tryzub

Borrowed from Ukrainian тризу́б (tryzúb, “trident”), from три (try, “three”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + зуб (zub, “tooth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth; row of teeth; peg”)). See three, comb.

All princes of the Kievan period had a common heraldic emblem: the Trident (Tryzub), which in various forms can be traced all the way to the second century of the new era, as archeological findings show.

1962, Isidore Nahayewsky, “The Kingdom of Halich-Volynia”, in History of Ukraine, Philadelphia, Pa.: “America” Publishing House of the “Providence” Association of Ukrainian Catholics in America, →OCLC, page 108:

The community jumped on the group [a band]. […] Many have been trivial criticisms: directed at their use of English lyrics; their ostensible desecration of Ukrainian music (such as the punked up versions of Ногу, Ногу and Volya, and their use of a tryzub in the Pyrih logo – a punker kozak in dark glasses puffing on a pipe.

1981 March, Sonia Maryn, “New Gig Has ’Em Gagging”, in Студент: Газета Украінського Студентства Канади [Student: Hazeta Ukrainsʹkoho Studentstva Kanady, Student: Canada’s Newspaper for Ukrainian Students], volume 13, number 69, Edmonton, Alta.: Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

The tryzub, which literally means "trident," is the Ukrainian national symbol and is by far the most common design found on the stones [in American cemeteries]. […] Other tryzubs have an upward pointed sword for the central part of the trident. The most common form of the tryzub is made of intertwined lines forming a never-ending loop. Many tryzubs are part of various emblems, such as the emblem for the Ukrainian National Republic of 1918 and emblems for various Ukrainian military divisions.

1993, Thomas E. Graves, “Keeping Ukraine Alive through Death: Ukrainian-American Gravestones as Cultural Markers”, in Richard E. Meyer, editor, Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (Material Culture), Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 42:

From flag-toting pedestrians, to bumperstickers, to makeshift fliers, to buttons (znachki), the national symbol of Ukraine, the tryzub, and the Ukrainian blue-and-yellow flag were everywhere apparent.

1996, Catherine Wanner, “Nationalism on Stage: Music and Change in Soviet Ukraine”, in Mark Slobin, editor, Returning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 150:

Now that Ukraine is an independent nation, the government and people are reviving Ukraine's traditions. One of these traditions is the symbol of the tryzub, or trident—a three-pronged spear. According to Ukraine's Constitution, the national emblem is a gold trident on a blue background. This symbol has been used in Ukraine since the first century a.d. Later, princes of Ukraine sealed important papers with the trident symbol.

2001, Patricia K. Kummer, “Reclaiming Ukraine’s Identity”, in Ukraine (Enchantment of the World; Second Series), New York, N.Y.: Children’s Press, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 15:

The tryzub, or "trident," originated as the royal crest of Ukrainian Grand Prince Volodymyr in the 10th century. […] It was adopted as the national seal of Ukraine in 1991 upon the declaration of Ukrainian independence after the dissolution of the USSR. Here Volodymyr's tryzub with a cross was refurbished […] and was reattached to the Ukrainian Hall of SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Carnegie.

2009, Stephen P. Haluszczak, “Church and Community: A Connection from Ages to Ages”, in Ukrainians of Western Pennsylvania (Images of America), Charleston, S.C., Chicago, Ill.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, image caption, page 66:

She got up to look at all the different Ukrainian items. There were gold and silver Tryzubs, Ukrainian Lacquere wooden beads, Ukrainian gold chains called rose gold.

2013 June 14, E[rin] J. Sankey, “Fun”, in Fire and Ice, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 261:

“That is Ukraine symbol,” Sofiya said in surprise. “Look,” She took the pendant and showed it to Craig, “the Tryzub, the symbol of Ukraine. Olena said her mother gave on her sixteenth birthday.” She sobbed. Under the bright lights, the silver gleamed.

2013 July, I. C. Enger, “Olena”, in Green Ice: A Lake House Mystery, Hanford, Calif.: Oak Tree Press, →ISBN, page 155:


Manzanares

en-proper noun

Manzanares (countable and uncountable, plural Manzanareses)

A small river in central Spain, tributary to the Tagus, which flows through Madrid.


Belgophile

A person who likes Belgium or its people and culture.


Trans-Siberian Railway

Over the Trans-Siberian Railway, although the journey from Moscow to Vladivostock or Pekin, 5,800 and 5,629 miles distant respectively, still extends into the ninth day, it has been cut by about 10hr.

1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

(rail transport) A network of Russian railway lines which stretch from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the Far East.


Russomania

Great enthusiasm for Russia, its people, language or culture.


Pomak

A member of a group of Bulgarian-speaking Muslims inhabiting Bulgaria, northeastern Greece and mainly northwestern Turkey.


Italian American

en-noun

Italian American (plural Italian Americans)

A citizen of the United States who possesses Italian heritage.


Gulf of Lion

Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea#English

A gulf of the Mediterranean Sea, reaching from Catalonia to Toulon.


Italianish

en-adj

Italianish (comparative more Italianish, superlative most Italianish)

more Italianish (comparative)
most Italianish (superlative)


Irisher

Then some of the neighbours at home had tried to frighten her when naughty by saying, 'I'll give you to them old Irishers; see if I don't, then!'

1945, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford:

(dated or humorous) Synonym of Irishman: an Irish person.


vintem

From Portuguese vintém, from Portuguese vinteno.

(historical) A former small Portuguese coin, similar to a penny.


Quercy

Holonym: Occitanie


Abbreviation of second independence referendum.

(Scotland, informal) A proposed second referendum on Scottish independence

Proposed second Scottish independence referendum


Comminges

Holonym: Gascony

Meronyms: Saleich, Urau


Dahut

(mythology) The daughter of Gradlon, king of the city of Ys.


Euhemerus

From Latin Euhemerus, from Ancient Greek Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + ἥμερος (hḗmeros, “tamed, civilized, domesticated”)).

der

A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Εὐήμερος (Euḗmeros).


Cantre'r Gwaelod

Holonym: Cardigan Bay

A mythical sunken city in Wales, United Kingdom.


EUCO

European Council
European Council#English

(politics) Initialism of European Council.


Litvish

Borrowed from Yiddish ליטוויש (litvish).


quaranty

Council of Forty
Council of Forty#English

(historical, uncommon) Synonym of Council of Forty, former courts with 40 members in Florence and Venice.


Roussillonese

The northern dialect of the Catalan language spoken in Roussillon and North-Eastern Catalonia.


Canal Street

From canal + street. From being where a canal ran or runs.

A neighborhood of Manchester, United Kingdom, centered around the eponymous street.


Bri'ish

Respelling of British imitating the t-glottalisation of some accents and speakers in the United Kingdom, e.g. Cockney accent.

Oi bruv, do you speak Bri'ish?


Lakelander

A native or inhabitant of the Lake District.


Neamț

A river and county of Romania. Capital: Piatra Neamț


Ingerland

/ˈɪŋɡəˌlænd/

♪ Ingerland, Ingerland, Inger-la-and / Ingerland, Ingerland, In-ger-land ♪

(slang, UK, representing pronunciation used in football chants) England.


Britain and Ireland

Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain and Ireland#English


Britophile

(rare) A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of the United Kingdom.


Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (canonical)

The name by which Turkey recognizes Northern Cyprus.

Туре́цька Респу́бліка Півні́чного Кі́пру


Roumeli

In Roumeli, in particular, the Ottoman authorities recruited local militias, often made up of Orthodox Christians, to keep the bandits in check.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 33:

(now chiefly historical) The area of the Greek mainland north of the Peloponnese; Central Greece, especially seen as a district of the Ottoman Empire.


kleft

Ultimately from Greek κλέφτης (kléftis, “thief”).

True, the klefts often mulcted the villages, but at least they were Greeks, and they reduced considerably the marauding activities of the Albanians who in the second half of the eighteenth century were expanding westwards.

1972, Douglas Dakin, The Unification of Greece, 1770-1923, page 18:

The fear Greek peasants had of the klefts is commented upon by the evidence of an English traveller, Leake, who was impressed by a monument he saw raised in honour of a local leader who had been killed in a fight against the klefts.

1988, Niki Watts, The Greek Folk Songs, page 60:

This kind of thing had not happened since his great-grandfather's time, in the days when those andartes were called klefts.

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 271:

We find much the same set of attitudes in the very many songs that have been preserved from the oral tradition that are dedicate to the lives, and usually also the violent deaths, of the mountain brigands known as klefts.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 38:

(now historical) A type of brigand operating in the mountains of pre-Revolutionary Greece.


Russian Revolution

A period of political and social upheaval that took place in the former Russian Empire and began during the First World War.


Gosplan

Borrowed from Russian Госпла́н (Gosplán).

bor+

(historical) The State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union.


Turcocretan

From Turco- + Cretan, after Greek Τουρκοκρήτες (Tourkokrítes).

der

Τουρκοκρήτες

The Turcocretans, as Muslims, looked to the Ottoman Empire for protection and were loyal to its institutions.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 155:

A Muslim inhabitant of Crete (until 1923), or one of their descendants.


Trizonesia

The artificial “state” of Trizonesia is clearly defined against the Eastern sector, which more and more developed into being “the Other” of West Germany, with “Trizonesia” being one of the first terms for a new West German belonging.

2018, Melanie Schiller, Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 61:


Trizone

Coordinate term: Bizone

(historical) The combination of the American, British and French occupation zones in Germany after World War II.

Trizone

combination of occupation zones in Germany


West Northamptonshire

South Northamptonshire
South Northamptonshire#English

A unitary authority in Northamptonshire, England, created on 1 April 2021 through the merger of Daventry district, Northampton borough and South Northamptonshire district; Northamptonshire County Council was also abolished.


Hellenocentric

en-adj

Hellenocentric (comparative more Hellenocentric, superlative most Hellenocentric)

more Hellenocentric (comparative)
most Hellenocentric (superlative)

Emphasizing the Greeks, their culture or what is in their language.


polykatoikia

der

πολυκατοικία

Although architects and historians have voiced a profound sense of failure with regard to the polykatoikia, I want to argue for its positive aspects.

