plum rains

en-noun

plum rains pl (normally plural, singular plum rain)

From plum + rains, either:
* a calque of Japanese 梅雨 (ばいう, baiu, “East Asian rainy season”) (梅 (ばい, bai, “Japanese plum or apricot (Prunus mume)”) + 雨 (う, u, “rain; rainy weather”)), from Middle Chinese 梅雨 (muʌi ɦɨo^X), a poetic reference to the season when plums grow or ripen;
* a calque of Japanese 梅の雨 (うめのあめ, ume no ame, literally “plums’ rain”), from 梅 (うめ, ume) + の (no, possession marker) + 雨 (あめ, ame); or
* a calque of Mandarin 梅雨 (méiyǔ, “East Asian rainy season”) (see, for example, the 1894 and 1991 quotations), from 梅 (méi, “Prunus mume”) + 雨 (yǔ, “rain”).

calque

This week the rainy season appears fairly to have set in, and to have found the farmers but ill-prepared for the deluge. The wheat and barley crops were just ripe for the sickle, and in several instances had been cut, but not carried, when the "plum rains," as the Japanese call them, began.

1871 October, “Foreign Items”, in Samuel J[ones] Smith, editor, The Siam Repository. Containing a Summary of Asiatic Intelligence, volume 3, number 4, Bangkok: Smith’s Place, →OCLC, page 431, column 1:

The heroes of those thousand years? / Alas! like running water, gone; / Yet still the fever-blast one hears, / And still the plum-rain patters on.

1894 January, [anonymous], “Chinese Poetry in English Verse [Thoughts on the View from an Old Tower]”, in Herbert A[llen] Giles, transl., edited by James Knowles, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, volume XXXV, number CCIII, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co., […]; London: Sampson Law, Marston & Company, →OCLC, page 123:

Besides, the general rainfall caused by the occasional visitation of cyclones and typhoons a long spell of wet weather prevails from the second decade of June to the first decade of July. This rainy season is commonly known as "Bai-u" or "Plum-rain", as it occurs when the plums are getting ripe. This "Plum-rain" season begins earlier in the lower latitude and progresses to the higher latitude.

1929, Y[oshitarō] Takenobu [ja], “Geography”, in The Japan Year Book: Complete Cyclopaedia of General Information and Statistics on Japan and Japanese Territories for the Year 1929, Tokyo: The Japan Year Book Office […], →OCLC, page 10:

In May–June, it may rain for days on end for about a month and is known as the period of "plum rains."

1974 August 21, “General Condition of China’s Seaports [Port of Shanghai]”, in [anonymous], transl., Translations on People’s Republic of China (JPRS 62776), number 283, Arlington, Va.: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 47:

In the Yangtze River Valley, the rainy period from mid-June to mid-July is the noted Meiyu or Plum Rains. This rainy season is characterized by the abundant precipitation, high relative humidity, cloudy or overcast, short daily duration of sunshine, weak surface wind, and the frequent occurrence of heavy rainfalls.

1991 December, Ding Yihui, “The Short-range Fluctuations of Monsoons and Their Association with the Major Weather Events in China”, in Monsoons over China (Atmospheric Sciences Library; 16), Dordrecht, South Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers, published 1994, →ISBN, page 195:

We have bad weather in Shanghai leading up to summer, called the plum rains. If the product isn't in a good environment it will get wet, and mould and frost will damage it.

2000, Carolyn Blackman, “A Lot to Learn: ‘Nowhere Else in the World is It Like This!’”, in China Business: The Rules of the Game, Crows Nest, Sydney, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, part I (The Chinese Face of Globalisation), page 8:

Also occasionally in the singular form plum rain: the East Asian rainy season from early summer to midsummer in the fourth and fifth lunar months (early June to early or mid-July); also, the rain which falls during this season.

梅雨

East Asian rainy season; rain which falls during this season


DMIPS

Initialism of Dhrystone MIPS (million instructions per second).


rich media

(business, advertising) A type of online advertising that uses text, music, video, and animations to attract a user's attention.


productive forces

The productive forces of our country, especially in industry, were social in character, the form of ownership, on the other hand, was private, capitalistic. Relying on the economic law that the relations of production must necessarily conform with the character of the productive forces, the Soviet government socialized the means of production, made them the property of the whole people, and thereby abolished the exploiting system and created socialist forms of economy.

1972 [1951], Joseph Stalin, “Character of Economic Laws Under Socialism”, in Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., Foreign Languages Press, retrieved 2024-01-08:

relations of production
relations of production

(Marxism) The combination of means of labour and labour power which together with certain relations of production form a historically specific mode of production.


Chickahominy

A tribe of Virginian Native Americans who primarily live in Charles City County, located along the James River midway between Richmond and Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia.


book piles

(dated, obsolete) A representation of a pile of books, designed to decorate a bookplate; a bookplate bearing such a design.


bread and games

bread and circuses
bread and circuses#English


vicennals

From Latin vīcennālia, from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ālia (“-alia: forming festival names”), from vīciēs (“twenty times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”).

(historical, rare) Synonym of vicennalia: the festival and religious ritual held on the 20th anniversary of a Roman emperor's reign.


bobby sox

Many girls are wearing their “bobby sox,” but some of the boys are more formally dressed with a tie or two in evidence.

2007, Mary Ann Neeley, Montgomery and the River Region: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Montgomery, Ala.: Beers & Associates, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 104:

She sat down and crossed her legs. Her bobby sox clashed with her saddle shoes. It was a deliberate Screw you.

2014, James Ellroy, Perfidia, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 56:

I also remember my sister Mimi and her friends, wearing their bobby sox, shrieking whenever Frank Sinatra came on the radio.

2015, Paul F. Cummins, Confessions of a Headmaster, Pasadena, Calif.: XENO Books, Red Hen Press, →ISBN, page 81:


bobby-sox

When girls were not wearing their bobby-sox and pleated skirts, they often put on blue jeans that were rolled up to just below the knee and often decorated with painted hearts, horses, and other figures.

1999, Michael V. Uschan, The 1940s (A Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades), San Diego, Calif.: Lucent Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 88–89:

Young women abandoned their bobby-sox and Capri pants for sexiness, especially the miniskirt—the paramount symbol of sexual liberation.

2008, Paul S[amuel] Boyer, Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, Neal Salisbury, Harvard Sitkoff, Nancy Woloch, The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, 6th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 898:

Think back to the music of the period, to the way the girls looked in their bobby-sox, the way the boys looked in the V-necked sweaters. Horrible, right?

2010, David Kahane [pseudonym; Michael Walsh], Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:


Vicennalia

Apart from the Vicennalia, 136 was an eventful year for the imperial family: the serious illness of Hadrian in the spring, the adoption of Aelius in the summer and the death and consecration of Sabina at the end of the year.

1971, P.V. Hill, "The Dating and Arrangement of Hadrian's COS III", Mints, Dies and Currency, p. 52

Alternative letter-case form of vicennalia.


all the world and Little Billing

en-noun

all the world and Little Billing pl (plural only)

the world and his wife
the world and his wife#English


indemnity costs

A special award granted by a court requiring one party (normally the unsuccessful party in litigation) to indemnify another party against actual costs that the latter incurred in connection with the case.


Words of Institution

en-proper noun

the Words of Institution pl (plural only)

the Words of Institution (canonical plural)

words of institution
words of institution#English

Alternative form of words of institution


ice saints

en-noun

ice saints pl (normally plural, singular ice saint)

Perhaps a calque of German Eisheilige; compare French saints de glace.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ice saints.

blackthorn winter
blackthorn winter#English

blackberry winter
blackberry winter#English

A spell of cold weather in May on or around those dates. (Compare blackthorn winter, blackberry winter.)


Na-Khi

Alternative form of Nakhi (“ethnic group”)


plain people

(Christianity) Christian groups characterized by separation from the world, simple living, and wearing modest clothing, including head-coverings for women.


Loucheux

From French [Term?] (literally “squinters”).


Payaguá

An extinct language of Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia, spoken by the Payaguá people.


Embera-Wounaan

A seminomadic indigenous people living around the waterways of Darién Province, Panama, and mainly comprising two groups: the Embera, of upper Atrato and San Juan rivers, and the Wounaan of the lower San Juan River.


dicksucking lips

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

DSL is an abbreviation that generally refers to Digital Subscriber Line but can also mean Dick Sucking Lips when seen in texting, online chat, instant messaging, e-mail, blogs, newsgroup postings, and social media.

2024 January 20 (last accessed), Staff, “DSL: Digital Subscriber Line -or- Dick Sucking Lips”, in Netlingo.com:

(slang, vulgar, humorous) Full, thick or generally large lips of a person.


perfumed terms of the time

perfumed terms of the time pl (plural only)


piping times of peace

(archaic, idiomatic) A time of peace and goodness.


Aweikoma

Synonym of Kaingang (“an Indigenous Brazilian ethnic group”)


standard conditions

terms and conditions
terms and conditions

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see standard, conditions; e.g., standard terms and conditions.


X-ray specs

X-ray spectacles
X-ray spectacles#English


X-ray spectacles

(science fiction) Spectacles that allow the wearer to see through solid objects such as walls or clothing.


Akuapem

One of the main ethnic groups of the Akan people, residing mostly to the south of the Eastern Region of Ghana.


Picunche

(historical) A Mapudungun-speaking people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas.


mud-hogs

(World War I miltary slang) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:


Picuris

Borrowed from Spanish Picurís, possibly from Eastern Keres Pikuli

A historic Pueblo inhabited by the Picuris people located in Taos County, New Mexico.


Magnificent Seven

the Magnificent Seven (canonical plural)

magnificent seven
magnificent seven#English

Alternative letter-case form of magnificent seven


magnificent seven

the magnificent seven (canonical plural)

After the 1960 Western film The Magnificent Seven.

