kidz

In the 21st century, whose “kidult” blurring of the lines sees grown-ups listening to “kindie rock,” feeding their kids gourmet gelato instead of Good Humor, and dissecting the last Pixar film, the notion of a tree house in our collective backyard with a misspelled sign saying “Kidz only” is a healthy thing[.]

2008, Dade Hayes, Anytime Playdate: Inside the Preschool Entertainment Boom, or, How Television Became My Baby’s Best Friend, page 86:

K[evin] L[ambert]: Got 2 mates; dum as fuk; do nethin 4 me; can drive truks; fly planes, got kidz 2. / T[uhoe] L[ambert]: Cher cuz. Da dumber da better.

[2012 March 24, “A Nation Divided: Inside the Urewera Four Trial”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, archived from the original on 2017-10-18:

Nah dude, wen im textin or whevs, i rite just like the kidz, fastest easiest way, and i dont correct r enythng.

2023 July 10, Xoic, “Is this a writer thing?”, in Writing Forums, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

eye dialect spelling of kids; plural of kid


wuld

Archaic spelling of would; also, eye dialect spelling of would.


young man

I can't understand you, young man. Can you point to which toy you want?

That does it, young man! You are excused to your room!

1985 November 28, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

Hey, young man... don't walk on the kitchen floor. I just mopped over there.

2003 July 17, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

“Now you listen to me, young man!” Mom pointed a finger straight into my face.

2004, Warren W. Evans, Corky, Peggy and the Goldfinch, page 82:

Hello, young man, I'm Quincy's mother. I decided to drop by to see how his adopted family is treating him.

2004 September 21, Bill Amend, FoxTrot (comic):

A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.


wus

She wus walking home when it happened.

(African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of was.


Christmas seal

A charity label placed on mail during the Christmas season as a form of cinderella stamp.

julemærke

charity label in form of a cinderella stamp


loverboy

→ Dutch: loverboy


nig

Cotton-eyed Joe, Cotton-eyed Joe,
He was de nig dat sarved me so,…

1925, Dorothy Scarborough, assisted By Ola Lee Quiledge, On The Trail of Negro Folk-Songs-online book. A collection of negro folk songs with lyrics, sheet music & commentaries, Traditionalmusic.co.uk, pages 69–70:

He always thought one step ahead of the nigs.

In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War:

What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?

1967, Frank Hercules, I want a black doll:


nig

en-verb

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

nigs (present singular third-person)
nigging (participle present)
nigged (participle past)
nigged (past)

(Internet slang, ethnic slur, intransitive) To behave as a stereotypical black person.


hot lips

For Hot Lips and Poison Kiss divas: Your lips are the most suggestive, sensual erogenous zone you've got—work it, girl, and get his attention focused right where it belongs.

2010, Violet Blue, Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss, →ISBN, page 36:

A person who kisses or is said to kiss passionately.

Either of two red mushrooms, Calostoma cinnabarina and Octospora humosa, whose red fruiting bodies are thought to resemble a pair of lips.

Either of two plants of the madder family, Palicourea elata and Palicourea tomentosa, whose red flowers are thought to resemble a pair of lips.


skimobile

From ski + -mobile, originally a trademark.


Damn stop talking about yourself boy stop it! You know you piss me off pretty much Sandman saying that you’ll beat my @55 if I get in your way well I have twice in singles matches and beat you and I beat 2 twice in Tag and one in stable and you beat me once in Tag.

1999 May 8, DX0SUCKIT, “[Quick rp] from IKON”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling.fantasy (Usenet):

Man, you guys should watch it!!! it's absolutely KICK @55!!!

2001 July 14, Eskeem0, “FAST AND FURIOUS”, in aus.cars (Usenet):

The attitude of the shipper's is simple, "Kiss my @55 or I'll get someone else to do it."

2001 November 30, Dale or Kitty Eastman, “How does 60% Otto cycle efficiency become 20% car efficiency?”, in sci.energy (Usenet):

I don't believe this?!? Why in the world would Microsoft do this? They could kiss my @55 on the $5x charge.

2008 June 29, Sherwin, “The latest Backup set cannot be found error in Vista Ultimate”, in microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance (Usenet):

(Internet slang) Censored spelling of ass.


xylonite

en-noun

xylonite (countable and uncountable, plural xylonites)

From an old trademark, presumably xylo- + -ite.

The youngest of the industries of Suffolk is the manufacture of xylonite.

1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2:

A simple, effective shelf label-holder is made from strips of transparent xylonite bent in a rectangular form...

1920, James Duff Brown, William Charles Berwick Sayers, Manual of library economy:

[…] the perfumes and flavouring-substances, the explosives, the viscoses, celluloids, xylonites, bakelites, &c., […]

1923, George Handley Knibbs, Presidential Address to the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science at the New Zealand Meeting, page 5:


gunite

gunite (countable and uncountable, plural gunites)

From gun + -ite, originally a trademark from 1909.

A form of shotcrete in which a dry cementitious mixture is blown through a hose to the nozzle, with water injected only at the point of application.


Stillson wrench

Stillson wrench (plural Stillson wrenches)

From the American inventor Daniel Chapman Stillson.


fishhead

> >I see you are trying to post in chink. Ha!! Ha!!
>
> No, that was an English translation of your post.
Your^([sic]) a fishhead Ha!! Ha!!

2004 June 29, Cerberus, “Papers Please!”, in ok.general (Usenet):

For locking you fishheads up after Pearl Harbor.

2009 July 20, Patriot Games, “Patriot Games Would Like to Apologize to Gooks”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

i thought jule chen and connie chung were both the same people...wat do
i know.
i cannot tell those fuckin people apart.
fishheads.

2018 September 11, The Starmaker, “Re: Julie / The Talk”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person from Southeast Asia.


shit ass

(vulgar, derogatory) A jerk; a mean, contemptible or obnoxious person.


niggy

Joe cotton, dig corn, / Den we feed de niggies, / An oh, lord Moses, / What a liscious time for niggas.

1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, page 443:

Such songs as "What a Niggy Know" and "Black Bastards and Bitches" gather force as they go along, making subtle and sometimes funny comments on everyday stuff […]

1994, SPIN, volume 10, number 3, page 96:

"Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."

1976, New York Magazine, volume 9, number 47, page 102:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A nigger (black person).


guidette

(slang, US, ethnic slur) An Italian-American female; an American female of Italian descent.


intoximeter

Originally a trademark, from intoxication meter.


bubblejet

From Bubble Jet, a trademark of Canon Inc..

Although bubblejet technology sounds messier than inkjet technology, bubblejets typically produce better images than inkjets.

2003, Michael Pastore, A+ certification study guide:

For general duty color printing, inkjet and bubblejets are the most cost-beneficial.

A type of inkjet printer that uses an electric current to propel ink onto the page.


lovey

“Now, my lovey, eat it up like a good girl,” said nurse, setting her lips in a way that Bertha knew, and that meant she had come into the nursery at another wrong moment.

1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 118:

(UK) An informal mode of address (associated most often with actors and the like).


cassingle

Blend of cassette + single; originally a trademark.

(music) A small cassette containing a single track of popular music on each side


jelloid

Former brand name, from a company called Iron Jelloid Co. Ltd. Presumably jelly + -oid.

(pharmacy) A medicated gelatin tablet or lozenge; a gelatinous pill.


nursie

“Bravo, Nursie!” cried Marway. “There ain't a flunkey of you all could do it better!” Clare said nothing, finished the job, and stood up.

1891, George MacDonald, A Rough Shaking:

(childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse


growmore

From grow + more, originally a proprietary product manufactured and sold by the Growmore Company.

(UK) A general-purpose inorganic fertilizer for garden use.


woggish

en-adj

woggish (comparative more woggish, superlative most woggish)

more woggish (comparative)
most woggish (superlative)

I should have thought that we would have stopped all such woggish activities by now. I mean dancing and things.

1960, Manohar Malgonkar, Distant drum, Asia Pub. House, page 60:

They were too unrestrainedly ethnic, too woggish (from another point of view), not middle-class enough for my father [...]

1987, Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson, Frictions, an anthology of fiction by women, Spinifex Press, page 6:

Thank God at least you don't speak with a woggish accent.

2006, Irfan Agha, Uncle Cuckoo, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pub., page 104:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Exhibiting qualities or behaviour considered characteristic of a foreigner


palmcorder

Blend of palm + camcorder, suggesting one that fits in the palm of the hand. Originally a trademark of Panasonic.


shitskin

[…] a job that dealt with an endless parade of shitskin losers—hunting them down, befriending them in order to get their confessions, then tossing them into County […]

You shitskins are thinking you can victimize yourself to the point where the wiggers and liberals will just turn all the wealth over to you.

2001, white aryan resistance, “reparations for shitskins”, in alt.politics.nationalism.black (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive, chiefly US) A person with dark-colored skin.


lyocell

A semisynthetic fibre (and associated fabric) made from wood pulp


thermopane

From thermo- + pane, originally a trademark.

There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.

2007 May 20, Mark Svenvold, “The Zero-Energy Solution”, in New York Times:


pakamac

(UK) A lightweight mackintosh that can be folded up into a small pack when not in use.


Winmodem

Blend of Windows + modem; from a trademark of U.S. Robotics.

Coordinate term: Linmodem

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system.


jump drive

(USB flash drive): A trademark name of flash drives owned by Lexar.

(science fiction) A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.


honeybunch

Listen, honeybunch, I don't want to be cruel, but you've got to think of everything.

2005, Nancy Garden, Good Moon Rising, page 107:

“Open your eyes, Dad, I'm not your little honeybunch anymore.”

2008, Marc Harshbarger, Deeper Dish, page 154:

(informal) A honey, a darling (term of endearment).


flash-ball

From the trademark Flash-ball, from flash + ball.

French security forces fired tear gas and flash-balls after a march through picturesque central Paris went from peaceful to provocative.

