dago dazzler

There's places where a dago-dazzler doesn't cut much ice, but it was dollars to doughnuts that the Sultan'd have a kindly feeling for it when I had Mungo explain that it was from the President of the U. S. A., telling him to treat his Uncle Phineas good and white, and he'd do the same by him some day.

1917, Walter Alleyne Ireland, Beating 'em to it: Or, The Sultan and the Sausages:

I also took off well supplied with letters of introduction to medieval scholars and with what were then called "dago dazzlers,” formal letters to which the Harvard seal was affixed, […]

2017, George Caspar Homans, Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist, page 170:

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An impressive-looking document used to identify the bearer as being affiliated with some official institution, typically a university or college, with the purpose of impressing low-level bureaucrats, usually of a foreign nation.


sand monkey

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern, North African or Turkish descent.


nigger-brown

She is on the sofa, knitting a nigger-brown jumper which looks as if it will be quite successful.

1935, Alan Campbell-Johnson, Growing Opinions: A Symposium of British Youth Outlook, page 165:

Fireplace, AT LEFT, tiled with nigger-brown briquettes.

1949, C. Geoffrey Holme, Decorative Art, page 26:

The walls and ceiling of this drawing-room in Montague Square are painted ivory. The modern sofa built on classical lines is covered in nigger brown striped moire and fringed all round with brown and white spaced fringe […]

1938, Interior Decoration To-day, page 132:

The first class compartments are trimmed below the waist with grained nigger-brown leather cloth and above with beige leather cloth with a nigger brown band behind the chromium-plated luggage racks.

1950 July, “Diesel Train Services for G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 490:

We have a three-piece suite upholstered in nigger-brown velvet […]

1956, Homes and Gardens, volume 38, page 175:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Of a very dark brown color.


The S*n

From the name of the UK newspaper The Sun, implying that even referring to it by name is offensive. Used particularly in Liverpool since shortly after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, which The Sun falsely attributed to hooliganism by Liverpool FC fans.

Billionaire entrepreneur Lord Sugar has slammed The S*n newspaper for their Hillsborough coverage after they mocked him for falling for a Twitter hoax.

2016 January 1, Dan Kay, “Lord Sugar slams The S*n over Hillsborough and backs Liverpool boycott”, in Liverpool Echo:

(UK, especially Liverpool, sometimes humorous, derogatory) Censored spelling of the Sun; a British tabloid newspaper.

Hillsborough disaster
Liverpool FC
The Sun (United Kingdom)


chimpout

They are just chimps...doing chimpouts..none of it would be possible without the Jews.

2012, Carolina Reb, “Re: Re2 - Tuesday's Gone”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

Sickening state of affairs, just wait until the cop is cleared, there will be murderous chimpouts on an epic scale […]

2014, Jesse, “Re: Police Officer Shot In Ferguson, Missouri”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Although it has been given little publicity, a massive chimpout is in progress in South Africa right now. Bantus are lashing out at other African immigrants from Somalia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and other places.

2015, Byker, “South Africa: Total chimpout in progress”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An aggressive or violent outburst by a black person.


chigga

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A vulgar insult for a contemptible Chinese man.

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A vulgar insult for a contemptible East Asian man.


Jewtard

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A stupid Jew, or a person to be considered stupid for adherence to religious faith in general or to the Jewish faith in particular. Compare Christard.


TNB

“Professor, they're charging you with TNB.”
“That's what my lawyer thinks, too,” I said. “Typical nigger behavior, in the cynical police phrase.¹[…]”

1999 April 1, Richard Delgado, When Equality Ends: Stories About Race And Resistance, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164:

"They were fighting and he accidentally hit the baby and the [12-year-old] stabbed him.'" More than likely he was using the niglet as a billy club . Damn near EVERY sentence in this article reeks of TNB:

2002 August 22, Byker, “TNB Apelanta: (C)rapper stabbed and snuffed by stepdawtuh”, in alt.rap.sucks (Usenet):

I'm glad these tennis sheboons lost. If you think those two are bad, their pappy is even worse when it comes to TNB.

2013, David C. Ogden, Joel Nathan Rosen (editors), A Locker Room of Her Own - Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes:

More proof again of what little value blacks place on their own kind. These gutter apes not only beat the poor ice cream truck owner senseless, but they tried to destroy his sole means of income.

2016 August 1, Byker, “TNB Memphis: Black ice cream man beaten and robbed by yard apes”, in tn.general (Usenet):

Haz-Nig deputies responded to a Winn Dixie grocery store in reference to a crimipanzee sow apetempting to steal at checkout. Despite her hostile demeanor, massive entitlement, TNB and chimpishness, she was initially let go with a trespass warning - but this proved to not be enough and Haz-Nig had to aperest her and put her in the primate house of the city zoo with the other crimipanzees due to her not leaving when ordered to do so.

2024 January 28, KWills, “Loudmouth crimipanzee gets arrested for thievery and massive TNB!”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Initialism of typical nigger behavior (behavior of black people regarded as stereotypical and predictable).


pavement ape

Colon, as an Italo-Afro-American, YOU are one of those pavement apes.

2015, NEMO, “Re: What does NAACP stand for?”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet):

If the cops have to kill him, they will,^([sic]) claim he committed suicide. Otherwise every pavement ape in Virginia will be out protesting. You know how they love their criminals.

2015, Gary, “Re: 2 white TV journalists shot and killed during an ordinary interview about a store.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

“Dear Black America, 'Let go of your “black victimhood” and bring yourself to the point of admission that “you hoodrats and pavement apes are the ones destroying black lives and communities.” And in closing, “don't blame Whitey!”

2018 April 15, George Yancy, Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 48:

So, as a "hoodrat" and a "pavement ape," it is believed that I am ontologically those horrible things. Think here of how the Jews were depicted as "vermin." This is more than racist biology, but a racist metaphysical way of construing the being of Jews.

2020 February 15, George Yancy, Across Black Spaces: Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher, →ISBN, page 19:

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


Cape Dutch

(South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, dated) Afrikaner people


pigger

Charging documents say James threw a fist-sized portion of concrete at
Detective Stevenson, hitting his head. He was taken to Johns Hopkins
Bayview and pronounced dead just 35 minutes later.

2010 October 19, Kay, “Spook kills pigger over parking spot”, in alt.sports.baseball.sd-padres (Usenet):

Chicago - Domestic violence charges have been re-filed against Des
Plaines Police Sergeant Matthew Hicks.
Hicks, 46, is accused of beating his wife in their home last April.

2011 January 7, Harvey Daye, Jr, “Pigger charged with beating his ho”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

A perverted former New York police officer who is dying of cancer was
jailed for almost 22 years today in a hospital bedside sentencing.
Trent Young, 42, pleaded guilty to transporting three underage girls -
two as young as 14 - across state lines for sex.

2011 March 13, Lady Veteran, “Pigger who diddled 14 year old girls goes to hell”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):

CINCINNATI -- A grand jury indicted a Cincinnati police officer accused
of breaking into a home and choking a woman inside.
Ronald Kiner was indicted Friday on two counts of aggravated burglary,
two counts of menacing by stalking and one count of burglary.

2012 January 28, Eva, “Pigger breaks into woman's home and chokes her”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):

(ethnic slur, offensive, US) A black police officer.


Celotex

Trade name, perhaps from ceiling and texture.

A rough-textured fiberboard used on ceilings as acoustic paneling.


vetsin

Genericized trademark of Tien Chu Ve-Tsin food company. The Ve-Tsin (味精) trademark itself comes from Shanghainese 味精 (⁶vi-cin₁), which is ultimately from Japanese 味(み)精(せい) (misei).

monosodium glutamate
monosodium glutamate


uberisation

From the brand name Uber, referring to a decentralised ridesharing service.

While commentators deplored the thuggery of some cabdrivers, they deplored “L’uberisation” even more. “The uberisation of the economy is a godless and lawless development model,” wrote Jean-Michel Bouguereau in La République des Pyrénées.

2015 July 4, Maureen Dowd, “Paris When It Sizzles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A new network of banks should fund “co-operatively owned Ubers and Airbnbs” to take on the giants of the gig economy and stop the “Uberisation” of the workplace, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has said.

2017 February 17, Jessica Elgot, quoting John McDonnell, “John McDonnell: We must stop 'Uberisation' of the workplace”, in The Guardian:

Uberization affects much more than taxis and health insurance: it is pervasive throughout the economy and very real to detergent companies and tax authorities alike.

2018, David Dunne, Design Thinking at Work, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 96:

(business, commerce) The transformation of an existing industry or economy with the help of computing platforms, especially mobile applications, and temporary employment schemes.

uberització

utilisation of data platforms to bypass centrally planned corporations


hopia

Borrowed from Tagalog hopia, from Spanish hopia, from Hokkien, possibly 好餅／好饼 (hó piáⁿ, literally “good pastry”) according to Chan-Yap (1980) and Manuel (1948), which was possibly an old genericized trademark by a particular Chinese deli company. Compare Cebuano hopya, Early Manila Hokkien 香餅／香饼 (hioⁿ-piáⁿ, “fragrant pastry”), Hokkien 癖 (phiah, “craving”), Hokkien 好癖 (hó-phiah, “good temper”), English lumpia.

noncog

hopya

an Indonesian and Philippine bean-filled pastry


Tojo

After General Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister during World War II.

(military, slang, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive, dated) A Japanese person, especially a soldier during WW2.


jockey shorts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Binghi

From a word meaning "elder brother" in the Ngamba, Birbai and Wanarua languages once spoken between Kempsey and Newcastle, NSW.

"Ned Kelly: Hearing the deuce of a racket in the abo (aborigines) camp near our place, we strolled over to see what was wrong, and saw a young Binghi giving his gin a father of a hiding for making eyes at another buck. Every respectable Binghi has the right to wallop his missis, but this one laid it on so much that he knocked her senseless. […]"

1923, D.H. Lawrence, chapter XIV, in Kangaroo, London: Martin Secker, page 303:

Differ smiled again, and after a while said smoothly, "You look on Binghis as animals. They're not really. They've got a different code from ours, that's all—but one no more different in its way than a Chinaman's. As a matter of fact, their code of simple brotherhood is the true Christian one. […]"

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 104:

The Adventures of Billy Binghi (title of a comic feature)

1946 Jim Borella Swan, Blue Star All Australian Comics, The K.G. Murray Publishing Co. http://ausreprints.net/issue/35780

1948 S.E. Pearson, In the Kalkadoon Country: The Habitat and Habits of a Queensland Aboriginal Tribe, written for The Historical Society of Queensland, https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:210202/s18378366_1949_4_2_190.pdf
Wood-Jones believed that these early migrants got here by sea, in canoes, and that each one brought with him his missus and the kids. Wood-Jones also held to the opinion that Binghi brought with him the dingo—a domesticated Asiatic wolf—together with the dingo's missus. Botanists also lean to the belief that Binghi brought with him (for food purposes) the seeds of certain plants which are not considered to be indigenes of this country; a notable instance being Prickly Acacia (A. Farnesiana), bunkaman, of the blackfellows.