Coordinate term: FANG

The “magnificent seven” now account for 29% of the market value of the S&P 500, and a whopping 61% of the NASDAQ 100, up from 20% and 53%, respectively, at the start of the year.

2023 July 20, “Big tech’s dominance is straining the logic of passive investing”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

“We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.

2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:

(business, colloquial) Seven Big Tech companies or their stock: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet Inc., Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, and Microsoft.


Isawiyya

An Islamic mystical brotherhood founded in Morocco.


politics of envy

I was puzzled because again he resorts as always to the politics of envy here, but after recently and repeatedly attacking not just me but the Government for lifting the bonus cap[.]

2023 January 31, Rishi Sunak, “Stopping UAE takeover of Telegraph ‘an absolute no-brainer’, says peer”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 2024-02-03:

(politics) Politics characterized by envy for a different person or group.


BLIPS

(psychology) Initialism of brief limited intermittent psychotic symptoms.


pixels per inch

(graphic design, typography) A measurement of the pixel density of an electronic image device, such as a computer monitor or television display.


suzzies

I look in the mirror and decide to undo a button on my blouse. Back to the car to put on shoes with a little more heel and as I'm smoothing my skirt down, I can feel the suzzies underneath.

2022, Claire Monday, Wild and Game (page 27)


noble hops

noble hops pl (normally plural, singular noble hop)

Certain varieties of European hops having a strong aroma but low bitterness.


Longjia

A Sino-Tibetan language of Guizhou, China.


Pnar

[…] the Pnar are concentrated in the central plateau of Jaintia hills […]

1975, Bulletin of the Anthropological Survey of India, volume 24, page 33:


Qualicum

A river on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


Kjet

Learned borrowing from Middle Chinese 羯 (kɨɐt̚).


Chieh

Borrowed from the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 羯 (Jié): Chieh².

Alternative form of Jie (“Jie language”).


Areopagitics

Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.

1998, Elena Surkova, The Theological, Philosophical and Linguistic Background of Constantine the Philosopher's Concept of Translation Jože Krašovec (editor), The Interpretation of the Bible: The International Symposium in Slovenia, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Sheffield Academic Press, page 978,
The reference-points for Constantine the Philosopher in creating his philosophy of language were: 1. the corpus of texts known under the name of the Epistles of Paul the Apostle and 2. Areopagitics—the writings which appeared in Byzantium in the second half of the 5th century, written by Dionysius the Areopagite (or more exactly, Pseudo-Dionysius), whose programme, in Sergey Averintzev's words, represents a "synthesis of the attic tradition of speculation with the Christian mysticism of Paul the Apostle's Epistles […] ."

2019, Georges Florovsky, Byzantine Fathers: V – VIII centuries, Vladimir Djambov, page 194,
Peter Lombard looked at the Areopagitics as an indisputable authority. John Saracin in the 12th century, Thomas Verchelsky and Robert Grosseteste in the 13th century translate and comment on the Areopagitics.

(plural only, theology, early Christianity, historical) Collectively, the mystical theological works attributed to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.


rainbow carrots

Mixed carrots of different varieties having different colors.


Wateree

(historical) A Native American tribe inhabiting the interior of the present-day Carolinas.


Greater Sunda Islands

Indonesian Archipelago
Indonesian Archipelago#English

Four tropical islands situated within the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.


Lesser Sunda Islands

Maritime Southeast Asia
w:Maritime Southeast Asia

An archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia.


Bái

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白 (Bái).


Thaua

An Aboriginal Australian people living around the Twofold Bay area of the South Coast of New South Wales.


the laws of thermodynamics

en-noun

the laws of thermodynamics pl (plural only)

/ðə ˈlɔːz əv ˌθɜː(ɹ)mədaɪ̯ˈnæmɪks/

Variant of the first law of thermodynamics, conservation of energy within an isolated system.

Although no clear experimental error has been demonstrated, critics continue to maintain that something must be wrong because the laws of thermodynamics would be violated [5], that “a calorie is a calorie” [6].

2004 December 8, Eugene J Fine, Richard D Feinman, “Thermodynamics of weight loss diets”, in Nutrition & Metabolism, volume 1, number 15, →DOI:

Most people go wrong by misinterpreting the laws of thermodynamics.
The Law of Thermodynamics proves that:
 To build muscle, you must store energy or increase muscle protein.
 To lose fat, you must burn energy or reduce stored body fat.
The mistake? To assume that:
 You must be in an energy surplus to build muscle.
 You must be in an energy deficit to lose fat.

2021 September 6, Tom MacCormick, “The Body Recomposition Handbook”, in T-Nation:

These results indicate that people with relatively low and relatively high body-fat can gain fat-free mass to a pretty similar degree in response to resistance training. However, very lean people should accept that fat mass will probably need to increase a little bit to facilitate muscle gain, and they may need to get up to a slightly more comfortable body-fat level before lean mass gains really start to accumulate (for example, every single person under 8% body-fat at baseline had some degree of fat gain, and only one of them gained more than 1kg of fat-free mass). In contrast, people with higher baseline body-fat have a greater capability to “recomp” and are more likely to simultaneously lose a little bit of fat while gaining muscle. It’s important to recognize that these results do not conflict with the laws of thermodynamics or the concept of energy balance dictating weight changes; they simply reflect the fact that the body has both short-term and long-term sensors of energy availability which can influence the regulation of anabolic processes, and that muscle hypertrophy and fat storage are influenced by some distinct regulatory mechanisms.

2022 May 30, Eric Trexler, “Should You Cut Before You Bulk?: How Body-Fat Levels Affect Your P-Ratio”, in Stronger By Science:

(bodybuilding, slang) The dieting maxim that one needs a calorie deficit to lose body-fat and surplus calories to gain muscle.

first law of thermodynamics
laws of thermodynamics


Mandé

An ethnolinguistic grouping of native African ethnic groups who speak Mande languages.


French Alps

A mountainous region in southeastern France that are part of the mountain range of Alps.


Hisatsinom

Unadapted borrowing from Hopi Hisatsinom. Literally Ancient People.

ubor

Meronyms: Motisinom, Palatkwapi clans


Palatkwapi clans

Holonym: Hisatsinom

Ancestors of the Hopi people who migrated from Mesoamerica.


youngfolks

How perfect is her description of the gipsy-party on the village common; and of the broad shady oak in Mansfield Park, under which the youngfolks used to loiter away the Summer evening, till the approach of the thrifty and prolix Mrs. Norris, who was much addicted to unseasonable lecturing, would compel them to a precipitate departure!

1838 October, “Literary Review”, in The Ladies’ Companion, New York, N.Y., page 300, column 1:

Frequently the youngfolks of several families would join and come down in a wagon, drawn by a four-horse team, and stay all night at our house, and would seem to make the time pass very pleasantly.

1872, Joshua Antrim, The History of Champaign and Logan Counties, from Their First Settlement, Bellefontaine, Oh.: Press Printing Co., page 352:

Misses Ida Sympson, Maggie Sambrook and Master Archie Cooper and a number of youngfolks, spent Thursday, at Lettered Rock.

1902 July 4, “Livingston”, in Mount Vernon Signal, volume XV, number 41, Mount Vernon, Ky., [https://archive.org/details/xt7ghx15np96/page/n2/mode/1up page [3]], column 3:

Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Stutt entertained a crowd of youngfolks at their home last Friday night.

1910 March 11, “Paradise”, in Dick Collins, Marvin B. Smith, editors, Wise County Messenger, volume XXXI, number 10 (whole 1503), Decatur, Tex., [https://archive.org/details/decatur-wise-county-messenger-1910-03-11/page/n1/mode/1up page [2]], column 1:

Tap received his degree by his noble work as editor of the Youngfolks’ Corner of the Weekly.

1915, “Bachelor’s Club”, in The Cardinal, Fayetteville, Ark.: […] The Junior Class [University of Arkansas]:

Don’t deny the youngfolks the many tales that are written for them in book-form to stir their imagination for the bigger and better things in life.

1923 December 8, “Books for the Home”, in The Michigan Business Farmer, volume XI, number 8, Mount Clemens, Mich.: The Rural Publishing Company, Inc., page 14 (206), column 3:

HERE are the things—many of them very simple things—that I believe most progressive youngfolks are anxious to achieve—and that we should like to help them achieve through our “Progressive Youngfolks” department:— / 1. Youngfolks like to be proud of the home they live in.

1947 October, Earline Gandy, “Helping Rural Youth to Happy Living”, in Clarence Poe, editor, The Progressive Farmer, Carolinas-Virginia edition, volume 62, number 10, Birmingham, Ala.: The Progressive Farmer Company, page 29:

Later in the evening Mrs. Reidy treated the youngfolks with cookies and chocolate milk.

1957 January 3, Mrs. Marvel Neuman, “Holloway”, in The Tecumseh Herald, volume 106, number 14, Tecumseh, Mich.: F. C. & P. F. Belleville, page 5, column 5:

Picture is the stale tale of a pretty coed in a staid, exclusive girls’ college who nearly flunks out when she is discovered as the composer of several hit pop tunes. She’s saved from her fate during a Sun Valley vacation by a senator descendant of the school’s founder who learns he can get winning votes in his campaign by getting in with the youngfolks.

1964 November 25, “Get Yourself A College Girl (Color)”, in Variety Film Reviews, 1907–1980, volume 11 (1964–1967), New York, N.Y., London: Garland Publishing, Inc., published 1983:

So often youngfolks and adults live for the “great” moments of life – the end of the term, the Friday test, the prom, graduation, love, marriage, etc. etc., that the precious everyday happenings are quite ignored.

1967, Elliott D. Landau, You and Your Child’s World, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Deseret Book Company, →LCCN, page 201:

I recall, one night just before Christmas one young fellow in the neighbourhood decided to take a bunch of youngfolks to the show in town — of course, it was the silent movies at that time.