2005, Ioanna Theocharopoulou, in Heynen & Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity, Routledge 2005, p. 68

This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:

(architecture) A type of concrete urban housing block in postwar Greece.


Gallocentric

en-adj

Gallocentric (comparative more Gallocentric, superlative most Gallocentric)

more Gallocentric (comparative)
most Gallocentric (superlative)

Emphasizing France or the people or culture or national language of France.


EOKA

In the eyes of the British, EOKA was a terrorist organization. To its supporters its members were freedom fighters engaged in a struggle for national liberation.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 315:

(now historical) The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston ("National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters"), a paramilitary group fighting for the end of British rule in Cyprus and for union with Greece.


Robola

He began to notice that a large amount of Robola was accumulating, and he expostulated to himself, ‘What? Do they all think I'm a drunk?’

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 38:

A variety of grape, chiefly grown on the island of Cephalonia, or the white wine which is made from it.


syrtos

From Greek συρτός (syrtós), Koine Greek συρτός (surtós), noun use of Ancient Greek συρτός (surtós, “dragging along”), from σύρειν (súrein, “to drag along, sweep away”).

der

He was drawn into a dance, a syrtos of the young people of Lixouri.

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 78:

A folk dance of classical and modern Greece.


kefi

‘You have too many high spirits, altogether too much kefi, to be a good husband.’

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 55:

Music was a context in which men and women, regardless of their political orientation, could express emotions, especially of grief and kefi, in modern Greece.

2015, Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Militant Around the Clock?, Berghahn, published 2019, page 111:

Kefi is achieved methodically and systematically through drink, increasingly intimate subject matter in the songs sung, escalating expressions of feelings, and private relationships among the guests.

2019, Tina Bucuvelas, editor, Greek Music in America:

High spirits, ebullience, chiefly in Greece or among Greek people.


West Britain

(derogatory) The island of Ireland, as influenced by Britain.


Hollandophile

A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of the Netherlands.


estmark

(historical) The currency of Estonia after the end of German occupation in November 1918, replaced a few years later by the kroon.


Oldenburger

A warmblood horse from the northwestern corner of Lower Saxony, formerly the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.


Somersetian

en-adj

Somersetian (comparative more Somersetian, superlative most Somersetian)

more Somersetian (comparative)
most Somersetian (superlative)


Home Guard

Later in the year the title of Local Defence Volunteer was changed to the more appropriate one of Home Guard.

1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 629:

(military, historical) An armed citizen defence force supporting the British Army during the Second World War, in particular, defence against any invasion by enemy forces.


Durhamite

A native or inhabitant of any of various places called Durham.


Italian hoe

The typical farming and gardening hoe with a heavy, broad blade and straight edge.


Manchegan

Manchegan (comparative more Manchegan, superlative most Manchegan)

more Manchegan (comparative)
most Manchegan (superlative)


Portuguese Sheepdog

en-noun

Portuguese Sheepdog (plural Portuguese Sheepdogs)

(zoology) A medium-sized breed of dog of the herding dog type, one of the indigenous regional dogs of Portugal.


Gay Village

A neighbourhood of Manchester, United Kingdom


Italian wolf

(zoology) A subspecies of gray wolf native to the Italian Peninsula.


Albanian Orthodox Church

the Albanian Orthodox Church (canonical)

An autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.


AUKUS

Blend of AU + UK + US; Acronym of Australia + United Kingdom + United States of America.; Coined in 2021

acronym of

And so, friends, AUKUS is born — a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. AUKUS: a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.
AUKUS will also enhance our contribution to our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region: ANZUS; our ASEAN friends; our bilateral strategic partners, the Quad; Five Eyes countries; and, of course, our dear Pacific family.
The first major initiative of AUKUS will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.

2021 September 15, Scott Morrison, “Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom Announcing the Creation of AUKUS”, in White House:

Although Australia, the UK, and US partnership, AUKUS, sounds strange with all these acronyms but it's a good one, AUKUS, our nations will update and enhance our shared ability to take on the threats of the 21st century just as we did in the 20th century: together. Our nations and our brave fighting forces have stood shoulder to shoulder for literally more than one hundred years. Through the trench fighting in World War I, the island hopping of World War II, during the frigid winters of Korea and the scorching heat of the Persian Gulf, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners, and are even closer today. Today we take another historic step to deepen and formalize cooperation among all three of our nations, because we all recognize the imperative of insuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term.

2021 September 17, Joe Biden, Australia's decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington, CNN:

On Sept. 15, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia unveiled a new security partnership, with the less-than-euphonious acronym AUKUS. The three states are close allies of long standing, but the headline item in the new arrangement is a joint effort to equip Australia with a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered submarines. U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also announced plans for more extensive cooperation on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Those basic facts about AUKUS are pretty straightforward. But why it came together—and what it means—is more complicated and far more revealing about where the world is heading.

2021 September 18, Stephen M. Walt, “The AUKUS Dominoes Are Just Starting to Fall”, in Foreign Policy:

AUKUS envisages a wide range of diplomatic and technological collaboration, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, but at its core is an agreement to start consultations to help Australia acquire a fleet of nuclear-propelled (though not nuclear-armed) submarines. One consequence of this is Australia cancelling a contract, worth tens of billions of dollars, signed in 2016 with France for diesel-electric submarines. In announcing AUKUS on September 15th with the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden stressed that it was about “investing in our greatest source of strength—our alliances”.

2021 September 19, “The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting”, in The Economist:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in the US to help announce the landmark AUKUS pact in San Diego this morning.

2023 March 14, “AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

(geopolitics, neologism) A security treaty between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for the construction of nuclear submarines in Australia, and cooperation on cybersecurity and espionage technology; to contain the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific region.


Cronenberg

en-proper-noun

Cronenberg (countable and uncountable, plural Cronenbergs)

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

A ward and former town in Wuppertal, Wupper Valley, Rhine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany


sesma

From Spanish sesma, from Latin sexta (“sixth”), from its use as a sixth of the vara (Spanish yard or rod).

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 13.9 cm.


SSRA

Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia#English

(historical, Soviet Union) Initialism of Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia.


Komi-Permyak Okrug

Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug

(historical, Soviet Union) a Russian territory with special status located within Perm Krai; known as Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug until December 1, 2005


Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia

(historical, Soviet Union) A short-lived republic within the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union that covered the territory of Abkhazia, and existed from 31 March 1921 to 19 February 1931.

Социалисттә Советтә Республика Аҧсны

short-lived republic within the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union — see also short-lived republic within the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union

Socjalistʼtʷʼ Sovetʼtʷʼ Respʼublikʼa Apsnə

sabč̣ota socialisṭuri resṗubliḳa apxazeti

საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა აფხაზეთი

Socialističeskaja Sovetskaja Respublika Abxazija

Социалистическая Советская Республика Абхазия


North Northamptonshire

East Northamptonshire
East Northamptonshire#English

A unitary authority in Northamptonshire, England, created on 1 April 2021 through the merger of Corby borough, East Northamptonshire district, Kettering borough, and the borough of Wellingborough; Northamptonshire County Council was also abolished.


North Channel

The strait between Northern Ireland and southwestern Scotland, connecting the Irish Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.

North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland)

Põhjaväin

strait between N. Ireland and SW. Scotland


Aratika

French Polynesia
French Polynesia#English

An atoll in the Tuamotus, French Polynesia.


regrexiteer

(UK politics) A person suffering from regrexit (a feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it).


Apelanta

A few months ago here in Apelanta a similar incident occurred when a lowlife
'boo jumped up and shot to death 4 of his longtime friends during an
argument over a basketball game.

2003 August 24, Work Work Work, “With negro friends like these....”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Remember, there are quite a lot of dumb, violent negroes here in Apelanta (a
murder a day). Stay as far away from the stupid beasts as possible.

2004 February 19, Bull Connor, “Tourism in Atlanta area”, in alt.atlanta (Usenet):

30 years of living in apelanta will open the eyes of even the most staunch
NIGGERphile.

2005 November 1, I. M. White, “Re: New Orleans Police Department Fire 51 Cops for Desertion”, in uk.politics.guns (Usenet):

What a waste of a perfectly good nuke.
They should have at least taken out Detroit or Apelanta.
Either that or they should have fileld^([sic]) that underground testing space
with niggers first.

2006 October 9, abc, “Re: FLASH: North Korea Claims Test of Nuclear Weapon”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

When Somalian dunecoons learned that their blue-gummed Bantu slaves
were too stupid to be productive, they dumped the useless critters
onto the laps of Clitonista "Diversity" nitwits. These dippy shits
brought a whole tribe of the Africoon savages to Apelanta thinking
that all niggers were the same species and would blend into the local
herd.

2007 October 20, \/\/0RD@trwe.nug, “Re: Darwinism Showing Its True Face: "Black People Are Less Intelligent Than Whites" Claims One Of The World's Most Eminent Darwinists”, in talk.atheism (Usenet):

Watch out for "slippery slope" martial law. First Baltimorgue, then
Shitcago, Apelanta, Detoilet, Milwaukee, Ferguson, and Los Angeles? Where
will it stop? Probably after all the shit-colored apes have been liquidated.

2017 November 24, Byker, “Re: ANOTHER Detroit!!!”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Atlanta, with reference to its African-American population.


Grecophilia

On November 21 Cecil L. Striker of Vassar College lectured on “Ottonian Architecture and Byzantium: the Nature of 11th Century Grecophilia.”

1949–1967, Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, page 53:

Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia / The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Thus, the architects of the Greek Revival were not advocates of purity, whatever their protestations of Grecophilia.

1957, Robert Winter, The Organic Principles in American Architectural Theory, page 49:

Marx, in his own way, remained true to the traditional German Grecophilia in the spirit of Winckelmann, Goethe, and Hegel.

1967, Peter Demetz, Marx, Engels, and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism, page 121:

The love of the country, culture or people of Greece.


Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

A public holiday in Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh, and which is also observed by the Armenian diaspora on April 24th, held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.


Armenian genocide

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

(historical) The systematic mass murder of around one million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1915–1917).

Meds Yeghern

used especially by Armenians when speaking English


GULAG

Borrowed from Russian ГУЛА́Г (GULÁG), the acronym of Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й (Glávnoje upravlénije ispravítelʹno-trudovýx lageréj, “Chief Administration of Corrective-Labor Camps”): see the definition.