2019 January 5, “France: Year’s 1st yellow vest event brings tear gas, fires”, in AP:


direcshun

[W]hen de man had tole me how to go, I went right long till I got out ob sight ob de little house, an' den I got into de woods, an' turned right round de oder way an' made tracks fast as I could in dat direcshun."

The company's post war the nearest, so I jest took down the river in that direcshun.

1874, Edwin Eastman, Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches:


Chink

→ Hawaiian: Kinikiu

There are several possible origins of the term:
* From the Chinese courtesy ching-ching, a reduplication of Mandarin 請／请 (qǐng, “please”). Compare chin-chin, Italian cincin, Portuguese tchim-tchim, tim-tim, Spanish chinchín, French tchin-tchin.
* From the alteration of China.
* From the alteration of Qing (also spelled Ch'ing).
See also Hokkien 親家／亲家 (chhin-ke, “any relative by marriage (to a Chinese family)”).

noncog

Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 51”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

[Ignatz Mouse:] A new Chink in town, and acting mighty queer too – I suspect foul play.

1920 October 17, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, comic strip:

He scratched his head. "Well, damn me," said he. "I never thought I would take orders from a Chink, but he says 'hist!' and by crums you've got to hist and no back talk either."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of perceived Chinese ethnicity or descent.

支那人

used by Hong Kongers and Taiwanese when referring to mainland Chinese

(derogatory, by extension, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of perceived East Asian descent.

Let's order some Chink. Where's that menu? I think we've got the stuff we usually order circled. I'm starved!

1995, “Daddy's on the Drink” (track 12), in Shame-Based Man, performed by Bruce McCulloch:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A meal of Chinese food.


Chink

en-adj

Chink (comparative more Chink, superlative most Chink)

more Chink (comparative)
most Chink (superlative)

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Chinese, or perceived to be Chinese.

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) East Asian.


honeybun

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

(colloquial) Honey; sweetheart (term of endearment)


trimphone

From trim + phone, originally a trademark, with trim explained as Tone Ring Illuminator Model.

Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated[…]

1983 April 14, New Scientist, volume 98, number 1353:

While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones[…]

1986, Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile, page 54:

(UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.


old mate

Old mate dropped by and we watched the cricket for a bit.

(colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, UK) In general, any person, whose specific identity can be deduced from context.


rize

en-verb

rize (third-person singular simple present rizes, present participle rizing, simple past roze, past participle rizen)

rizes (present singular third-person)
rizing (participle present)
roze (past)
rizen (participle past)

Go on, lay me right here as I lay now; but I'll rize agen you, and the day'll come when you'd give every dollar ye're worth to dig me up, and give me life agen."


furst

They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame.

1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:

"An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor, an' it's turned me an' the children out he has to shlape in the snow--an' not the furst toime either.

1888, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories:

"De furst work I done to get my food wuz to carry water in de field to de hands dat wuz workin'.

1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives – A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves – The Ohio Narratives:


furst

I took a v'y'ge to Australia furst, just to put her out o' my mind a bit, an' I never seed her since.

"I was thinkin' it over, Stutter, all the way hoofin' it out yere," he said, chewing continually on his tobacco, "but sorter reckoned ez how yer ought ter see the writin' furst, considerin' ez how you're a full partner in this yere claim.

He started in on Microby Dandeline--we jest called her Dandeline furst, bein' thet yallar with janders when she wus a baby, but when she got about two year, I wus a readin' a piece in a paper a man left, 'bout these yere little microbys thet gits into everywheres they shouldn't ort to, jest like she done, so I says to Watts how she'd ort to had two names anyways, only I couldn't think of none but common ones when we give her hern.


ching chong

Standard Chinese phonology#Syllables
ching chong

/ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/

Onomatopoeic, originally representing characteristic syllables of Chinese, such as Mandarin's qing and chong, Cantonese's cing¹ and cong¹, Hokkien's chheng and chhong, and etc, as heard by English-speakers, and reinforced by perceptions of other Asian languages, especially with existing surnames of Chinese origin, such as Ching/Cheng and Chong/Chung.

He came up with three or four kids behind him, chanting 'Ching chong! Ching chong! Don't even know how to talk! Don't even know how to fight!'

2008, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia, page 91:

For example, comedian and talk-show host Adam Corolla and NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal have each previously made ching chong comments in reference to Asians and Asian Americans.

2009, Kent A. Ono, Vincent N. Pham, Asian Americans and the media, page 104:

Growing up in Nebraska, I was “ching-chong’d” in school and asked why my eyes were so small. Later on, popular kids would compel me to do their homework with overtures of friendship, only to ignore me at recess.

2016 October 21, Crystal Chen, “I ‘Went Back to China’ — and Felt More American than Ever”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 2016-10-22:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Mimicking Chinese, Korean, Thai or other East/Southeast Asian speech.

ooga booga

mimicking African and Australian Aboriginal speech


ching chong

/ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/

“Hey there, Ching Chong, bring the pistol.” In a moment Lee poked the gun butt-first through the door.

1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 205:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A Chinese or other Asian person.


minnit

I see they was goin, so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you."

1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870:

"I jest stood like a dumb critter the minnit I got in," said Marty.

1876, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mercy Philbrick's Choice:

I'll go in 'ere for 'arf a minnit and sit down.

1909, W.W. Jacobs, Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection):

Wait a minnit!

1918, Edna Ferber, Cheerful--By Request:

Wait a minnit, I didn't show you my pitcher what was in de paper, did I?

1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:


owld

en-adj

owld (comparative owlder, superlative owldest)

owlder (comparative)
owldest (superlative)

A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe."

1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “Irons in the Fire. Opes Strepitumque.”, in The Wrecker, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 115:

I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard.

Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. […] You should 'a seen the owld josser's feaches wnoy towld im.

1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter X, in The Irrational Knot … Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 185:

Shure the Dog and the Cat both av thim was scairt, and the owld white-faced cow come a-runnin' an' jumped the bars to get aff av the road."

1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:


Tamagotchi

/ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/

/ˌtɑməˈɡoʊt͡ʃi/

/ˌtɑməˈɡɑt͡ʃi/

A genericization of Tamagotchi, the name of a virtual pet series: the word is a Japanese blend of 卵 (たまご, tamago, “egg”) + ウオッチ (uotchi, from English watch).

blend

from English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">watch</i>

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tamagotchi.

A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.


powerpoint

From PowerPoint, trademarked brand of presentation software.

The powerpoint shows the same model type of the Mitsubishi train, Crystal Mover, being run in Singapore's light rail transit.

2010 December 30, Natalie Leung, “Mitsubishi wins LRT tender”, in Macau Daily Times:


loveling

From love + -ling. Compare West Frisian leaveling (“darling”), Dutch lieveling (“darling, sweetheart”), Afrikaans liefling (“darling”), German Liebling (“darling”); perhaps calqued, inspired, or reinforced by the term.

A beloved little one; darling; a beloved or lovable thing.


big guy

"How are you doing there, big guy?" he asked.

A term of endearment, usually addressed toward an all-around good male person.


thort

"Who'd a thort there'd 've been any of the warmints about, whin we took sich pains with our fire.

Mayhap it wouldn't be right till take it from a sinner like me, but--I thort I'd like it, somehow,"--showing him the fly-leaf.

1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862:

Off he goes, and the neks sean shows us the werry plaice, all filled with savidges, and demons, and snakes, and things; and presently, when Mr. Horfay is seen a cumming down, all the demons and savidges runs at him to stop him; but he holds up the Liar, and begins for to sing, and most bewtifully too, tho' I didn't kno the tune; they all makes way for him, and he gos bang into lots of big flames, and so I werry naterally thort as how it was all over.

1890, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 6, 1890:


thort

And he had jest the same helegant but simple lunch as before, with a bottle of the same splendid Champane, as before, and he didn't harf finish it, as before, and not a drop of what he left was wasted, as before; and so, when he paid me his little account, he arsked me if many of the werry bewtifool ladies, as I had told him of when he came larst, had been to the "Grand" lately, so the bold thort seized, me, and I says to him, "Yes, your ——, there's jest a nice few of 'em here now, and if you will kindly foller me up to our bewtifool Libery, and will keep your eyes quite wide open as you gos along, you will see jest about a hole room full of 'em."

1890, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 19, 1890:

BROWN wound up the armony of our truly appy heavening by singing his new song of, "The LORD MARE leads a nappy life," and we sort our seweral nupshal couches as happy and contented a lot as his Lordship hisself, our werry larst drink all round being to the follering sentiment given out by me as the prowd Chairman: "May all the well to do in this grand old London of ours enjoy as merry a Crismus as we have enjoyed to-night, and may they all give a kind thort, and a liberal stump-up, to all the poor and needy who so badly wants it this bitter weather."

1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., January 3, 1891.:

When we got to the Darby, in course our fust thort was lunch, but afore I coud get beyond laying the cloth, there came such a reglar buster of an ail storm that we was all drove hunder the homnibus for shelter, and when it leaved off, and I went on the roof, the table cloth was about three inches thick with round ale stones!

1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 6, 1891:


refidex

From the name (Refidex) of a particular brand of street directory, possibly from ref(erence) + (i)n(dex).

And with a refidex in the glovebox, she couldn't see any huge problems.

1997, Melissa Lucashenko, Steam pigs, page 76:

The refidex shows that Clayfield and Hendra are 500 metres apart, and "Airport" and "Eagle Farm" are 1.1km apart.

1998 December 10, Roy Wilke, “Shortest distance between stations”, in aus-rail (Usenet):

The meetings themselves are held in Hawken Building at UQ (building 50 on the campus refidexes), and the next one will be Saturday week.

1999 April 6, Ben Fowler, “Linux user groups for Brisbane??I”, in aus.computers.linux (Usenet):

I'm driving, Kristy's navigating. For somebody who isn't used to reading a refidex she does a damn fine job.

2001 December 28, Cruiser, “The Week in Review (v long)”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):

Even when UBD (Universal Business Directory’s) bought out Refidex, they continued to put Refidex on the front cover. Actually any street directory to a Brisbanite is a “refidex”.