1974 January 3, Crichton Harrop, quoting a Senior Citizen, “The Christmases of Madoc’s Past”, in Madoc Review, number 1, Madoc, Ont., page 5, column 9:

I s’pose kids will be going on to college. Maybe one day they’ll be drag assing back with a buttful of degrees and a license to dig up old Indian skulls or somethin’. Already I seen one of the youngfolks out here carryin’ one of them electric treasure finders.

1976, Ted C. Williams, The Reservation, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 233:

When a young couple gets married—and that’s what young couples seem to do mostly—why, the band and the bunch of well-wishers wait until they are about to spend their first night in their new house. They sneak up on them and play music and make so much racket that the youngfolks have to come downstairs and open up and serve coffee and cider and cake and like that.

1977, “Chivaree: ‘In the Evening by the Moonlight’ Side II, 4”, in Home Almanac: Featuring Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet Band, Nashville, Tenn.: Spring Branch Productions:

The Epworth League provided the “choir” for the evening service, and according to Geneva, the youngfolks couldn’t sing very well, but most fortunately, the congregation was more concerned with enthusiasm than the carrying of a tune.

1981, James F. Lovelace, The Journey and the Centennial Years of First United Methodist Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz.: First United Methodist Church Centennial Committee, page 13:

For the Amish-Mennonite young person, baptism, usually around age sixteen, also allows one to join the youth group or “youngfolks”—the term still used by most Amish-Mennonites to identify their single young people. / While the average American teen, even in the 1950s, might have found our youth social life dull and boring—no parties, beer, dancing, or movies—“Going with the youngfolks” was an important part of growing up. […] While the noon dinner belonged to the older guests with children, the evening meal was for the youngfolks when every fellow present was expected to have a female dining partner.

1995, Leroy Miller, “Growing Up”, in Leroy Miller, editor, compiled by Leon R. Zook, The Amish-Mennonites at Kempsville, Virginia, 1900–1970: A Collection of Stories and Photos from a Time and Place, Gone Forever, yet Living in Our Memories of a Good and Pleasant Land, Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company/Publishers, →ISBN, pages 21 and 23:

I was always happy when noontime arrived, when religion was put aside for an hour and our feasts were spread under the trees. Then we could gorge ourselves. The youngfolks would pair off, slip away to the springhouse about a quarter-mile off, pretending to be very thirsty.

2006, Francesca Wright, “Meeting In A Brush Arbor”, in Wildwood Days, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 124:


elle-people

It is also necessary to watch cattle so that they may not graze in any place where the Elle-people have been. If any animal goes to a place where the Elle-people have spit or done what is worse, it is attacked by some grievous disease, which can only be cured by giving it a handful of St. John's wort, which was pulled at twelve o'clock on St. John's night.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 140:

"I tremble at the very thought of the Elle-people of whom our villagers tell, while thou hast not a single fear. Why is it, sister?"

1861, Dinah Craik, Romantic Tales, Leipzip: Berhard Tauchnitz, page 164:

(mythology) A type of elf of Scandinavian folklore.


elle-folk

"We're none of the elle-folk who dance in the hills and weave fates, ye mun go to them for that."

1860, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, Sir Rohan's Ghost: A Romance, Boston: J.E. Tilton and Co., page 293:

Still the Elle-folk are often mentioned in the legends he proceeds to give as inhabiting houes, notwithstanding an explicit opening statement that they ‘dwell in the Elle-mosses,’ and notwithstanding the fact also that the so-called Elle-kone of the houes seems evidently to want the hollow back.

1865 November, J[ohn] C[hristopher] Atkinson, “Comparative Danish and Northumbrian Folk Lore. […] Chapter VII. Elle Folk.”, in The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church, volume XXX, part 179, London: John and Charles Mozley, […]; and J[ohn] H[enry] Parker, […], footnote, page 476:

The ellefolk live in mosses, banks and mounds, under alder-trees and in alder-thickets.

1896, William Alexander Craigie, Scandinavian Folk-lore, London: Alexander Gardner, page 175:


spinning teacups

en-noun

spinning teacups pl (normally plural, singular spinning teacup)

An amusement ride consisting of a series of large spinning vehicles, shaped and decorated as giant teacups, in which people sit.


paraphernals

From Middle French parapharnelz. Attested since the early 1500s, whereas the adjective paraphernal since the late 1700s.

[…] the said John Lindsay became obliged to restore all things he got with his wife or she brought with her to the said Allexander Cochrane, her father, and the other pursuers, her brethren, and to put everything in the same condition as it was before the marriage, and she haven taken with her the goods and gear following, viz., her Paraphernals and body cloathes, linens, and others, to the value of three hundredth merks Scots: […]

1724 June, “Outfit and Tocher of a Farmer’s Daughter, 1724”, in William Hector, compiler, Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire. Illustrative of the Administration of the Laws in the County, and Manners and Condition of the Inhabitants, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. […], Paisley, Renfrewshire: J. & J. Cook, […], published 1878, page 185:

“[…] Get ready thy marriage gear, love, and lay aside thy maiden blushes, which can aid thee as little in capturing a husband as Bruce’s backwardness in the taking of Perth.” / “The Governor hath not claimed me, father,” replied Anne, hesitatingly. “He hath not called here since the money was paid to him.” / “More still of thy doubtful questionings, wench!” cried Peter, rising in his anger. “What is his remissness to thee, if I adhere to my condition, and demand my bond? He is bound by his honour; to-morrow he is to be here, and thou must show thy fairest qualities in his presence. Go and assign thee thy appurtenances and paraphernals.”

1839, “The Siege of Perth”, in Wilson’s Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: […], volume V, number 209, London: E. T. Brain & Co., […]; New York, N.Y.: R. T. Shannon, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:

ASSENT. / of husband to wife’s acts as agent or trustee, § 32. / of husband not necessary to wife’s contracts, when, §§ 45, 49. / to wife’s alienation of her paraphernals, § 94.

1901, Ocie Speer, “Index”, in A Treatise on the Law of Married Women in Texas, Including Marriage, Divorce, Homestead, and Administration, Rochester, N.Y.: The Lawyers’ Co-operative Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 499:

(law, rare) Synonym of paraphernalia (“married woman’s property besides her dowry”).


riding-bitts

riding-bitts pl (normally plural, singular riding-bitt)

(nautical) The bitts to which a ship's cable is secured when riding at anchor.


ghubar numerals

From an Arabic word for "dust", because calculations were once performed by drawing in a heap of dust with a stick.


multifocals

Spectacles having several focusing areas that correct for both nearsightedness and farsightedness.


creevles

"Jimmy Christmas! Thet gives me the blue creevles," said Dan. "What in thunder is it?"

1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:

But the evils of diseased nerves do not stop here. […] They not only inflict the creevles and the fidgets upon the body, but still more upon the mind.

1884, Orson Squire Fowler, Physiology, Animal and Mental, Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind, page 263:

(colloquial, archaic) A creeping feeling; formication.


chunderbannies

(obsolete, India, rare) A kind of Indian textile piece goods.


Five Power Defence Arrangements

en-proper noun

the Five Power Defence Arrangements pl (plural only)

the Five Power Defence Arrangements (canonical plural)

(British, UK, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, politics, military) the British-backed multilateral joint armed force between the British commonwealth countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom).


working papers

Already in established use by 1909 for the sense concerning the regulated employment of minors.

Working Papers. / The subject of working papers is very important to the auditor. It is so important and moreover so extensive that more than one book has been devoted entirely to it. For the author's views on the subject, the reader is referred to "Accountants’ Working Papers" by Palmer and Bell. With that complete treatise available it is thought to be unnecessary to discuss the technique of working papers in this volume except as it appears to be called for in the consideration of detail subjects. Too much stress cannot, however, be laid upon the desirability of limiting working papers to essentials. Mere transcripts of accounts serve no useful purpose.

1936 [1924], William Hansell Bell, John Abrum Powelson, Auditing, Prentice-Hall, page 24:

en:interim notes and documents during work in process

The notes and interim documents used during the work in process of an accountant, auditor, or other knowledge worker.


Agapeti

(historical) Men of the early Christian church who cohabited in a chaste state with deaconesses.


birth-control glasses

On a foggy day at sea “Marvin” could have been Tom’s double. Well, minus a clean shave, roughly two inches of extra height, dark brown hair buzzed Marine-Corps short, and a killer set of birth-control glasses hooked to his late-thirties, twice-broken nose. At least they were wearing matching navy-blue suits. Marvin also had the dubious honor of matching Anna’s description of the former NCIS Agent Foster to a tee. […] The birth-control glasses went flying as his prey bucked violently.

2003, Candace Irvin, A Dangerous Engagement (Intimate Moments), New York, N.Y.: Silhouette Books, →ISBN, pages 203 and 206:

Blanchard was this tall, blocky guy with bad skin and birth-control glasses, those ugly-ass, Army-issue black-framed glasses that only look good on ironic alternative rock musicians, which he was not.

2010, Lisa Brachmann, Rock Paper Tiger, New York, N.Y.: Soho Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 86:

“I like your glasses,” she says as she unwraps a platter of brownies. “They’re very hip. Retro, even.” […] “Dad calls them birth-control glasses.” […] I explain that he thinks they look like the ones they gave him when he was in Army boot camp and that they’re so ugly, nobody would get near you. […] He looks like he doesn’t belong in Oak Prairie. He looks like he could wear my retro birth-control glasses and fit right in at Franklin, where I go to school in Minneapolis.

2015, Carrie Mesrobian, Cut Both Ways, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

“Very good,” he said. “Especially from twenty feet away. You must have excellent distance vision. What was he wearing?” / She drew a complete blank. She simply couldn’t remember. How odd. / “You can’t remember because you were focused on his face, which, admittedly, is his most interesting feature. I can relate to that.” / She turned her head to look directly at him and thought she saw the trace of a smile, although with those birth-control glasses she couldn’t be too sure.