The millions of slave-labourers at the disposal of GULAG played an important economic role, and indeed became accepted as a normal component of the Soviet economy.

1968, Robert Conquest, “In the Labour Camps”, in The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II (The Yezhov Years), page 356:

(historical) The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.

ГУЛА́Г

government agency in charge of the Soviet Union’s network of forced labour camps


Mesaorian

The line is unfenced, except in the vicinity of stations, and runs across the treeless Mesaorian plain for the whole distance between Famagusta and Nicosia.

1941 May, W. Dendy, “The Cyprus Government Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 201:

Relating to the Mesaoria, a plain in Cyprus.


Ruhrort

From German Ruhrort, presumably from Ruhr + Ort.

A district of Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany


Great Northern War

(historical) A conflict (1700–1721) in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.


Swedish Empire

(historical) A European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region from 1611 to 1721.


Era of Great Power

Calque of Swedish stormaktstiden (“the great power period”).

calque

(historical) The time period between 1611 and 1721 when the Swedish Empire thrived in Europe.


Linth

A river in Switzerland, spanning most of Glarus where it has its source, running into Lake Zurich in Schwyz / Saint Gallen.


Limmat

A river in Switzerland, spanning from its outfall in Zurich to its mouth into the Aare in Aargau.


Dutch Golden Age

(historical) A period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, or Disaster Year), in which Dutch trade, science, and art and the Dutch military were among the most acclaimed in the world.


Carolean

en-adj

Carolean (comparative more Carolean, superlative most Carolean)

more Carolean (comparative)
most Carolean (superlative)

From Latin Carolus (“Charles”) + -ean. May be decomposed as Carol (“Charles”) + -ean.

Pertaining to a person named Charles or its variants and cognates; or places, things, or eras so named.

Using the still unfamiliar term, she declared that the nation was now entering a new “Carolean age”.

2022 September 9, Caroline Davies, quoting Liz Truss, “Charles to be proclaimed King at St James’s Palace on Saturday”, in The Guardian:

I have every confidence that in this new Carolean era, the United Kingdom will continue to prosper amid lasting peace and stability under Your Majesty’s leadership.

2023 May 6, Halimah Yacob, “Letter from President Halimah Yacob to His Majesty King Charles III”, in Congratulatory Messages from Singapore Leaders on the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III:

Of or relating to King Charles I, Charles II, or Charles III.


Carolean

William Cartwright, an elegant minor poet, and one who was to the Caroleans what Tennyson was to the Victorians, is as good an index to the transitional period between poetry and verse as any in the century.

A contemporary of King Charles I, II, or III.


Carolean

Calque of Swedish karolin, ultimately derived from Latin Carolus (“Charles”).

More than three thousand Caroleans froze to death up here in the winter of 1718–19. We still find their remains sometimes.

2016, Marlaine Delargy, transl., The Man Who Wasn't There, Random House, translation of original by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt, →ISBN:

(historical) A soldier (or war veteran) of the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII.


Carolean

the Carolean army

(historical) Of or relating to the Swedish kings Charles XI and Charles XII.


Cerkno

A small town in the Littoral region of Slovenia.


Divje Babe

From Slovene divje (“wild”) + Slovene babe (“old women”).

A karst cave and archaeological park overlooking the Idrijca River, and the oldest archaeological site in Slovenia.


Divje Babe flute

A cave bear femur pierced by spaced holes, dating from the Late Pleistocene era, that was found in 1995 at the Divje Babe archeological park located near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia. It has been suggested that it was made by Neanderthals as a form of musical instrument, and as such it is possibly the world's oldest known musical instrument.


Ljubljana Marshes Wheel

A wooden wheel that was found along with an axle in 2002 in the Ljubljana Marshes in Slovenia. Radiocarbon dating shows that it is approximately 5,150 years old, making it the oldest wooden wheel yet discovered.


Golden Circle

[A] secretive group called the Knights of the Golden Circle, which sought to create an even larger slave empire than Walker had. The “Golden Circle” was centered on Cuba, and its curve took in the Deep South, Mexico, Central America, part of South America, and the entire West Indies.

2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 18, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

(US) A proposed slave state encircling the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

A tourist route in southern Iceland, covering about 300 kilometres (190 mi) looping from Reykjavík into the southern uplands of Iceland and back.


Las Arenas

A neighbourhood of Getxo, in the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.


Deutschbag

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

Here's the special typewriter you requested, mein Führer
Eh-xcellent. Now I can start on my new opus.
[…]
Goebbels, you deutschbag, this is Arial! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

2012, James Carr, Archana Kumar, Hipster Hitler, page 48:

Tell Fritz to stop being a Deutschbag.

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


captain regent

Either of the two heads of state of San Marino, elected every six months.


Landsgemeinde

A ceasefire and a Landsgemeinde were called and the citizens of Schwyz met to decide en masse whether to capitulate and to accept the Helvetic republic.

2011, Marc Lemer, A Laboratory of Liberty, page 128:

After the foundation of the Swiss Federation in 1848, all cantons except those with a Landsgemeinde tradition introduced direct democratic instruments into their constitutions.

2017, Matt Qvortrup, Referendums Around the World, page 50:

A type of cantonal assembly in Switzerland, where regional voting takes place.


E&W

England and Wales
England and Wales#English

(UK, law) Abbreviation of England and Wales.


England & Wales

(UK, law) Alternative form of England and Wales.


exchanging of contracts

exchange of contracts
exchange of contracts#English

Alternative form of exchange of contracts.


exchange contracts

en-verb

exchange contracts (third-person singular simple present exchanges contracts, present participle exchanging contracts, simple past and past participle exchanged contracts)

exchanges contracts (present singular third-person)
exchanging contracts (participle present)
exchanged contracts (participle past)
exchanged contracts (past)

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.

legal representative
legal representative

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, chiefly by legal practitioners) To create a contract for the disposition of an estate in land between negotiating parties, by a process which is immediately followed by the exchange of executed counterparts of the contract between each party's legal representative.


exchange of contracts

en-noun

exchange of contracts (plural exchanges of contracts)

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) The act of exchanging contracts.

(law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) The point or stage at which a conveyancing contract comes into existence between negotiating parties for the carrying out of a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit.


mines & minerals

mines and minerals
mines and minerals#English


replacist

Calque of French remplaciste, equivalent to replace + -ist.

The opponents of the ‘Great Replacement’ have to be ‘united to form a common front on a pan-European level’, since the battle stands between ‘replacists’ and ‘non-replacists’ only (43–44).

2021, Andreas Önnerfors, André Krouwel, editors, Europe: Continent of Conspiracies, London: Routledge, →ISBN:

A member of the elite that is said to be assisting in the implementation of the Great Replacement.


replacism

From French remplacisme, equivalent to replace + -ism.

The supposed ideology in favour of the Great Replacement.


European morning

European morning (plural European mornings)

(India, historical) A morning spent lying in bed late, as opposed to the Anglo-Indian habit of early rising.


Great Replacement

The gradual demographic and cultural replacement of the white French population in France by non-European peoples.


samizdatchik

samizdatchik (plural samizdatchiki or samizdatchiks)

samizdatchiki (plural)
samizdatchiks (plural)

From Russian самиздатчик (samizdatčik), from самиздат (samizdat, “samizdat”) + suffix -чик (-čik).

(historical) A person who participates in the practice of samizdat.


tamizdat

tamizdat (countable and uncountable, plural tamizdats)

Borrowed from Russian тамизда́т (tamizdát, literally “published there”), from там (tam, “there”) + изда́ть (izdátʹ).

bor+

Foremost—and most controversial — of the Western groups engaged in tamizdat is the Posev‐Grani [organization], commonly known as N.T.S.

1970 March 15, Albert Parry, “Samizdat Is Russia' Underground Press”, in The New York Times:

The fact that samizdat/tamizdat were written symbols of the human suffering in the Eastern bloc encouraged a less critical and often naive reading of the texts both then and now. Thus, we hope here to critically view some of the inherent dangers of samizdat/tamizdat publication, without diminishing its relevance as visualizations of human experience.

2013, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov, “Introduction: Samizdat and Tamizdat”, in Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov, editors, Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media during and after Socialism (Studies in Contemporary European History; 13), New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 3:

(historical) Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.


Italian East Africa

(historical) An Italian colony created in 1936 with the merger of Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian Empire.


Odelsting

Coordinate term: Lagting

(politics) The quasi-lower house of the parliament of Norway from 1814 to 2009.


Red Russia

From red + Russia; see red (“communist”).

(dated, derogatory) Former Soviet Russia


Turkiye

Alternative spelling of Türkiye, Turkey (a country in Europe and Asia)


man of Kent

Coordinate term: maid of Kent

A man from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).


maid of Kent

Coordinate term: man of Kent

A woman from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).


doina

For quotations using this term, see Citations:doina.

A kind of Romanian folk song, often of lament, which has also been adopted into klezmer (Ashkenazi Jewish) music.


Consistorialrath

Borrowed from German Consistorialrath, obsolete spelling of Konsistorialrat.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Consistorialrath.

(historical, ecclesiastical) councillor of the consistory


Iguvine

Iguvine inscriptions

Of or relating to ancient Iguvium (modern Gubbio) in Italy.


Republic of Türkiye

Partial calque of Turkish Türkiye Cumhuriyeti

partial calque

الْجُمْهُورِيَّة التُّرْكِيَّة

official name of the country of Turkey — see also Republic of Turkey


Young Poland

Yet the turn-of-the-century Young Poland writers and artists in Kraków took an even deeper interest in peasants.

2014, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Poland: The First Thousand Years, Cornell University Press, page 367:

(historical) The modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature, and music which lasted from the end of the 19th century to 1918.


Jewkraine

Blend of Jew + Ukraine, implying that Ukraine is controlled by the Jews and Jewish interests.

The Jew-Coup
in the country now known as Jewkraine has been
heavily subsidized by International Jewry.

2014 February 26, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Jewcraine Jews Fear The Bull!”, in alt.fan.adolf-hitler (Usenet):

Game Over for the zio regime of Jewkraine!