1962 Manning Clark, Manning Clark's History of Australia, Abridged by Michael Cathcart, Melbourne University Press, 1993, Chapter 7, p. 438, https://books.google.ca/books?id=PYpNYjr_xQEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
In November 1909 the Bulletin ridiculed the Australian Church Congress for uttering lamentations about the obvious passing away of "our black brother Binghi". What maddened the Bulletin was the tears from the advocates of the universal embrace. The bishops, the clergy, and all the other creeps had never been brave enough to say they wanted more Binghis in the world. To be born Binghi meant being black and often naked, to be a person who had an incurable tendency to lead a squalid life in a gunyah. Binghis, said the Bulletin, added nothing to the world's stock of knowledge.

(Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal person.


fatherkin

(dated) Fond term of address for one's father.


motherkin

(dated) Fond term of address for one's mother.

"Motherkin," I answered, "what I mean is that I would sleep until I wake, for I have come a prodigious distance and have last slept in the woods […]"

(dated) Fond term of address for a woman older than the speaker


tater tot

Appellativisation of the trademark Tater Tot.

For sandwiches, you might sink your teeth into a Cape Cod reuben with crispy cod, Swiss and coleslaw with tater tots or sweet potato fries, fried chicken and waffle sandwich with maple aioli, or bacon jam burger — maple bourbon bacon jam, gorgonzola, fried egg, arugula, tomato.

2022 June 12, Lauren Daley, “How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend”, in Boston Globe:

(Canada, US) A small cylindrical piece of grated potato, generally deep-fried.


venflon

The venflon was kept patent with 0.9% saline (AstraZeneca, Aus).

2015 December 11, “Ammonium Chloride Ingestion Attenuates Exercise-Induced mRNA Levels in Human Muscle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


old top

Does it shoot straight? Does it — say, listen, old top, can a duck swim? You bet your boots it shoots straight.

1922, Popular Mechanics, volume 37, number 4, page 182:

(colloquial, dated) Familiar term of address.


sugar bear

(informal, often as a term of address) A sweetheart; one's darling.


tiki tour

From Tiki Tours, the brand name of a sight-seeing company.

No-one ventured to the Bluff or Toronui, but a van resembling a sardine tin went on a tiki tour of the huge Waipoura kauris.

1990, Tane: The Journal of the Auckland University Field Club - Volume 32 (1967-90), page 185:

He crossed the street to investigate further. The soldiers looked up at him, with friendly grins and said things like, “Takin' the tiki tour, mate?

2008, Allan Cole, Lucky in Cyprus, →ISBN:

The aim was to fly down, run the half, do a quick tiki tour of the company's salmon fishery and then fly home.

2010, Gareth Brown, Kerre Woodham, Short Fat Chick to Marathon Runner, →ISBN:

(New Zealand) A tour that visits the attractions or points of interest in an area.


/s

Based on pseudo–XML code, in which a slash indicates the end of an element (for example, </b> marks the end of bold formatting). Originally written as </sarcasm> (to mark the end of a sarcastic message) with the block of text enclosed (see < >), this was later simplified to /sarcasm and eventually just /s.

Wow, I never would have guessed /s

(Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding statement is sarcastic.


curry-muncher

The fact that you call a person a ‘coolie‘ or a ‘charra‘ or a ‘curry-muncher’ doesn't, naturally, stop you looking for bargains in his shop.

1993, Jenny Hobbs, The Sweet-smelling Jasmine:

'What did they look like?'
'Asian, curry-munchers maybe.'
'Indian, Pakistani?' asked Mac.
'Yeah, mate.'

2010, Mark Abernethy, Second Strike, page 519:

With a twinkle in his good eye, Lufi said: “Stop your bloody whining, ya ugly curry-muncher.”

2012, Nicholas Barnard, Last King, page 88:

He turned his head so only Shaun and Marly could see his face and mouthed the word Paki.
'Shit,' Shaun said loudly. 'A fuckin' curry-muncher.'

2015, Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision: Stories, page 9:

(ethnic slur, offensive) A person from the Indian subcontinent.


panstick

en-noun

panstick (countable and uncountable, plural pansticks)

Blend of pancake + stick, originally as the trade name Pan-Stik (introduced in 1947).

A form of pancake makeup supplied in a tube, like lipstick.


lovergirl

Coordinate term: loverboy


boral

Proprietary name, shortened from the chemical name.

aluminium borotartrate, an astringent and antiseptic.


Jewfucker

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, rare, vulgar) Term of abuse.

(literally, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, vulgar) One who engages in sex with Jews.


nigger knocker

She knew “who was going with who and when they were doing it and what night of the week they were doing it.” And when the detectives were using the “burrhead sticks” or “nigger knockers” on some poor blacks, she would have to leave […]

1996, Jack Nelson, Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 129:

So Harry runs to open up the deadlock. Now Joey got the nigger knocker wrapped around his hand real tight, dig. I know he about to correct me on some honky rules.

2005 July 2, Miguel Piñero, Outlaw: The Collected Works of Miguel Piñero, Arte Publico Press, →ISBN, page 226:

The nigger knocker: The nigger knocker was a cut-down-to-size nightstick that measured about ten inches in length. It had been sanded down to create a fine natural wood appearance. The beauty of choosing the nigger knocker was that the victim didn't know when he was going to be hit. Normally impact did not come on the same day as the choice;[…]

2014 January 20, Noah Jacobson, The Pop up Kid: Secret Memoirs of the Intentionally Abused, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243:

(US, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A nightstick or a similar weapon.


Co-Cola

Co-Cola (countable and uncountable, plural Co-Colas)

Jem giggled. "He's got a Co-Cola bottle full of whiskey in there."

1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 160:

His breathing was shallow and fast. His hand shook as he picked up the Coca Cola Olive had brought him. "This will pick you up," she said. "Co-cola is the best thing for any weakness."

1992, The Texas Review, volume 13, page 25:

Later that month, the principal called me into his office, offered some pleasantries and a Co'-Cola, then asked: “Son, are you a subversive?”

(US, Southern US, informal) Coca-Cola, or (by extension) any soft drink.


dogeater

(ethnic slur) A Chinese or Southeast Asian person.


telop

A genericization of the trademark TELOP; an acronym of television opaque projector.

A telop can be made simply by printing on a 4 × 5 cardboard, or by making a mat print from a 35mm negative.

1969, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook, 2nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing, page 259:

(television) A text or image superimposed on a television screen.


cheezburger

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

(Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of cheeseburger.


mangia-cake

Macaronic compound of Italian mangia (“eat”, imperative of mangiare) + cake, literally “cake eater”. Compare Italian mangiapatate, mangiapolenta, mangiarane and similar.

af

imperative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">mangiare</i>

(Canada, Italian-Canadian slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person who does not have Italian ancestry.


white negro

en-noun

white negro (plural white negros or white negroes)

white negros (plural)
white negroes (plural)

(US, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Synonym of white nigger


white nigger

(US, UK, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An Irish person, especially an immigrant to the United States.

(US, UK, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian person, especially an immigrant to the United States.


slanteye

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An Asian person.


Colgate

en-proper noun

Colgate (countable and uncountable, plural Colgates)

→ Dutch: Colgate

→ Aukan: golugeiti (“toothpaste”)

The toothpaste brand was named after the company founder, William Colgate. The surname derives from the place name, which is probably from Old English col (“coal”) and ġeat (“gate”).
The Philippine sense is a genericized trademark from the toothpaste brand, Colgate. Compare Cebuano kulgit.

Colgate (name)
Colgate (toothpaste)
Colgate, West Sussex

A village and civil parish in Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2332).

Poirot's lips moved. Inspector Colgate leaned forward. Poirot was murmuring, "It's so difficult to know which pieces are part of the fur rug and which are the cat's tail."

1941, Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun:

A habitational surname from Old English.


niggress

Rusty waited and watched the elderly niggress climb the clay steps with two catfish about five pounds each.

1997, Carroll H. Peaden, Driven by Fear, Or Clem's Gold, page 87:

All they see is my size and my skin tone, and then they wonder why Jason is with the plump niggress.

2014, Trice Hickman, Breaking All My Rules, page 65:

(ethnic slur) Alternative form of niggeress


moolie

Derived from a Calabrian dialect word for Neapolitan mulignana (“eggplant, aubergine”).

der

"I'm serious," Peter said. "We oughta file a missing person's report or something. Not like any self-respectin' Italian girl would go wit a moolie. Not on her own. It's fuckin' kidnappin'."

(US, slang, used by Italian-Americans, ethnic slur, derogatory) A black person.


Chinaboy

/ˈt͡ʃaɪnəbɔɪ/

From China + boy; compare Chinaman (etymology).

I speak from fifteen years' experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that China boy sent me by one who well knew my perplexities, from California; and that Lascar boy from Bombay.

1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXII, in The Confidence-Man, page 181:

In answer to their knock, a sleek, soft-footed China-boy, dressed in a blue indigo-hued blouse and with his pigtail down, appeared to admit them.

1898, Fergus Hume, chapter IV, in Hagar of the Pawn-Shop:

(obsolete, now offensive, ethnic slur) A boy who is Chinese; a (young) man from China or of Chinese descent.


cup noodles

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

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

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

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


Mad Lib

Blend of mad + ad lib; Mad Libs is the brand name for the packaged game.

Here's a fun activity that combines a Mad Lib-like approach with math to create some very interesting (and sometimes hilarious) word problems.

2002, Bob Krech, Meeting the Math Standards With Favorite Picture Books: Grades 2-4:

A humorously nonsensical story created from a template with blanks for certain elements. One participant supplies words to fill the blanks (e.g. "nose" where a body part is required), and the other reads the resulting story.


chocnut

Genericized trademark from Choc Nut, which is a blend of chocolate + peanut, or alternatively of chocolate + coconut, since supposedly the original recipe used chocolate and coconut.

She talked about how it was to achieve fame, how it was to work her body to the bones, how it was to crave for bagoong and chocnut in fits of homesickness, how the whole thing had not changed her at all, she was still the same old Lea.

1993, Teodoro C. Benigno, Here's the score - Volume 2, page 269:

Go into that shop and buy me three of those chocnut lollies.

“Chocnut,” said Robyn, then she paused. “Peas Mummy? Peas chocnut?”

2017, Makala Thomas, Kenco: The Return Of Her King, →ISBN, page 264:

(Philippines) A confectionery, usually sold in small bars, made with cocoa powder, peanuts and sugar.


postique

Blend of postal + boutique. Originally a trademark of the US Postal Service.