2017, P[eter] T[homas] Deutermann, Red Swan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 24:

“Hey, Stevie, put your birth-control glasses on and come see this,” said Chief Petty Officer Dennis “Sparky” Cramer to his subordinate and good friend, Seaman Stephen Matteson. Birth-control glasses are standard, military-issued eyeglasses known for their lack of aesthetic appeal, i.e., ugly enough to function as contraceptives.

2017, Bob Laurent, chapter 46, in Thin Places: A Supernatural Thriller, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 173:

birth control glasses
birth control glasses#English

Alternative form of birth control glasses.


potty pants

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An undergarment worn by infants or young children to aid in potty training during the transition from diapers to underwear; training pants.


Eyes of Buddha

A symbol featuring two half-closed eyes popular in Buddhist art.


tea shades

For their resemblance to the contents of a cup of dark tea.

Indeed: KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of Tea-Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can’t find a rape victim.

1982, Thompson, Hunter S, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream:

(plural only) A pair of tinted eyeglasses (spectacles) with circular lenses.


delulu pills

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@yh_cm have you taken your daily dose of delulu pills? I think you should double the the dose alrdy, am worry abt you :x

2013 May 18, @ayoepan, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-22:

Anti delulu pills are out of stocks😭 .

[2023 October 12, @staywithstraykid_, Instagram:

Three cheers for delulu pills and throwing them out the window.

2024, R.L. Carroll, In Too Deep, R.L. Books, →ISBN:

(informal) the imaginary inducer for delusion.


Angu

A cannibalistic people inhabiting the mountains of southwestern Morobe in Papua New Guinea.


Doustioni

(historical) A member tribe of the historic Natchitoches Confederation, probably living near the Gulf of Mexico


Kukukuku

[…] the Kukukuku were in the habit of making ferocious raids on neighbouring peoples […]

1978, Beatrice Blackwood, Christopher Robert Hallpike, The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut, page 3:


irreconcilable differences

en-noun

irreconcilable differences pl (normally plural, singular irreconcilable difference)

According to the website TMZ.com, which first reported the story, the actor and director cited irreconcilable differences as the cause for the split. The couple have been together since 2005 and married in 2014.

2016 September 21, Benjamin Lee, “Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt citing irreconcilable differences”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(law, chiefly US) Grounds for a no-fault divorce comprising a difference between the two parties that cannot or will not be changed.


Akamba

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


clo'es

His clo’es were wings, an’ his cap was tore,


Blunnies

(Australia, slang) Laceless, elastic-sided, ankle-length boots of the kind made by Blundstone Footwear.


gamer pants

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Potty breaks during a smash tournament are unacceptable. Thank goodness these are ref approved gamer pants!

2019 September 14, @soggynspotty, Twitter:

We want more gamer pants [being] sponsored by pampers or huggies it gonna be so much fun seeing him streaming for 48 hrs with pitstops sponsored with a big brand like pampers hehehe cannot wait to see this

2021 January 17, Pierry Louys, “Gamer Pants”, in Daily Diapers:

I mean [they're] called gamer pants for a reason 😏

2023 March 10, deepdriftAD, “diapers while gaming”, in ADISC.org:


gaming pants

Alluding to the fact that wearing a diaper while playing video games would allow the player to continue gaming without taking bathroom breaks.

Why bother getting upn and going to the bathroom during a really good game when there are "gaming pants" (i.e. Depends!) sometimes I miss the point of these Usenets posts but I don't think so here!

2001 June 4, Bunboy, “Going to the bathroom in games”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):

I want to buy adult diapers and rebrand them as professional gaming pants, the stigma will be gone and I'll be rich.

Come on, Zack, really... gaming pants? What are gaming pants basically? Zack picked this particular diaper because it wasn't pink like the others, but it's also the only one that has eyes on it.

[See title]

2021 August 19, u/throwaway-fu6555, “Gaming Pants :)”, in r/ABDL, Reddit:

Beter equip a fresh pair of gaming pants! Gonne be a long session x)

(humorous, usually ABDL) A diaper, especially one worn recreationally.


other lips

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The Other Lips Balm is not merely a remedy for dryness; it serves as an effective solution for vaginal itching and irritation.

(informal, humorous) a female's labia majora.


darke ages

(obsolete except archaic) Alternative form of Dark Ages


fun in games

It was all fun in games to use a pawn but not too good an idea in real life unless you can use a dead comrade. Not fun, but she had to admit that in this situation it worked.

2014 June 2, Toby Keen, Dark Matter Rising, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54:

We got most of the fellows from our hut to come outside, skylark about, make a lot of noises like it was all fun in games.

2018 March 21, Chas Mayhead, Rumours, PBS Publications, →ISBN:

[…] because everything is new and they think a marriage is all fun in games until they realize how much work it actually is.

2020 November 23, Julia Vellucci, The 30 Day Exchange, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN:


Sillok

An ethnic group of Sudan, living in Blue Nile state.


Jimmy Britts

Rhyming slang, from the name of the boxer Jimmy Britt (1879–1940).


multifactors

[…] at least given certain constraints on the definitions of both a multifactor and a disorder caused by multifactors.

1991, Dante Cicchetti, Sheree L. Toth, Models and Integrations, page 127:

The situation of multifactors or components can occur in an allocation scenario using optimization.

2013, Waheed Uddin, W. Ronald Hudson, Ralph C. G. Haas, Public Infrastructure Asset Management, Second Edition, page 374:

(non-native speakers' English) Multiple factors.


multibarrels

His own [heart] was hammering like a minigun, multibarrels firing.


Surinen

/ˌsʊ.ɹɪˈnɛn/

Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.

2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20:

1593 - Spanish explorers visit the area and name it Suriname, after the country’s earliest inhabitants, the Surinen.

2012 October 18, BBC, “Suriname country profile”, in BBC, archived from the original on 2024-03-19:

They called the colony “Surinam” after the Surinen indigenous people who then inhabited the “land of many waters” in the fertile Guiana plains.

2017 March 15, Hany A. El-Shemy, Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Back to Nature, →ISBN, page 114:

An ethnic group who were the earliest known inhabitants of what is now Suriname.


Russia ashes

(dated, historical) Impure potash as imported from Russia.


sids

(Scotland) Oat husks, or bran with some kernel, used to make sowens.


rivlins

(archaic) A kind of moccasins made of untanned hide.


hummellings

The awns of barley, oats, etc. removed by hummelling.


diaper pants

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(Canada, US) A one-piece diaper which is worn (pulled-up) like underwear; training pants.


nappy pants

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(Commonwealth, Ireland) Synonym of diaper pants (“a one-piece diaper which is worn (pulled-up) like underwear; training pants”).


Crater Lakes

A group of lakes in Sevier County, Utah.


sosiski

From Russian соси́ски (sosíski), plural of соси́ска (sosíska), from French saucisse (“sausage (hot dog style)”) (whence English saucisse) + Russian -ка (-ka, diminutive suffix), from Old French saucice (whence English sausage).

der

It took her only 15 minutes to reach the counter to get her sosiski.

1963, New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement, volume 68, page 46:

New Yorkers pay $1.59 plus tax for a regular Nathan’s Famous dog but comrades in Moscow will have to plunk down the equivalent of $2.25 in rubles for their sosiskis.^([sic])

1989 August 23, “Moscow goes to the dogs — hot dogs, that is”, in The Odessa American, Odessa, Tex., page 10A, column 2:

Contrary to Western stereotypes, Moscow already has quite a few native fast-food places, selling borscht, pelmeni (dumplings), chebureki (Central Asian meat pies), sosiski (sausages resembling hot dogs) and more.

1990 January 31, Scott Shane, “Muscovites get their first taste of McDonald’s today”, in The Sun, volume 306, number 65, Baltimore, Md., page 2A, column 6:

SHOW ME THE SOSISKI! Prior to the crisis, over 60% of food consumed in Moscow was imported. Even now, domestically-made sausage, like these Moscow-made sosiski, rely on imported meat.

Sosiski are considered a cheap food.

1998 July 2, Daniel Williams, “In Moscow, Russians relish foreign franks”, in The Burlington Free Press, volume 171, number 183, Burlington, Vt., page 3C, column 6:

Just have to make your way through the drunken men eating sosiski and beer for breakfast.

2003, Ulbandus Review, volume 7, Columbia University Department of Slavic Languages, page 184:

Sosiski were Mom’s favorite food. I was hooked on them too, though Mom claims that the sosiski of my childhood couldn’t hold a candle to the juicy Stalinist article.

2013, Anya von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 14:

International Specialties […] • Russian Sosiski and Sardelki

2019, “Endlessly Diverse Products”, in Sausage Industry, Verden: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH, page 5:

Small sausages made from a mixture of ground meats, spices, and sometimes other ingredients like breadcrumbs or grains.


kninkles

Blend of knees + wrinkles. Itself a modification of ninkles, which was coined by Emily Sheffield. Kninkles appeared shortly after ninkles, but only kninkles became generally accepted.

My sister called me last night and declared she has "kninkles" (knee wrinkles)...oh the things that happen to your body as you get older...

2011 April 21, @bobfm, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-22:

Photos of her in Venice in a pair of shorts at the weekend appeared to show that the Hollywood actress — 39 this month — is suffering from knee wrinkles, or ‘kninkles’, as they’ve been nicknamed.

2011 September 6, Claire Coleman, “Curse of the KNINKLES: That's knee wrinkles... and Gwyneth's not the only star who's got them”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2024-07-22:

Radio-frequency treatments are often used on the face to tighten slack skin and can work wonders on kninkles. "They deliver energy into the dermal tissue," explains Dr Bowler. "This heats the tissue, causing the collagen to tighten and, over time, to produce more collagen."