2022 February 24, greg1242, “Live Updates: LPR Forces Conduct Operation in Town Controlled by Ukraine, Republic Says”, in (Usenet):

2022 March 3, David Chase Taylor, “The Jewkraine Conspiracy”, in YouTube:

2022 March 30, SK, “jewkraine:"what will you give us in return for not putting Jew-America's nukes 5 minutes from Moscow?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

The Jewkraine is so fucked that the only people they can find to push propaganda for them are mentally ill people. That’s why they’ve put a tranny in charge of their English propaganda efforts.

2023 August 3, *skriptis, “(OT) Tranny Chosen to Lead Ukraine English Propaganda Efforts”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, offensive, derogatory) The nation of Ukraine.


Tsar Bomba

Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).

bor

A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuke ever exploded.


Ukronazi

Borrowed from Russian укронаци (ukronaci). Influenced by anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Russia as a result of Russian propaganda depicting Ukrainian nationalism as a neo-Nazi regime. By surface analysis, Ukro- + Nazi.

In a sad and tragic way, the Ukronazis have achieved their dream – they have created an anti-Russia, a polar opposite of the Russian civilizational realm.

2015 May 6, Oleg Smirnov, “they know that they are a fraud”, in alt.russian.z1 (Usenet):

Not to be undone, the Ukronazis have also taken a highly significant step: the Ukrainian Prime Minister has declared that he thinks that the irregular forces currently enforcing the blockade should be considered official border guards (as for these soon to be "border guards", they have explained that for their main border post shall be called "nightingale" in honor of the Nachtigall battalion of the Nazi Abwehr).

2017 March 6, Mikael Forsberg, “The Donbass Is Breaking Away from an Agonized Ukraine”, in swnet.politik (Usenet):

Last week, following the imposition of a total blockade against Novorussia by the "Ukronazis" [Kiev regime], Russia declared that she will from now on recognize the official documents emitted by the DNR and LNR authorities.

2017 March 23, Vngelis, “What is Happening in the Ukraine right now...”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet):

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Ukrainian nationalist, especially one showing Russophobia and anti-Russian sentiment.

Le Monde
Russian information war against Ukraine
The New York Times


Buyan

From Russian Буя́н (Buján). See there for further information.

(Slavic mythology, folklore) In medieval Russian folklore, a mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear with the tide; the home of the Zoryas (solar goddesses) and three brothers representing the Northern, Western, and Eastern Winds.

Bouïane

a mysterious island in the Russian folklore


Greyfriars

As a common British placename, typically derived from having been the site of a Franciscan friary prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Any of various other towns and villages in the United Kingdom.


Shikotan

From Russian Шикотан (Šikotan) and Japanese 色丹, both from Ainu シコタン, from シ + コタン (“settlement, island”).

An island in the Kurils, occupied by Russia but claimed by Japan.


Welshy

(informal) Synonym of Welsh: of or related to Wales, similar to Welsh people or things.


English law

The common law legal system of England and Wales, supplemented in Wales by Welsh law.


Welsh law

That part of the common law legal system of Wales that supplements English law.


Scots law

(formal) The legal system of Scotland, a hybrid of civil law and common law.


Morayvian

en-adj

Morayvian (comparative more Morayvian, superlative most Morayvian)

more Morayvian (comparative)
most Morayvian (superlative)

From Moravia + -ian, influenced by the spelling Moray.

[…]onward transportation to the Morayvian salt mines.

1970, HMS Eagle Commissioning Book 1969-1970, page 29:


(UK, rail transport) Initialism of High Speed 2, a branched high-speed railway under construction between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Wigan.


Netherlands New Guinea

colonial territory of the Netherlands, present-day West Papua or Western New Guinea.


Cinquecentism

The style of art and architecture associated with 16th-century Italy.


Nordicentric

Nordicentric (comparative more Nordicentric, superlative most Nordicentric)

more Nordicentric (comparative)
most Nordicentric (superlative)

Danger Mouse checks his program again...
"Don't tell me I got the Daylight Savings correction wrong..."
After a couple of minutes he looks up again. "Nope, I got it right. For winter, of course. When it's summer (in the southern hemisphere, you nordicentric people!! :-) ) then Shonias' reckoning is correct. But since it's now winter, my calculation stands."

1992 July 1, David Mar, “HoloMuck VR Gathering every Wednesday 8 PM EDT”, in alt.callahans (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-15:

I am American of Irish ancestry hence not a Semite. But unlike the racists I will not twist history to get a Nordicentric lie.

2000 January 27, vonquark, “The Historical Errrors of the Racists!”, in alt.discrimination (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-15:

"Holy" used sarcastically to illustrate that Orientals are unfortunately popular not only on the "White left", but also in some precincts of the "White right" as well. Conservatives certainly fit this description, but also some of the "Nordicentric" type of "racial activists" seem....enamored of Orientals as well. Regardless of these preferences, nonWhite is nonWhite...East is East and West is West and, in theory, the two should never meet.

2002 April 23, National Front, “Thoughtcrime II: April 23, 2002”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-15:

> So, until 2013 Mark will lead this table. Should we bestow upon him the symbolic distinction of being UCPS "Summer Champion"? :-)
"Winter Champion" please; there's no reason to be Nordicentric here!

2012 October 16, Abubakr, “(R/T) Conmebol WCQ, Round 10”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-15:

Focused on Nordic countries or the people thereof.


Prespa

A region of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece


Gornja Siga

From Serbo-Croatian Gornja Siga. Literally, “upper tufa”.

A region, a terra nullius on the west shore floodplain of the Danube, Europe, between Croatia and Serbia, declared to be Serbian by Croatia and Croatian by Serbia, claimed by neither side; becoming Terra Nullius since the independence of Croatia from Yugoslavia.


Ukrofascist

[…] and through to TV news reports and talk-shows recounting phantasmic atrocities committed by “ukro-fascists”, from cannibalism to child crucifixion to the “genocide” of Russians in East Ukraine.⁵

2014 April 1, Julie Fedor, Andriy Portnov, Andreas Umland, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Sociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices (Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society), volume 1, number 1, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2:

In many Russian circles, the narrative surrounding the conflict in eastern Ukraine borrows from the rhetoric of World War II, with talk of “liberating” cities now under Kiev’s control and even retaking Kiev from U.S.-backed “Ukrofascists.”

2015 May 8, Maria Antonova, “Putin’s Great Patriotic Purge”, in Foreign Policy:

She held a poster stating that [Belarusian President] Alexander Lukashenko is working with “Ukrofascists.”

2017 June 2, Lincoln Pigman, “Inside Russia’s National Liberation Movement With Pavel Merzlikin”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

For starters, we need to say what this voice is not. It's certainly not the naive slogans about a “junta” and “Ukrofascists” that are repeated like a mantra in the DPR ranks. They had to work their way to that.

2022 February 28, Stanislav Aseyev, In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature), Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:


EUI

(European Union) Initialism of European Union institution.


Suwalki gap

And on the A4 autobahn in eastern Germany, a U.S. Army captain and his Macedonian counterpart rushed toward the Suwalki Gap — the place many war planners predict will be the flashpoint for a NATO war with Russia — hoping the overheated radiator on their Stryker armored combat vehicle wouldn’t kill the engine.

2024 April 24, Helene Cooper, “NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The strip of NATO-controlled territory along the Polish–Lithuanian border, separating Russia (Kaliningrad) from its ally Belarus.


Madrilene

Madrilene was a sweet, average American girl with an inordinate number of teeth in need of straightening because our dentist was building a ballroom over his garage.

1974, Leo Rosten, Dear "Herm"--with a Cast of Dozens, page 39:

She continued to see her friend Madrilene from Haverford State Hospital.

2010, H. Michael Zal, Dancing with Medusa: A Life in Psychiatry : a Memoir, page 63:

Her name was Madrilene and she caused me a deal of trouble once.

2014, Laura Cassidy, Madrilene's Granddaughter:


Dashnak

Borrowed from Armenian դաշնակ (dašnak). The forms with T- are from the Western Armenian pronunciation.

(politics) A member of Dashnaktsutyun, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, an Armenian nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890.


Banderism

(politics) The political movement or philosophy of Stepan Bandera (1909–1959), a Ukrainian nationalist politician.


Hetmanite

(historical, politics) A supporter or follower of the United Hetman Organization, a Ukrainian conservative monarchist organization.


Petliurite

(historical, politics) A follower of Symon Petliura.


Melnykite

From the name of OUN leader Andriy Melnyk + -ite.

Coordinate term: Banderite

(historical, politics) A follower of the moderate faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Andriy Melnyk (Ukrainian military leader)


Eurostan

Yeah, and guess what, I still don't care. And by "the rest of the world"
you're referring to Eurostan and Muslim nations.

2004 November 22, Don Swayser, “Terrorism in Iraq”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

Ok, let them all receive their lessons from the imams in Arabic and
Urdu. I think all of the European countries should do this, since the
native Europeans will be dhimmis soon enough. With it becoming Eurostan
and all.

2006 April 28, Evron, “'Separate laws for Muslims' idea slammed (Sweden)”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

It is remarkable to me that the overwhelming majority have not turned
towards radical Islam because that sure as hell is where many on the right
would like to see them go on this group and their talk of 'Eurostan',
'Londistan' and all other manner of derisory comments is designed to make
them feel, "if that's how they see us, we might as well be that ( better to
die on our feet than live on our knees )".

2007 September 27, The Happy Hippy, “Iran president's ignorance”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):

true, since it becoming Islamic Republic of Eurostan

2007 November 14, GeekBoy, “Why I hate America”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):

I don’t think Orwell foresaw this multicultural superstate. This is something new. All we can be sure of is that this Eurostan—the new European superstate now in the making—will be a multicultural dystopia rife with race wars, gang rapes, cheap foreign labor, widespread unemployment for the dispossessed White minority, bullying bosses, cowed workers, overflowing prisons, fatcat lawyers, psychotic politicians, police state surveillance, fabricated news items, false flag attacks, demoralized families, dysfunctional children, schools for morons, mass suicides, manufactured diseases, promoted perversions, drug addiction, gambling, prostitution, pornography, serial killers on the rampage, and nonstop mindless entertainment for the zombified masses.