(US, dated) A retail store selling items relating to postal mail, such as stamps and stationery.


gelrite

Osmotic treatment medium: a modified MS medium was used as the basal media and supplemented with Murashige and Skoog micro and macronutrients, 12% (w/v) sucrose (0.368 M), 10 mg/L of 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP), 40 mg/L adenine free-base, and 2.5 g/L gelrite (Malik and Saxena, 1992; Cabrera-Ponce et al., 2015).

2015 July 28, Aarón Barraza et al., “The Phaseolus vulgaris PvTRX1h gene regulates plant hormone biosynthesis in embryogenic callus from common bean”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:


handicam

Genericization of the trademark Sony Handycam, from handy + cam.


lucigen

Obsolete trade name, from Latin lūx (“light”) + -gen.

(historical) A kind of oil lamp using compressed air.


gender ideology

en-noun

gender ideology (countable and uncountable, plural gender ideologies)

Although it appears to pursue the good end of honouring all people, it also assumes the whole linguistic fabric of gender ideology, which aims to eliminate the concepts of male and female, dismantle corporal identity and deconstruct the human body, marriage and family.

2018 January 24, Jonathan Luxmoore, “Catholic bishops denounce LGBT diversity law”, in The Tablet:

"We are against gender ideology," Zeljka Markic, a leader of the conservatives, told The Associated Press.

2018 March 24, “Thousands of Croatian Far-Right Supporters March in Zagreb”, in Voice of America:

Some say that the latest instruction represents the promotion of the so-called gender ideology, but the Ministry denies this, reports Večernji List

2018 June 14, Vedran Pavlic, “Transgender People Have a Right to Be Issued New Diplomas”, in Total Croatia News:

Brazil’s Bolsonaro has denounced the presence of “Marxist rubbish,” political debate, and “gender ideology” on Brazil’s school campuses. Militants opposing so-called gender ideology throughout Latin America erroneously argue that teaching sexual education attracts young people toward homosexuality, feminizes boys, and masculinizes girls.

2019 March 7, Natalia Cote-Muñoz, “Murdered Women Can’t Celebrate International Women’s Day”, in Foreign Policy:

Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an “internal sense of gender” called “gender identity” that may be incongruent with their “sex assigned at birth.”

2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative:

One Catholic family in Indiana has suffered the unthinkable: the parents’ son was taken from their home because his parents refused to genuflect to the demands of gender ideology.

2024 February 21, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, “When Gender Ideology Infects the Family”, in National Christian Register:

(uncountable, anti-LGBTQ slur, derogatory) LGBTQ identities and the movements to further LGBTQ rights, framed as an ideology, e.g. in conspiracy theories.


portainer

From a trademark, perhaps from transport and container, or port as these locations are most likely to use them.

The material handling system is made up of 14 portainers, three Gottwald cranes, 51 straddle carriers, five multitrailers, six reach stackers, as well as 11 tractors and 60 trailers.

2004, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control, page 311:


spicish

en-adj

spicish (comparative more spicish, superlative most spicish)

more spicish (comparative)
most spicish (superlative)

Either that, or he was just feeling guilty for foolishly having sided up with the Gangsters from the beginning; and, in doing so, he was constantly having to put on a fake spicish act just to fit in.

2011, Mike Scott, Great American Youth: A True Saga:

(informal, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Characteristic of a spic (person of Hispanic descent)


Cap

Caps are also naturally inclined towards stability and security—they're totally different from noncommittal Sagittarius men. If you're looking for someone who's ready to commit rather than stay in a situationship, odds are that he might be a Capricorn.

2022 December 8, Jake Register, “Everything You Need to Know About Dating a Capricorn Man”, in Cosmopolitan:

(astrology, informal) Clipping of Capricorn.


ice monkey

And shows like Married With Children and the Simpsons showing whites degrading each other. Hell regardless if it is just a show. I see more and more ice monkeys telling their parents to go to hell in public.

1998 November 13, ronsm...@hotmail.com, “Scientology wants to lose in Switzerland?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

You bastards plundered people of color nations and wonder why they come to white countries. One reason: to get the minerals back you ice monkeys stole from their country!Now fair is fair enough!

1999 November 6, Masters Black, “Re: Caucasian Guilt Complex”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Shut up, you piss-soaked, ice-monkey. Why can't you admit your race is quickly being outnumbered by people of color.

1999 November 13, Sausage Fingers, “Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Enjoy The Ride”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Whitey wants to spend his day ruling the roost and then retire to his neanderthal caves in perfect ice monkey neighborhoods.

2003 November 15, dssva...@spacemail.com, “WHITEY'S CONCERN OVER "BLACK CRIME"”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.det-redwings (Usenet):


mayonnaise face

en-noun

mayonnaise face (plural mayonnaise faces)

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

A reference to the paleness of the person’s complexion, like the colour of mayonnaise.

Tommy was the only mayonnaise face in the group, a tall, thin Irish guy with curly red hair, jail-pale skin, and a quick wit.

2008, Georgia Durante, The Company She Keeps, →ISBN:

"How does this mayonnaise face," referring to O'Grady, "know how hard Vinny can punch?"

2009, Tommy Jon Caduto, Fight Or Die: The Vinny Paz Story, →ISBN, page 10:

Naomi Sparks, an alternate cheerleader I'd made out with once in my car and had never spoken to since—after she called me Mayonnaise Face.

2015, Kris Saknussemm, Private Midnight: A Novel, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of northern, western, or central European heritage, especially in contrast to someone of southern Italian or Sicilian heritage.


yellow nigger

(offensive, ethnic slur) An Asian person.


niggeritis

Stacy let me drive, and I was wide awake on coffee. So, I figured I'd let the girls indulge in some niggeritis while I did some sightseeing.

2009, Relentless Aaron, Burning Desire, page 114:

Hector laughed and said it was the food, giving me what I called niggeritis; black people get a little tired after eating and burning a spliff. When you finish a good meal, all you want to do is sleep.

Shrugging his shoulders, Carl went downstairs and ate his food then got niggeritis then fell asleep on the couch. He slept for hours until he felt a hand on his shoulder.

2019, Brianna Barnes, A True Woman's Worth Is Better Than Real Gold:

Zari seemed relieved as we walked to one of the food deserts to get something to eat. When we got back to my apartment I caught niggeritis and went right to sleep.

(Caribbean, Jamaica, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An urge to sleep after eating much food.


niggerboy

Coordinate term: niggergirl

The niggerboy didn't ride himself, but ran along behind Mr. Wayne like a blackberry growing from the horse's tail. On Mr. Wayne's instructions the niggerboy sped back to town, and Mr. Wayne, tying his horse, crossed above the […]

1946, Morrison Wood, The Devil is a Lonely Man, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

Not only is Ty Cobb the biggest player on the field, he is also the meanest and the loudest. “Hey, you Connie Mack. You see this here? I'm runnin' my hands thru the hair of a niggerboy. All the Tigers run their hands through the hair of this here niggerboy just before they go to bat.[…]”

2007 November 2, Bob Schroeder, The Mascots of 1911: The Year God Met the Devil in the World Series, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16:

Wright learns how wounding it is to wear the mask of a grinning niggerboy in order to keep a job. He examines the life of the Negroes and judges it without charity or idyllic compensation—for he already knows, in his heart and his bones, that to be oppressed means to lose out on human possibilities.

2009, Harold Bloom, Ralph Ellison (BBC Series), Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A young black man.


tylenol

tylenol (countable and uncountable, plural tylenols)

(Canada, US, uncountable) The pharmaceutical drug acetaminophen (“paracetamol”)


nigger pennies

(US, slang, ethnic slur) A numbers game (illicit lottery).


tiger balm

tiger balm (countable and uncountable, plural tiger balms)

Genericized trademark. From the identical Singaporean brand.

In the daytime her adult students earned their living in the market as vendors of mosquito coils, toilet paper, batteries, flashlights, tiger balms.

2000, T. C. Huo, Land of Smiles, page 24:

Rod and Tony are having a few drinks at the Herdsman Hotel and INXS were playing a live gig that night. Although I still smell of sweat and tiger balm I join them […]

2012, Noel Watson, Bolters and Coolers: Tales of a Bouncer, Bodyguard and Cook:

Deb actually felt sorry for her then, in spite of everything. But she also wanted to get out of there, away from the smells of burning rubbish and fish sauce and tiger balm; away from Luke's mum.

2015, Amanda Lohrey, The Best Australian Stories 2015:

A liniment containing camphor, menthol, etc., intended for pain relief.


Tournapull

From the name of its inventor R. G. LeTourneau, and pull.

A lightweight earthmover used in maintaining roadbeds and runways


winnebago

winnebago (plural winnebagoes or winnebagos)

winnebagoes (plural)
winnebagos (plural)

Genericization of the trademark Winnebago, named after Winnebago County, Iowa, where the company used to be headquartered.

The wildly entertaining trip that follows, involving a used Winnebago and an old pickup truck with ropes for seatbelts, has a profound effect on Pedro.

2023 September 13, Matt de la Peña, “‘Mexikid’ and ‘Salsa Magic’ Drive Latino Kids to Their Roots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

(Canada, US, automotive, slang) A motorhome; a recreational vehicle (RV).


fibroline

Former trade name, presumably from fiber and -ine or similar.


metrogon

(photography) A kind of high-resolution, low-distortion, extra-wide photographic lens with a 90-degree field of view.


putt-putt

Shortened form of Putt-Putt Golf, from the American company and recreational facility named Putt-Putt Fun Center.

(golf) An informal form of golf, played with a putter on a short course featuring novelty obstacles.


Judeo-Bolshevist

en-adj

Judeo-Bolshevist (comparative more Judeo-Bolshevist, superlative most Judeo-Bolshevist)

more Judeo-Bolshevist (comparative)
most Judeo-Bolshevist (superlative)

(derogatory, ethnic slur, politics) Communist and Jewish.


Judeo-Bolshevist

(derogatory, ethnic slur, politics) A communist, either of Jewish heritage or serving Jews.


iPad

From i- + pad. Apple trademark, from their "i-" series of products; especially their iOS products, the iPod and iPhone.

“This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”

2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in Scientific American:

(trademark) A lightweight low-power tablet computer of a particular range from Apple Inc.


liquid paper

en-noun

liquid paper (usually uncountable, plural liquid papers)

Genericized form of the brand name Liquid Paper.

"Next completed survey gets your name in a hat for a chance to win this beautiful bottle of liquid paper," I shouted.

2001, Dan Coen, Building Call Center Culture: Strategies for Designing a World Class Performance-Based Environment Within Your Customer Contact Center, page 119:


vaginer

(vulgar, slang, nonstandard, in non-rhotic accents) Eye dialect spelling of vagina.


cotton picker

The ethnic slur is in reference to black slaves who worked on cotton plantations in the US.


hypercolor

From hyper- + color. In the clothing sense, initially a trademark of Generra Sportswear Company of Seattle.