2011 September 7, Claire Coleman, “Ugly knees: The curse of the kninkles”, in The Courier-Mail, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:

Even super-fit stars such a Demi Moore, 51, right, and Catherine Zeta Jones, 44, left, can't avoid kninkles

2014 February 25, Katy Winter, “No more kninkles (that's knee wrinkles): Now there's a $500 lunchtime lift that promises to banish that saggy skin”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cher and Sharon Stone have been called out for “kninkles,” or knee wrinkles — and Demi Moore is rumored to have had an $8,000 knee-lift in 2012 to firm and smooth saggy knees.

2015 July 27, Merle Ginsberg, “Hollywood’s Knee Anxiety: Ironing Out Those “Kninkles””, in The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:


emergency powers

Temporary powers given to someone to rule during an emergency.


Red Roses

The Red Roses extended their championship winning record to 29 games, as John Mitchell's ruthless side struck five first-half tries before Assia Khalfaoui's second-half red card.

2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:

(rugby) The England women's national rugby union team


halusky

The halusky will puff and float to the top.

1993, “Chicken Paprikas with Halusky”, in Gwen McKee, Barbara Moseley, editors, Best of the Best from Pennsylvania: Selected Recipes from Pennsylvania’s Favorite Cookbooks, Brandon, Miss.: Quail Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 188:

The halusky should be skimmed from the water with a slotted spoon and drained of excess water.

1999 October, The Women’s Society of St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Come On Inn…, Memphis, Tenn.: The Wimmer Companies, →ISBN, page 194:

Boil the halusky about 5 minutes, until the dumplings float on top of the water.

2011, Francesca Davis DiPiazza, Slovakia in Pictures (Visual Geography Series), Minneapolis, Minn.: Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 57:


halushki

Delicious homemade Eastern European foods - pirohi, halushki, holupki and kolachi - will be available for sale and carry out.

1995 October 26, “Holiday Bazaar”, in Greenbelt News Review, volume 58, number 49, Greenbelt, Md., page 19, column 4:

In due time, steaming bowls of halushki were served to the men by Cousin Zuza and a slightly younger pleasant-looking woman wearing a white blouse and chocolate skirt, who it turned out was Cousin Velika.

2005, Lori Lansens, The Girls, Toronto, Ont.: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, →ISBN, page 354:

Tahini, sesame oil, and soy sauce add a flavorful nuance to this reimagining of halushki, a favorite comfort food dish I enjoyed as a child.

2011, Robin Robertson, Quick-Fix Vegan: Healthy, Homestyle Meals in 30 Minutes or Less, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 80:


holubky

From Czech holubky and Slovak holubky. Doublet of golabki.

All of it seems impossibly old, musty, dense with the smells of upholstery and cooking: holubky; apple butter; tuna, onions, and vinegar.

2002, Paul Lisicky, Famous Builder, Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, →ISBN, page 11:

“Men,” Jon shouted, “today Maria will be serving holubky.[…]”

2008, Thomas J. Lipovsky, The Slovakian: Jon and Stasha an Ocean Apart, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 140:

We had oil lamps and tallow candles Anna made from beef fat she begged from the butcher in exchange for holubky or a bowl of pierogi stuffed with sweet plums, a little bowl of smetana alongside.

2017, Theresa Kishkan, Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays, Salt Spring Island, B.C.: Mother Tongue Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 71:


pirohy

From Czech pirohy and Slovak pirohy. Doublet of pierogi (from Polish), pirogi (from Russian), and pyrohy (from Ukrainian).

Here, continuing to cope with a foreign language and foreign customs, they reared a daughter and two sons on generous amounts of pirohy, holupky, and love.

1978 spring, Patricia Krafcik, “The Story of Anna”, in Carpatho-Rusyn American: A Newsletter on Carpatho-Rusyn Ethnic Heritage, number 1, →ISSN, page 2, column 2:

Then hurrying to lift a pot of pirohy from the stove, she scalded her arm.

1978–1979, V. S. Koban, “The Sorrows of Marienka”, in Slovakia, volume XXVIII, numbers 51–52, West Paterson, N.J.: The Slovak League of America, page 123:

And on Fridays through much of the year, a visitor could go up to St. John’s Cathedral, on Dickson Street, in Munhall, and enjoy, if he wanted to put on the feedbag, a lunch, made by the church ladies, of pirohy, bean and lentil soup, and, of course, the ubiquitous halushky, or portions thereof.

1993 September, William Serrin, “Afterword to the Vintage Edition: Homestead Is Every Town”, in Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 417:


halushky

Place the halushky in a serving dish, sprinkle generously with melted or browned butter, and toss gently.

1977, Savella Stechishin, “Breaded Veal Kotlety”, in Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, 9th edition, Winnipeg, Man.: Trident Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 214:

Holena and her mother sat down by the stove, covered the halushky with bacon and cheese, and ate it all up.

1996, Anna Vojtech, Philemon Sturges, Marushka and the Month Brothers, New York, N.Y.: North-South Books, →ISBN:

The girls plop the halushky into rolling water, ten at a time, and wait for them to float back to the top, perfectly cooked.

2009, Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 65:


sardelki

From Russian сарде́льки (sardélʹki), plural of сарде́лька (sardélʹka), from сарде́ль (sardélʹ, “sardine, sausage”) + -ка (-ka, diminutive suffix), from Polish sardela (“anchovy”), from Italian sardella (“sardine”), whence English sardel.

That the technical processes involved in manufacturing bologna and sausage, canned meat, hamburger cutlets and other meat products be considerably increased and that their output be brought to the following levels: bologna and sausage, sardelki, canned meats, packaged meats, semiprocessed meats, hamburger cutlets and dumplings be fully mechanized and that automatic equipment and conveyor lines by employed on a broad scale.

1954, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, volume V, number 42, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, page 17, columns 1–2:

Mrs. Petrunin had short notice about her guest (her husband simply phoned from the office), but she is most gracious and produces a splendid supper consisting of studen, a kind of jellied meat; small tomatoes from the farm’s hothouse; vinigrette, a salad of canned crab (it looks and tastes like lobster and is from Baikal lake in Siberia), eggs and peas; sardelki, a large thick boiled sausage; mashed potatoes; bananas (imported, probably from Israel), apples, cookies, candy (Little Red Riding Hood brand) and tea.

1957, Joseph E. Evans, Through Soviet Windows, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, Inc., page 19:

The sardelki, my favorite food, had hard skins and tasted better than the usual franks.

2003, Lara Vapnyar, There Are Jews in My House, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 144:

International Specialties […] • Russian Sosiski and Sardelki

2019, “Endlessly Diverse Products”, in Sausage Industry, Verden: VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH, page 5:

Sausages and sardelki are also a type of kolbasa.

2021, Anna Kharzeeva, “The easy way to determine Soviet social status. Salami sandwiches”, in The Soviet Diet Cookbook: Exploring Life, Culture and History – One Recipe at a Time, →ISBN:

(cooking) A large, thick, boiled sausage.


Ferroes

Archaic form of Faroes (“Faroe Islands”).


green rushes

Of the first and second senses, first appears in print c. 1546 in the writings of John Heywood. Second sense derives from the first.

(dated, historical) Fresh rushes that are spread on the floor of a house to welcome an honored guest.


time-of-use rates

(electricity) A dynamic electric rate schedule that adjusts prices that are dependent on peak usage, as based on the time of day and season.


golompkies

GOLOMPKIES (POLAND)

1964, Mrs. James H. Averill, “[Foreign Favorites] Golompkies (Poland)”, in Favorite Recipes of New England: Family Edition; Contains 900 Recipes from Women’s Club Leaders in New England, Montgomery, Ala.: Favorite Recipes Press, Inc., page 136, column 2:

Among the dishes will be golompkies, from Poland; […]

1977 March 31, “International dinner planned at St. Pius X”, in The Mercury, volume 46, number 156, Pottstown, Pa., page 12, column 3:

Home-made bread, pies, golompkies, coffee and donuts will be sold.

1980 October 22, “[City news] Salvo House bake sale slated”, in Daily Hampshire Gazette, volume 194, number 40, Northampton, Mass., page 12:

GOLOMPKIES / …Our Own Stuffed Cabbage. / THE POLISH PLATTER / …Pirogies, Golompkies and Kielbasa, served with Kapusta.

1984 September 6, The Szpara Family, “[Discover a Restaurant] Szpara’s Collegian Court”, in Transcript-Telegram, Holyoke/Towns edition, Holyoke, Mass., page 11, column 2:

The Recreation Committee will serve Polish foods like pierogies, golompkies and kielbasa sandwiches plus a batch of baked beans donated by Bub’s Barbecue.

1993 October 6, Michael Alcock, “‘The Taste of Sunderland’: Town’s eateries to dish up all kinds of goodies Saturday”, in The Recorder, 201st year, number 238, Greenfield, Mass., page 17, column 2:

Busta was also heavily involved in the famous Polish Picnic, helping to organize those who prepared and cooked for thousands who waited in line for a taste of one of the Polish golompkies. While the International Festival boasts food from dozens of different countries, veteran festivalgoers line up early and often for the golompkies at the Polish Society’s tent. Busta has been involved in the festival since its inception 17 years ago, arranging both entertainment and the golompkies, along with other traditional Polish food with the proceeds benefiting the Regina Falkowski Scholarship Fund.

2000 October 31, Chris Stevens, “Busta surprised and proud to earn ‘Pride in Peabody’ award”, in The Daily Item, volume 122, number 272, Lynn, Mass., page B4, columns 4–5:

The pail of golompkies hit him in the side of the head with a sound as ungodly as a forty-pound pumpkin dropped from Ponky Bridge.

2005, Bob Flaherty, “Red”, in Puff: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Perennial, →ISBN, page 158:

We hardly saw any kielbasa, kapusta, or golompkies, which are Polish staples back home.

2019, Bob Dombrowski, Paczki Day: Stories About Growing Up Polish in Detroit, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:


times on base

(baseball) The cumulative total number of times a batter has reached base as a result of a hit, base on balls, or hit-by-pitch.


genetic scissors

The two scientists began collaborating in 2011, after meeting at a conference in Puerto Rico where they went to a café in San Juan and talked about the overlap in their work. They succeeded in making these genetic scissors in a laboratory, and in reprogramming them to cut DNA at whatever spot the scientists selected.

2020 October 7, Josh Fischman, “Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to Discovery of ‘Genetic Scissors’ Called CRISPR/Cas9”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 2024-05-02:

As described in this review, the CRISPR/Cas system can be counted as one of the most powerful types of genetic scissors with sophisticated natures like simplicity, flexibility, and specificity. The emergence of such elegant genetic scissors opened a novel avenue; and, may keep bringing other surprising features to the field of bioanalysis and clinical treatment.

2024 January, Chengchao Zhang, Zili Huang, Ziyan Li, Jianyu Hu, Rui Liu, Yi Lv, “CRISPR-associated “genetic scissors” for multiplexing analysis”, in Trends in Analytical Chemistry, volume 170, →DOI:

(countable) Biological tools used to precisely edit the genome of organisms.


Akwa'ala

Synonym of Paipai (“an indigenous people of Mexico”)


Igneri

(historical) An indigenous Arawak people of the southern Lesser Antilles.


Gandangara

An Aboriginal Australian people of southeastern New South Wales, Australia.


Kisan

The dialect of the Kurukh language spoken by these people.


Ngunnawal

An Aboriginal people of southern New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.


chickens for KFC

chickens for Colonel Sanders
chickens for Colonel Sanders#English


SPIFS

An acronym, variously explained as "stamps perforated for individuals or firms" or "stamps perforated with initials of firms or societies".


oladi

The oladi should be approximately the size of your palm.

1999 August 18, Constance E. Richards, “Community Cooks: Oladi pancakes bring back flavor of Russia”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, volume 130, number 230, Asheville, N.C., page E3:

Earlier, he’d tossed the pelmeni out to the pack, and now they were huddling about, waiting for the oladi, which he had finished himself.

2006, Dianne Drake, chapter 7, in Emergency in Alaska, Large Print edition, Richmond, London: Mills & Boon, published 2007, →ISBN, page 151:

Here is the simplest and most popular version of oladi, a traditional form of Russian pancake.

2011 February 22, “Recipe: Pancake pleasure”, in Russia Now (The Daily Telegraph), page 08:

I also love that the batter is make-ahead friendly and tastes even better as it sits and ferments in the fridge, which gives the oladi a subtle sourdough-like flavor.

2023, Natasha Kravchuk, “[Breakfast] Baba’s Fluffy Oladi Pancakes”, in Natasha’s Kitchen: 100+ Easy Family-Favorite Recipes You’ll Make Again and Again, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, →ISBN, page 45:


oladyi

From Russian ола́дьи (oládʹi), plural of ола́дья (oládʹja).

Mix thoroughly and cook the oladyi on a hot griddle.

1974, F. Siegel, transl., “[Fancy Breads and Pies] Thick Pancakes (Oladyi): Pumpkin, Squash Marrow or Carrot Thick Pancakes”, in Russian Cooking, Moscow: Mir Publishers, page 156, column 1:

But at night when they came to see me in the Ural, when they had knocked back huge amounts of Kunzevskaya and Stolichnaya and devoured piles of piroshki, oladyi, vatrushki, and bulochki with zimmes, they spoke French, English, kissed hands and paid compliments, knew the wittiest toasts, and fiddled their Russian souls inside out in order to dance on the most crooked roofs of the most Eastern shtetl at dawn.

2005, Ulla Berkéwicz, translated by Katharina Rout, Love in a Time of Terror, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 29:

Now, I tink only of latkes and grenki with jam and curly sausages, and oladyi crepes and patato rolls…

2012, Kelly Andria, chapter 25, in The Art of Change, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 193:

At the moment Magnitsky was preparing Barsukov’s breakfast of oladyi pancakes and sausages with a pair of George Foreman grills kept on one of the broad concrete windowsills.

2012 January, Paul Christopher, Red Templar, New York, N.Y.: Signet, →ISBN, page 191:

Serve them as they come out of the pan or place the cooked oladyi on a plate loosely covered with a clean tea towel and repeat the process until all oladyi are ready to be enjoyed with a pat of butter and doused in maple syrup.

2022, Deirdre Buryk, “[Winter: January] Puffy Oat Oladyi (Ukrainian Pancakes)”, in Peak Season: 12 Months of Recipes Celebrating Ontario’s Freshest Ingredients, [Toronto, Ont.]: Appetite by Random House, →ISBN:

Small thick pancakes or fritters common in Russian and Ukrainian cuisines.


Chap laps

(Australia, slang) The recreational practice of driving up and down Chapel Street in Melbourne.


roast-meat clothes

→? German: Bratenrock (calque)

But the morning was ushered in with a mighty storm, only because Simon put on his roast-meat clothes.

1889, “Simple Simon's misfortunes and his wife Margery's cruelty”, in Robert Hays Cunningham, editor, Amusing Prose Chap Books:


blue Smarties

From the British chocolate sweet Smarties. The blue-coloured Smartie was temporarily withdrawn by the manufacturer until a natural blue dye was found – this led to a popular belief that the blue Smartie was withdrawn for causing hyperactivity, although brilliant blue FCF is not one of the food colourings associated with hyperactivity.

.Shearer has an untouchable romance with Tyneside and his appointment seemed to inject the Geordie fans with an overdose of blue Smarties.

(Can we date this quote?), Football Friends Media, Two Left Feet, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 53:

I shot a photographic session based on the beginning part of his act where he dances to the Bee Gees 'Disco Inferno' (a great seventies disco classic by the way) in a style which can best be described as an eight year old overdosed on blue Smarties.

1998, Martin Evening, Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers: An Illustrated Guide to Image Editing and Manipulation in Photoshop:

'And one for all!' Belle rallied, with a swashbuckling flourish as they stepped out from behind the bush, nearly crashing into Nick and Lettie, who were hurrying past on their way to the Redgrave.
'Whoa! You two been at the blue Smarties again?' Nick joked.

2010 April 29, Isabella Cass, Superstar High: Star Friends, Random House, →ISBN, page 167:

'Have you been eating the blue smarties again, Splinter?' Danny joked.
'I'm telling you, lads, it was mental. I thought my ears were going to explode. I could hear noises getting louder and louder.'

2012 November 15, Joe O'Brien, Tiger Boots, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:

Compared to something like IDW's Infiltration issue #1 from the supposedly ADD 21st century and it seems like everyone at Marvel was off their heads on blue Smarties where this was being put together.

2015 July 25, Stuart Webb, Transformation: A Personal Journey Through the British Transformers Comic Volume 1: 1984-1987, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:

(UK, slang) Something that causes great excitement or hyperactivity.


Yuin

Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal

A group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales.


everydays

(softball) A softball drill in which players practise skills relating to their specific positions.


today's lucky ten thousand

en-noun

today's lucky ten thousand pl (plural only)

today's lucky 10,000
today's lucky 10,000#English

Alternative form of today's lucky 10,000


small bikkies

"The figures quoted of savings made and unpaid tax that could have been paying for public infrastructure is small bikkies compared to what the big corporations are avoiding," wrote in another.

2019 September 27, Peter Ryan, “ATO ramps up warnings about audits and potential big fines for dodgy tax return claims”, in ABC News:

(Australia, New Zealand) Not much money.


sugar nips

A large pair of pincers with sharp blades, designed to cut sugar from a block (a sugar-loaf).


Ready Reckoners

(slang, archaic) The Highland regiments of the British army.


dirty dozens

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(usually with "the", African-American Vernacular) A version of the dozens (game of exchanging insults) in which the insults are explicitly obscene and often sexual.


shock tactics

To their critics, the YBAs, with their emphasis on sex, sensationalism and shock tactics, were doing little more than copying the tactics of the ad agencies.

2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page 110:

Tactics that are intended to shock and push outside the comfort zone.


wiffle-woffles

Billy whined in the bobbing shore boat.
"What is it? You've got the wiffle-woffles?"

2004, Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover, page 107:

'She's got the wiffle-woffles,' said her mother. 'She was all right when she came back […] but now she just mopes around, face like a fiddle. […]'

2006, Bowering Sivers, Jammy Dodgers Go Underground, page 347:

(colloquial) A state of melancholy or upset; the blues.


quiet hands

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(autism, psychology) In applied behavioral analysis, the desired behavior of keeping one's hands still, as opposed to stimming.


Wars of the Roses

the Wars of the Roses (canonical plural)

After the symbols of the two sides: the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York

(historical) A civil war that lasted from 1455 to 1487, fought between the English houses of Lancaster and York and allies in France, Burgundy and Scotland.


Turkey teeth

From Turkey (“country”) + teeth. Turkey is a popular destination for low-price private dental surgery.

A tall, spindly man gaily swept into the room, his gleaming white Turkey teeth lighting the way ahead of him, a beacon in the mood lighting of the boutique.

2023, Gina Kirkham, Murders at the Rookery Grange Retreat: A brand new unmissable humorous cozy crime mystery, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

Veneers like that cost a fortune. They are understated, no Turkey teeth for him, but the upper canine left is missing, not extracted by somebody with a dental degree.

2024, Caro Ramsay, Out of the Dark, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:

He flashed his warrant card at a receptionist with "Turkey teeth" - they were all over the bloody place; had folk stopped looking in mirrors? - and false eyelashes.

2024, O. J. Mullen, The Wrong Woman, Boldwood Books Ltd, →ISBN:

(UK, slang) Unnaturally white, straightened teeth, especially from an overseas dentist.


Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels pl (plural only, attributive Hot Wheel)

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From Hot Wheels, an American brand of scale model cars invented and coined by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on 18 May 1968; likely from hot rod (“a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster”) + wheels (“an automobile or other vehicle”), as the company was made to produce fantasy hot rods, but also proposed to be from hot (“very good, remarkable, exciting; nice”) + wheels due to the uniqueness of the cars.

compound

I would like you to bring me a G. I. Joe, a hot wheels,^([sic]) Movie^([sic]) projector, bike and Spirograph.^([sic])

1969 December 18, Howard McCoy, quotee, “Letters to Santa Claus”, in The Herald, page 21:

But what is this contraption Greg Donaldson finished a month ago? That, says Donaldson, is the first question most people ask when they spot the red object that looks like a cross between a Hot Wheels and a Star Wars spaceship.

1989 October 30, Jenny Labalme, “Donaldson's car is 'one-of-a-kind'”, in The Anniston Star, page 5A:

Becky glanced briefly at her hand, more interested in the Dirty Dancing soundtrack on the CD player than in poker. Besides, she always brought junk to bet with—her mom was a dental hygienist, and Becky had once again showed up with a bag of Colgate samples and old magazines. "I'll match with a dental floss, and raise you a Hot Wheels and a condom."

2000, Herb Childress, Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Lives of Its Teenagers, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 205:

One night my brother and I had an argument over a Hot Wheels and I remember going to bed wishing I was bigger and stronger so I could beat the tar out of him, I was angry and furious.

2022, Paco Jenkins, Walking Towards God, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 11:

(informal) A scale model car created by Hot Wheels.


cattell

en-noun

cattell pl (normally plural, singular cattell)

And haue ye cattell too? and sheepe too?

1578, Raphael Holinshed et al., Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, Volume I, Book 3, Chapter 1 “Of cattell kept for profit,” p. 222,

Or if a soule touch any vncleane thing, whether it be a carcase of an vncleane beast, or a carcase of vncleane cattell, or the carcase of vncleane creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he also shall be vncleane, and guilty:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 5:2:


Sandias

The Sandia Mountains, a mountain range in the southwestern United States.


Sandia Mountains

en-proper noun

the Sandia Mountains pl (normally plural, singular Sandia Mountain)

the Sandia Mountains (canonical plural)
Sandia Mountain (singular)

Borrowed from Spanish sandía (“watermelon”), which is popularly believed to be a reference to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset.

A mountain range east of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States.


rice flakes

en-noun

rice flakes pl (normally plural, singular rice flake)


stolen goods

(law, criminology) Any goods or other property that have been obtained, carried off, or abstracted by means of a crime.


cenomics

Comment: It follows that a cenology (Def. 2bˡᵃ) which has a cenomics will have only a cenomics; i.e. the cenology (Def. 2bˡᵃ) will consist entirely of an unordered set of cenomes ( Def . 8a⁵ ) in opposition to one another.

2011, James Dickins, Extended Axiomatic Linguistics, page 362:

(cenology) The collection of entities (cenomes) whose organization and relationships make up a complex system.


WCAG

(Internet, Web) Abbreviation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.


Claudian letters

the Claudian letters pl (normally plural, singular Claudian letter)

the Claudian letters (canonical plural)
Claudian letter (singular)

Named after Roman emperor Claudius (10 BCE–41 CE), who created them.

named-after

(historical) Three letters which were added to the Latin alphabet by the Roman emperor Claudius, and were briefly used in some public inscriptions during his rule until his death, when they were quickly abandoned.


jibbons

en-noun

jibbons pl (normally plural, singular jibbon)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:jibbon.


human relations

(business, human resources) The relations or study of relations with or between people, particularly their treatment in a business or professional setting.


Pojoaque

From Spanish Pojoaque, from Tewa Pʼohsųwæ̨geh (“water drinking place”).

der

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


Pojoaque

The pueblo inhabited by these people, one of the Rio Grande Pueblos.

An unincorporated community in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.


Michigana

The market was replete with memorabilia of the auto industry, artifacts of the early settlers, and all manner of Michigana.

A limited edition is printed, just sufficient to supply the principal libraries of the state, collectors of Michigana, and such people as may desire a brief and handy reference book to the events of the past year.

1902, The Evening News Association, Detroit in Nineteen Hundred and One: A Chronological Record of Events, Detroit: The Evening News Association, page 4:

The Library collects both current and historical Michigana, materials

2016 May 14, Andrea Truitt, Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI:

A noun referring to all things related to the history and culture of the great lakes region - most especially the state of Michigan and the Lake Michigan shore.


two brain cells to rub together

en-noun

two brain cells to rub together pl (plural only)

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can come up with an idea for a better system. The problem is actually implementing it.


airplane ears

From the shape of a cat's ears resembling the wings of an airplane.

The folded ears of a cat when it is irritated or angry.


air data

(engineering, aviation) Information regarding an aircraft's flight parameters that is collected by sensors on the aircraft.


if's, and's, or but's

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


eyelash extensions

(cosmetics) Individual lashes that are applied to the natural lash using a semipermanent glue.


false eyelashes

(cosmetics) A cosmetic enhancement in which synthetic or natural fibers are attached to the eyelids to give the natural eyelashes a fuller, more dramatic appearance.


fish lips

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devilsticks

devilsticks pl (normally plural, singular devilstick)


devil-sticks

devil-sticks pl (normally plural, singular devil-stick)


faux frais

Unadapted borrowing from French faux frais.

ubor

(Marxism, capitalism) The faux frais of production.


eggs on horseback

en-noun

eggs on horseback pl (normally plural, singular egg on horseback)


adult relations

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sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts pl (plural only)

conversion therapy
conversion therapy#English

(LGBT, pseudoscience) Synonym of conversion therapy


sexual orientation change efforts

sexual orientation change efforts pl (plural only)

Father Paul Sullins, a researcher with The Ruth Institute, analyzed data on lesbians, gays, and bisexuals who consider suicide after undergoing sexual orientation change efforts (often referred to as "conversion therapy"), and his findings undermine the LGBTQ narrative.

2024 January 31, Tyler O'Neil, “New Research on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Turns LGBTQ Narrative on Its Head”, in The Daily Signal:

The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a bill that would ban the controversial practice of sexual orientation change efforts for minors.

2013 June 22, Michael Gryboski, “Massachusetts Legislature Considering Ban on Gay Therapy for Minors”, in The Christian Post:


clownshoes

"High Precision Strikes" . . . Is that what they've been calling the last 6 days of clownshoes invasion?

2022 March 1, Marcolepsy (@Zillion29), Twitter:

Geoff's fucking clownshoes award show?

2023 December 12, thorny🇵🇸🏴 (@thinkiamsad), Twitter:

Trying to ignore the Police Association on gun law is clownshoes stuff but the big strategic error is trying to ignore the views of non-gun-owners

(slang, derogatory) Ridiculous, cheap, non-serious


buchteln

From German Buchteln, plural of Buchtel.

Turn out the buchteln onto a wire rack, place another rack on top of them, and carefully invert together so they are right side up.

2004 November 30, Wolfgang Puck, “Filled doughnuts offer great Hanukkah treat”, in Globe Gazette, Mason City, Ia., →ISSN, page C2, column 3:

On a recent Friday morning, in the small, bright Cambridge apartment she shares with [David] Krejci, Schersch is making buchteln, rich, tender buns enclosing a filling of apricot jam. […] Properly made, as Schersch’s surely are, buchteln are crusty on the outside, light and fluffy inside, and not overly sweet.

2015 October 21, Jane Dornbusch, “Austrian ambassador: Ursula Schersch, a journalist from Vienna, moved to Boston and discovered a cuisine worth writing back home about”, in The Boston Globe, volume 288, number 113, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page G7, columns 2–3:

Sit and enjoy the people-watching, and on Friday nights try the homemade buchteln: sugar-dusted splits filled with plum jam.

2018 April 13, Jennifer Walker, “Take 5: Vienna coffeehouses”, in Evening Standard, London, →ISSN, page 51, column 1:

When Mrs. [Josefine] Hawelka died a couple of weeks after Pope John Paul II, locals suspected the pontiff wanted her much-loved buchteln (marmalade-filled doughnuts) in heaven.

2024 April 7, Rick Steves, “Tasting high culture in Vienna”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 143rd year, number 67, Honolulu, Haw., page D3, columns 1–2:

Sweet rolls made of enriched yeast dough, filled with powidl, jam, chocolate, ground poppyseeds or quark, brushed with butter and baked in a large pan so that they stick together and can be pulled apart.


parental rights

(conservatism) Synonym of parents' rights


parents' rights

(international law) Civil rights movement interested in human rights affecting parents related to family law.

(conservatism) Political movement aimed at restricting the teaching of gender, sexuality, and race without parental consent.


sorrentinos

Etymology tree
Spanish Sorrento
Spanish -ino
Spanish sorrentino
Spanish sorrentinosbor.
English sorrentinos
Borrowed from Spanish sorrentinos.

etymon

The lamb in soft mint sauce, pizzas, and pumpkin sorrentinos are superb.

2008, Shawn Blore, Alexandra de Vries, Eliot Greenspan, Charlie O'Malley, Jisel Perilla, Neil E. Schlecht, Kristina Schreck}, Frommer's South America, 4th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 162:

Food is more conventional, though some dishes have a twist, such as the signature turkey, mozzarella and nut sorrentinos.

2010, Danny Aeberhard, Andrew Benson, Rosalba O'Brien, Lucy Phillips, The Rough Guide to Argentina, fourth edition, [London]: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 291, column 1:

Silvia Echeverria gingerly balanced a box containing two sheets of stuffed sorrentinos in the crook of her left arm, holding the pasta like a tray of jewels.

2019 August 19, Natalie Alcoba, “Food prices soar in Argentina as peso devalues”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2024-04-16:

A Argentinian dish similar to ravioli, but larger, more circular and originally wrapped without fluted edge.


sockies

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

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

Jack was more than willing to find some footwear in my apartment. I didn’t care what shoes he selected, as long as they were from the same pair, and I had stipulated that. Shoes are an important part of my mental health. I know that sounds ridiculous, but you try standing up to the police in your sockies and see how you do.

2008 April, Mary Jane Maffini, The Cluttered Corpse (Charlotte Adams; 2), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 82:

“Down.” Janessa stretched toward the floor, both hands outreached. / “Not yet.” Ashley kissed her daughter’s cheek. “The floor has to dry. Otherwise your sockies will get wet.”

2010, Karen Kingsbury, chapter 13, in Take Three (Above the Line; 3), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 151:


Kitkatla

One of the oldest First Nations, traditionally inhabiting territories now occupied by the Canadian province of British Columbia.


socksies

BUT HIS SOCKSIES WILL NEVER BE SPATS / Roy: You say Winks is ultra-collegiate? / Clyde: Yeh. He shows a complete reaction from plain collegiateness. He’s even wearing garters again.—Ohio Sun Dial.

1924 November 15, I. M. Becile [pseudonym], “Wit and Half-Wit”, in Maurice Ellington, editor, The Centenary Conglomerate, volume 15, number 7, Shreveport, La.: Centenary College, page 4, column 3:

Midges and flies, / Midges and flies / Crawl up my nose, / Down my bra, in my eyes, / They’re driving me crazy, / These flysies and midges. / They’re into my socksies / And into my britches.

1992, Thelma Barlow, “Coping with Pests and Diseases”, in Organic Gardening with Love, London: Robson Books Ltd, published 1994, →ISBN, page 145:

Now I’ll get his little shoes . . . Now his socksies . . .

2001, R[ichard] M[orton] Koster, “Action”, in Glass Mountain, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, section [4], page 132:

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

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

“Biloxi’s in her socksies!” teased Viveca. “Lost her shoe, now what’ll she do?”

2013, Miriam Glassman, Call Me Oklahoma!, New York, N.Y.: Holiday House, →ISBN, page 57:


two slips of latinum

A play on two cents and its variants. From latinum, which was featured in many episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) as a precious material used by Ferengi and others as a medium of exchange. Although a liquid in its natural state, it was enclosed for convenience in gold casings of standardized size, called slips.

Hey, at least we don't have an embarrasing royal family here! And don't worry--Pat Buchanan cannot and will not last as a viable candidate. […] Just my two slips of latinum on THAT non-"Trek" matter...

1996 February 21, Philip Richard Yabut, “Re: Anyone else for the Star Fleet Academy story?”, in rec.arts.startrek.current (Usenet):

This has been rattling around in my head for a while; I think I'm ready to toss it out for inspection. […] My 2 slips of latinum... Comments and arguments very welcome, y'all...

1997 December 16, ASCEM, quoting Greywolf the Wanderer, “An Interesting Question, re Slash vs. Gay Fiction”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(idiomatic, Star Trek fandom slang) Synonym of two cents (“one's opinion or thoughts”).


licorice allsorts

liquorice allsorts
liquorice allsorts#English

Alternative spelling of liquorice allsorts


double Ds

For quotations using this term, see Citations:double Ds.


rainwater goods

Fittings, such as gutters and downpipes, added to a building to protect it from the rain.


white women's tears

A few weeks ago, I had lunch with a childhood friend. White girl from the Southside of Chicago, she's now a professor here in NE. Our friendship ended at 18. Why? White woman tears. I told her she made me feel like a charity case and it hurt her feelings.

2018 April 17, Shay Stewart Bouley (@blackgirlinmain), Twitter:

Picture it: a white woman feels challenged or uncomfortable about something a Black person said or did. Instead of using her words, she cries. Instantly, no matter what the initial catalyst of the situation is, she ends up being appeased, pacified and pampered. Lawd knows we’ve all seen virtual white woman tears shut down conversation, even if she was the instigator of conflict. […]

2018 April 17, “About the Weary Weaponizing of White Women Tears”, in Awesomely Luvvie:

This attempt to separate the personal and political is central to white women’s tears as a strategic device. We demand to be treated as ‘just a person’ who should be granted the benefit of the doubt, who exists outside racialised structures and power relations even as our actions perpetuate them.

2021 February 5, Alison Phippshttps, “White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 24, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, page 85 of 81–93:

A display of tears from a white woman that brings attention to her feelings and sense of victimhood in response to criticism by black women.


face pubes

face + pubes. First use appears c. 1998. See cite below.

Yeah, I know. He used to be gorgeous like in Who, Then, Now? And now he's still a hottie, but i'm not liking the little face pubes.

1998 December 30, KKoRnFIaKe, “Got The Life Video”, in alt.music.korn (Usenet):

With your bare hands mash the shit out of it until blended consistently, all the while trying not to get any of your greasy hair or shitty face pubes in it.

2010, Steve Seabury, Mosh Potatoes - Recipes, Anecdotes, and Mayhem from the Heavyweights of Heavy Metal, page 77:

So I won't issue commandants on wedding whiskers, but I will offer the reference chart on the next two pages to help you make the informed decision about Groomzilla's face pubes.

2012, Craig Bridger, Surviving Groomzilla: A Bride's Guide:

She was laughing at your deranged face pubes, you moron.

2013, Greg Means, MK Reed, Joe Flood, The Cute Girl Network - Volume 1, page 38:

I don't think I'll be fighting over them or their plastered face pubes.

(slang, derogatory, somewhat vulgar) The facial hair of a man, especially one that is uneven or unkempt.


sunshine and kittens

sunshine and rainbows
sunshine and rainbows#English


labia vulvae

(anatomy, zoology) The vulva's pair of thin lip-like structures that protect the urogenital sinus/vulval vestibule.


chill hours

The amount of time a plant spends in the winter below a certain temperature. If a plant does not get enough chill hours it will not blossom.


Bafumbira

A Bantu ethnic group from Kisoro District in southwestern Uganda.


Lutici

Related to Proto-Slavic *ľutъ (“wild, fierce”).

confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of today's northeastern Germany


Veleti

Related to Proto-Slavic *velьjь (“big”).

confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Western Pomerania


September people

(historical, rare) A group of individuals who participated in the September massacres.


sochineniya

/sətʃɪˈnɛnɪjə/

From Russian сочине́ния (sočinénija), nominative plural of сочине́ние (sočinénije, “composition, essay, opus”), from сочини́ть (sočinítʹ, “to write [text], to compose [music]”).

The collected or complete works of a given writer or composer, especially a Russian one.

сочине́ния

Russian creator’s collected or complete works


K&M

(video games) Initialism of keyboard and mouse.


Ozark sundrops

bigfruit evening primrose
bigfruit evening primrose#English


prags

From mostly-obsolete prog (“provisions, food, supplies”), reflecting a Caribbean pronunciation.

Hosts take pride in offering their guests the best of what they have and try to laden them with choice goods as "prags" (gifts) to carry away.

1991, Brackette F. Williams, Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

(Guyana) Small gifts customarily given to guests.


sglods

Unadapted borrowing from Welsh sglods, from Welsh sglodion.

'Is it time for sglods yet?'

2020, Laura Kemp, Under a Starry Sky, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 325:

Chips are the bedrock of any chippy, and the generous portion of 'sglods I got were perfectly cooked, and delicious. The battered sausage was top notch, and not all greasy like you find in some lesser establishments; the mushy peas were peasy and mushy, and the Irish curry with its little kick of spice was cracking.

2021 April 10, Alison Sanders, Jason Evans, Ffion Lewis, “Fry Awards 2021: We try out three of the Welsh fish and chip shops named among the best in the UK”, in WalesOnline, archived from the original on 2024-09-21:


janata

(India, politics) The people; the populace.


Savari

(military, historical) The regular native Libyan cavalry regiments of the Italian colonial army from 1912 to 1943.


candied yams

(US, cooking) A holiday side dish of sweet potatoes baked in a spiced, buttery syrup.


no trumps

(bridge) A play without any designated trump suit.


smelting works

Synonym of smelter (“a place where smelting is done”)


chonies

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Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chones pl (“underwear”).


scores of

(idiomatic) A large or great amount (of someone or something).


supraharmonics

The two main sources of supraharmonics that have been identified are power-electronic converters with active or passive switching (non-intentional emission) and transmitters of power-line communication (intentional emission).

2016, Sarah Rönnberg, Math Bollen, “Power quality issues in the electric power system of the future”, in The Electricity Journal, volume 29, number 10, page 57:

The term "supraharmonics" was first introduced in 2013 during the summit entitled "IEEE Power & Energy Society" to indicate any kind of voltage and current waveform distortion within the range of frequencies from 2 to 150 kHz.

2023 Jan, Michalec, Łukasz, Kostyła, Paweł, Leonowicz, Zbigniew, “Supraharmonic Pollution Emitted by Nonlinear Loads in Power Networks—Ongoing Worldwide Research and Upcoming Challenges.”, in Energies, volume 16, number 1, pages 273-274:

Characteristic examples of devices that have been associated with acoustic noise resulting from supraharmonics are battery chargers for electronic equipment such as personal computers and smart phones.

2024, Dimitrios Barkas, Anthoula Menti, Pavlos Pachos, Constantinos S. Psomopoulos, “Experimental investigation of the impact of environmental parameters on the supraharmonic emissions of PV inverters”, in AIMS Energy, volume 12, number 4, page 762:

Distortions to the current and voltage flow in power distribution lines that occur in the range of 2kHz-150kHz


dolphin shorts

The term was originated from an United States company called Dolfin Swimwear in the 1980s.

I changed into cute dolphin shorts for a summer vibe.

a kind of shorts for athletics, usually with contrasting binding, side slits and rounded corners


programmer socks

programming socks
programming socks#English


scotcht collops

scotched collops
scotched collops#English


sunshine and roses

But not everyone was sunshine and roses about [Jon] Stewart's new weekly gig, with some on the right complaining that the choice to bring back the show’s former 16-year host would only bring more volatility to American politics.

2024 January 24, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Conservatives Are Totally Not Mad About Jon Stewart’s Return to The Daily Show”, in The New Republic:

(informal) Synonym of sunshine and rainbows.