2016 September 3, track...@yahoo.com.au, “Germany: Rape on an Industrial Scale...”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet):

(derogatory, offensive) A supposed future Europe which has undergone Islamization.


Mazepite

(historical, uncommon) A follower or supporter of Ivan Mazepa.


North Wales

A geographic region of Wales, covering the most northern part of the country.


Ukrainophilia

The love of or identification with Ukraine and Ukrainians

украинофи́лия

the liking or love of Ukraine or Ukrainians


Ukrainophile

A person who loves the country, culture or people of Ukraine.


Balkaner

(possible internet slang, colloquial) A person from the Balkans.


Swexit

(politics) The (possible) act of Sweden leaving the European Union.


German Samoa

(historical) A German protectorate from 1900 to 1919, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono


Russosphere

Russia and other countries in its sphere of influence, including former territories under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.


centgrave

From German Zentgraf, from Latin cent- (“100”) + German -graf (“-grave”).

(historical) The overseer of a hundred (zent) in medieval France and Germany.


klyukva

From Russian клю́ква (kljúkva, “cranberry, tall tale”). See also разве́систая клю́ква (razvésistaja kljúkva, “highbrush cranberry”), an idiom that means "a tall tale".

bor

2021, Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitorhttps://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2021/0715/Russians-say-Marvel-s-Black-Widow-is-klyukva.-That-s-not-flattering
Russian moviegoers have a special term for films whose storyline or atmosphere just does not ring true. It’s klyukva, or “cranberry.” Reviews of “Black Widow” bristle with that term.

(Russia, neologism) Stereotypes about Russia and Russian people.

Vanya

placeholder names used for stereotypical Russians

sharovarshchyna

stereotypical depictions of Ukrainian people


Cetina

Three possible origins:
* Borrowed from Spanish Cetina, a habitational surname from a small village in Aragona.
* Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cetina, a habitational surname from a small village in Croatia or from the river which flows by it.
* Borrowed from Slovene Četina, a nickname for a hairy or bearded man, from a dialect form of ščetina (“bristle”).


Zhdanov

Borrowed from Ukrainian Жданов (Ždanov), from Russian Жданов (Ždanov). The Ukrainian city is Named after Soviet politician Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov.


sandy blind mole rat

en-noun

sandy blind mole rat (plural sandy blind mole rats)

sandy blind mole-rat
sandy blind mole-rat#English

Alternative spelling of sandy blind mole-rat.


sandy blind mole-rat

sandy blind mole-rat (plural sandy blind mole-rats)

A species of blind mole-rat endemic to Ukraine; Spalax arenarius.


Rome rule

(derogatory, chiefly historical) The control of an autonomous or independent Ireland by the Pope and the Catholic Church, as claimed by Protestant unionists.


angloid

"Angloid on the inside.” You may not be familiar with this term. When I first heard it I had to look it up. It is a derogatory term for white people.

2021, AD Robles, Social Justice Pharisees:

(slang, derogatory) An English person or person of English ancestry.


The telephone number for firefighting assistance in Cuba and Hungary.


Ruscism

Borrowed from Russian раши́зм (rašízm) or Ukrainian раши́зм (rašýzm), blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia (chiefly derogatory)”) + фаши́зм (fašízm, “fascism”), the first an unadapted borrowing from English Russia. Compare Russian Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”) or Ukrainian Росі́я (Rosíja, “Russia”).

blend

Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . .

2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (→ISSN), v 1, n 1, pp 160–61

Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia.

2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p 107

On the other side, a large segment of the Ukrainian press has been presenting the Putin regime as fascist: commentators have coined the nickname Putler (Putin + Hitler) and the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism.

2020, Marlene Lurelle, “Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts,” in Eric Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, and Sergei A. Samoilenko editors, Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, p 315

[…] science, and science-based ultramodern technologies (AI) invented for progress have transformed into cynical means of conducting the third world war by immoral intellect of the ideologists of Ruscism [4].

2020 April 27, Actual problems of science and practice, International Science Group, →ISBN, page 175:

“We have beat fascism, and we will defeat Ruscism,” said Pavel Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, who arrived with heavily armed guards to lay flowers at the monument.

2022 May 10, Michael Schwirtz, “Invasion upends a shared World War II history with Ukraine”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 130, page A8:

(politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.


Procopius

Via Latin Procopius from Koine Greek Προκόπῐος (Prokópios), from Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ, “progress forward to prosperity; advancement toward success; improvement by diligence”), with Latin suffix -ius equivalent to Greek suffix -ῐος (-ios).

der

A male given name from Latin Procopius [in turn from Ancient Greek Προκόπιος (Prokópios)], of rare usage, variant of Prokopios, feminine equivalent Procopia.


Scottish verdict

en-noun

Scottish verdict (plural Scottish verdicts)


Black Irish

Alternative letter-case form of black Irish.


Black Dutch

In reference to Germans, a mangled calque of German schwarze Deutsche (“black Germans”) under influence from Dutch.

The same usage still prevails among the vulgar as in the phrases, ‘black Irish’, ‘black Dutch’, describing certain well known types of Celts and Teutons (Hollanders, probably), differing widely from the prevailing type of either race in respect of their black eyes and hair, and gypsy-like, tawny complexions.

1875 December, American Bibliopolist, p. 260

There are strong indications that the original "Black Dutch" were swarthy-complexioned Germans. Anglo-Americans loosely applied the term to any dark-complexioned American of European descent... By the mid-19th century, the term had become an American colloquialism; a derogative term for anything denoting one's small stature, dark coloring, working-class status, political sentiments or anyone of foreign extract.

1997 March, James Pylant, "In Search of the Black Dutch", American Genealogy Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1

(US, obsolete or historical) A European with dark hair, eyes, and skin, especially one from or claiming to be from Germany or the Netherlands, sometimes (derogatory, ethnic slur) with disparaging racial overtones.


russist

From Ukrainian раши́ст (rašýst), itself a blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia”) (derogatory) + фаши́ст (fašýst, “fascist”).

blend

(politics, neologism, derogatory) A follower of the ideology of Ruscism (“Russian fascism”).


Greenland wolf

en-noun

Greenland wolf (plural Greenland wolves)

Canis lupus orion, a subspecies of gray wolf native to Greenland.


Russificator

Someone or something that engages in Russification.


derussify

en-verb

derussify (third-person singular simple present derussifies, present participle derussifying, simple past and past participle derussified)

derussifies (present singular third-person)
derussifying (participle present)
derussified (participle past)
derussified (past)

(transitive, intransitive) To remove Russian influence or render someone or something less Russian.


derussification

From de- + Russification or deruss(ify) + -ification.

The process or action of derussifying something.


Romuva

From Lithuanian Romuva, a Baltic pagan temple known in mediaeval records as Romowe. The term "Romuva" means "sanctuary" or "adobe of inner peace", from the Baltic root ram-/rām- (peaceful, quiet), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-.

(religion) a neopagan religion from Lithuania that practices reconstructions of the ancient Baltic polytheistic religion.


Gayreek

Blend of gay + Greek. Used to suggest that Greeks are homosexual, by referring to the presence of homosexuality in Ancient Greece.

Coordinate term: Turkroach

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gayreek.

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) An individual from Greece or of Greek descent.


Turkroach

Blend of Turk + cockroach (“a Turk”). Typically used by 4chan users to suggest that Turkish users are annoying and are difficult to rid oneself (or in this case, the 4chan board) of, much like cockroaches.

A new right-wing populist party has just won provincial elections in the Netherlands. This comes after a Turkroach shot up a tram in Utrecht killing and wounding a bunch of people.

2019 March 23, D. Schlenk, “Netherlands: New Right-Wing Populist Party Wins Election”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-20:

(Internet slang, 4chan, derogatory, ethnic slur) An individual from Turkey or of Turkish descent.


North Karelia

A county and region in northern Karelia, in southeast Finland. (Since 2022, the English term officially prescribed as the name for the Finnish administrative unit long known as a “region” was changed to be called a “county”, although reference to counties as regions is still common. See Counties of Finland.)


Bolschevism

The "Frikorps" was one of the units raised to fight Bolschevism from the occupied countries - and it seems that only about 20% of the volunteers were Nazis.

1996 May 1, Carl Alex Friis Nielsen, “Resistance to German Onslaught 1939-40”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

W4NTI last week posted that Jews are communists and I tried to get through to the radical by explaining that, to Jews there, very early Bolschevism in Russia represented an escape from Tzarist persecutions and pogroms. Who knows if he caught on?

2001 August 7, radiosigs, “Praise be Jesus, it's the Catholics again!”, in alt.radio.scanner.flame_fest (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

I highly recommend Donna Kossy's "Strange Creations" for a very interesting summary of fringe views on the origins of human beings, including those which fed into Naziism and Bolschevism.

2004 July 1, EjP, “Darwin Contribute to Holocaust?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of Bolshevism.


Galician goat

Capra aegagrus hircus
Capra aegagrus hircus#Translingual

Capra aegagrus hircus, a breed of goat originating from Galicia.


Trotzkism

Can somebody help me to find LC subject headings for:
1. Leo Tolstoy's followers that in Russian are called "tolstovtsy", were persecuted in the Soviet Union, up till now exist in Canada. (LC CIP gave to one of the books on the subject: Tolstoy...-appreciation, which is wrong.)
2. Trotzkism. Again when not personally Leo Trotzkii is described but the movement as a whole.

1994 January 23, Irina Roskin, “subfield "e" in 700 field”, in bit.listserv.autocat (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-03:

Is trotzkism still alife? ^([sic])
where and how?
callesan

1999 January 21, ba193302, “leo lebt”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-03:

Since Marx was primarily concerned with interpreting the history of human society, but not with a theory about how to install a society which does away with the shortcomings which he detected, he was not a Socialist. Hence, the term "Marxism" is a necessary one. The terms "Leninism", "Stalinism" and "Trotzkism" are necessary, because they designate conflicting views on Socialism (Trotzki was assasinated in Mexico by Lenins emissaries, Stalinism was brandmarked after Stalin´s death). "Breznjewism" doesn´t exist, because Breznjew was a Leninist. "Gorbatschowism" doesn´t exist, because Gorbatschow is associated with "Glasnost" and "Perestroika".

1999 March 29, pet...@infocanarias.com, “Gouldists and Hawkinsists”, in sci.bio.evolution (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-03:

As Einde posted somewhat embarressed^([sic]), this goes against one of the central tenets of Marxism/Leninism/Trotzkism.

2007 January 31, Karl Burg, “HISTORY HAS NOT YET DECIDED”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-03:

I'm almost sure you're now mixing up Marxism-Leninism with what Marx (alone) wrote. There is also Trotzkism and Anarchism. It is difficult to delineate the territories here, but I'd be cautious to lump everything broadly under "Marxism".

2007 March 6, Markus E Leypold, “ML vs. Lisp”, in comp.lang.functional (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-03:

(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of Trotskyism.


Club Med

From the French travel operator Club Med, short for Club Méditerranée.

One nation that was invited to join with more enthusiasm than the invitations to the Club Med was the United Kingdom.

2011 July 16, William Keegan, “‘Club Med’ countries have spoiled the eurozone party”, in The Guardian:

(humorous, sometimes derogatory) The EU Med Group, especially Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.


Ivanovism

new religious movement
new religious movement

A Slavic neopagan new religious movement based on the teachings of the Russian mystic Porfiry Ivanov (1898–1983), who elaborated his doctrines by drawing upon Russian folklore.


melik

(historical) A member of hereditary nobility in certain Armenian principalities, especially in Artsakh


EURES

(European Union) Abbreviation of European Employment Services.


uchastok

Borrowed from Russian уча́сток (učástok, literally “plot”).

bor+

Although there is considerable variation, a typical uchastok contains a population of approximately 4,000 persons. There are thus 10 uchastoks to a rayon.

1959, Report of the United States Public Health Mission to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (PHS publication; 649), →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

(historical) An administrative division of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR.


Norgay

From Blend of Norway + gay by way of rhyme.

Svartedaun is a complete anal rammer. So what if he likes darkthrone? All he does is ramble about his stupid art wank bands from NorGAY. His band chugs down massive amounts of alien semen too.

1999 August 12, IamXanaX, “Selling out”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

And to DB fans: fuck you all , you are "not" black metal in my eyes no matter how many inverted crosses and plastic bullet belts you wear. I say Dumb burger should stick to lipstick and gay techno music cause they're far from it anyway. Karma will strike back at the Norgay homosexuals.

2001 May 17, Maniac_...@webtv.net, “F#uck Dummy Burger's Ebonic Jew metal !”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

that book sucks to say the least, now I assume Varg's kiddie photos appeal to gay men as Norgay's prison population increased since the book came out.

2001 July 7, Artur D, “Lords of Chaos: who has read the book? UNITE!”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

(humorous, derogatory, offensive) Norway (with connotations of homosexuality).


Khersonite

Russia's Tass news agency says the first 23 Kherson residents got Russian passports at a ceremony on Saturday. […] The Russian-appointed military governor in Kherson, Volodymyr Saldo, said "all our Khersonite comrades want to receive the passport and [Russian] citizenship as soon as possible".

2022 June 11, “Russia hands out passports in occupied Ukraine cities”, in BBC News:

Of or relating to the city of Kherson, Ukraine.


Khersonite

A native or inhabitant of Kherson, Ukraine.


Monkeydonia

Blend of monkey + Macedonia. Used primarily by Greek and Bulgarian nationalists to suggest that North Macedonia's statehood and ethnogenesis is illegitimate, and that the name Macedonia was usurped, referring to North Macedonia's naming dispute with Greece.

> Macedonians show no mercy because the time has come for the
> DAY OF RECKONING and the Traitors in our ranks must be
> dealt with FIRST.
WITH YOUR CRETINOUS LITTLE ANALYSIS I'D SAY !!!YOU!!! AND YOUR ILL-BREED
ARE THE BIGGEST TRAITORS TO MONKEYDONIA!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,
FYRO-MAGGOT!!! WITH ENEMIES LIKE YOU, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS???

1998 May 29, BaLgArYaN666`@feedme, “Gligorov and his Dictatorial Regime are the”, in alt.feedme (Usenet):

European Union Countries---Monkeydonia and Toorkey not now or in the
future members of the UNION. lol

2007 November 8, Sylvester, “What's missing?”, in alt.news.macedonia (Usenet):

One more embargo
and you won't just be back in the stone age...... if every Greek made
an extra tray of ice cubes and we dropped on monkeydonia you'll be
back in the ice age.

2008 January 6, Drexl Spivey, “Republic of Macedonia Will Defend the Name with Arguments”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet):

Republic of North Macedonia
Republic of North Macedonia

(slang, humorous, derogatory, 4chan) Republic of North Macedonia.


dedushka

Yet, much as I loved to listen to it, standing there in the heat of all the lighted candles and dressed in my heavy shuba and felt boots, I invariably, halfway through the service, would begin to feel an intolerable pain across my shoulders which would spread across my back, gradually getting worse, until in the end I was forced to go to the back of the church and find a corner on a bench especially placed there for all the old babushkas and dedushkas who were also unable to bear the strain of standing throughout the whole service.

1984, Eugenie Fraser, “Before the Storm”, in The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 126–127:

And I’m telling you that he left Nikitkin and passed by some dedushka. The [dedushka] said: “Take me where I’m going.” And he sat that dedushka [down in his cart]. And so, they drove and drove, he says, heading somewhere. Then, he says, “The dedushka got lost somewhere and I was alone. And I went everywhere.”[…]A horse is coming. On it is sitting a dedushka.

2005, Margaret Paxson, transl., Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village, Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 132 and 138:

“No one takes them seriously,” Dima said. “They’re just washed-up old men. They brought speakers to the square today. Played the old marching songs. All these old dedushkas stomping around singing along at the tops of their lungs! Everyone was heckling. They’re a joke, Yarik.”

2014, Josh Weil, The Great Glass Sea, Grove Press, →ISBN:


babusya

“Aaaahhhh!” the babusya cried, throwing her arms wide and wrapping them around her granddaughter.[…]“Mary, this is my babusya.”

2009, Chuck Holton, Meltdown (Task Force Valor; book three), Multnomah Books, →ISBN, page 254:

When Father Hryhorii first arrived, the old babusyas, ignorant of the way religious affairs were ordered, thanked God that the church was not sealed up or blown into the air.[…]‘Who are you going to see, sir?’ A babusya, who was sitting near to him on the bus asked, ‘Perhaps your family. I know everyone in the village, I see you are not a local.’

2013, Vasyl Baziv, translated by Stephen Komarnyckyj, The Cross, or the Chocolates that Exploded: A Post Biblical Detective Story, Tucson, Ariz.: Anaphora Literary Press, pages 8 and 195:

I thought we’d just take my babusya to visit relatives in Vinnytsia and then, after stopping by my dad’s parents’ house in Snizhne, we would return to Tallinn in time to see the final episodes of Dynasty.[…]I didn’t cry even though as I buried my babusya, I was also burying my secret hopes of visiting her and staying permanently.

2021, Sofi Oksanen, translated by Owen F. Witesman, Dog Park, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:

As my mother told me this story, I always just assumed that my babusya gave my mother the doll to keep her, a small, bedridden child, occupied, but my mother always emphasized the importance of the doll and how it was given to her to help her get better.

2022, Madame Pamita, Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

What keeps him going is the reaction he gets from the people he helps, the sweet, old babusyas he delivers medication to, the kids in the children’s ward, injured from shelling, whose eyes lit up when they saw the toys he brought them.

2022 June 12, Brandon Barrett, “From the Sea to Sky to Kharkiv, a ray of hope”, in Pique Newsmagazine:


ORDLO

Borrowed from Ukrainian ОРДЛО́ (ORDLÓ), acronym of окре́мі райо́ни Доне́цької та Луга́нської областе́й (okrémi rajóny Donécʹkoji ta Luhánsʹkoji oblastéj, “separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions”).

(politics) The territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in Ukraine.

Donbas

also used to refer to both separatist enclaves, especially by pro-Russian sources


Nurembergian

en-adj

Nurembergian (comparative more Nurembergian, superlative most Nurembergian)

more Nurembergian (comparative)
most Nurembergian (superlative)


TERF Island

NY Times does another article about the terrible women of TERF Island...but without talking to any of them of course.

2021 February 26, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Do I want to know why the Queen of TERF island is trending?
 I do not.

2021 December 13, Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu), Twitter:

When I came back to the UK this year people said, “are you sure you want to leave the US? It’s really bad in the UK right now.”
Yeeeeah I’m gonna take my chances on Terf Island.
That should say a lot about how terrifying the US has become.

2022 May 3, James Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(slang, derogatory) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.


New Englishman

(uncommon, historical) A (male) inhabitant of New England; a New Englander.

(historical) An Englishman who settled in Ireland in the 16th or 17th centuries, as distinct from earlier Old English settlers.


February Revolution

Coordinate term: October Revolution

(historical, politics) The first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

Coordinate term: July Revolution

(history) The French Revolution of 1848, which ended the July Monarchy.


Britbong

Blend of Brit + bong (“the clang of a large bell”). Believed to originate from a 4chan greentext in which a user jokingly claims to have witnessed Londoners chanting "SIX BONG" in the streets after Big Ben chimed six-o-clock.

blend

(slang, humorous, sometimes derogatory, 4chan) A British person.


February strike

From February + strike, a calque of Dutch Februaristaking.

(historical, politics) A general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II.


Donbabwe

Portmanteau of Ukrainian Донецьк (Donecʹk) or Russian Донецк (Doneck) + Zimbabwe, meant to suggest underdevelopment, poverty, and endemic corruption. Alternatively borrowed directly from either Russian Донба́бве (Donbábve) or Ukrainian Донба́бве (Donbábve).

Coordinate term: Luganda

Donetsk People's Republic
Donetsk People's Republic

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donetsk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic.


Norvegophile

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Norvegophile.

Someone who admires Norway or its culture, cuisine, history or people.


Rzhev Meat Grinder

(historical, World War II, slang) The Battles of Rzhev.


Rosgvardia

Borrowed from Russian Росгва́рдия (Rosgvárdija).