We explore a model based on the classically-scale invariant standard model (SM) with a strongly coupled vector-like dynamics, which is called hypercolor (HC).

2016, Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinya Matsuzaki, Yuya Yamaguchi, “Invisible Axion-Like Dark Matter from Electroweak Bosonic Seesaw”, in arXiv:

(physics) A hypothetical attractive force that binds prequarks together by the exchange of hypergluons, analogous to the exchange of gluons by the color force, which binds quarks together.


fucc

en-verb

fucc (third-person singular simple present fuccs, present participle fuccing, simple past and past participle fucced)

fuccs (present singular third-person)
fuccing (participle present)
fucced (participle past)
fucced (past)

(humorous, Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of fuck.


taco nigger

(ethnic slur, vulgar) A Mexican or anybody who resembles one.


miwadi

From MiWadi (originally Mineral Waters Distributors), the original manufacturers.

(Ireland, trademark erosion) Cordial syrup, or a drink made from this syrup.


Chinkland

'So-so?' he mimicked. So-so? Where does that fuckin' come from, Danny? Chinkland?'

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) China.

I used to tell the kids who slanted their eyes and told me to go back to Chinkland that I was a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee, giving me more right to live in this country than they had.

2004, Caroline Hwang, In Full Bloom, →ISBN, page 47:

Shit, all they wanted was to be back in Wyoming or South Carolina or Pennsylvania or wherever the hell they came from, copping a feel at a drive-in movie, sneaking a fifth with the guys, dreaming of their first car. Not slogging through a stinking tropical jungle in Chinkland, fighting off malaria, wondering if a Bouncing Betty was going to blow their balls off.

2013, H. W. "Buzz" Bernard, Supercell, →ISBN:

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Loosely, East Asia or (chiefly US) Asia in general.


rice-eater

He's won his last battle. He failed to win the Korean War. He couldn't win it. He had to sign a truce. That's a loss. Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice-eaters, he's lost the battle.

2011, Timothy McCarthy, John McMillian, The Radical Reader, →ISBN:

These little fellows have already built themselves a sort of rice-eater intelligence network from Richmond, Springvale and Footscray, rightthrough to Cabramatta in NSW and Fortitude Valley in Queensland.

2012, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, Chopper Unchopped, →ISBN:

All you rice-eaters are cunning, shifty little shits, aren't you?

I've heard my share of racial slurs of Jap, Pearl Harbor, Slant-eyed gook, rice-eater, Geisha Girl, chopstick chick and others. I just wanted to slug somebody!

2015, Harry Anderson Jr., Sandra’s Saga Matthew’s World: A Story of a Bi-Racial Family, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person who is Asian or of Asian descent.


Artex

A surface coating used for interior decorating, most often found on ceilings, allowing the decorator to add a texture. It formerly contained asbestos, now known to be harmful.


tough guy

(set phrase, sarcastic or humorous, mildly derogatory) A man known for his physical and/or emotional resilience.


crowler

The crowler has permeated today’s beer culture so far that you can have personalized ones made for your groomsmen.

2016 February 11, Alex Delany, “Why the World Needs More Crowlers—Wait, What’s a Crowler?”, in bon appétit:

Oskar Blues Brewing helped create crowlers, which are thought to last longer because UV rays can't get through the can.

2017, Kathy Flanigan, Beer Lover's Wisconsin: Best Breweries, Brewpubs and Beer Bars, →ISBN:

In 2015 the owners added “crowlers” to their available line up of “to go” beer.

2018, Maureen O’Prey, Beer in Maryland: A History of Breweries Since Colonial Times, →ISBN:

The beer store offers 50 to-go options as well in the form of six packs; big bottles, larger than 16 ounces; and “crowlers,” a 32-ounce sealed can filled with craft beer.

2018 November 20, Jordan Patterson, “The Beer Snob Holds Grand Opening For Downtown Location”, in Jamestown Post Journal:


iron brew

en-noun

iron brew (countable and uncountable, plural iron brews)

From a trade name introduced in 1901, later changed to Irn-Bru because of legislation forbidding the word brew in names of non-brewed products.

A cool box holds 10 cans of cola and 6 cans of iron brew. What is the probability that: (a) a can of cola is selected at random (b) after drinking the cola, the next can selected is iron brew?

2005, Scottish Secondary Maths Red, page 181:

An orange-coloured Scottish carbonated soft drink.


suspook

That's when the suspook's handgun fell through the hole and into
Costello's lap. She grabbed the gun and aimed it at the suspook which
fled to the Impala.

2010 July 12, Smackwater Jack, “And The Stupid Feral Nigger Of The Week Award Goes To...”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

The suspook swung up an axed dem about buying cookies, it returned
later displaying a handgun sideways as it took cash money from the
mother, according to handlers.
The suspook then swung through the stoh’s hooptie lot and remains
uncaged. It was described as a buck nigger between 16 and 19 in primate
years who is about 5 feet 4 to 5 feet 6 inches tall not including tail,
handlers said.

2017 February 14, Rick Mathers, “ShitApe Robs Girl Scout Cookie Stand At Gunpoint”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Video of the suspook - Heard some of the usual suspects before this clip
was released saying "no way to know race, don't be racciss and assume
the killer is black !"

2022 January 19, Jesse, “Pretty young white girl murdered in LA by ,,, You know”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person suspected of committing a crime.


bisquick

From the brand name Bisquick. Blend of biscuit + quick, because the mix was originally sold as a way of making biscuits in "90 seconds from package to oven".

Seven at night in Tucson, get some bisquick for the dumplings. Have some bacon. Go to Hadley's in the kitchen right beside the frying steak —Diana on the phone—get a little plastic bag from Drum— Fill it up with tarragon and chili.

1997, Wake up and Cook: Kitchen Buddhism in Words and Recipes:

We were limited in money to purchase supplies, so we took a 100 pound sack of potatoes and several sacks of flour and some bisquick, and of course a case of beer.

2006, Reginald Gould, Gold Miner 49er, page 25:

In the kitchen I found some bisquick and thought maybe I could make some pancakes[.]

2010, James Simpson, This Other Simpson, page 121:

Squash can be cut up and frozen but what I do is cut it up, let it dry a little and then grind it up combined with some bisquick and an egg and form patties.

2013, Joel Goodwin, Auctions ,and Finding Silver, Gold and Gems and how to Sell Them:

He stopped at the store on the way home and bought two whole chickens, and some bisquick and found a farm stand that had sweet corn.

2015, Charles Denros, Sick Puppy, page 216:

Pre-mixed baking mix, generally consisting of flour, a shortening and a leavening agent (for quickly making fresh biscuits, pancakes, dumplings, etc).


Momin

(derogatory, slang, religious slur) A devout Muslim.


gem clip

Trade name (Gem clip) of the late 19th century.

A small, folded, wire or plastic device used to hold sheets of paper together.


Your Excellency

head

Your Excellency (plural Your Excellencies)

(formal) A title of respect used when addressing heads of state other than monarchs, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank.


Japland

→ Japanese: ジャップランド (Jappurando)

I am scribbling of fashion, and running into the moralities thereon, and revelling in my first day's frolic in Japland.

1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, Down, Around the World, page 50:


brawt

"Ware in all the wide wurld was a man, and has bin ni to death's dore, evvur brawt bak to life to be so insulted in his own house."

1883, “Journal of a Yankee Girl: A Nawty-Biography”, in The Tatler, volume 1, page 147:

"The young man belonged to 1 of the first famerlies in Utiky. I sood him, and the Joory brawt in a verdick of Arson in the 3rd degree."

1918, James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, page 259:

When he said wuz h'any h'aggressive weapon brawt into play? I burst out laughing and my mother said I should excuse myself.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, page 29:

"I did a lot of stealin' in my time, but I never hurt nobody. I never should hav brawt the gun. Sorry."

2014, Kevin J. Ryan, Thinning the Herd, page 285:


potato nigger

For quotations using this term, see Citations:potato nigger.


old fruit

Possibly from the playful mid-word substitution of the word "friend" in "old friend".

(British, slang, dated, sometimes as a term of address) An old friend; an old chap or fellow.


lissen

en-verb

lissen (third-person singular simple present lissens, present participle lissening, simple past and past participle lissened)

lissens (present singular third-person)
lissening (participle present)
lissened (participle past)
lissened (past)


insectocutor

From a brand name, from insect, electrocute, + -or.

A device used to attract insects and kill them with electricity.


Crisco

Genericized trademark, a clipping of crystallized cottonseed oil

(US) A form of shortening made from vegetable oil.


tree nigger

sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies

1862, Supplement to the Courant, page 88:

lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a "tree nigger" or worse.

1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12, page xlviii:

He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers.

2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m:

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person


red nigger

His dark, sunburnt features flushed a deep red, as if all his blood had rushed to his face; while his eye wandered around the crowd, as if seeking a way to escape from so uncomfortable a situation. But finding himself completely hemmed in, and every eye fixed upon him, he said, as if with a desperate attempt at articulation: “My friends, I s'pose I'm to consider all you’ve said as meanin' complimentary, and so I’ll put up with't for onc't, but I gin ye the honor o' a white gintleman, I’d rayther hev a hull yellin' tribe o' the cussed red-nigger Wyandotts arter me, nor stand sich another white whoop on account of my own doin's. I'll fight Injens with the best feller amongst ye—but I can't stand to be made a show on.”

1852, Emerson Bennett, The Forest Rose; A Tale of the Frontier, Cincinnati: J. A. & U. P. James, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

At Crescent Lake in Oneida County, Hubert Locke, who is black and serves as the Dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Affairs, was confronted with words to the effect of, "Now the Commission has a nigger working for them" and "I guess there are two kinds of niggers—red niggers and black niggers"[...] These blatant manifestations of racism directed toward Mr. Locke serve to illustrate the racist attitudes experienced daily by tribal members.

1988, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, May 18, 1988”, 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 197:

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang, dated) A Native American person.

A Trinidadian notes that 'today there are fewer and fewer "red niggers" and more and more Black men of light complexion, who have healed the psychological and moral gaps in their consciousness, and understood that their salvation and identity lie in their self-identification with the Black masses'.

1972, David Lowenthal, West Indian Societies, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 287:

I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, / I had a sound colonial education, / I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me, / and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation

1979, Derek Walcott, “The Schooner Flight”, in The Star-Apple Kingdom, 1st American edition, New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, →LCCN, page 4:

You don't have eyes in your head to see that is because the woman skin lighter than yours and mine she feel she better than people on this Hill. […] And what make her precious so? That fading yellow red-nigger skin?

