers

(informal) Synonym of post-micturition convulsion syndrome


Holmesiana

Rights to further discussion of the March additions to published Holmesiana are now released to Vincent Starrett, who plays a considerable role in all three books.

1944 April 2, Charles Collins, “Bookman’s Holiday”, in Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume CIII, number 14, page 16:

Here, the veteran scholar of Holmesiana gives us an imaginative account of Watson’s early life—before the meeting with Holmes.

1985 spring, Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor, “A Catalogue of Crime”, in The Armchair Detective, volume 18, number 2, page 220:

The two Sherlockian special-interest books I would recommend to any casual reader who loves the character are Vincent Starrett’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes—a glimpse of the time of its own creation as much as of Holmesiana itself—and James Edward Holroyd’s happy-go-lucky Baker Street By-ways.

2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Mariner Books; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2016, →ISBN, page 301:

Memorabilia or writings related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.


Coles Notes

Carl and Jack Cole
en:Coles (bookstore)
en:Coles Notes

Coles+note From Coles Notes, the brand of summarized information note books. From the bookstore chain Coles, named after its founders Carl and Jack Cole. From the surname Cole.

(Canada) quick notes; a summary, precis/précis, abstract, outline.


Sherlock Holmesiana

Side by side with the revival of “Sherlock Holmesiana” (if we may be pardoned such a fabrication) comes another story from the industrious pen of Mr. Guy Boothby, dealing with his wondrous figure Doctor Nikola.

1901 November 14, “Books of the Day”, in Liverpool Mercury and Lancashire, Cheshire, and General Advertiser, number 16,813, page 10, column 2:

I hear that Conan Doyle “fans” are frantic to add the Frank fake to their Sherlock Holmesiana.

1929 April 15, “News Notes From Abroad”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, forty-third year, number 89, Asbury Park, N.J., page 10, column 4:

Experts on Sherlock Holmesiana may also find food for thought in the bullet that Dr. John H. [or James] Watson carried in his sturdy body.

1939 October 27, “A Line o’ Type or Two”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVIII, number 257, page 12, column 3:

SHERLOCK HOLMESIANA / An Evening in Baker Street

1951 September 2, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 103, number 346, St. Louis, Mo., page 4C:

Eve Titus has written a delightful book, “Basil of Baker Street” (Whittlessey House, McGraw-Hill), with the hope, she states, of attracting new readers to Sherlock Holmesiana.

1959 November 15, “Young Readers Should Enjoy Recent Books”, in The Chickasha Daily Express, 67th year, number 229, Chickasha, Okla., page seven, column 7:

‘Let me show you the original manuscript of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” ’ Alex said, and showed me glass-enclosed display case in lobby containing Sherlock Holmesiana.

1965 February 20, Lillian Ross, “Pitching for Holmes”, in The New Yorker, section “The Talk of the Town”; published in Talk Stories, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1966, →LCCN, page 256:

Mr. French does not make the mistake, which some Wodehouse men do, of treating this branch of literature as if it were Sherlock Holmesiana.

1966 August 27, Douglas Johnson, “The Woosters Decoded”, in The Birmingham Post, number 33,642, page II, column 6:

He has one of the outstanding American collections of Eric Gill, G.K. Chesterton, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, Francis Thompson, Lafcadio Hearn, Aldous Huxley, Sherlock Holmesiana and T.S. Eliot.

1970 November 12, “John Bennett Shaw to lecture on Sherlock Holmes cult at Stables”, in The Taos News, Taos, N.M., page 8, column 3:

SHERLOCK HOLMESIANA / Anthondy Douglas Howlett, a founding member and former chairman of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, will speak on stage and screen portrayals of the famous sleuth at 7:30 p.m. in the MPC Theatre.

1976 March 4, “Calendar”, in The Carmel Pine Cone, page 19, column 1:

Ed’s hobbies include chamber music (viola) and Bohemian Club orchestra. Also Sherlock Holmesiana (Baker Street Irregulars).

1977 May, Whitworth Ferguson, Oscar Horovitz, “Classes”, in Technology Review, volume 79, number 6, page B6, column 3:

Doctor Ronchese was a Baker Street Irregular and gave his Sherlock Holmesiana material to the Library.

1977 October, Helen DeJong, “Doctor Ronchese”, in Rhode Island Medical Journal, volume 60, number 10, page 501, column 1:

Appendices the list 50 stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, biographies of Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, a selection of literary studies and reference works, and collections of Sherlock Holmesiana.

1986, Allen Eyles, Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN:

[…] The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary by his son Adrian Conan Doyle and a collection of Sherlock Holmesiana; […]

1979 September 22, The Sydney Morning Herald, number 44,235, page 52:

THE insatiable appetite for Sherlock Holmesiana is being delightfully fed by author M. T. Trow who is busy chronicling the adventures and the case[-]book of dear old bumbling Insp. Lestrade.

1986 May 10, PC, “Feckless flatfoot”, in Evening Telegraph, page six:

Exhibits at the festival abound, including children’s author Judy Delton’s manuscripts in Walter Library and a collection of Sherlock Holmesiana.

1988 September 4, Dave Wood, “Pending Festival of the Book promises volumes of activity”, in Star Tribune, volume VII, number 153, page 9F, columns 3–4:

[about the Leepers' r.a.b. FAQ list] […] POSTSCRIPT: This is not intended as a Leepers Bash; I delight in their Sherlock Holmesiana.

1992 February 27, Francis Muir, “rec.arts.books Frequently Asked Questions”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

[…] a load of books, Sherlock Holmesiana inc. an album of personal photos of A. Conan Doyle, […]

1993 August 5, The Sacramento Bee, volume 274, page D9:

The author often receives letters announcing the birth of babies named Kinsey, and Holt recently published G is for Grafton, a guide to the fictional universe of Kinsey Millhone as obsessive as any volume of Sherlock Holmes[-]iana.

2000, Jonathan Bing, editor, Writing for Your Life, volume 4, Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 85:

Kaveney places Buffy academia in the context, not of other series which have acquired an intellectual edge to their cult-status, but of far older phenomena like Sherlock Holmesiana.

2004, Keith Topping, Slayer: The Last Days of Sunnydale, Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 77:

[…] a classical pianist and organist, he was a devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan, a scholar of Sherlock Holmesiana, and a fervent Trumper disciple.

2016, Gideon Haigh, Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 251:

The first floor of Mystery, Inc. is American books; the second floor is British and foreign-language books, and Sherlock Holmesiana (an entire rear wall); […]

2016, Joyce Carol Oates, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Thorndike, Me.: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, page 307:


Aegean Islands

Meronyms: Crete, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Ionian Islands, Saronic Islands, Sporades


devils on horseback

(cooking) Dried fruits such as dates or prunes, stuffed with cheese or nuts, etc., and wrapped in bacon, prosciutto, or pancetta.


theydies and gentlethems

en-noun

theydies and gentlethems pl (plural only)

Theydies and Gentlethem, if there’s one thing we can agree on, let it be that the infrastructure holding up this country is a hierarchy of oppression.

2019 spring, Tempo, volume 21, number 2, Coastal Carolina University:

I am fully convinced, theydies and gentlethems, that Lana Del Rey is the Antichrist.

2019 February 15, Cameron Tipton, “Summertime Sataness: Lana Del Rey as the Antichrist”, in The Student Life, volume CXXI, number 12, Claremont, Calif., page 9, column 1:

Iconic quote: “Theydies and gentlethems, I give you my new designer nipples.”

17 “Theydies and ___” (gender-neutral address)

[2020 March 31, “Three per eleven”, in USA Today:

“Theydies and Gentlethems, there’s just one more thing before we go,” she announced over the mic.

2020 May 13, Hypatia Sorunke, Brownscale, TC660H, Plan II Honors Program, The University of Texas at Austin, page 23:

Well theydies and gentlethems, it's that time again. With the introduction of any new iteration of RuPaul's Drag Race, we get the introduction of another group of performers: the Pit Crew.

2020 June 17, Mikelle Street, “Meet the Men of 'Canada's Drag Race's Hunky Pit Crew”, in Out, archived from the original on 2020-06-17:

Step right up, theydies and gentlethems, to the animation and comics battle of the century.

2020 July 20, S.W. Sondheimer, “Aang vs. Korra: Avatar Battle”, in Book Riot, Riot New Media Group, Inc., archived from the original on 2020-10-28:

Theydies and Gentlethems, please welcome to the stage, Trylon Error!

2020 winter, Val Qaeda, “Dragony Aunt”, in Gaylife:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THEYDIES AND GENTLETHEMS… I GIVE YOU…

2021, Simon Hanselmann, Crisis Zone, Fantagraphics Books Inc., →ISBN, page 256:

They'''dies and Gentlethems! Welcome.

2021, Sara Fujimura, Faking Reality, Tor Teen, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN:

Hi everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, theydies and gentlethems, and all people of the human species, and all the ancestors watching. I’m super excited to be speaking with Jayda Shuavarnnasri today.

2021 May 13, Xoai Pham, “The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women”, in Autostraddle, archived from the original on 2021-05-13:

Theydies and gentlethems, please witness the “one time I read a tweet saying” format, and weep.

2021 July 23, Michael Di Iorio, “Does Avocado Actually Taste Like Clean Dick? An Investigation Into Twitter’s Weirdest Theory”, in Pedestrian, archived from the original on 2021-07-23:

This isn’t just an issue for theydies and gentlethems – it’s not just for us queer folk.

2022, Petra Shotwell, “F**k Gender, I’m Tired”, in Debate, number 4:

Ladies and gentlemen / Boys and girls / Theydies and gentlethems / Babies / Cats dogs horses and bats / Twats / Are you excited to see the show?

2022, Tom Ratcliffe, Evelyn, Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN:

“And that right there, theydies and gentlethem, is why I made a marriage pact with Earl last month,” Caitlin said.

2022, Fallon DeMornay, Stiletto Sisterhood, Wattpad Books, →ISBN:

In classrooms, teachers have moved away from addressing their students as “boys and girls” and say "scholars," "friends," "learners," or my favorite, “theydies and gentlethems."

[2022 July 15, Elizabeth J. Meyer, “Non-Binary Microaggressions: Everyday Interactions That Harm”, in Psychology Today, archived from the original on 2023-04-26:

Theydies and gentlethems, I present to you another entry for song of the summer: Saucy Santana’s “Booty.”

2022 July 22, Mathew Rodriguez, “The White House Defends Rachel Levine, Women’s Baseball Was Super Gay, and Dave Chappelle Gets Ousted: This Week in Queer News”, in Them, archived from the original on 2022-07-22:

Comedian Molly Kearney is making history as the first nonbinary cast member on Saturday Night Live, […] The next season is set to start in October, when we'll be tuning in with the hopes that the opening monologue will welcome "Theydies and Gentlethems."

2022 September 19, Kenna McCafferty, “Molly Kearney Becomes First Nonbinary Cast Member on 'SNL'”, in Paper, archived from the original on 2022-09-19:

There are many gender-neutral terms to address a group: folks, you all, people, team, friends, scholars, buds, epic humans—take your pick. Personally, I like theydies and gentlethems, because it’s punny. Whatever your preference, it’s a step toward gender equity that you can take right now, while modeling gender-inclusive practices for your students.

[2022 November/December, Regie Marie Plana-Alcuaz, “Catch your language”, in Teacher, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, page 9, column 2:

A touchdown happens when the offensive team moves the ball into the opposing team’s end zone and scores –they get six points! Yes, that’s right theydies and gentlethems, if you can successfully move a ball across a huge field full of people trying to stop you then what could be better than scoring points?

2023 February 11, Editors, “10 football terms every LGBTQ+ person should know”, in Queerty, archived from the original on 2023-02-12:

(neologism) Used to address an audience gender-neutrally.


hackfolk

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 on the Island of the Manahattoes, Lisp NYC will gather to eat and drink. And the NYLUG Hackfolk will gather to first Squeak, then eat and drink.

2010 April 5, Jay Sulzberger, Corresponding Secretary LXNY, “NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 April 2010 Lisp NYC Meet and NYLUG Hack Meet”, in gnu-misc-discuss (Usenet):

(informal) People who habitually tinker with computers.


cheesy chips

(cooking, British, Ireland, Commonwealth) Alternative form of cheese fries


Ouled Naïl

An Arab tribal confederation living in the Ouled Naïl Range, Algeria.


aviator glasses

aviator sunglasses
aviator sunglasses#English


Halchidhoma

An Indian tribe now living mostly on the Salt River reservation, but formerly native to the area along the lower Colorado River in California and Arizona.


Mocoví

An indigenous people of the Gran Chaco region of South America.


Laue equations

Named after physicist Max von Laue (1879–1960).

(physics, crystallography) A set of equations relating incoming waves to outgoing waves in the process of elastic scattering.


lemonade braids

They were worn by the American singer Beyoncé in the video for her 2016 album Lemonade.

Teri Farmer, a slender woman with long lemonade braids in her hair; hazel contacts and a crooked smile that in some way made her attractive, grinned as her friend emerged from the bathroom […]

We were on for lemonade braids at 3:30. I showed up to this girl's crib at 3:20 due to her strict late policy. By 3:29, I was knocking on her door. Nothing.

2018, Traci B, Savior and Brittani: A South Dallas Love Affair:

An Afro-textured hairstyle consisting of braids that start at the front and are woven and swept to one side.


cheese fries

(Canada, US) French fries covered or cooked in cheese (especially when grated or melted) or cheese sauce and sometimes loaded with other ingredients.


royal stars

At the earlier period the Summer solstice was in the centre of Leo, the Autumnal equinox in the centre of Scorpio, and the Winter solstice in the centre of Aquarius - corresponding roughly, Mr. Maunder points out, to the positions of the four "Royal Stars," Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 41:

(astrology) A set of four first magnitude stars, Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut, regarded by ancient Persians as the guardians of the sky.


jigglies

He pulled her again and her dress tore, the jigglies were right in front of him. He squeezed the jigglies, squeezed himself, got his trousers down as the two of them crashed backward through the palm trees into the middle of the room.

1974, Edward Whittemore, Quin’s Shanghai Circus, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., San Francisco, Calif.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 173:

And she oiled everything, including her jigglies.

1989, Desmond Lowden, The Shadow Run, London: André Deutsch Limited, →ISBN, page 84:

But it did go some way to explaining the curious passages of starry flesh and bone she kept seeing: Garbo’s throat on the woman, Victor Mature in this breast-obsessed male. / ‘Udders,’ he said. / ‘Jigglies,’ she countered. ‘Chi-chis. Kazooms –’ / Oh, she had a million.

2001, Clive Barker, Coldheart Canyon, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 207:

She tried posing on her hands and knees facing the door, in case he was a tit man and was turned on by the jigglies.

2006, Jaide Fox, Ashley Ladd, Shizuko Lee, Sky Pirates, Lake Park, Ga.: New Concepts Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 185:

RUSTOM: (standing at the MODEL’s feet, staring down at her) All right, Miss Birthday Suit! Time to sing us a few party songs now – / TARUN: Don’t speak to her like that! / SWARUP: Don’t frighten her – / RUSTOM: (to the others) Ooof – a woman who’s willing to air her jigglies isn’t going to be frightened of a few questions!

2020, Manjula Padmanabhan, Blood and Laughter, Hachette India, →ISBN:


Pauserna

An indigenous people in Bolivia and Brazil who live along the upper Río Guaporé.


Maggie's drawers

(military, slang) A red flag used on a firing range to indicate that a shot entirely missed the target.


subetherics

That surprised Ariel. ""We don't even know how he died." / "Gruesomely, according to the subetherics. Crushed." He glanced sidelong at her. "Sound familiar?"

2002, Mark W. Tiedemann, Aurora, New York, N.Y>, →ISBN, page 32:

(science fiction) Devices able to communicate using the subether ("a fictional medium through which faster-than-light signals are able to travel"), considered collectively.


Howeitat

bor

Arabic الحويطات

A large Judhami tribe inhabiting parts of present-day southern Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula and Sharqia governate in Egypt, the Negev, and northwestern Saudi Arabia.


Floridiana

Artifacts relating to the state of Florida in the United States.


Hawaiiana

Artifacts relating to the state of Hawaii in the United States.


Gbagyi

An ethnic group found predominantly in central Nigeria.


hel-shoes

(Norse mythology) Shoes that were purportedly placed on the dead so that they could walk to Valhalla.


Isnag

An Austronesian ethnic group native to Apayao Province in the Philippines' Cordillera Administrative Region.


Karankawa

(historical) A Native American people concentrated in southern Texas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, largely in the lower Colorado River and Brazos River valleys, and consisting of several independent seasonal nomadic groups who shared a language and culture.


Rooseveltiana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to the Roosevelt family.


pedal-pushers

And stepping up onto the squares, are people ranging from their 70s to 6. Older women in shorts and pedal-pushers; one woman, a physician at TMH, wearing tights; a potter, who has been clogging for decades since his grandson talked him into it, along with his sister and sister-in-law.

2021 June 22, Marina Brown, “The Clogging Life: Mountain Dews tap out joyous message from front yard classes”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume 116, number 173, page 1C:

If my long-legged eighth-grader can’t find any shorts that meet the length rules other than granny pedal-pushers she hates, that is just too bad.

2021 August 20, Marlene Rubin, “Masks? Think dress codes”, in Tampa Bay Times, volume 138, number 027, [St. Petersburg, Fla.]: Times Publishing Co., page 17A, column 2:

Our car was loaded to the brim with the pedal-pushers, Keds, flip-flops and paper fans we were hoping to sell from the side of the road to the mountain vacationers.

2023 February 5, Stuart Leshaw, “Learning the art of the sell from Mom”, in Newsday, volume 83, number 155, page E24:


Wiradjuris

Synonym of Wiradjuri (“an indigenous people of Australia”)


scaries

She found she did not need to smoke dope to avoid bad dreams because she was no longer holding so many of her scaries down. She was able to completely stop taking Valium, which we had cautioned her was a dangerous and potentially[…]

1977, Hogie Wyckoff, Solving Women's Problems Through Awareness, Action, and Contact:

You can, during the day, offer ideas that may help the child conquer his “scaries.” You know your child best.

2001 January 1, Gail Reichlin, Caroline Winkler, The Pocket Parent, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

EXPERIENCING THE SCARIES / Children at this age may get the scaries, conjuring up all sorts of gremlins and monsters at bedtime. The monsters might not be real, but your toddler's fears are very real to him. The scaries are an opportunity[…]

2020 March 10, Kim West, The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Without Leaving Them to Cry it Out, Hachette Go, →ISBN:

(childish) A feeling of anxiety or feeling, especially that felt by children at night.


Bare Minimum Mondays

en-noun

Bare Minimum Mondays pl (normally plural, singular Bare Minimum Monday)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Bare Minimum Mondays.wav

Bare Minimum Monday has its roots in self-care, but many would argue it has been going on for years, just without a buzzy moniker to make it a social media trend.

2023 February 27, Martha Alexander, “Have you been having a Bare Minimum Monday?”, in Evening Standard, London, page 20:

Unfortunately, in a generally conservative work environment where work is sparse, practicing Bare Minimum Mondays regularly might adversely affect an employee’s career or even get the said employee fired.

2023 June 7, Gilberto Lauengco, “Bare minimum Mondays, quiet quitting, pushback of the youth”, in Philippine News Agency, archived from the original on 2023-06-07:

If the post-pandemic decline in the appeal of “hustle culture” and “leaning in” laid bare structures of worker exploitation, the rise of trends such as “bare minimum Mondays”, “lazy girl jobs” and “act your wage” are manifestations of a resentment in search of articulation.

2024 May 18, “Loud quitting: Catharsis, breakdown”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:

(Internet slang, neologism) The trend of doing as little as possible at work on Mondays in order to reduce stress during the rest of the week. [from 2023]


mirrie dancers

* Said to be from Scots mirrie (“merry”) + dancers.
* That may be a false cognate. See discussion at shetnews.co.uk Community/History in a wird, 1 March 2023. Mirr can mean 'to shimmer', among other senses.


Rahanweyn

A major Somali clan in the Horn of Africa.


Kawaiisu

A Native Californian ethnic group living in the Tehachapi Valley and to the north across the Tehachapi Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada, toward Lake Isabella and Walker Pass.


River Brethren

A group of historically related Anabaptist Christian denominations originating in 1770, during the Radical Pietist movement among German colonists in Pennsylvania.


peeververein

Coined by American journalist and copy editor John McIntyre in 2012, from peeve + -er + German Verein (“association, club, society”).

af

The Independent reports that at the society's annual meeting, with an attendance of twenty-two, its chairman, Rhea Williams, announced, "Despite the sending out of a request for nominations for chairman, vice-chairman, administrator, web master, and membership secretary no one came forward to fill any role." […] This does not, of course, mean that the Peeververein will also melt away or lack outlets.

2012 June 5, John E. McIntyre, “Unmourned: The Queen's English Society”, in The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, M.D.: Tribune Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-22:

Unfortunately, these self-styled grammar lovers form no phalanx of gladiators defending our language from modern barbarians. They're simply simple linguitard peeververein - to build upon the delightful word coined by The Baltimore Sun's John E McIntyre meaning, in bastard German, "band of peevers" - roaming the Twittersphere in vast, dull cud-munching herds.

2013 August 13, Stilgherrian, “'Literally' purists literally belong in the stone age”, in ABC News (Australia), archived from the original on 2022-07-05:

But write and the peeververein will descend to bewail your use of the singular "they," though it's not exactly transparently singular here.

2017, Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 132:

[Benjamin] Dreyer is not entirely consistent: He simultaneously cautions the reader to avoid too many parenthetical asides (to avoid "seem[ing] like a dandy in a Restoration comedy stepping down to the footlights . . . to confidentially address the audience") while thoroughly peppering his work with whiplash-inducing discursive footnotes. He simultaneously dismisses appeals to historical practice used in defense of the singular "they" yet wields historical use against uptight peeververein, as with the verb "enthuse". But neither is English consistent.

2020 April, Jonathan I. Tietz, “On Lawyers and Copy Editors”, in Michigan Law Review, volume 118, number 6, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Law School, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1311:

The word-peevers of the era — the peeververein, to borrow a splendid coinage from John E. McIntyre, retired head of the copy desk at the Baltimore Sun — descended on Harding's usage like that ton of bricks you've been warned about.

2022 February 3, Benjamin Dreyer, “It’s pointless to yearn for a post-pandemic return to normalcy. Or is it normality?”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-03:

(neologism, derogatory) People obsessed with upholding and enforcing the usage of "correct" English; militant prescriptivists.


Droodiana

Artifacts relating to The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a mystery novel by Charles Dickens, left unfinished upon his death in 1870.


Tukudeka

A band of Shoshone who traditionally lived in the central Sawtooth Range of Idaho and the mountains of what is now northwest Wyoming.


sarim

Rejecting the lure of vestments, wealth, and status, the sarim waged a relentless attack on what they viewed as a compromised form of Confucianism.

2019, K. Kale Yu, Understanding Korean Christianity (page 65)

(historical) A powerful faction of literati that dominated Middle and Late Joseon politics in Korea.


sahwa

Executed during the sahwa of 1722.

1999, Keith L. Pratt, Richard Rutt, James Hoare, Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary, page 217:

The origins of factionalism in Yi Korea can probably be traced back to the sahwa (literati purges).

2020, Ching Young Choe, The Rule of the Taewŏnʾgun, 1864-1873, page 205:

(historical) A series of political purges in the late 15th and 16th centuries, during which sarim scholars were persecuted by political rivals.


Halyikwamai

(historical) A Native American tribe who lived along the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley between the 16th and 19th centuries, and spoke an extinct variant of the Cocopah language.


Kitanemuk

An indigenous people of California, traditionally inhabiting the Tehachapi Mountains and the Antelope Valley area of the western Mojave Desert of southern California.


Hsiung-nu

From Mandarin 匈奴 (Xiōngnú), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiung¹-nu².

During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch'e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t'ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.

1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century, The Hague: Mouton & Co, page 27:

The founder of the Han dynasty, the emperor Kao-ti, hastened to the scene, drove back the Hsiung-nu, but was then blockaded by them on the Paiteng plateau near Pingcheng, in the present-day district of Tatung, on the frontiers of Shansi.

1970, René Grousset, translated by Naomi Walford, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

In the 3rd century B.C. the "first emperor of Ch’in" — Ch’in Shih Huang Ti — after uniting China, linked up some already existing walls and built new sections to create the Great Wall, defending China from the Hsiung-nu or Huns on the north.

1972, Owen Lattimore, “GREAT WALL OF CHINA”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 10, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 779, column 2:

The men of Lou-Ian thought that they would not again see the Hsiung-nu. They had heard that the Han had routed the nomads and they were not beyond believing the rumors. They had been told by travelers that there were Han stations at Chiu-ch'üan and Tun-huang, once Hsiung-nu strongholds, that the Great Wall had been extended to Chiu-ch'üan, that to the west of Tun-huang there were numerous beacon towers and strong points, among them the Jade Gate and the Yang Barrier, and that communication routes between Han China and the Western Marches had been secured.

1979, Yasushi Inoue, “Lou-lan”, in Edward Seidensticker, transl., Lou-lan and Other Stories, Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:

There are instances in which a state accepted a princess both from Han and from the Hsiung-nu, and "once Lou-lan had surrendered and presented tributary gifts [to the Han emperor], the Hsiung-nu heard of those events and sent out troups to attack [Lou-lan]. Whereupon [the king of] Lou-lan sent one son as a hostage to the Hsiung-nu and and one as hostage to Han."

1979, Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé, China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 BC - AD 23, page 61:

The remaining major kingdoms (Han, Ch'u, Chao, Yen and Ch'i) searched for a means to stop the aggressive Ch'in, who appeared to have more in common with the Hsiung-nu than with the Chinese.

2001, George Fetherling, “CHING K'o”, in The Book of Assassins, Edison, NJ: Castle Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:


Columns of Gediminas

A stylized trident-like symbol used by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in modern times as a symbol of Lithuanian, or sometimes Belarusian, national identity.


slings and arrows

/ˌslɪŋz‿n̩ ˈæɹəʊz/

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

/ˌslɪŋz‿n̩ ˈɛ(ə)ɹoʊz/

/ˌslɪŋz‿n̩ ˈæɹoʊz/

Coined by the English playwright William Shakespeare (baptized 1564; died 1616) in his play Hamlet (written 1599–1601; first published 1604 in the second quarto), referring to fortune attacking a person, as if using slingshots and arrows: see the quotation.

coinage

[…] Mrs. Dareville, without any motives of interest, or good nature of sufficient power to restrain her talent and habit of ridicule, free from hope or fear, gave full scope to all the malice of mockery, and all the insolence of fashion. Her slings and arrows, numerous as they were and outrageous, were directed against such petty objects, and the mischief was so quick, in its aim and its operation, that, felt but not seen, it is scarcely possible to register the hits, or to describe the nature of the wounds.

1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter III.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume V, London: […] [C. Wood] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 284–285:

In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor.

1962 June 15, “Politics: Passion, Pageantry & Platform”, in Time, volume LXXIX, number 24, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:

Exposed to a fellow employee's harassment, one can walk away or tell the offender to "buzz off." A supervisor's slings and arrows, however, are not so easily avoided. An employee who confronts her harassing supervisor risks, for example, receiving an undesirable or unsafe work assignment or an unwanted transfer.

2013 June 24, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (dissenting judgment), “Vance v. Ball State University et al.”, in Christine Luchok Fallon, reporter, United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term, 2012 […] (No. 11-556), volume 570, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office, published 2018, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 454:

[James Britt] Donovan could work in tremendous secrecy at a time when there was no social media. Today it'd be a lot harder to find a man that would stand up for his principles and suffer the slings and arrows of the haters on social media.

2015 October 14, Cara Buckley, “Steven Spielberg on the Cold War and other Hollywood front lines”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-03:


Afemai

An ethnic group living in the northern part of Edo State, Nigeria.


basketball shorts

Relatively long and baggy shorts of the kind worn by basketball players.


all-overs

“We are short to-night!” cries the woman, with a propitiatory laugh. “Short and snappish we are! But we’re out of sorts for want of a smoke. We’ve got the all-overs, haven’t us, deary? But this is the place to cure ’em in; this is the place where the all-overs is smoked off.”

1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

An all-overish feeling; general malaise.


Caravaggisti

(art, historical) The stylistic followers of the late 16th-century Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio.


Utmankhel

A Pashtun tribe found in Pakistan and Afghanistan.


Cochiti

/ˈkəʊ.tʃəˌtiː/

Borrowed from Spanish Cochití, from Eastern Keres Kotyit

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place and pueblo inhabited by the Cochiti people located in Sandoval County, New Mexico.


Janambre

(historical) An indigenous people of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico.


takesies-backsies

“If I win, I get to decide who you go out with next. And it can be anybody, you can't dispute or refuse, no takesies backsies.”
“Takesies backsies? What are you, twelve?” I said. “And what about if I win?”

2017, Sarah Dessen, Once and for All, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 164:

It sounds like dystopian fiction that biotech companies could play takesie-backsies with patients' implants […] but the reality is we've already crossed into that world.

2023 June 1, Noor Al-Sibai, “Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will”, in Neoscope, archived from the original on 2023-06-01:

(childish) Synonym of backsie (“the act of taking back or going back on a statement, promise, or agreement”).


baby eyes

If I had any doubts that all my effort would be worth it, the vibe between Susie and Adam in the week after their dinner makes everything clear: from making baby eyes over breakfast to sneaking quick kisses as they pass each other […]

2010, Abby McDonald, Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots, page 152:


Gumuz

The Nilo-Saharan language of these people.


pizza fractions

(education) An approach to teaching fractions to children, visually representing the fractions as sectors of a circle, like slices of a pizza.


Matlatzinca

The Oto-Pamean language of these people.


baby and bathwater

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From the phrase throw the baby out with the bathwater.

From this perspective, the limits of the radical feminist worldview seemed increasingly frustrating to the feminist radicals. In some cases, this led to a baby and bathwater sort of reaction, where even the important lessons of consciousness raising were dismissed as middle-class diversions.

2012, Michael Staudenmaier, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986, Edinburgh: AK Press, →ISBN, page 23:

(idiomatic, often attributively) Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.


Iraya

A language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines.


Cayubaba

A moribund language of the Bolivian Amazon.


Kavirondo

Either of two native peoples, one Nilotic and one Bantu, living in that area.


jarmas

You've had too much to drink, get your jarmas on and get to bed!

2018, Kirsty-Louise Card, The Price of Fabulous, page 162:


Chicago principles

Initially adopted by the University of Chicago following a report issued in 2014.

freedom of expression
freedom of expression

A set of guiding principles intended to demonstrate a commitment to freedom of speech and freedom of expression on college campuses in the United States, and according to which even disagreeable and offensive ideas are eligible for discussion.


devil's fingers

en-noun

devil's fingers pl (normally plural, singular devil's finger)

I removed the underside of the crab called its apron. I opened it up and removed the gills or “devil’s fingers.” And I removed its eyes and mouth.

1992 June 21, Rob Kasper, “To cut, or not to cut, the mustard”, in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, page 1G:

Next, remove the apron from the underside of the crab. Finally, Curtis says, you’ll need to lift up each side of the shell and remove the gills or the “devil’s fingers.”

2001 June 6, Patricia Talorico, “Just forget that it’s a whole crab; take a bite and enjoy that flavor”, in The News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, page D1:

Once the shell is off, the crab’s gills or lungs, variously called “devil’s fingers” or “dead men” are exposed. These are gray-white, feathery-looking parts that are inedible and must be scraped off and thrown away.

2007 August 3, John Geiser, “Take rusties over jimmies when hunting for good-eatin’ crabs”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, New Jersey:

(informal, US) The gills of various species of crabs.


two twos

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In early use attested in Irish contexts and works by Irish authors; likely spread to the Caribbean by Irish indentured servants who migrated to the West Indies (see Irish Caribbean on WikipediaWikipedia). Then spread further by Jamaican immigrants to Canada and the United Kingdom.

Never mind appearances; it's performance and accomplishment we're going for, and within two twos we shall have done two-thirds of the feat.

1911 September, T. Scott Anderson, “Fox, Grouse, and Salmon”, in The Badminton Magazine, volume 33, number 194, page 325:

The slight contretemps claimed her attention but in two twos she set that little matter to rights.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 347:

They begin to work on the song, and One Foot so good that in two twos he fix up a tune. So Razor Blade pick up a empty bottle and a piece of stick, and One Foot start beating the table, and is so they getting on, singing this new calypso that they invent.

1960, Samuel Selvon, “Calypsonian”, in Andrew Salkey, editor, West Indian Stories, London: Faber and Faber, page 113:

At last, the taxi comes. It's a decrepit Jowett driven presumably by Joe, who must be at least sixty. In no time he has stowed bags and suitcases into the boot and the back of the car. If the little 'un sits on Lily's knee, they'll be off in two twos.

2016, Helen Dunmore, Exposure, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 264:

(originally Ireland, now chiefly Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) A very short time; a jiffy.


Duwamish

A Lushootseed-speaking people of western Washington, US.


Bering's Straits

The reverence of hunters for the bear whom they regularly kill and eat may thus be traced all along the northern region of the Old World, from Bering's Straits to Lappland.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 224:


dead men's fingers

Holding down the hard back shell with your fingers, use your thumbs to lever the body up and out of the carapace. Then pull out and discard the feathery gills or dead men’s fingers, the small mouth part and the stomach bag that lies behind it.

1998 July 11, Philippa Davenport, “Who wants lobster when there’s crab around?”, in Financial Times, London, page 12:

As old folks tell it, he says, the nickname [‘dead men’] comes from stories of crabs eating the bodies of sailors lost in shipwrecks. In other crab-enthusiastic locales, such as Maryland, the term takes on a different form and meaning. In the Chesapeake Bay area, some call the gills “dead men's fingers” for their withered, pale appearance.

2003, Michael Gartland, “Drought Forces Awendaw, S.C., Crab Festival to Import from Louisiana”, in Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, Washington, page 1:

Take a cooked 1kg mud crab and lift off the shell from the body. Take out the grey, feather-like gills – often called “dead men’s fingers”.

2004 May 1, Steve Manfredi, “Mud crab”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 7:


Yaw Yin

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

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


Because the schools in the T14 have been so stable as a group over the years, playing "musical chairs" amongst themselves but rarely dropping out of that band, the rankings weren't telling applicants much about those schools, other than that they were consistently strong institutions.

2022 November 19, David Lat, “Why Six Top-Ranked Law Schools Left U.S. News in the Dust This Week”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-05-31:

The article cites a study that found graduates from the T14 to have higher salaries and more "prestigious careers" — on average. Yes, the law schools in the T14 are excellent, but there is no magic to the number 14, and the U.S. News algorithm includes as much "noise" as "signal."

2022 December 2, Matthew Diller, quotee, “Letters: When Law Schools Snub the Rankings”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

(US, informal) The set of fourteen law schools, which frequently take the top fourteen spots in the yearly U.S. News & World Report ranking: the Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, Duke University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, and the Yale Law School.


momarazzi

Her mother was snapping pictures with wild abandon. When Cindy apologized for the "momarazzi," Night saw again the real Cindy—the one who needed to act, not just for the pay, but for others to hear her.

2006, Michael Bamberger, The Man Who Heard Voices, Gotham Books, →ISBN, pages 129–130:

The momarazzi describes moms who take so many pictures of their kids that they have a new album for every day, week, or month of their lives. They're documoms who specialize in photos of everyday life, like bath time or playtime or naptime. Momarazzis can't even determine which pictures are worth posting on Facebook anymore because they have hundreds and hundreds to choose from.

2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, New York, N.Y.: Pedigree Books, →ISBN, page 186:

I'd made a mental note to step my fashion game up a notch moving forward, and bought a cute new chevron-print blouse before I left the store with my order in hand. All I needed was a few more hot stores like that—especially ones the Main Line momarazzi frequented—and I'd be set.

2015, Kristin Contino, The Legacy of Us: A Novel, Tempe, A.Z.: SparkPress, →ISBN, page 171:

And later, Ross glaring into the camera, impatient with me, the Momarazzi—Enough with the pictures!—a string of pink taffy hanging out of his mouth.

2017, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 66:

"We call her the momarazzi because she takes too many photos, and I really thought we were going to get busted," Wilson continues. "Like someone was going to report us for just like driving really slowly up to kids and taking their photo, but we're just two Australian chicks wanting to learn about trick-or-treating."

2018 October 31, Paige Gawley, “Ellen DeGeneres Deserves the Final Rose for Her 'Bachelor' Contestant Costume”, in ET Online, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

(humorous) A mother who takes an excessive amount of photos of her children.


Mbunda

A Bantu people who, during the Bantu migrations, came from the north to southeastern Angola and finally Barotseland, now part of Zambia.


general quarters

(military, US) A maximum alert level issued on a warship for all personal to prepare for immediate combat; the state of a warship at maximum combat readiness


wedding bells

Church bells rung to announce and celebrate a wedding.


service media

(law) Equipment, structures or machinery used for the supply of a service (“utility provided on a continuous basis, such as water supply”).