(Australia, Queensland, informal) Any street directory.


faix

(Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of fecks.


dearheart

What was it, then, dearheart, that hath prevailed with thee to do as thou hast done?

1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress part two, 1850 David Bogue edition, page 277 http://books.google.com/books?id=IecHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=dearheart

I'm not deserting you, dearheart. I'll be home tomorrow, or the day after.

2005, Anita Diamant, The Last Days of Dogtown, Scribner, →ISBN, page 143:


featherwood

I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood. So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing […]

1998, Barbara A. Owen, "In the Mix": Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison, page 155:

"I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood and I said no because I don't have wings […]" […] "Girl do you know what a featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated.

2007, Sandra Coleman, From Housewife and Mother to Convict, page 100:

I've been visiting a couple of featherwoods, all bad tattoos and twisted intentions. Seeing Anita for the first time without a half-inch-thick plate of shatterproof Plexiglas between us (the county jail allows only noncontact visits), […]

2010, Kenneth E. Hartman, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars, page 68:

(prison slang) A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.


Playmaster

From play + master, a trademark of the 1980s.

An electronic device that keeps track of tokens, properties and dice rolls, and initiates auctions and mortgages, in the game Monopoly.


actially

Back-spelling of the reduced pronunciation of actually.

(nonstandard) Eye dialect spelling of actually.


dune coon

You're a...damn dune coon. B: Mhm. A: Not convincing is it? B: You're not great at the sentences part to be honest. A: Hah, I know, I know... B: You can definitely hate better than that. A: Heart's not really in it.

(Can we date this quote?), Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Artistic Directors of the Future...Talks Brexit, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82:

Now, get lost you dune coon. Harvard doesn't realize that he's still on mic. His comments are heard by the viewing audience. CAMERA ON AC H MAD ACHMAD Dune coon? Hey, I'm also half mick. As you've heard, this is an unprecedented case of[…]

2009 01, Pat Mulligan, Three Comedies for the Screen, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 354:

“My story is about the first time I ever heard the expression 'dune coon,' ” she said. Cornelia was relieved that Mrs. Hakim was not going to read about what she had done, but she was also confused. She had never heard that expression[…]

2011 March 2, Christy Cauley, Writers on the Storm, Christy Cauley, →ISBN, page 204:

More dinosaurs died in Arabia than anywhere else.” “Dune Coons?” “Sand niggers,” Big Ed said. “Your A-rabs cause the glut and they cause the gasoline lines. Whatever suits their ass. I was tryin' to deal with a Dune Coon the other day.

2015 April 7, Dan Jenkins, LIFE ITS OWN SELF, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

No Dune Coon gonna loo/e cross—eyed at my Rachel. He did more than that the first night we went out. Ended up back at his place. That was the twentieth ofJuly. Took less than three weeks to get him to the JP. I was desperate.

2005 November 23, Elrod Stanton, Resurrection and Reclamation, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 141:

... and within that core community, as Bee Burgers suggests, lies a most fundamental binary: human beings whose life and autonomy are presumptively respected and those “dune coon muslim terrorists” who should be killed.49 With terrorist[…]

2015 November 15, John Pettegrew, Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq, JHU Press, →ISBN:

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Someone of Middle Eastern or North African descent.


Chicom

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(politics, informal, inexact, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) Any citizen of the People's Republic of China.


hydergine

(organic chemistry) A mixture of dihydroergotoxine mesylates derived from ergoline.


Hitachi

Borrowed from Japanese 日立 (ひたち, Hitachi).

Hitachi Province, a former region in Japan


Hitachi

Even if I've destroyed three Hitachis and a dozen Kleenex boxes over him.

2020 June 9, Elle Hume, My Fair Millennial 2: Still a Romantic Comedy, Masterful Books:

Before Stanley, Reese's own sex games only flirted with possession, and alone with her Hitachi, images from Iris's stories kept making cameos in her fantasies.

2021 January 12, Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby: A Novel, One World, →ISBN, page 47:

The longest relationship she had going right now was with her Hitachi in the drawer by her bed.

2024 August 23, Jacob Peyton, Infestation, Screaming Tiger Press:

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(genericized trademark) A Hitachi Magic Wand or similar magic wand vibrator.


Americunt

Huh? Even I have seen thousands of Imams condemning terrorists acts and I am not even Muslim. Just search Yahoo. However, I have never seen an Americunt admitting that the biggest terrorist country in history is America.

2004, AK, “Jazeera's Iraq coverage hits U.S. raw nerve”, in soc.culture.arabic (Usenet):

So you've been there for 4 years fighting everybody and everything, two are^([sic]) three times over. Why don't you admit it phuktards, You haven't got a clue and you've set yourself up for NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION. You are going to teach yourself a real big lesson aren't you PHUKTARDS?

2007, J0HN H0WARD, “Phuktard Americunts now Killing The People They Liberated”, in alt.politics.org.cia (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, offensive, vulgar, derogatory, ethnic slur) An American.


jumbotron

From a Sony trademark, JumboTron, introduced in the 1980s and retired in 2001. From jumbo + -tron.

This aesthetic included covering the buildings facing the urban square 'with coloured lights, jumbotrons, and flashing advertising images.'

2006, Evelyn Sharon Ruppert, The moral economy of cities: shaping good citizens, page 139:

“To go from seeing him on a jumbotron to touching his shoulder pad, how many people can say that?” said Ms. Jackson, a 29-year-old mother and baby-T-shirt designer.

2007 July 12, Mireya Navarro, “Star Turns, Close Enough to Touch”, in New York Times:

A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.


swoe

Blend of sword + hoe; originated as a trademark of Wilkinson Sword.

I approached the new light hoes, swoes and other garden tools with some degree of scepticism, feeling that weight aided the cutting down operation. After two summers I am quite converted, especially as I am two years older.

(She told me I must buy a swoe, a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.)

2007 July 26, Anne Raver, “Recognizing Those Who Keep Brooklyn in Bloom”, in New York Times:


teletimer

From a trademark of American Teletimer Corp: tele- + timer.

“We are reviewing it,” the New York Racing Association spokesman John Lee said. “So far, every test we’ve put it through, the time came out to be accurate — they correspond to the teletimer.

2007 July 30, Bill Finley, “Street Sense Marks Return With a Victory”, in New York Times:

An electronic device, equipped with sensors, that accurately measures the finish times in a horse race.


broccolini

en-noun

broccolini (countable and uncountable, plural broccolini or broccolinis)

broccolini (plural)
broccolinis (plural)

From a trademark, presumably intended as a diminutive of broccoli.

10 P.M. (Bravo) TOP CHEF C. J. is gone after he served what Tom Colicchio called the worst dish in the three seasons of the show, an admittedly gross-looking broccolini.

2007 September 19, Stephanie Russell, “What’s on Tonight”, in New York Times:

She did not look up but just kept pulling grocery items from her bag. Broccolinis and fresh eggs.

2009, Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 231:

Once the broccolini are cool, you have to get them very dry, so let them drain in a colander, spin them in a salad spinner, dab them with paper towels, or even drive around the block a few times holding them out the window…just get them superdry.

2013, Brian L. Patton, The Sexy Vegan’s Happy Hour at Home: Small Plates, Big Flavors, and Potent Cocktails, New World Library, →ISBN, page 111:

The tightly closed flowerheads of goldenrod are perfect for pinching off under the inflorescence and steaming or boiling like little broccolinis.

2016, Briana Wiles, Mountain States Foraging: 115 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Alpine Sorrel to Wild Hops, Timber Press, →ISBN:

I love this dish because the creamy element of the cashew sauce goes so well with the crunchy broccolinis and the nutty and creamy flavor of the urad dal.

2019, Rakhee Yadav, Heavenly Vegan Dals & Curries: Exciting New Dishes From an Indian Girl’s Kitchen Abroad, Page Street Publishing, →ISBN:

To increase the umami taste, splash 1 Tbsp of soy or tamari sauce on the broccolini once they’re cooked, and swap the fine salt out for an umami-infused salt. […] The broccolini are spread out between two baking sheets to prevent overcrowding.

2020, Nik Sharma, The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained + More than 100 Essential Recipes, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 214:

A farmer taught me that broccolini are sweeter during the cooler months, when they produce more sugar to protect themselves from frost.

2022, Odette Williams, Simple Pasta: Pasta Made Easy. Life Made Better., Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 210:

A green vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets and long thin stalks; a cross between broccoli and kai-lan (Chinese broccoli).


phoropter

Testing includes using a pen or finger to test for the “near point of convergence,” as well as a phoropter, which uses lenses and prisms to test the eyes’ ability to work together.

2007 September 11, Laura Novak, “Not Autistic or Hyperactive. Just Seeing Double at Times”, in New York Times:

An instrument used in eye examinations to determine an individual's prescription, the patient looking through various lenses at a chart on the other side.


amnihook

From a trademark. Blend of amniotic + hook.

The physician/nurse midwife inserts an amnihook through the cervix and perforates the amniotic membranes. Labor contractions may begin within a few hours.

2005, Roberta Pavy Ramont, Dolores Maldonado Niedringhaus, Mary Ann Towle, Comprehensive nursing care:

The conclusions suggest that every delivery suite should have, alongside the sundry ampoules of oxytocin and packs of disposable amnihooks, birthing pools available.

2007, Denis Walsh, Evidence-based care for normal labour and birth: a guide for midwives, page 41:

(medicine) A baton with a slightly hooked end, used to perform amniotomy.


ukelin

Originally a trademark. Blend of ukelele + violin.

Thats a ukelin on his lap and another next to it.

2007 November 4, Zo Wolff, “But Can He Hum?”, in New York Times:

(music) A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.


superball

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From super- + ball. From a trademark, Super Ball.

Does it bounce around like a superball in a hollow cavity? Or does it rapidly lose its force, like a beanbag hitting a pillow?