1979, Earl Lovelace, The Dragon Can't Dance, reprint edition, Harlow: Longman, published 1984, →ISBN, page 21:

In we family we don't have nothing to do with white men, unless we force. We's deep black people, all o'we! No red niggers!

1994, June Henfrey, “Love Trouble”, in Coming Home and Other Stories, Leeds: Peepal Tree, →ISBN, page 22:

[page 139] "Go on, take it off," the first girl directed Celia. "We want to see your hair." […] "Oh look at that," the first girl shrieked. "She's a red nigger."
[page 142] "Ah knows wat she is. She's jess' ah red nigger tryin' to look white."

2012, G. Modele "Dale" Clarke, Up in Mahaica: Stories from the Market People, Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 139, 142:

(Caribbean, ethnic slur) A person of mixed Black and European descent.

chabin

person of mixed Black and European ancestry


travel bug

The teams placed their travel bugs in a geocache and listed the bugs on the geocaching.com Web site […]

Geocaching for Schools and Communities (page 182)

Because moving travel bugs is a practice that is only physical in nature—you find the travel bug and then you move it to another geocache—the game's design did not require players to take part in as much conversation as I had hoped.

2015, Christopher Holden, et al: Mobile Media Learning, page 168:

A tag stamped with a number, placed in a geocache (often attached to another item, called a hitchhiker) so that subsequent finders can take it to other caches and track its movement around the world.


Your Imperial Majesty

en-prop

Your Imperial Majesty (plural Your Imperial Majesties)

(formal) A term of address used in direct address to an emperor or empress.

Vaše císařská milosti

term of address when referring to an Emperor


pixie stick

(LGBTQ slang) Any phallic object carried by a cruising gay male, e.g., a rolled umbrella or a cigarette holder, in order to signal one's sexual availability.


tazziberry

Coined as an Australian trademark, from Tasmania berry.


pianica

From Japanese ピアニカ, a trademark held by Yamaha Corporation. Equivalent to piano + -ica.


Porki

Blend of pork + Paki, by surface analysis, pork + -i.

(derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Pakistani.


fk

en-verb

fk (third-person singular simple present fks, present participle fking or fkn or fg, simple past and past participle fked or fd)

fks (present singular third-person)
fking (participle present)
fkn (participle present)
fg (participle present)
fked (participle past)
fked (past)
fd (participle past)
fd (past)

(transitive, intransitive) Censored spelling of fuck.


Sanka

Originally a brand name, from French sans caféine (“without caffein”).

Red Jetty sat at the kitchen table while Granny C stood at the electric stove heating water for Sanka.

2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 102:


Ah Tiong

/ˌɑː˨ ˈtjɔŋ˦/

Borrowed from Hokkien 阿中 (a-tiong), where 中 (tiong) is a clipping of 中國／中国 (Tiong-kok, “China”).

Any Ah Tiong and Tan Sri could have solved the problem in a civil manner in a few hours but you have an irrational leader on one side and absent leaders the other...

1998 August 3, soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

If is she both Singaporens and Ah Tiong, how is that possible?

2011 August 14, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

So the moment he cannot employ cheap Ah Tiong slaves from PRC he decides to close shop.

2012 November 7, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

Volvo cars now Ah tiong brand[.]

(Singapore, Malaysia, derogatory, colloquial, ethnic slur) A mainland Chinese person.


bhakt

kattar

towards strict and overtly-devout Hindus

andh bhakt

blind devotee; Indian politics; referring to a fervent supporter

Ram bhakt

devotee of Rama; politics; a worshipper of Rama or a fervent supporter of Hindutva

(derogatory, slang, religious slur) A devout Hindu.


magic packet

Originally trademarked by AMD, but is now in common usage.

(networking) A specially crafted packet that will turn on a computer with wake-on-LAN support if it is received by the computer's network card in standby mode.


nigtard

No, nigtard. You're the one who claimed that my college used "ten-year-old technology." I simply pointed out your error.

2005, Nigger News Service, “Re: Stupid Negress in the library”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Go ahead, defend an obvious nigtard!

2014, Fred Oinka, “Re: Another politician who is unqualified for her office!”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Around here the Cubans as well as the nigtards go crazy over big fat asses. There are way too many women who think their big fat asses are hot.

2016, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq., “Re: Scratched camera lens cover on my Galazy^([sic]) S5”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A stupid black person.


nigger killer

en-noun

nigger killer (countable and uncountable, plural nigger killers)

“Nigger killer!” ejaculates M‘Fadden, “let go there!”

1855, Francis Colburn Adams, Our World: Or, the Slaveholder’s Daughter, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page 388:

If a man does not provide well for his slaves, it soon becomes known; he gets the name of a “nigger killer,” and loses the respect of the community.

[1862, Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Mason Brothers, page 102:

But he had never seen the Bola before, had never heard of her, and therefore was not aware that her skipper, Captain Rackwell, was known from Conakry to Old Calabar as the Nigger Killer.

1932, Robert Simpson, “So-So Krooboy Palaver”, in Adventure, volume 84, number 6, page 18:

There are no innocent white people, because every one of them is a potential nigger-killer, if not an actual one.

1985, Bessie W. Jones, Audrey L. Vinson, The World of Toni Morrison: Explorations in Literary Criticism, page 96:

(contains an ethnic slur) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nigger, killer (a killer of black people).


mooley

(US, ethnic slur) Alternative form of moolie (“black person”)


moolinyan

Derived from a Calabrian dialect word for Neapolitan mulignana. Doublet of melongene.

(US, ethnic slur) Alternative form of moolie (“Black person”)


promdi

From a pronunciation spelling of from the, an ellipsis of from the province.

(possibly offensive, Philippines) someone from the provinces; a hillbilly


Dearbornistan

From Dearborn + -i- + -stan, with regard to its majority Arab population.

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) The city of Dearborn, Michigan.


skidoo

en-verb

skidoo (third-person singular simple present skidoos, present participle skidooing, simple past and past participle skidooed)

skidoos (present singular third-person)
skidooing (participle present)
skidooed (participle past)
skidooed (past)

Uncertain. Perhaps related to skedaddle. Attested since the early twentieth century.

Then skidoo, little girl, skidoo. / 23 is the number for you.

1906, Norman McLoud, Maximilian Foster, The Hermits in Spain:

“Twenty-three skidoo!” was an all-embracing, meaningless, smart-alecky comment of the day, something in essence like one of its grandchildren, “So's your old man!”

1951, Tim Cohane, The Yale Football Story, page 161:

a nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect


Skinnie

(slang, vulgar, ethnic slur) Someone of Somali descent.


skinnie

It was not long before many UNITAF personnel in Mogadishu and the outlying HRSs began referring to the Somalis as “skinnies,” or using other derogatory terms.

2011, Robert F. Baumann, "My Clan Against the World" - Us and Coalition Forces in Somalia 1992-1994:


Your Royal Majesty

A form of address used for certain members of a royal family.


Your Royal Highness

head

Your Royal Highness (plural Your Royal Highnesses)


buck hoist

From Buck, the surname of American inventor Steward T. Buck, president of Buck Equipment Corp. Buck filed a patent for a "portable hoisting tower" in 1950 (approved in 1953), and the device was produced under the trademark "Buck hoist tower" or "HoisTower" from at least 1952 to 1975, when the company was acquired by Bil-Jax.

An external elevator, especially a temporary one up the side of a building that is under construction or repair.


raisinet

(rare) Alternative letter-case form of Raisinet


Raisinet

From raisin + -et; originated in 1927 as a brand name produced by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company. The brand was acquired in 1984 by Nestlé.

A chocolate-covered raisin, usually one of the brand of the same name.

Blumenthal Chocolate Company
Chocolate-covered raisin
Nestlé


homeskillet

That ain’t no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can’t be undid, homeskillet.

2007, Diablo Cody, Juno, spoken by Rollo (Rainn Wilson):

(colloquial) A close friend; homie; homeboy.


microwriter

From micro- + writer, originally a brand name, Microwriter.

A hand-held wordprocessor with a chording keyboard.


Judeo-Bolshevik

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of Judeo-Bolshevist


back atcha

"You drive me crazy," she said flatly. "Back atcha, my sistah," I said with a laugh, then changed the subject.

2007, Victoria Laurie, Crime Seen: A Psychic Eye Mystery, page 109:

“Or how about . . .Are you a parking ticket? Because you've got FINE written all over you.” Back atcha, gorgeous.

2014, Candis Terry, Something Sweeter, →ISBN:

“Back atcha, mister,” I say, holding my hand over my eyes to block out the sun.

2016, Alecia Whitaker, The Way Back Home, →ISBN:


gussuk

We were better off before the gussuk came.

1973, Judith Kleinfeld, A long way from home:

The only thing ANCSA did for us was turn us into gussuks

1996, Dana Stabenow, Blood Will Tell, →ISBN, page 89:

So, what's your deal? What's a young gussuk like you doing out here?

2017, Craig Dirkes, Sucktown, Alaska, →ISBN, page 31:


diodoquin

Brand name, shortened from the full chemical name.


d—n

en-verb

d—n (third-person singular simple present d—ns or d—s, present participle d—ning or d—g, simple past and past participle d—ned or d—d)

d—ns (present singular third-person)
d—s (present singular third-person)
d—ning (participle present)
d—g (participle present)
d—ned (participle past)
d—ned (past)
d—d (participle past)
d—d (past)


f—k

f—k (third-person singular simple present f—ks or f—s, present participle f—king or f—g or f—kin, simple past and past participle f—ked or f—d)

f—ks (present singular third-person)
f—s (present singular third-person)
f—king (participle present)
f—g (participle present)
f—kin (participle present)
f—ked (participle past)
f—ked (past)
f—d (participle past)
f—d (past)

It's good that there's finally a rapper out there who is "cheerfully smutty" and can deliver his crotch-level, disordered, explicitly X-rated sexual obsessions to all the white and black niggas while they out there f—king their hoes all day and night.

2020 May 15, Paul J. Farrell, What a Load of Crap; You Got Mail, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:


Marley floor

Named after the manufacturer Marley Floors Ltd. Now a genericized trademark.

A dance performance surface made of sheet vinyl.


Eskimo pie

Originally a trademark of the Eskimo Pie Corporation for a product patented in 1922, later licensed to other companies or used as a genericized trademark.

In the course of Counselor Halley's interrogations of Frank Costello this morning, the name of Eskimo pie was identified as one of the products made by Dainties Products Corp. […] Mr. Halley, I am sure, used the trademark name Eskimo pie in error simply meaning a chocolate-covered ice-cream product.

1950, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Investigation of organized crime in interstate commerce, volume 7, page 1718:

Velvety-smooth vanilla ice cream – made from fresh dairy cream – coated with a special blend of mouth-watering imported chocolate. That’s Eskimo Pie, the original ice cream bar.