Niggerati

Alternative letter-case form of niggerati.


dayjamas

Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US

DAYJAMAS FOR CASUAL AND LEISURE CLOTHING FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NAMELY, SHIRTS, PANTS, SHORTS, SOCKS, SWEATERS AND JACKETS (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).

1996 December 17, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 257:

In its 2012 resort collection, Louis Vuitton gave model Arizona Muse a Coco Chanel look, but traded the immortal mademoiselle’s tweed and ivory silk for “dayjamas” with blue leopard spots and a fuddy-duddy cardigan. The old menswear classic was accessorised with a matchy-matchy helmet and Prince Albert slippers.

2012 May 27, “Pajamas wake up to the party scene”, in The New Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-10-26:

What are DayJamas? DayJama /dā•jämə/ noun: Comfortable enough to sleep in, but chic enough to wear all day. Mix and match effortless designs with and easy fit in a super soft material.

2021, “Mer Sea Fall 2021”, in Harper Group, Fall/Winter edition, archived from the original on 2023-07-30, page 23:

The “inclusive and nonbinary” collection consists of slipdresses, dayjamas, tops and bottoms, and robes in luxurious silk.

2022 July 28, Christian Chensvold, “Roy G. Takes Tie-Dye to the Next Level”, in California Apparel News, archived from the original on 2023-06-11:

There are three different categories that feature silk material in slip dresses (mini too), dayjamas, and robes. The color schemes are very loud and peaceful with a combination of excitement.

2022 August 15, Luke Drew, “SILKY SMOOTH COMFORT FROM ROY G.”, in The Garnette Report, archived from the original on 2023-07-30:

Pajama-like clothing worn as daytime-appropriate apparel.


children's rights

children's rights pl (normally plural, singular children's right)

The rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.


women's rights

women's rights pl (normally plural, singular women's right)

The rights and entitlements specific to women and girls.


seven arts

The trivium and quadrivium of liberal arts, consisting of grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.


KIPS

Coordinate term: MIPS

(computing) Abbreviation of thousand instructions per second.


chees and chaws

Onomatopoeic, from the Italianate pronunciation of c as /t͡ʃ/ (“ch”) before i and e.

[…] a quite recent notice in The Times of a Bach performance at the Albert Hall by a famous society regretted that, at this time of day, the “chees and chaws” of Italian pronunciation should be offered to an audience.

1943 June, The Gramophone, volume 21, page 18:

The Italian pronunciation of Latin with ch instead of c, benedichere for benedicere, became fashionable and was mocked by conservative Catholics as chees and chaws.

1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 283:

“[…] Wouldn’t you think they’d get the Latin right first. The inflexion one sometimes hears is deplorable. All chees and chaws like an ice-cream vendor out of Napoli.”

2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 60:

(dated, derogatory) The sounds made in Italianate pronunciation of Latin.


convertible pants

Pants that can be zipped off at the thigh to become shorts.


zip-off pants

convertible pants
convertible pants#English


teethies

Lil Kitty comes up and gricks wet nose and teethies against Gerard’s outheld forefinger, ‘Whattayawant, Ploo pli?—[…]

1963, Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard, Farrar, Straus and Company, page 11:

[…] he starts drilling into Georgie’s soft tooth, […] Georgie has to pay the surgery forty-odd pound for the pleasure of having her teethies hurt.

2009, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 75:

Now as Mom says, ‘Time to brush our teethies!’

2010, Amy Campbell, The Fish in My Drain: Ava’s Adventures, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN:

Run fer yer lives! It’s a hideous sight! A tail and long whiskers and teethies that bite!

2019, Kelly DiPucchio, We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt, Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

Something was hidden up there, something, I was willing to bet, that was undead, with big sharp teethies.

2021, Seana Kelly, The Wicche Glass Tavern (Sam Quinn; 3), NYLA Publishing, →ISBN:


Abiru

The members of the privy council of the monarchy of Rwanda.


Habiru

(historical) People variously described, in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile Crescent, as rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants, slaves, and laborers.


Rikbaktsa

An indigenous ethnic group from the Mato Grosso region of Brazil.


Cogui

Alternative form of Kogi (“a Colombian people”)


nose glasses

The magic shop purveyed such goodies as the arrow-through-the-head and nose glasses, props I turned into professional assets later on.

2007, Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, New York: Scribner, published 2008, page 40:

A pair of eyeglasses (or eyeglass frames) to which is attached a hollow false nose, worn as a humorous disguise.


words of institution

en-proper noun

the words of institution pl (plural only)

the words of institution (canonical plural)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin verba īnstitūtiōnis, i.e. the words by which Jesus instituted, or established, the sacrament.

calque

(Christianity) The pronouncements “This is my body” and “This is my blood”, said by the celebrant(s) at the climax of most eucharistic liturgies and held by many churches to be essential to the performance of the rite.


biblia abiblia

Books that are purely informational or propagandist and have no literary merit.


Aweti

A Native American group living near the headwaters of the Xingu River in Brazil.


annas in the rupee

A rupee was worth 16 annas, so eight annas represented a half-and-half mixture, and so on.

By the end of the second day he was so dark that he looked to be at least eight annas in the rupee […]

1930, The Royal Engineers Journal, volume 44, page 285:

And in the end, all knew that it was true, Rosalie was only four annas in the rupee.

2007, Indu Sundaresan, The Splendor of Silence, page 98:

(Anglo-India, archaic, colloquial, offensive) Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent.


hunter eyes

Coordinate term: prey eyes

But according to incels, there are very clear male beauty standards: wide cheek bones, hunter eyes, thick eyebrows, a square chin, a symmetric nose, rugged jawline and a lean body.

2023, Julia Ebner, Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over:

(incel slang) A man's eyes that are relatively hooded, elongated and recessed into the skull, believed by incels to be particularly attractive to women.


prey eyes

Coordinate term: hunter eyes

On TikTok alone, videos tagged with "hunter eyes" have attracted a total of 49.6m views. Men on the least desirable side of this beauty spectrum, according to these communities, have "prey eyes", and these doe-eyed schmucks are thought to look weak and unassertive.

2023 June 7, Ruchira Sharma, “Women Want One Thing in Men, and It's 'Hunter Eyes'”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-06-13:

(especially incel slang) Eyes which are relatively round and have a negative canthal tilt, said to be less attractive to women.


ranger panties

(informal) Short shorts for men, made of a thin stretchable fabric, and with an inside lining to hold a key while jogging.


pamps

(informal, ABDL) Clipping of pampers (“a diaper”).


Napoléonic Wars

The politicization of U.S. interests in Latin America began to take clearer form as a consequence of the Napoléonic Wars.

2002, Martin Sicker, The Geopolitics of Security in the Americas: Hemispheric Denial from Monroe to Clinton, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 12:

What Napoléon did not understand was the importance of controlling the seas. Thus, his fortunes began to shift after Lord Nelson’s great naval triumph over the French at Trafalgar, off Cádiz, Spain, in October 1805. From this point forward, Britain ruled the seas, but while the victory was a turning point in the Napoléonic Wars, Napoléon’s defeat on land took several years more.

2008, Richard W[allace] Mansbach, Kirsten L. Taylor, Introduction to International Relations, Routledge, →ISBN:

The German states of the 19th century saw the battle of Leipzig as the most important victory of the Napoléonic Wars. It became a symbol of German military virtue. The battle of Leipzig was called the ‘Battle of Nations’. It was the largest battle of the Napoléonic Wars, and the Germans viewed Leipzig as the most significant victory to the end of Napoléon’s empire.

2019, Timothy Fitzpatrick, The Long Shadow of Waterloo: Myths, Memories and Debates, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:

Alternative spelling of Napoleonic Wars.


Defence Forces

(military, Ireland) The armed forces of the Republic of Ireland.


grey folk

One of the most important of all Yuletide observances was the 'saining' required to guard life or properties from the Trows. If the proper observances were omitted, the 'grey-folk' were sure to take advantage of the opportunity.

1888, Biot Edmonndston, Jessie Saxby, The Home of a Naturalist, page 136:

(Scotland) elves, the fae, the wee folk.


picky bits

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As your baby gets better at feeding himself, you can introduce a daily meal of “picky bits” – for example, mini sandwiches, pitta breads, or toast soldiers with cheese; veggie sticks with humus; chunks of cheese or finely grated cheese; […]

2012, DK, The Day-by-Day Baby Book (page 340)

It doesn't have to be a fancy three-course meal. Picky bits like tapas are just as good.

2018, Gemma Collins, The GC: How to Be a Diva:

She couldn't imagine Valentina rolling out the Tupperware in a heatwave, shaking out a blanket and declaring it an evening meal of picky bits.

(UK, colloquial) Miscellaneous snack foods served together.


waifs and strays

One thing I must not omit to mention—her passionate love of animals. In the old, good days in Dublin she used to pick up waifs and strays of forlorn doghood and take them to the Dogs' Home. The boys in the street used to shout derision at us: “Go on! wid yer grand hats and ye to be starvin' yer dog!” The sense of humour supported us.

1918, Dora Sigerson Shorter, The Sad Years:


comers and goers

A mingled stream of comers and goers jostled each other along her gangplank, restless, excited people who spoke all tongues and wore all garbs.

1918, Harris Dickson, Old Reliable in Africa, chapter 1:


highways and byways

But even if railroads are run across the mountains or the desert reclaimed by scientific methods of investigation or rubber gathered, as it was until recently, in enormous quantities in all the highways and byways of a once impenetrable forest, still all these are done by such methods and at such an expense of human energy and of capital, even of life, as to make them examples not of sheer human conquest but of a conditional conquest.

1924, Isaiah Bowman, Desert Trails of Atacama, pages 19-20:

Collectively, the roads and paths of a given place.


tiger stripes

A plume, consisting of many individual jets, expels subsurface material originating from the ocean from four parallel fractures, the so-called tiger stripes, located in the south polar terrain.

2023 April, N. Khawaja, T. R. O’Sullivan, F. Klenner, L.H. Sanchez, J. Hillier, “Discriminating Aromatic Parent Compounds and Their Derivative Isomers in Ice Grains From Enceladus and Europa Using a Laboratory Analogue for Spaceborne Mass Spectrometers”, in Earth and Space Science, volume 10, number 4, →DOI:

This moon is the main source of material for Saturn’s E ring, due to the 100 km sized plumes emanating from its south pole, ejecting water ice and water vapour [54,62]. This is released from aligned vent structures, named tiger stripes, that are fed by a subsurface ocean that experiences ongoing hydrothermal interaction with a silicate core as shown in Figure 1 [63].

2023, Francisco Calapez, Rodrigo Dias, Rute Cesário, Diogo Gonçalves, Bruno Pedras, et al., “Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures in Natural Ice Samples as a Proxy for Icy Moons”, in Life, volume 13, number 2, Basel, →DOI, page 478:

(astronomy) A series of four parallel depressions on the surface of Enceladus, a moon orbiting Saturn.


mixed herbs

(idiomatic) A common mix of different dried herbs for general culinary use, containing some or all of basil, sage, rosemary, marjoram, oregano, thyme, and parsley.

amirau

A mix of herbs for flavouring a range of foods.


herbs de Provence

[…] Paula recommends it be spread on French bread rounds that have been drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with herbs de Provence, then toasted in the oven.

1987 January 21, Arthur Schwartz, “Finger food for football fans”, in Daily News:

He invokes the classic dried herbs de Provence as an inherited license to strew greens willy-nilly.

1995 December 4, Gael Greene, “To Grand-mère’s House”, in New York, page 151:

I massage my chump chops with olive oil, coarse black pepper and herbs de Provence, adding sea salt just before they reach the grill.

1999 May 16, Nigel Slater, “For the chop”, in The Guardian:

The herbs de Provence, onions, fennel, and garlic fill up my kitchen with good smells.

2022, Betsy Freeman, The One and Done Cookbook […], →ISBN, page 85:

herbes de Provence
herbes de Provence#English


amagogotya

From Xhosa [Term?] (literally “stingy ones”).

(historical) Those who refused to take part in the Xhosa cattle-killing and crop-destroying movement of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.


breeding hips

(informal) Hips, often of a woman, that are much wider than average and are perceived as optimal for childbearing.


Leeward Antilles

The westernmost islands in the southern half of the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast.


programming socks

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(Internet slang) Particularly feminine thigh-highs, facetiously touted as a way to improve one's programming by transfemmes and femboys in the computing community.


stirrup pants

Close-fitting women's pants/trousers that taper at the ankle, similar to leggings, but with the material extending to a band or strap under the arch of the foot.


household effects

Tangible objects in one's home that can either be physically moved to a new house or sold with the home; personalty; movable property.

खाट-खटोला

tangible objects in one's home that can be moved to a new house or sold with it


more important fish to fry

en-noun

more important fish to fry pl (plural only)

bigger fish to fry
bigger fish to fry#English


Hàn Chinese

Dūnhuáng’s name (blazing beacon) derives from its function as a Hàn Chinese garrison town, but the Táng name of Shā Zhōu (sand district) describes it better, hemmed in by sand dunes and bleak, pebbly desert.

2006, Jen Lin-Liu, Dinny McMahon, Paul Mooney, Sharon Owyang, Beth Reiber, Graeme Smith, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer’s® China, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 284 and 286:

It should be pointed out that exactly on this point the supposedly native Tang dynasty was strikingly akin to the Qing regime, a typical conquest dynasty in the conventional categorization. The latter, unburdened by the need to maintain a Hàn Chinese façade, simply (after a period of failed experimentation) abolished the institution of an heir apparent altogether.

2012, Sanping Chen, Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 18:

Probably the most insidious and pervasive case, however, is to be found in the study of prehistory by the archaeologists, population geneticists and linguists of China, where a one-party dictatorship seeks to exert political control over the scholarly narrative and to encourage the projection of a Hàn Chinese identity onto the distant past, a grossly anachronistic trend against which the celebrated archaeologist Kwang-chih Chang presciently warned in the 1980s. […] Today the quest continues for what is perceived to be a Hàn Chinese physiognomy, with Huang et al. (2020) identifying four genes encoding for the facial features which the philosopher in Königsberg might have had in mind.

2021, George van Driem, Ethnolinguistic Prehistory: The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, pages 32 and 65:


Hàn Chinese

After an absence of over a millennium, Hàn Chinese are reasserting control over the Silk Routes with a ruthlessness that the Wǔdì emperor (reigned 141–87 b.c.)—the first ruler to control the Silk Routes—would have envied.

2006, Jen Lin-Liu, Dinny McMahon, Paul Mooney, Sharon Owyang, Beth Reiber, Graeme Smith, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer’s® China, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 248, column 2:

We know much about the Hàn Chinese because of their custom of burying with their dead an abundance of personal goods, domestic articles, and little ceramic models portraying daily life.

2012, C[harles] A[lfred] S[peed] Williams, Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages, 4th edition, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:

I am conscious, while writing this section of the essay, that at this very moment the Hàn Chinese are waging genocide against Muslims in Turkestan, which the colonizing Hàn call Xīn Jiāng 新疆 (lit. new frontier) in their version of “Manifest Destiny” (Dillon 2005, 3–4; Perdue 2005).

2022, Hamza Dudgeon, “The Hanafis”, in Oliver Leaman, editor, Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:


sock and buskin

Named from two ancient symbols of comedy and tragedy. In ancient Greek theatre, actors in tragic roles wore a boot called a buskin, while those in comedic roles wore a thin-soled "sock" or soccus.


pum-pum shorts

Yeah, in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons 'til high noon / Bust rap tunes on flat spoons, take no shorts like poom-pooms

1996, “Fu-Gee-La”, in The Score, performed by Fugees:

“Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”

2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:


three stars

(ice hockey, US, Canada) The three best players in a game as chosen by a third party.


truncated domes

A set of raised bumps, often yellow in color, located on a pathway or platform, to convey route information to visually impaired people.


Nomlaki

A Wintun people native to the area of the Sacramento Valley, extending westward to the Coast Range in Northern California.


power laces

Shoelaces that tighten automatically when the wearer puts the shoe on.


Occaneechi

(historical) A group of Native Americans who lived in the 17th century primarily on Occoneechee Island and east of the confluence of the Dan and Roanoke rivers, near current-day Clarksville, Virginia.

Occaneechi#Name for a large list of other forms


sea-legs

Mary Murray had nearly died of sea-sickness coming out—never seemed to get her sea-legs—so the captain, being sorry for her, told her she could go ashore with the men and feel solid ground under her for an hour or so.

1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:


scrapiana

(archaic) Miscellaneous short written sketches or other writings.


holishkes

Cabbage rolls, prepared from blanched cabbage leaves wrapped in a parcel-like manner around minced meat and then simmered in tomato sauce.


Yorùbá

From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders.

2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

Unlike in the past, the Yorùbá are showing they are ready to accept those who profess Awoist ideals and ideas – and are therefore proper Yorùbá – joining different political parties, an almost heretical practice until the last few years.

2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251:

The piano was supported by indigenous musical instruments like the ekwe (slab and stick of the Igbo people) and the gangan (of the Yorùbá people—the talking drum) (Modfestivals Marktoberdorf, 2016b and 2016c).

2022, Rhoda Abiolu, “Intercultural Relations in Church Music of Nigeria and South Africa”, in David G. Hebert, Jonathan McCollum, editors, Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings), Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part 4 (African Insights), page 266:


Yorùbá

From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders. Yorùbá-speaking men and women, more than any other West African ethnic and linguistic group, were enslaved and exported to North America, Cuba, and Brazil in large numbers.

An analysis of the Lucumí subclassifications associated with Yorùbá-speaking kingdoms and places indicates that over 75 percent had Yorùbá names, compared to less than 25 percent from other non-Yorùbá-speaking ethnonyms. This analysis confirms how the largest concentrations of Yorùbá speakers left Ouidah and Lagos, while non-Yorùbá-speaking groups generally departed to the east and west of those two ports.

2018, Henry B. Lovejoy, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 103:

The use of the gangan, or “talking drum,” was particularly unique because it enunciated Igbo words. What makes this special is that the drum is poised to pronounce Yorùbá words with its various distinctive tones and inflections. […] The inculcation of the drum to pronounce Igbo words draws attention to an intercultural and linguistic dimension to the talking drum’s beats where there is the superimposition of indigenous Yorùbá rhythms on the Igbo language.


Amaxosas

From Xhosa amaXhosa (already plural) plus English plural marker -s.

The Amaxosas, or Kaffirs

1876, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume 7, page 88:


ingberlach

/ˈɪŋbə(ɹ)lɑːx/

From Yiddish אינגבערלעך (ingberlekh), from אינגבער (ingber, “ginger”).

An Ashkenazi Jewish confection made with honey and ginger.


wheelpants

(aviation) fairings around the wheels of fixed landing gear


Bundjalung

Most likely an autonym from Bandjalang [Term?].

A nearly extinct aboriginal language of New South Wales.


eleutheri

/ɛˈljuːθəˌɹaɪ/

He addressed himself in the same language to the whole company, and […] asked them, if they had any objection to my being initiated into the mysteries of the Eleutheri.

1813, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, London: T. Hookham, jun., and E.T. Hookham, pages 178-79:

In his account of the Society of the Eleutheri, Hogg seems to be indulging in a bad dream after having read a book which was always perused with interest by Shelley — Barruel's "Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinisme" — let the reader look into the chapters on Spartacus Weishaupt, the founder of Illuminism, and he will see grounds for this conjecture[.]

1886 [1814], Professor E. Dowden, edited by Thomas J. Wise, Some Early Writings of Shelley, London: Reeves and Turner, pages 49-50:

(literature) A secret society, usually 19th century and sinister.


doors of perception

From a quote from William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793): If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.

Those who have gotten their doors of perception open wide enough often enough know that this statement of Blake's is not mere poetic exaggeration.

1958, Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership:

We go about our lives perceiving one reality, while an infinite number of alternate realities exist just outside our doors of perception.

2015, William Indick, The Digital God: How Technology Will Reshape Spirituality, page 60:

Helplessly hoping to open doors of perception To the mysteries and the quandaries of mankind; The secrets of the universe are all we wish to find.

2015, William Austin Moore, The Keys to the Doors of Perception:

In my opinion, Myron's epilepsy is of a particular sort, something known as SLPE [schizophrenia-like psychosis of epilepsy], a form of spilepsy in which the Pleroma is only a stone's throw away and the doors of perception are wide open.

2016, Anthony Peake, Opening The Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness, page 83:

He could not take seriously these chaps in ties and suits or tweeds who wore brogues and cardigans when at home all day, who belonged to the Garrick and the Athenaeum, who lived in solid north London villas or Costwold mansions, who spoke loftily, as one might after a lifetime pontificating from All Souls, Oxford; who had never risked a peep round the doors of perception by taking a drug other than tobacco or alcohol, which they peevishly refused to accept were psychoactive addictive sustances;

The ability to perceive more than the normal input of our senses; the means of achieving altered states of consciousness.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake


summerfolk

Camilla Crawfords records the happenings of the Summer of '73 in a small resort community on eastern Long Island. Camilla's crowd is the "townie" crowd, mostly year-round members of the community, with some "summerfolk" thrown in for variety.

1977 April 9, Eric Rogers, “Teenage Books Grow Up”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

People who visit or temporarily reside in a place in the summer.


Ngadjumaya

An Aboriginal Australian people of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.


troubled waters

The rain falling in torrents– the rolling waves, commingling their heavy roar with the pealing claps of thunder– the quiverying lighning, flashing in burnished brighness across the mighty deep, exposing its troubled waters to full view – the laboring ship, rolling from side to side, creaking in every plank as if going to pieces– the winds sweeping, in their fury, from wave to wave– all conspire to fill the mind with wonder, awe, and astonishment.

1847, S. W. Remington, William Vane: Or, The Young Deserter: A Moral Tale, page 26:

In the Perseus and Andromeda series we go again in the Dragon country, through troubled waters, where the waves foam round picturesque rock on which we do not fear to slip, wearing Mercury's sandals.

1902, Year-book of the Council of Supervisors of the Manual Arts, page 121:

All around the ship, troubled waters bumped against it in warning.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see troubled, water.; water that is stirred up with high waves, chaotic currents, etc., and therefore difficult to navigate.

Not only were the troubled waters in the Middle East, they had spilled over into Australia.

1976, Jim Cairns, Oil in Troubled Waters, page 73:

The tide that was rushing in to pull them both out to troubled waters was stopped at the edge of the shore by the ringing of the telephone.

2000, Kathryn M. White, Troubled Waters: I Never Came This Way Before, page 158:

I will observe the 'troubled waters' of such a programme and try to reveal how the actors involved steer the course of the research process.

2005, Ange Wieberdink, Troubled Waters: The Ambivalence of South-North Partnerships in Research for Development:

Indeed, the research has required experimental tactics and an ability to steer through troubled waters of messy ethnographic research – feeling, living and surviving the resulting productive 'creative chaos' of my own constitution, and of my mode of working and thinking (sometimes a blessing, at other times an excruciating curse) – which, now that I come to think of it, may be a "birth gift" from my mother and father with their blend of a perfectionist sense for structured analytic order, versus the fragility of artistic freedom-seeking creativity and improvisation, and an addition of stubbornness on my part.

2018, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Wind Power in China:

(figurative) Difficulties, chaos, tribulations, or other confusing and problematic aspects of a situation.


witches' stairs

From the suggestion that witches were unable to climb them.

steep staircase with alternate half treads.


spit brothers

(childish) Boys who make a solemn agreement by spitting on their palms (or thumbs) and then shaking hands.


Siglit

An Inuit group residing in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Canada's western Arctic.


Sadlermiut

(historical) An Inuit group living in near isolation mainly on and around Coats Island, Walrus Island, and Southampton Island in Hudson Bay, into the early 20th century.


bib shorts

Cycling shorts which are held up by suspender-like straps instead of a waistband.


autistics and cousins

(dated) People with autism and similar conditions; the neurodivergent.


chickens for Colonel Sanders

chickens for Colonel Sanders pl (plural only)

After Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Women for Trump? More like Chickens for Colonel Sanders!

(slang, derogatory) People who support either an individual, especially a politician, or a cause seen as harmful to their best interests.


Banya

Alternative form of Banna (“Omotic ethnic group”)


Fali

Any of several small ethnic groups of Africa, concentrated in mountainous areas of northern Cameroon and in northeastern Nigeria.


Banna

An Omotic ethnic group of Ethiopia, inhabiting the Lower Omo Valley, primarily between the Weyto and Omo rivers.


Bana

Those of the Fali people who inhabit Nigeria.


Cedi

(historical) An ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of central South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.


Azharot

From Hebrew אזהרות (literally “exhortations”).

bor

(Judaism) Didactic liturgical poems on, or versifications of, the 613 commandments in rabbinical enumeration.


letters of peace

pacifical letters
pacifical letters#English


pacifical letters

(Christianity, historical) Documents recommending the bearer as one in peace and fellowship with the church.


Shatuo

(historical) A Turkic tribe that heavily influenced northern Chinese politics from the late ninth century through the tenth century.


bread and roses

Originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" inspired the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim, which was published in 1911.

(politics) Fair wages and dignified conditions.


cyclopean stairs

The longitudinal profile of a glaciated valley that has several consecutive hanging valleys.


all points of the compass

en-noun

all points of the compass pl (plural only)

(idiomatic) Every direction; everywhere.


Dungani

Alternative form of Dungan (“a Muslim people”)


Durani

Alternative form of Durrani (“a Sarbani Pashtun tribal confederation”)


30 pieces of silver

thirty pieces of silver
thirty pieces of silver#English

Alternative form of thirty pieces of silver.


Sarbani

A confederation of Pashtun tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan.


field colours

(military, historical) Small flags used to mark the position for companies and regiments.

(military, historical) Any regimental headquarters' flags.


mycelia sterilia

(mycology) The sterile fungi, those not producing any known spores, whether sexual or asexual.


Gurkhali

(Singapore) Alternative form of Gorkhali


Madam and Eve

(humorous, often attributive, uncommon) A phrase, often satirical, recasting the Biblical couple of Adam and Eve as a lesbian couple.


Wakisi

In some songs of the Wakisi and in tunings of the malimba lamellophone, such as we recorded at Lupingu, the notes plainly correspond […]

2010, Gerhard Kubik, Theory of African Music, Volume I, page 184:

An African people living on the shores of Lake Malawi.


meemies

As McRae said, he was a shy, hero-worshipping type who got the meemies every time he played anybody with a name like MacDonough, or Crabby Wilson, or Craig, or Steubner.

1942, Paul Gallico, Golf is a Friendly Game, page 121:

screaming meemies
screaming meemies#English

(slang) Synonym of screaming meemies (“anxiety; the jitters”)


princess parts

I may have had another orgasm or two, just from his thorough washing of my princess parts.

"Could definitely make things awkward. I guess men don't have any problem driving to look at tits and ass."
"Right. Looking back, though, I can't think of a single incident where any of them let it slip that they'd seen my princess parts."


Semi-Bantu

An ethnolinguistic grouping of inhabitants of the Western grassfields of Cameroon whose languages share certain characteristics with the Bantu language family.


Shanqella

(derogatory, dated) A number of ethnic groups now residing primarily in the westernmost part of Ethiopia near South Sudan, but who also inhabited more northerly areas until the late 19th century.


Sutaio

Alternative form of Suhtai (“Cheyenne subtribe”)


Suhtai

(historical) A former subtribe of the Cheyenne people.


grownies

For quotations using this term, see Citations:grownies.


overnight oats

Oatmeal prepared from raw oats soaked overnight in milk or a substitute.


shrieking sixties

screaming sixties
screaming sixties#English


train track braces

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A form of braces (teeth-straightening device) consisting of metal brackets cemented to the front of the teeth and connected by a wire threaded through them.


tinglies

The tinglies are much more intense. You have a lot more energy and you still have the euphoria.

1994, Jerome Beck, Marsha Rosenbaum, Pursuit of Ecstasy: The MDMA Experience, page 65:

The tinglies don't even embody feelings of love, anyway. The tinglies are pure adrenaline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on the tinglies. Everyone enjoys them, including myself.

2011, Lo Bosworth, The Lo-Down, page 162:


lessons learned

Experiences distilled from past activities that should be actively taken into account in future actions and behaviors.


concretics

Ultimately from Latin concrētus. Compare terms like Bulgarian конкре́тика (konkrétika, “specifics”), which are vastly more common, suggesting this word may be derived from use by foreign speakers.

cog

Alright, let's get down to concretics.

(rare, non-native speakers' English) Specifics; concrete details.


dry joggers

Synonym of joggers (“a tracksuit, particularly the trousers”).


waterproof pants

Knit wool pants for this purpose are better than waterproof ones, as they permit more evaporation. If waterproof pants are worn they should not be so tight at the waist or knee as to leave marks on the baby's skin, and they should be made with air holes to allow for evaporation.

1945, United States Children's Bureau, Infant Care, 8 edition, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, page 16:

Waterproof pants are helpful as the baby gets older, since they prevent wetting of outer clothes, nightgowns, etc.

1979, The Children's Hour, Grolier, →ISBN, page 84:

Waterproof pants are usually put on over the cloth diaper to reduce contamination of the environment as the diaper becomes soiled. In contrast, disposal diapers and disposable incontinent products are onetime use products made entirely or partially of paper products.

2004, Pierre Agache, Philippe Humbert, Measuring the Skin, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 565:

Synonym of plastic pants (“an undergarment worn over a diaper/nappy (or underwear) to prevent leakage.”)


plastic panties

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From plastic + panties. Compare earlier rubber panties.

Babies get real "social security" with the built-in plastic panties. Snaps all the way up both sides (so even Dad's a quick-change artist now!) Wash in a wink, dry in shape.

1951 March 11, “Advertisement”, in Life, page 154:

Even as infants our clothing displays sexual significance, and our parents are extremely careful that we never are clothed in either dresses or ruffles. For example, while our plastic panties are designed to keep mothers, fathers, and their furniture and friends dry, our parents make absolutely certain that ours are never pink with white ruffles.

1981 February 5, James M. Henslin, Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings, 14 edition, Free Press, →ISBN, page 163:

I haven't tried to do much toilet training for she is still rather young, however, if she is wearing training panties and puddles it breaks her heart. But if she has a diaper and plastic panties on she doesn't see what she has done and it means nothing to her.

2014 March 4, Deborah Jiang-Stein, Prison Baby: A Memoir, Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 114:

(now uncommon) Plastic pants that resemble panties.


plastic pants

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From plastic + pants. Late 1940s, when polyvinyl chloride (a plastic) replaced latex as the principal material of the garment due to its lower cost. Compare earlier rubber pants.

A case in point was a make of plastic pants for babies. Our laboratory analysis indicated the fabric contained nothing that would normally be harmful or irritating. Hydrostatic pressure verified waterproofness.

1949, Good Housekeeping, volume 129, International Magazine Company, page 25:

Mentally handicapped children under five may first come to the notice of the statutory services through the health visitors who are able to arrange for the provision of such important items as plastic pants, rubber sheeting and incontinence laundry services.

1978, William Alan Heaton-Ward, Left Behind: A Study of Mental Handicap, Woburn Press, →ISBN, page 118:

The use of absorbent pads and protective pants are an alternative solution. Many are available but there are four basic types:
1. plastic pants into which pads are placed. There are pull-on, drop-front, and side-opening styles.

2013, Dorothy Mandelstam, Understanding Incontinence: A Guide to the Nature and Management of a Very Common Complaint, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 51:

An undergarment worn over a diaper or nappy (or underwear) in order to prevent leakage through the fabric.


rubber pants

From rubber + pants. First sense arose in the 1920s due to the garment being made from latex—which is used to make rubber.

Rubber pants for infants' wear.

1922 June 20, United States Patent Office, “Index of patents issued from the United States Patent Office, 1921”, in Commissioner of Patents Annual Report, page 1245:

Don't stint on clothes for the infant. Use every corner of your pack for extras. If an infant becomes wet because of leaky rubber pants or something like that, he's got to be changed in a hurry.

1973, Michael J. Clark, “You're Taking…Who?…Where?”, in John Monroe Bennet, editor, Backpacker, volume 1, number 3, Do's and Don'ts for Backpacking with Infants, page 31:

Forgoing rubber pants for nylon and skipping paper entirely, Donovan created the "Boater" in 1946. Donovan's simple nylon diaper covers far surpassed rubber pants for one simple reasons—diaper rash.

2022 April 12, Jack Challoner, editor, 1001 Inventions That Changed the World, Thunder Bay Press, →ISBN, page 645:


rubber panties

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From rubber + panties, probably by analogy with rubber pants. Compare later plastic panties.

Diaper showers are appropriate, especially when the gifts include rubber panties, diaper pins, bands, etc.

1922, Lillian Eichler Watson, Etiquette Problems in Pictures, Doubleday, page 94:

Rubber diapers as a permanent piece of apparel are not to be used. Especially is this true of rubber panties worn over the diaper, which are serviceable only for a short outing. They should never be worn at night.

1938, Harry Lowenburg, Care of Infants and Children, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, page 195:

In addition to irritation and maceration from occlusion in the diaper area, rubber panties have caused contact allergy.

2008, Robert L. Rietschel, Alexander A. Fisher, Joseph F. Fowler, edited by Joseph F. Fowler, Robert L. Rietschel, Fisher's Contact Dermatitis, BC Decker, →ISBN, page 596:

(now rare, dated) Rubber pants (plastic pants); or, more strictly, rubber pants that resemble panties.


bikkurim

(Judaism, historical) A religious offering of first fruits by the ancient Israelites.


wee folk

(mythology) Small magical humanoid creatures such as fairies.


platelegs

Dansel said “oh yes, could you buy me two hundred thousand sheets of steel metal and send it to Elfcidem. Could you give them a message asking them if they would make: eight thousand helmets, bodyplates, platelegs, gauntlets and boots?” […] He then used the large paintbrush to finish off coating the platelegs, eagle helmet and bodyplate. […] Inside it had rows upon rows of armour. Some rows of helmets, some of platelegs, bodyplates, gauntlets and boots.

2012, Daniel Cade, The Last Pure Warrior, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 43–46:

He bit back a cry of pain and slammed his fist against the set of platelegs that swiftly followed, allowing both of them to clatter down the staircase and land on the carpet with a pair of clatters. […] The woman wasn’t capable of blocking this attack and with a sharp shearing sound, Circle’s sword separated the woman’s head from her body and she landed in a heap at the foot of the stairs, the broadsword clattering against the discarded platelegs in a mournful knell.

2012, Jonathan Leung, “Upon A Falling Star”, in Joe Ducie, editor, Unbowed, Unbroken, Unrelenting: An Antihero Anthology, Perth, W.A.: Dark Lord Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, pages 206–207:

With golden platelegs, a golden chest plate, veritably spraying sparks of red, violet and pink and gleaming with ribbon-like tips, his red cloak dramatically waved, a blue cloth slung around his immaculate thighs, he stands with both golden feet upon the rich man’s back.

2013, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, translated by Katy Derbyshire, Apostoloff, London, New York, N.Y., Calcutta: Seagull Books, →ISBN, page 71:

The armor may not cover Damien’s full body, as his arms are mostly exposed aside from the Gloftór on one, but the platelegs and boots do give a rather ominous sound to the room as he walks forward.

2020, T. D. Cannon, “Stone Pressed”, in Artésque: The Crystoreeñ Rises, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

Platelegs Shop […] The weaponry introduced the first throwing ring, and only the level 221 TzHaar-Ket dropped the original platelegs, platebody and helmet.

2021 October, Alex Calvin, RuneScape: The First 20 Years—An Illustrated History, Milwaukie, Ore.: Dark Horse Books, →ISBN, pages 37–38:


Kalikoqu

An ethnic Melanesian tribe of the Solomon Islands.


Ahwahnechee

A Native American people who traditionally lived in the Yosemite Valley.


longs and shorts

(gambling, slang, obsolete) Playing cards designed for cheating.


Bulkies

[…] the newly-elected constables, who were popularly known, down to the year 1837, as the "Bulkies."

1891, Irish Builder and Engineer, volume 33, page 122:

In his study of the Belfast Town Police (nicknamed "the Bulkies"), Brian Griffin has argued that the force's sectarian reputation was more a matter of appearance […] than behavior.

2023, Sean Farrell, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, page 253:


angel fingers

(firefighting) Tongues of flame that are a sign of impending rollover.


Pamona

An Austronesian language spoken in Central and South Sulawesi, Indonesia.


comedy breasts

Perhaps some sort of name tag is in order, or even a good pair of Kevlar comedy breasts.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 148:

A mould of naked breasts designed to be worn for comic effect.


Assateague

(historical) An Algonquian people speaking the Nanticoke language who historically lived on the Atlantic coast side of the Delmarva Peninsula.


Assateague

A barrier island off the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean.