piano fingers

Long, slender fingers, such as might be suited for playing the piano.


Galla

* As a Polish, Czech, and Slovak surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Gallus, Gaulus (“a Gaul”), also see Gall.
* As an Italian surname, from gallo (“rooster”), or from Medieval Latin galla (“oak apple”), or a spelling variant of Calla, Cala.
* As an Arabic and Muslim surname, spelling variant of Kalla.

A township in Pope County, Arkansas, United States.


beanie-weenies

(Calvin):Relax, Susie. I bought the cafeteria lunch today. […] It appears to be cigar butts in a gallstone sauce.
(Susie): That's beany-wienies!
(Calvin): Really? Oh gross.

1989 November 6, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

(US, informal) A dish resembling pork and beans, but with hot dog sausage instead of pork.


militariana

The museum housed a number of muskets, medals, and other militariana.

Military items, especially collectibles.


cricketana

(cricket) Items relating to the game of cricket, especially collectibles.


dead men's shoes

Folks come in sometimes when I'm lonely and make jest of it, saying that a creaking gate hangs long, and that it's weary waiting for dead men's shoes.

1897, Joseph Smith Fletcher, God's Failures:

(idiomatic) A position or property that is only attainable by someone else upon the current holder's death.


canting arms

(heraldry) A heraldic bearing in the form of a visual pun.


applied arts

The art of using of design and decoration to make everyday usable items aesthetically pleasing.

應用藝術

design and decoration to make everyday items aesthetically pleasing


F/X

From the pronunciation of the word "effects" being similar to the pronunciation of the letters "F" and "X".


allied arts

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see allied, arts.

While the definition of humanities is, of necessity, fairly vague, the definition of allied arts is clearer. The allied arts, as has been stated earlier, are a category within the broad scope of humanistic studies. The allied arts course is concerned with the study of such specific areas as music, literature, the fine arts, mass communication and dance.

1968, Esther H. Paist, The allied arts in public schools, page 26:

Mrs. MacDowell built [the MacDowell Colony] from the ground up, without any financial backing of her own. The Colony was founded on the philosophy of the allied arts: artists from different disciplines could influence each other's creative work.

2008, Elizabeth A. Yackley, Marian MacDowell and the MacDowell Clubs, page 5:

Despite the fact that he feels himself to be essentially a Syrian and that he is acclaimed as the authoritative spokesman for the Arabic people in the allied arts, Gibran belongs to the world outside nationalistic interests and his art is a product of a deep sympathy with the problems which constitute the moving current of life in all nations and throughout all ages.

2013, Kahlil Gibran, Suheil Bushrui, The Essential Gibran, →ISBN:

On February 11, 1899, Garland atttended in New York a meeting of the newly organized National Instituteof Arts and Letters, an offshoot of the American Society of Science, devoted to the allied arts.

2014, Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland: A Biography, →ISBN:

Fine arts, related disciplines in literature, the visual and performing arts.

[The Committee on Allied Arts] hopes that the Committee on Publicity and the Journal of the Institute may be instructed to spread abroad, as a fundamental Institute principle, the belief that sympathetic, intelligent collaboration among the allied arts is, and always has been, the only sure road to a worthy architecture in any age or any land.

1914, Thomas Kimball, “Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Volume 2”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), American Institute of Architects:

(architecture) The decorative arts as applied to buildings.


decorative arts

en-noun

decorative arts pl (normally plural, singular decorative art)

Arts and crafts concerned with making beautiful but functional objects. Includes carpentry, metalworking and interior design.

裝飾藝術

arts and crafts concerned with making objects beautiful


grave-goods

grave-goods pl (normally plural, singular grave-good)


Darby and Joan

John Darby and his wife Joan were first mentioned in print in a poem published in The Gentleman's Magazine by Henry Woodfall in 1735.

A proverbial married couple content to share a quiet life of mutual devotion.


Hasselback potatoes

Referring to the Hasselbacken Restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden, where the dish originated.

A dish of potatoes sliced very thin, but with the bottoms left intact, and then baked and optionally scalloped with cheese.


conjugals

Short for conjugal relations or similar.

(informal) Sexual activity between a married couple.


Getae

From Latin Getae, from Ancient Greek Γέται (Gétai).

(historical) A Dacian tribe inhabiting the regions of the lower Danube.


spaghetti tongs

Tongs with comb-like ends for serving spaghetti and similar pasta.


Illiterati

Alternative letter-case form of illiterati


great unhosed

Coined by Chris Morris in the 1997 Brass Eye episode "Crime" in a satirical parody of crime reporting, with the apparent implication that the people referred to should be cleaned with a hose like farm animals.

And it's not just the great unhosed. These raiders all earn over two hundred thousand pounds a year in big banks.

1997 February 26, Chris Morris, “Crime”, in Brass Eye:

Really, I can't understand why anyone would want to work in a restaurant, pandering to the random whims of the great unhosed.

2011, Carlos Alba, Kane's Ladder, Birlinn, →ISBN:

He fills the trough at which the great unhosed tuck in and pig out

2014, Allan Brown, 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland, Hachette UK, →ISBN:


usual offices

usual offices pl (normally plural, singular usual office)

A clarification of the intended sense of office (“outhouse; lavatory”).

Three reception, four bedrooms, kitchen, and usual offices.

(euphemistic, archaic) A place in which to urinate and defecate: an outhouse; a lavatory.


conchiglioni

Borrowed from Italian conchiglioni, from conchiglie with the augmentative suffix -one applied.


Pamir Mountains

A mountain range in Central Asia at the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun and Hindu Kush ranges.


fines herbes

(cooking) A combination of herbs that are a mainstay of French cuisine: finely chopped parsley, chives, tarragon, and chervil.


Nan Mountains

Partial calque from Mandarin 南嶺／南岭 (Nánlǐng).

zh-l

南嶺／南岭 (Nánlǐng)

The Nan Mountains (Nan Ling) are composed of many ranges running from north-east to south-west. These ranges form the watershed between the Yangtze to the north and the Pearl (Zhu) River to the south. The main peaks along the watershed are above 5,000 feet (1,500 metres), and some are more than 6,500 feet (2,000 metres). But a large part of the land to the south of the Nan Mountains is also hilly; flatland does not exceed 10 per cent of the total area.

2008, The Britannica Guide to Modern China, Running Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 14:

Together with the Guangxi region, Guangdong is clearly separated from the Yangtze River basin by the Nan Mountains, the southernmost of the major Chinese mountain ranges running from east to west.

2011, Kenneth Pletcher, editor, The Geography of China, Britannica Educational Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:

A group of mountain ranges in South China running through Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hunan.

南嶺

mountain ranges in South China running through Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan


petties

From petty (adjective, noun) + -ies. The plural noun is a shortening of petty expenses.

This Book of Expences is likewiſe a kind of Caſh-book, and is onely for charges, which generally are poſted once a month in one ſum into the Journal: partly for brevity, to poſt many petties into one ſum; partly becauſe in great mens houſes it's the proper office of ſome one man to adminiſtrate thoſe petty Expences, rendring an account of each particular, as well for Muſtard and Matches to kindle the fire, as of things of greater importance, unto which end there is kept a Particular book.

1684, “Introduction. The First Place.”, in Richard Dafforne, compiler, The Merchant’s Mirrour: Or, Directions for the Perfect Ordering and Keeping of His Accounts. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Robert Horne, […], →OCLC, page 5:

The usual charges accruing in the purchase and shipment of merchandise are as follows: Cases and packing; marine insurance; fire insurance; petties (including telegrams, postage, etc.); commissions; shipping; warehouse charges; coolie hire; freight; consular fee.

1920, Julean Arnold et al., “United States Customs Requirements. By Commissioner of United States Treasury Department, Shanghai.”, in Commercial Handbook of China (Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, Miscellaneous Series; no. 84), volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 68:

All administrative and general expenses of every nature including traveling expenses of his employees and including telephones, telegrams, cables, postage, and petties, provided, however, that such expenses as telephones, telegraphs, cables, postage, and petties as may be properly and necessarily incurred at foreign and dependency ports by subagents and/or branch houses acting in the capacity of subagents and/or general agents, shall be excepted and shall be assumed by the owner, including radiograms sent by masters of the vessels.

1924, “Third Addendum to Agency Agreement for Managing and Operating Vessels, ‘Operating Agreement, 1924’”, in Merchant Marine Investigation: Appendix to Hearings before the Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on General Inquiry into the American Merchant Marine and United States Shipping Board and Merchant Fleet Corporation Affairs, including Sales, Operations, Construction Loans and Mail Contracts, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1932, →OCLC, page 771:

In addition to the items above set out on the vessels involved in the three groups referred to, the revised statement of claim of the Shipping Board includes certain miscellaneous items, herein referred to as petties, to the total amount of $370,800.11.

1925 April 10, Robert W[illiam] Bonynge, “[Hull and Cargo Losses. Settlement for Vessels Owned or Under Control of United States Shipping Board.]”, in Report of Robert W. Bonynge, Agent of the United States, before the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany […], published 1934, →OCLC, page 54:


Kotiria

Borrowed from Guanano [Term?] (literally “water people”). See ko (“water”).


natural causes

Some military casualties are by natural causes and accidents.

The medical examiner determined that he had died of natural causes.

(usually of death or dying) Causes such as illness or disease, as opposed to direct external forces.


Ekoi

An ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.


kineplastics

As a result of kineplastics, it is possible to utilize those stumps which, up to the present, had always been held as incapable.

1918, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association:

In Italy, physical therapy has reached a high standard, and especially that branch of orthopedic surgery known as kineplastics.

1919, Military Medicine - Volume 45, page 672:

Skin flaps, muscular insertions, various bone and tendon fragments and segments of limb, which would seem superfluous under ordinary circumstances for the preparation of ordinary stumps, must be recognized to be of the greatest value in view of future kineplastics.

1923, Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous, Louis Theo de Medicis Sajous, Analytic cyclopedia of practical medicine - Volume 7, page 827:

(medicine) The branch of surgery that deals with kineplastic amputation, in which the muscles of the stump are arranged to support voluntary control of a specially designed prosthesis.


drainpipe trousers

Some dolls made in Italy had eyes which could follow one about, others made of felt that had their hair dressed and dyed in grey, silver, or blonde, and wore velvet drainpipe trousers and lace brassières over their slightly busted fronts.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 211:


mermaids' tears

(colloquial) Small plastic pellets, or nurdles, found as marine pollutants.


Yayoi

(historical) An ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).


Cape Dutch

The people of the Western Cape of South Africa, descended from Dutch and other European immigrants and their Asian and African slaves, who remained more or less loyal subjects of European powers into the 19th century.


skinheads on a raft

Because the smooth white haricot beans resemble bald heads.

Before we knew it we arrived at the first control, Rebeck Cafe, Christines Diner or whetever its called now. Shared some road tales with a truck driver who joined us for skinheads on a raft and hit the road again.

2006 May 7, MSeries, “RR: Buttys Brid Trip 300”, in uk.rec.cycling (Usenet):

After all, who wouldn't want an exciting life of endless evenings spent watching the telly alone, tucking into a sumptuous banquet of cheap lager and skinheads on a raft (beans on toast),

2008, Jeff Green, The A-Z Of Being Single: A Survival Guide to Dating and Mating, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

2015, Melanie Hudson (Fiction writer), The Wedding Cake Tree (Choc Lit), Choc Lit →ISBN
'My signature dish,' he answered confidently, 'skinheads on a raft.'


straight goods

Is she the straight goods, or is she a gold digger trying to con him?

1994 May 10, Guy Gugliotta, “Capital Notebook”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2016-05-01:

There is no hype about the musicians, no fancy dress, no gimmick to catch the wandering eye. They are simply the straight goods—trenchant musicianship and first-rate ensemble.

2003 October 31, R. M. Campbell, “Ensemble is sheer artistry, pure and simple”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2016-05-01:

(idiomatic, often preceded by the) Someone or something authentic.


rabbit raisins

(humorous, euphemistic) rabbit droppings


Squamish

An indigenous people of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.


Squamish

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A district municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.


jockey shorts

Former trade name, from jockstrap, since they were regarded as offering a similar level of physical support.

He had left his swimming suit at home, but going around in his jockey shorts seemed a good substitute.

1980, William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip, page 209:

Back in his stateroom, sitting in his black jockey shorts, Scotty once again felt the exhaustion creep back into his body.

2000, Charles Edward Gibb, Murder on the Cocktail Circuit, page 194:

In my jockey shorts I quickly tiptoed on bare feet down the still corridor to embrace my beaming rosy-cheeked bedfellow before the elevator arrived.

2011, Howard S. Rowland, Robinson Crusoe in Suburbia, page 64:

We sat in our jockey shorts and t-shirts drinking whiskey.

2018, C. Dale Young, The Affliction, page 14:

(US, dated, informal) Men's or boys' briefs.


tubulars

(cycling) Bicycle tires with the inner tube permanently stitched inside the casing.


palazzo pants

It's a sunny Saturday and Shannen is giving a tour of her new house. She is wearing loose navy palazzo pants, a sleeveless white linen shirt that keeps coming unbuttoned, and her omnipresent motorcycle boots.

1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair:

Here you are […] in your favourite viscose shirt and palazzo pants.

2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 191:

(US and non-British) Very wide flared trousers for women.


qatayef

From dialectal Arabic قَطَايِف (qaṭāyif), from قَطَائِف (qaṭāʔif).

AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.

2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in New York Times:

Sweet dumplings filled with cream or nuts, traditionally served in Arab communities during Ramadan.


gotchies

It's well after midnight when the party breaks up and I return to my hotel. As I drift off to sleep there's a gentle tapping at my door. I stagger over in my gotchies and open up.

2019, Michael Mitchell, Final Fire: A Memoir:


tighties

I've worn these in town and on long trail rides, and I'm awed by how such simple pants work so well in the saddle. I wouldn't choose the Shins for a multiday stage race but somehow, even among the megaexpensive Euro tighties I own, these understated, made-in-San Francisco knickers have become a favorite.

2008, Bicycling Vol. 49 No. 1 ”The Long and Short of It”, page 96:

Cycle the workout tighties into your daily attire by balancing them with longer blazers or, another new trend, updated safari jackets.

2019, Stacey Makiya, Brie Thalmann, HonoluluMagazine.com, “New Year, New Gear: Where to Shop in Honolulu Right Now”:


bog Irish

My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man.

2010, Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Crystal: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel, →ISBN, page 165:

“Ye stupid, stupid, bloody woman,” he said. “I'd forgive ye if it was the first time and put it down to pure, unadulterated, bog Irish buck ignorance, but it's not bloody well the first time, and ye knew exactly what ye were up to. Didn't ye? Didn't ye?"

2013, Patrick Taylor, Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel, →ISBN, page 42:

'Your fucking Jocky ancestors were forming a football team in Glasgow around that time,' he said. 'God bless them. They were bog Irish like my own, with hardly a kilo of potatoes between the lot of them.'.

2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 35:

(derogatory) People of low-class Irish ancestry.


elastic sides

But Mary preferred to sit quietly on the beach. "The dressing and undressing is such a trouble," said she. As it was, one of her elastic-sides was full of sand.

1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, Part IV, Chapter I, p. 247:

Brilliant Lace [was] decked out for the solemnization in bright blue shirt and spotless yellow corduroys and bright tan elastic-sides and velour wideawake.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 177:

I was wearing a pair of elastic sides so, being a mug, slipped them off and put one on each of his horns. We all stood around for the photo.

2006, Brian Taylor, The Moonlight Stallion and Other Yarns from the Australian Outback, Australia: Hachette, published 2012:

(Australia, New Zealand) Slip-on boots similar to riding boots with a piece of elastic set into the ankles.


doorstaff

The employees who man a door in order to restrict access to a nightclub or similar establishment.


lamb's ears

Stachys byzantina, an ornamental low-growing perennial related to betony with soft, silky hairs on the leaves which give it an attractive silvery-gray color.

oreille d’ours

ornamental plant with silky hairs on the leaves


Honghuzi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅胡子／红胡子 (literally “red beards”).

bor

(historical) Armed Chinese robbers and bandits who operated in the eastern Russia-China borderland.


Hunghutze

In Manchuria the Hunghutze (Red Beards) grew to a stature and notoriety similar to the Triads in other parts of China (and who were important even to the Kuomintang in China proper).⁴⁴ Although originally the Hunghutze had been 'noble rebels' in the mould of other such groups in Chinese history, by this time they had lost almost all of the veneer of historical respectability⁴⁵ and were associated largely with more venal pursuits such as protection, extortion, robbery, kidnapping and murder.

2002, Felix Patrikeeff, Russian Politics in Exile: the Northeast Asian Balance of Power, 1924-1931, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:


green sulfur bacteria

Any of the family Chlorobiaceae of obligately anaerobic photoautotrophic bacteria.


green non-sulfur bacteria

en-noun

green non-sulfur bacteria pl (plural only)

Any bacteria of the class Chloroflexi that photosynthesize, but do not produce oxygen.


purple bacteria

Proteobacteria that produce their own food using photosynthesis, with colors including purple, red, brown, and orange.

photosynthesizing proteobacteria

purple sulfur bacteria (order Chromatiales), purple non-sulfur bacteria (orders Rhodospirillales and Rhizobiales and families Rhodobacteraceae, Rhodocyclaceae, and Comamonadaceae)


Montrealese

These grievances, however, do not prevent the Montrealese from pressing the heartiest of welcomes on every stranger who comes within their gates. It is enough for them that he is a stranger, and they immediately take him in.

1866, “Cuagnawagha”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volumes 15-16, page 544:


apocalyptica

Either from Latin, or apocalyptic + -ica.

It is devoted to the publication of critical text-editions, with German translations, of the Christian authors of the first three centuries who wrote in Greek, including the apocalyptica, Gospels and the late Jewish writings […]

1989, Paul Carus, The Monist, volume 9, page 451:

Writings which are apocalyptic or which are about an apocalypse.


Frick and Frack

From the name of a Swiss-American ice skating comedy duo.

Sparks suddenly had seen the light and Frick and Frack had their eyewitness identification.

1988, Denny McLain, Mike Nahrstedt, Strikeout: the story of Denny McLain, page 185:

Or at least your pals Frick and Frack over at the IRS should have it.

2002, James E. Wollrab, Malfeasance, page 154:

I know it's been difficult, particularly with Frick and Frack here leaving for college.

2011, Callie Mcfarlane, A Clear Destiny, page 17:

(chiefly US, slang) Names given to a pair of companions, usually male, who are very similar in appearance.


Beau's lines

After Joseph Honoré Simon Beau (1806–1865)

Crosswise, linear indentations of fingernails.


Cowardiana

objects or texts relating to Noel Coward


German fries

Sliced fried potatoes, sometimes with additional ingredients such as onion, green pepper, and bacon.


Bengal potatoes

An Indian dish of potatoes baked with spices and then battered and deep-fried.


waffle fries

waffle fries pl (normally plural, singular waffle fry)

potato crisps in a waffle shape, i.e. crinkle-cut with holes


Paeligni

(historical) An ancient Italic tribe who inhabited a region in central Italy.


MFL

(education) Initialism of modern foreign languages.


post-nominal letters

letters placed after a person's name to indicate that that the individual holds an academic degree, accreditation, office, military decoration, or honour, or that the individual is a member of a religious institute or fraternity


guybrows

Once relegated to guybrows as men tend to have coarse hair, women are now choosing to wax their eyebrows than thread them more than ever.

2016 June 19, “Fashion goes high-brow”, in The Times of India:

(colloquial) Prominent eyebrows on a man


Vestini

(historical) An Italic tribe who inhabited a region on the coast of the Adriatic.


Marrucini

(historical) An Italic tribe who inhabited a region on the coast of Abruzzo.


strappies

Tie on your desired strappies and strut the store's catwalk. Three inches taller and looking fiercely sexy, Castillo's hot heels will surely put you in the groove for a night of lounge hopping and cosmo slinging.

2003, Shecky's Girlshop Guide to NYC Shopping, page 111:


knee-breeches

/ˌniːˈbɹɪtʃɪz/

This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.

1918, Caradoc Evans, “The Talent Thou Gavest”, in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 68:

Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

All over British Africa, speakers in their traditional wigs and knee-breeches presided over the rectangular debating chambers of the Westminster model, in which ‘government’ and ‘opposition’ sat facing each other.

1967, Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore, chapter 16, in Africa Since 1800, Cambridge University Press, published 2005, page 225:

Orthodox Jews, in knee-breeches, with round hats and ringlets down their cheeks, were indulging in strange jerking movements, like puppets, while reading books […]

1996, Harry Mulisch with translated by Paul Vincent, chapter 63, in The Discovery of Heaven, Penguin, section 4:

Breeches reaching down to or just below the knee.


devil's antlers

Misshapen antlers that grow on injured or malnourished elk.


hilltop youth

Young Israeli nationalist hard-liners who establish anti-Palestinian outposts in the West Bank without the legal approval of Israel.


Massylii

(historical) A Berber federation of tribes in eastern Numidia, formed by an amalgamation of smaller tribes during the 4th century BC.


chick-blinds

1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206, https://books.google.ca/books?id=FbUOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.

Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords.

1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House, published 2008, Part IV:

A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes.

2009, Harold Bergsma, chapter 21, in The Opium Eaters, page 151:

(India, Pakistan, Malaysia) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.


Macoris

The language of these people, of which a single word is attested (baeza), little understood though notably distinct from Taino, and speculated to be Arawakan.


Ciguayo

The language of these people, which was not Arawakan or Cariban, and of which a single word is attested (tuob).


ill-got gains

ill-gotten gains
ill-gotten gains#English


Huey, Dewey and Louie

After the nephews of Donald Duck in Disney cartoons.

(business, programming, uncommon) Three hypothetical customers, user personas, or similar constructs.


twitterati

After all, it gives them - and twitterati in general - recurrent opportunity to troll the CM for being able to find the time to watch scores of films despite being a full-time politician.

2016 June 23, “Kejreview: He came, he watched, he tweeted”, in The Times of India:


stack chips

A leading food processing firm is interested in obtaining licenses for all types of snack foods incorporating proprietary technology, such as vacuum-packed "stack chips."

1974, United States. Dept. of Commerce, Commerce Today, page 36:

Pet Inc.'s Laura Scudder division, a West Coast region chipper, has revamped its Dittos brand stack chips.

1978, Joan Dye Gussow, The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology, page 151:

A kind of potato crisps/potato chips with a uniform convex shape allowing them to be stacked and packaged in an upright tube.


November Criminals

(historical, derogatory, among German nationalists) The German government leaders who signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918.


Tataviam

A Native American group in southern California.


Nanjingese

From Nanjing + -ese, after Chinese, Shanghainese, etc.

The people of Nanjing, China, (particularly) the local Chinese of the area.

Nanjinger

singular noun; individual & sometimes specifically foreign


gyal dem

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole gyal dem (“girls”).

bor+

[…] I make the gyaldem sing for me


fighting irons

The leading recruit is pausing briefly while receiving his dinner plate in his left hand and then is resuming his forward movement towards the serving area, but first picking up a dark green plastic cup and a set of fighting irons (knife, fork, and spoon) from the leading edge of the bay marines.

2012, DF Ryschka, Too Young to Vote but Old Enough to Kill:


split shorts

A kind of shorts for running, typically shorter than half upper leg and with a seam cut up the side of each leg to enable freer movement.


weighing scales

Synonym of scales (“device for measuring weight”)


bathroom scales

Flat floor-mounted scales (usually stored in the bathroom) used to measure one's own weight.


knickies

When the kettle boiled I put the warm knickies on.

1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 2:


emptings

(dated) The lees of wine or beer, used for their yeast in making bread, etc.


good old days

In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke.

Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn

1991, “Learning to Fly”, in Into the Great Wide Open, performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:

"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."

2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.

goeie ou dae

the past, seen as a time when things were better


angels on horseback

Without enthusiasm, Bond ordered caviar, grilled lamb cutlets and salad, and angels on horseback for himself

1958, Ian Fleming, Doctor No, 20th edition, Glidrose, page 126:

A dish of bacon-wrapped oysters, commonly served as an hors d'œuvre or canapé.


Ciarraige

Borrowed from Middle Irish Ciarraige, meaning "the people of Ciar".

Any of several medieval tribes in Ireland


toreador pants

Women's tight-fitting pants that go down to the calves.

トレアドールパンツ

women's tight-fitting pants that go down to the calves


harigals

(Scotland, obsolete) The heart, liver and lungs of an animal.


razana

Elders or ancestors, in the traditional religion of Madagascar, who are seen as a source of spiritual advice.


fattrels

(Scotland, archaic) The ends of ribbons.


greesings

The next day, being the 14th of January, all the visitors (only Christopherson elect of Chichester, excepted) came to the King's college; where, first going into the church, and there making their prayers at the greesings, they so proceeded into the stalls, there sitting all the mass time […]

1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:


safety scissors

Scissors that are not particularly sharp and have rounded tips, designed for safe use by children.


Newar

(linguistics) The Sino-Tibetan language of this people.


turtles all the way down

en-noun

turtles all the way down pl (plural only)

From a supposed explanation of what supports the World Turtle that supports the planet Earth.

(colloquial) A situation of infinite regress; a circular explanation or model.


thirty pieces of silver

thirty pieces of silver pl (plural only)

Referring to the reward given to Judas for betraying Jesus, according to the Bible.

His corrupt inspections led to unsafe buildings, but what did he care? He'd gotten his thirty pieces of silver.

tredive sølvpenge

reward given to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus


chordae tendineae

chordae tendineae pl (normally plural, singular chorda tendinea)

Borrowed from New Latin chordae tendineae (literally “tendinous (tendon-like) cords”), from Latin chordae (plural of chorda (“cord, rope”)) + New Latin tendineae (plural of tendinea (“tendinous”), from Medieval Latin tendō (“tendon”)).

bor+

(anatomy) The cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart.


Kalash

Borrowed from Kalasha کالؕاشؕا (Kaḷaṣa).

A Dardic indigenous group residing in the Chitral District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language.


Kalash

The Kalash people's nature-focused polytheistic religion.

Kalash culture, practiced by both Kalash Muslims and followers of Kalash (religion).


Kalash

en-adj

Kalash (comparative more Kalash, superlative most Kalash)

more Kalash (comparative)
most Kalash (superlative)

Of or relating to the Kalash people or their culture.


Anatolian hieroglyphs

The ideographic script used to write the Luwian language, found in several inscriptions across Anatolia.


ground staff

(sports) staff employed by a sports club to maintain their sports ground.


Blemmyes

(historical) A nomadic Nubian tribe whose kingdom existed from at least 600 BC to the 3rd century AD, and who repeatedly fought the Ancient Romans.


Mr. Magoo glasses

From J. Quincy Magoo, the extremely myopic main character of Mister Magoo and other American TV shows and advertisements in the 1960s.

(informal) Extremely thick eyewear or the thick frames necessary to support them, particularly eyewear with thick black circular frames.


Yadava

(Hinduism) An ancient Indian people who believed themselves to be descended from Yadu.


daggings

dags; dangling locks of sheep wool matted with dung


church giggles

But I couldn't help myself Something struck me as awfully funny that day—the hushed reverence, my starched white dress, I cannot say for sure. My church giggles grew louder and louder, and the more I tried to tame them, the worse they got, until the Church of England must have had doubts about my prospects for salvation.

2010, Sarah Ferguson, What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way:

My Jews lost control of their church giggles and started busting out laughing to the point of losing oxygen. I'm glad they weren't wearing a skirt like I was because I didn't want to witness any pee trickles that were happening.

2012, Jenny McCarthy, Bad Habits: A Book of Confessions about Confession:

Choir music can also make you burst into the church giggles, which strike when the minister quotes a verse of scripture that's accidentally funny, like the one about the talking mule, or pretty much anything from Zechariah, 5.1–2: [...]

2013, Paula Young Lee, Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat:

Rusty, LaClaire and I had many memories growing up in this church, not the least of which was getting the church giggles more times than we could count.

2015, Angela W. Williams, Hush Now, Baby:

Uncontrollable laughter or giggling that occurs inappropriately in an inappropriate place and time, as when in church.


Abhidharma

Borrowed from Sanskrit अभिधर्म (abhidharma, literally “higher dharma”).

bor+

(Buddhism) Ancient Buddhist texts, dating from the 3rd century BCE onward, that contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist sutras, according to schematic classifications.


Turdetani

/ˌtʊəɹdɛˈtɑni/

(historical) A tribe of Hispania Baetica who lived near the Turduli.


Dane-zaa

An Athabaskan-speaking group of First Nations people, whose traditional territory is around the Peace River in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.


Sekani

A First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.


better angels of someone's nature

en-noun

better angels of someone's nature pl (plural only)


better angels of one's nature

better angels of one's nature pl (plural only)


better angels

So do the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 29.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

1861 March 4, Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address:

A Christmas without children would be like a sleigh ride without snow. What gives this day its special grace is the glimpse it yields of a child's belief in the better angels of a grown-up world. Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.

1982 December 25, “Opinion: Children at the Window”, in New York Times, retrieved 2016-09-03:

Call me wrong, call me right / But I bring my better angels to every fight

2007, Chris Wallin, Craig Wiseman (lyrics and music), “Love me if you can”, performed by Toby Keith:

Of his fellow tech CEOs – the ones competing to rush out their rival chatbots – he said: “I think the better angels are going to win out.” Better angels? At Google?

2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(idiomatic) Morally upright or otherwise positive attributes of human character.


Paralympic Agitos

A symbol consisting of three colored agitos, in red, blue and green – the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world.


Kho

A Dardic ethnic group of about 230,000 people, located primarily in Pakistan, with a small population in Afghanistan. They speak the Dardic Khowar language and their main religion is Islam.

खो

Khowar Dardic ethnic group in Pakistan and Afghanistan


cup noodles

From a trademark brand of Nissin, Japanese カップヌードル (“cup noodle”).

Nobody felt like eating, and just as well, because Kian had cup noodles and a box of tea.

2014, Ann Aguirre, Mortal Danger, Feiwell and Friends:

Any dried, instant noodles (usually ramen) that are sold in and eaten from waterproof polystyrene cups.


kalitsounia

(cooking) Small cheese or herb pies in Cretan cuisine; they may be sweet or salty, and either baked or fried.


kolokythoanthoi

In Greek cuisine, fried zucchini flowers stuffed with rice or cheese and herbs, often served with a dollop of yogurt on the side.