1992, Rick Altman, Sound theory, sound practice, page 40:


Parkesine

From Parkes + -ine, originally a trademark, from the name of Alexander Parkes.


niggerfuxated

en-adj

niggerfuxated (comparative more niggerfuxated, superlative most niggerfuxated)

more niggerfuxated (comparative)
most niggerfuxated (superlative)

Look at Detroit, Chicago, DC, Baltimore, Gary, LA...the list of niggerfuxated cities goes on and on.

2003, William J. Wolfe, “Hey Liberals! I Thought POVERTY Caused Crime, Isn't That Your Lie?”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Anyone who would cast their lot with an outfit named "Multicultural News Radio", and expect their venture to NOT be niggerfuxated, deserves to go down in flames for being stupid.

2004, Reb Biker, “Liberal Radio off the air AGAIN!!!”, in alt.flame.niggers (Usenet):

2005, Affirmative Action, “One Niggerfuxated Housing Project Gone! Hooray!”, in alt.flame.cincinnati (Usenet):

Hundreds of UN muhfuggas were dispatched to several areas of the isolated, niggerfuxated territory to control the spread of the nigger herd.

2006, DR. FESTLER, “Obama for president!”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

Simple solution, sell Africoonia to China, Indonesia and Japan. All three countries are overcrowded and could make excellent use of africa's niggerfuxated land areas.

2007 January 29, death to f'loons, “A soultion to basket case Africa”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

You can't put niggers in charge of ANYTHING, without turning it into a niggerfuxated cesspool. At one time Detroit had the highest per capita income in the United States. Then the niggers metastasized into it like a cancer. Now its inevitable niggerfuxation is before us.

2014 March 11, Reb Biker, “Re: AA Feral Nigger Charter School Principal Arrested On Rape Charges”, in alt.flame.cincinnati (Usenet):

Of course he would. He's running for county exec in a niggerfuxated traditionally Democrat city.

2021 November 1, Kent, “Re: Rudy is now scraping bathtub rings for negative scaps about President Trump”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Ruined by black people.


methinx

Methinx that line in the sand has been drawn.

1997, Roger Waters, “VEWY VEWY QUIET IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH????”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):

Just a suggestion, but I think that GNER do a very cheap rail ticket as long as you spend the Saturday night away from London ( damm good idea methinx! ).

1999, croft_house, “Exiles and the Borthdi Meet.”, in uk.local.geordie (Usenet):

(slang, nonstandard or humorous) Eye dialect spelling of methinks.


muzzie

(slang, offensive, religious slur) A Muslim.


boogieboard

A genericized trademark owned by Tom Morey, from boogie + board.

A small variety of surfboard, often made of foam; a bodyboard.


doosed

en-adv

doosed (comparative more doosed, superlative most doosed)

more doosed (comparative)
most doosed (superlative)

"Upon my word she's a doosed good-looking little thing," said Archie, coming up to him, after having also shaken hands with her; — "doosed good-looking, I call her."

c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings:

I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare.

1872, Laurence William M. Lockhart, Fair to see, page 149:

Accepted me, did she? Doosed awkward, that. I thought she had more sense.

1938, G.B. Lancaster (Edith Joan Lyttleton), Promenade, page 143:

(degree, dated) Eye dialect spelling of deuced.


clog wog

She laughs when Mum calls herself a clog wog, and says they′re okay, just as buttoned-up as Anglo-Saxons.

1999, Wendy Orr, Peeling the Onion, unidentified page:

Are you a clog wog? All along I thought you were a Kraut.

2005 June 11, Ben Cramer, “Commendation to Deborah Sharavi”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

She was a clog wog, not a yank.

2007 May 22, Binjamin Cram'er, “Anne Frank memorial in Idaho hit by vandals”, in alt.terrorism.world-trade-center (Usenet):

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Netherlander; a Dutch person, especially an immigrant.


cambro

From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company.

At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros.

2000, Christopher Allen, Kimberly Allen, A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver, page 192:

During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro, is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature[…]

2003, Sony Bode, Successful catering, page 64:

You'll find a multitude of uses for these—cooking a chicken stew to baking cookies, transporting individual appetizers and using as shelves in cambros.

2006, Lora Arduser, Douglas Robert Brown, The professional caterer's handbook, page 532:

Pickles rushed me into the manager's office, my hand still stuffed in a cambro of tomato goo.

An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot.


mitey

He ain' got nuttin tall cep'n some mitey good nabors dat come by fer him ever day an' caird him up to lay him down by de back do' er dat air rich man, dat air Mr. Dives.

1909, Bruce M. Russett, John R. Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, volume 10, page 238:

"I knowed your great-grandpaw mitey well, son, and your grandpaw and your own daddy.[…]"

1954, Charles Rice McDowell, The Iron Baby Angel, page 11:

They treats us mitey well and wants Amerikens to cum and settle among em.[…]They all talks so mitey funney.

1974, William Curtis Nunn, Escape from Reconstruction, page 67:


panadol

I decided not to tell him this because I felt there was nothing wrong if I got some panadol or novalgin from the hospital.

1988, Atabo Oko, The secret of the Sheik:

We often have no panadol, no bandages. Only one nurse said she had noticed an improvement in drug supply since mid-1993.

1995, Peter Gibbon, Structural adjustment and the working poor in Zimbabwe, page 268:

When I rang my doctor, he said, "Take some panadol and see me in the morning." When I told him that I had no panadol or any other type of painkillers in the house he was surprised.

2002, Jane Alison Kaberuka, Has God forgotten me?: the cry of an accident victim, page 6:

Sulphadimidine tablets are often taken by people in the same manner as aspirin or panadol.

2002, Siosiane Fanua Bloomfield, Illness and cure in Tonga: traditional and modern medical practice, page 57:


Bic

Genericization of a trademark. From BiC, a company. Named after French businessman Marcel Bich, the founder. From French Bich (“surname”).


bloo

Another chap had got my jack-nife, and was amusin' hisself by slashin' holes in my bloo cotton umbreller, which two other Muskeeters had shoved up, and was a settin' under, engaged in tyin' my panterloon legs into hard nots.

1870, Various, Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870:

"'That's whatever!' assents this marshal gent, 'an' you can gamble a bloo stack that hangin' you is a bet we ain't none likely to overlook.

The Consarvatives painted thurselves bloo, and the Radicals yaller, an' thay as danced the longest, the Roomans sent to Parlyment to rool the roost.

1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:


bloo

I stayed there sicks years; from sicks, that is to say, till my twelth year, during three years of witch I distinguished myself not a little in the musicle way, for I bloo the bellus of the church horgin, and very fine tunes we played too.

1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush:


halazone

en-noun

halazone (countable and uncountable, plural halazones)

In 1919 halazone was still a new compound for water treatment.

(organic chemistry) p-sulphondichloraminobenzoic acid, a disinfectant used to sterilize water.


thers

They've raised some fine buildings 'at's worth lookin at,-- They're a credit to th' city, thers noa daat o' that; But ther's nowt strikes a stranger soa mich as a seet O'th' craad 'at's i' Briggate at Setterdy neet.

Well, Miss Susan, thers plenty for you to eat and drink.

1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot:


hyperthreading

From hyper- + threading, coined as a trademark (Hyper-Threading Technology) by Intel.

The scope of hyperthreading instructions is not covered in this book.

2005, James Leiterman, 32/64-Bit 80x86 Assembly Language Architecture, page 457:

There are some cases where hyperthreading actually degrades CPU performance, especially when CPU utilization is high.

2010, Mike Laverick, VMware VSphere 4 Implementation, page 307:

(computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.


niggerfuxation

White people can afford to stand by NO LONGER, and watch our land succumb to niggerfuxation, city by city. We must secure the existence of our people […]

2002, (unknown author), SICKKKENING LIBERAL PUSSYBABBLE! (on newsgroup atl.general)

These actions should correct the racial imbalance and begin the niggerfuxation of joorael.

2004, (unknown author), Ending hate in Israel (on newsgroup alt.flame.niggers)

Look at your cities they have become cesspools of niggerfuxation.

2006, Raptorman, “French teacher "send"jewish student to furnace, oi !!!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

Placing niggers in ANY position of authority always leads to inescapable niggerfuxation.

2014 March 16, Reb Biker, “Re: Court blasts indicted niggasow Judge Tracie Hunter”, in alt.flame.cincinnati (Usenet):

80 days until that ignorant nigger Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama is out of office.

2017 February 5, Henry Reid, “8, count 'em, 8 years of niggerfuxation is coming to an end.”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Ruination by black people.


telecopier

From tele- + copier, originally a trademark of Xerox.

Sorte and his team had moved to the offices of their lawyers, Davis Polk, because they had a bank of six telecopiers.

2000, Moira Johnston, Takeover: The New Wall Street Warriors, page 161:

From a computer perspective, however, fax operates as a teleprinter rather than a telecopier, a printer that operates by remote control miles away from your computer.

2003, Winn L. Rosch, Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible, page 957:

Although fax is not an acronym, it is often written as "FAX". The device is also known as a telecopier in certain industries.

2009, N.B. Dubey, Office Management: Developing Skills for Smooth Functioning, Global India Publications Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 161:


rollator

From roll + -ator; originally a brand name.

A walking frame equipped with wheels, especially one designed for the disabled or elderly.


canned heat

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) Pre-recorded cheering or booing played during a match.


Stihl

From the brand of a manufacturer of chainsaws and other handheld power tools. See Stihl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

A type of large industrial saw, usually cordless with a petrol motor and a large circular cutting blade.


post-it

In your group, collect all the yellow and grey post-its together. Then pass them on to another group.

2006, Tony Ghaye, Developing the reflective healthcare team, page 220:

They all agree the number and write it on a post-it. They arrange the same cards to make the smallest possible number. When everyone has agreed, they write this number on the same post-it.

2000, Ruth Merttens, David Kirkby, Abacus: Activity book: Volume 5:

Write the brand on post-its and add them onto the flip chart.

2010, Erik Roscam Abbing, Brand-driven Innovation, page 83:


seltzer water

seltzer water (countable and uncountable, plural seltzer waters)

From the waters of Selters, Germany, which are naturally carbonated.

The Native had previously packed[…] an unusual quantity of carpet-bags and small portmanteaus[…]: and having filled his own pockets with Seltzer water, East India sherry, sandwiches, shawls, telescopes, maps, and newspapers, any or all of which light baggage the Major might require at any instant of the journey, he announced that everything was ready.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

A beverage made of plain carbonated water, often for use in mixing with alcohol, cordials, and juices.


vesuvine

vesuvine (usually uncountable, plural vesuvines)

A brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic azo compounds of benzene.


Christ on a bike

Christ on a bike and Mary on the handlebars

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ alive" or "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


arsehead

Blackadder: Meet the new Member of Parliament for Danny-on-the-Wold.
Prince George: But he's an absolute arsehead!

1987, Blackadder the Third: Dish and Dishonesty:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, derogatory, slang) An idiotic or undesirable person.


coochy coo

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Uncertain. Perhaps imitative of a baby’s vocalizations. Compare coo. Attested from the late 19th century, with coochey, oochy a bit earlier.

An affectionate vocalization normally used towards a baby.


coochy coo

An instance of saying coochy coo; an affectionate vocalization to a baby.


kainit

kainit (countable and uncountable, plural kainits)

(archaic) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.


admier

en-verb

admier (third-person singular simple present admiers, present participle admiering, simple past and past participle admiered)

admiers (present singular third-person)
admiering (participle present)
admiered (participle past)
admiered (past)


jaffle

From a trademark for a utensil that creates jaffles.

For him, the mark of a true jaffle is those gnarly, pressure-sealed edges. “You need those nasty corners – nasty in the best way – when the sauce oozes out the sides and goes super caramelised.”

2023 June 4, James Shackell, “‘It’s a travesty they’ve disappeared’: what ever happened to jaffle irons?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Australia, South Africa) A type of toasted sandwich that is sealed around the edge (in one piece, and not separated in the centre), it has a filling, for example an egg. A toastie or Breville is separated with a diagonal crease.


desier

en-noun

desier (countable and uncountable, plural desiers)


desier

en-verb

desier (third-person singular simple present desiers, present participle desiering, simple past and past participle desiered)

desiers (present singular third-person)
desiering (participle present)
desiered (participle past)
desiered (past)


praize

praize (third-person singular simple present praizes, present participle praizing, simple past and past participle praized)

praizes (present singular third-person)
praizing (participle present)
praized (participle past)
praized (past)


eazily

en-adv

eazily (comparative more eazily, superlative most eazily)

more eazily (comparative)
most eazily (superlative)


eazy

en-adj

eazy (comparative eazier, superlative eaziest)

eazier (comparative)
eaziest (superlative)


hydropult

See hydro- and catapult. Originally a trade name.

A hand-powered machine for spraying water.


beaglepuss

From Franco-American Novelty Company's brand name "Beagle Puss Disguise Kit", apparently from beagle + puss (“face”).

Vonnegut did not write the book, and the photo on the book jacket of Trout looked suspiciously like Farmer, wearing Boss Mule work gloves, beagle puss and mustache, sunglasses, mufflers, etc.

1990, Howard Waldrop, Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3573.A4228 N54 1990, page 60:

The punchline: a bewildered Ung wearing a beaglepuss and trying to type with a rubber chicken […]

2004 September 13, George Jones, Maximum PC 2005 Buyer's Guide, Indianapolis: Que, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:

Julian Assange personally reads every document to be published, types it up and formats it on his laptop while wearing a beaglepuss.

2010 August 22, JDog, “The Greatest Rube Goldberg Machine: How WikiLeaks Documents Reach Julian Assange”, in Writing Rendezvous, retrieved 2011-11-15:

(uncommon) A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.


gypsyism

en-noun

gypsyism (countable and uncountable, plural gypsyisms)

(offensive, ethnic slur) The practices or habits ascribed to gypsies, such as deception, cheating, and flattery.


thigh master

From thigh + master, from the trademark Thighmaster.

A piece of exercise equipment used to tone the thighs, especially aimed at women.


likewize

The whole legiſlature likewize acts az a court for the trial of public delinquents.

1790, Noah Webster, A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings, pages 340–341:


QR code

Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.

TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.

2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:

A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.

QR-ко́д

phonetically: кью-ар-ко́д, ку-эр-ко́д or кур-ко́д


sweetcheeks

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Christ on a cracker

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


weedeater

From weed + eater, from "Weed Eater", the name of a company founded by the inventor of the string trimmer.

(genericized trademark) A string trimmer.


Mariolater

(Protestantism, derogatory, religious slur) One who worships the Virgin Mary.


Roneo

ro(tary) + Neo(style) (“the manufacturer's name”)

For his "sermons" were recorded and Roneo-copied for the benefit of absent members.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104:

on board would be a loyal caid, Hadj Sadok, who had the previous day received a roneo copy of the F.L.N.'s proclamation […]

1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 91:

(chiefly historical) A copying machine using stencils.


jackarse

Blend of American English jackass with British English arse.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A jackass (foolish or obnoxious person).


baby doll

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A child's doll designed to look like a baby.

(chiefly US) A young attractive woman; sweetheart, darling.


gardenburger

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From garden + -burger, from the brand name Gardenburger.

Beth has the mushroom gardenburger.

2000, Suzanne Finnamore, Otherwise engaged, link:

...barbecued or grilled chicken sans skin; turkey; lean steak (filet mignon or sirloin); roast beef or tri tip; lean hamburger; gardenburger; soups sans cream; whole grain bread sans...

2002, Clyde Soles, Climbing: training for peak performance, page 219:

This recipe is an adaptation of the Boutenkos' raw gardenburger

2005, Gabrielle Chavez, The raw food gourmet: going raw for total well-being, page 98:

The Rose Garden's 32 public restrooms do have piped-in radio for play-by-play updates, and there are 700 television monitors so you can watch the game while waiting in line for your gardenburger and local brew.

2011, Rachel Dresbeck, Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon, page 222:

A vegetarian imitation hamburger or hamburger patty, usually made of grains and vegetables.


gook wagon

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any Asian automobile.


armgaunt

en-adj

armgaunt (comparative more armgaunt, superlative most armgaunt)

more armgaunt (comparative)
most armgaunt (superlative)

And soberly did mount an armgaunt steed.

1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:

Quixote comes, in battered mail, Armgaunt, with eyes of some keen haggard hawk Far from his eyrie

1951, Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Chateau: And Other Poems, page 25:

SERVANT (Imitating the style of his master) The awful armgaunt knight who wields the Gorgon, shaking three shadowy plumes.

1979, William Joseph Myles Starkie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, page 195:

(nonce word, archaic) Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.


bethabara

Originally a trademark. Based on the Ancient Greek proper noun Βηθαβαρά (Bēthabará).


cottolene

(dated) A product from cottonseed, used as a lard substitute.


jetfoil

From jet + foil, from a Boeing trademark.

A passenger-carrying hydrofoil propelled by water jets.


chickenlips

From chicken + lips, from a stereotype of white people having small lips, since a chicken has none.

(offensive, slang, African-American Vernacular) A white person.


grasseater

From grass + eater. Originally in reference to the Irish potato famine, implying that grass was all the Irish had left in their diet.

When the "green mouths," as the impoverished Irish grasseaters were dubbed, entered the United States, they brought cholera, consumption, and typhus with them.

2002, Jan Pottker, Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, page 12:

(offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person, especially an Irishman.


paleass

On the verge of anger—trust a paleass to misunderstand me!—Norman controlled himself.

...while almost everybody in this joint was black, this guy, even on dialysis, had the brothers as scared of him as he had us few paleass motherfuckers scared of him...

2002, Nick Tosches, In the hand of Dante, link:

(offensive, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A contemptible white person.


whiteboy

en-noun

whiteboy (countable and uncountable, plural whiteboys)

The words of the whiteboy crept into his mind as he got ready to crawl out of bed—and he once again realized Cassandra hardly ever showered.

2006, Eminemsrevenge, Jew Girl, page 164:

whiteboy still more than anything else this betrays me.

2011, Kevin Coval, Patricia Smith, L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems, link:

“Shut up, whiteboy. How does it feel to hit a girl? You feel strong?

2011, Berel Arrow, The Thirty Six, page 9:

(literal, sometimes derogatory) A Caucasian male.


crackerass

From cracker + -ass. Likely from Georgia Cracker.

New Orleans holds us on downs, and Malley goes in to punt and that little crackerass No. 28 slices through and blocks it.

1974, Jack Olsen, Alphabet Jackson: a novel, link:

If that crackerass wants to get in touch, tell him I can't be located.

1989, Windsor Chorlton, Rites of sacrifice, link:

1989, Analog science fiction/science fact: Volume 109, Issues 10-13, link
Those crackerass bureaucrats in the Pentagon don't care how good it works, they just want to go on using them crappy old machines they built their own selves."

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A contemptible white person.


niggery

en-adj

niggery (comparative more niggery, superlative most niggery)

more niggery (comparative)
most niggery (superlative)

She remembered the hot sun, the soft red earth under her sick head, the niggery smell of the cabin behind the ruins of Twelve Oaks, remembered the refrain her heart had beaten […]

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:

[…] hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way.

2004, Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality, page 499:

Reba's high-minded, skinned grandmother “had taught me that it was good fashion to dress simply and not wear loud colors and earrings and fake jewelry. I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self.

2009, Mark M Smith, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, page 138:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) Of or like a nigger.


niggerology

(slang, derogatory, offensive) A course on black studies at a school or university.

I know you bout to go to college and all and think you smart, but remember, I grew up in the projects. I know how you think and how he thinks. I have a degree in niggerology.

In 1971, a Thugs United newspaper described Carmouche as a “Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of the Streets, where he earned a bachelor's degree in niggerology and streetology” and a “a masters degree in common sinces [sic].

2007, Kent B. Germany, New Orleans After the Promises, →ISBN:

I specialize in the plight of my people or niggerology.

2007, MINISTER X, I Swear to Tell the Truth: So Help Me God, →ISBN, page 191:

The life knowledge gained by growing up as a black person.


house nigger

By analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers.

"You look like a house nigger."

2003, John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, page 162:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, idiomatic) A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.


child-fucker

The woman got a license number, child-fucker.

1975, Al Martínez, Jigsaw John, J. P. Tarcher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

Next article: A man held in custody for questioning about some kind of child pornography ring has sought to lessen charges in exchange for information about the man wanted in the Tire-Iron Murders of late. Apparently the dirty rotten goddamn low-life scumbag child-fucker was a member of the massive audience who witnessed my little cameo.

2005, Randall Patterson, The Book of the Lam, Lincoln: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, pages 55–56:

The corpse of the freak, the child-fucker, the monster, slipped to the floor with a wet smack.

2008, Christopher Golden, “Venus and Mars”, in Jeanne Cavelos, editors, The Many Faces of Van Helsing, Penguin, →ISBN, page 83:

(literally, vulgar) One who engages in sex with a child, child molester.


nigger nose

The Mister loved to be teased. He frequently asked for it by lying down and fanning the floor with his tail whilst eyeing you invitingly. We used to tease him about his black nose: called him "nigger nose".

1942, Henry Tetlow, We farm for a hobby and make it pay:

We get such nicknames as nigger nose, beetle face, big lips, and this tends in a certain way to help gain the closeness of one to the other, but it also acts as a disruptive force in the room

1965, Gertrude L. Downing with Queen's College (New York, N.Y.). College Committee, The preparations of teachers for schools in culturally deprived ...:

He was teased by his sisters and other children, who called him "nigger nose" and "toe nose."

1997, Jefferson A. Singer, Message in a bottle: stories of men and addiction:

"Nigger — nigger nose!" She laughs. "Fix it? Please?" I don't want to cry. "Sure, nigger nose!"

1998, Laurie Stone, Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire, page 16:

... of nicknames entered my life just as he was leaving it. "Fish Face." "Scrambled-Egg Lips." "Dick Snout." "Dufus." "Nigger-nose." "Bottom Feeder." "Almost Monster."

2001, Allan Gurganus, The practical heart: four novellas:

... because he always called me nigger, nigger lips or nigger nose

2008, Richard Baer, Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman ..., page 287:

She called me 'nigger nose' and 'nigger lips' and remarked on my buck teeth and lisp-y, effeminate voice.

2010, Gabriel Mendez, Ordinary Boy, page 150:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, idiomatic) An insult, a term of contempt for a black person.


dothead

From dot + head, referring to the bindi.

Two weeks later, in another meeting, Sandy announces, “We've assembled a great team of dotheads in Karachi.” No one else seems bothered by this—or even appears to notice anything strange about it—so once again you say nothing.

2011, David Knighton, The Wisdom of the Healing Wound, page 116:

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A South Asian person.

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, religious slur) A Hindu person.


niggerfucker

"We be back, niggerfucker. We be back. We be back." Devlin watched them disappear around the corner. "We be back, niggerbitch."

1995 October, Tim Willocks, Green River Rising, Avon Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 263:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.

[…] the police called me a niggerfucker, they'd come in my motel room when I was out, they knew everything I did.

2000, Stanley Booth, Rythm^([sic]) Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South, New York: Da Capo, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 245:

Almost immediately they realize that Will is rich, gay, and involved with 'one of our little coloured brothers'. In the words of one skinhead, a 'Fuckin' niggerfucker' (SPL 173).

2016, Michèle Mendelssohn, Denis Flannery, Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence:

[…] as if I give a shit whether she lives or dies, as if she's more than another minor character to delineate in my novel: the young white niggerfucker.

2019, Eric Miles Williamson, Boning the Muse: Letters to Steve:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) One who has sexual intercourse with black people.


niggerfaggot

/ˈnɪ.ɡə(ɹ)ˌfæ.ɡət/

It's also unlikely that He would have supported your bisexuality, niggerfaggot.

2000 March 1, <anonymous@cotse.com>, “Re: Bob Jones University's Official Stance on Interracial Dating (or "those satanic miscegenists")”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), message-ID <200003020006.TAA06393@cotse.com>:

2000 October 22, Peder Rastus, “Niggerfaggot boy buggerer faces life”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), message-ID <sv5uienrc07b2a@corp.supernews.com>:

Yet when it comes to this niggerfaggot who turned over a dozen niglets into Chattahoochee gator bait, he's "the victim of a Klan conspiracy."

2001 May 1, Byker <byker@do~rag.net>, “IT'S ABOUT TIME.......”, in alt.politics.nationalism.white (Usenet), message-ID <44139JD237012.7412384259@nuther-planet.net>:

I was still a piece of meat to many of them, a sex animal, a nigga' with a big dick, a niggerfaggot!

2002 April, Dave Murphy, Sons Like Me, Lincoln: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 26:

(slang, derogatory, vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A contemptible person, especially a gay or black man.


beanbreath

(US, highly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Mexican or Hispanic person.


nilla

en-noun

nilla (countable and uncountable, plural nillas)

Getting with her would be just like fucking a white girl and I don't want no 'nilla

2003, K. Broussard, What Looks Like Black, page 124:

Yeah, Nilla, I like that." Sebastian was humored and enjoyed Jamal's free spirit, but had no intention of endorsing the new name he had been given, beyond the confines of this Buick.

2003, Patricia Haley, Patricia Haley-Brown, Blind Faith, page 222:

Get water for him Nilla so he can wash her cunt, and make her ready to receive me. NOW. Commence.

2004, Tor Kung, My Mother Taught Me, page 184:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person.


potato chaser

Alluding to the gastronomy centered on potato and starch found in many white cuisines.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, idiomatic) An Asian person with a strong inclination and attraction toward white people.


rice chaser

Alluding to the rice-based gastronomy of many Asian cuisines.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, idiomatic) A white person with a strong inclination and attraction toward Asians.


farm nigger

(ethnic slur, offensive, idiomatic) An inferior black person whose intellect is compared to that of a field hand.


niggerbitch

She remembered everything: how she had fought them, how they had tied her into her chair, how they had taunted her, calling her niggerbitch, niggerbitch.

1987, Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three, page 283:

A fat little fucker buying a Ben And Jerry's Ice Cream was talking to a niggerbitch in line as I was buying a coke[…]


booty scratcher

booty scratcher (plural booty scratchers)

[…] What in the world is an African booty scratcher?” “Something my sister used to call me. I didn’t know what an African booty scratcher was and I still don’t, but I knew it was something negative things around me had taught me that any and everything referencing Africa had dubious admirable qualities. So what I inevitably sculpted one day were these blue-black, big-lipped, wide nosed, monkey-looking African figures with enormous buttocks, swinging naked from a tree, and landing on the jungle floor to scratch theirs or somebody else’s behinds.

1999, Odessa Rose, Water in a Broken Glass. A novel, La Caille Nous Pub. / Cool Water Publishing House LLC, →ISBN, page 121:

At elite universities, Caribbean students have reportedly excluded African Americans from organizations and study groups, claiming, as part of their immigration narratives, that the latter group lacks the appropriate work ethic to participate. Young Caribbean people learn from their parents the stories of exploitation at the hands of African Americans, or other Caribbean people who had been here longer, when they newly arrived in the United States, and those stories become warning narratives. Most black Americans have minimal contact with black immigrants and derive their information about them from imperialistic and Euro-centric media constructions of third-world, black-populated countries. Hence, immigrated blacks are taunted by them with racist terms like “African booty scratcher” or references to AIDS.

2004, Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 17:

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An African person.


plantation nigger

plantation nigger (plural plantation niggers)

(dated, ethnic slur) A slave employed in manual labor, as opposed to a house nigger.

(ethnic slur) A black person of limited intellect, likened to an uneducated field hand.


tsampoy

From Tagalog tsampoy, from Cantonese 陳皮梅／陈皮梅 (can⁴ pei⁴ mui⁴⁻²), introduced as a genericized trademark romanized as "CHAN PUI MUI" as printed on preserved prune packaging.


Norteño

Borrowed from Spanish norteño (“northerner”), from the gang's territory in Northern California.

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican gang.

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican gang member.

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Mexican or Hispanic person.


Norte

(ethnic slur, offensive) A member of the Norteño Mexican gang.


insulite

Originally a trademark, probably from insulate + -ite.

(dated) An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.


antigriddle

From anti- + griddle, genericization from the kitchen appliance trademark Anti-Griddle, from being the opposite of a griddle (a heated flat cooking surface).

And since not all fourth-graders have an antigriddle (a cooktop that freezes rather than heats), Achatz notes that a cookie sheet atop dry ice will suffice.

Spoon small mounds of the cauliflower mixture onto an antigriddle and let set[…]

2010, Emily Miller, Antonis Achilleos, How to Cook Like a Top Chef, page 157:

molecular gastronomy
molecular gastronomy

A device for rapidly freezing food, a cold flat metal surface, used in molecular gastronomy.


aloha shirt

Former trademark, coined by Ellery Chun.

At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored "aloha" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat.

No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein.

1996 September, Patrick Mott, “100% Cotton Prozac”, in Orange Coast, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 28:

Emanuel was proud of his image reflected in the glass—tropical blooms covered every inch of his short-sleeved aloha shirt in a busy design of Hawaiian hibiscus, poinsettia, and bougainvillea.

1999 December 14, Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York: The Free Press, →ISBN, page 83:

The design motifs on the early 1930s aloha shirts were generally Japanese or Chinese and applied to the greige goods by roller printing in Japan.

2006 Spring, Linda B. Arthur, “The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i”, in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, volume 4, number 1, Berg Publishers, →DOI, pages 8–34:

Oceanic Linguistics
w:Oceanic Linguistics

A collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns.


niggerlips

niggerlips (countable and uncountable, plural niggerlips)

From nigger + lips, in reference to the stereotype that black people have large lips.

From the hoardings Mr Eugene Stratton grinned with thick niggerlips at Father Conmee.

2016 January 17 [1922 February 2], James Joyce, ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series), e-artnow, →ISBN:

Fuck off and take your niggerlips with you.

2005 April 4, Bateau, “T'Pol in a bikini”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):

Hey, do you have any Ubangis in your family? Do old people with lip plates
have trouble keeping them in as they age & get all saggy & stuff? Man, I'd
hate to have a granny with floppy, wrinkled up niggerlips. Ugh.

2006 May 19, Dr. Lily White, “Kenya cuts dependence on donors”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Seka smudged little boys' penises using her niggerlips, and niggerlips was a thing which went around, it was inversely goading antiblackism.

2012 August 13, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

And, if it's even possible, he lies more than normal niggers; who lie every time
their niggerlips move. That's hard to top, but our Head Nigger in Charge and Liar in
Chief did it. So, at least he accomplished something besides failure.

2014 February 15, Reb Biker, “Good Morning niggers!”, in alt.flame.cincinnati (Usenet):

(plural only, offensive, ethnic slur) Lips of a black person.

He was like "Fuck you,
niggerlips...you can come along if you suck all of our dicks on a daily
basis."

1997 September 30, KarJacka, “I'm going on tour with Ink & Dagger”, in alt.music.hardcore (Usenet):

Ruth ran into Sternsen in New York in 1930 and said to him, "Now don't you
call me Niggerlips, or I'll break your arm."

2000 August 16, Steve Cutchen, “First black major leaguer: Babe Ruth”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):

so you want your teacher to talk about niggerlips - and you think your
boyfriend is immature? so you want your boyfriend to hang out in trees
masturbating and you think your boyfriend is immature?

2005 September 10, Susan, “OT: Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

Brad Shitt and Niggerlips Jolie are going there for their honeymoon !

2006 March 4, Niggercrusher, “Re: AND YOU ARE PROUD OF THESE FUCKING DUNCES???????”, in alt.rap (Usenet):

(plural only, offensive, ethnic slur, synecdochically) A person, especially a black person, with large lips.


CAC

CAC (countable and uncountable, plural CACs)

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, neologism, offensive) Initialism of Cracker-ass cracker.


whiteass

And how many times have our people spoke^([sic]) of dreams since the Whiteasses came?

2000, Michael Piedmonte, Split Land of Liberty, page 137:

(Canada, US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person.


hyfrecator

Shortening of high frequency eradicator, originally a trademark.

(medicine) A low-powered single-electrode device that destroys tissue in electrosurgery.


oil trash

1986, World oil: Volume 203, Issues 1-6, link
One of my biggest complaints in this mess is that oil people are not speaking out. I am third generation oil trash, and beyond my personal loss in business, I love this industry and the people who gave it birth.

We kicked on to a few more bars, having a good time, until a group of drunk American businessmen called us “oil trash” and shoved Erwin. We were not dressed like oil trash, we didn't draw attention to ourselves or look for trouble.

2007, Paul Catrer, Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player, page 113:

Never called anybody “oil trash.” Never had a bad word for anybody.

2011, Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, link:

(slang, idiomatic, sometimes pejorative, sometimes ethnic slur) An uncultured, rowdy roughneck employed in the petroleum industry, especially a "white trash" person if used negatively.


niggeration

Uncle Big Arv marched them out into the Isolation Yard and after a little racial disturbance out there, a few minutes of niggeration […]

Ben Vereen, you ought to be tarred and feathered for the egotistical, insensitive, stereotypical niggeration of yourself and all Black people […]

1981 April, Ebony, volume 36, number 6, page 16:

The niggeration of America.

2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 43:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Synonym of niggerization


sicc

en-adj

sicc (comparative more sicc, superlative most sicc)

more sicc (comparative)
most sicc (superlative)


fryolator

She works alone at her grill, patting each ample patty lightly as she sets it down. Her masterpiece, the “ghetto burger,” is a two-patty cheeseburger tricked out with bacon that she tends closely in a fryolator.

2007, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2007, page 271:

Healthy lunch selections mean you would have no need for things such as fryolators that take up space and cost a lot to run.

2009, Cheryl Kimball, 55 Surefire Food-Related Businesses You Can Start for Under $5,000, page 200:

A kitchen appliance used for deep-frying.


minicom

From a trademark of Ultratec, Inc., possibly from mini- + communicator.

Eventually the trust agreed to install minicoms in all key access points and to make mobile minicoms available to inpatients.

2004, Joe Kai, Chris Drinkwater, Primary care in urban disadvantaged communities, page 80:

Facilities (eg minicoms, hearing loops, etc.) may be inadequate or staff may be unaware of how to use them.

2009, George Castledine, Ann Close, Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing, page 516:

Instead, with a minicom, you can see every letter the other person types, as they type it. And their spelling errors too! So if you make a mistake, then delete it, the other person sees you deleting those letters from their end.

2009, British Sign Language For Dummies:


camel jockey

The government thinks these stupid camel jockeys are going to come to America and take revenge.

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Arab.


cood

Dere Miss vilder and sermanthy. i herd you say i cood not stay here enny longer and other peeple sed nobuddy wood have me and what you sed about the home but as i do not like homes i am going to run away if its all the same to you.

1894, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest:


shutter shades

From the trademarked name of a brand of sunglasses created by Shutter Shades, Inc., in 2007. Similar louvered/slatted sunglasses which existed as early as the 1950s and were popular in the 1980s were known by other names, such as "Venetian blinders".

"Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades.

2012, Alec Nevala-Lee, The Icon Thief, Signet, →ISBN:

A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.


mercurochrome

en-noun

mercurochrome (countable and uncountable, plural mercurochromes)

Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve.

Jenny was sining on the closed lid of the toilet, her long legs stretched out in front of her so that he could treat the cuts with mercurochrome.

Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome.

2000 January 7, Richard E. L. Paul et al., “Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites”, in Science, volume 287, number 5450, →DOI, pages 128–131:

While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal.

2007 June 8, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:


groid

My only concern is that the groids may disturb the habitat of valuable
species of wildlife. I am a major supporter of the Aids for Africa campaign.

2001 June 13, ratchet, “The News From Hell”, in atl.general (Usenet):

Occasionally, on the bank, we saw an orange-red glow, momentarily illuminating a black face. Fishing lines, slanting into the stream, were visible against the light of small fires. The canoe moved soundlessly by, and on into the darkness. "The groids sure love to fish.” Sam murmured. The moon was low. It was midnight.

2007 December 18, David Remnick, Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, Travels in Georgia, page 185:

A beaner/groid race war actually doesn't sound too bad at this point, many many flash points as the beaners continue to pour over our open border and displace groids as the largest, most violent minority. The usual left wing cesspools of NYC,LA/Chimpcago offer prime opportunity for these overbred 3rd world miscreants to work the violence out of their systems on each other.

2022 January 16, Jesse, “OMG you must be kidding me, ANOTHER asian murdered by a feral felonious groid, no way !”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Clipping of negroid.


Snuggie

A sleeved blanket worn as an item of clothing.


photomaton

Genericized trademark. Blend of photograph + automaton or similar.


niggerishness

Too many of us have escaped through the eye of the needle and when we look back we see only niggerishness, which spurs us to put even more distance between ourselves and our people.

I have continued in this vein by arguing that even when the black subject turns pathological, becomes the bad black, his antisociality, his niggerishness, once again does the important work of demonstrating that he is removed from the main currents of modern society […]

2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once you go Black: choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual, page 131:

(offensive, ethnic slur) The quality of being niggerish.


Teasmade

Originally a trademark, from tea's + made.

A household appliance for making tea automatically.


christfag

Gee, maybe someday Chavez will kill as many people as noted christfag Dubya did.

2012 April 16, Phlip [username], “Re: Atheist Obama's buddy Chavez breaks down during religious service, begs Jesus Christ for life”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

what we have here is a simple case of discrimination against a genetically defined group with a specific genetically defined sexual preference, like, the christfags did against gays a couple of years earlier.

2013 June 25, Ragnar Jacob Stephens (quoting a Facebook post by someone else), “Andrew [surname redacted] & Sven [surname redacted] & Child Pornography”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet):

2014 September 26, Caridad Belle Kunkel, “Re: Att. Christfags: Satan's scriptures are coming soon to a school near you!”, in alt.politics.democrat (Usenet):

(Internet slang, vulgar, derogatory) An overzealous Christian.


snow bunny

MARY: If they was real black men, they wouldn't be up in that white club looking for some snow bunnies!

2007, Chuck Smith, Best Black Plays, page 99:

“So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.

2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout, page 107:

Interracial player talk casts Black men as campus lotharios, pursued by relentless white women called “jersey chasers” and “snow bunnies.” Craig, an athlete, says, “The amount of white women who are just kind of tossin’ themselves at Black athletes is abundant.” Nick says, “We could kind of—it sounds kind of bad, we could pick and choose who we want to talk to, and most of us chose white women.”

2012, Amy C. Wilkins, “Stigma and status: Interracial intimacy and intersectional identities among black college men”, in Gender & Society, page 175:

Jaydon Acquino, 18, a Black man who moved from outside of Indianapolis to San Francisco, says that when he started high school, the White guys said, “You could get almost any girl because you’re the new Black guy.” The guys joked about “snow bunnies,” White girls who are into Black guys, he says.

2020, Shafia Zaloom, “Black teens talk about dating in White communities”, in The Washington Post:

(African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes derogatory, ethnic slur) A white woman who pursues sexual relationships with black men.

bunny hopper

African-American man who sleeps with a white woman


sheboon

If the sheboon is unable to control her violent impulses to dominate, and display her chimpanzee "gifts" from nature to a "human" and she continues to assert these "superior" "gifts" that she is very proud of on me with her moronic sub imbecilic yapping (the ability to attack and savage a non primate with niggerbabble and threat of physical violence looming always in the background) then the "shit" will start.

2009 March 23, Lexi Brown, “If the sheboon keeps bothering me than I will then make more trouble”, in alt.test.test.test (Usenet):

I was recently contacted by an old sheboon girlfriend, who suggested we "do lunch" sometime.

2011 August 13, Virtual Shadow or VS-1 [username], “SHEBOON LOVER”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

The unwed, government dependent sheboons who use food as a babysitter, while stuffing their own faces constantly.

2014 July 19, Fred Oinka, “Re: Obesity, Waffle Houses, And the South”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

sheboons don't take baths !!

2015 January 31, THE NI99ERS [username], “Re: Whitney Houston's daughter found unresponsive in tub”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

Footage, recorded by a coonstomer on Saturday night, shows a gaggle of groids engage in a CAT 4 chimpout at around 3.30pm at the Swatara Township store in Pennsylvania. During the chimpout, which began after a 'disagreement' between two sheboons, the two parties tenderize and pull each other's fur near the check-out line, as bystanders try to intervene. I wonder when chimping out will become an Olympic sport? You could have the All-Nigger games, Flash rioting, Sheboon fighting, niglet tossing, the 200 meter "I ain't the daddy" dash, the possibilities are endless!

2019 March 14, Robert Wolfe, “Another "shocking" NigMart CAT 4 chimpout”, in soc.penpals (Usenet):

That guard handled that extremely well, but they'd need about 2 more of him to be able to lift that fat slob sheboon off the floor, she's probably close to 400. Notice that she called him "White trash" before accusing Walmart of being "racist".

2024 February 20, K Wills, “Must watch! Fat bootlip sheboon screeches "Walmart is racist!" after fight with security”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An ugly, fat or stupid black woman.


lovebug

An insect, the honeymoon fly (Plecia nearctica, family Biblionidae).


velveeta

After Velveeta, a brand of processed cheese (itself from velvet), perhaps likening its spreadability to the spreading of a post across newsgroups. Coined by Usenet user Charles Daniels in 1995. Compare spam (“junk e-mail”) (named after SPAM, brand of processed meat).

Massive velveeta and spammage are highly frowned upon.

1996, The Lone Warrior, “Alt.Barney.Dinosaur.Die.Die.Die FAQ (tentative)”, in alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die (Usenet):

As a matter of summary the us.* hierarchy limit of 5 groups has substantial outside support as being reasonable due to velveeta.

2002, edward ohare, “The real points?”, in us.config (Usenet):

But a double cross post to applicable groups is not velveeta, spam, or bad netiquette.

2003, JT, “OT - Re: Please do not cross-post!”, in alt.tv.young+restless (Usenet):

My newsreader (Zimacs) displays aaue and I reply accordingly, perhaps the designer of the software was more aware of velveeta.?

2004, Joe Curry, “Trip Report - RAF Museum Cosford!”, in alt.airports.uk.edinburgh (Usenet):

(Internet, rare) The crossposting of a message to an unreasonably large number of newsgroups.


honeybug

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


Christard

We don't have any friends who are Christards or into any kind of faith-based hooey, so our children will just think that “damn it” naturally follows “god” like “fucker” naturally follows “mother.”

2011 August 16, Penn Jillette, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OL, LCC PN6231.R4 J55 2011, page 129:

(slang, religious slur) A stupid Christian, or a person to be considered stupid for adherence to religious faith in general or to the Christian faith in particular. Compare Jewtard.


prairie nigger

From prairie, the chief habitat of Native American peoples of the Great Plains, and nigger.

As I turn away with my purchase, I hear him mutter something and I stop. I thought I heard it, but I wasn't sure I heard it. Prairie nigger.

1994, Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 71:

"I know he's a damned Kiowa, mister, and that's all I have to know about that prairie nigger."

2004, Johnny D. Boggs, Spark on the Prairie, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 293:

[…] I don't have to listen to some prairie nigger whine about ethics. Go drink it out on a reservation," Amanda said, breaking for the stairs.
"I'm Sicilian," Luca corrected.
"I don't care what tribe you're from!" […]

2011, James Robb, Corona Rapture, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 53:

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person, especially one from the nations native to Great Plains, such as the Apache, Sioux, Pawnee and Crow.


timber nigger

From timber, presumably a reference to the stereotypical forest habitat of the Ojibwe people, and nigger. Arose in Wisconsin in the late 1980s during public outcry and protest from outdoor enthusiasts over the Ojibwe exercising the right to spearfish in non-reservation lakes granted to them by treaties.

Unfortunately, many people suffer from the Hollywood distortions of Indian history. While the Chippewa never waged hostility toward the United States, the feeling appears to be that they should conduct themselves as a vanquished people. Should the Chippewa fail to act vanquished and join in the mainstream of American society, they are regarded as un-American renegades deserving the epithet of "timber nigger."

1987, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, November 4, 1987”, in Anti-Indian Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 1988, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 253:

Or like his neighbor Morriseau, who probably got a government subsidy because he was a timber nigger.

2004, Mary Relindes Ellis, The Turtle Warrior, Penguin Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 161:

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person, especially one of Ojibwe descent.


Chrislam

(derogatory, religious slur) Any sect of Christianity or Islam deemed to have aspects of the other.


niggerling

'Yes, missey,' the niggerling acquiesced, bestowing a slow smile on Snob and Snowball, who had accompanied him into the room.

1981, Ronald Firbank, Five Novels, (New Directions Publishing), page 142:

(dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A young or small black person.


somebuddy

(eye dialect) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


poor white trash

In the south, there are no servants but blacks; for the greater proportion of domestics being slaves all species of servitude whatever is looked upon as a degradation; and the slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’.

[1835 May 30, The London Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c.of the collected Literary Gazette […] for the year 1835, number 958, London, page 338:

“Huccome po’ w’ite trash buy any niggers? Dey ain’ never owned mo’n fo’ at de mostes’.”

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part I, page 17:

(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.

Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):

(US, modern, derogatory, ethnic slur) White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status.


Portagee

Variant of Portuguese, or perhaps back-formation from Portuguese taking it as a plural.

She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn, and she says, Ma, he's 3rd generation, but her mum just rolls her eyes and fixes a drink, fills her glass with ice from the icemaker they have, pours some bourbon from the bottle on the glass-and-mirror shelf above the sink, turns on one of the gold seahorse faucets just a swoosh, and goes into the living room with the paper.

1993, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives- Issues 47-49, page 37:

The Portagee sighed happily. He was home again.

1935, John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, →ISBN:

What did the Portagee say when he opened a box of Cheerios? "Look, a box of doughnut seeds!"

2002, Lanai Tabura, Augusto E. Tulba, Lanai and Angies Joke of the Day, →ISBN, page 40:

“You damn, dumb Portagee,” he was saying, “How could you have fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book?

2005, John A. Broussard, Death and Near Death: A Yoshinobu Mystery, →ISBN, page 121:

(dated, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person from Portugal or a person of Portuguese descent.


Portagee

en-adj

Portagee (comparative more Portagee, superlative most Portagee)

more Portagee (comparative)
most Portagee (superlative)

Did you hear about the man who was half Portagee and half Italian? He made himself an offer he couldn't understand.

2006, Jerry Hopkins, The Da Lima Code, →ISBN, page 49:

Melvin has a very Portagee accent.

2008, Mary Frosch, Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today:

The religious shrines that sprouted in front yards across St. Anthony's parish were too Portagee or greenhornish for my mother.

2013, Joseph A. Conforti, Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir, →ISBN:

(dated, derogatory, ethnic slur) Portuguese.


niggerfied

niggerfied (comparative more niggerfied, superlative most niggerfied)

more niggerfied (comparative)
most niggerfied (superlative)

But now she was addressing Mrs. Trenholme in a drawling, niggerfied English […]

They knowed the Melungeons, like the Cherokees had let runaway slaves hide out amongst them. This with their dark skin was enough to make our grandpappies see pretty plain that the Melungeons was a niggerfied people.

1999, Barbara E. Smith, Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, page 48:

I finally called the Lionel Show, and was fortunate that this intelligent, not loud or niggerfied, college educated black woman answered.

2004, Denise Fillyaw, Water Sign, page 237:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Brought into niggerdom; converted to the ways or norms of niggers.


Bosha

From one of the languages spoken in the Caucasus where the people reside; see Russian боша (boša), Armenian բոշա (boša), Georgian ბოშა (boša), Turkish and Azerbaijani Poşa, Boşa.

The Bosha are Central Gypsy (Lomavren) speakers (Patkanoff 1908-1909; le Redžosko 1984); but what is noteworthy is the presence of two Romani (i.e., European or Western) Gypsy-speaking populations in the Middle East: the Ghagar in Egypt (Sampson 1928; Hanna 1982), and the Zagari in Iran (Windfugr 1970).

1988, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter, editors, Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé, page 199:

(sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) The Lom, a nomadic people related to the Rom and Dom, with origins in India, who reside in the South Caucasus; Caucasian Gypsies.

բոշա

the Lom, a nomadic people related to the Rom and Dom


smoked Irishman

en-noun

smoked Irishman (plural smoked Irishmen)

From the joint low status of blacks and the Irish in Britain and the United States during the 19th century.

The smoked Irishmen — the colored (no one says black; few even say Negro) — represent change and instability, kids who cause trouble in school, who get treatment that your kids never got, that you never got.

"We get fairly good salaries, and this is a good neighborhood, one of the few good ones left. We have no smoked Irishmen around."

1972, John C. Livingston, Robert G. Thompson, The dissent of the governed: readings on the democratic process:

When asked about his Irish name, and how he came by that, McCracken replied "I's smoked Irish, Judge, just another smoked Irishman."

2010, Loren Avey, The Pole Creek Crossing, page 214:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) A black man.