1958 August 4, “Eskimo Pie [advertisement]”, in LIFE, page 59:

[…]many went Phiscator's Ice Cream parlor for homemade Eskimo pies. Rose and Zora seldom got to hear the concerts as they were busy making the Eskimo pies.

1992, Kathleen Shafer, Baroda, the Story of a Small Place, page 122:

A bar of ice cream covered in chocolate, usually on a stick.


Christ-killer

Christ + killer. First use appears c. 1532 in the publications of Thomas More. The first sense derives from the erroneous belief that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Sometimes, when a Jew chanced to visit it some of its boys would descend upon him with shouts of "Damned Jew!" "Christ-killer!" and sick their dogs at him.

1917, Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky, A Novel, page 9:


biojector

Trade name, from Blend of bio- + injector.


vinolay

Marketing coinage, presumably from vinyl and lay.

She paints pictures that look like vinolay and sell at Liberty's […]

1970, London Magazine, numbers 7-12, page 49:

She flexes toes on the vinolay, chin between knees, licking for comfort her own salt off her own skin, not seeing what he sees.

1990, Carol Rumens, New Women Poets, page 58:


cosmic bowling

Introduced as a trademark of Brunswick Corp.

For the uninitiated, cosmic bowling popped up on the west coast about a year ago and has slowly made its way east. It offers customers a chance to knock down a few pins in a jumping nightclub atmosphere.

Faced with a 40 percent decline in league bowling (the primary source of bowling center revenues and profits), Brunswick developed the Cosmic Bowling concept to attract young people to its centers. The target market for cosmic bowling is Generation Yers and Xers, people in the 18-to-34 demographic group; however, the retail concept works for youngsters and even senior citizens. The nightclub atmosphere draws lots of high school students who aren't old enough to attend clubs.

2001, Michael Levy, Barton A. Weitz, Retailing Management, page 197:

You'll find plenty of spots around Memphis to go bowling, most of them open until midnight during the week and into the wee hours on the weekends. All of them rent shoes, and most offer cosmic bowling, so you can play under wild, psychedelic lights during set hours.

2008, Rebecca Finlayson, Insiders' Guide® to Memphis, page 192:

An event at a bowling alley where the bowling takes place under special illumination, with lasers, music, etc.


thetaprobe

From the name of a commercial device, "ThetaProbe", from theta + probe.

An instrument that is used to measure the moisture content of soil


nembutal

Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal (“yellow jackets”).

1952 October 13, Richard L. Williams, “‘To sleep: perchance…’”, in Life, volume 33, number 15, page 110:

(pharmacology) A trade name of pentobarbital.


hide-a-bed

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hide-a-bed.wav

From a trademark, presumably from hide a bed or hideaway bed.

In addition forty-eight hide-a-beds were replaced in the Northwood III project and ninety-five hide-a-beds were reconditioned. Twelve refrigerators were replaced in Northwood II apartments.

1964, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year 1964-1965, University of Michigan:

Looking around the room, Timothy saw that its far wall contained two more hide-a-beds, both of them unmade.

2004, Alfred D. Byrd, Through the Gate of Horn:


bitesheep

From bite + sheep. Possibly an intentional, satirical corruption of, or pun on, bishop, to imply one who bites the flock he should be protecting (compare English sheep-biter).

Wherefore mine advice and most earnest desire is, with all other of your loving friends, that you still keep that order with those bloodthirsty bitesheeps (bishops, I should say) that you have begun. For though in conclusion they will surely have your blood, yet shall they come by it with shame enough, and to their perpetual infamy while the world doth endure.

c. 1556, John Foxe, “A Letter of John Careless, answering to the loving Epistle or Letter sent to him before by Master John Philpot”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 8, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, published 1839, page 172:

Wherfore the bitesheepe and the recorder beinge owtragiously moved agaynst him, contrary to all justice all Law th[e]y condemned him to bee whipped at a Carts tayle and to bee boored through the eare wᵗʰ a hot iron, wᶜʰ was executed in most dispitful and cruellest manner that might bee executed to any Rooge, […]

1578 December 15, A. Dolm, [A Letter]; republished in “Diarium Secundum”, in The First and Second Diaries of the English College, Douay, London: David Nutt, 1878, Februarius 1579, page 149:

If Thomas is rather fond of calling Geoffrey Riddell Archidiabolus instead of Archidiaconus, was it not the established joke of the Reformation to call a Bishop a Bitesheep, and to turn Cardinal Poole into Carnal Fool?

[1860 April 2, Edward Augustus Freeman, “Saint Thomas of Canterbury and His Biographers”, in The National Review; republished as Historical Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1875, page 95:

(obsolete, derogatory, dysphemistic, religious slur) A bishop, particularly a Catholic bishop persecuting Protestants.


God-a-mercy

Content thee, tis no matter, and Iacke Strawe godamercie,
Herein thou haſt done good ſeruice to thy country:
VVere all inhumaine ſlaues ſo ſerued as he,
England would be ciuill, and from all ſuch dealings free.

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

Baſt[ard]. A foot of Honor better then I was,
But many a many foot of Land the worſe.
Well, now can I make any Ioane a Lady,
Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,
And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;
For new made honor doth forget mens names: […]

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 2:

(obsolete) Eye dialect spelling of God have mercy: an exclamation of dismay or of relief.


holocaine

In the absence of cocaine, I'd recommend holocaine.

2014 October 10, Steven Katz, “The Golden Lotus”, in The Knick, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Bertram "Bertie" Chickering, Jr. (Michael Angarano):


mumble-matins

From mumble + matins (“morning prayers”).

The reason, why so great a stress was laid on the distinct reading of the Church Service, independently of its obvious necessity, was the general prevalence of an opposite practice amongst the Popish Clergy, many of whom, after they had conformed to the Liturgy, read it as they had been accustomed to read the prayers in their Breviary.*
* The Clergy who read in this hurried and indistinct manner were called, in derision, "Mumble-Matins."

[1845, Rev. William Simcox Bricknell, The Judgment of the Bishops Upon Tractarian Theology, page 604:

By our Lady! if thou hadst seen death in as many shapes as I have, the fearful change, as the mumble matins call it, coming over white and dusky faces alike, thou would not fear it, but prepare to meet it gaily, flask in hand, like a welcome guest or an expected bride[…]

1852, George Walter Thornbury, “The Monastery of the Flowery Plain”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 21, page 222:

(obsolete, religious slur) A Roman Catholic priest.


thermette

(New Zealand) A portable device for efficiently boiling water outdoors using small combustible materials such as twigs.


folx

Variant of folks. While the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.

I presume yoᵣ lo. will fynde to be very stronge besides the qualitie of the peticonars to be lookte vppon, whoe if they be noe other then as folx [also fox] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, [...]

G. T. C[lark], R. O. J. (1862 July 2) “Some Account of the Parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Lythan (continued)”, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, number xxxi, London, page 192

De kommitte told me dere wus a great gedderin ob de culored folx at Brudder Jonson's Eatin House, [...]

1857, Julius Caesar Hannibal, Black Diamonds, Or, Humor, Satire, and Sentiment, page 183:

If some do, da hypocrites, and dat don't militate 'gains de siety; for cause da some hypocrites, dat proves dat some good folx.

1879, M. Star, in The American Temperance Cyclopaedia of History (Joseph Beaumont Wakeley), page 185, ostensibly quoting one Missa Param

Eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English.


slip-and-slide

From the trade name Slip 'N Slide, from slip and slide.

After placing the slip-and-slide down at the far end of the yard, I walked back to where Ray was and watched him work.

2010, Michael Gilbert, Fifty-Nine Days, page 194:

Move garden toys, such as kiddie paddling pools and slip-and-slide water toys, around the lawn every few days or weekly during summer.

2016, Kate Copsey, New York & New Jersey Month-by-Month Gardening:

Just before I try to form a coherent thought Megan calls out to me, causing me to spin and trip over the bag I have resting next to me. Here I am, spread out on my tummy like I'm about to slide down a slip and slide for the whole place to witness.

2017, A. M. Willard, Boys, Toys - Oh My!, volume 1:

A toy consisting of a long sheet of thin plastic that can be connected to a hose to cover it in water through perforations along its length, producing a slippery surface for sliding on.


cryoglove

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

From cryo- + glove, originally a trademark.

A type of glove that protects the wearer when touching extremely cold materials.


f*cked

en-adj

f*cked (comparative more f*cked, superlative most f*cked)

more f*cked (comparative)
most f*cked (superlative)


f*ck

en-verb

f*ck (third-person singular simple present f*cks, present participle f*cking, simple past and past participle f*cked)

f*cks (present singular third-person)
f*cking (participle present)
f*cked (participle past)
f*cked (past)


gori

(North India, Pakistan, British India, elsewhere slang, ethnic slur) A white woman.


dynafocal

Blend of dynamic + focal. Genericised from the product name "Dynafocal Suspensions" from Lord Corporation in 1939, earlier called "Dynamic Suspensions".

This alternate method for installing a dynafocal mount is preferred by some builders.

1992, Sport Aviation, volume 41, page 80:

(aviation) Of or pertaining to a particular kind of aircraft engine mount that gives directional support to a radial engine to reduce vibration.


Mr. President

Mister President
Mister President#English


gookland

(offensive, ethnic slur) Any unspecified country inhabited primarily by people of East Asian or Oceanian descent, such as China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, or the Philippines.


bed wench

(African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black woman who dates white people, often accused of seeking privileges.


Leb

'Every fucking aussie. Go to Cronulla Beach Sunday for some Leb and wog bashing Aussie Pride ok.'

2015, Johnny Lieu, “Cronulla Riots: What happened on one of Australia's darkest days”, in Mashable:

... Bani as he attempts to slough away his Leb background only to reclaim it and all it represents - not least gang culture.

2018, Daisy Dumas, “What it means to be a 'Leb' in Australian culture”, in SBS, Australia: SBS:

(Australia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) a Lebanese or Middle Eastern person.


Serbo-Communist

en-adj

Serbo-Communist (comparative more Serbo-Communist, superlative most Serbo-Communist)

more Serbo-Communist (comparative)
most Serbo-Communist (superlative)

(derogatory, ethnic slur, politics) Of or pertaining to Serbo-Communism.


Serbo-Communist

(derogatory, ethnic slur, politics) A communist, either of Serbian heritage or collaborating with Serbs.


Lamborghini door

en-noun

Lamborghini door (plural Lamborghini doors)

I put Lamborghini doors on that Escalade.

2004, “How We Do”, in Jayceon Taylor, Mike Elizondo, Curtis J. Jackson, Andre R. Young (lyrics), Andre R. Young and Mike Elizondo (music), The Documentary, performed by The Game (featuring 50 Cent), G-Unit Records:

genericized trademark
genericized trademark

(genericized trademark, US, slang) A scissor door.


coff

en-verb

coff (third-person singular simple present coffs, present participle coffing, simple past and past participle coffed)

coffs (present singular third-person)
coffing (participle present)
coffed (participle past)
coffed (past)

that mothah as often as fambly prayers were said mawnins as the years went by, would wrap her nice, clean tow apron about her boy, as she coffed and choked and pressed her baby to her soah side

1903, Josiah Marshall, “Melissy and tha chillens”, in W.H. Emerson, editor, Tha Ole Watah Mill and Melissy And Tha Chillens, page 111:


crossback

* cross + back
* (Catholic person): Alluding to Catholic priests wearing crosses on the backs of their vestments in church services.

There is a constant crossback movement, first with one foot and then with the other.

1957, Beale Fletcher, How to improve your tap dancing:

Step with the left foot ending behind the right (crossback position).

1990, Jo Ann McNamara, Sharon Pendleton, The ABCs of Aerobics, →ISBN, page 28:

Whether tip-toeing daintily or skidding with controlled abandon across the space, Harold's softshoe dance ran the gamut of classic jazz dance steps. Circling crossbacks and crossovers, step-ball-changes, spin turns and grapevines, ...

2000, Constance Valis Hill, Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers:

(dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.

Ruddey made two on a crossback and Reddey was forced along for one., after which Hachah decided to punt, which he did forthwith, the ball alighting in Hart 's arms.

1906, The Lafayette Weekly - Volume 33, page 33:

On the kick-off, Cochran ran the ball back to the thirty-eight-yard line. It took only seventeen plays, most of them off tackle plunges, before Houlahan slid over the line on a crossback for the touchdown.

1919, Columbia Alumni News - Volume 9, page 119:

Go over several movements that the running backs and quarterback can make (i.e., option, crossback plays, quick pitches, sweeps, etc.).

1998, Mike Bobo, Spike Dykes, Principles of Coaching Football, →ISBN, page 94:

(American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.

An additional within-subject study of twenty-eight juveniles who experienced both diets (twelve crossover and sixteen crossbacks to the original diet) resulted in a 35 percent reduced incidence of antisocial behavior.

1986, Jeffrey Bland, A Year in Nutritional Medicine, page 79:

Wellborn said it might not be so much "crossovers" as "crossbacks" — Republicans returning to the party fold after their 1972 flirtation with Wallace — who would help Reagan upset Ford.

1977, Jules Witcover, Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976, page 423:

By employing virtual reality and new communications technologies, Prince, who in the early 1980s was one of the world's most successful crossover artists, has now succeeded in form of crossback.

2003, Crystal L. Keels, Virtual Freedom: Black Critical Intervention in Contemporary Culture:

A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.


Sinkie

(derogatory slang, offensive, vulgar, ethnic slur) Somebody from Singapore; a Singaporean, often used in a hostile antagonistic manner by non-Singaporeans or by self-hatred.


butter brickle

Apparently originally a trade name for a butterscotch-like candy, probably from butter(scotch) + brickle (“brittle, breakable”).


diego

They're just like Ludds, them diegos — nothing but a load of scum. I've seen 'ow they live. O' course, we soldiers dwell in mud 'alf the time, but that's different. We're building an empire. But them diegos! Them Jimmies! Well, I tell you!

1987, Glyn Hughes, The Rape of the Rose, page 177:

"... Around twenty years old and pretty tall for a diego, maybe five-seven or five-eight." / "A diego?" Armand said. "He's a diego?" / "From Napoli."

1985, Robert Anton Wilson, The Widow's Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles), page 17:

Now I don't know what it is with the diegos, but as we were walking back to the hotel a couple of them started giving us a bit of verbals.

2009, Mickey Smith, For The Claret & Blue:

(slang, ethnic slur) A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.


broaster

Blend of broiler + roaster, originally a trademark, see broast.

A deep-frying pressure cooker used for broasting food.


broast

Blend of broil + roast, originally a trademark (broaster and broasted) established in the 1950s by the American inventor of the process, L. A. M. Phelan.


Serbo-Bolshevik

(derogatory, ethnic slur, politics, rare) Serbo-Communist


nigger in the fence

en-noun

nigger in the fence (plural niggers in the fence)

nigger in the woodpile
nigger in the woodpile#English

(dated, ethnic slur) Synonym of nigger in the woodpile


Aunt Jemima

From Aunt Jemima, a stereotypical black mammy used to advertise a popular American pancake mixture brand of the same name. American newspaper managing editor Chris L. Rutt is credited with coming up with the name, inspired by the song “Old Aunt Jemima” (written in 1875) after reportedly seeing a minstrel show featuring it in the fall of 1889. A British image in the Library of Congress, which may have been created as early as 1847, shows a smiling black woman named “Miss Jim-Ima Crow”, with a framed image of “James Crow” on the wall behind her; a character named “Aunt Jemima” appeared on the stage in Washington, D.C., as early as 1864.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.

Aunt Jemima#Character of Aunt Jemima
Chris L. Rutt
Old Aunt Jemima


lovekin

A term of endearment for a lover or sweetheart.


Conch

From conch
* (Bahamas): in reference to the seafood that made up much of their diet.

(dated, ethnic slur) A British Bahamian.

A British Bahamian.
A European caucasian Bahamian


whirlimixer

From the trade name Whirlimixer, from whirly + mixer or similar.

Powdered solid sample is mixed with this solution (sample weight fraction about 10%) with the aid of a whirlimixer.

1989, Vlado Valkovic, X-Ray Spectroscopy in Environmental Sciences, page 279:

Mix thoroughly using a whirlimixer for 2–3 min in the fume cupboard.

2013, Raman Mistry, Manual of Nuclear Medicine Procedures, page 62:


my man

"Yes, yes! that's all very well," said the king; " but I am afraid it's of very little use, my man."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 270:

(informal) A familiar term of address for a man.

That's my man right there!

(informal) A casual, complimentary term of address for a man.


my man

Right on! My man!

(US, slang) A term of address for a man, conveying awe or enthusiastic agreement.


jiffy-bag

At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole. The largest object there was a jiffy-bag stuck with a hand-made label saying 'Toast by Post'.

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 39:


doodz

eye dialect spelling of dudes; plural of dood


capernosity

Coined by Brendan Behan, using the learned suffix -osity. Augustine Martin suggests Blend of capability + generosity. Barry Baldwin suggests a link with Scots capernoity (“befuddled”) or Latin caper (“goat”).

(humorous, literary, Ireland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

Besides, my grandmother, who lived at the top of the next house, was a lady of capernosity and function. She had money and lay in bed all day, drinking porter or malt, and taking pinches of snuff, and talking to the neighbours that would call up to tell her the news of the day.

1953 Easter, Brendan Behan, "The Confirmation Suit"; in The Standard p.5; reprinted in Brendan Behan's Island; An Irish Sketchbook, Hutchinson, (London), 1962, page 148

… in Howth they have a paper of their own, in which is reported the wedding of a girl from the Hill. The affair was carried out with function and capernosity, by all accounts …

1955 June 4, Brendan Behan, "It's Torca Hill for beauty" The Irish Press, reprinted in Hold your hour and have another (1963), pages 142-3

Myself and my brothers joined in this [singing], with function and capernosity, as true little Republicans …

1955 September 3, Brendan Behan, "Nuts from the Crimean War" The Irish Press, reprinted in Hold your hour and have another (1963) page 70

I would have liked to have helped him for he was a good skin and I knew his mother and father, brothers and sisters as well as I knew my own, and we fought the same battles together, on the playground and elsewhere, with great function and capernosity.

1965, Brendan Behan, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Lancer, New York, page 60:

It is bad enough to listen to his putative successor and having serious doubts about him ... but to listen to a pretender from the Opposition benches must be frightful on the Taoiseach. [...] A man of his “capernosity” and function must be horrified to have to put up with me.

1990 January 31, Michael Noonan, “Financial Resolutions, 1990. - Financial Statement, Budget, 1990”, in Dáil Éireann Debates:

I knew if ever I was underneath I'd get it from you — it's the red hair and the awkward loins gúngaire they called us at home, the man with the flange in his hips but by the ghost of Mick Collins there's more function about me than capernosity!

1991, Sydney Bernard Smith, Flannery, Brandon, published 2004, →ISBN, page 47:

Full of capernosity and function at 6 p.m. Homeless at 8 p.m. And no insurance.

2004, Bryan MacMahon, Hero Town, page 137:

Ragged embers, horn of an anvil, hovering bellows, a tongs of function and capernosity.

2008, Tom MacIntyre, Find the Lady, page 18:

'And other forms of complaint more pernicious—'
'Deleterious—'
'More capricious—'
'Meretricious—'
'And if not done with capernosity and function, is it worth doing at all?'

2017, Neil Jordan, Carnivalesque, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, page 166:


nigger stick

(US, slang, ethnic slur) A police officer's baton.


noggie

(Australia, dated, ethnic slur, offensive) Synonym of nog (Vietnamese person)


pyratone

Many of these shafts looked so much like wood that, even today, the unknowing often mistake pyratone-covered shafts for wood shafts.

2003, Jeffery B. Ellis, The golf club: 400 years of the good, the beautiful & the creative:

(historical) A plastic-like substance once used for the outer coating of golf clubs.


Jesus fuck

Short for Jesus fucking Christ, from Jesus Christ + -fucking-.

"Almost got it! Simon must have busted this latch when he — Jesus Fuck!" Kraig disappeared, screaming, into the hole.

1989, John Peyton Cooke, The Lake, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 96:

“Lars! Jesus Christ! What the—” His eyes glance toward James. His heart stops. The thing backing away isn't James. Jesus fuck. Jesus fucking Christ. Jesus fuck. Jason flattens himself against the wall. Jesus fuck.

2006, Screwthedaisies, ... and Death for All, Rockfic Press, LLC., →ISBN, page 46:

“Are the police on me?” “Yes.” “Fuck!” “Is she alive?” “Jesus FUCK!” Pike gave Rainey ten seconds of silence. Rainey was coming apart, but Pike needed him to calm down and think.

2011, Robert Crais, The Sentry, Penguin, →ISBN, page 188:

'Jesus fuck,' said Mike Toad, swallowing to keep from vomiting. 'Jesus, Jesus fuck.' Allison laid a hand on the boy's cheek, leaving bloody fingerprints. 'Calm,' she said. 'You're no use if you panic.'

2013, Kim Newman, Jago, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 380:

'She weighs six stone.' Silence. He'd been out here so long he had to do the math. Convert it. Six times, what? Fourteen pounds to the stone? Around eighty pounds? Could that be... 'Oh Jesus. Jesus fuck.'

2014, John Niven, Straight White Male: A Novel, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 126:

Jesus fuck, that was disgusting!

2014, Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:

Jesus fuck, Lizzie! You shot me!

2014, Robert L. Slater, ALL IS SILENCE: A Deserted Lands novel, Rocket Tears Press, →ISBN, page 83:

(potentially offensive) Expression of anger, frustration or shock.


Guat

(informal, Belize, US, ethnic slur) A Guatemalan.


schwartza

(chiefly US, offensive, ethnic slur) Alternative form of shvartze


shvartzer

Borrowed from Yiddish שוואַרצער (shvartser), nominative masculine singular form of שוואַרץ (shvarts, “black”).

I liked the secret disgrace of running with shvartzers, of having forbidden friends, if that’s what you want to call them.

1991, Steve Stern, chapter 7, in Harry Kaplan’s Adventures Underground, New York: Ticknor & Fields, pages 123–124:

You go to Israel and you come back looking like a shvartzer and talking like Hitler.

2011, Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer, New York: Bloomsbury, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 249:

(chiefly US, offensive, ethnic slur) Alternative form of shvartze (masculine)


shvartzer

The store’s right in the heart of the shvartzer area.

1971, Victor Wartofsky, Meeting the Pieman, New York: John Day, Chapter , p. 21:


shvartze

Borrowed from Yiddish שוואַרצע (shvartse), feminine and plural form of שוואַרץ (shvarts, “black”). The feminine form may have been generalized from the use of the term to refer to a female domestic worker. Doublet of swart.

[…] she irons better even than the schvartze,

1969, Philip Roth, “The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Met”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 12:

1975, Robert Greenfield, The Spiritual Supermarket, New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton & Co., p. 6,
From the rabbi to the “shvartze,” the black man who turned on the synagogue’s lights on Saturdays, he was liked.

1988, Leon Uris, Mitla Pass, New York: Doubleday, Part 3, “Baltimore 1902-1913,” p. 270,
[…] they were able to afford a full-time shvartze to keep the house.

Jesse Jackson cracks a joke about Hymietown and everybody has a fit, but I’ve heard you call them shvartzes, and I’ll bet had your daughter married one you wouldn’t have cracked open a bottle of champagne.

1997, Mordecai Richler, “The Second Mrs. Panofsky”, in Barney’s Version, New York: Knopf, Part 10, p. 213:

‘We don’t have enough problems among the Jews, he has to go take on the problems of the shvartze?’

2006, Melissa Fay Greene, chapter 6, in The Temple Bombing, Cambridge: MA: Da Capo, page 139:

(chiefly US, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person.


shvartze

There was a shvartze wedding next door and something else too . . . some anniversary party.

1983, Richard Price, The Breaks, New York: Simon & Schuster, Part 1, p. 98:

2012, Steve Stern, “The Tale of a Kite” in The Book of Mischief, Minneapolis: Graywolf Fress, p. 9,
Ordinarily Boss Crump and his entourage […] like to tour the individual shops, receiving the tributes his shvartze valet shleps out to a waiting limousine.

(chiefly US, offensive, ethnic slur) Of sub-Saharan African descent; of or pertaining to people of sub-Saharan African descent; black.


katwa

Borrowed from Hindi कटवा (kaṭvā), derived from Hindi काटना (kāṭnā, “to cut”), referring to the Muslim practice of circumcision.

(India, offensive, derogatory, religious slur) a Muslim man.

sulla

other insulting terms directed at Indian or Pakistani Muslims


wogspeak

(Australia, slang, ethnic slur) The type of English spoken by people of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Eastern European ancestry.


woggy

en-adj

woggy (comparative woggier, superlative woggiest)

woggier (comparative)
woggiest (superlative)

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


footlet

From foot + -let, originally a trademark.


rug rider

In reference to the magical flying carpets in stories from that region.

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Arab.


w****r

One Government source told Buzzfeed:^([sic]) "Bercow thinks he'll walk away as a hero, when most people in the country don't know who he is and those that do think he's a nauseating w****r..."

2019 September 9, Alex Matthews, “B******s to Bercow”, in The Sun:


b******s

... Now there is this idea that trade is entirely controlled by governments, that no trade takes place unless governments agree with each other. Well, b******s...

2016 April 17, Chloe Farand, "'It's B******s': Boris Johnson Hits Out at David Cameron over Impact of Brexit on Trade and Jobs", Independent


b******s

en-noun

b******s pl (normally plural, singular b*****k)


b******s

en-verb

b******s (third-person singular simple present b******ses, present participle b******sing, simple past and past participle b******sed)

b******ses (present singular third-person)
b******sing (participle present)
b******sed (participle past)
b******sed (past)

Crucially, this means the arch Remainer Speaker, who proudly showed off a ‘b******s to Brexit car-sticker, could still be in position for next month’s votes on leaving the EU.

2019 September 9, Alex Matthews, "B******s to Bercow", The Sun


f***

f*** (third-person singular simple present f***s, present participle f***ing or f******, simple past and past participle f***ed)

f***s (present singular third-person)
f***ing (participle present)
f****** (participle present)
f***ed (participle past)
f***ed (past)


ukrop

From Russian укро́п (ukróp, “dill plant; Ukrainian person (pejorative)”), used in Russian slang due to the word's similarity to Украи́на (Ukraína, “Ukraine”).

bor

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, Internet slang, uncommon) A Ukrainian person.


air fryer

Genericized trademark of Airfryer, a brand name introduced by Philips in 2010.


cox box

(rowing) An electronic device with a digital readout displaying the stroke rate and a voice amplifier allowing the coxswain to give instructions to the crew.


hard out

(corporate jargon) An immovable deadline, at which time someone must leave somewhere, or something must conclude.


street shitter

From street + shitter, due to the prevalent problem of open defecation in India.

“For sure,” Lollipop says. “I'll do a check around with the night crawlers and the street shitters that buy from me...see if she's in the region.

2007, Michael J. Carnevale, Dark Obsessions, page 108:

You're educated. You teach kids to become dentists. but I'll tell you something. I've busted street-shitters smarter than you.

I'm sorry, but I hardly think a street shitter is in any position to spout off about civilization. And please "BRIT", that is worse than being a street shitter.

2019 January 9, patt...@gmail.com, “Cricket needs passionate characters like Virat Kohli, says Allan Border”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet):

It's also odd that of the five main signatories only one is a European (Milan Kundera) while there are two Jews (Levy and Elfriede Jelinek), a Turk (Orhan Pamuk) and a street-shitter (Salman Rushdie).

2019 January 28, track...@yahoo.com.au, “Defend the right of free speech of Alain Soral! Demand his immediate release!”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet):

A glance at the comments section of any alt-right website will confront the viewer with crude racism towards people of non-white ethnicities, not least people of Indian origin, who are variously degraded as "Pajeets", "street-shitters," or stereotyped as sexual harassers. Of course, this is unsurprising for a movement rooted in white supremacy.

[2020 January 31, Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall, Simon Murdoch, “Myth, Mysticism, India, and the Alt-Right”, in The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

A street-shitter laments: Too many Scots in Scotland ... One of the most famous lines from Robbie Burns, Scotland's greatest poet in the (kind of) English language goes thus: “O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as ithers see us!" Or, "Oh would some Power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us.” Well Scotland had this wish granted by one Humza Yousaf, the SNP's spokesman on Justice. And he's not happy with his adopted land despite - cue toe-curling embarrassment - occasionally decking himself out in a kilt or a Glasgow Celtic shirt.

2020 July 3, track...@yahoo.com.au, “A Street-Shitter laments: 'Too many Scots in Scotland'”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet):

Ah the remittance power is slowly going to die a slow death, but the only impact will be that street shitter slumdogs will go up also. From 70% to 90% will uncoil on side walks and railway tracks. The rest 10% will either die of starvation or escape the paradise to live in Christian or a Muslim country. America has already cancelled H1 visas and is deporting illegal Hindus back to the Indian paradise. EU including UK must do the same so should the remaining Arab states.

2020 July 6, Araya, “Kuwait to deport 800,000 Indian Hindus.”, in soc.culture.uk (Usenet):

In your case, your a nutter who still fails again and again, aka do a hindu, to provide anything good has ever came from that backwards, racist, street shitter, inbred, bigoted, baastard "race", genetic vermin, rapist, caste system, sati.... endless list. This is the true india. Based upon facts, not your idol animalbuggering death cult.

2021 March 15, Nomen Nescio, “The biggest genocide (Hindu Holocaust) in human history explained by Dr. Melissa Kapoor ji”, in alt.privacy (Usenet):

JAB wrote, quoting a kike and a street-shitter:

2022 September 2, anonymous author, “The Reaganomics of ballooning student debt”, in misc.news.internet.discuss (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) An Indian.


hydroflask

The denture is removed just as the material becomes rubbery, and further polymerization carried out in a hydroflask under pressure.

Place the model in a hydroflask containing hot water (55°) and close with a pressure of 2–4 bar, leave for 15 minutes.

2013, Tony Johnson, David G. Patrick, Christopher W. Stokes, Basics of Dental Technology: A Step by Step Approach:

(dentistry) A device for carrying out polymerization under pressure.

Canyon Cultivation director of operations Timothy McMurray sips the bold, rich brew—made with Guatemalan beans roasted by award-winning Coda Coffee in Denver—from a hydroflask throughout the day.

2016, Amanda Rae, "Eat Me!: The First Annual Edible Gift Guide (And Lessons Along The Way)", Aspen Times Weekly, 22 December - 28 December 2016, page 14

I heat up yesterday's leftover coffee and refill my hydroflask.

2018, Lindsey Stanberry, Money Diaries: Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Your Finances... And Everyone Else's, unnumbered page:

I have a Hydroflask because I like my water cold.

2019 November 7, Jess Ferguson, “VSCO girls: Why we need to stop belittling teenage girls' interests”, in The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College, page 5:

A thermos-like vacuum flask with a handle on its lid, used to contain water, coffee, or other beverages (from a genericized trademark).


kikey

en-adj

kikey (comparative more kikey, superlative most kikey)

more kikey (comparative)
most kikey (superlative)

— You sound like a goddam kikey Jew sonofabitch to me, you Jew bastard.

(US, slang, ethnic slur, religious slur) Jewish.


riverdance

From river + dance, originally the trademarked name of an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.

A theatrical show based on traditional Irish music and dance.


Morkrum

Brand name, from the surnames Morton and Krum.

(historical) A kind of teletypewriter formerly used within press organizations to transmit news stories.


maxi-pad

A large-sized sanitary pad for use during heavy menstruation.


adshel

(advertising) A kind of large poster for display at a bus shelter.


airfuge

Blend of air + centrifuge. Capitalised, it is a commercial device.


vactrol

From a trademark introduced by Vactec, Inc. in the 1960s.

(electronics) A resistive opto-isolator.