Durrani

A prominent Sarbani Pashtun tribal confederation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, anciently known as the Abdali.


angel bites

Jenni didn't really look as though she fit in with the rest of the girls here, she had a nose piercing and angel bites, her long curly dark brown hair with red highlights was pulled back exposing gauges and many other ear piercings and a tattoo […]

2013, Destiny Patterson, Samantha Beckworth, Jennifer Proctor, Arose, page 150:

A pair of lip piercings, like snakebites but above the lips rather than below.


yellow goods

The sum of the characteristics for each and every good is different, and the sum of characteristics for red goods is lower than the sum of the characteristics for yellow goods.

2001, Michael John Baker, Marketing: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management:

(retail) Big-ticket items that are rarely purchased and not regularly replaced.


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

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


The period from year 1700 to 1799, almost the same period as the 18th century (which, however, was from 1701 to 1800)

The years 1700 to 1709, almost the same period as the 1st decade of the 18th century (which, however, was from 1701 to 1710)


Gonja

A North Guang language (which has several dialects) spoken by a few hundred thousand mostly ethnically-Gonja people in northern Ghana.


abandoned habits

Pun on abandoned (“immoral”) habit and riding habit (“woman's garment for horseback riding”).

(archaic, British slang) The clothing worn for horseback riding by the prostitutes on Lady's Mile in Hyde Park (the carriageway along the northern bank of the Serpentine).


ablewackets

Three sailors, clutching their cards like fans, were preoccupied with able[-]wackets, the winner administering the forfeit of mighty thwacks across the loser's palm with a knotted handkerchief.

2011, Desiree Jury, Two Shadows, Wellington: Naki Press, →ISBN, page 85:


morning goods

baked goods prepared fresh each morning by a bakery


edimmu

(mythology) In Sumerian religion, a class of utukku or spirits, envisioned as the ghosts of those who did not receive a proper burial.


utukku

(mythology) In Sumerian religion, a class of spirits who had escaped the underworld, either by their own power or by being summoned forth by a priest.


green goods

Worthless material, such as sawdust or green paper, covertly substituted for supposed counterfeit currency being sold to a dupe.


Yaaku

The Afroasiatic language of these people.


Blaschko's lines

Named after German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko who is credited with their first demonstration in 1901.

(pathology) Lines of normal cell development in the skin, which become visible in certain diseases.


Allobroges

(historical) A Gallic people dwelling in a large territory between the Rhône river and the Alps mountains during the Iron Age and the Roman period.


strossers

O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your strait strossers.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.


syllogai

From the plural of Ancient Greek συλλογή (sullogḗ, “collection”).

uder

(historical) Notebooks used to collect sketches and inscriptions.


slubbings

The next improvement described, relating to these machines, consists of a means of preventing any entanglement of the rovings or slubbings taking place upon any of them becoming broken.

1851, The Engineer and Machinist, and Engineering and Scientific Review, page 231:


trunk briefs

Arnold grabbed his trunk briefs, undershirt, and socks and looked him over again.

2017, Milton Stern, Working Boys, A Midnight Murder Mystery, Part II, page 93:


progymnasmata

Ancient Greek προγυμνάσματα (progumnásmata)

προγυμνάσματα

(historical) A series of preliminary rhetorical exercises originated in Ancient Greece, aiming to prepare students for writing declamations after they had completed their education with the grammarians.


multitrillions

Its [the gut’s] five feet of large intestine contain a veritable zoo—upwards of 500 fungal, bacterial, and viral varieties with a total population in the multitrillions.

1986, John Parks Trowbridge, Morton Walker, “How Candida Albicans Views Jane”, in The Yeast Syndrome: How to Help Your Doctor Identify and Treat the Real Cause of Your Yeast-Related Illness, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, section I (Potential Yeast Syndrome Carried Within Us), pages 15–16:

This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us devouring the world’s children in a manner of speaking and those who are immunologically impaired, presuming we were going to immunize our own population but not those of the antagonist. Thus we would be conducting warfare which by definition would be indiscriminate rather than selective. We would lose control of the evolution of the bacteria that we would be releasing in the multitrillions.

1992, Douglas MacLean, quoting Marc Lappé, “Ethics and Biological Defense Research”, in Raymond A[llan] Zilinskas, editor, The Microbiologist and Biological Defense Research: Ethics, Politics, and International Security (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 666), New York, N.Y.: The New York Academy of Sciences, →ISBN, part II (Ethics of Biological Defense Research), page 112:

When dealing with relatively small amounts, numerals do have the advantage of quickly sending information from the page to the reader’s brain. […] But when we start dealing with multimillions and multibillions, and (heaven forbid!) multitrillions, it’s a different ball game. Let’s consider again the $10,937,837,444.27 example.

2000, Jefferson D[avis] Bates, “Tell Me Not in Mournful Numbers”, in Writing with Precision: How to Write So That You Cannot Possibly Be Misunderstood, new, expanded edition, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, part 2 (Editing (and Self-Editing) with Precision), page 189:


bikini briefs

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I expected Burt to be wimpish or emaciated without his detective dress suit, but he was quite the opposite. He obviously worked out regularly. His swimsuit wasn't one of those male bikini briefs, but he certainly could wear one.

2023, Judy Spoon Ertel, Any Which Aweigh You Die:


Karaitica

Artifacts and written works pertaining to the Karaites, their culture or their religion.


oldies goldies

A genre of music consisting of hit records from former eras, generally 30 or more years in the past.


altmetrics

Non-traditional metrics proposed as an alternative to the traditional ways to measure impact factors


Bessi

(historical) An ancient independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in Northern Thrace.


dark data

For those who seek surveillance revenues, dark data represent lucrative and necessary territories in the dynamic universal jigsaw constituted by surveillance capitalism's urge toward scale, scope, and action. Thus, the technology commmunity casts dark data as the intolerable “unknown unknown” that threatens the financial promise of the “internet of things.”

2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 7, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

But that diagnosis of what had gone wrong was incorrect. Later research showed that the real problem was dark data. Shortly after the election, researchers chose a random sample of houses and knocked on the door to ask people if and how they voted.

2020, Tim Harford, “Rule six”, in How to Make the World Add Up, Bridge Street Press, →ISBN:

Data that are unanalyzed, inaccessible, or not organised in such a way that they are readily available.


Rainbow Books

Meronyms: Red Book, Yellow Book

(computing) The various standards for CD formats, each named after a particular color.


years young

He is 85 years young.


DTs

I've had enough, mate. A bloody man is starting to get the Joe Blakes and the dry retches and if a man keeps this up I'm sure to finish in the rat house with the DTs at this rate.

1998, Keith B. Saunders, Myall Road, page 91:


grape smugglers

Humorously suggesting that the bulges are the result of grapes hidden inside the clothing.

(clothing, slang, humorous) Tight or skimpy swimwear worn by men revealing details of the genitalia.


box braids

Hair braids characterized by "boxy" or square-shaped hair divisions.


moon rocks

(slang, drugs, plural only) A particularly strong preparation of cannabis.


three marks of existence

en-noun

three marks of existence pl (plural only)

Calque of Pali tilakkhaṇa, Sanskrit त्रिलक्षण (trilakṣaṇa).

(Buddhism) Three characteristics of all phenomena: anicca (“impermanence”), dukkha (“suffering”) and anatta (“non-self”).


sluds

(mining, UK, Cornwall, obsolete) half-roasted ores


dollar-sign eyes

Related to the convention of drawing cartoon characters with their eyes replaced by dollar signs in a moment of greed.

“Damn,” he said to no one in particular but looking at Trixie with dollar-sign eyes, the hardness displayed toward her softening. “We sure 'nuf gonna be seven-figure niggas, huh?”

2006, Roland S. Jefferson, Damaged Goods: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 147:

Like other big cities he'd traveled to, the dollar-sign eyes of the young women couldn't resist staring at the fancy automobile he drove.

2011, Dewey Boyd Reynolds, Master of Plagues, page 284:

(idiomatic, figurative) Greediness or a moment of greediness.


ROS

O₂^(•−) and OH^• are highly unstable (half-life at the level of microseconds and nanoseconds, respectively) and cannot cross membrane, while H₂O₂, though not a free radical but a ROS, is relatively stable (half-life around 1 ms) (Møller et al. 2007) and can cross membranes through aquaporins.

2015, Rup Kumar Kar, “ROS Signaling: Relevance with Site of Production and Metabolism of ROS”, in Dharmendra K. Gupta, José M. Palma, Francisco J. Corpas, editors, Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Damage in Plants Under Stress, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:

reactive oxygen species
reactive oxygen species#English

Abbreviation of reactive oxygen species.


absinthiana

Please note that although absinthe drips, spoons, and other specialized equipment are often used to prepare the drink, we're demystifying our recipes by keeping them free of such absinthiana, lovely though it is.

2015, Sean Muldoon, Jack McGarry, Ben Schaffer, The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual, →ISBN:

He left the makeshift absinthiana on the counter and took the drink to the kitchen table, holding a paring knife in his left hand.

2016, Jonathan Moore, The Poison Artist, →ISBN:

The accoutrements surrounding the drink absinthe and its preparation, such as special glasses and carafes.


Cassi

(historical) A tribe of Iron Age Britain in the first century BCE, known only from a brief mention in the writings of Julius Caesar.


mitigating circumstances

extenuating circumstances
extenuating circumstances#English

(law) synonym of extenuating circumstances


Nuxalkmc

The Nuxálk peoples collectively, composed of four tribes: the Kimsquit, the Tallheo, the Stuic, and the Kwalhna.


Trinovantes

(historical) A Celtic tribe of pre-Roman Britain, holding territory on the north side of the Thames estuary in current Essex and Suffolk.


chicken feet

(Singapore, erroneous) Alternative form of chicken feed (“A simple or easy task”)


Bavarese

[...] the petty districts depending on Oldenburgh, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and by the Bavarese Circle of the Rhine; and on the West by the Dutch Monarchy and the Kingdom of Belgium.

1845, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge:

(By-the-bye, how is it that the brazen helmet of a Bavarese maiden is omitted?)

1846, The New Monthly Magazine, edited by W. Harrison Ainsworth, Review of the Book of Costume, page 249


man panties

“Don’t deny. I’ve seen your underwear drawer. Briefs galore. Man-panties to go along with your man-bangs.”

2012, Jay Clark, The Edumacation of Jay Baker, page 193:

“Don't get your man panties in a twist there, Pretty Boy,” he said, satirically pursing up his lips.

2014, Vance Munraff, Sounds Like Paradise:

(slang, derogatory) Men's or boys' briefs.


Eupatrides

(historical) The ancient Greek nobility of Attica.


hangy-downs

Diminutive of hang down, with -y suffix.

With the divider removed or disengaged, the hangy-downs that attach it can get caught up in the loading process. So it goes.

2002, Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins, The Complete Walker IV, page 145:

Next night, I took a small bucket with some rocks in it, sure enough there was Bulley and all the pond cows up to their hangy-downs in the muddy water.

2007, Pat Lorett, To-1944: Oklahoma Farm Life, page 94:

Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]

2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days:

(colloquial) The parts of anything that hang down, such as tassels.


fizzies

Products designed to effervesce in bathwater.


hundreds of thousands

An imprecise or unknown number between one hundred thousand and a million; numbering hundreds of thousands.


panda eyes

Supposed to be similar in appearance to the black patches around the eyes of a giant panda.

An effect of dark rings around the eyes caused by the overapplication or smearing of eye makeup.


Boii

(historical) A Gallic tribe of the later Iron Age.


girl parts

(informal) Pediatric-age female breasts and/or genitalia.


bowlas

Among the regular articles of this street-sale are "Coventrys," or three-cornered puffs with jam inside; raspberry biscuits; cinnamon biscuits; "chonkeys," or a kind of mince-meat baked in crust; Dutch butter-cakes; Jews' butter-cakes; "bowlas," or round tarts made of sugar, apple, and bread; "jumbles," or thin crisp cakes made of treacle, butter, and flour; and james, or open tarts with a little preserve in the centre.

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work:

(slang, obsolete) Round tarts of sugar, apple and bread, sold in the streets.


China Seas

Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.

1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:

A series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean around China, including the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea.


bourekas

Israeli snacks related to the burek, made from either phyllo dough or puff pastry, with various fillings.


bad old days

(idiomatic) The past, seen as a time when things were worse.


IFS

IFS (countable and uncountable, plural IFSs)

iterated function system
iterated function system#English

information fatigue syndrome
information fatigue syndrome#English

(uncountable) Initialism of information fatigue syndrome.


IFS

Input Field Separators
w:Input Field Separators

(computing, Unix) Initialism of Input Field Separators.


IFS

At the IFS, they laboured in vain to bring the nation’s attention back to the real economic news, which wasn’t the budget so much as the tax and benefit changes set to kick in next month: […]

2017 March 13, Zoe Williams, “Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do?”, in The Guardian:

Institute for Fiscal Studies
w:Institute for Fiscal Studies

(UK politics, economics) Initialism of Institute for Fiscal Studies: an economic research institute based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy.


growstones

A substrate for growing plants, made from recycled glass, that can be used for soilless purposes or as a soil conditioner.


cautionaries

Both the thrusters and the cautionaries thought the war would end with a massive naval battle involving the battleships of both fleets.

2002, Jean Heffer, The United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier:

(US, historical, World War II) Those who air on the side of caution regarding military engagement.


qinpu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 琴譜／琴谱 (qínpǔ).

In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous.

1993, Experimental Musical Instruments, volume 9, page 17:

A qin handbook is called qinpu in Chinese, which means literally qin tablature. Beginning from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), many qinpu were printed after prince Zhu Chuan edited and printed the first qinpu, Shenqi Mipu (The Wonderful Esoteric Tablature).

1994, Yip Mingmei, “Review (L'art du qin by Georges Goormaghtigh)”, in Journal of the Society for Asian Music, volume 25, University of Texas Press, page 243:

As we look back into the early collections of qin notations, known as qinpu, we find an interesting collection of pictures in the pedagogical sections of several important qinpu.

1996, William Duckworth, Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, page 144:

Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.


Euganei

(historical) An ancient tribe of Venetia, settled in the Alpine valleys of the region.


Lepontii

The Lepontii, an Alpine Celtic tribe, who dwelt in the valleys of the south side of the Alps, in roughly Switzerland.


'Namgis

An indigenous nation, part of the Kwakwaka'wakw, in central British Columbia, on northern Vancouver Island.


multifaces

It is an element of multifaces, essential, toxic, carcinogen and anticarcinogen at the same time.

1972, Egyptian Journal of Microbiology - Volume 24, page 340:

Before blueprints for entrepreneurial training can be prepared, objective data on the multifaces of the small entrepreneurial man, his characteristics and influencing factors have to be gathered either for improving the existing on-going programme or for starting a new one.

1975, Ramayyar Subramanian, Entrepreneurship in Small-scale Industries in Madurai City and Its Environs, page 107:

Having recognized and rejected the multifaces of power and coercion, she has achieved, through a mature and comprehending acceptance of self and others, her moral victory.

1990, Harold Bloom, Clarissa Dalloway, page 95:

His body was turning all hot and then suddenly cold with the same rhythm that the multifaces in the mirror switched from crouching gargoyles to giants.

1996, William Eastlake, Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy, page 150:

Walking or driving through it, reveals the viscissitudes - the multifaces of the metropolis.

2006, Boniface Gregory Fernandes, Making Delhi a Better Place, page 259:

Fast radio bursts thus may be one side of the multifaces of the neutron star-small body collision events, which are previously expected to lead to X-ray/gamma-ray bursts or glitch/anti-glitches..

2015, Y. F. Huang, J. J. Geng, “Collision between Neutron Stars and Asteroids as a Mechanism for Fast Radio Bursts”, in arXiv:


booty shorts

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knobblies

(informal) motorcycle tyres with knobbed treads, for off-road or motocross riding


Baldwin's rules

(organic chemistry) A series of guidelines outlining the relative favorabilities of ring closure reactions in alicyclic compounds.


wheatings

From wheat + -ing + -s, originally a proprietary name in the early 20th century.


bistatistics

This conjecture has been proved by Aas in 2014, and the generating function of the corresponding bistatistics is the double Eulerian polynomial.

2016, Jean-Luc Baril, Vincent Vajnovszki, “A permutation code preserving a double Eulerian bistatistic”, in arXiv:

(mathematics) Pairs of statistics on the same set.


rainbows and unicorns

In a Results-Only Work Environment, people can do whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. […] You get paid for a chunk of work, not for a chunk of time. We realize that this sounds too good to be true. This kind of freedom and control and trust sounds like the stuff of rainbows and unicorns. But this idea didn't come out of the blue.

2008, Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson, “Introduction: We’ve Had Enough … Have You?”, in Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke—The Simple Change that can Make Your Job Terrific, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio, →ISBN:

Don't get me wrong; it is not all rainbows and unicorns. […] Despite my extensive experience with offline experimental design (from clinical trials to testing the effectiveness of direct mail marketing), I found the online testing space extremely challenging.

2015, Brian Hawkins, Lily Chiu-Watson, “Appendix A: Interviews with Target Professionals”, in Adobe Target: A Guide for Marketing, Business, and IT Professionals (Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe), San Jose, Calif.: AdobePress, →ISBN, page 188:

Keep in mind that none of this is guaranteed to end with rainbows and unicorns. Like any idea, notions such as "culturcide" and "the culture of one" can be used by people to achieve what will strike a particular society or group or individual as negative effects; nonetheless, I hope to keep things mostly upbeat.

2017, Daniel S. Traber, “Introduction: Kill Yr. Culture”, in Culturcide and Non-identity across American Culture, Lanham, Md., London: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxvi:

Just a few days earlier, the president [Donald Trump] had remarked that "nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated". Now he's promising rainbows and unicorns.

2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2017-06-05:

(idiomatic) A wonderful (but often unrealistic) scenario.


canicular days

Calque of Latin diēs caniculārēs (literally “puppy days”), from Canīcula (“the Puppy”), a semantic loan of Ancient Greek Κῠ́ων (Kúōn, “the Dog”) in reference to Sirius, which appears in Epic Greek as κῠ́ων Ὠρίωνος (kúōn Ōríōnos, literally “Orion’s dog”) in its elided accusative form κύν’ Ὠρίωνος (kún’ Ōríōnos) in Iliad XXII.22.


loose socks

A style of baggy socks worn by Japanese schoolgirls as part of kogal culture.


imperfect fungi

fungi imperfecti
fungi imperfecti#English


fungi imperfecti

From Latin fungi imperfecti (literally “imperfect fungus”).

der

Fungi which do not fit into traditional taxonomic classifications, because their reproduction has not been observed.


miles of bad road

But I feel like 40 miles of bad road. I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries.

2004, Field & Stream, volume 108, number 11, page 83:

At the same time, the corporal had gone from looking like ten miles of bad road to looking like five miles of bad road.

2010, Eric D. Shaffer, Camouflaged Memories: Vietnam and Beyond, page 74:

(informal) Used with an arbitrary number to describe a person who looks or feels very bad.


open-kneed breeches

I had a short Jacket of Goat-Skin, the Skirts coming down to about the middle of my Thighs; and a pair of open-knee’d breeches of the same; the Breeches were made of the Skin of an old He-Goat, whose Hair hung down such a Length on either Side, that like Pantaloons it reach’d to the middle of my Legs […]

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 176:

1719, William Mountfort, Greenwich-Park; A Comedy, London: G. Strahan & W. Mears, Act I, Scene 1,
If the Times are alter’d with the Wives, so they are with the Husbands, since they wore slash Doublets, short Cloaks, and open knee’d Breeches, with their own thin lank Hair, that look’d liek the Fringe of a Blanket, or the Strings of a Bunch of Leeks; you can now wear the best Fashion and richest Cloaths, Swords upon Occasion […]

1782, Gentleman’s Magazine, September, 1782, Letter signed ‘A.B.,’ p. 434,
There is a remarkable painting of a galante of the time of Edward IV, in the Hungerford chapel in the cathedral of Salisbury […] in which the hose is continued from the shoe to the waist without any sign of gartering at the knee, all of one piece. In the mutability of garbs, which continued to the reign of James I, slops, which may be considered as open-kneed breeches, soon followed.

1835, Charles Joseph Latrobe, The Rambler in North America: 1832-1833, London: R.B. Seeley et al., Volume 2, Letter 12, p. 222,
Here comes a ship load of Irish. They land upon the wharfs of New York in rags and open-knee’d breeches, with their raw looks and bare necks; they flourish their cudgels, throw up their torn hats and cry,—‘hurrah for Gineral Jackson!’

(historical) Wide-legged breeches ending below the knee.


Pogolo

An ethnic group based in Iringa Region and Morogoro Region, Tanzania.


rippchen

More enticing are the sauerbraten, marinated in red wine; a Kasseler rippchen (smoked pork chop); and the fork-tender schweinshaxe pork shank, the restaurant’s premier dish ($12.50 to $19.50).

2009 October 4, Christopher Brooks, “Hearty German Fare, and Beer”, in New York Times:


mafaldine

Among the many notable pastas, mafaldine, a narrow ribbon pasta with ruffled edges perfect for capturing sauce, snags the prize.

2009 October 4, M. H. Reed, “A Trip Through Italy, With Some Surprises”, in New York Times:


tebasaki

Although Japan’s culinary lexicon did not include deep frying until the Portuguese introduced it in the 16th century, the country now has at least three distinct fried chicken styles: katsu, with super-crisp panko or bread crumbs, is used for pounded breasts; karaage, ginger-and-garlic-marinated thighs in a light, puffy crust of sweet-potato starch; and Nagoya-style tebasaki, or wings.

2009 October 7, Julia Moskin, “Fried Chicken: A Migratory Bird”, in New York Times:

A Japanese form of deep-fried chicken wings


mafalde

A type of fettuccine that has curly edges


bisnings

Obsolete form of beestings (“first milk after giving birth”).


cuchufli

There were plants from the Atacama Desert, like the pink petals of the fragrant Rosa del año, used to enliven a cuchufli, a tubular wafer usually sold by street vendors, and guanaco, an undomesticated relative of the alpaca, sliced thin and paired with murtilla, sometimes called Chilean guava.

2015 October 7, Nicholas Gill, “Charting New Frontiers in Chilean Cuisine”, in New York Times:

A Spanish tubular dessert flavoured with vanilla


busiate

Also appreciated was a hearty portion of busiate, a long local noodle curled in on itself, served with Trapani’s signature garlic, tomato and almond pesto.

2015 October 15, Paul Greenberg, “In Sicily, Tasting Seafood With a Skeptical Son”, in New York Times:

A form of trofie pasta from the region of Trapani.


screaming jelly babies

A classroom chemistry demonstration, using potassium chlorate to rapidly oxidize the sugar in jelly babies so that they burst into flame and emit gases with a screaming sound.


magwinya

(South Africa, Botswana) Synonym of vetkoek


party potatoes

funeral potatoes
funeral potatoes#English


Mormon funeral potatoes

en-noun

Mormon funeral potatoes pl (plural only)


Digo

The Bantu language spoken by these people.


kitniyot

Borrowed from Hebrew קִטְנִיּוֹת (kitniyót), plural of קִטְנִית (kitnít).

legumes, grains and seeds that are forbidden on Passover in some Jewish traditions.


thirsties

I got the thirsties from eating too many potato chips

Got the thirsties? Get the 20's.

1987, Marketing & Media Decisions - Volume 22, Issues 5-8, page 140:

I got the thirsties for some Oakie TruFerm.

You may remember the days when a case of the thirsties sent you to the water faucet for a glass of water.

2012, Sharon Palmer, The Plant-Powered Diet:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:thirsties.

(plural only, rare, slang, with "the") Thirst (for something to drink, for drugs, to go somewhere, etc).


Heck cattle

They were originally bred by the Heck brothers.

A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs.


Budini

An ancient people who lived in Scythia, known only from a description by Herodotus, and conjectured to have been of either proto-Slavic or Finno-Ugric origin.


Coraniaid

(Celtic mythology) A race of beings from Welsh mythology, having such sharp hearing that they can hear any word carried by the wind and thus avoid danger.


double yellows

double yellow line
double yellow line#English


edenics

Every morning I vocally strum on a dhizker, a word irradiated by electrical edenics.

1991, Nathaniel Mackey, Hambone - Issue 9, page 99:

My skin, not unlike a guava or a star, slowly enmeshing its rays into the edenics of eternity.

1997, Lee Chapman, First Intensity - Issues 8-9 -, page 99:

By arguing for his domain he gives me the virtue to condense my voice and co-respond within his factor a life rife with pre-edenics.

2006, Will Alexander -, Sunrise in Armageddon, →ISBN, page 272:


Edenics

Another popular view is Edenics. Edenics is the proposition that Hebrew is the original language prior to the Tower of Babel — perhaps as far back as the Garden of Eden.

2013, Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel: The Cultural History of Our Ancestors, →ISBN:

If this was ever scienfically confirmed, it would surely support the Edenics scenario, where people all have an original computing language or primal language program, and are only a neurological disturbance away from being able to access even long dead languages.

2013, Terry Puett, Institute Of Biblical Studies The Book Of Genesis, →ISBN, page 164:

The science of Edenics now has over 23,000 such coincidences. The science of Edenics works with a Proto-Semitic vocabulary where each root letter has the genes for the wide diversity of the world's words.

2014, Chaim Bentorah, Hebrew Word Study, →ISBN, page 2:

The belief that there was a single original human language dating from the Garden of Eden until the Tower of Babel, which is of Semitic origin (especially Hebrew).


Trichomycetes

(obsolete) A group of fungi in the division Zygomycota that grow in the guts of arthropods living in aquatic habitats. Species formerly placed in the Trichomycetes are now placed in the orders Harpellales and Asellariales.


bug eyes

Then the X-Files being
Looking like some kind of blue-green Jackie Chan with Isabella Rossellini lips
And breath that reeked of vanilla Chig Champa
Did a slo-mo Matrix descent out of the butt-end of the banana vessel
And hovered above my bug-eyes, my gaping jaw

2006, “Rosetta Stoned”, performed by Tool:


Idakho

A Luhya subgroup residing primarily in the Kakamega District of western Kenya.


GOS

Ninety per cent of the roughage in human breast milk is GOS; the remaining 10 per cent is made up of other indigestible fibre.

2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 241:

(biology) Initialism of galactooligosaccharides.


Delmonico potatoes

Originated by Delmonico's restaurant in New York City, as an accompaniment to Delmonico steak.

A dish of mashed potato topped with grated cheese and buttered breadcrumbs, then baked until golden brown and served steaming.


Gepidae

From Latin, from Ancient Greek γηπαιδ (gēpaid), from Gothic, from Proto-Germanic *Gíbidoz or similar, based on *gebaną (“to give”). More at Gepids.

(historical) The Gepids, an East Germanic people.


burnt ends

Flavorful pieces of meat cut from the "point" half of a smoked brisket.


coffee grounds

The sediment that remains after ground coffee beans have been extracted with hot water.


Paez

A Native American people inhabiting the southwestern highlands of Colombia.


Fungs

Synonym of Fungor (“Sudanese ethnic group”)


peoplekind

From people + -kind. The term was popularized by Justin Trudeau in 2018.

Adam and Eve caused a rift to come between peoplekind and God.

2011, Fredrick James Terriere, End of Man, page 525:

(uncommon, sometimes proscribed) People as a whole; humanity, humankind; a gender-neutral alternative to "mankind".


phat pants

A style of pants/trousers that are fitted at the waist but increasingly wide down the legs, covering the feet entirely.


Leonardeschi

/ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛskɪ/

etymologically less correct but possibly more common

/ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛʃɪ/

/lənɑɹˈdɛʃi/

Borrowed from Italian leonardeschi, the masculine plural form of leonardesco (“of or pertaining to Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardesque”), named after the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) + -esco (“-esque”, suffix forming an adjective or noun indicating relationship, membership or quality).

named-after

In this connexion we may think of the importance of the Lombards, the Leonardeschi, and the Venetians for contemporary northern painting.

1969, Gert von der Osten, Horst Vey, translated by Mary Hottinger, Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500–1600 (The Pelican History of Art; Z31), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC:

There are good reasons to think that Caravaggio admired the renaissance art of the Leonardeschi. For this Boy peeling fruit, he may have been thinking specifically of the famous Flora that was painted around 1510 by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo's most faithful Milanese students and indeed his legal heir.

2003, Caravaggio & His World: Darkness & Light, Sydney, N.S.W.: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, Vic.: National Gallery of Victoria, →ISBN, page 82:

In the first half of the sixteenth century, only the leonardeschi — those painters who undergo the influence of Leonardo and his works — correspond to such needs.

2007, Carlo Pedretti, Margherita Melani, editors, Leonardo Da Vinci: The European Genius: Paintings and Drawings: Exhibition in the Basilica of Koekelberg, Brussels, in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome for the Constitution of the European Community (1957–2007), Foligno, Perugia, Italy: Cartei & Bianchi, →ISBN, page 170, column 1:

A group of artists who worked in the studio of, or under the influence of, Leonardo da Vinci.


During this period the American people were undergoing great economic and social reforms brought on by the economic and financial collapse of the 1930's.

1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 19, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 274:

Supported by the rich supply of iron ore and coal from the neighboring towns of Tayeh and Huangshih, a major industrial complex had grown up by the 1930’s.

1969, John Gardner, “Urban Bureaucratic Elite in Communist China”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 221:


Cupeño

The American Indian people of Southern California who formerly lived at what is now Warner Springs, California.


Corsi

(historical) an ancient tribe (or people from the tribe) that lived in Corsica and Sardinia


Meche

Alternative form of Mech (“ethnic group”)


special forces

Elite military forces engaged in unconventional operations such as guerrilla warfare or counterterrorism.

sṗecialuri danišnulebis saǯariso danaq̇opi

სპეციალური დანიშნულების საჯარისო დანაყოფი


Children of Israel

And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 7:4:

(plural only) Jewish people, collectively.


Pensacola

/ˌpɛnsəˈkəʊlə/

A city, the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States.


OKR

A the end of the OKR cycle, the OKRs are reviewed, and the achievements (hopefully) celebrated.

2022, Michael Kaufmann, Thomas Dohmke, Donovan Brown, Accelerate DevOps with GitHub, Packt, →ISBN, page 24:

(business) Alternative form of OKRs (“objectives and key results”)


witdoeke

From Afrikaans wit (“white”) + doek (“cloth”), referring to the strips of white cloth members wore on their heads or arms.

‘They were shooting again yesterday. They were giving guns to the witdoeke and the witdoeke were shooting.’

1990, J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, London: Secker & Warburg, Part III, p. 83:

1998, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report, Volume 3, Chapter 5, Subsection 29,
After the witdoeke attacks of May and June 1986, thousands of refugees were forced to live in schools and churches. Refugees were arrested from these centres and tortured to make them confess to a range of public violence crimes. […] It is notable that few if any witdoeke were arrested or charged.

(historical) Members of conservative black vigilante groups in the South African provinces of the Cape and Orange Free State in the 1980s.


Tammelin's esters

Named after Lars-Erik Tammelin of the Swedish National Defence Research Institute.


DCDP

(organic chemistry) Abbreviation of deoxycytidine diphosphate.


Qiang

An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.


decades young

Gaily-garbed Indians and an historical diamond-stacked locomotive, nearly nine decades young, featured a public program there.

1956, The Santa Fe Magazine, volume 50, page 18:

The distinguished biochemist William C. Rose, now almost nine decades young, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at Illinois, has provided a first-hand account of the functioning of the Illinois 25 Department under Adams.

1977, American chemistry: bicentennial, page 220:

At some eight decades young (born 1908 according to the Hornbook of Virginia History), he discussed history as he saw and lived it.

1985, Virginia Review, volume 73, page 29:

This is wade fishing of the finest order, and at eight decades young, Bill Meshanic, the sage of the Finger Lakes Chapter of Trout Unlimited, is its biggest fan.

2001, New York Sportsman, volume 30, issues 1-4, page 81


Khas

Native speakers of the Khas-Nepali language.


camote fries

A Philippine snack made by coating deep-fried strips of sweet potato in caramelized brown sugar.


boydem

From Caribbean pidgin, equivalent to boy + them.

2011, Chyna, How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang, Hachette UK →ISBN
I had the role of lookout, scouting for boydem while Candice forced open the door by slipping a knife into the actual lock itself, or smashing the window in, her hoodie wrapped round her fist.

Used to scream and shout and threaten to call the boydem when I showed my face.

2013, Polly Courtney, Feral Youth, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 11:

'Why d'you think the boydem showed up when they did, huh?' Tilly snapped.

2014, Rohan Gavin, Knightley and Son: K-9, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 170:


Soggies

(Australia, slang) Members of a Special Operations Group.


Kootenai

A small city in Bonner County, Idaho, United States.


hearts and flowers

After the song Hearts and Flowers, published in 1893 and widely used as melodramatic photoplay music.

And I'm not saying it's all hearts and flowers, but where's the passion? Where's the need to be near that other person so much that you get so distracted you can't think of anything else?

2015, K. M. Scott, Unforgettable: Heart of Stone Series #6:

When that attention is one sided or become^([sic]) lacking, you can't expect everything to be wonderful and all hearts and flowers in the home or the bedroom.

2016, Sandi Jones, It's Not Always Hearts & Flowers...and That's Okay, page 15:

(idiomatic, often ironic) Ideal romance.


Tamang

An ethnic group of Nepal, also found in parts of India.


daddy issues

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

I might have to break up with Nora: she has serious daddy issues that she needs to sort out before dating anyone again.

(informal) Unprocessed trauma, especially in a girl, from having had an unhealthy relationship with one's father, causing one to behave erratically in romantic relationships.


vitally challenged

imagine... 85 years old Cohen the Barbarian and his "gray horde"... death as DEATH, an antropomorphic^([sic]) personification, that is... meetings of the "vitally challenged (= the undead)"...

1997 June 12, Sascha LC Erni, “Tips-of-the-hat (was: Mythos - A shared world?)”, in alt.horror.cthulhu (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.95.970612144354.13110E-100000@goblin.studi.unizh.ch>:

I blame the new hard line on welfare for driving driving^([sic]) the vitally challenged onto the streets instead of leaving them in State run graveyards

1998 May 8, Dabe the Hobbit, “Re: somebody please take this necronomicon away”, in alt.necronomicon (Usenet), message-ID <3552F6A5.9A96933B@pls.bris.ac.uk>:

This is the party of "vote early, vote often," where even the "vitally challenged" (the PC term for "dead people") still have the right to vote […]

2006 November 26, wayne, “10 liberal lies #7”, in alt.x.y (Usenet), message-ID <13343-4569CC79-1997@storefull-3358.bay.webtv.net>:

(humorous, euphemistic) the dead; those who have died


Bisaltae

(historical) A Thracian tribe of Macedonia.


kamote tops

(Philippines, rare) The young leaves, leafstalks and stems of the sweet potato used as a vegetable.


camote tops

(Philippines) The young leaves, leafstalks and stems of the sweet potato used as a vegetable.


Satrae

(historical) A Thracian tribe which dwelt between the rivers Strymon and Nestus.


nearest and dearest

/ˈnɪəɹɪst(ə)n ˈdɪəɹɪst/

]
The adjective sense appears to predate the noun sense.

[W]hile all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration—lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest— […]

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 220:

Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's eve, and we were sitting in our study, awaiting the cook's preparations for dinner, when suddenly we heard a noise as of much tramping.

1885, Percival Lowell, “On Hats”, in Chosön: The Land of the Morning Calm: A Sketch of Korea, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Company, →OCLC, page 346:

Christmas is the time to nurture friendships and spend as much time as possible with your nearest and dearest.

2014, Helene S. Lundberg, “Preface”, in Scandinavian Christmas Crafts and Recipes, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 5:

I think the immigrant, as a rule, clings more to the homeland and to culture and music than the person who's surrounded by it all the time. That would often be the last sight of their homeland, it would be the last sight of their nearest and dearest, and yet, over and above that, they still felt the need to go and try and get a better life, whether it was voluntary and whether they were thrown off their lands or whatever.

2014, Alan Reid, interviewed by Fiona Ritchie, “Homesick Pioneers”, in Fiona Ritchie, Doug Orr, with the assistance of Darcy Orr, Wayfaring Stangers: The Musical Journey from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 149:

(idiomatic) One's closest and most intimate family members, friends, etc.

achegados

one's closest and most intimate family members, friends, etc.


WRA

Initialism of Women's Recovery Association.


smashed potatoes

From smash + potato from the apparentness of it being the result a potato being violently smashed, leaving mashed bits and chunks.

chunky mashed potatoes; mashed potatoes with chunks of potatoes in it


a few roos loose in the top paddock

en-noun

a few roos loose in the top paddock pl (plural only)

EN-AU ck1 a few roos loose in the top paddock.ogg

a kangaroo loose in the top paddock#English

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


Kmhmu

There are more than a hundred such groups, including the Karen of Thailand and Burma; the Kachin in Burma; the Akha, the Lahu, and the Lisu in Thailand; the Hmong, the Kmhmu, and the Yao in Laos; and the Nùng and the Lati in Vietnam.

2011, Terry Miller, Sean Williams, The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music, page 303:


tanga briefs

A form of revealing underwear with front and rear panels connected by a narrow band or string around the hips.


Edoni

(historical) A Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios.


smuttings

(historical) The inferior chaff from corn milling.


Curschmann's spirals

Named after German physician Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910).

Curschmann's spirals are usually found in samples from animals with prolonged and excessive production of mucus.

2001, Rick L. Cowell, Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Horse, page 75:

(medicine) Microscopic spiral-shaped mucus plugs from subepithelial mucous gland ducts or bronchioles, found in the sputum of asthmatic people.


too many chiefs and not enough indians

too many chiefs and not enough indians pl (plural only)

too many chiefs and not enough Indians#English

Alternative form of too many chiefs and not enough Indians


draniki

Borrowed from Belarusian дранікі (draniki).


kalduny

stuffed dumplings made of unleavened dough in various Eastern European cuisines


zrazy

A meat roulade dish popular in Eastern Europe.


riot stairs

Coined for the construction of such stairways on university campuses in response to student unrest during the 1960s and 1970s in an effort to prevent mobs of students from running together.

It is slightly believable because the stairs are all riot stairs. In other words the stairs are all diagonal so if you walk straight up them you run into a wall.

1994 December 14, Tim Gray, “The Myth of the Prison Builder”, in alt.folklore.college (Usenet):

The construction of riot stairs and observational offices at the University of Kentucky as pre-emptive measures aimed at diffusing future dissent proved more stimulating to dialogue than, say, a topic like "repression" or "authority" in the generic register.

2007 Fall, Jonathan Vincent, Danny Mayer, “Teaching radicalism from the university archives”, in Radical Teacher, number 79:

Walking the riot stairs and lounging on the wide lawn in front of Patterson Office Tower, our students could feel the continued presence of the state's reactive measures to a moment of student power organizing their own bodily movements 30 years later.

2009, Douglas Reichert Powell, John Paul Tassoni, Composing Other Spaces, →ISBN, page 118:

A flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them.


parachute pants

The nylon material resembles that of a parachute.

A style of trousers characterized by the use of nylon, especially ripstop nylon, associated with breakdancing culture in the 1980s.


sun kicks

Avoid sun kicks until he is a few weeks older – and even then, it is wise to take special care.

2020, Howard Chilton, Georgina Dowden, Baby on Board:

(medicine) A former health activity for babies in which a naked child is laid on a blanket in direct sunlight for a short period in order to gain the benefits of sunlight on the skin.


Kouri

Alternative form of Kuri (“ethnic group of Chad”)


Fraticelli

Adherents to the Fraticelli heresy, condemned as heretical by Pope Bonaface VIII in 1296.


billion laughs

In the most frequently cited example of such an attack, the first entity is the string lol (“laugh out loud”).

The XML billion laughs DoS attack simply starts by declaring an XML document with an entity named lol (hence the name laugh gets associated with it, but in a general case it can be any valid name).

2016, Prakhar Prasad, Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 193:

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(computer security) A type of denial-of-service attack which is aimed at parsers of XML documents, based on defining entities that expand to large numbers of copies of other entities.


combat trousers

From their original use in the military.


duchesse potatoes

duchess potatoes
duchess potatoes#English


lumps of delight

Twelve "lumps of delight," as the Mussulman — not mussel man — calls his sweetmeats!

1861, Herbert Byng Hall, The Oyster, page 16:

Rosa replies: “I want to go to the Lumps-of-Delight shop.”
“To the—?”
“A Turkish sweetmeat, sir. My gracious me, don’t you understand anything? Call yourself an Engineer, and not know that?”

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


Mech

An ethnic group belonging to the Bodo-Kachari group of peoples; one of the scheduled tribes of India.


swim trunks

From swim + trunks, or shortened from swimming trunks.


landguard

(UK, historical) A division of customs stationed along the coast in an attempt to prevent smuggling.


twirties

Our Friday evening visit saw a predictable crowd of Magners-swilling, besuited gents being eyed up by glammed-up women in their twirties.

2007, Time Out London Bars, Pubs and Clubs, page 150:

As such the site may appeal equally to young travellers, for example eighteen to thirty year olds, twenty to thirty nine year olds (“twirties”), single persons, solo travellers, families and even persons travelling with animals/pets.

2013, C.P. Newlands, M.J. Boyle, Process and system for active communication using social media (U.S. Patent US20130282494A1):

But I'm being overdramatic about it because I need you to understand that boob sweat is a really real, really distressing thing that some unknown medical reason, that seems to exponentially increase in our twirties.

2014, Ingrid Reinke, Twirty-Something: A Young Woman's Guide to Giant Underwear:

(informal) The age range from age 20 through age 39.


dick togs

She dove back into the pool And he whipped off his budgee-stuffed dick togs and leapt out of the pool.

There must be some kind of time warp that all public pools are stuck in. Red and yellow umbrellas poke through plastic tables. Old men in dick-togs sit on white plastic chairs and lick peppermint choc-chip ice-creams.

2011, A. J. Betts, Wavelength, →ISBN, page 63:

The body in a blue and white striped one piece and I'm about to drop my shorts to my multi-coloured Christmas-present dick togs.

She didn't care how hot the body, grown men with any sense of human decency did not wear dick togs in public.

2017, L Maree Apps, ONE Weekend Away, →ISBN:

(Australia (Queensland), New Zealand, slang, vulgar) A tight-fitting men's swimsuit that reveals the outline of the genitals.


sluggos

From slug + -o. So-called due to the bulge of the genitals resembling a slug beneath the seam or pouch region of the briefs.

He had no luck with the sluggos, something he said he suffered when he wore them, but neither of us knew what he was talking about.

Their times came down and down until, on about the tenth change of dress, they went from sluggos to wetsuits in one minute forty-three.

2012, Gregor Salmon, Navy Divers, page 20:

I was paddling out, and this guy said, What are you doing in those sluggos?

2015, Tom Carroll, Nick Carroll, TC, page 16:

(slang, Australia) A type of men's swimming briefs where the bulge of the genitals is noticeable.


dzilla

brass neck rings worn by married women among the South Ndebele peoples of Africa


multiple intelligences

Multiple intellectual abilities operating independently of one another in the same mind, according to a particular theory, as opposed to the more orthodox theory of general intellectual ability.


bikini jeans

(fashion) jeans that incorporate the appearance of bikini bottoms

jean bikini

a bikini made from denim, or a pattern resembling blue denim jeans


footsoldiery

Two soldiers have been selected here from Roman bas-reliefs, which give a fair idea of the general appearance of the footsoldiery of their legions.

1846, Frederick William Fairholt, Costume in England:

The previous distinction between mounted Ba'ni cavalry and BaNten footsoldiery had apparently lost its significance by this point.

2006, Richard Fardon, Lela in Bali: History through Ceremony in Cameroon, page 61:


punk panties

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

I wore briefs and one day as I was getting ready for a shower, standing in my underwear, Puffy said to me, "Why do you wear them punk panties?"

2009, C.B. Kerns, Article VIII: The Story of Jeazel Pete, page 163:

(derogatory, slang) Men's or boys' briefs.


lally-drags

Ronnie continued with indecent relish. He did so enjoy dishing the scandal. 'Well, dollies, when he whipped his bingey out of his lally drags I am here to tell you it was fantabulosa!'

Hahahahaha! @AnnaJaneCasey Vada the homi ajax, with the naff riah and the cod lally drags. Ooooo she's camp...

2016 September 18, Antony Cotton, Twitter:


cooling glasses

/ˈkuːlɪŋ ˈɡlɑːsɪz/

/ˈkuːlɪŋ ˈɡlæsɪz/

Very high purity fused silica glasses are made, which have negligible thermal expansion. Hence, they are suitable for making items of high accuracy such as space telescopes. Photochromatic (also called photochromic) glasses are those glasses that darken in sunlight. These are useful for making cooling glasses.

2013, Srikumar Koyikkal, “Inorganic Chemicals”, in Chemical Process Technology and Simulation, New Delhi: Asoke K. Ghosh, PHI Learning, →ISBN, section 4.7.5 (Other Types of Glasses), page 158:

A loud implosion and a thick blanket of black smoke are what remained of the twin tower of Prime Trust Heights in Moulivakkam, which was demolished at 6.52 pm on Wednesday. […] "I have an umbrella, cooling glasses, binoculars, water bottle, and I am all set to take a selfie when the building comes down," said Ananth, a class 10 student.

2016 November 3, Shruti Suresh, “Gone in 3 seconds: Building demolished using implosive technique”, in Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, Telegana, India, archived from the original on 2017-04-29:

Suddenly, Somu took his cooling glasses from his pocket and asked him to wear them and later, Ramu slowly managed to see. Somu advised Ramu on the necessity of wearing sun glasses during summer season.

2017, Shipra Agarwal, “Sample Paper 3”, in Mrunal Patel, editor, CBSE Board Class 12 Physics Solved Papers (2008–17) in Level of Difficulty with 3 Sample Papers (Latest Pattern), 4th edition, New Delhi: Disha Publications, →ISBN, page 399:


digital humanities

The volume brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities.

2016, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, editors, A New Companion to Digital Humanities, →ISBN:

“There is a lot of interest in digital humanities, but there is not a lot of money,” says Ilan Shimshoni, professor of computer vision and machine learning at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he works on archaeological projects that include reassembling artefacts from photos of fragments. “If you want to do an analysis of Facebook you’ll get much more money than if you want to look at ancient Greek artefacts.”

2020 July 1, Carly Minsky, quoting Ilan Shimshoni, “How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles”, in Financial Times, retrieved 2021-04-12:

An academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy.


halušky

The father began to eat his halušky, but they were quite crunchy between his teeth, so he asked what was with the halušky.

2001, David L. Cooper, transl., compiled by Pavol Dobšinský, Traditional Slovak Folktales (Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2015, →ISBN, page 161:

How easily and happily I’d go off and be a hermit today if your mother would go with me and the two of you would visit us from time to time. And if I had a typewriter there and the papers and a drop of wine and a good radio and halušky with bryndza cheese.

2002, Milan Šimečka, translated by Gerald Turner, Letters from Prison, Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, →ISBN, page 21:

When halušky rise to the top, they are done, usually after about 2 to 4 minutes.

2013, Tiffany Harelik, “Halušky-Spaetzle”, in Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook: Portland Edition, volume 1, Charleston, S.C.: American Palate, The History Press, →ISBN:

The menu of the Bratislava Restaurant was designed similarly, and traditional Slovak dishes were most successful; these included cabbage soup with sausage, bean soup with smoked ham hock, strapačky with smoked meat, chicken with speck and rice, Tatra cabbage with potatoes, veal knuckle with speck or hen with cream sauce and halušky.

2015, Martin Franc, “We’re good enough to host the world! Czech and Slovak Cuisine at World Fairs in 1958, 1967 and 1970”, in Nelleke Teughels, Peter Scholliers, editors, A Taste of Progress: Food at International and World Exhibitions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, part I (Culinary Nation-Building), pages 139–140:

Slovak food is hearty and in the rural countryside lots of meat is eaten, particularly pork, which is served with halušky – potato dumplings.

2016, Exodus Travels, “Bryndzové Halušky”, in A Taste of Adventure: A Collection of Recipes from Around the World, London: Ebury Press, published 2017, →ISBN:


hearts and rounds

cookies baked in the shapes of hearts and circles


Muller's morphs

Introduced by Hermann J. Muller (1890–1967).

(genetics) A set of terms used to classify genetic mutations: amorph, hypomorph, hypermorph, antimorph, and neomorph.


Rauraci

(historical) A small Gallic tribe dwelling in the Upper Rhine region, around the present-day city of Basel, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.


mehs

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, so it was a combo of my being over-excited and the rumor that this was some kind of shoot fight spotfest that left me with a case of the mehs.

2015 September 9, “WWE NXT recap, reactions, video highlights”, in Cageside Seats:

So shake off the mehs and get ready for some elite-level boxing.

2016 April 5, Kelsey McCarson, “Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley: Everything You Need to Know for Upcoming Fight”, in Bleacher Report:

Ordinary rather than extraordinary and average rather than epic, the much-anticipated The Dark Tower feature film suffers from a case of the mehs".

2017 August 4, “'The Dark Tower' Movie Review”, in Showbiz Junkies:


garlic fingers

An Atlantic Canadian dish of pizza dough topped with garlic butter, parsley and cheese, served in thin strips.


Iazyges

(historical) A tribe of Sarmatia settled on the Danube.


those people

Drawing the rhetorical distinction between the "people like yourselves" at the overwhelmingly white rally and "those people" protesting was, needless to say, a provocative framing of the issue.

The country would be much better off, in his opinion, if "those people" (the term he used in his speech) just went somewhere and shut up.

Members of a particular group, collectively.


dubes

From the name of the Irish shoe company, Dubarry.

Siobhan wore black dubes with her school uniform.

(Ireland) Dubarry boat shoes (associated with affluent areas of Dublin)


machoflops

(computing, slang) A deceptively inflated measure of the speed of a computer, as used in marketing materials.


Arimaspi

(mythology) A legendary tribe of one-eyed people of northern Scythia, described by Herodotus.