National Guard of Russia (the internal military force of the Russian government)


maids of honour tart

en-noun

maids of honour tart (plural maids of honour tarts)

Said to date back to Henry VIII when he witnessed some of the Queen’s maids of honour eating some cakes and demanded to taste one. He found them delicious and named them after the maids. However, there is another theory that they were named after Anne Boleyn, a maid of honour at the time, who made the cakes for Henry VIII.

A traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry shell filled with curds, sometimes with jam or almonds and nutmeg.


Odesite

en-adj

Odesite (comparative more Odesite, superlative most Odesite)

more Odesite (comparative)
most Odesite (superlative)

From Odesa + -ite, from Ukrainian одесит (odesyt). Compare Ukrainian Одеса (Odesa).

Of, from, or relating to Odesa (city in Ukraine)


Odesan

From Odesa + -an. Compare Ukrainian одесит (odesyt), from Одеса (Odesa).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Odesan.

A native or inhabitant of Odesa, Ukraine.


Ruzzia

Neologism following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At first a blend of Russia + Nazi, after 2022 a blend of Russia + Z, using the military Russian Z symbol of Russian propaganda to mock the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See Z for more information. Compare with Russian РоZZи́я (RoZZíja) and Ukrainian РоZZі́я (RoZZíja).

A third user, @Ni79Mo wrote: "See what happens when you hang out with RuZZia too much? You start creating your own realities as well."

2022 June 8, Millie Cooke, “'No shame!' Olaf Scholz sensationally claims Germany gives MORE support to Ukraine than UK”, in Daily Express:

Shayk was accused of being a "supporter of the terrorist state Ruzzia and genocide of Ukrainians."

2022 July 15, Will Stewart, Liam Buckler, “Supermodel accused of 'backing Putin’s war' after using 'Z' symbol in Instagram caption”, in The Mirror:

Because one way to fight a proxy war is to flood the market with cheap oil and that’s what the US is doing in its support of Ukraine against what the late Senator John McCain called Ruzzia: "a petrol (gas) station, run by a Mafia, masquerading as a country"

2022 September 8, Chris Becker, “Crude oil prices tank as US floods market”, in MacroBusiness:

I received a letter that instilled in me feelings of rage and pain- my assigned roommate is going to be a competitor from the terrorist-country, from a country that lost all laws and order, from the despot-country, from the disgusting and deceitful stain on the body of our beautiful planet, from ruzzia^([sic]).

2022 October 5, Charles Wade-Palmer, “Ukraine beauty queen slams pageant officials for rooming her with Russian rival”, in The Daily Star:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) Alternative spelling of Russia.

orc

another neologism; a derogatory term for a Russian soldier


Orc

(slang, fiction, derogatory) Alternative form of orc (monstrous warrior in fantasy; Russian soldier)


Continong

She broke into a snatch of a burlesque ditty which used to be popular a good many years ago—"'The Continong, the Continong, oh, I am for the Continong!' And a good job, too! If I were to stay in England, you would be running off to meet me somewhere or other every ten days or so, and the cat would very likely be let out of the bag."

1896, William Edward Norris, The Dancer in Yellow, D. Appleton and Company, page 17:

May we be among those future “guets” whom this hotel is to “a commodate.” To culinary connoisseurs there are just two places on the Continong that may rival each other in a reputation for cuisine, […]

1897 July 31, “There and Back with a Card”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ld., […], page 41, column 1:

Our fine gentleman was off to catch the boat train to the Continong. Well, gentlemen, that’s about all we can do here. It’s a bad business, but straightforward enough. One of these Italian vendetta things, as likely as not.

1924 March, Agatha Christie, “The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman”, in Poirot Investigates, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 2007, →ISBN, page 270:

Likewise, in "The Continong" ("the Continent" as they imagine it to be pronounced by a Frenchman) Wigan is contrasted, this time more defensively, with the delights, foods, and smells of abroad.

2018, Neil Washbourne, “Sexual and National Difference in the High-Speed, Popular Surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau's Double Acts, 1929–1936”, in Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott, editors, Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 130:

(colloquial, humorous) "The Continent," mispronounced in the manner of a foreigner.


Ukro-

On behalf of the Americans of Czech, Slovak and Ukro-Russian descent of Bridgeport, Anthony S. S. Ambrose who was marshal of their unit, No. 14 in the Independence Day parade, sent a message to George Creel, chairman of the Committee on Public Information at Washington, D. C. expressing their most sacred pledge to President [Woodrow] Wilson and the American people to remain steadfast in their determination to work unremittingly for American and Allied victory in this war until the end.

1918 July 6, “Pledges Slovak Support”, in Bridgeport Telegram, volume LV, number 82, Bridgeport, Conn., page sixteen:

Rev. Joseph Pelechovyck, pastor of Ukro-Russian Church, presided, and Humphrey Kowalsky of New York, secretary of the information bureau of the Ukrainian national committee, spoke in English and Ukrainian.

1919 August 4, “Bolshevik Disturbers Try to Start Riot at Ukrainian Convention: Anti-National Element Forcibly Ejected From New Britain Meeting Recognized by Police as Thomaston “Reds”---Women Fight, Too”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXXXIII, Hartford, Conn., section “A Free-for-All Meeting”, page 18:

In the late 1930s, the émigré Ukro-Russian Constructivist Alexandra Exter (1882–1949) published three panoramic “novelty books” with the innovative Parisian children’s publisher Père Castor.

2020, Katie Trumpener, “Alexandra Exter, Panorama of the River (1936), Panorama of the Coast (1937), and Panorama of the Mountain (1938)”, in Katie Trumpener, Tim Barringer, editors, On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama Between Canvas and Screen, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 63:


Vohwinkel

An urban district of Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


ganutell

Borrowed from Maltese ganutell, from Italian cannotiglio.

(art) An art form of making artificial flowers out of wire, beads, and thread.


Eireboo

for the record my recent Éireboo posting is because i might be spending some time in Ireland soon, its not a muh heritage thing.

2020 February 23, mold (@mac_mold), Twitter:

i did an essay about the play this film is based on, the writer/director is such a plastic paddy eireboo, and it's written soooo badly lmao.

2020 November 11, Max Kane (@MaxTKane), Twitter:

I’m a bit of an Eireboo if im honest. An unhealthy level of interest in Ireland. Love reading and learning about Irish history.

2021 April 14, celestial garbage (@paranoidfemoid), Twitter:

(slang, often derogatory) A non-Irish person who is obsessed with Ireland and Irish culture.


ouiaboo

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

From oui + -aboo, borrowing the French oui (“yes”) to create an intentional, punning homophone of weeaboo (“Japanophile”).

Hey man, I might like the French language and culture, but I ain't no fucking ouiaboo.

2014 May 13, Tuxbeej (@tuxbeej), Twitter:

This one lifestyle blog I follow keeps doing articles about what Parisians do... they're turning into ouiaboos

actually knowing my deep secret ouiaboo tendencies I'd have probably gone for [the name] Amelie

2022 August 5, 🏳⚧ andi, flying wing fishe 🦈 (@lorenziniforce), Twitter:

(Internet slang, often derogatory) A non-French person who is obsessed with France and French culture.


Anglo-Dutch

Of or pertaining to both England (the English) and the Netherlands (the Dutch).


Hullensian

Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull#English

A person from Kingston upon Hull, England.


Third Republic

French Third Republic
w:French Third Republic

Ellipsis of French Third Republic. (1870–1940) (from the end of the Second Empire until the capitulation to Nazi Germany)


First Empire

Coordinate term: First Republic

First French Empire
w:First French Empire

Ellipsis of First French Empire. (1804–1814/15)


Fifth Republic

French Fifth Republic
w:French Fifth Republic

Ellipsis of French Fifth Republic (“political regime of France since 1958”).


Ukrainian People's Republic

Calque of Ukrainian Украї́нська Наро́дна Респу́блика (Ukrajínsʹka Naródna Respúblyka).

calque

Украї́нська Наро́дна Респу́блика

The first state of Ukraine (1917–20). Government in exile (1921 - 1991)


Belarusian People's Republic

Calque of Belarusian Белару́ская Наро́дная Рэспу́бліка (Bjelarúskaja Naródnaja Respúblika).

Белару́ская Наро́дная Рэспу́бліка

The first state of Belarus (1918–19). Government in exile (1919 - current)


Chernobylian

en-adj

Chernobylian (comparative more Chernobylian, superlative most Chernobylian)

more Chernobylian (comparative)
most Chernobylian (superlative)

Or, to make the thought experiment somewhat more realistic, we might envision a future Chernobylian mishap in some European or Asian setting (a far from incredible scenario), and think about the form such an evacuation might take.

1991, Wilbur Zelinsky, Leszek A. Kosiński, The Emergency Evacuation of Cities: A Cross-national Historical and Geographical Study, Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 293:

(rare) Relating to or resembling the city of Chernobyl or the 1986 nuclear accident that occurred there.


diadochus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διάδοχος (diádokhos).

bor+

(historical) Heir to the Crown of Greece.


Duchy of Normandy

duchy+Normandy. From Anglo-Norman Normandie, from Norman Normandie, from Old French Normandie, from normant+-ie. From Anglo-Norman duché, from Latin dux.

A country, a duchy in Europe, now only composed of the Channel Islands in the English Channel; a crown possession of the Monarch of England, since the Conquest of England by William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy; bureaucratically, it is administered by the in the United Kingdom


Vilniusite

A native or inhabitant of Vilnius, Lithuania.


Odessan

His written responses (which have been slightly edited and condensed) are evidence that, even with the backdrop of such military horrors, if you ask an Odessan poet about Odessa and poetry, you will receive riches.

2022 March 15, Talia Lavin, “‘The War Never Left’: A conversation with Ilya Kaminsky about memory, viral poetry, and the tragedy of Ukraine.”, in New York—Intelligencer:

Of or relating to the city of Odessa, Ukraine.


Odessan

Kaminsky himself is not living happily during this war: He is in contact with the Odessans he loves, trying to get them out, to get them money, and, frenetically and constantly, sharing poetry by Ukrainians in translation.

A native or inhabitant of Odessa, Ukraine.


Linzer torte

A traditional Austrian pastry, a form of shortbread topped with fruit preserves and sliced nuts with a lattice design on top.


psikhushka

Borrowed from Russian психу́шка (psixúška).

A mental hospital used for abusive psychiatric treatment of political dissidents.


breadbasket of Europe

Referring to Ukraine being the source of much of Europe's grain, due to its rich soil.


kaletez

Perhaps from French galette de sarrasin.

A type of thin buckwheat pancake in Breton cuisine.


St. Barts

You can spin out various possible futures for the island: In one version, disaster capitalists and bitcoin entrepreneurs arrive in their yachts and private jets, turning Puerto Rico into a crypto St. Barts; in another, post-capitalists build a paradise powered by solar microgrids, community gardens and the rebirth of local fisheries; […]

2018 September 12, Jeff Goodell, “The Perfect Storm: How Climate Change and Wall Street Almost Killed Puerto Rico”, in Rolling Stone:

Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy#English

(informal) Saint Barthélemy (an island and overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean).


Territory of the Saar Basin

A Germanic microstate that existed from 1920 to 1935.


Podmokly

An area in Děčín, Czech Republic, on the left bank of the Elbe, known as Bodenbach under German rule.


Perfidious Albion

Calque of French perfide Albion. First coined by French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.

coin

Alternative form: perfidious Albion

Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.

2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

international relations
international relations

(poetic or international relations, derogatory) The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage.

perfide Albion

pejorative phrase referring to the United Kingdom


posadnik

Borrowed from Russian поса́дник (posádnik).

(historical) a mayor in some East Slavic cities, towns, and oblasts.


Badenese

MATHY, KARL (1807–1868), Badenese statesman, was born at Mannheim on the 17th of March 1807. He studied law and politics at Heidelberg, and entered the Baden government department of finance in 1829.

1911, “Mathy, Karl”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh edition, volume XVII, New York: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 888:

Of or relating to the historical state or territory of Baden, Germany.

Badenser

of or relating to the historical state or territory of Baden, Germany


Badenese

When war broke out between France and Austria in 1792 the Badenese fought for Austria; consequently their country was devastated and in 1796 the margrave was compelled to pay an indemnity, and to cede his territories, on the left bank of the Rhine to France.

1910, “Baden, Grand Duchy of”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh edition, volume III, New York: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 186:

The natives or inhabitants of the historical state or territory of Baden, Germany.

Badenser

native or inhabitant of the historical state or territory of Baden, Germany


Swedish Sign Language

A sign language commonly used in Sweden.


red wedding

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning "associated with or supportive of communism." The second sense derives from The Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”

1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15:

They celebrated “red weddings” at factories, bride and groom standing before a piece of machinery and pledging their loyalty first to the communist state, then to each other.

1994, Woodford McClellan, Russia: The Soviet Period and After, page 77:

Soon "Red weddings" replaced church weddings for dedicated Communists.

1998, Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, page 186:

(dated, communism) A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.


Khersonian

Of or relating to the city of Kherson, Ukraine.


Khersonian

Russians claim they have come to “save” Khersonians from “Nazism”— Putin’s outrageous justification for invading our country. “There are over 100 nationalities living in our city. We don’t know what Nazism is,” Mayor Kolykhayev says.

2022 March 4, Iuliia Mendel, “My hometown, now occupied by Russia, is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster”, in The Washington Post:

A native or inhabitant of Kherson, Ukraine.


Leidenite

Another Leidenite, Thomas Blossom, was a passenger on the Speedwell, the Mayflower’s companion vessel, which sprang a leak and had to turn back. He eventually made the journey in 1629, joining the colony at Plymouth, where he became first deacon of the church.

2011 November 17, Charles McGrath, “In the Pilgrims’ Footsteps, Through England and the Netherlands”, in The New York Times:

(rare) A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.


Liverpolitan

Influenced by similar terms Neapolitan, metropolitan. Possibly popularized as a more high-class alternative to Liverpudlian.

Indeed, the Liverpolitan accent had more in common with that spoken in surrounding parts of Lancashire in 1914 than it does today.

2005, Helen B. McCartney, Citizen Soldiers, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:


Liverpolitan

The man, it will be seen, was himself a Liverpolitan, and I dare say he voiced very fairly the general Liverpolitan sentiment in these matters.

1907, Dixon Scott, Liverpool, A. and C. Black, page 112:


Ukrainophilic

en-adj

Ukrainophilic (comparative more Ukrainophilic, superlative most Ukrainophilic)

more Ukrainophilic (comparative)
most Ukrainophilic (superlative)

Fond of or favouring Ukraine, or Ukrainian people; exhibiting or relating to Ukrainophilia.


Kharkivite

Kharkiv is 25 miles from the Russian border. Like many Kharkivites, he had family in Russia. The distinction between the two countries meant little to him before the war. His father’s people lived near Moscow.

2022 May 19, James Verini, “Surviving the Siege of Kharkiv”, in The New York Times Magazine:

A native or inhabitant of Kharkiv, Ukraine.


Kharkivian

Kharkivian (comparative more Kharkivian, superlative most Kharkivian)

more Kharkivian (comparative)
most Kharkivian (superlative)

Of or associated with the city of Kharkiv (a city in Ukraine).


Kharkivian

“Russia has a real blind spot when it comes to Kharkiv,” said Dobczansky. “Kharkivians claim Ukrainian identity in their own way... They are Russian speaking, yes, but that’s a whole different thing than your political identity.[”]

2022 March 29, Isobel Koshiw, “Writers in bombed out Kharkiv seek inspiration in historical resistance”, in The Guardian:


Neolog

Borrowed from Hungarian neológ, a 19th-century coinage from Ancient Greek νεός (neós, “new”) + λόγος (lógos, “word; teaching, doctrine”), equivalent to English neologist.

(Judaism) Pertaining to a liberal and reformist current of Hungarian Judaism.


Wilhelmstrasse

Frederick William I of Prussia
Wilhelmstrasse

Borrowed from German Wilhelmstraße, from the name of Prussian King Frederick William I (Friedrich Wilhelm I.) + Straße (“street”).

A thoroughfare in central Berlin, formerly the location of the German Chancellery and Foreign Office.


voenkomat

Borrowed from Russian военкома́т (vojenkomát).


Austrian Netherlands

CHINEY, a city of the Auſtrian Netherlands on the confines of the biſhopric of Liege, about twelve miles ſouth-eaſt of Namur...

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192

(plural only, historical) The southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg) during their period of Austrian rule (1714–1797), ending with their annexation by France during the Napoleonic Wars.


Thronds

Adapted borrowing of Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr m pl. Compare Old English Þrowendas pl, German Drönter m pl, and Norwegian trønder m or m pl. Doublet of Throwends.

Throndish

of or pertaining to Trøndelag or Thronds


naukograd

From Russian наукоград (naukograd), from наука (nauka, “science”) + град (grad, “-town, -ville”).

(Russia) A town or city with exceptional research and development, usually under formal arrangement by the government.


covado

From Portuguese côvado, from Old Galician-Portuguese côbedo, from Latin cubitum (“cubit”). Doublet of cubit and codo.

(historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 0.6 meters and approximating the length of a forearm and hand.


escropulo

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese escrópulo, from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, 1/24 uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Doublet of scruple and escrupulo.

der

(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.2 g.


arratel

From Portuguese arrátel, from Andalusian Arabic الرَطْل (“rottol”), from Arabic الرَطْل (ar-raṭl), from Aramaic רִיטְלָא / ܪܺܝܛܠܳܐ (rīṭlā), variant of לִיטְרָא / ܠܺܝܛܪܳܐ (līṭrā), from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “libra, Roman pound”). Doublet of libra, livre, libbra, liter, and rottol.

Aramaic רִיטְלָא

doublet

(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 459 g.


celamim

From Portuguese celamim, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ (ṯumuni, “of one-eighth”). Doublet of tomin and azumbre.

(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 0.4–0.6 L in different 19th-century contexts.


quintalejo

From Portuguese quintalejo, from quintal (“Portuguese hundredweight”) + -ejo (“-cule: forming diminutives”).

(historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 29.4 kg.


escrupulo

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish escrúpulo, from Latin scrūpulus (“scruple, nagging doubt, ¹⁄₂₄ uncia”), from scrūpus (“sharp stone, anxiety”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). Doublet of scruple and escropulo.

der

scruple, nagging doubt, <small>¹<big>⁄</big>₂₄</small> uncia

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 1.2 g and chiefly used for medicines.


celemin

From Spanish celemín, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ (ṯumuni, “of one-eighth”). Doublet of tomin and azumbre.

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 4.6 liters.

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed.

(historical) A traditional Spanish unit of land area, formalized as equivalent to about 537 m².


copin

From Asturian Spanish copín, variant of copino, from copa + -ino.

(historical) Synonym of medio, particularly in Asturias, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L


cahizada

From Spanish cahizada, from cahíz (“cahiz, Spanish qafiz”) + -ada (“-ful”).

(historical) Synonym of cahiz as a measure of land.


cahiz

From Spanish cahíz, from Old Spanish cafiz, from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz, “qafiz”), from Aramaic קְפִיזָא and Classical Syriac ܩܦܝܙܐ (qəp̄īzā), of uncertain derivation from Egyptian, Akkadian, and similar units. Doublet of qafiz and cafiso. Cognate with Ancient Greek καπίθη (kapíthē).

Aramaic קְפִיזָא

(historical) A traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 L.

(historical) A traditional measure of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed.


Portuguesify

en-verb

Portuguesify (third-person singular simple present Portuguesifies, present participle Portuguesifying, simple past and past participle Portuguesified)

Portuguesifies (present singular third-person)
Portuguesifying (participle present)
Portuguesified (participle past)
Portuguesified (past)

From Portuguese + -ify by analogy with more common terms such as Frenchify.

Traders and governors attempted to Portuguesify Goa and Macao for centuries... You can Portuguesify Castilian Spanish easily enough...

(transitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

Their sandwiches are portuguesified by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.

(intransitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.


Portuguesification

From Portuguesify + -ication, from Portuguese + -ify.

(rare) Synonym of lusitanization, the act or process of making Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.


Kanaky

New Caledonia (an archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania).